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I think your experience with prior versions of Windows has caused you to fear what might happen in W10. I think the problems you mention are almost non-existent in W10. If some small functional glitch does appear, a windows update will always pop up, usually within a day to fix it. Note: Attempting to cherry-pick individual updates can actually cause more problems than it will fix. Microsoft plans to keep W10 around for many years to come and release most new features twice a year. And, even better, it has a huge worldwide audience of beta testers for future releases in the form of subscribers to the Windows Insider Program. I am one of them and I have signed up for the most advanced versions of their Insider releases are very stable; and for the last couple of years, very few problems have popped up. – Additionally, they have developed a feedback program for both regular users and Insiders to report problems and also make suggestions for future user functionality. The entire thing is searchable and readable by anyone opening the feedback utility to read, upvote or add additional comments. Even better, The W10 developers take the comments seriously and act on them. The bottom line here is that you don’t make your W10 environment better by avoiding updates, you will actually weaken it. Hope this helps alleviate your skepticism. Phil White Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: J R FOX It is well documented that some of them break things --
potentially important things. I've had Win 7 systems cease
booting after certain W7 updates. (Some of that can be hardware dependent.) Then I had to roll them back, by one
means or another. Sometimes a Restore Point was not
sufficient to accomplish that, and I had to resort to use of
an Acronis image. If the image was a couple months old, I
might lose some app installs, or things that happened since
that last snapshot.
Also, as I mentioned, that whole "Rollup" model, where you
often don't have good info (from MS) as to what's in the
"basket" of updates is simply unacceptable.
For a long time, I've heard from some users who say they never
do the updates. That seems a bit extreme to me, but they seem to have gotten away with it.
Jordan On Saturday, December 14, 2019, 6:22:44 PM PST, Philip White <pdwhite@xxxxxxx> wrote:
I’m just a little puzzled why you think that stopping updates would be
a good idea.
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J R FOX I thought what you published was pretty comprehensive, though more concerned with the tattletale / phone home / tracking / data mining
/ privacy intrusion aspects of Win-10, with the updates-control being an ancillary part of that. But I need to review it again, and probably print it out for reference. I often find it easier to make use of hardcopy instructions while attempting such maneuvers
-- with the benefit of any illustrations -- rather than trying to do so simultaneously from an online session.
Jordan On Saturday, December 14, 2019, 9:37:50 AM PST, flash <flash@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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