-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 15/12/19 18:47, Philip White wrote: > The bottom line here is that you dont make your W10 environment > better by avoiding updates, you will actually weaken it. If Windows were designed properly, it wouldn't need monthly updates. Unix doesn't need monthly updates, neither do my Cisco routers or my preferred word processor. Why should a system get weaker by staying as it is? XyWrite is just as powerful today as it was 30 years ago. What about patching security breaches? If Windows were designed properly, it wouldn't need security patches every 28 days. My advice is to keep browsers up-to-date, don't surf to porno web sites (breeding grounds for malware), don't download suspicious emails, and you have very little chance of catching a computer virus or ransomware. Make frequent backups, and if you do catch a bug, you can roll back to a previous state. Nothing is more annoying than an update which moves or removes buttons, or breaks functions which worked fine before. I see no reason to update any system, unless and until it ceases to perform some necessary function. My experience of Windows updates has been that Redmond keeps adding more and more features; but I don't want _more_ features, I want the same ones to _work better_. Take the word processor, for example ... or the file manager: Total Commander was all I ever needed: fast, efficient, keyboard-driven, no code bloat, whereas the Windows Explorer is useless to me (has Redmond finally added multiple-file rename? an indispensable function Commander had 30 years ago). One man's opinion. <MD FL> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.20 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAl35WFYACgkQX649Xsf0ar1HZgCgk9QoCADlt3kbIk7T2R65vblM GmYAoK87bXy1SAc3dsKE5SvJdlCcNDbl =3E6z -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----