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I nuked it from orbit, it was the only way to be sure

I've tried a different cable and the old battery as this is a new battery. Thanks.

Any of you phone gurus care to advise on another issue? Same phone, battery life has been very poor over the last few days and I've noticed three processes using 21% CPU all the time. "Search applications provider, User dictionary and Contacts storage". I've stopped them and also rebooted the phone but they just come back and hog the CPU again. I've seen a few posts online with suggestions for similar issues but non are exactly relevant or didn't work. Any suggestions? Thanks.

I'd gently let them know that at some point they might have to put their hand in their pocket. The problem with buying things is they sometimes need maintenance. In 10 years I only needed to log one support call its hardly a regular occurrence.

I backed up the recovery partition to USB before upgrading to 10. So I guess I'll just restore that and then upgrade if I need to do a clean restore. I'm hoping not to have to do it for a while anyway.

Right so I'd have to run the factory restore of 8.1 from the recovery partition and then run a Windows 10 upgrade?

Did I read somewhere that now I've ran an upgrade I can now get the ISO/USB from somewhere in future to run a clean install? If so do I need a new software key?

Well first impressions are that its an instant improvement over 8.1

How long did the upgrades take roughly?

OK so next question, I've had the upgrade notification on my HP Envy notebook. I've backed up my data, should I go for it? I have a couple of user accounts on there that use Windows live sign in and have Onedrive etc configured, will this still all work or is it all massively changed again? Cheers.

So is the general consensus that Windows 10 is lighter than 7 or 8.1? My parents have a 2011 laptop that's ready for a reinstall. Dual core with 4Gb RAM. Should I stick 7 back on or jump to 10?

That does Netflix and Amazon?

Hmmmm might ditch that plan then. I'll see if a Chromecast will work with my Tab 3 8.0 instead.

No Amazon!!!! Typical that's one of the things I was after. ETA actually looks like its Rupert Murdocs mob that are to blame. Why am I not surprised, I loath that guy, tactics that would make Microsoft blush http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1947572

Do they both do iPlayer and Amazon too?