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Maybe Gates should fix his crappy software instead of “solving” all the world’s problems.
My Win 10 workstation went TU on a Samsung SSD driver with this update. Good thing I had a backup.
A better bad patch? Gates needs to stick with stuff he knows. Like vaccines and “steaks” made from ‘fungi’. 🍖 yummmmm.
How To Turn Off Windows Updates Permanently?
Many people have been unpaid for Microsoft beta testers for decades...
Just keep in mind - Microsoft is a customer of SolarWinds, the IT provider the hackers exploited to send software updates to numerous US government agencies.
Because retail end users should be the alpha testers for all new Microsoft releases. Saves a bunch of money if code isn’t tested first.
On the other hand, I don’t seem to be having any problem with my Win7 machine, although they did force an update a few weeks ago after promising they’d be leaving us Win7 users alone.
A ‘bad patch’ for Windows. Whodathunkit? Whenever there was a Windows update of any significance, I was always having to restart and/or tweak SMB server, streaming service, Network discovery and a host of other services every time. It drove me insane. Searching through varying Windows forums, I found that it was, and remains, a huge problem with Windows networks; their networking BLOWS.
I hadn’t used MacOS in more than a decade. But, when the new Apple silicon Macbooks came out last year, I bought one. While MacOS isn’t a option for corporate deployment, for home use, it’s a far superior and reliable OS. It’s not perfect, but it generally works as intended.
Most importantly for me, networking is SO much easier in MacOS. I can now easily and RELIABLY share files between iOS, MacOS, iPadOS and my PlexServer (which runs Linux). Unless you’re a gamer, I really can’t see the appeal of Windows for the casual, home user.
My most recent update is:
February 9, 2021—KB4601319 (successfully installed on Feb 10)
Just checked for new updates and MS tells me I’m up to date.
I think the key reason MS Windows keeps producing buggy updates is that it has likely become spaghetti code.
One thing that gives me a clue to that is all the incidences of “Service Host” operations the OS has to run to try to steal enough of the PC’s memory just for the OS and to try to keep everything in the OS from bumping into each other.
If you ever use the Norton Utilities application you also learn that Windows and applications running in Windows run in dirty ways. Windows itself and windows application install and uninstall processes leave trash lying around in the registry and in folders on the system, and applications running in Windows, after execution is completed, leave trash lying around on the system and some of that trash just happens to be your personal info left in easily accessible “temp” and “recent” folders, copied, used and left there when an application was using the files that contained them. A hacker does not need to find where your most important files or data are. If they were used regularly or recently, there are likely easily accessible copies outside of what you thought were the secure folders you have them stored in - ‘cause none of your applications running in Windows do a good job of cleaning up after themselves.
Another reason I stayed on Windows 7 and turned off the updates.
BFL
Keep trying. Maybe one day they’ll get it right.
Indian-developed software from an Indian-run company. What do you expect.
App developers really should port most of their apps to Linux
Something NOT run or developed by H1B slimeballs.
We have a new patch. Install this patch immediately. Whoops, we were just made aware of a bug in that patch, but here is a patch for the patch. Update it immediately. Whoops, guess what? The patch of the patch needs a patch, and as soon as it's available you need to update it immediately."
For any machines you personally use with Windows 10, do you utilize any temporary update blocking/delaying measures, and have they been helpful in heading off ~fixes of fixes~?
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That is one reason I delay updates for up to 35 days.