MicroSoft Conspiracy?
 

Anyone else having their PC to stupid things lately? Some minor security update the other night but then after a day or 2 started getting video tearing, like when a ram chip going flaky, but only in full screen mode. Started looking around on the web and I was directed to change the v-sync from application control to video driver control and to disable the XBox task bar. Well one of the 2 did it. Then I'd come back in and my PC acted like it was coming out of sleep, sure enough MS set the sleep to 2 hours, I never sleep my PCs, they are always on. Then the video tearing came back and I looked at the display drivers and somehow refresh was set to 59p instead of 60p.


Gee, my computer is acting up right before Win11 comes out, where my CPU is too old for the upgrade, maybe I should go ahead and buy a new one. Hmm....


Yeah, I think not

My system works fine. Been blocking updates since it was installed though. Saw a couple of back to back updates blocked recently in notifications. Only had me wondering what possible updates they could be needing on a system as old as this. Guess now I know :rofl:

Just did full updates and I'm on Win10 ver 20H2.

Wonder why it didn't update to 21H1?

21H1 is what's acting up here

21h1 on all of my machines, everything is fine.

it's not always about the hw it's running on, it's about the SW. Why are you blocking updates? not worried about security or compatibility issues?

I never auto install the updates, but set it so that I have to authorize them. Most of the optional updates are what causes problems for me, so I tend to skip them.

This. Since the early days we have remained at least one version behind on all computers including Macintosh and ALWAYS control updates.

This might be because we have a production environment and short on staffing so a problem that takes us five hours (if we are lucky) to troubleshoot is a problem.

Even restoring a disk from an image takes a machine out for hours.

I actually maintain an exact clone of my machine - an identical machine with the same OS and set up. If my machine, disk or system takes a shit, I’m back up and running in about ten minutes.

Just like when crApple puts out an updated OS or when Windows does a major update at work we always wait until at least the 3rd patch is put out before we even think about looking at the update.

We were never allowed to install any automatic updates on most of our systems until they were throughly vetted.

That policy works great until you get hit with a Zero Day exploit that was patched in the most recent update which you didn't apply. ;)

This.

Macintosh. Low odds overall. Even lower in your scenario.

Updates reinstall applications I have chosen to uninstall. There is no security or compatibility issue with applications that don't exist. My concern is with being repeatedly forced to uninstall those things.

People still use Windows? :confused:

I also don't use apple.....

MS, I do update windows Defender regularly.

You haven't fully uninstalled them. Sometimes you'll need to find the app in sevices.msc, stop the service, then uninstall. It's rare, but does happen.

Right, because security vulnerabilities only occur in applications, never in device drivers or the operating system itself. :yesnod:

I have been trying to install Pinnacle 23 for an hour and every time it gets 25% downloaded I get the message that I have lost Internet connectivity. Router tests out fine and no other connection issues. Thoughts?

I didn't say that.