Msg: Re: Windows 10 is creeping into your system, it is time to make a decision!

Seeing as various updates have trashed several systems of mine or that I maintain, on more than a few occasions, I'd have to say that Auto Update is a big risk one should _not_ take. And I have plenty of company, from what I read online. (This is on 7, both x86 and x64 varieties, but it was an occasional problem on XP as well.) I wait at least a few weeks after an update is released, check the internet for reports, put short descriptive info with any warnings into a file for reference, and only then selectively "audition" the new updates in small batches at a time. Woody's column at InfoWorld -- among others -- has verified a number of serious problems, and a couple times saved me from unknowingly stepping off a cliff. If / when things have really gone South, I can have a non-functional computer, where practically nothing works, or it goes into endless reboot loops, or other fun stuff. It *may be recoverable* from a Restore Point, if I can even reach one, or from going into Safe Mode to rip an update out by the roots . . . or not. The Win Recovery Console is a bad joke, in my experience. I never got familiar with the so-called "Repair Install" procedure over the existing OS. A few times I've had to resort to wiping a drive and putting back an Acronis boot partition image that was not nearly as recent as I would have liked, then building it back to where it was when the system got nuked. (A full reinstall from scratch would be completely unacceptable and unthinkable to me.) My time is too valuable to have to pour a lot of it into this crap ! So, NO, I'm going to minimize their chances of doing this again.

Jordan

From: Kari Eveli
To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2015 1:16 AM
Subject: Re: Windows 10 is creeping into your system, it is time to make a decision!

John,

That works, but you would be better off installing GWX Control Panel and
enabling auto updates. After all, you do not want to miss important
security updates.

Best regards,

Kari Eveli
LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland)
http://www.lexitec.fi/english.html
Home page in Finnish: http://www.lexitec.fi/

29.11.2015, 3:15, John Paines (Redacted sender vf200 for DMARC) wrote:

> BTW, I believe you can prevent the stealth downloads of Win10 by
> disabling automatic update. Run update manually once a month and
> select only crucial updates. I have two systems, 7 and 8.1, and
> neither has been prompting an "upgrade", with auto update disabled on
> both.