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I crawled back into 8.1 to lick my wounds from the debacle with the demonically infested Win 10 updates, to replenish my fortitude, and recharge my supernatural-fighting chakras; fortunately, had a boot drive with 8.1 on it in another computer I wasn't using to fall back on.
On tomorrow's little shop-of-horror's menu: see if I can run Atmel Backer-Upper from the 8.1 Drive to restore the Win 10 drive from ... I have both a disc image back-up, and a disk back-up.
Oh yes, I was remiss in not burning a CD/DVD Win 10 start drive ... I thought I had the bases covered when I made a bootable Win 10 USB drive ... said USB drive unbootable.
Several hours eaten alive by this process ... which I am sure most of you know very well is tedious. I'm still looking hard on the web for some article on how to kill downloaded-and-pending win updates on the Win 10 drive when it is not the active drive ... will pursue that further tomorrow. None of the kill-updates techniques for Win 10 I've found are effective; they all require you to be able to boot. The Bios option that suggests it will enable taking control of the start-up process: well, sorry, it never makes it to wherever it is supposed to let you change start-up settings, etc.
And, now (8.1) I'm on update 108 of 125, after which I suspect there will be further updates and reboots. With each reboot I've got to hold F12 down to make sure I can get to the Bios (Gigabyte motherboard) boot-drive selector and choose the 8.1 drive ... that selector which refuses, so far, to let me move the 8.1 drive to the top, so its selection will be automatic (I suspect this is something I can fix in the main BIOS config facility).
Drivers installed for the newer beasts video card, mouse, headphones-cum-mic
Got VS 2015 installed and re-howdy-do'd with MS, updated Chrome, UltraEdit, Start 8, VS2013, un-installed VS2012, and various other fossil apps.
May you not be undergoing these vexations ...
from Tralfamadore, Billy Pilgrim
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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You may be living in the Slaughterhouse, my friend, but a non-bootable bootable USB is a PITA wherever you live.
I'd be tempted to say "ch*ck it in the f*ckit b*cket" and do a clean install of the latest Win10 ISO, which should include the updates that are giving you hassle. Then backup, reinstall all the apps, backup again, and then restore your data from your existing image before doing another backup1. 'Tis a long and tedious process however.
1: I like backups.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: reinstall all the apps
Hi Griff, that is the very stinky most flavor of death-by-a-thousand-cuts I am trying to break-dance my way around. That Win 10 install gone-south has a whole lotta apps installed. configured, etc.
cheers, Bill
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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If it's any consolation, I'm just doing a "spare" backup of my C drive, as I went to shut down and it wants to update me. A quick check, and yes - it's 1607 (the Anniversary Edition) it wants to infect me with install.
Hence the spare backup and possible dead computer tomorrow ... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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If it helps at all: On herself's machine the anniversary edition of 10 caused serious freezes. I had to go back to an image taken just before the anniversary ed. However, when 1607 came out, it worked beautifully on her machine. No freezes. I believe MS fixed the issue with freezes that plagued the initial anniversary edition.
Her machine is working so well now, she growls if I come anywhere near it. It took some persuasion for her to let me take an image of an obviously faultless setup. 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Thanks, Cornelis, before the current Satanic assault I was being abused by version 1607, but it was only using rubber-hoses, so you couldn't see bruises.
cheers, Bill
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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wimp 
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Well, yes: it could have been a Weakly Interacting Massive Particle that Satan rode into Win 10 on, but I think it more likely that a cosmic-ray was used for matters of fuel efficiency, given the almost infinite amount of energy required to keep Hell going.
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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BillWoodruff wrote: I'm still looking hard on the web for some article on how to kill downloaded-and-pending win updates on the Win 10 drive when it is not the active drive
Move everything out of [drive]:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download
BillWoodruff wrote: I suspect this is something I can fix in the main BIOS config facility
Yup, but I wouldn't bother, if you can stop the annoying update. But don't forget to disconnect the wi-fi router, etc, before rebooting into winio.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I'm here to commiserate and to share my tale of woe. It started 2 days ago when I let windows update perform some black magic on IE11. It caused IE to respond much more slowly and disabled the Google toolbar. I found the update in the the WU history, uninstalled it, restarted the computer, listened to it 'cough and wheeze' a few times before it informed me that it could not start windows. To keep this short, the update did not create a 'restore point so this option was out. My windows recovery disk was ineffective so this option too was out. My Acronis recovery disk complained that every one of my image backups was corrupted so this option was out (i.e. my fault as the recovery disk was created using an earlier version of Acronis and I only now realized I had forgotten to create a new one). Anyways, the past two days have been rather 'leisurely' as I ran one setup program after another. I'm back up and running as of a few hours ago. WU is again telling me it has a critical IE update that I must install...
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Workaround. Re-execute the ssoadm import-svc-cfg command until it succeeds.
... If the workaround fails, reboot the server and retry.
veni bibi saltavi
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Quote: If at first you don't succeed
Give up there is no point being a darn fool aout it.
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[Stolen from elsewhere, I am not nor have I ever been a Tory]
Recently, while I was working in the flower beds in the front garden, my neighbours stopped to chat as they returned home from walking their dog. During our friendly conversation, I asked their 12 year old daughter what she wanted to be when she grows up. She said she wanted to be Prime Minister one day. Both of her parents –Labour Party voters — were standing there, so I asked her: "If you were Prime Minister what would be the first thing you would do?" She replied, "I'd give food and houses to all the homeless people." Her parents beamed with pride! Wow, what a worthy goal!" I said. "But you don't have to wait until you're Prime Minister to do that!" I told her. "What do you mean?" she replied.
So I told her: "You can come over to my house and mow the lawn, pull weeds, trim my hedge and I'll pay you £50. Then you can go down to the Town Centre, find a homeless man and can give him the £50 to buy food."
She thought that over for a few seconds, then she looked me straight in the eye and asked, "Why doesn't the homeless man come over and do the work and you can just pay him the £50?”
I said, "Welcome to the Conservative Party!"
Her parents aren't speaking to me anymore.
veni bibi saltavi
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50 quid? Wow! Are your lawn's that large or do you really hate gardening that much?
Sin tack ear lol
Pressing the "Any" key may be continuate
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No, he doesn't have a mower - he expects it chewed down to an even height.
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If he was going to uses sheeps, he wouldn't be paying them! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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an old but a goody - brit version...
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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Well.. some people are struggling to get a job....
Does the conservative party creates job?
The "trickle down" theory, seemingly favored by the conservative party, is an utter failure in that regard....
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Super Lloyd wrote: The "trickle down" Every theory seemingly favored by the conservative party is an utter failure in that regard for anyone not in their personal address books
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I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Alright then, haha!!
I didn't want to be so forceful!
I like to be in the middle, really. except down with the rich and powerful. Which the conservative party seems to favor over the common man.... Dunno why people buy that!? 
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3 out of 2 people have trouble with fractions.
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I guess this makes me one of the group of -1.
Cheers,
Mick
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It doesn't matter how often or hard you fall on your arse, eventually you'll roll over and land on your feet.
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My MkII will be talking through a problem and say things like "2 divided by 6 is 3..." I correct her saying it's a third but we're both wrong as she wants "divided into"...
veni bibi saltavi
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Did you know that 67% of given statistics are on the sport bullshit?
Sounds like one of those! ( too! )
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