On Sun, 19 Jul 2020 20:31:55 -0400, meagain <[email protected]> wrote:
>-------- Original Message -------- >> On Sat, 27 Jun 2020 20:22:44 +1000, Daniel <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Last Monday (so Sunday Evening USA time) when I checked my Windows >>> Update portal, it showed there was an 80.6MB update waiting to be installed. >>> >>> (Note: Last Monday, so not the normal Windows7 update, which, if there >>> is one, I usually get on a Wednesday Afternoon (so Tuesday Evening USA >>> time)) >>> >>> Virtually daily since, I've been having to re-boot my Win7 so it can >>> complete the installation .... but time after time after time, the >>> update fails, so the system reverts to the previously installed system >>> .... until next cold boot!! >>> >>> Is anyone else seeing this behaviour?? Can I, somehow, delete the >>> Windows Update from the Control Panel screen .... and hope things get >>> fixed up/picked up next Update Tuesday?? >>> >>> Any other suggestions .... APART FROM UPDATING TO WIN10?? >> >> Yes, I am still running Win7, and have no plans to move to Win8, or >> downgrade to W10, the demented cartoon edition of windows. >> W10 is basically a graphics terminal to the M$ cloud, nothing more. >> >> Speaking strictly for myself, I do not reccomend leaving updates on at >> all, or installing them except individually. >> M$ consistently adds undocumented contents, or hides the full >> description behind a summary, or uses misleading language. >> >> Instead, get the yearly security rollups, then run the anti telemetry >> shell scripts so they can't sneak anyting in. >> >> Nearly all security updates for windows itself concern IE, OE, or IIS. >> Do not use any of them and your attackable profile is reduced to a >> miniscule fraction. >> >> For myself, I run Win7 with a few extras. >> Openshell, set as classic as I can make it. >> 7+ taskbar switcher. >> Network activity indicator. >> Explorer++, an open source replacement. >> I get ~90% of a good GUI back. >> >> I also replace windows search with voidtools everything. >> It is faster, more consistent, and supports network searches. >> It also recently began supporting content based searches as well. >> >> This is what I do, do what works for you. >> > >https://www.ag.ndsu.edu/accs/maintenance/windows-7-computers-to-be-blocked-january-14-2020 I understand, but W10 is not securable. While it may not matter to a student only accessing student things. I work with computers every day, and have customers IP, which I have to keep secure, and I can not do that on W10. It leaks by design, plus backs up your user profile to the cloud. No OS that reports what you run, when you run it, and how long you run it, can be considered secure. If you can't control what data it transmits, then it is not your computer, or OS for that matter. With M$ pushing desktop as a service, M$ has killed windows. I await ReactOS going beta. -- Doors - Dont look at the future in a window. Walk to a door - Open it, and go there. http://www.freedoors.org AntiSpam in effect! [email protected] mailto:[email protected] _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
