The last time Microsoft updated Windows 10 on my computer it caused a load of problems, not the least being the loss of a whole bunch of browser bookmarks. So I decided to stop letting them freely do updates and pick and choose what was allowed, and only after reviewing the updates for content and purpose.
It wasn’t long before another update came along and on looking into it, I stopped at the part where it said that new content would be added by “Microsoft and associates”. Associates? What associates? Oh, you mean BLOATWARE?
That’s my assumption. Bloatware. Spyware. Tracking to target me for ads. New sales programs for crap I don’t want. I never agreed to allow anyone but Microsoft to access my computer’s operating system and that’s because they made it. When they start piling in stuff that is not described in any way other than to mention that they’re including programs written by “associates”, that’s when I opt out. No wonder the “updates” are causing problems.
So when that next update came along and started automatically downloading, I pushed the off button and shut down my computer. Then restarted it. The update started again, so I shut it down again, and on restarting my computer again it was necessary to allow the Repair Function to do it’s thing, since the abrupt shutdowns tend to mess up program files. A point to make here is that there was NO option to update or not. Opting out is not allowed, and it’s MY goddam computer!
Once the repair was finished and Win10 was back up, a pop-up window appeared informing me that since my PC was having difficulty doing the update it would be held off for 30 days while Microsoft figured out what the problem was.
30 days later it was all repeated, and I was given another 30 day reprieve from their forced update. When the time came to do it again, I discovered that OPTIONS had been added to START. “Shut down, Restart, with update, without update.” So each night when I shut it down I chose just “Shut down”.
I guess they didn’t like that because last night a new popup window gave me the choice of updating right then or in another 25 minutes, or I could pick a later time. I chose in another 25 minutes, shut it off and went to bed. This morning there’s a new window informing me that my computer will update later tonight. Umm, NO, it will not.
The only option left for Microsoft that I can see is to refuse to allow my computer to start at all without updating first. They’re going to have to force the update in a way that I can’t prevent unless I disconnect my PC from the Internet to keep them from downloading such instructions to it. I’m pretty sure they already downloaded the update into it, their program just can’t execute without shutting down and restarting my computer to install it.
So the battle goes on against these arrogant fuckers. We’ll see who wins.
Well, that’s a commom problem we all share:
MY goddam computer!
In my case, it’s the hardware:
At this very moment, I got sad tonight because
(on the top over a mountain of problems and sadness in my life)
there was a painful NOISE coming from my “no-break”
(that heavy black box who feed the computer with eletric energy and keep the eletric flow out of cut)
Maybe because it’s winter here in South Hemisphere and the COLD and the bad infra structure typical of a Third World country led to “breaks” of eletric flow. And this event cause excess of work to the equipment in order to prevent breaks which could cause any damage to the computer.