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Posted on 12/06/2018 9:25:36 PM PST by dayglored
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Just leave us Windows 7 people alone.
I don’t need anymore ‘improvements’.
Every single time I turn my laptop off, there are Updates it wants to load. Trouble is, these nightly updates take forever to upload. Some evenings, it takes so very long to finish updates that I have to manually shut the computer down. Otherwise, this may last all night long!
It was not always like this. Not till after I had something else repaired at shop last June. Too expensive to keep running back to that shop.
In a twisted sense, it will be a relief when January 2020 comes around and Windows 7 officially becomes "unsupported". Meaning no more updates.
Yeah, that means it will get increasingly risky to use it for web surfing.
But the fact that after many years of pushing Windows 10 down everyone's throat, Win7 still has half of the Windows user base, means that a heck of a lot of people are more than willing to take that risk.
Will this version of Windows 10 also delete your personal files as the last one did?
That 1803 which came out last week would not install and I believe it was attempted some 50 times!! However, tonight, it installed without any issues.
There were only two updates, the above and also one for flash player as of early this evening.
No, it overcompensates in the other direction, by generating a bunch of new "personal" files with spicy content for your entertainment when you discover them.
Just kidding.
I think. :-)
Yeah, that means it will get increasingly risky to use it for web surfing.
But the fact that after many years of pushing Windows 10 down everyone's throat, Win7 still has half of the Windows user base, means that a heck of a lot of people are more than willing to take that risk.
Not sure I would want to continue using Win 7 for any bank or investment account when the security patches stop.
I would strongly recommend against it. Then again, I wouldn't use Win10 either. Personally I use non-Windows systems for financial or other critical online work. Smaller attack surface and far fewer active exploits in the wild for Mac and Linux.
I love Win7, and will not voluntarily switch to Win10 except for compatibility testing of my software. When I think Win7 have at last run its course, I'll be using Mac and Linux systems for anything that doesn't absolutely require Windows. Sad, but true.
Having gone the route of upgrading to Windows10 and experiencing many of the problems described I hope this solves these problems. I have lost way too.much time particularly with the Bluetooth headset issues where the only solution I figured out wasI to close everything and restart the computer to reconnect. I also use three screens in addition to my workstation laptop and have had problems described. Pray this works.
I’m not a real techie so I don’t understand how all this works, and when I checked my Windows specifications it looks like mine didn’t take the update even though I ran the updater to try to get it. It appears I have a different OS Build (17134.407) on my Windows 10 Pro Edition, using Version 1803, than the one described in the article(OS Build 17763.168) which says it applies to Version 1809. Is it just simply I have to wait in line until the automatic updater rolls it to me?
I remember the October Windows 10 update.
It was especially bad on my Windows phone.
The email app, Outlook, would start and immediately close.
It was 2 updates later (2 weeks) that the email app came back to life.
And it wasn’t just my phone. Several guys at work also have Windows phones and they saw the same thing.
Earlier in the week I could tell something was going on with Windows updates.
My Win10 tablet rebooted 6 different times throughout the day. I could tell because I would notice a different start-up/log-in picture and I would have to re-enter my password.
It is aggravating when Win10 does that because it closes any open programs.
The longer I have the Win10 tablet, the more I hate Win10. And I primarily use the tablet to listen to online radio because it is easier to any real computing on the Win7 laptop and desktop.
I still use Win7 desktop and have had UPDATES turned off for several years. My computer still gets an occasional ‘critical update’ installed without my permission. One way I could tell was having weird things happen. I would have to do a system restore to a date earlier than the ‘critical update’. After the system restore, things seemed to work correctly.
I have not had to do that recently. I assume MS has cut down on the mandatory ‘critical updates’ for Win7.
Too many times over the years, software updates from various companies have created more problems than they solved.
We seem to share a sense of dread regarding pending doom.
[[Some evenings, it takes so very long to finish updates that I have to manually shut the computer down.]]
Seems like with windows 10 we now have computers not for work, but for updating- With windows 7 & such, we could update once a week or so- but now windows wants to update every night, and like you say, we have to set aside time to make it happen- every night practically? Ugggh- Seems like folks are more and more being held hostage by ridiculously long updates-
[[Yeah, that means it will get increasingly risky to use it for web surfing.]]
That’s when a dual boot scenario makes sense- use linux for web browsing, and then boot into windows 7 only to do windows only programs and games, and for the most part stay off the Internet with windows- or only go to known good sites with it- and leave the other sites to the linux os- or run windows with a virtual machine with linux on it as a kind of sandbox thing- but that would mean looking into securing the VM so that viruses don’t jump to the windows environment easily-
I prefer the dual boot method- it’s a little more inconvenient, but i got it down to a system where durign the day I do all my browsing on linux, then later at night boot into windows to play my online racing game, or use photoshop or play windows only games offline. I probably should run it all in a sandbox environment- i might look into that-
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