Posted on 05/07/2016 4:41:19 AM PDT by WhiskeyX
Microsoft has made a change to an update for Windows 7 that can prevent certain systems from booting. While you might expect me to say, "good news, the software giant has fixed the problem", in fact what Microsoft has done is switch the update from "optional", to "recommended". So, on some systems, it will now install, and break Windows 7 automatically.
There is good news though, and that’s you can solve the problem and get your computer working again by (can you guess?) upgrading to Windows 10. Hooray!
The update in question is KB3133977 and what this does is fix a problem that stops BitLocker encrypting drives because of service crashes in svhost.exe. If that’s a problem you have, you’ll welcome the fix.
Unless you have an ASUS motherboard.
(Excerpt) Read more at betanews.com ...
I like Win 10 better than Win 7.
it is definitely faster.
I have a photo printer that is not supported by Windows 10.
This little trick would hasten my move to Apple.
Thanks to Microsoft, 95% of what I do is now on Linux. The remaining 5% will be taken care of when a couple of applications I run become Linux compatible. All of my treasured legacy applications run better under Wine than under Windows 7 and they won’t run on Win 10.
I run Windows 7 Premium (updates set to off) inside my Mac using Parallels.
It’s easy to do and is very stable.
If you need help, PM me.
Is it a difficult task to change from Win 7 to Linux ?
I like windows10 better too. But people who bought windows7 shouldn’t be forced to buy windows10.
This is Microsoft Ransomware
I have that one installed, on 36/16.
No problems.
Should I uninstall it?
The article doesn’t say ‘what’ to do if it’s there.
Microsoft Windows 10 and the more recent updates to Windows 8.1, Windows 7 are reported to be making changes to the UEFI and/or BIOS that are causing temporary and maybe in some cases permanent damage to the system board or motherboard affecting ASUS, Samsung, and other computing devices. Windows 10 is reported to be deleting software applications from users’ computers, misreporting them as malware or pirated software. The list of problems and the controversial intrusions to user privacy and ability to manage their own computer systems is mounting as the 29 July 2016 deadline for upgrading approaches. What many users want to know is what sort of major changes to the pricing of the operating system and its utilities may occur afterwards to implement the move to software as a service with monthly and/or annual service fees? Microsoft is uhappy with the way users have been clinging onto their old operating systems and application software for which Microsoft receives no further monies, so the newer software as a fee based monthly and/or annual service is designed to give Microsoft a huge increase in sales income from users forced to pay for every day unlike before. The built-in Microsoft marketing spyware is designed to help in that endeavor to squeeze more money from the pockets of the users.
Im curious, why would you run Windows on a Mac?
Installed on 3/16.
...needed coffee.
“Should I uninstall it?
The article doesn’t say ‘what’ to do if it’s there.”
Read the comments pro and con after the article. Also search around the Internet for the other problems, using varous combinations of the search terms: “Windows 10”, “UEFI”, “BIOS”, “Samsung”, “ASUS”, “motherboard”, and so forth.
I ran into this problem several weeks back after installing this update. Fortunately, I was able to simply go into the BIOS of my ASUS motherboard and disable the Secure Boot option. Still runs Windows 7 just fine.
I hope to find out it isn't, because otherwise I'm buying an overpriced Apple.
If Win10 is faster for you then your Win7 was not configured right. Probably had years of accumulated junk in there that was never cleaned out.
“Upgrade” to Windows 10 is “free”, for now. I am fine with Windows 7., I have it at work and on three machines at home. I am constantly importuned to upgrade to Windows 10, but I don’t wanna. I got a Windows 8 laptop for my wife. She hated it and I hated it. With a lot of effort, literally hours, I could get it to behave like Windows 7, but one misstep brought it back to Windows 8 user interface. It was intrusive and insistent and crappy. I brought it back to Best Buy and the nice young customer service person asked me it there was anything wrong with it. I said, “Yes, it has Windows 8 on it.” I asked if he had anything in the store with Windows 7, and he said no, so I didn’t need to go any further.
To be fair, this problem is the fault of ASUS rather than Microsoft
I use Linux Mint in the latest long term support version. The easiest thing to do is to install whatever Linux distro that you want alongside your Windows in a dual boot config. Then you can exercise it and see if it will do what you want it to do.
I don’t have a very fast internet connection so I get disks from osdisc.com. They are generally live/install versions. It will run the live first (booting from the CD) and then will give you the option to install if you like what you see.
In install, it will detect the existing OS and will ask if you want to replace or run along with the existing. Then you can decide how much space on the HDD you want to use for the new install.
“Is it a difficult task to change from Win 7 to Linux ?”
It depends. One strategy is to use a minitower desktop computer for your efforts, especially if you add on a trayless hard disk drive dock in one of its exposed 3.5 inch drive bays (Bay ODD2). This approach allows you to shutdown the computer and swap the boot drive, operating system, and applications software without using dual boot or multiboot partitions on one hard drive. It also makes it easier to swap out a boot drive that has been compromised by malware and get back to work with an immediate swap in of the already prepared replacement boot drive and operating system. What this arrangement depends upon, however, is whether or not Microsoft has done any meddling with your system board or motherboard UEFI or BIOS, temporary or permanent, such as Secure Boot that is going to disable your Linux and/or do other destructive things to your computer. There are reports indicating some Samsung computers were bricked by these changes due to the interplay between Microsoft and the Samsung UEFI/BIOS on the system board. In other words, users who don’t know any better can end up having their computers temporarily disabled or permanently bricked when the Microsoft Windows 10 or recent Windows 7 and Windows 8.x updates interacts with vulnerabilities in the UEFI and/or BIOS of the computer.
I like the new interface. I like Windows 10 and I really like server 2012r2. But I don’t like Microsoft aggressively pushing the upgrade.
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