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Microsoft Fixes Windows 10 Anniversary Update Freezing Issues (betanews.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The Anniversary Update may have introduced a whole host of new features but it has also caused a fair number of problems for Windows 10 users. Among the most annoying issues reported since its release in late-July are freezes on systems equipped with SSDs. Microsoft has acknowledged the problem and provided a couple of workarounds that users could try, promising that a permanent fix would eventually be made available. Microsoft now says that it has addressed the freezing issues in the latest Cumulative Update that it just released. "After the launch of the Anniversary Update for Windows 10, Microsoft received a small number of reports of Windows 10 freezing when signing into Windows after installing the Anniversary Update. With the help of users and MVP's who posted on this thread an investigation determined that a small fraction of users who had moved app information to a second logical drive could encounter this issue," explains Microsoft.
Six months ago Windows 10 ate my SSD array. Totally creamed it, with no recovery possible. Glad to see they're making progress on the issue, he said tongue-in-cheek.
It looks like you're trying to do some work, would you like some help bricking your computer?
if updates weren't forced down our throats, maybe only a small percentage of users would be affected by a bad update before you got your shit together and fixed it....
WE ARE NOT YOUR BETA TESTERS.
Windows 10 is the worst OS I've ever used, and I've use Windows ME! Also some of the most unstable Linux distros (Fedora, Debian Sid, Gentoo).
It's slow, bloated and invades my privacy for no practical gain. The Anniversary Update resulted in a BSOD + reboot loop. One clean install later, and my webcam doesn't work.
Windows 7 was pretty much perfect. Windows 8 was at least tolerable. Windows 10 is the Worst. OS. Ever.
... should really fix:
EITHER OR:
1) DON'T REBOOT MY FUCKING COMPUTER WHEN I DON'T WANT TOO! Now you don't even get a time mentioned, and you can't delay it (using their own user shown user-interface at-least), you can't set active hours less for more than 12 hours a day either. Microsoft will reboot your computer whenever the fuck they want too. Such as last night.
2) FIX THEIR FUCKING OS SO THE WHOLE MACHINE DOESN'T HAVE TO BE REBOOTED FOR EVERY FUCKING UPGRADE!
Fuck the anti-human dictatorshit idiots at Microsoft.
Trash by design. But it runs the most games.
Right, but does this fix the kindle crashing problem? The one where you plug your kindle over usb into your PC and windows instantly bluescreens....
You can tell how powerful someone is by the magnitude of the crime they can commit and be able to get away with.
There are definitely quite a few misc. problems and quirks involved with running Windows 10 -- and surely more with the "Anniversary edition" update.
One odd thing I've noticed is that I run a Surface Pro 4 (Microsoft's OWN hardware, so should be completely optimized for Win 10!), and it seems to occasionally lose contact with my Microsoft branded bluetooth mouse. It doesn't happen *often*, but I'd say if I leave my system running and attached to its dock, and don't come back to it for a couple days, there's a good probability the mouse won't work. Turning the mouse off/on again does nothing. Only real solution I've found is a Windows restart. I think I lose control of the mouse like this once or maybe twice while in the middle of using the computer too, during the middle of the day. So I can't really blame this entirely on a "sleep mode" problem or what-not.
It's at times like this that I'm glad I was able to dump Windows many years ago and had at least at home a fun computing environment.
Too bad I still have to fix stupid stuff on Windows server, Exchange and other proprietary software.
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I'm typing this on my Windows 10 laptop and it is working fi
Just more confirmation that Windows 7 will be my last windows version, ever. When Windows 7 stops getting security updates/gets crippled by MS update I will go Ubuntu/SteamOS for my desktop and console for my gaming.
If you disagree, please post your argument. (-1, Overrated) isn't your personal censorship tool for views you don't like
If you don't like it, don't use it.
I don't use it. And when friends or family ask me about it, I tell them "anything but Windows 10." Most can get by with just a tablet, a Chromebook, a Mac, or even Linux. I am currently configuring a laptop for a friend of the family who is just starting college. Guess what he's not getting? Windows 10. Guess what he is getting? Linux.
All this complaining about Windows 10 is getting really old and tired.
And so is the crap coming from MS.
I have games.
It's ok to dislike something you use. You don't have to like it.
I used to use the BSDs and Linux distributions but also OS X hack and OS X on a Macbook Pro but the Macbook Pro was trash too (ohnoz! Not that one too! At-least I follow what the GP asked for and haven't bought a new one.)
However I've bought games for what? $2000?
If I don't run Windows (or wine) 90+% of them become useless.
It should simply have read "Microsoft Fixes Windows 10". But then I guess they'd have to call it "Windows 7", and Satya Nadella would no longer have a job shafting Microsoft customers.
'The Economy' is a giant Ponzi scheme whose most pitiable suckers are the youngest among us and the yet-unborn.
I am a native portuguese speaker, and I can tell you I could not understand what happened to the author of the comment. My suspicion is that he is under the influence of drugs or is a example of the "HUEHUEBR" plague.
Religion: The greatest weapon of mass destruction of all time
My system rebooting three times in three days for updates. Way to go Microsoft - fucking shit up.
Too bad I still have to fix stupid stuff on Windows server, Exchange and other proprietary software.
You "have to"? I'm assuming this is part of your job. If so, that's not a problem: the whole reason you work is to make money, and part of doing work is doing stuff that's not any fun. I work with Windows some at work too. I don't really care there, because if it crashes or anything, then it's the IT department's problem and I get paid to sit around and not do anything. If you're paid to fix these dumb problems, that's no different than being paid to dig ditches or flip burgers; you'd rather do something else like go to the beach, but you do this job because it gives you money, and presumably fixing Windows problems isn't quite as horrible as digging ditches or flipping burgers or cleaning toilets every day while paying far better to boot.
Your work computing environment is mostly out of your hands, and not your concern. Your home computing environment is entirely in your hands, and your personal time should be valuable to you, too valuable to waste on bullshit.
No one forced you to waste $2k on games which require you to run a horrible OS. That was your own choice. If you don't like the OS, stop using it and sell the games.
I don't use it. And when friends or family ask me about it, I tell them "anything but Windows 10."
Yeah, I do the exact same. I'm just sick of people buying and voluntarily using Win10, and then bitching and complaining about it. It's like going out and buying a brand-new Yugo and then complaining about how unreliable it is. I refuse to coddle people who make poor choices.
I am currently configuring a laptop for a friend of the family who is just starting college. Guess what he's not getting? Windows 10. Guess what he is getting? Linux.
Yeah, I recently did this for an older friend of the family who's about 75. He's using Linux Mint 17.3 KDE. He says it "works like a charm". Other than one support call early on, I haven't heard anything back from him, because it just works.
And so is the crap coming from MS.
On the contrary, I find it funny, I just get annoyed at the complaints about it. But it's kinda funny to watch people suffer so much and then keep going back for more abuse, and justify it somehow, sorta like Stockholm Syndrome.
If you don't like it, don't use it.
All this complaining about Windows 10 is getting really old and tired.
Well, thank you, I don't use it and won't use it.
Voluntarily and repeatedly using something you really hate, when you have no really good reason for it (such as your livelihood depending on it, so you don't get fired and become homeless), is indicative of a psychological problem IMO, perhaps some kind of addiction.
From my armchair at the old folks home it seems Microsoft has given up whatever advantage they have with desktop computing. All they needed to (continue) doing was provide a stable platform for their office suite and PC games. The growing pains of NT and ME should have been adequate lessons learned for them. It's as if they have no idea where they are headed or who their customers are. Business and consumers are fed up.
s/cummulative/trichobezoar
Anyone else?
I'm sort of thinking about the kind of pachypatch trichobezoar that results when an anxious elephant plucks and nibbles too many of its own nose hairs.
Of course, under the new model, a discerning elephant can't just selectively incisor the one long, black, thick nose hair that's spiralling out of control. No, now it has become a daring feat of all or nothing, certain to well up elephant tears.
Here's another option:
s/cummulative/wallop
Fear wallop hell.
Question... Acid, shrooms or salvia?
Silence is a state of mime.
You would think that with all the telemetry data Microsoft is getting from Windows 10 installations they would have figured this out quite quickly.
Help! I'm a slashdot refugee.
Excellent! Finally, someone with some sense around here!
If you don't like it, don't use it.
All this complaining about Windows 10 is getting really old and tired.
I do agree with you and I personally don't run any Microsoft products. Unfortunately, what you have said has no effect on people who have been effectively locked into using Microsoft products even though there are alternatives. What is even sadder is the fact that most people can't even see or comprehend that they are being screwed over even when they are told.
There ain't no such thing as proprietary standards only proprietary formats. Standards are by definition open.
Unfortunately, what you have said has no effect on people who have been effectively locked into using Microsoft products even though there are alternatives.
See, that's where I have to disagree. I think these people need some "tough love": maybe if they get bashed over the head with the idea that this is largely their own dumb fault, and that their only rational course of action is to stop using MS software as soon as feasible (since MS is not going to suddenly turn into a company that cares about its customers' feelings, and is enabled in their behavior by their monopolistic position which was granted to them by all these people willingly using their software). some of them will finally put out the effort to actually switch to something else, even if it causes them some short-term pain. Coddling them and just agreeing with them about how bad and awful MS is isn't going to change the situation or help them in any way.
What is even sadder is the fact that most people can't even see or comprehend that they are being screwed over even when they are told.
No, most can't. But I don't really care about that, as long as a minority finally figures it out, then alternatives will gain more traction, and maybe ISVs will finally start supporting them better. A lot of stuff actually does even support other OSes: a lot of engineering software does run on Linux, for instance, but too many stupid employers still just use Windows because that's the default and that's what their shitty email system runs on and what their dumb MSOffice-using cubicle dwellers use and what their IT departments know. And for these people whining about how their games don't run on Linux, maybe if a lot more of them stopped buying that crap, and wrote letters to these companies telling them they're not buying any more of their games until they make Linux/Mac versions, the game companies would get a clue and start developing for those platforms. There's been some action there with Steam after all, it's not like you can't play *any* commercial game on Linux. The only way there's going to be change is if users demand it.
"Microsoft received a small number of reports [...] a small fraction of users [...]"
F*ck it, these PR-morons never learn. When you have millions of users, no number is small, and no fraction is small, and when you say it is, you make yourself look like an idiot. And if you don't know that, then it's more than just the looks.
I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I can think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.
I just tell people that I don't do Windows, since nobody pays me to fix my own computer all the time. Their immediate assumption is that I use a Mac, which is partially true - typing on one now. When my mother & nieces needed computers, I bought them Macbook Airs. Life is too short to waste on never ending MS support.
Excuse me, but please get off my Pennisetum Clandestinum, eh!
'Stockholm Syndrome' - good one. I like to call it 'VW Beetle Syndrome'. A beetle engendered a feeling of empathy. The little steam engine that could. Some people just loved to work on the goddamn things every weekend.
Excuse me, but please get off my Pennisetum Clandestinum, eh!
FYI, the work environment IS my concern because right now I'm the only one with enough experience and skill to take care of problems at the clients.
And I actually quit part ownership of the company because the stress of having to deal with the increased stupidity of marketing companies like Microsoft all day and night got to me.
Now I just help out with the difficult stuff as long as the guys don't know what to do and as for the rest, *shrugs* I stopped caring about life so who cares what happens next.
I'm writing now and despite it not bringing in any money I feel better than ever.
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I hate their enforced restarts and need it for games. Now fuck off.
That doesn't mean either GP or his employer wants to have more crap to wade through. Intelligent companies spend some money on making sure people can do their jobs, and aren't fond of suppliers that make life difficult for their employees.
"When you have eliminated the unacceptable, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truthiness" - Holmes
You don't *need* to play games, you *choose* to play games. Apparently, you're willing to live with all the negatives that come with Windows 10 in order to play your precious games. So fuck off yourself and enjoy your enforced restarts in the middle of your games.
You're assuming here that management is smart enough to figure this out and find the best suppliers. They aren't. If they were, HP Enterprise (formerly EDS) would not be in business.
Some management is smart enough. I've seen it. It's been over fifteen years since my faith in the ineptness of C-level management was shaken. I've had good middle managers. Pity about the rest....
"When you have eliminated the unacceptable, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truthiness" - Holmes
I don't need to have a computer at all.
Yes, of course. And Microsoft still suck for demanding it you idiot.
You can complain about them all you want, but you're the fucking idiot for continuing to use their crap. Have fun with that. I'll be laughing at you and your misery, and I hope it drives you insane.
I assume it can be fixed out of the regular user-interface if one really want it.
I doubt companies HAVE to deal with this shit for machines which absolutely can't have it.
These seem pretty bad since they kinda disable it, I know know if anything have changed with Anniversary update (previously I could at-least pick a date and time when I wanted to upgrade - I'm not allowed to any longer.)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/go...
Seem like when a restart has been scheduled one can go in and change Restart options to a different day now too under update status. I don't seem to be able to have that the default though.
No idea if this old tips work:
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/d...
http://answers.microsoft.com/e...
http://tweaks.com/windows/6573...
I'm not sure the later actually work, then again considering the number of hits and that it should be possibly somehow for some people to actually refuse it ...
Guess if nothing else one could block the network connections to Microsoft for checking for updates ..