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Microsoft changes Win7/8.1 updates, pushes even harder for Windows 10
Infoworld ^ | Aug 16, 2016 | Woody Leonhard

Posted on 08/17/2016 12:33:22 PM PDT by upchuck

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upchuck's solution: MSFT updating to my Win 7 machine has been turned off since updating from Win XP.

No problems thus far.

1 posted on 08/17/2016 12:33:22 PM PDT by upchuck
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To: dayglored; Swordmaker

Ping.


2 posted on 08/17/2016 12:34:00 PM PDT by upchuck (The very worst of Trump is much better than the very best of Killary. Go TRUMP!)
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To: upchuck

Same here. No updating allowed for over a year... No updates... no problems. I have no use for all their wizzbang crap.


3 posted on 08/17/2016 12:38:51 PM PDT by JDoutrider
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To: upchuck

I turned off all that crap too. I don’t need their blather.


4 posted on 08/17/2016 12:39:25 PM PDT by Gaffer (fg)
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To: upchuck

FUMicrosoft


5 posted on 08/17/2016 12:40:48 PM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: upchuck

I’m forced to use Windows for my work PC (and our IT department will be providing me with a new Windows 10 image soon).

However, this is why I switched to Ubuntu Linux for my personal computers. The initial install is free (both “as in freedom” and “as in beer”), as are the updates, which I can install as I see fit.

A few years back I installed Linux on an old laptop for my parents to use — it does what they need it to do (e-mail, internet, Facebook, some basic games), and now they would probably be lost if I gave them a PC running Windows 8.1/10.


6 posted on 08/17/2016 12:42:00 PM PDT by GCC Catholic (Stay out of the weeds! Let's hold fast to the path and Make America Great Again!)
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To: Qiviut

Bkmk


7 posted on 08/17/2016 12:45:06 PM PDT by Qiviut (In Islam you have to die for Allah. The God I worship died for me. [Franklin Graham])
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Excuse a 'puter idiots dumb question:

So if I like my WIN 8.1, I don't actually NEED the periodic 8.1 updates they send me?

8 posted on 08/17/2016 12:48:33 PM PDT by PROCON ("Lock Her Up! Lock Her Up!")
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To: GCC Catholic

Microsoft forced updated to 10 on my fathers business computer. I have pulled my hair out since. It is one bug after another and now lags with certain programs and didn’t before the upgrade. I have 10 at work and at home, prefer 7.


9 posted on 08/17/2016 12:48:45 PM PDT by sarge83
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To: upchuck

I’ll quit updating too. I have selectively been updating until now.


10 posted on 08/17/2016 12:50:10 PM PDT by blam (Jeff Sessions For President)
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Yeah, but you’re still on dial-up and wi-fi, aren’t you. Hook an unpatched Windows Anything to broadband and...well, you’ll see.


11 posted on 08/17/2016 12:50:29 PM PDT by Resettozero
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have 7 on all my laptops and 8 at work. The time I upgrade to 10, I have a sex change and vote Dummycrat.


12 posted on 08/17/2016 12:50:58 PM PDT by max americana (fired every liberal in our company at every election cycle..and laughed at their faces (true story))
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To: upchuck

NEVER10

https://www.grc.com/never10.htm


13 posted on 08/17/2016 12:51:00 PM PDT by Sopater (Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? - Matthew 20:15a)
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To: upchuck

I have a machine that failed 4 times to update to 10. Each time I tried removing things to make it install. Never did. Now, after the cuttoff date, it’s still trying to install it.


14 posted on 08/17/2016 12:53:10 PM PDT by MarkeyD (Obama is a victim of Affirmative Action)
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To: upchuck

My wife’s computer [a gift] has windows 10 but now they are sending updates. Well now updates can’t be installed because there is not enough storage. Must the computer get bigger disks? or what? ideas?


15 posted on 08/17/2016 12:53:27 PM PDT by ex-snook (The one true God sent Jesus here to show us the way.)
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To: upchuck

Exactly.
Just go into Control Panel and turn it Automatic Updates off...........


16 posted on 08/17/2016 12:53:38 PM PDT by Red Badger (Make America AMERICA again!.........................)
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To: upchuck

Bookmark.


17 posted on 08/17/2016 12:54:16 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: upchuck

Do you think they will offer a free win 10 for those of us who did not do it in the first go-around? Or is it too late for the free offer forever?


18 posted on 08/17/2016 12:54:23 PM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)
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To: upchuck

I used windows 10 until it was unusable and worthless. Then I minimized it and went back to google chrome which works wonderful. Windows 10 showed up on my system one day, I thought it was a virus at first, now I know it is a virus.


19 posted on 08/17/2016 12:54:35 PM PDT by Uncle Sam 911
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Microsoft jacked my Windows 7 machine last month trying to force me on Windows 10.

My understanding is Apple will role out new computers in the next 60 days. That will be next purchase.

I’m done with Mircosoft.


20 posted on 08/17/2016 12:57:55 PM PDT by Enlightened1
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