Windows 10 help please...

[Supersonic Welly]

Chaps I need some help please.

New laptop, old printer. Need to download drivers from HP website. Checks all fine, begins download and stays at 0%. I thought maybe it was Ghostery or Ublock stopping it so I disabled them. Still the same.

I then thought it could be Firefox so I tried to download Chrome. exactly the same problem, says it's downloading but nothing happens (left it for an hour).
Have disabled windows defender and tried again through FF and Chrome, still the same. Also tried through Explorer (Edge), still the same.

Never used Windows 10 before, is there something I'm missing?

[Supersonic Welly]

Think I've cracked it. I did all of the above again & restarted and it's now downloading the drivers.

[anonymous-user]

Could have been pending its own (Windows 10) updates.

[Whoozit]

techiedave said:

Could have been pending its own (Windows 10) updates.

Yup, I've had random things stop working a few times in Win10 when updates are queued in the background. Confusing as hell as there are no obvious system messages to give you a heads up

[Who me ?]

YEP- too many hidden things on 10 ,hence why I've taken the free upgrade to a separate partition and only use it to play with. Many sites suggesting shutting auto updates off till you want to let Windows take the day or two to update.

[nonsequitur]

Mrs. NS has purchased an 'All-in-One' system and very good it is too.
However one problem. She cannot upload attachments from emails. It tries for a while then displays 'Sorry cannot find'. It is a Windows 10 operating system.

On my Windows 7 lap top I can upload attachments, from the same email, instantly.

Our email is BT.

PHers, any ideas? Thank you.

[motco]

Slightly off-topic but I keep getting a request to download an update for Windows 10 (Creators update perhaps). This is something I haven't experienced before as I thought W10 just got on with updating without requiring input from me. When I allow it, the system seems to be downloading a complete new copy of Windows as it goes on forever. It failed yesterday and I haven't tried again because I suspect it will stop a perfectly good laptop from working properly. It 'aint broke so I won't fix it. Is that a reasonable view or should I allow it. The version of W10 is v.10586 that I have at the moment. Thanks.

Edited by motco on Sunday 30th July 08:07