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Yup. Once any search-engine-related site gets a hold of you, they stick like Gloo.
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If you hit Winkey+S, then type "upd", one of the options should be "View installed updates".
I haven't had any updates for weeks, but all the ones that were installed before I brought the hammer down are there.
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Thanks for the hint.
1. When I followed Winkey + S and typed "upd" cortana appeared and did nothing.
2. I clicked the (Start button window icon) and then typed "upd" and had quite a few options but none of them seemed to be the correct one.
I took a snapshot (posted at my web site -- really wish CP supported inline images):
http://raddev.us/images/winupd.png[^]
Inconsistent
So, can we rant about Win10 not being consistent too? 
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No idea why anybody thinks Search (Win + S) is the way to go here.
Settings > Update & Recovery > Advanced Options > View Update History
Not rocket science. Most recent update on my system is Update for Windows 10 Version 1511 for x64-based Systems (KB3140741) on 23 March
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9082365 wrote: No idea why anybody thinks Search (Win + S) is the way to go here.
Settings > Update & Recovery > Advanced Options > View Update History
Um, because the path you listed has changed three times since Win 10 was released, and there is no way of knowing if the update being discussed changed it again.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: the path you listed has changed three times since Win 10 was released
I don't think it has. The tip I just looked up to confirm is dated April 2015.
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It must have gone full circle, then. Nothing ever seems to be in the same place twice, when I look.
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The Advanced Update Options (the option above the selected one in your screenshot) should* take you to a page where there might be the View Installed Updates screen (which may have a completely different name, by now, but it should have "installed" or "History" in it)
* I say "should", because there's no guarantee that they haven't moved everything around, again -- God knows, they've got no time to fix bugs whilst they're busy playing "Musical Menus"
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You were actually correct and i did the initial search incorrectly.
I had to type at the bottom of the Cortana window (there's an odd looking edit box which isn't obvious).
Anyways, I got to the Advanced options and it had all the choices including viewing the recent updates.
And, astonishingly, it says I haven't been updated since 3/25 and it was a Visual Studio update.
Thanks for your help. 
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I wouldn't be surprised if the update that gave you the pop-up was an update that hides updates, or something like that -- in fact, very little would surprise me, these days (except for something going right in Win 10, of course).
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Mark_Wallace wrote: in fact, very little would surprise me, these days (except for something going right in Win 10, of course).
Yeah, I'm still not sure what the popup was about -- reason it distracted me is that it popped up a couple of times.
However, I believe the second image I showed (http://raddev.us/images/winupd2.png[^]) was trying to show me :
LAST RUN DATE (but no action was necessary).
Meaning that it ran but didn't do anything. 
Howevever, all of that was terribly misleading and a severe waste of time (of course).
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After thinking about your comment more, I searched my system for "recent" to see if I'd get anything.
Now, at least I can see that at 12:06pm today Microsoft did do something.
Something... 
http://raddev.us/images/winupd2.png[^]
Microsoft, why are you being so cryptic? Is it because you will help me any time my system has a problem so I needn't worry? 
Microsoft's Infinite Wisdom
And doesn't it seem extremely smart of Microsoft to run an update right in the middle of the day, while I'm working on my machine so if there is any problem then it can crush my performance and cause me not to be able to use my computer?
EDIT
Wait It Gets Better
I clicked the link on the settings to alter the time maintenance runs since I hadn't managed it before I guessed it was my fault that it is set to run at noon. Hahaha, the jokes on me. It's not set to run at noon...
http://raddev.us/images/winupd3.png[^]
Oh, Microsoft, you've finally doggone gone and done it!!! I hate you!!!
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It means that system updated Microsoft the latest copy of all your files and activity logs?
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Yeah and yet another harsh of my buzz:
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The wrong place (here) and the right place ... 
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I was just looking at the richest people in the world, Bill Gates at #1.
But then I noticed Bill Gates rates "only" 6th on the most powerful people in the world.
The numbers 1 to 5 on that list are Poetin, Merkel, Obama, the pope, and Xi Jinping.
None of them really very rich people.
So where would you rather be, #1 on the list of richest people or #1 on the list of most powerful people?
Notice that "none" is not an option
Stress comes with both money and power, but I'm not world changer, so I'd take the money.
The only reason I'd like to be on the powerful list is so I can do my evil laugh and people would actually be afraid 
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Rich and unknown. The power I have here on CP is already a considerable responsibility.
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Yep, I've always wanted to be rich and anonymous. Being famous too would just be a pain in the butt.
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I think that the parameters of powerful in that listing need adjusting. In a recent documentary shown here Obama, for example, complains bitterly about being President of the United States and in reality able to do nothing about the things that concern him most. The Pope has no real power at all (for many of the same reasons and a lot of others unique to being a religious leader).
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You should complain to Forbes about it.
If the pope says something many people will blindly follow, that's what power is about, right?
So who is powerful according to you?
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Sander Rossel wrote: If the pope says something many people will blindly follow
That would be a wildly inaccurate representation both now and at any time in the Church's history. In any case, the Pope clearly is not free to say, do or command anything he wants. It is apparent that the present one would wish to be far more reforming than he is currently allowed to be, for example.
Real power lies in getting what you want, when you want it, without let or hindrance of any kind. It is almost impossible to achieve without extreme wealth.
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I see your point, fair enough.
However if Bill Gates wanted to do something with his massive wealth and Obama disagrees Obama could make whatever Bill was planning illegal (or at least try to). It happened before that law makers prevented individuals or companies from doing things they did not agree to.
So what about Kim Jong-un? As far as I know he can do anything he wants as long as it stays in North Korea (and even a little outside).
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The belief that making things illegal stops them from happening has a long and noble tradition of being utterly false! It does nothing but provide a means of punishing people after the fact, if you catch them and can prove to the satisfaction of a jury that they done it. No law ever prevents crime - indeed it mostly increases it simply by criminalising more acts!
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Obama does NOT have the power to make anything illegal. That is exclusively the power of the Judicial branch. He has some influence on that realm via nominating individuals for the Supreme and District courts, but those all have to be approved by the Senate, and the President has no direct influence on any judicial decisions made.
There are checks and balances in every branch, and at all levels of the governments specifically to prevent any one individual from having too much power, including the President.
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jRaskell1 wrote: Obama does NOT have the power to make anything illegal. That is exclusively the power of the Judicial branch.
Not directly, no (and it's actually the legislative branch; judicial only enforces laws (or overturns them if found unconstitutional.)) However the president has an enormous amount of "pull" with congress, and assuming the bill he wants passed isn't terribly insane (like say, legally mandating sex with chickens,) then it's going to be put up to vote.
Contrast this with an ordinary citizen's ability to get one of those old shrivs to put a bill up for vote, and I'd say the president has at least 100 times greater chance of getting a bill voted into law.
That sounds pretty powerful to me.
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