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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Sept 26, 2016 20:38:59 GMT
Now it's foing another fucking update!!! DAMN YOU, BILL GATES! -Ralph Have you restarted the laptop since disabling updates, as per instructions? Check Windows Update is marked as disabled in services.msc, reboot the computer and you _should_ get no more updates other than security updates. Martin |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 4, 2016 21:52:42 GMT
I've got the sister in laws laptop in cos "it was running slow"
TWO hours into the update....
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Oct 4, 2016 22:29:11 GMT
Fun and games...
Andy
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Post by Dave on Oct 11, 2016 8:58:15 GMT
I've not had much trouble with Windows 10 - just a few USB devices needed re-installing I think. Then I had an update a few days back that came with a message saying that I had some video/audio files where the DRM's not compatible with Windows 10 so I wouldn't be able to use them anymore.
Hurrah for DRM!
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Oct 11, 2016 21:23:42 GMT
Fuck DRM.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 14, 2016 21:15:41 GMT
I can see the point of DRM in some instances but when it stops me from able to consume something I have legally bought it drives me into a frothing rage.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 2, 2017 19:06:18 GMT
The wife's new Win10 laptop suddenly started dropping it's wifi connection every few minutes after an update on Wednesday. The solution suggested here seems to have cured it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-38301548 |
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 2, 2017 21:33:15 GMT
You been buying new laptops for the missus? I'm about to do that for Mrs P. Busy doing the usual research on brands and models. What did you go for?
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 2, 2017 22:26:30 GMT
Got her a little Lenovo one in the Argos catalogue www.argos.co.uk/product/5163519She's not really thrashing it but, bar the update related issue outlined above, it's generally cooperating a performing well. |
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 2, 2017 22:31:53 GMT
Aha, nice. I need a desktop replacement for Mrs P, so I need at least a 15 inch screen really. Thinking Dell currently for reliability.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 11, 2017 10:33:06 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 11, 2017 10:59:08 GMT
Grrr. Haven't you learned Microsoft? leave it the f alone!
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Feb 11, 2017 11:34:36 GMT
I really hope my having deactivated Windows updates prevents this from affecting me.
Martin
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Feb 11, 2017 12:27:16 GMT
It should do.
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 11, 2017 22:32:28 GMT
Oh dear.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 28, 2017 19:10:40 GMT
We have bought Jonathan a new laptop!
It's the first time he's had his own computer
F*** me that was hard setting him an account up on it with no email address!
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 28, 2017 19:27:09 GMT
Hooray!
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 1, 2017 9:20:29 GMT
At least you got it done.
This insistence on connectivity is a tad wearisome.
Andy
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Post by legios on Mar 2, 2017 19:38:35 GMT
Glad to hear that you finally got it sorted out! Hope Johnathan likes his new computer!
Yeah, MS do seem to be living in a sort of mad "everything is online and connected all the time" dream-world in recent years.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 22, 2018 19:26:05 GMT
The current update has required intervention on both my wife and son's machines because it wanted more disc space.
Liz's was easy enough to do, Jonathan's is proving a right ****er to sort out. I wiped as much as I could but it still wasn't enough. So I attached an external HDD, downloaded the update onto and now the PC is bleating for an extra 1.5 gig on the HDD I can't give it!.
Yes, they're not massive HDDs but both were sold as Win10 machines last year and neither has anything silly on it or even any major picture/videos consuming disc space.
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 22, 2018 22:34:19 GMT
Try the LCARS interface.
-Ralph
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Jan 23, 2018 6:41:03 GMT
I found a way to kill the Windows 10 Update of Doom on my laptop by letting it download and install the initial executable and then changing its permissions so that the system can't run it and initiate the Big Download of Death. (Uninstalling/deleting it doesn't work, as it just downloads and installs itself again, even with Windows Update disabled as it normally is on my laptop.) Now my laptop is quiet and well-behaved once again, except for a whimper once a day when a box pops up saying "Can't create files. Please check if you have permission to write to the installation folder." To which I take great joy in clicking the button "OK" by which I mean "Good, it's my hard drive and I have deliberately removed your permissions to prevent you from messing it up by doing something I haven't asked you to do."
Martin
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Post by Dezzeh on Jan 23, 2018 8:54:50 GMT
The problem here being that these will be the spectre/meltdown patches, which whilst they are absolute rubbish bits of code, they are probably worth getting.
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 23, 2018 10:26:18 GMT
Spectre? Didn't James Bond defeat them???!!!
-Ralph
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Post by Dezzeh on Jan 23, 2018 10:51:14 GMT
If he did, he forgot to tell Intel.
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Post by primenova on Feb 17, 2018 21:10:54 GMT
I don't know if anyone has same update for Windows10 - but Windows 7 update if I allow it then my laptop turns it self off, but if I block it or undo it if it updates when not asked.
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Post by The Doctor on May 10, 2018 21:52:08 GMT
After the latest Windows update I now get annoying pop ups about Amazing Features at the bottom with a PING noise. I recall these from a previous update but have forgotten how to turn them off!
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Post by Dave on May 11, 2018 15:55:13 GMT
If you go into Settings (just type settings in the start bar if it isn't showing anywhere obvious), then go
>System>Notifications & Actions
There are a few general things you can turn off (tips and tricks, windows welcome experience) and switches to deactivate notifications from specific programs too.
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Post by The Doctor on May 11, 2018 16:14:32 GMT
Thankyou.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 22, 2018 17:49:24 GMT
Oh Wow: Right clicking on start menu items gives you the missing recent files jump lists
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