I Told A Customer Putin's Friends Were Living In Windows 7

[DanieRains]

The customer told me he already got a Christmas card from Putin.

[OhZone]

1. huh?

[zuul]

2. Me too. Huh?

[haele]

3. LoL. I actually thought they lived in Vista.

Makes sense anyway, Microsoft stopped sending out security patches two years ago.

Haele

[OhZone]

4. If this is an attack on Win7, it's pretty dumb.

My main desktop is still Win7 and I love it.

I do have 2 win10 laptops, but my main box is Win7.

No auto updates and reboots in the middle of the night.

Less MS spyware.

Everything works and is stable the way I like it.

oh well.

[Silent3]

5. It might be working for you, but older, unsupported OSes...

...are indeed a prime target for hackers, who hope to exploit vulnerabilities which will never get fixed by patch updates.

[OhZone]

6. True but -

I consider WIN10 spyware and a virus in itself.

How many times has the auto updates messed with what I was working on.

I love waking up and seeing my laptop already woken from sleep and updated, messing with work in progress and changing settings that I have to search for ways to reverse.

And sometimes the auto updates just appear to freeze your machine at a black screen.

I do have a lot of anti-virus programs running on my Main, AND I have a full clone of the OS hard drive ready to go, and I copy all my data to an external drive (sometimes more than one), which I keep disconnected to the PC.

Oh, well, I guess I'll do Linux with my next machine. I want to play with it.

[TxGuitar]

7. Can't you turn off auto update?

Or configure it to ask you before rebooting etc?

[OhZone]

8. Maybe you can now.

I don't know.

Can a win10 lover tell me if you can and how?

I know my work laptop is different cause it's win10 pro or something. Work regulates the updates there, but they still get in the way of my work.

And what about the spyware? What do people use to limit info going to MS?

[OhZone]

9. Looks like there is an Option now to PAUSE UPDATES

So that's good.

I will try that.


I actually had updates completely off on my WIN 7 box for ages when MS was trying to force people into WIN10.

Another reason, I consider a virus.

[TxGuitar]

13. to limit spyware

have a good antivirus that provides internet protection. I use AVG but there are lots of others.

[Silent3]

10. You can deactivate auto-updates, you know

macOS is my main OS, but I need Windows for work. I've configured Windows to always ask be before installing any updates. I too am greatly annoyed by any OS deciding to reboot of its own accord, no matter what I might have been in the middle of working on at the time.

[OhZone]

11. I may be mistaken but I don't think I had (or saw)

that option when MS first forced Win10 onto my ex's computer.

She had so many issues with WIN10. It was an under powered computer begin with.

That's one reason I ran out and bought the last WIN7 box available locally.

At least WIN7 gives you the option to turn off updates indefinitely.

I did that for months until I got the all clear that MS wasn't trying to force WIN10 on peeps anymore.

I guess I still have some PTSD over the whole WIN10 thing.

[TxGuitar]

12. Windows always warns before rebooting

unless automatic updates is allowed. As a Mac user you may not know the ins and outs of using Windows, but you can set it so it doesn't reboot automatically.
And, per a previous post, if you have work that will be lost if Windows reboots, you should save it and close your program when you are finished for the day so that doesn't happen. You never know when the power might go out, for example, so if you leave your computer and haven't saved your work, the loss is on you.


Win10 works great, I haven't had any issues since upgrading when it first came out.

[OhZone]

14. Um.

No it doesn't

I do save my work, but just having to bring up the program again and find where I left off is a pain.

That's why it was ON SLEEP after all!

And we've had a few black screen freezes.

And again, spyware.

I do use it, and it's not the worst thing in the world, but I still prefer my WIN7 main PC.

[TxGuitar]

15. in the Setting for Win10

Under Update and Security, click on Windows Update, then Advanced Options. You'll see an On/Off slider with a description that starts "Restart this device as soon as possible when a restart is required to install an update. Windwos will display a notice before the restart and the device must be on and plugged in". Set that to Off and that should resolve your issue.
There's also a choice called Update notifications that says "show a notification when your PC requires a restart to finish updating". Set that to On and you shouldn't have issues with rebooting.

[OhZone]

17. Thank you.

It's just amazing to me that you have to fight so hard just to work with a laptop.

And now I need something to block MS spyware.

:/

[Silent3]

16. I'm not sure if I'm remembering this correctly, but I think I remember getting warned, but...

...if I wasn't sitting at the computer when the warning came along, Windows would default to rebooting after a while if I wasn't there to tell it not to.

With my current settings, that certainly doesn't happen anymore.

[OhZone]

18. I might try one of these for anti- win10 spyware -

https://www.geckoandfly.com/25083/free-tools-disable-stop-windows-spying-tracking-you/