Windows 10

darael said:
He lost all plausibility when he said Microsoft were doing it so we would all go out and buy new laptops or tablets. Apart from the licenses, how do Microsoft benefit from the sales of new computers?


If you spend a little time running Disk Cleanup after each update, Windows will process the background tasks that it needs to and free up your computers resources. I agree you shouldn't need to do this, but it's a workaround that works for me.
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Yeah he is pretty uninformed verging on conspiracy nut - it isn't a great video itself but the comments are another example that there is a not insignificant number of people that aren't actually very happy with Windows 10 and mostly for reasons that are completely in MS's hands to fix.
 
Infidelus said:
He's right about one thing thought. Forcing people to update something they neither want nor need doth not a happy user make. I can understand forcing security updates, but making people download a bloated update that can take hours to install (as it did on my Mum's machine) isn't helping.

Annoy people enough and they will eventually do something about it. I was a Microsoft fan from the mid 90s and almost never thought about using anything else (apart from mild curiosity) for years. I did Windows support for a decade, but these days I almost never log in to Windows. It's bloated, it's intrusive and it keeps installing **** that I don't want and have uninstalled multiple times. So, much like the guy in the video, I eventually said **** you Microsoft and went native :)
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They are about to fix that with the next update allowing you to optionally download following updates or not
 
Nuke windows update and do a fresh install every 6 months when a new ISO gets released. Even if it takes a few hours or even a day each time, it's seems to be less hassle then dealing with ongoing updates. :p
 
marc2003 said:
Nuke windows update and do a fresh install every 6 months when a new ISO gets released. Even if it takes a few hours or even a day each time, it's seems to be less hassle then dealing with ongoing updates. :p
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That is fine if you don't care about security (though properly removing it is getting harder and harder each update) but if like me for instance one of the few devices I use Windows 10 on is a 2 in 1 tablet I use on public networks, etc. a fair bit want to stay on top of security updates then you have less choice.

Funny thing is one of the main arguments people put forward for the implementation of updates in Windows 10 is security... but they don't exactly go about it in a way that is best suited to efficient application of security updates never mind that most other OSes manage to atleast be no worse, in some cases a lot better, on the security side without using a similar approach to updates.
 
Is anyone else experiencing problems with Explorer being slow and sluggish from time to time, example opening start menu sometimes it's instant as should be others I'm waiting a few seconds, right clicking on files has the same issue.

Has been fine up till around a week ago, fully up to date. Drives have passed tests and aren't showing signs of failure.
 
Why do MS insist on installing Candy Crush and all that crap every major update? I don't want it and it's increasingly difficult to remove it all.
 
Hi,

Does anyone know why my w10 licence keeps failing activation?

Have turned my PC on this morning and says I need to Activate Windows. (We can't activate windows on this device as you don't have a valid licence or digital key) ... I have a genuine key (upgrade from w8)

I have had this 3 times in about 5 weeks, each time I have to get MS to activate via RDP (takes an hour or 2 for them to work out how to activate my licence)

cheers
 
jonneymendoza said:
They are about to fix that with the next update allowing you to optionally download following updates or not
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So they are obviously aware there is an issue there but rather than solve it once and for all with proper manual controls they've obstinately gone with a best guess automated "solution" that won't actually cover anything other than a narrow range of possibilities much like the largely useless active hours and quiet hours "features".

At its core an OS should primarily before anything else be there to enable the end user and have their back so to speak (as much as is realistically possible) something you can rely on - Windows 10 falls down on both of those.
 
Up to February this year I only had a handful of devices with failed Windows Updates each month but since the March updates that number keeps increasing every month as does the number of updates that no longer install automatically.

I've got a hundred running on 1709 that just refuse to install a single update, 1803 seems to take days and Windows 7 seems to have more and more problems with Winders Defender updates these days. Tried a variety of different GPO settings, another WSUS server and read multiple articles on the web about people having exactly the same problem but no one has an answer.

Very convenient timing for MS to release the news about a paid service to keep your devices up to date. Sounds like they're going the same way they are with Pro vs Enterprise and purposely breaking things to force you to pay more money for something you don't actually need or once had for free.

Edit: The clowns still haven't fixed the issue with the AD Connect Health Monitoring Service taking 100% of the CPU from last month despite saying a fix was days away.
 
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Rroff said:
So they are obviously aware there is an issue there but rather than solve it once and for all with proper manual controls they've obstinately gone with a best guess automated "solution" that won't actually cover anything other than a narrow range of possibilities much like the largely useless active hours and quiet hours "features".

At its core an OS should primarily before anything else be there to enable the end user and have their back so to speak (as much as is realistically possible) something you can rely on - Windows 10 falls down on both of those.
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dont understand the issue here?

Its like OSX. every update is up to you if you want to install it. I can safely say no to an update or delay an update. Happened with the last big update earlier this year on my desktop
 
It is nothing like OSX - that still has full manual options that are always adhered to. Sure you can mess about with taking some semblance of control using GPO in Pro edition or some other enterprise editions or messing about with 3rd party tools which brings other issues of their own - often breaking compatibility either with the OS or with the 3rd party tool when you do update.
 
ChrisD. said:
Why do MS insist on installing Candy Crush and all that crap every major update? I don't want it and it's increasingly difficult to remove it all.
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Run these two commands in powershell (run as administrator) to uninstall most of the pre-installed apps:
Code: 
Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers | Remove-AppxPackage
Get-AppXProvisionedPackage -online | Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage -online
 
jonneymendoza said:
ive never had issues updating on windows 10. ive been lucky so far and i use mine for my day job
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Depending on your usage it can be more or less of a problem - if you tend to leave a device on overnight Windows 10 will more often than not update during that period though I've had a few instances of finding a machine stuck on say 70% when wanting to use the system next morning, etc. necessitating another 2-3 hours waiting while recovering the update.

A lot of my Windows 10 use is on portable devices as I've put any desktop system I actually want to use back on Windows 7 - where they can be off for several days between usage at times so quite a good chance they will launch into a pending update or start prepping for and downloading/installing the latest updates when you turn them on which is often disruptive either because those kind of devices a lot of the usage is for convenience - just being able to pick them up and start using and/or short term use - so having to wait until Windows update is done before the device returns to full performance, etc. is a pain.

Even if some people have an OK experience with it - there is no shortage of people who don't have a good experience with Windows update as per the video I posted before that has over 7500 negative comments about it.

EDIT: So after posting in a thread about monitors about my poor experience with the Asus ROG Swift I remembered I've got one still in storage... which got me thinking maybe I should remake the office space printer scene with it hah... which lead me to watching that clip on YouTube... and there I saw it in the comments:

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574 thumbs up :D
 
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Glanza said:
Is anyone else experiencing problems with Explorer being slow and sluggish from time to time, example opening start menu sometimes it's instant as should be others I'm waiting a few seconds, right clicking on files has the same issue.

Has been fine up till around a week ago, fully up to date. Drives have passed tests and aren't showing signs of failure.
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I'm actually starting to see this now as well. Sometimes it's instant and fluid, sometimes it feels like the system is freezing for a split second. It's been hard trying to find the cause of this (I tried reverting everything to stock, different GPU driver, BIOS update, RAM XMP profile off, check disk, etc). Everything was fine a week ago. Also notice it affects Firefox too when opening a page in a new tab, sometimes the split second freeze happens there. Chrome and Edge seems fine though. Another thing I noticed recently happening is the Windows shield notification takes a good couple of minutes to become a green tick as well after boot up.

This is only happening with my desktop though (in sig). My Surface Pro 4 and work PC with the same updates seems completely fine.

We both seem to have Ryzen based PCs with the 1080Ti, perhaps the issue lies somewhere there?
 
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