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Arrrggghh. I am not a pirate!!

Oh boy... thinking of you, and hoping all is safe in your back up!
 
I'm glad you're making a bit of progress, and if the only things you do lose are PS/lightroom, then maybe it's a blessing in disguise cuz you get to upgrade to CC? (Although you'll have to spend time learning the changes, which I always find annoying lol.)
When my laptop--which is almost a year old and came with Win 10 preinstalled--did the Anniversary update, it took about 1.5 or 2 hrs to install and I was so worried my computer was fried. (I actually wrote a status update here griping about it lol!) Anyway, a few settings were messed up but I was able to fix them. While searching, I found threads talking about the same issues you're having. :( You'd think Windows would stop forcing updates! I compare buying a computer to buying a car: the computer, like the car, is purchased for how it behaves at time of purchase. You bought the car for certain features, just like you buy a computer for certain features. If you want to upgrade your car or your computer, you take it to a pro to add rims or extra RAM (or you DIY if you're good at that stuff. I'm not lol). You don't want "help" from the manufacturer to "automatically" fix problems you're not experiencing. Imagine getting into your car a few months after buying it and realizing the steering wheel is on the wrong side, or the engine won't start right away cuz it is still "updating." Or, worse (as you're experiencing): the car won't start at all and YOU have to spend time trying to figure out what THEY did to it. That's what these auto updates are like. ARGH! is right!
 
Oh my goodness! I'm so sorry for all your problems!! I hope you are getting it to still work, at least enough to scrap and work!
 
Boy oh boy can computers be a pain in the rear when they don't cooperate. I'm hopeful for you that you can at least get it working enough to get your files saved and then maybe a fresh install will get it going again. We had to do that for my 12 year son's laptop. Shortly after installing Windows 10 it started acting weird and then the killer was when the toolbar AND the Start button disappeared. That made is almost impossible to do anything. Thankfully a fresh install fixed everything and he's back in working order.
 
after the last update I had, my graphics processor would not run... it was a bit of a headache, but NOTHING like the whole computer not responding. Hopefully your research yields some answers! Frustrating doesn't even begin to describe that!!
 
mimisgirl said:
The only thing I will loose is my photoshop and Lightroom because they are from a cs6 that we bought years ago and the disc is no longer good.
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I think you should be able to still download a copy of CS6 and Lightroom from Adobe as long as you still have your valid serial number. You may have to create/log in to your Adobe account, but it should be an option. I hope you don't end up having to wipe your machine, though!

Tronesia said:
It kept telling me it was an invalid class.
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I read this, and my jaw dropped. That is such a low-level error code that an end user should NEVER see it! That's something a programmer would use to debug code, and it really should be wrapped in something a lot more useful if it's ever going to be seen by a user. The only thing worse is when you get a memory error and it shows the address....completely useless. Basically what "invalid class" means is the software is looking for a particular piece of code, probably in a support package, and not finding it. Likely because that support package is an older version that doesn't contain that piece of code yet. Sounds like the update didn't check for the necessary dependencies/versions to be installed before proceeding. Brilliant, Microsoft, just brilliant.
 
@scrappyjedi thanks, yes I thought so too, but hubby can't even find the disc anymore. We just moved and while mist things are settled sone have gone AWOL. Ha!! I have been able to scrap a bit, but the start menu is still not functioning and it takes about 3 hours now to boot, even with the repairs we gave tried. Today Windows explorer kept crashing as well so we are just going to try a reinstall. Unfortunately I gave read in several places that this might not help either, so we shall see. . . Thanks for all the encouragement guys!!
 
Thanks for all the support guys!! We did end up having to do a clean install, and my computer decided windows 8 was a better fit do we are sticking with that for now. Now to go see how well my back ups work. Oh, and to learn cc. Be back in a few days.
 
Oh Erin!!!!! I was so so happy to see you back around, so sorry to hear about this....
I always thought the only thing I liked if Windows that Mac doesn't do much is that the system would kept asking me if I was sure I wanted to delete something or messages of beware this or that... one would ve thought if the upgrade isnt compatible with all machines they ll notify you....
Glad to hear you are making progress, hope things keep getting better !!!!
 
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