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M$ "backs down" on W10 forced updates

From ronb <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject M$ "backs down" on W10 forced updates
Date 2015-07-27 15:44 +0000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <mp5jl1$tk1$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)

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WinDrones, get ready to beta test Windows 10.

Apparently they have been having trouble with Windows 10 driver updates, 
especially for Nvidia GeForce video cards.

(M$ Hobbyware strikes again.)

~~
Microsoft Backtracks On Windows 10 Forced Updates

In the wake of numerous reports of Windows 10′s forced updates causing 
problems with drivers, Microsoft has backtracked on the feature and has 
released a tool that allows you to block or uninstall updates that are 
suspected to be causing issues.
...

Over the last few days, the Internet has been awash with reports of 
issues with Windows 10′s forced updates interfering with other 
applications, as my colleague Gordon Kelly reported here. Specifically, 
it’s the way it installs drivers, overriding any other driver-based 
update applications that are the issue, but the way in which Windows 10′s 
updates are automatically installed has also been rather unpopular with 
enthusiasts.

In the past, Windows Update has been optional and you can select which 
updates to install. Not so with Windows 10 as  by default it installs 
updates automatically and doesn’t allow you to deselect them and this is 
the same for both security-based updates as well as those for drivers.
...

The ability to avoid all driver updates is potentially very useful as 
there’s no guarantee that the  ones provided by Microsoft will always be 
the latest versions and also that they won’t cause issues such as those 
we’ve seen over the last few days between Windows Update and Nvidia’s 
GeForce Experience.
...

You can download the tool from this webpage. I’m still investigating it 
in a pre-release version of Windows 10 – while it doesn’t seem to sync up 
with Windows Update and allow you to view and block updates before 
they’re downloaded, it does allow you see everything that has been 
installed and to both uninstall it and block future installs too.
...
~~
http://tinyurl.com/nwsye6p

So, apparently, M$ will now allow you to fix problems caused by Windows 
10 updates -- after the fact, not before they wreck your install. They're 
not really backtracking as this utility must be downloaded separately. 
(You're already having to download add-ons to make Windows 10 usable, 
where have I seen that before?)

Even if you must use Windows 10 Hobbyware, I would definitely wait a few 
months while the forced "beta testing" process takes place. 

-- 
To WinDrones and iCultists obsessed with Linux. Get a life.

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M$ "backs down" on W10 forced updates ronb <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2015-07-27 15:44 +0000
  Re: M$ "backs down" on W10 forced updates Desk Rabbit <me@example.com> - 2015-07-27 17:15 +0100
    Re: M$ "backs down" on W10 forced updates vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2015-07-27 12:22 -0700
      Re: M$ "backs down" on W10 forced updates "A.M" <.m@nsn.s> - 2015-07-27 15:27 -0400
      Re: M$ "backs down" on W10 forced updates ronb <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2015-07-27 21:25 +0000
        Re: M$ "backs down" on W10 forced updates Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2015-07-27 23:30 +0200
          Re: M$ "backs down" on W10 forced updates ronb <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2015-07-27 21:31 +0000
        Re: M$ "backs down" on W10 forced updates "A.M" <.m@nsn.s> - 2015-07-27 17:39 -0400
        Re: M$ "backs down" on W10 forced updates chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2015-07-28 07:07 -0500
          Re: M$ "backs down" on W10 forced updates Desk Rabbit <me@example.com> - 2015-07-28 13:25 +0100
          Re: M$ "backs down" on W10 forced updates Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2015-07-28 09:16 -0400
            Re: M$ "backs down" on W10 forced updates DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2015-07-28 18:15 -0400
            Re: M$ "backs down" on W10 forced updates chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2015-07-29 07:52 -0500
              Re: M$ "backs down" on W10 forced updates "A.M" <.m@nsn.s> - 2015-07-29 09:03 -0400
              Re: M$ "backs down" on W10 forced updates Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2015-07-29 09:09 -0400
                Re: M$ "backs down" on W10 forced updates DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2015-07-29 09:20 -0400
                Re: M$ "backs down" on W10 forced updates Lloyd Parsons <lloydp211@gmail.com> - 2015-07-29 16:53 +0000
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                Re: Lloyd Parsons can't answer this. ronb <ronbNOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2015-08-24 22:01 +0000
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                Re: Lloyd Parsons can't answer this. Lloyd Parsons <lloydp211@gmail.com> - 2015-08-25 17:04 +0000
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                Re: Lloyd Parsons can't answer this. Lloyd Parsons <lloydp211@gmail.com> - 2015-08-24 19:31 +0000
                Re: Lloyd Parsons can't answer this. "A.M" <.m@nsn.s> - 2015-08-24 16:01 -0400
                Re: Lloyd Parsons can't answer this. Lloyd Parsons <lloydp211@gmail.com> - 2015-08-24 20:08 +0000
                Re: Lloyd Parsons can't answer this. "A.M" <.m@nsn.s> - 2015-08-24 16:52 -0400
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                Re: Lloyd Parsons can't answer this. GreyCloud <cumulus@mist.com> - 2015-08-25 22:43 -0600
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                Re: Lloyd Parsons can't answer this. JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2015-08-24 17:15 -0500
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                Re: Lloyd Parsons can't answer this. "A.M" <.m@nsn.s> - 2015-08-24 15:57 -0400
              Re: M$ "backs down" on W10 forced updates William Poaster <wp@dev.null> - 2015-07-29 14:31 +0100
                Re: M$ "backs down" on W10 forced updates chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2015-07-29 11:28 -0500
                Re: M$ "backs down" on W10 forced updates "A.M" <.m@nsn.s> - 2015-07-29 13:21 -0400
                Re: M$ "backs down" on W10 forced updates "Ezekiel" <zeke@nosuchemail.com> - 2015-07-29 13:26 -0400
                Re: M$ "backs down" on W10 forced updates Desk Rabbit <me@example.com> - 2015-07-30 12:26 +0100
          Re: M$ "backs down" on W10 forced updates DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2015-07-28 18:13 -0400
            Re: M$ "backs down" on W10 forced updates "A.M" <.m@nsn.s> - 2015-07-28 20:07 -0400
              Re: M$ "backs down" on W10 forced updates DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2015-07-29 08:44 -0400
                Re: M$ "backs down" on W10 forced updates "A.M" <.m@nsn.s> - 2015-07-29 09:03 -0400
      Re: M$ "backs down" on W10 forced updates Desk Rabbit <me@example.com> - 2015-07-28 08:57 +0100
      Re: M$ "backs down" on W10 forced updates DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2015-07-28 10:30 -0400
  Re: M$ "backs down" on W10 forced updates John Gohde <john.h.gohde@gmail.com> - 2015-07-27 09:19 -0700
  Re: M$ "backs down" on W10 forced updates "A.M" <.m@nsn.s> - 2015-07-27 13:38 -0400
    Re: M$ "backs down" on W10 forced updates DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2015-07-27 14:28 -0400
      Re: M$ "backs down" on W10 forced updates "A.M" <.m@nsn.s> - 2015-07-27 15:19 -0400

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