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charlieg wrote: - driver updates: this is a killer for laptop users.
I know the pain whereof you speak. After months of my laptop rebooting I determined (with help from CP users) that my laptop was rebooting because M$ installed a driver for my wifi that would reboot my machine when the machine went into sleep mode.
The only way I could fix it was make sure my machine never goes into sleep mode. It hasn't rebooted since I did that.
I tried installing old drivers and M$ would re-install the new ones constantly.
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raddevus wrote:
After months of my laptop rebooting I determined (with help from CP users) that my laptop was rebooting because M$ installed a driver for my wifi that would reboot my machine when the machine went into sleep mode.
The only way I could fix it was make sure my machine never goes into sleep mode. It hasn't rebooted since I did that.
You still owe me two beers.
Plus the late fee.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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See my reply to charlie. You, out of all people, should know how Windows updates and reboots work.
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yes, I do understand and most of it is ok but there are just times when I've been in the middle of something, had to leave my machine and then M$ has rebooted my machine and I have a whole series of things to do to get back to the place where I was working.
Good discussion on this. I understand M$ has a challenge too, but the whole paradigm has shifted and Win users just aren't used to this behavior and it often feels like we do not own our own hardware.
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raddevus wrote: Just wait until your phone does this
raddevus wrote: no worries M$ doesn't have a phone.
Why, just last week, my Windows Phone reminded me that it needed to restart...I'm not surprised anymore. Yep, there's still a few WP owners out there!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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kmoorevs wrote: Yep, there's still a few WP owners out there!
All the way back in 2002 I had a great Viewsonic PocketPC running Windows PocketPC 2002.
It was really great. I could read ebooks on it (remember Microsoft .LIT and MS Reader? most likely you don't) many years before Kindle and Amazon.
My cubicle neighbor at the time had PocketPC via Dell which was also a phone. A PHONE!! Keep in mind that Apple did not release the iPhone until June 29, 2007.
It is crazy that M$ failed at this. They were like 5 years ahead and they still couldn't win.
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"It's not really a big deal."
Are you serious? I am staring at a panel that says "nag, don't reboot" (paraphrase). If Microsoft is going to reboot machines anyway, just say so, ffs.
I don't care how you want to polish the turd, it's still a turd.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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You know that you can control when Windows 10 does updates. Certain updates require a reboot, or your f***ing OS doesn't work. Your choice.
Like I said, what is the big deal?
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Yeah, I saw your reply. I have no problem with updates, and yes, I know how to do them. But when you provide me an option and then ignore it, crashing all of my VMs and work in progress, it sort of pisses me off.
Besides, there's no f'ing reason to do this. None. If I delivered something like this to my customers, it would be a very chilly meeting to discuss why their production line went down.
Keep polishing the turd.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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charlieg wrote: Keep polishing the turd.
Not polishing the turd as much as living with the turd given to me, and making do.
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Slacker007 wrote: The alternative is to not use Windows.
Actually I'd love to buy my next Dell without Windows 10 but it isn't possible (nor was it with my last). If I am forced to pay for a product I also expect to be able to provide respectful feedback it it is crap and have that feedback considered. To be told to elephant off if I don't like it would seem to be the height of hubris.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
modified 13-May-18 10:06am.
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pwasser wrote: Dell without Windows 10
Dell provides Linux laptops.
Google: dell laptop linux
Click first link
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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No longer available in Australia.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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Of course not. Australia does not exist. We already discussed that last week!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Disable the Windows Update service. Then manually turn it on and check for updates whenever your schedule allows, afterwards turning it back off. I have had good luck with this approach, but don't guarantee it. I miss Win 7s approach of telling you when updates were available, but not forcing you to update.
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David O'Neil wrote: Disable the Windows Update service.
I've noticed that it re-enables itself. I'm looking into writing a service killer that checks every 60 seconds, as there are other services involved in the auto-update as well -- I don't have the link at the moment, when I find it again, I'll finish my service killer applet and post it here, mwahaha.
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You'll get my five. That would be a used tool.
Right now Action Center is giving one recommendation, saying some apps stopped working but not giving any details. I'm keeping my eye on it. I also noticed a restart of the service once. I'm wondering if it does so at a full reboot. Since I hibernate all the time except once around the time it restarted, maybe that is the triggering factor.
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David O'Neil wrote: Action Center
If you want to get rid of that I wrote this a couple years ago (only tested on Win7):
:: Action Center Disable
:: Disables ActionCenter and ActionCenterCPL
::
@ECHO OFF
SC stop wscsvc
SC config wscsvc start=disabled
TAKEOWN /F "%SystemRoot%\system32\ActionCenter.dll"
ICACLS "%SystemRoot%\system32\ActionCenter.dll" /grant:r administrators:F
REN "%SystemRoot%\system32\ActionCenter.dll" ActionCenter.bak
TAKEOWN /F "%SystemRoot%\system32\ActionCenterCPL.dll"
ICACLS "%SystemRoot%\system32\ActionCenterCPL.dll" /grant:r administrators:F
REN "%SystemRoot%\system32\ActionCenterCPL.dll" ActionCenterCPL.bak
ECHO Operations completed.
PAUSE > NUL
As long as you're logged in as admin it works great and if you ever want to re-enable just rename the *.bak to *.dll. Even if you don't re-enable the service Windows will do that automatically if it detects the DLLs as I found out.
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Doesn't have anything to do with shut down - MS did its thing without shutdown or hibernate taking place, and WU service was at manual instead of disabled when I just checked.
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David O'Neil wrote: There may be other solutions as well. Looking forward to your solution if you get to it.
Reading the comments for Windows Update Blocker, it seems like it doesn't always work. At least no one reported malware, but then again, I wouldn't trust the average user.
Gads, the W10 Forums page link -- complicated stuff!
We'll see when I get around to trying my own solution -- it's on the low priority list right now.
Marc
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Found a poor man's version that I think works. Create a bat file with the following:
@echo off
:while1
sc stop wuauserv
sc config wuauserv start= disabled
timeout 60
goto :while1
Open a command prompt as admin and run the bat.
Any improvements are appreciated - I've never been a knowledgeable bat file creator. I suspect with some more work I could hide the command prompt from the taskbar using AutoHotKey, but I'm lazy. But I can place it on a new desktop that I never look at!
Tested it by setting wuauserv to manual in between the 60 second intervals. Had to F5 the Services pane after the 60 seconds hit. Successfully disabled the service!
Will other services you hinted about also need to be stopped, or will just the main wuauserv be enough to kill the updates?
I'll place a copy of this in the lounge in case others want to play.
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Okay, so since I know all about Windows updates, I decided to not do an f'ing thing today, reboot every time to install updates. Every damn time the update fails. But don't worry, that's just how Windows updates goes... lets see:
Cumulative update is awaiting restart.....
for the nth time I'll restart and the f***er still doesn't install. But that's okay, it's the way updates work.
What a POS
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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