WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else
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OK. Clicking the get windows 10 thingy now...
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If Lorne did that, I bet he'd instantly burst into flames.
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I'm sure his family would be grateful. I hear Canada's cold. Meanwhile...seem to be downloading right about 59.9Mbps...pretty consistently. I'm at 69% complete on the download.
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I've been dodging the Windows 10 upgrade ever since it came out. My plan is to just buy a new laptop early next year with it already installed.
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I'm sure his family would be grateful. I hear Canada's cold. Meanwhile...seem to be downloading right about 59.9Mbps...pretty consistently. I'm at 69% complete on the download
And once you install it, you won't be upgraded to the November release. Until at least a week passes... (Not like the days-of-old when you apply 253 updates after a refresh. And make sure to scan for updates a couple more times. Now, even when they're available, you'll get them eventually)
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And once you install it, you won't be upgraded to the November release. Until at least a week passes... (Not like the days-of-old when you apply 253 updates after a refresh. And make sure to scan for updates a couple more times. Now, even when they're available, you'll get them eventually)
I'm "scheduled" to run updates in a few more months. I'm sure it'll be fine until then.
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If Lorne did that, I bet he'd instantly burst into flames.
Not before taking you all with me.
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Another failure of the W10 all-aboard update train.
The only way I'm installing W10 is if I find a way to disable updates entirely and gain full control over when I update and to which semi-stable version.
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I find a way to disable updates entirely
Stop the Windows Update service, like every other version of Windows since XP.
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I have one weird trick for preventing updates for months at a time!
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The only way I'm installing W10 is if I find a way to disable updates entirely and gain full control over when I update and to which semi-stable version.
Install Windows 7.
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Another failure of the W10 all-aboard update train.
The only way I'm installing W10 is if I find a way to disable updates entirely and gain full control over when I update and to which semi-stable version.
Correction: As noted Microsoft Press author Ed Bott has observed, Windows 10 patch KB 3124200 does not in fact destroy Word customizations as originally reported. That damage was actually done by the Office 6366 patch -- specifically, an update to Word 2010, 2013 and 2016 -- that many people installed simultaneously with KB 3124200. You can find manual repair steps for the Office 6366 patch here. InfoWorld regrets the error. This post and its title have been edited to reflect the correction
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LibreOffice 4evar! :tro
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Fun fact discovered yesterday when my laptop died:
Swapping out enough laptop parts to trigger the no longer activated message for a Windows 7 pro key (ie: the mobo) can cause a block on the key that prevents it from being activated over the phone. The only way to correctly reinstate it (according to a Microsoft rep) is to reinstall windows 7 as a reformat, then reupgrade to win10.
That wtfery side, I will give props to Microsoft support. While the guy did sound from India, he was on during our Christmas (9pm my time so early sat?), and was competent enough to have my old win7 key disabled, and issued a new win10 key within half an hour. It means I can't go back to win7, but I was already down that road for most intents and purposes. But it also means that if my reinvigorated laptop shits the bed again, I can actually reinstall the os without having to call support again.
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t prevents it from being activated over the phone. The only way to correctly reinstate it (according to a Microsoft rep) is to reinstall windows 7 as a reformat, then reupgrade to win10.
That...sounds pretty unlikely, TBH. I've done the "swap out enough hardware" thing and all that happened was I did have to to the phone instead of online activation. Repeatedly, btw, because "swap out enough hardware" in this case meant "threw out most of the hardware and built essentially a new machine."
That is, I don't really disbelieve you, but I am skeptical that what you were told is actually what happened.
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I replaced the CPU, motherboard and RAM in my desktop the other day which involved reinstalling Windows 10 from scratch. Even the storage showed up as different hardware having changed from one RAID vendor to another - the only internal device which remained the same to the OS was the graphics card.
I didn't even have to ring them. I entered the original Windows 8.1 Pro key and it just activated, which was a surprise.
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It's possible the microsoft rep didn't actually do the phone thing correctly, but the end result is what ended up happening. Switching out the hardware caused the key to get blocked (which, for record, I've had to switch hardware out more than once on this machine, so it's possible a max number of activations also played a part. On this note: Save yourself a huge fucking headache, and don't buy from IBuyPower.)
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The only way I'm installing W10 is if I find a way to disable updates entirely and gain full control over when I update and to which semi-stable version.
If you're not on Windows 10 Home, you can influence the behaviour of Windows Update through Group Policy (which also works if your machine is not domain joined).
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You can't fully block updates even in pro, just delay them. (Insert various ways thats not the full truth here, such as changing your host file)
Overall, I'm pleased with win10 after a decent amount of config changes. No third party software required. But Windows 7 pro is still straight up better than win 10, but 10 is a huge amount improved over 8.1
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You can't fully block updates even in pro, just delay them. (Insert various ways thats not the full truth here, such as changing your host file)
Group Policy.
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A bit of a reality check on some of the recent hysterical W10 spying stories out there.
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It still boggles my mind when people believe a company would want to spy on them in particular out of millions of users, many of which more "high profile" than theirself. Then there's the question of how anyone would be storing the personal files from millions of hard drives...
Granted, it is somewhat possible to certain extents, but companies exist to make money, not be creeps. Besides, the ability of Microsoft and other companies to do this has existed for years and it's called malware, we already have good defenses against it...
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It still boggles my mind when people believe a company would want to spy on them in particular out of millions of users, many of which more "high profile" than theirself. Then there's the question of how anyone would be storing the personal files from millions of hard drives...
Granted, it is somewhat possible to certain extents, but companies exist to make money, not be creeps.
It's not that they care about *you* in particular, but they DO care about how to get you to click on their adds and "convert". And it turns out that knowing a lot about you helps them achieve that.
Google does it, no doubt about that. MS is hoping to get into that business as well (having failed to mimic Apple's mobile phone business).
I can understand why people are concerned that their entire OS is controlled by an ad revenue oriented company. But this latest panic over the generic usage metrics was a bit too much.
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It's not that they care about you in particular, but they DO care about how to get you to click on their adds and "convert". And it turns out that knowing a lot about you helps them achieve that.
Right, and now combine that with all the security breaches, and you never know what sort of private info might leak out accidentally or maliciously.
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You mean all the ones that use open source software, like OpenSSL?
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No but yes.
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Continuing the discussion from Good Idea, Bad Idea:
@blakeyrat said:
It's actually SIGWHOGIVESAFUCK
Don't you have some Windows updates to watch prepare to update?
Actually, I haven't noticed updates at all recently. I haven't had to restart my computer in weeks, so all of the updates I am getting must not require it. Anyone else notice this?
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Anyone else notice this?
No, I still get the daily "You need updates" un-cancellable banner. Then again, I don't install updates, so YMMV.
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Then again, I don't install updates
Well there's your problem.
Neither my laptop nor desktop have even tried to restart for an update in at least 2 weeks.
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Neither my laptop nor desktop have even tried to restart for an update in at least 2 weeks.
Same here, because of the above.
Wait, how is that my problem?
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I still get the daily "You need updates" un-cancellable banner.
Then again, I don't install updates
Well there's your problem.
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Ah. My misinterpretation. I assumed you were talking about Windows trying
to restart for an update in at least 2 weeks.
I mean, that's what @LB_ was talking about, right?
I haven't had to restart my computer in weeks, so all of the updates I am getting must not require it.
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I mean, that's what @LB_ was talking about, right?
Yes. I feel one of us is missing something, and I'm not sure which one that is.
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Yes. I feel one of us is missing something, and I'm not sure which one that is.
It's probably me. I don't currently have all of my mental facilities available at the moment. I wonder if I should post that in the Status thread, to preempt some awkward shenanigans that may resulted...
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I spoke too soon. KB3124263 just installed and is asking me to restart.
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I thought of this topic as soon as I saw the notification
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Sample command line: `C:\Users\LB\AppData\Local\Temp\DE3F4A3A-EA67-4A19-810A-8912B0823186\dismhost.exe {2995E90E-DFDE-4710-B7E7-AE7E3E16DCB0}`I found this, but that's where the similarities end (Windows Defender is working fine for me).
Right now this isn't causing any issues so I'm not too worried about it, just thought I'd share it here in case anyone else noticed it.
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If it's a normal system, Windows Update is updating Windows Update, and doing a hilariously bad job at it. If it's a domain-joined system, your administrator could also be horribly botching an update. That's the "Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool" at work.
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It's nice that Windows Spotlight occasionally shows me gems like this one:
But it would be nice if, like the Chromecast, some attribution was displayed so I wouldn't have to go searching for the image and its original author.
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I use the little app that gives me Bing images. It also doesn't attribute, but it's also always Bing's image of today or yesterday so it's easy to find the attribution.
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Moraine Lake, Banff National Park
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Well, okay, I could go all the way there, wait for the exact same lighting conditions, and take the picture myself. Then I would know who the author of the picture is - me. But that's overkill.
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I wasn't telling you to go there, I was giving you the attribution, which I found through TinEye and some gratuitous use of Google Translate.
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So.... Windows 10 and I are no longer seeing each other.
I stopped by the Store to pick up some Project Spark. I never even drank it, just picked it up.
The next morning, Windows 10 was apparently mad at me and forbid me from seeing my friends Start Menu and Search.
While trying to talk it out with Windows 10, I accidentally reminded her1 of the incident back in November and she forbid me from seeing any of my friends in the Metro2 area!
The last time I talked to her, she said we could start things over... but at this point I just didn't want to see her any more.
On a side note, I hooked up with my ex, Windows 7. She was a bit upset that I'd dumped her for that Windows 10 hussy, but after a bit of preparation, our first date went well.
We're going out to a party with some friends this weekend. I think Visual Studio 2013 and Office 2013 will both be there. I suspect Notepad++ will make an appearance, too.
1 No offense to the ladies, but I needed to give a gender here for the story.
2 Yes, blakey,I know it's "Modern" now but the story works better when it's Metro. Oh, and this part is a reference to the Windows 10 November update making one of the old methods for fixing this hose all your Modern apps instead.
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You and your new love can now spend joyful evenings sitting on the porch, reminiscing on how it was when you were young and relevant.
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bit of preparation
Wow, filenames so long the server itself has to ellipsis-ize them before sending it out...
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On one end, this.
On the other, they put out 2 different iFixit with the exact same name.
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ex, Windows 7
Windows XP. GILF.
a bit of preparation
Is a for anal sex. So your story is-- umm--