On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 3:38 PM, Fred Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > Grrrrr. This update just forced itself on me yesterday without any > warning, just rebooted and did the updating. It took nearly 3 hours, yet > again! > > Curse you Bill Gates!!!! >
Yeah, Bill don't work here no more. He took all his filthy lucre and he's off defeating malaria and polio and saving the world and it's hard to hate on the guy except, you know, Windows. And Clippy. And killing VFP. I'm doing family tech support, and a couple of the folks have SLLOOOOWWW internet connections (like 1 Mbps) and Windows updates are killing them. I'm going to try the "metered" trick that Woody suggests in the article. "Feature Updates" are entirely new versions of Windows that are 1 Gb or more in size and try to install right on top of old and sometimes corrupt Windows and cause all sorts of problems. Freemanize (tm), I say! And, of course, you really have to wait until SP1 ships before anything's usable. The more things change,... -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/cacw6n4tokrdayk0_hc-jreqaojhjcoynpjgkqygjh-pg3zb...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
