intersting windows thing.

[stj]

http://www.myce.com/news/windows-upd...nloader-75647/

[ddscentral]

Re: intersting windows thing.

Looks like that's some sort of notifier/nag screen to upgrade to Windows 10 when it comes out.

http://windowsitpro.com/windows-10/m...-and-windows-7

[ratdude747]

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Yeah, no thanks. microsoft.

[rhomanski]

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uninstall seems to work on mine. That's sneaky but not unexpected.

[stj]

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http://www.infoworld.com/article/290...-win7-pcs.html

[rhomanski]

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Well now, when I went to shut down it hung up. Had to hold the power switch to finish the shut down. Not nice MS.

[Topcat]

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I must admit, I rarely update my system beyond actual service packs unless a huge security breech is found. Automatic updates are always disabled around here.

[Agent24]

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I update, but wait a while and do research first. Saved me from those faulty updates that came out recently.

[RJARRRPCGP]

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Well now, when I went to shut down it hung up. Had to hold the power switch to finish the shut down. Not nice MS.

I never had that problem with Windows 2000 and later. It always still responded, even when it looked like it crashed.

OTOH, Microsoft had to make a patch for Windows 95 and Windows 98 for that issue.

It was common to see Windows 95 and Windows 98 locked up at "Windows is shutting down" on campus PCs connected to the LAN.

Microsoft had a bug where Windows 95 and Windows 98 were more likely to do that when connected to a LAN.

Even good ol' Windows 98 SE had that bug, IIRC!
Why did Microsoft fail to fix that by Windows 98 SE RTM in 1999?

[rhomanski]

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I don't know, my 98 would hang up like that all the time. They never did fix it. XP did it too, way too often. Mostly 7 just crashes on me, BSOD with memory dump. I think it's the video card that does it. It's not too often so no real problem. One of my game programs is from 98 and it has to change resolution to run it. Sometimes when it comes back the screen is all messed up. More like a tye-died picture than aero. After restarting it works fine again until I play that game.

[TechGeek]

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I don't know, my 98 would hang up like that all the time. They never did fix it. XP did it too, way too often. Mostly 7 just crashes on me, BSOD with memory dump. I think it's the video card that does it. It's not too often so no real problem. One of my game programs is from 98 and it has to change resolution to run it. Sometimes when it comes back the screen is all messed up. More like a tye-died picture than aero. After restarting it works fine again until I play that game.

Dude, it didn't disable 256 colors and forgot to change the screen res back.

[rhomanski]

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I'm not sure. It looks like a tye dyed T shirt. When I move the mouse it blanks out until I stop and then the screen comes back. Makes it hard to shutdown and restart. Takes a few minutes to start task manager and shut down.

[SteveNielsen]

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I never had that problem with Windows 2000 and later. It always still responded, even when it looked like it crashed.

OTOH, Microsoft had to make a patch for Windows 95 and Windows 98 for that issue.

It was common to see Windows 95 and Windows 98 locked up at "Windows is shutting down" on campus PCs connected to the LAN.

Microsoft had a bug where Windows 95 and Windows 98 were more likely to do that when connected to a LAN.

Even good ol' Windows 98 SE had that bug, IIRC!
Why did Microsoft fail to fix that by Windows 98 SE RTM in 1999?

Had a similar problem with 95/98 but they'd hang on startup when on the LAN, when they finally pulled out of the hang there'd be no IP address. Packet sniffing found it to be caused by 95/98 not getting along with spanning tree protocol and we had to change all the routers and switches to enable port fast (disabling STP).

[Topcat]

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http://www.infoworld.com/article/290...-win7-pcs.html

I just did a win7 reload on a laptop. This update was shown as optional, not critical. It's win7 64 pro.

[kc8adu]

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i leave my updates off too.
i do any updates at a time of my choosing only.
several reports of bad windows updates hosing the machine where you cant even roll back.

[ben7]

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i leave my updates off too.
i do any updates at a time of my choosing only.
several reports of bad windows updates hosing the machine where you cant even roll back.

Yeah, I need to turn off automatic updates, because I leave the computer for JUST 5 MINUTES, and I come back, and it's doing an update ...

I've heard that the crashing can be due to driver issues. And it's not the programming of the drivers. Apparently, I heard that there is some sort of intrinsic flaw in the way windows handles drivers, which could cause them to do something at the same time (or something to that effect) and cause the system to crash.

Fortunately, I've never had any problems with windows 7

[momaka]

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Windows Update is always off on all of my computers or computers I service/fix. It really causes more harm than good.

In this case, the "don't fix it if it ain't broken" phrase applies IMO.

[Agent24]

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Windows Update is always off on all of my computers or computers I service/fix. It really causes more harm than good.

In this case, the "don't fix it if it ain't broken" phrase applies IMO.

It can cause problems, but that's usually by people installing updates too fast before everyone else has had time to test them and find the bugs...

Never updating at all means you are going to have an OS full of known security holes that malware writers just love to exploit.

[TechGeek]

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Windows Update is always off on all of my computers or computers I service/fix. It really causes more harm than good.

In this case, the "don't fix it if it ain't broken" phrase applies IMO.

It can cause problems, but that's usually by people installing updates too fast before everyone else has had time to test them and find the bugs...

Never updating at all means you are going to have an OS full of known security holes that malware writers just love to exploit.

**Ding!** Level up to Agent24!! He's right, momaka. I've had to deal with my dad's computer being infected before.

[momaka]

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All of my computers are clean, that's all I can say. On my XP machines, SP2 is enough. The only update you really need if you have SP2 is the one that prevents the DownAdUp worm infection. No other issues other than that. A strong hosts file and ABP in Firefox go a long way to protect my PCs. Oh, and a dash of common sense, of course .