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Got into the office yesterday o find that MS had 'updated' my PC. I normally leave the office with all my apps still open (VS instances, SSMS, Jave EE, Outlook, Skype, Notepad++, Paint.Net, browsers...)
When I tried to unlock my PC, it just sat there frozen... it took me over half an hour to get it to respond. I finally got everything closed and the PC rebooted.
Then my wife texts me a pic of my home PC showing the Win 7 startup splash screen. She said it just sat there all day. After multiple attempts to cold boot, I finally had to do System Restore, twice, to a point 2 days ago.
Error log showed MS updated my PC in the middle of the night. the same with my office Pc.
Anyone else see problems with their latest 'Fix'?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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My wife runs Win 7 Pro. She also had the update, but no issues after a normal restart. I run Win 10 Pro and also had a major update yesterday or the day before. No issues to report, but the computer did two automatic restarts before it started working normally again.
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My gf was in the middle of filling out a student loan financial aid form online when Windows 7 decided "time to reboot and install an update." F**** MICROSOFT F*** YOU!
I had forgotten to turn off Windows update after re-installing the OS after she got that ransom virus by opening some document from a supposedly reputable person who probably didn't know they'd gotten infected.
Marc
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Just a stoopid question, but have you considered keeping a systems drive image for every computer in your household? It takes me about ten minutes to restore one of our systems to what it was when the image was made. This is a lot faster than re-installing the entire OS and apps. (I use Macrium's Reflect for images - it's free.)
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Definitely worth a 5: image backups are an essential (provided the drive they are saved to is not permanently connected)
I use AOMEI Backupper Standard - it's also free, but it can load its images as mountable drives as well. Which means you can retrieve individual files as well as restore a whole disk.
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Quote: Definitely worth a 5
Thanks!
I store my images on a separate external USB3 drive that is only used for that purpose and normally switched off and disconnected.
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Which means that ransomware can't get it!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Quote: Which means that ransomware can't get it!
Exactly!
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OriginalGriff wrote: which means that ransomware can't get it!
... until it's switched on
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Quote: until it's switched on
No! When the computer is infected, you boot from an image recovery boot disc, that any good imaging app can make for you. You never boot from the infected systems disk. The infected OS never runs!
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Win 7 Pro updated on shutdown last night. Using it now and it's fine. Sometimes you just have bad luck with these things. I certainly have in the past.
Laptop is on Win 10 Home. It's switched off at the moment so won't have had the "treatment" yet. 
Kevin
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We had to remove 2 patches (KB3126587 & KB3126593) because they broke Incredibuild distributed build system.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Someone has to bring Ballmer out of retirement to kick some serious ***.
The only way to walk away from a Windows PC these days is to disconnect it from the NET - even when you have BITS and Windows Updates services disabled in services.msc.
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I feel reasonably safe from any updates to office 2003. 
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If you crossed a Gazelle with a Melon, would you get a Cantelope?
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That's pretty seedy humor.
/ravi
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I think his wife put that on his honeydew list.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Why so bitter?
PS. Had to look gac up, as I didn't see how global assembly cache was related. 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Isn't that what you get when two melons fall in love against their parents' wishes and are imprisoned to prevent them marrying?
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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My daughter is trying to choose her major in college. Of course, I want her to be a coder, just like good ol' dad, but...
She is the butterfly of all extroverts and she wants to choose a career that will allow her to be with people... A LOT. She cant think of anything more dreadful than being stuck in a cubicle all day. (Her one computing class just reinforced her suspicion that software development is a boring, lifeless, punishment for introverts only.) She's vivacious, outgoing, creative, hilarious... and wants to major in Theatre. But she is also very smart at things like math and "puzzles" and logic.
Last night I assured her that there are a lot of software jobs that are filled with outgoing and extroverted people (but inwardly I felt guilty for inventing such a fiction). Seriously though: do you know any social butterflies that have found a satisfying niche in the software industry?
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Yes. Programmers need someone to talk to the end users to figure out what they want. She could be a translator. Business Analyst?
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kdmote wrote: Seriously though: do you know any social butterflies that have found a satisfying niche in the software industry?
Does it matter? Why are you looking for others to help justify your desire for her to follow in your footsteps? Let her choose her own path, and then support her in whatever SHE chooses.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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Fair reply. And honestly I very much intend to support her choice, whatever it may be. Its not that I want her to follow my path; I just want her to maximize the God-given potential that is so evident in her. I don't care what she chooses; I just want to help her make a choice that she will be thrilled with (and one where she is likely to find a job she enjoys). Her theatrical aptitude is fantastic; but her technical aptitude is also, and I would like to encourage her not to shun the latter in her ambition for the former.
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Why do you assume that the theatrical route precludes the technical? Very odd given the vast range of technology now in use in film, theatre, and television. And does she really need coding to exploit her skills therein, anyway?
Clearly it's nonsense to say that you don't care what she chooses. You obviously do or you wouldn't be asking the question in the first place!
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