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Microsoft suspends Windows 10 update, citing data loss reports

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Re: Microsoft suspends Windows 10 update, citing data loss reports

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Post by dzek69 »

Krasnol wrote: post #6

I personally never used those folder for my documents/music/etc. It wasn't a problem until programs started putting their stuff in there. This is part of the "must-put-on-C:\" behavior you see in much win software that I loathe. A constant pain and reason that C:\ seems never to be big enough.

Funny thing..

What I heard - this problem (removing files from folders like Documents, Downloads) happens only when you actually move storage of these. Yes, you can move Documents folder into D: and things will work just fine. But this is where this bug will hit you.

I moved my Downloads folder, nothing much to loose here, but I'll surely do a backup of everything before updating.

Re: Microsoft suspends Windows 10 update, citing data loss reports

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Post by josteink »

Spearchucker wrote: post #26
mehrdadn wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't hope Microsoft dies, I just hope they realize how unreasonably stubborn they are being in forcefully shoving every new update of Windows down users' throats, and and that they then stop doing it.

And thereby leaving millions of unpatched machines vulnerable. We just went through that with Android. No thanks. I think a more reasonable answer lies in Microsoft taking a better/different approach to Q/A.

And it’s easier to do better Q/A when you don’t have to support 200 earlier versions and patch-revisions.

Re: Microsoft suspends Windows 10 update, citing data loss reports

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Post by fermienrico »

coeroble wrote: post #30
StreamBright wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How can i use this?

I wanted to avoid giving details, but who cares? Get the ISO from here (it's a magnet link, load it using a BitTorrent client): magnet:?xt=urn:btih:6faec726c7bbb9248b3a3ed8d77bd1a7c4598f05&dn=en_windows_10_enterprise_ltsc_2019_x64_dvd_74865958.iso&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.leechers-paradise.org%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fzer0day.ch%3A1337&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.demonii.com%3A1337&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.coppersurfer.tk%3A6969&tr…

I purchased a full Windows 10 Pro license key and yet I am going to pirate the shit out of Windows.

I don't want Microsoft siphoning off data from my PC. I don't want Cortana. I don't want ANY FUCKING THING except for a system that is minimal and it works.

Why doesn't Microsoft make a developer friendly version NOT targeted for consumers (aka without all the bloat)!?

Edit from the other post: Don’t forget the registry system, poor DPI scaling, UI piece patch going back to Windows XP (mouse pointer speed dialog box), BSOD if a third party hardware segfaults, fuck you Windows Explorer, everything freezes until network access time out has expired, control panel nightmare, Metro UI with giant lists(ever tried changing default program for say .chm file extension!?), why can’t I force quit without having to go to Task Manager?, etc.

Windows is a poorly made piece of software rotten from the core. If you look deeper, you discover the horror of how things work and fragments from Steve Ballmer days.

You can try to make an argument that it’s not rotten to the core, but no way in hell anyone would say “Windows is beautiful” in the way one says Unix is beautiful.

Re: Microsoft suspends Windows 10 update, citing data loss reports

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Post by barking »

Spearchucker wrote: post #26
mehrdadn wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't hope Microsoft dies, I just hope they realize how unreasonably stubborn they are being in forcefully shoving every new update of Windows down users' throats, and and that they then stop doing it.

And thereby leaving millions of unpatched machines vulnerable. We just went through that with Android. No thanks. I think a more reasonable answer lies in Microsoft taking a better/different approach to Q/A.

They need to give you the choice on whether to update or not. If you choose not to they should just maybe give you a warning on every launch and leave it at that.

Re: Microsoft suspends Windows 10 update, citing data loss reports

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Post by makecheck »

Well I’ve been waiting literally months for a laptop to complete its claim to be “installing” update 1709, and it never does.

The only feedback in the entire update process is a little spinning circle in a list of updates, which spins for hours on end without apparently doing anything until Windows suddenly out of the blue is “ready” to install and reboots. It will appear to get somewhere, reboot again, and somehow return to the desktop as if everything is OK, yet the update list claims that the update failed. Then it spins again.

I mean, even if it’s “good” that it doesn’t auto-install broken updates, it sure seems to be spending the absolute maximum amount of resources in terms of downloading data, consuming energy, wasting my time, etc. I suspect the size of the update is the factor they should most easily be able to control; patch something smaller and maybe it will actually finish. I don’t know, just seems like an utter mess to me.

Re: Microsoft suspends Windows 10 update, citing data loss reports

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Post by wetpaws »

conradfr wrote: post #33
QuinnyPig wrote: post #21

Every time I get irked with MacOS, or get annoyed with the iPad, I weigh moving back to Windows. Then I see threads like this…

Maybe the real problem is that the two major desktop OS are currently bad.

Hint: there is 3rd one

Re: Microsoft suspends Windows 10 update, citing data loss reports

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Post by r00fus »

Spearchucker wrote: post #26
mehrdadn wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't hope Microsoft dies, I just hope they realize how unreasonably stubborn they are being in forcefully shoving every new update of Windows down users' throats, and and that they then stop doing it.

And thereby leaving millions of unpatched machines vulnerable. We just went through that with Android. No thanks. I think a more reasonable answer lies in Microsoft taking a better/different approach to Q/A.

I think iOS is better. I only get asked to bypass the OS update every month or so and it takes less than three seconds to bypass.

They mover force an update but make you aware you're on an older version.

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