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Is Bill Kates taking the piss?

Absolute joke

Probably the update is for geeks ONLY

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Report SontaranStratagem • November 5, 2017 2:13 PM GMT
Seems to be lots of them aswell. Ive packed up with the laptop and gone back to my £30 2nd hand tablet. First week it required 7 restarts, by day 8 it wanted more updates installing so i did them and havent been back on it in 4 weeks. Ridiculous amount of updates and as you say they take a good 30 minutes to configure.
Report screaming from beneaththewaves • November 5, 2017 2:47 PM GMT
The hard drive on my laptop gave up a few weeks ago. It was worth paying the fella in the shop to fit a new one, simply because he could install Windows 7 on it. (Not sure how straightforward that would otherwise be for a private punter such as myself.)

If it weren't for the fact that Gruss only works on Windows, I'd never touch anything Microsoft again.
Report Escapee • November 6, 2017 3:31 PM GMT
The whole philosophy of continuous updates is absurd, products wanting to update every few days is mad.

Doesn't take a very bright spark to realise that a windows pc has 1,000's of individual software units on it and thus if
all of them are allowed a free range to update when they want it will have an impact of a few hours a week on the computer.

I've turned off automatic updates, and just do it manually twice a year, even then it can take 2-10 hours each time.

It's my computer, I paid for it, so phuuuuuuuck right off hijacking it and excluding ,e from using it 5 times a week and or shutting down because they want it whilst I'm using it.

Outrageous, didn't think this overbearing strategy would last but it hasSurprisedCry
Report Escapee • November 6, 2017 3:33 PM GMT
what most people don't realise is that unless you dig into the settings and turn it off, your computer is being used as a server to update other computers.

double whammy
Report Just Checking • November 6, 2017 6:19 PM GMT
They AFAIK hide the setting for disabling the auto updates in windows 10 but you can do it via disabling the service. Have they removed Paint yet?

I use that for editing my monopoly bank football bet screenshots, so avoiding windows 10 :)
Report Foinavon • November 6, 2017 6:39 PM GMT
still have Paint on my Win 10 machine.
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