What Did You Do At Work Today?

[Findm-Keepm]

Originally Posted by Electronic M

I'm guessing you missed the memo: http://videokarma.org/showthread.php?t=269246

I... Either windows 10 installed a service pack, the longest freaking update in history, or I've got a virus on my home rig.....I Think I'll run my anti-virus software once I get home.

Probably the creators update - they got me on Tuesday, and reset a lot of preferences, much to my surprise. Had to turn off Cortana, make something else the default browser (Edge? YUK.) and tell it where my network drives were, and then wait until it started to index them - so I could defeat the indexing. Yes, 30 years after Windows rescued some of us, we need rescuing from Windows...

DOS 3.3, DOS 5.0, Win 3.1, Win 3.11, Win95, Win98, WinXP, WinVista, Win7, Win10...make them stop, please!!

[WA3WLJ]

What about Win8 and Win8.1 ?

[Findm-Keepm]

Originally Posted by WA3WLJ

What about Win8 and Win8.1 ?

A friend was a beta tester/got a production copy for free, and hated it.

I had to jump to Windows 10 from Vista, as IE9 became the most hated browser out there, with an increasing number of sites that either blocked it, or pop-upped you into oblivion. It's the reason I'll NEVER order again from All Electronics. Their website always popped up a dialog box one EVERY page with "update your browser for best viewing" when using IE9, yet the underlying code of their site never changed. Just attitude. When I complained, they told me where to go, so I did. Pure asinine, "we-know-better-than-you" umpti-ness. I proved them wrong with an order, and cancelled the order with a "see, folks with IE9 get along just fine with your website, so why the attitude?" Note to world: HTML5, XML, XHTML and TLS all work with IE9 - quit listening to W3, Kaspersky and Google.

When Google, Reuters and CNET all started with the same BS, I jumped to Win10 from Win Vista - by way of a new Acer computer with Intel i5 processor, 1TB hard drive, 8GB memory, 9 USB ports and full Office 2013 Standard - 'twas being dumped by Walmart for 200 dollars because it shipped with Win7, which I promptly upgraded to Win10...so I missed the 8/8.1 fiasco altogether. With ClassicShell, she acts like a WINXP speed demon, and gives me a browser others can live with. I just wish some Office functionality still worked - it does let me use Office 2007 alongside, no problems.

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by Findm-Keepm

Probably the creators update - they got me on Tuesday, and reset a lot of preferences, much to my surprise. Had to turn off Cortana, make something else the default browser (Edge? YUK.) and tell it where my network drives were, and then wait until it started to index them - so I could defeat the indexing. Yes, 30 years after Windows rescued some of us, we need rescuing from Windows...

DOS 3.3, DOS 5.0, Win 3.1, Win 3.11, Win95, Win98, WinXP, WinVista, Win7, Win10...make them stop, please!!

Spot on. God damn the creator's update....Damn thing filled my C drive (~100MB free space)....Even after deleting the 'old os' files I've only got 6GB free and it keeps complaining low memory and forcing firefox to close....I'm not amused. :grr:

Soon I'm going to have to juggle space on my spare drives make an image of my hard drive then re-image/resize this drive to increase the size of the C partition...I've done it before (when I upgraded this rig to an SSD), but did not think I'd need to again...I'm probably going to tack another 50GB onto my C so this won't happen again too soon. When I went to SSD I intentionally left ~1/3 to 1/2 of my newer bigger drive un-partitioned and empty...Both for this scenario and to follow a rule I heard that SSDs that never are more than half full have longer service life.

This reminds me of a friend who got a 40GB SSD for win, win filled it in a few months, he got a bigger one, it happened again, and he went back to disk....
Windows seriously needs to limit/stop drive filling updates or at least build in a tool to allow us to change the size of our C partitions more conveniently....An update should not amount to sabotage!


It is sad two once favorite software products (Windows and Firefox) that ~3-5 years ago were rock stable for me have degraded to crap through 'upgrades'....