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Windows 10 cumulative update KB 3176934 breaks PowerShell
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| Aug 24, 2016
| Woody Leonhard
Posted on 08/24/2016 7:07:32 PM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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To: Dalberg-Acton
My computer automatically updated to Windows 10 and their new browser Edge which will not open. As a result I have to transfer every link to Outlook Express. Frustrating that Microsoft forces 10 on me with a defective browser that they don’t fix.
To: Dalberg-Acton
Bloatware without purpose. Its authors no longer know how it works.
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posted on
08/25/2016 4:53:39 AM PDT
by
GingisK
To: doorgunner69; catnipman
Good luck, MS. Had updates turned off for over two years now. Even that software that supposedly removes 10 nag notices told me it would not work unless I installed a newer "update" version. I have not researched it, but i wonder if there is a list of all the IP addresses of MS that one could exclude, as with Blocking Unwanted Connections with a Hosts File - MVPS HOSTS file which I have used for years (with some edits). Thank God for such.
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posted on
08/25/2016 4:57:36 AM PDT
by
daniel1212
( Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned and destitute sinner+ trust Him to save you, then follow Him!)
To: Dalberg-Acton; dayglored
Ugh. My work is making me upgrade from 8.1 to 10.
Others who’ve already upgraded tell me it’s a lengthy, complicated process.
Not looking forward to this.
< |:(~
To: martin_fierro
As Mark Twain noted, regarding a dog walking upright on its hind legs: “it matters not whether it does it well. The amazing thing is that it can do it at all. “
In-place major OS upgrades are like that.
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posted on
08/25/2016 8:00:38 AM PDT
by
dayglored
("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
To: daniel1212
“I have not researched it, but i wonder if there is a list of all the IP addresses of MS that one could exclude, as with Blocking Unwanted Connections with a Hosts File - MVPS HOSTS file which I have used for years (with some edits). Thank God for such. “
folks have tried that approach, so you could google it and see how it’s going. Some were claiming MS was bypassing the etc/hosts file with hard-coded IPs, so the only means possible to thwart phoning home was to use router features to block the MS IPs.
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posted on
08/25/2016 9:08:00 AM PDT
by
catnipman
(Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
To: dayglored
From
The Register:
To undo the update, uninstall it by running the following in PowerShell:
wusa /uninstall /kb:3176934
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posted on
08/25/2016 10:16:17 AM PDT
by
dayglored
("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
To: dayglored
To: Dalberg-Acton
LOL! I am SO stealing that...
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posted on
08/25/2016 3:47:03 PM PDT
by
dayglored
("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
To: catnipman
folks have tried that approach, so you could google it and see how it’s going. Some were claiming MS was bypassing the etc/hosts file with hard-coded IPs, so the only means possible to thwart phoning home was to use router features to block the MS IPs. Well, there is this,Download Destroy Windows 10 Spying - MajorGeeks though i do not try it, and do not want to do all that this does myself:
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posted on
08/25/2016 7:23:20 PM PDT
by
daniel1212
( Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned and destitute sinner+ trust Him to save you, then follow Him!)
To: daniel1212
that tool is a host files address blocker and if MS has hard-coded IP addresses into their spyware, then all aspects of DNS resolution are bypassed,including the hosts file.
In fact, the first use comment is:
“It’s useful to remove apps and to do some tweaks, but doesn’t works with hosts blocking, because some domains are hardcoded in the ..\system32\dnsapi.dll”
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posted on
08/25/2016 9:02:02 PM PDT
by
catnipman
(Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
To: catnipman
that tool is a host files address blocker and if MS has hard-coded IP addresses into their spyware, then all aspects of DNS resolution are bypassed,including the hosts file. In fact, the first use comment is: “It’s useful to remove apps and to do some tweaks, but doesn’t works with hosts blocking, because some domains are hardcoded in the ..\system32\dnsapi.dll” I did not see that although I did read about the hard coding. Blocking the known list of Microsoft servers using the appropriate rules of Windows Firewall MS is another method discussed here. : "We just HAVE to talk."
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posted on
08/26/2016 2:11:59 AM PDT
by
daniel1212
( Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned and destitute sinner+ trust Him to save you, then follow Him!)
To: daniel1212
theoretically using outbound firewall rules should block specified IP addresses used by microsoft spyware, but testing would be required to make sure that microsoft hasn’t built in a backdoor for their own usage that bypasses THAT checking. Actually, if this latter was actually the case, I would think that would be good grounds for a class action lawsuit and/or have the EU regulating bodies take an extremely dim view of that situation.
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posted on
08/26/2016 8:13:15 AM PDT
by
catnipman
(Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
To: dayglored
Thanks.
I got the update on Tuesday, and was okay. Then I got an update last night that killed Edge, System, and who knows what else.
I followed your link and uninstalled and now things seem to be fine.
-PJ
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posted on
08/26/2016 9:42:28 AM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
(If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.From Foxnews, May 31,)
To: catnipman
theoretically using outbound firewall rules should block specified IP addresses used by microsoft spyware, but testing would be required to make sure that microsoft hasn’t built in a backdoor for their own usage that bypasses THAT checking. Actually, if this latter was ac More likely they will just change addresses.
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posted on
08/26/2016 8:18:17 PM PDT
by
daniel1212
( Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned and destitute sinner+ trust Him to save you, then follow Him!)
To: daniel1212
“More likely they will just change addresses.”
Yup. Probably with every update if they feel like it.
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posted on
08/26/2016 10:20:44 PM PDT
by
catnipman
(Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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