Windows Update: Thanks, no really
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I had approx. half a million windows open in the middle of some gnarly stuff and popped downstairs to grab a bite. I come back and my machine is freshly rebooted after a windows update. I stopped pressing Ctrl+S after every keystroke years ago. I think it's a bit sad we're now being trained to start doing it again. :mad:
cheers Chris Maunder
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I had approx. half a million windows open in the middle of some gnarly stuff and popped downstairs to grab a bite. I come back and my machine is freshly rebooted after a windows update. I stopped pressing Ctrl+S after every keystroke years ago. I think it's a bit sad we're now being trained to start doing it again. :mad:
cheers Chris Maunder
Now I use to disable Windows Update service and only reactivate it twice or three times a year, when I know I will have time to actually install updates. Having a Lenovo laptop, I also disable Lenovo system update; they tend to change the system management console at each update, and everytime some functionality is lost in the process... Quite upsetting.
"I'm neither for nor against, on the contrary." John Middle
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I had approx. half a million windows open in the middle of some gnarly stuff and popped downstairs to grab a bite. I come back and my machine is freshly rebooted after a windows update. I stopped pressing Ctrl+S after every keystroke years ago. I think it's a bit sad we're now being trained to start doing it again. :mad:
cheers Chris Maunder
Well, Glad (but not, also Sorry for you Chris), but you finally got the wrap of this! ONCE! Happens frequently world wide! Windows Update causes world wide havoc! Mainly to the little people who realise that their computer overnight stops working. They have no websites like yourself, they are being ripped off! Millions of computer repair shops, world wide! They tell customers that their computers are dead and gone, people buy a new computer, and, the 'Broken' Computer is sold down the chain, updated, for a profit to the Middle Man. The cause of this all is Inadequate Update procedures by Microsoft, in particular when it comes to OEM OS versions. I think it is high time that a Veil is being lifted here! Bram
Bram van Kampen
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I had approx. half a million windows open in the middle of some gnarly stuff and popped downstairs to grab a bite. I come back and my machine is freshly rebooted after a windows update. I stopped pressing Ctrl+S after every keystroke years ago. I think it's a bit sad we're now being trained to start doing it again. :mad:
cheers Chris Maunder
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I had approx. half a million windows open in the middle of some gnarly stuff and popped downstairs to grab a bite. I come back and my machine is freshly rebooted after a windows update. I stopped pressing Ctrl+S after every keystroke years ago. I think it's a bit sad we're now being trained to start doing it again. :mad:
cheers Chris Maunder
Run W10 in VM. Disconnect network while doing important stuff. Test stuff on another VM if network required. Connect only if you don't mind, or do want updates. Viola! :)
User: Technical term used by developers. See Idiot.
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I had approx. half a million windows open in the middle of some gnarly stuff and popped downstairs to grab a bite. I come back and my machine is freshly rebooted after a windows update. I stopped pressing Ctrl+S after every keystroke years ago. I think it's a bit sad we're now being trained to start doing it again. :mad:
cheers Chris Maunder
Nobody asking you! You have turned your computer in and now it belongs to us... :maniacal laughter:
Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I had approx. half a million windows open in the middle of some gnarly stuff and popped downstairs to grab a bite. I come back and my machine is freshly rebooted after a windows update. I stopped pressing Ctrl+S after every keystroke years ago. I think it's a bit sad we're now being trained to start doing it again. :mad:
cheers Chris Maunder
It's an incredibly user-hostile system :^) :sigh:. I've started using elementary OS[^] whenever possible to avoid this sort of stuff :java: Surely something like a monthly update day (with reminders the day/week before) would be appropriate for everything except emergency worst-case security patches? I don't mind having to restart to install updates, I just want control over when and why my machine reboots. :mad:
Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A.
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I had approx. half a million windows open in the middle of some gnarly stuff and popped downstairs to grab a bite. I come back and my machine is freshly rebooted after a windows update. I stopped pressing Ctrl+S after every keystroke years ago. I think it's a bit sad we're now being trained to start doing it again. :mad:
cheers Chris Maunder
I turned off automatic updates long time ago after having similar experiences in past. I do only manual updates(once in a month or two). Apart from windows, I even turned off automatic updates for other softwares. Last year CCleaner's particular update made headlines due to security issue(Hackers injected their code in build to do .....). Also browsers. Some add-ons/plugins not compatible for new versions.
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I had approx. half a million windows open in the middle of some gnarly stuff and popped downstairs to grab a bite. I come back and my machine is freshly rebooted after a windows update. I stopped pressing Ctrl+S after every keystroke years ago. I think it's a bit sad we're now being trained to start doing it again. :mad:
cheers Chris Maunder
Just turn WU off Chris unless you want a particular fix, then you can go get the kb update yourself.
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Just turn WU off Chris unless you want a particular fix, then you can go get the kb update yourself.
AFAIK, you cannot turn off updates under win10 anymore. Even the registry hack did not turn it off on my machine.
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I had approx. half a million windows open in the middle of some gnarly stuff and popped downstairs to grab a bite. I come back and my machine is freshly rebooted after a windows update. I stopped pressing Ctrl+S after every keystroke years ago. I think it's a bit sad we're now being trained to start doing it again. :mad:
cheers Chris Maunder
Yep, it got me this morning as well!...3 VS projects open, half a dozen notepad scratch areas open, at least a dozen web pages open, multiple tabs in SSMS open with work in progress. With AI being 'the thing' these days it seems to me that Win10 could use a bit of logic to avoid causing unsaved work to be lost by a forced restart. The forced restarts are really my only gripe with Win10. I've tried many settings (in vain) to keep it from happening with no joy. :sigh: One other problem I get is that many times after an update, I have to go and reset registry permissions for some of my customized right-click menus. :mad:
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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AFAIK, you cannot turn off updates under win10 anymore. Even the registry hack did not turn it off on my machine.
Just disabling the Windows Update service seems to have done it for me. Have had it off for past year, and only turn it on temporarily to update at my convenience. No problems.
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I turned off automatic updates long time ago after having similar experiences in past. I do only manual updates(once in a month or two). Apart from windows, I even turned off automatic updates for other softwares. Last year CCleaner's particular update made headlines due to security issue(Hackers injected their code in build to do .....). Also browsers. Some add-ons/plugins not compatible for new versions.
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You can't disable updates with Win10. I did that on one of my systems, and after ~6 months, it noticed and crashed itself to force a reboot so it could re-enable updates again.
I live in Oregon, and I'm an engineer.
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You can't disable updates with Win10. I did that on one of my systems, and after ~6 months, it noticed and crashed itself to force a reboot so it could re-enable updates again.
I live in Oregon, and I'm an engineer.
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Ditto here. My main laptop at home spent a brief week running Win10, but got rolled back to 8.1 the day after MS force fed it an update. They had to turn it on from a full power off, and left if on after they were done. No more Win10 for me except for my experimental laptop.. and they're about to lose that one too.
I live in Oregon, and I'm an engineer.
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Ditto here. My main laptop at home spent a brief week running Win10, but got rolled back to 8.1 the day after MS force fed it an update. They had to turn it on from a full power off, and left if on after they were done. No more Win10 for me except for my experimental laptop.. and they're about to lose that one too.
I live in Oregon, and I'm an engineer.
Actually this 8.1 came with laptop by default. It's been 4+ years & everything is going on smooth & fine. If something happens, I'll go with Linux. No more plan for Windows. Right now I use 99% FREE & Opensource softwares only in my laptop.
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