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In Reply to: RE: OK - That All Makes Sense - Unlike Everything Else About Digital posted by Newey on January 12, 2017 at 21:15:45
Yes I agree with you. I just want a black box with a way of selecting an item to play/view and two buttons; "start" and "stop". Instead I have something that requires an engineering degree to understand fully ( which is why I don't) and just doesn't do what it is supposed to do reliably which is why it is continually updated by the OS and application manufacturers.
Of course there are rarely instructions or other guidance offered to the user when these changes are made. We are just left to find out what they have done by chance when suddenly things no longer work as we expect them to.
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I turn off automatic updates on my computer and whenever I get a message that there is an update waiting I don't do it. Like you said a single update can change a lot of ways that you operate your system.
Alan
Unfortunately with Windows 10 there is no way (officially) to turn off the updates. Also there is no message that one is pending. Mostly you just finish a session, turn off the computer to see that instead of closing you see an updating and closing message. When you reboot it installs the update and only then do you get a message to tell you that it has carried out the update. If you look for "details" of what it has done all you see are uniformative messages like " Cumulative update for 64 bit system". What the cumulation consists of is not revealed.
You can reverse the update but what a hassle. Of course some updates are actually wanted (e.g. security) and others are perhaps arguable (functions). The thing is that you get no choice.
Regards
Pete
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