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Patch, patch, patch....
1 posted on 03/30/2018 7:37:48 AM PDT by dayglored
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To: Abby4116; afraidfortherepublic; aft_lizard; AF_Blue; amigatec; AppyPappy; arnoldc1; ATOMIC_PUNK; ...
Meltdown patch patch patch ... PING!

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2 posted on 03/30/2018 7:38:19 AM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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To: dayglored

Patches, I’m depending on you, son!....................


3 posted on 03/30/2018 7:38:25 AM PDT by Red Badger (The people who call Trump a tyrant are the same people who want the president to confiscate weapons.)
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To: dayglored

Will there be another patch for this patch?


4 posted on 03/30/2018 7:44:54 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: dayglored

...and we know THIS one is good -— how?


6 posted on 03/30/2018 7:58:03 AM PDT by William of Barsoom (In Omnia, Paratus)
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To: dayglored
Microsoft Windows is a patch - of MS-DOS...
7 posted on 03/30/2018 8:03:37 AM PDT by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill.)
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To: dayglored

That is one of the reasons I avoided Win10 and its forced updates. MS has a history of releasing updates that create more problems than they fix.

With my Win7 desktop, even though I have ‘do not update’ checked, I still periodically get a ‘critical update’. I can tell because my PC goes bonkers and I usually have to run a Restore Point.

A few weeks ago, I bought a Win10 Tablet just to start learning my way around Win10. Win10 seems an inevitability. I find more websites, for example, balking at my old XP/Win7 browsers, etc.

Yesterday, I noticed the Win10 tablet light blinking, so I figured an update was going on. After about an hour, I noticed the screensaver was stalled. After another hour, the screensaver still stalled, I unplugged the tablet and held the on-off switch. After a couple of tries, it finally restarted and went to an ‘update in progress’ screen. A few minutes later, it started up — so I guess my turning it off and on didn’t mess anything up. I am still not familiar enough with Win10 to find out what this new update did, because it flashed a brief message that ‘new features were being installed.’

I still hate Win10. Every time I play around with the Win10 tablet, I find Win10 frustrating. Please please please God let my Win7 desktop and laptop last a few more years.


8 posted on 03/30/2018 8:07:52 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: dayglored

The Win10 in my laptop has gone completely stupid. I get a message that it needs to update, because this version isn’t going to get updates after April, so I run the update, and it fails to load.

It has done this no fewer than 9 times now. I suppose I have to bite the bullet and take it in.

I should never have let Win10 into the machine in the first place...


9 posted on 03/30/2018 8:09:11 AM PDT by Don W (When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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To: dayglored

Microsoft is suffering from delusions of competency.


15 posted on 03/30/2018 10:48:35 AM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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To: dayglored
Microsoft today issued an emergency security update to correct a security update it issued earlier this month to correct a security update it issued in January and February.

Microsoft is getting a bad reputation...

17 posted on 03/30/2018 11:14:15 AM PDT by GOPJ ("Morning Joe and his Smiling Sycophants"... for times when only 'creepy' satisfies...)
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To: dayglored

Companies are now more concerned with real-time updates than producing solid code that works so customers can use the software. Microsoft, and everyone else, has become not worth the costs.


18 posted on 03/30/2018 11:36:39 AM PDT by CodeToad (The Democrats haven't been this pissed off since the Republicans took their slaves away.)
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I have turned off updates for both of my Windows 7 PCs and am wondering if it is safe to keep updates permanently off . Don’t want to experience the blue screen of death horror I went through in January ever again . Any advice would be appreciated . A computer dummy in Japan ...


21 posted on 03/31/2018 4:48:39 AM PDT by sushiman (i)
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To: dayglored

Bfl


26 posted on 04/04/2018 10:54:07 PM PDT by pigsmith (Liberals can't make the connection between their politics and the decline of everything around them.)
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