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Posted on 09/14/2019 1:20:20 PM PDT by dayglored
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3778154/posts Breaking, literally: Microsoft's fix for CPU-hogging Windows bug wrecks desktop search
Seems like only troubles follow troubles on this one.
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Windows is still available? I haven’t seen it, used it, or heard of it for years.
I’m guessing it is some kind of avant garde thing for nerds and tinkerers these days.
I'm ready to switch to a Mac. I wonder if MS would even care....
Yep, still very much around... Around 85% of the personal and business computer market.
Surprising you haven't heard of it. It's all the rage. Much of the rage being literal. :-)
I guarantee that MS doesn't care. They make their money on large business customers and the Office / Office365 application suite.
They apparently don't give a crap about individual home/consumer users any more. I imagine you've noticed.
Some pop-up ad today promised “Fix Your Computer Yourself in Five Minutes” so I had to check it out. For $30 they send you a USB stick with a bootable Linux distro on it ;-)
I just need to block a few more updates to my Windows7 machine, then they should leave me alone to compute in peace.
Meanwhile, Microsoft really does need to do some slash and burn with the execs responsible for the Win10 update fiascos. Perhaps requiring all employees to put their mice down and watch as they livestream the firings and escort the execs out as an example for their remaining employees.
LOL :-)
“Some pop-up ad today promised “Fix Your Computer Yourself in Five Minutes” so I had to check it out. For $30 they send you a USB stick with a bootable Linux distro on it ;-)”
I will send you one free! It also records and transmits all your downloads, keystrokes and disk files to me so I can make recommendations to use for optimizing your setup.
[I wish MS would stop trying to “fix” W10]
Well, how else can they convince you to upgrade to Windows 11? /mostly not joking
I have a Windows 8.1 machine. A couple of them. And I’m leaving one at Windows 7.
Office / 365 is lousy too.
Goes double for Skype For Business.
Still on version 1809, purposely.
Will consider upgrading to 1903 and they get their mess straightened out.
I just ran the full update this morning, and I have ZERO issues stemming from it. Search works just fine, smooth running, sound works OK (Listening to Alice Cooper at Wacken 2013 right this second).
Welcome to My Nightmare @ 41 minutes in Woo-Hoo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE8e9Znj1_8
It did take its sweet time loading, mind you. nearly 3 hours.
MICROSLOP living up to its name!~
Have several machines with 8.1 home and pro. Will keep them for years even if MS doesn’t support them ... most app vendors will.
:)
Oh crap I hadn’t thought of that. Yeah, betcha that outfit has a PO Box in Moscow in their contact info!
I miss the days of Windows 98 and the subsequent slight update to that.
I miss the days of Windows 7.
I miss the days before Bill Gates claimed that Internet Explorer was part of the operating system and began all those changes. But Windows 7 was the last decent version for me.
I’m not crazy about 8 but I turned off all updates there, too. Other than taking the 8.1 patch.
Count your blessings. When mine installed KB4515384 both Search and Edge bit the dust.
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