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Microsoft Announces Windows 10 Pro for Workstations

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Re: Microsoft Announces Windows 10 Pro for Workstations

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Post by SippinLean »

mschuster91 wrote: post #101
4ad wrote: post #31

I don't need this. What I need is a legal way to acquire Windows 10 Long Term Support Branch. Basically Windows 10 without all the crap. No metro, and no feature updates whatsoever, just security updates, and supported for 10 years. Sort of like a Windows version of RHEL, if you will. Now that is something that I want. To play a numbers game, I'd pay $500 for that if it came with HyperV and the possibility of creatin…

Signed, same for me. I sure as hell won't upgrade my Win7 machine until I can have a Win10 that doesn't load me up with ads (I paid for the OS, no need to annoy me), phones home or installs applications I did not explicitly request and consent!

>doesn't load me up with ads

Unclick some textboxes, better yet use one of the myriad scripts to do it for you

>phones home

Like Windows 7 since they backported all the telemetry to it?

>or installs applications I did not explicitly request and consent

Like Windows 7 bloatware? Uninstall it

Re: Microsoft Announces Windows 10 Pro for Workstations

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Post by sfilipov »

midnitewarrior wrote: post #102
mdek wrote: post #24

Will this address the absurd automatic updates/reboot "feature"? I've had the experience multiple times where a step away for a few minutes and come back to a blank desktop, even during the "active hours" period. This is especially infuriating when I do most of my work in a vbox slackware VM and win10 is just a host that I want to stay out of the way; instead I lose my entire current state. This seems like a major de…

Turn on metered Internet. This is supposed to disable automatic Windows Update downloads. I have not tested this personally.

Tested and it works, as long as you haven't finished downloading and applying the updates.

Re: Microsoft Announces Windows 10 Pro for Workstations

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Post by kyriakos »

stagger87 wrote: post #129
zlynx wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So you don't want it to update while you're using it. And you don't want it to update when you're not using it. When, exactly, is it OK for it to update?

If the OS is stable for me I shouldn't need to update.

Stable in your eyes doesn't mean there's no underlying security issues that need fixing.

Re: Microsoft Announces Windows 10 Pro for Workstations

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Post by pcunite »

Markoff wrote: post #12

meanwhile here I am on W10 Pro on my workstation which I can't update because main windows partition has 30GB and apparently 5GB of free space was not enough for update and can't use other partitions to update it if I didn't need SDL Trados Studio I would be done with Windows, after recent update switched from MS Office to Libre Office and can't complain so last produt from MS I use is W10 Pro

open a command prompt as "admin" (run as admin), and type:

powercfg -h off

this will give you your total ram amount back in extra disk space. You'll lose hibernation support.

Re: Microsoft Announces Windows 10 Pro for Workstations

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Post by mschuster91 »

SippinLean wrote: post #161
mschuster91 wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Signed, same for me. I sure as hell won't upgrade my Win7 machine until I can have a Win10 that doesn't load me up with ads (I paid for the OS, no need to annoy me), phones home or installs applications I did not explicitly request and consent!

>doesn't load me up with ads Unclick some textboxes, better yet use one of the myriad scripts to do it for you >phones home Like Windows 7 since they backported all the telemetry to it? >or installs applications I did not explicitly request and consent Like Windows 7 bloatware? Uninstall it

> Unclick some textboxes, better yet use one of the myriad scripts to do it for you

Will be reset after the next Windows Update

> Like Windows 7 since they backported all the telemetry to it?

Better hope that's a joke?!

> Like Windows 7 bloatware? Uninstall it

Windows 7, to my knowledge, does not come with Candy Crush, and also does not install games with Windows Update.

Re: Microsoft Announces Windows 10 Pro for Workstations

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Post by angry_napkin »

tgtweak wrote: post #71
rbanffy wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I have Windows only software that can take two weeks to complete a dataset What kind of sadistic monster wrote this?

Bet you $5 it's an R script.

Where advice would you offer to someone with long-running R-Scripts? Spark?

Re: Microsoft Announces Windows 10 Pro for Workstations

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Post by dman »

For workstation use my primary complaint is the anti virus kicking in on file creation / IO. Would ideally like a locked down windows where having an anti virus was not a requirement. Even the windows subsystem for linux is not immune from the antivirus, checking out large git repositories is painfully slow since the antivirus is getting pounded the whole time.

Re: Microsoft Announces Windows 10 Pro for Workstations

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Post by SippinLean »

mschuster91 wrote: post #165
SippinLean wrote: post #161

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>doesn't load me up with ads Unclick some textboxes, better yet use one of the myriad scripts to do it for you >phones home Like Windows 7 since they backported all the telemetry to it? >or installs applications I did not explicitly request and consent Like Windows 7 bloatware? Uninstall it

> Unclick some textboxes, better yet use one of the myriad scripts to do it for you Will be reset after the next Windows Update > Like Windows 7 since they backported all the telemetry to it? Better hope that's a joke?! > Like Windows 7 bloatware? Uninstall it Windows 7, to my knowledge, does not come with Candy Crush, and also does not install games with Windows Update.

The settings are not reset.

It's not a joke: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/09/01/microsoft_backports...

Uninstall apps you don't want or use a script to do it for you: https://github.com/W4RH4WK/Debloat-Windows-10

Re: Microsoft Announces Windows 10 Pro for Workstations

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Post by tokenizerrr »

conradfr wrote: post #151
tokenizerrr wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Rebooting your computer daily will do the trick. Either shut it down at the end of the day, or give it a reboot. It will do its thing and leave you alone for the next 24 hours. Before you downvote me, which many of you have done already for some reason, please keep in mind that this advice actually works. It's not my decision to have things work like this. That's on Microsoft. But it does work, and is legitimate advi…

Are we back in 1998? I'm always surprised when I meet a developer (or anyone really) that still shutdowns his/her computer each day. What about hibernate or sleep? Funny thing about Windows, they promise since XP that "this time updates will no longer require a reboot". And they never deliver.

I'm surprised that developers use Windows as their daily driver to be honest. My gaming machine which runs Windows shuts off daily. My work laptop with Linux just sleeps.

If you choose to use Windows, you will have to reboot frequently.

Re: Microsoft Announces Windows 10 Pro for Workstations

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Post by hungerstrike »

tokenizerrr wrote: post #138
hungerstrike wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wasn't responding to that, I was responding to the part about "OS needs to reboot to install updates" being a part of life - it definitely ain't just a Windows thing. Anyway, I'm glad that Windows restarts for me when I'm sleeping and I wish my Macs would do the same. It's pretty easy to avoid having it restart at the wrong time - you just go into the Settings and tell Windows what your active hours are. They let y…

The problem is that windows will at some point start ignoring your active hours. This seems to happen if you put it to sleep after you're done working, so it's always sleeping/hibernating while outside of the active hours. This understandably pisses people off.

My PCs wake up and perform the updates. Maybe that's the problem with laptops when they're not plugged in or something but I have not experienced it.
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