To the hottest place in the universe with Microsoft!

[Bbqjoe]

I'm sitting at my confuser, and all of a sudden, it want's to update.
Update? It was more like a total reconfiguration, and took over an hour.
So far it 86'd my desktop background, reorganized my photos, and took installed program files, tossing them, and making me search for the re-install disks.
I can't wait to find out what else they did.
Thanks Microsoft!!!!

 

[Hellion]

I used to deal with automatic updates but I disabled that crap-ola... because it'll do it when you least want it to.

 

[chancer]

My wife got sucked into that with windows 10! Poof we were Fd

 

[chancer]

yeah I hate getting "Fried"

 

[Hellion]

Can you elaborate on you and your wife's experiences with Windoze 10?

 

[chancer]

Can you elaborate on you and your wife's experiences with Windoze 10?

Not really. It just sucked. She lost alot of stuff. and things just did not work anymore.
It made a good computer work real slow. . . . . for no apparent reason.

 

[NewbCarter]

Well , i did a switch from Win 7 to 10 , didnt lose any data , and while there we bugs , i didnt lose any performance ..

Tho this PC is probably a bit overkill to feel any performance degradation lol

 

[Bbqjoe]

I have my mics, 3 of them, covered in tape, as well as my camera.
One evening, I had cortana off. The wifeandI were sitting on the sofa ten feet away from the computer. I said something to her, and all of a sudden Cortana says, could you repeat that, I didn't get all of it.
That's when I taped everything up.
At one point I found a way to shut cortana's behind off, but now she's back, and I'll have to research how to do it again, if it's even possible.

 

[Joe-405]

While we're on this subject. Anybody got a Windows 7 disc I can borrow to revert back.

 

[itsid]

While we're on this subject. Anybody got a Windows 7 disc I can borrow to revert back.

which one?
personal, pro, ultimate, 32, 64, OEM or retail?

'sid

 

[ML-TOYS]

which one?
personal, pro, ultimate, 32, 64, OEM or retail?

'sid

Microsoft is not going to support 7 for much longer. They had a good version that worked well the had to screw it up with 8 and now 10.

 

[itsid]

MS support is like a room maid.. nice to have but noone really needs one.

'sid

 

[chancer]

MS support is like a room maid.. nice to have but noone really needs one.

'sid

NOT True. I would really like to have a room maid.
and
MS support is more like death by a thousand papercuts.

 

[Kartorbust]

Microsoft only supports operating systems for about 10 years, before dropping it altogether. I've had XP (best one ever), Windows 7 (second favorite) Windows 8.1 (decent) and now Windows 10 for the past year. I like having a touch screen laptop, if it worked all the time rather than being 99.999%. Personally, when I build my next PC, I'm doing away with Windows and going Linux. Stable, open sourced (ie FREE), next to no viruses (small amount of users) and for everything I do, I can get 3rd programs to run everything.

Turbo lag? Oh you mean the courteous head start.

 

[Bbqjoe]

Next one will be Apple.

 

[Kartorbust]

Next one will be Apple.

Because the got rid of the headphone jack? It's not that big of a deal. Sure Bluetooth head phones are expensive but, they are the alternative. But they have the most secured phones on the market too. Just wish they weren't so expensive and that Apple would also use one charger type and not change it with every iteration.

Turbo lag? Oh you mean the courteous head start.

 

[itsid]

NOT True. I would really like to have a room maid.
and
MS support is more like death by a thousand papercuts.

Nah support is a good thing as long as you KNOW what you are going to fix with a specific update and you can opt to NOT install it (or remove it after you manually installed it) there's nothing wrong being provided with updates.

FORCED irreversible updates is where the thousand papercuts come in...
(like ios updates on the iPhone...)
And unfortunately that became popular.. so androids can do this kind of trickery and MS I think is going to if not with Win10 then with the next one.

And here's the hook.. most updates do NOTHING to your advantages;
in fact they only slow your device down (asking for resources you might not have) and their ONLY reason to exist is to make you buy new hardware.

If you buy any old laptop from 12-13 years ago... freshly install Winxp Sp1 and whatever you want on software that is about the same age.

That laptop will be as fast OR faster than any recent Win10 shipped laptop on most common tasks with recent versions of the smae software!
It'll lack capabilities for 4k movie editing and stuff like that of course.
But side by side.. you'd be impressed what a fresh xp is capable of in means of speed, compared to a fresh win7, 8 or 10.
(don't even get me started on that vista abomination back then)

Updates? yeah I'd rather stick a rusted acid soaked nail in my eyeballs
before letting "them" decide what software version I should run.

So open source if possible, free when I can...
And else.. "as old as accepted by my OS"

'sid

 

[Bbqjoe]

Sometimes I miss my trash 80 when dealing with win 10

 

[Kartorbust]

When in doubt solid state the OS and you'll be golden. I think 500GB is the current and cheapest solid state drive anyone offers. You won't use that all up, let alone a 250GB SSD for the OS, but you'll boot up faster. Even a jump drive/flash drive can be used to hold the OS, just have to configure it to do so.

Vista was MS mistake number 2 (mistake one was Millennium). Talk about a resource hungry pile of garbage. Windows 7 was what Vista was trying to be. Windows 8 was there 3rd mistake by dropping the start button. Forced irreversible updates=planned obsolescence. They have to make money some how. It's shady and sleezey but no one cares.

Turbo lag? Oh you mean the courteous head start.