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Got my laptop back today. It seems to be working fine. They didn't even need to replace the OS, because all the shit I'd installed on it, including Synergy, was still there. I should look into getting a new (probably free) anti-virus on it at some point, though, because the McAfee trial that came with it has already long-since expired. I've already had several popups nagging me to buy McAfee since turning the damn thing on a few minutes ago, so I guess I'm going to have to uninstall McAfee entirely to stop that shit.
The repair they said they did was to replace the "main logic board." They also included a new Windows 8 product key, to activate it if necessary, but the old one still says that it is activated. Good to have the other one if I need it, I guess.
I'm currently going through and removing all the Windows 10 related updates from it, though. It still has Win8.1 on it, but it has a bunch of of that Win10 nagware bullshit installed on it. Hell, there's even a big "Get Started" thing for installing Windows 10 that supersedes the usual Windows Update list that I had to click past to get to the regular Windows Update screen, and in the regular Windows Update, there's an "Upgrade to Windows 10 Home" thing under the "Optional" updates, which I've now hidden (until Microsoft decides to arbitrarily unhide it again, of course [EDIT] which, of course, they fucking did, just a few days later [/EDIT]).
So anyway, yeah, after four months, I have my laptop working again, finally.
The repair they said they did was to replace the "main logic board." They also included a new Windows 8 product key, to activate it if necessary, but the old one still says that it is activated. Good to have the other one if I need it, I guess.
I'm currently going through and removing all the Windows 10 related updates from it, though. It still has Win8.1 on it, but it has a bunch of of that Win10 nagware bullshit installed on it. Hell, there's even a big "Get Started" thing for installing Windows 10 that supersedes the usual Windows Update list that I had to click past to get to the regular Windows Update screen, and in the regular Windows Update, there's an "Upgrade to Windows 10 Home" thing under the "Optional" updates, which I've now hidden (until Microsoft decides to arbitrarily unhide it again, of course [EDIT] which, of course, they fucking did, just a few days later [/EDIT]).
So anyway, yeah, after four months, I have my laptop working again, finally.
