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Re: Windows Is A Great OS ... If Your Time Is Worth Nothing

From Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy, alt.comp.os.windows-11
Subject Re: Windows Is A Great OS ... If Your Time Is Worth Nothing
Date 2025-04-06 21:57 +0000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <vsutc2$21mp2$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
References <vpasam$3is8a$1@dont-email.me>

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Even the Dimdows Update mechanism -- you know, the one that
automatically puts stuff on your machine that you don’t want -- is
another major source of things that can go wrong. This article
<https://www.computerworld.com/article/1613310/how-to-troubleshoot-and-reset-windows-update.html>
suggests some things to try if the updater gives trouble (how would
you tell?). And boy, don’t those suggestions get progressively
nuttier.

The final one (or at least, the final thing to try before giving up
and taking your machine to someone who knows what they’re doing), a
“complete reset”, involves downloading and running some random batch
file off the Internet, which does all kinds of things to your system
that you don’t really want to know about, just trust the folks who
wrote the script, OK?

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Re: Windows Is A Great OS ... If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-06 21:57 +0000
  Re: Windows Is A Great OS ... If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-04-06 21:29 -0400

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