Posted on 10/30/2015 9:06:36 PM PDT by dayglored
Gate$ and the possesed Balmer are largely gone.
“Turn off Automatic Updates”
The Win10 upgrade forced me to do exactly that. I’m sure I’m not alone.
KB10238765986 ... Windows 10 or something else?
That is the very reason I turned off auto-update on Win7.
I use an old tabbed IE-based browser, because it is excellent for FR and has some add-on editing features no longer available.
One day, I noticed it would no longer work. As I began trying to find out why, I noticed a new version of IE on my computer. I never upgraded to IE10 because I knew it would not work with my old browser. When I uninstalled IE10, my Win7 reverted to IE9, which does work with my old browser.
Occasionally, my Win7 starts acting kind of wonkie. When I do a system restore, I notice several ‘critical’ updates have been made recently to my Win7, even though I have Updates turned off.
Most times system restore will work. Some times I have had to revert to restoring my OS drive with the last Image backup.
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As for Win10, I did upgrade an extra hard drive from 7 to 10. First try failed because I tried to enter my computer’s Win7 product ID. Several days later, I tried again and selected ‘skip’ at the product ID, and it installed.
Basically, I am not impressed.
MS removed the ‘classic’ theme in one of the earlier beta versions and never put it back. The current theme is crap. Menues are difficult to locate, buttons are non-existent so one has to search for linkables, the slidebars are invisible until one moves the mouse pointer and even then they are too narrow. The window frames are so narrow that it is difficult to tell which frame is which, if more than one is opened. The Win10 GUI is crap.
When I returmed to the Win7, it was refreshing to actually see buttons, visible links, scrollbars, etc.
Win10 is more of the glitz and glitter from 8. Windows 7 is better for productivity.
I have it strictly for the grandkids to play with.
Now it has so little free space that I have just tossed it onto the pile of things I will get to one day to fix.
I've looked and looked, and still can't figure out how to do that. Can I bother you to post a step by step procedure for turning off Automatic Updates in Windows 7? I really don't want to wake up one morning and find my computer's been upgraded to Windows 10.
Thanks.
Belay my earlier request. I finally found it. MS sure doesn't make it easy.
I set my updates so that they only download or install when I choose.
Thanks.
I haven’t needed MS support to speak of either. Thank goodness. They all sound and act like “Peggy” on that commercial.
What I meant was no further updates. I really don’t know how valuable they are...but I hesitate to not let them upload.
> I have called MS exactly one (1) time for customer support. That was about 10 years ago...
The "support" that everyone with Win 7 will lose in 2020 that is worrisome are the monthly security patch updates.
This has nothing to do with customer or tech support from Microsoft. It's about Windows Updates security patches.
When "support" stops, it means that as of the next Zero-Day or other exploited vulnerability, Win 7 WILL NOT GET FIXED. It will remain vulnerable to the exploits, and Win 7 users will not have an option to patch their systems.
That said, it doesn't mean Win 7 stops working. It just means we're skating on increasingly thinner ice.
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