Yikes! Windows 10 update notice
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Yikes! I just received notice that Windows 10 wants to restart...to install an update...and "improve" my experience. Wish me luck! Be afraid, be very afraid. I have my PC backed up and my fire extinguisher at the ready. Here's hoping its not the much dreaded Windows 10 "October" update. Oh no, please no, say it isn't so! The notice was short on information. Windows Update is also a bit stingy with further information. Contradictorily, it informs me "You're up to date". The history is similarly uninformative, with regard to this notice. I've read advice from Microsoft not to click "Check for Updates", which apparently triggers some Beetlejuice-like phenomenon...not going to risk that. So, with this update, we travel once again into the undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns. Folks, this is scary stuff, I'm talking human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria kind-of-stuff! Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue :)
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Yikes! I just received notice that Windows 10 wants to restart...to install an update...and "improve" my experience. Wish me luck! Be afraid, be very afraid. I have my PC backed up and my fire extinguisher at the ready. Here's hoping its not the much dreaded Windows 10 "October" update. Oh no, please no, say it isn't so! The notice was short on information. Windows Update is also a bit stingy with further information. Contradictorily, it informs me "You're up to date". The history is similarly uninformative, with regard to this notice. I've read advice from Microsoft not to click "Check for Updates", which apparently triggers some Beetlejuice-like phenomenon...not going to risk that. So, with this update, we travel once again into the undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns. Folks, this is scary stuff, I'm talking human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria kind-of-stuff! Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue :)
Eric Lynch wrote:
Here's hoping its not the much dreaded Windows 10 "October" update
You're totally safe, it's Novem
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640 Never throw anything away, Griff Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay... AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Eric Lynch wrote:
Here's hoping its not the much dreaded Windows 10 "October" update
You're totally safe, it's Novem
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640 Never throw anything away, Griff Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay... AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
Perhaps, you're right. I may be over-sensitive...I'm still recovering from trying to use the three seashells :)
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Yikes! I just received notice that Windows 10 wants to restart...to install an update...and "improve" my experience. Wish me luck! Be afraid, be very afraid. I have my PC backed up and my fire extinguisher at the ready. Here's hoping its not the much dreaded Windows 10 "October" update. Oh no, please no, say it isn't so! The notice was short on information. Windows Update is also a bit stingy with further information. Contradictorily, it informs me "You're up to date". The history is similarly uninformative, with regard to this notice. I've read advice from Microsoft not to click "Check for Updates", which apparently triggers some Beetlejuice-like phenomenon...not going to risk that. So, with this update, we travel once again into the undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns. Folks, this is scary stuff, I'm talking human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria kind-of-stuff! Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue :)
Eric Lynch wrote:
I've read advice from Microsoft not to click "Check for Updates
That was in the early days of the 1809 update containing FUBARed code, and still *available* (prior to being pulled in early October); as long as you didn't actively seek it, you wouldn't have ended up with it. 1809's been re-released this last patch Tuesday after (we've been assured) being "thoroughly tested".
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Eric Lynch wrote:
I've read advice from Microsoft not to click "Check for Updates
That was in the early days of the 1809 update containing FUBARed code, and still *available* (prior to being pulled in early October); as long as you didn't actively seek it, you wouldn't have ended up with it. 1809's been re-released this last patch Tuesday after (we've been assured) being "thoroughly tested".
dandy72 wrote:
after (we've been assured) being "thoroughly tested".
It was indeed thoroughly tested, live in the field. Back in early October ... :~
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640 Never throw anything away, Griff Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay... AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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dandy72 wrote:
after (we've been assured) being "thoroughly tested".
It was indeed thoroughly tested, live in the field. Back in early October ... :~
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640 Never throw anything away, Griff Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay... AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
Yup, truly inspiring stuff, I'm newly filled with confidence :) Windows 10 1809 big iCloud problem: We're working on fix, say Microsoft, Apple | ZDNet[^] Doesn't affect me, but just saying...
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Eric Lynch wrote:
I've read advice from Microsoft not to click "Check for Updates
That was in the early days of the 1809 update containing FUBARed code, and still *available* (prior to being pulled in early October); as long as you didn't actively seek it, you wouldn't have ended up with it. 1809's been re-released this last patch Tuesday after (we've been assured) being "thoroughly tested".
I hate to tell you this, but it's still fubar'd! You might want to go read the release notes for it, here[^]. If you're running Trend OfficeScan, you need to install a "Critical Patch" for that before you even try to download the 1809 patch. If you don't, bad things will happen. I especially love the part where you get a warning that "Mapped drives could not be reconnected" and they show up in with a red X on them. So, if you map and use network drives, you might want to hold off applying this update. Running a Radeon HD2000 and HD4000? You're screwed. Apple iCloud for Windows? Yeah, about that...
Asking questions is a skill CodeProject Forum Guidelines Google: C# How to debug code Seriously, go read these articles.
Dave Kreskowiak -
Yup, truly inspiring stuff, I'm newly filled with confidence :) Windows 10 1809 big iCloud problem: We're working on fix, say Microsoft, Apple | ZDNet[^] Doesn't affect me, but just saying...
Wait! Put that checkbook away, there's more! 1809 Release Notes[^] updated four days ago.
Asking questions is a skill CodeProject Forum Guidelines Google: C# How to debug code Seriously, go read these articles.
Dave Kreskowiak -
Yup, truly inspiring stuff, I'm newly filled with confidence :) Windows 10 1809 big iCloud problem: We're working on fix, say Microsoft, Apple | ZDNet[^] Doesn't affect me, but just saying...
They tested it widely. It didn't pass, but it was tested. That's the Microsoft Way! :-D
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640 Never throw anything away, Griff Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay... AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Yikes! I just received notice that Windows 10 wants to restart...to install an update...and "improve" my experience. Wish me luck! Be afraid, be very afraid. I have my PC backed up and my fire extinguisher at the ready. Here's hoping its not the much dreaded Windows 10 "October" update. Oh no, please no, say it isn't so! The notice was short on information. Windows Update is also a bit stingy with further information. Contradictorily, it informs me "You're up to date". The history is similarly uninformative, with regard to this notice. I've read advice from Microsoft not to click "Check for Updates", which apparently triggers some Beetlejuice-like phenomenon...not going to risk that. So, with this update, we travel once again into the undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns. Folks, this is scary stuff, I'm talking human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria kind-of-stuff! Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue :)
And the sad thing is, if it screws up and you lose data and/or productivity, there's no one you can sue.
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They tested it widely. It didn't pass, but it was tested. That's the Microsoft Way! :-D
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Perhaps, you're right. I may be over-sensitive...I'm still recovering from trying to use the three seashells :)
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Eric Lynch wrote:
Here's hoping its not the much dreaded Windows 10 "October" update
You're totally safe, it's Novem
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640 Never throw anything away, Griff Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay... AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
OriginalGriff wrote:
Eric Lynch wrote:
Here's hoping its not the much dreaded Windows 10 "October" update
You're totally safe, it's Novem
Logically speaking, then, it's an April Fool joke.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I hate to tell you this, but it's still fubar'd! You might want to go read the release notes for it, here[^]. If you're running Trend OfficeScan, you need to install a "Critical Patch" for that before you even try to download the 1809 patch. If you don't, bad things will happen. I especially love the part where you get a warning that "Mapped drives could not be reconnected" and they show up in with a red X on them. So, if you map and use network drives, you might want to hold off applying this update. Running a Radeon HD2000 and HD4000? You're screwed. Apple iCloud for Windows? Yeah, about that...
Asking questions is a skill CodeProject Forum Guidelines Google: C# How to debug code Seriously, go read these articles.
Dave Kreskowiak -
Someone has been watching a lot of 80's movies on Netflix. :-\
When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others. Same thing when you are stupid.
Sadly, no...simply having fun and remembering them decades later :)
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OriginalGriff wrote:
Eric Lynch wrote:
Here's hoping its not the much dreaded Windows 10 "October" update
You're totally safe, it's Novem
Logically speaking, then, it's an April Fool joke.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
Unfortunately, for me, they didn't take quite that long to release it :)
