I guess this begins the next phase of Microsoft's nefarious plan to "upgrade to Windows 10 or bust". Will be interesting to see how my OptOut10 patch for hiding the GWX icon and stopping any download or installation of Windows 10 holds up for my customers!
Microsoft, is Windows 10 the best you could do? Really? After promising to listen to our feedback, what a letdown!
You should know that there are ways that Windows Updates can be installed even if you have explicitly set up for "Check but do not install". They've been in the system all along, and were exercised by Microsoft at least once, back in 2007.
Me, I'd suggest disabling the Windows Update service and only manually re-enabling it in order to do an update check. It's what I've done.
I don't even know if that's enough, considering that Windows Defender can download updates to its own database. Will Microsoft consider that the world needs "defending" from Windows 7 or 8 and bring Windows Defender onboard to deliver GWX at some point? I wouldn't put it past them.
-Noel
Author of the "How to Configure the 'To Work' Options" series of Windows books. Not feeling enough love to do one for Windows 10.
Post by Bayer A.User on Feb 2, 2016 12:01:53 GMT -6
Roger that,Noel. The prerequisite updates for kb 3035583(GWX.exe) need to be installed first. THESE kb's are the real threat. Old CEIP, and more recently the monthly update clients that have been pushed for a while now. I'm sure many users installed those. I did not. These monthly >example "October update client for Win7sp1 & 2008 Server" were generic issue fixers for WU that i took a pass on . WU functioned fine without them.
As for MSE in my 7 systems, definition updates are installed manually by me or offered via WU.
Potatoe, Potato. Bottom line, I'll watch it like a hawk. How else will i know just how cutthroat MSFT has become ?
Post by Locutus deBorg on Feb 2, 2016 12:23:19 GMT -6
mine is holding out great,
WUAU set to (option 4): Do not check for updates (recommended)
I get MSE sig. updates daily
nothing else is coming down I enable notify only (option 3) on the Tuesday following crash Tuesday just to let WUAU enumerate all the new crapdates and then I can research them for helping those around me that don't know what to do
but I haven't been allowing much of anything else to install on my systems since Jan. 2015
I find the lack of configuration options disturbing !
I felt a great disturbance in the force.. as if millions of win 7 systems suddenly cried out in terror.
<Rick> Good video. It's almost hard to believe that at one time Windows 98 was the resource hog, but even then, it still ran circles around what Windows 10 can do on today's modern hardware and look a heck of alot better doing it.
May 25, 2021 22:55:12 GMT -6
<Rick> As stated elsewhere, So much for the launch of Windows 11, "The Great Crash." Myself, I had a hard time getting into the site listed above, when I did get in, the video was partly done and then it crashed. There has been many other reports of crashing.
Jun 24, 2021 9:52:33 GMT -6
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<Rick> I see Microsoft has been very quick to pull down reports of site crashing regarding the Launch of Windows 11 on the Microsoft Insiders forum.
Jun 24, 2021 9:57:31 GMT -6
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<Rick> The rebroadcast is working okay.
Jun 24, 2021 11:00:25 GMT -6
<Rick> With reports of people being able to install the dev-edition of Windows 11 on machines not meeting spec, I thought I would give it a what-the-heck try. Lucky me, I'm caught in the downloading, doesn't meet spec, clearing, re-downloading loop on my machine!
Jul 2, 2021 7:08:46 GMT -6
<Rick> I've recently purchased a license for ArcaOS from www.arcanoae.com/ to play with. First impressions, it's still OS/2, but it now has a Linux twist to it.
Jul 2, 2021 7:32:53 GMT -6
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<dozrguy> laptop shit out and am stuck buying a new one. os win11 as fucked as win10 was?
Oct 2, 2021 12:56:10 GMT -6
<Rick> Let's see ..., my impression of Windows 11 is that it is a spruced up version of Windows 10 requiring a 64-bit processor plus a piece of security hardware that is less than 4 years old in order for it to run.
Oct 4, 2021 18:25:49 GMT -6
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<Rick> On the plus side, Microsoft is supposed to be supporting Windows 10 for some time to come for those of us still using systems with I7 or older processors.
Oct 4, 2021 18:44:35 GMT -6
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<dozrguy> i tried installing win10 om the 'shitout' pc this morning usung media creation. EPIC FAIL! went into an endless bootloop. win7 reinstalled just fine
Oct 21, 2021 11:23:38 GMT -6
<dozrguy> STILL so much bullshit and so little time for the kiddie ideas from the hill. My new laptop (MSI GE 11-UH461) would be an awesome "10" machine but because of Winblows I can only give it a "2"......wasted $3500
Oct 27, 2021 9:36:47 GMT -6
<Rick> Hello. Just checking in.
Mar 17, 2022 10:46:54 GMT -6
<isidroco> Each new w10 update adds >100000 useless files to \Windows\Servicing\LCU\Package_for_RollupFix... folders. Even in a SSD takes time to delete that stuff. In each version they manage to worsen stuff.
Mar 27, 2022 16:14:51 GMT -6
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<dozerguy> still traffic here?
Oct 9, 2022 17:32:44 GMT -6
<Rick> No, there does not seem to be very much traffic these days. I still check in from time to time.
Oct 9, 2022 20:08:58 GMT -6