Reading past the FUD, the hardware they're talking about is practically the same hardware you'd find in a premium phone: screen, processor, memory and whatever else by SAMSUNG, probably fabricated in Taiwan and assembled in Korea. In fact, a lot of what you'll find in a ZTE F930 is IDENTICAL to the hardware you'll find in a Samsung Galaxy Y (a Mini-3) (source: had both apart while swapping parts to get one good phone!). So while they're panicking over ZTE, they're sending messages on fucking iPhones! Identical bar the price tag and the badge!
There's a method which works (I've done it, and wrote the method as I went): it completely obliterates the Win10 nag and all associated processes and files, registry entries and pretty much guarantees that it won't return.
Step 1: take ownership of the GWX folder Go to/Windows/System32/GWX. Right-click, Properties. Then, go to the Security tab, click Advanced. Under the Owner, click on Edit. Select your account rather than whatever crap Microsoft has preselected. Make sure you tick the box that says subfolders and whatnot. Apply the change. Ignore the warnings and prompts.
Step 2: change folder permissions On the right tab, click Edit. Then, select your user. Change the permissions to Full Control, and apply. Then, rename the GWX folder to something like GWX.old. And just in case, inside this folder, you may also want to consider renaming the four executable files. Just use any which extension to cripple their executability. Problem solved. I simply deleted the GWX folder but if you’re not confident, rename it. It does the same thing.
Step 3: delete scheduled tasks Fire up “Regedit” and navigate to HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Schedule\Taskcache\Tasks. What you’ll be faced with is a long list of CLSID entries. These appear to be random (but they’re not and the reason is long and complicated) and the data you want is in the right hand side pane. Go to the Edit menu and click “Find”, type “gwx” (without the quotes) and hit “Find Next”. The application will highlight the first entry, where you’ll see “GWX” under the key-value pair “Path”. On the left pane, locate the hive (folder) that this entry resides in (easy, it should already be highlighted) and export it (right click it) and then right-click delete it. There will by now be eleven entries. You’ll know you’ve got them all when you jump to a new section under.\\TaskCache\Tree\Microsoft\Windows\Setup. There you will be dropped into a hive with two entries: GWX and GWXTriggers. Export both of these and delete them. Launch Task Scheduler and make sure it runs with no errors.
Step 4: disable automatic Windows Update Now you’ve killed GWX, you need to make sure Microsoft isn’t about to work around it and force a new kernel on you without your informed consent. Start the Windows Update tool from the control panel and check, it should now be disabled. If it isn’t, go into the settings and adjust to disable automatic updates. You can now either leave WU off and manually install updates after checking them for safety or leave WU altogether and risk missing an actual important update which may or may not contain a plug for yet another Microsoft security hole.
You’re welcome
PS: the reason to export the registry entries is simple: if you find your system refusing to reboot after this operation, simply restart in safe mode and remerge them into the registry. You may have inadvertantly removed the wrong key, if you’ve backed it up it should just drop straight back in, no harm no foul. Start over.:)
So far I've not seen the GWX process since doing this. I've got my computer back!
that's Software As A Service for you. Cloud-based login for a local account is just about the stupidest idea I have ever heard of. What if you don't have an internet connection (for example, if you're sitting in a roadside cafe)?
Windows 7 and no automatic updates for me, and I've just started ripping out the other CEIP crap, there's fuckin' loads of it.
Would the editors consider adding a section for analysis of Windows updates so we can read then decide if we want them instead of having to go on click marathons through the desktop client? Even some sort of Patch Tuesday digest just indicating which of the updates are actual security patches would do it.
They're there already. There're onboard AV suites for smartphones and enough processor power to run them in the background. It's ridiculous, there are phones out now that are more powerful than my four year old LAPTOP. What the fuck do you need to make a fucking phone call??
First time I rooted a phone it was my MotoRAZR V3i, because I hated the red-themed Vodafone softbranding. I got a factory image and flashed it with that, it's been unlocked and absolutely peachy ever since.
If there's a yes/no in the headline, the answer is invariably "NO".
Apart from that, considering how easy it is to spoof an IP, then you might actually be breaking the Law by enabling targetted attacks on private computer systems which is covered under the Computer Misude Act (in England) and on public systems, potentially you could be engaging the Official Secrets Act and the Terrorism Act.
no, the most certain way to kill yourself is to be born. Smoking comes pretty far down the list. You're six times more likely to die from CVD than cancer (Mayo Clinic). Sturm and Wells of the Rand Corporation conducted a statistical study and concluded that obesity is the most common cause of terminal CVD, by over 40% risk factor - smoking increased the risk of terminal CVD by only 23%, obesity by nearly 70%. 23% of Americans were obese at the time of the report, which means that obesity-related CVD is the single biggest killer in the United States.
Don't let the report convince you against something you've already decided as your world truth, go right on ahead and call me an ignorant cunt.
my son was on DA for a while, it basically turned him into a zombie - he took himself off it after the paediatrician put him on it, because he realised it was the wrong thing for him. Leads me to conclude with your anecdote that while ADHD covers a lot of symptoms, it also has several and diverse causes both environmental (diet) and biological (brain chemistry). Even HPA imbalance has been known to cause similar symptoms. Putting every child who shows rambunctious behaviour on DA is like slapping a butterfly stitch on a hull breach "because it's been shown to be effective in stopping bleeding". That's not dealing with the condition, it's shadowmasking the undesired behaviour with a chemical cosh. You've got to study the child and work out where the behaviour comes from - whether it's learned or a reaction to something.
yes, but not very many devices (a few HP printers and certain external hard drives is about all I managed, even a Netline ethernet dongle once). OSR2.1 was a pig to use, it almost put me off Windows completely. NT was the future of Windows and Microsoft, as more recent history has proven.
it's not so much that I think, in Virtualbox you can assign all cores to the VM and if you then load an APM kernel (as opposed to ACPI/EFI) it will peg the CPU (all cores assigned) unless you make effort to control it. It's like a gas, it expands to fill the available space unless you contain it in a flask.
Not according to the European Court of Auditors Style Guide, the € sign (ALT+0128 or €) is placed before the number without an intervening space, or if the ISO code "EUR" is used, again before the number and with an intervening space.
ATOS don't do it any more, they backed out of the contract after they were exposed as frauds for passing people as fit for work regardless of conditions - including (and I bullshit you not), a woman who was in a coma who was passed FFW after simply not turning up for the assessment. Capita do it now, perhaps unsurprisingly using the same agency staff, the same agency supply nurses (invariably completely unqualified) to carry out the assessments, to the same scripts, in the same facilities.
only 20 years? Cellphones have been commercially available for at least 30 and the earliest ones were literally portable microwave ovens - modern handsets emit at power levels on the order of MILLIWATTS.
Incidence of lung cancer due to tobacco use since the smoking bans came into force in Britain in 2007 HAVE NOT CHANGED, this suggests that the ban has had NO EFFECT except to cause public houses to close since many people prefer to have a smoke with their beer! Lung cancers have other triggers as well, such as genetic predisposition (the most common cause), smog and other toxic gases and airborne particulates, Alpha particle emitters such as plutonium dust and radium, lead compounds, asbestos, car emissions, industrial effluent and some food additives. Clean air laws and the introduction of electric cars have had more effect on lung cancer than any smoking ban.
Followup: what is the MAXIMUM safe level of EM radiation exposure? Given that the MINIMUM safe level is greater than 0 to allow the body to adapt, the answer is NOT 0.
being a parent of a child who was diagnosed with ADHD and put on ritalin for nine years, I can absolutely say with conviction that the condition is (or was in his case at least) caused by environment. I didn't like the idea of him being on an UNTESTED medication, one which had and to this day remains UNPROVEN efficacy, and made fucking huge amounts of noise to determine the cause rather than skimming over the symptoms. He himself found (he's 18 now and ugly enough to make his own decisions and deal with the consequences) that if he simply cut a couple things out of his diet, any adverse symptoms miraculously DISAPPEARED.
The two main things he cut were ASPARTAME and YELLOW DYE #5. He has also recently cut SUCRALOSE and ACE K, which were both causing him gut problems.
Point: Anecdotal evidence to support a claim is still EVIDENCE, even if it is a sample of one.
what they don't take into account is the amount of sea ice that reforms during local Winter. Or the fact that in Summer in the Northern hemisphere, it's Winter in the South and vice versa. Plus they ignore data prior to 1976 for the simple reason that according to them it's not accurate enough when the truth is it doesn't fit their model.
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Reading past the FUD, the hardware they're talking about is practically the same hardware you'd find in a premium phone: screen, processor, memory and whatever else by SAMSUNG, probably fabricated in Taiwan and assembled in Korea. In fact, a lot of what you'll find in a ZTE F930 is IDENTICAL to the hardware you'll find in a Samsung Galaxy Y (a Mini-3) (source: had both apart while swapping parts to get one good phone!). So while they're panicking over ZTE, they're sending messages on fucking iPhones! Identical bar the price tag and the badge!
There's a method which works (I've done it, and wrote the method as I went): it completely obliterates the Win10 nag and all associated processes and files, registry entries and pretty much guarantees that it won't return.
Step 1: take ownership of the GWX folder /Windows/System32/GWX. Right-click, Properties. Then, go to the Security tab, click Advanced. Under the Owner, click on Edit. Select your account rather than whatever crap Microsoft has preselected. Make sure you tick the box that says subfolders and whatnot. Apply the change. Ignore the warnings and prompts.
Go to
Step 2: change folder permissions
On the right tab, click Edit. Then, select your user. Change the permissions to Full Control, and apply. Then, rename the GWX folder to something like GWX.old. And just in case, inside this folder, you may also want to consider renaming the four executable files. Just use any which extension to cripple their executability. Problem solved. I simply deleted the GWX folder but if you’re not confident, rename it. It does the same thing.
Step 3: delete scheduled tasks .\\TaskCache\Tree\Microsoft\Windows\Setup. There you will be dropped into a hive with two entries: GWX and GWXTriggers. Export both of these and delete them. Launch Task Scheduler and make sure it runs with no errors.
Fire up “Regedit” and navigate to HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Schedule\Taskcache\Tasks. What you’ll be faced with is a long list of CLSID entries. These appear to be random (but they’re not and the reason is long and complicated) and the data you want is in the right hand side pane. Go to the Edit menu and click “Find”, type “gwx” (without the quotes) and hit “Find Next”. The application will highlight the first entry, where you’ll see “GWX” under the key-value pair “Path”. On the left pane, locate the hive (folder) that this entry resides in (easy, it should already be highlighted) and export it (right click it) and then right-click delete it. There will by now be eleven entries. You’ll know you’ve got them all when you jump to a new section under
Step 4: disable automatic Windows Update
Now you’ve killed GWX, you need to make sure Microsoft isn’t about to work around it and force a new kernel on you without your informed consent. Start the Windows Update tool from the control panel and check, it should now be disabled. If it isn’t, go into the settings and adjust to disable automatic updates. You can now either leave WU off and manually install updates after checking them for safety or leave WU altogether and risk missing an actual important update which may or may not contain a plug for yet another Microsoft security hole.
You’re welcome
PS: the reason to export the registry entries is simple: if you find your system refusing to reboot after this operation, simply restart in safe mode and remerge them into the registry. You may have inadvertantly removed the wrong key, if you’ve backed it up it should just drop straight back in, no harm no foul. Start over. :)
So far I've not seen the GWX process since doing this. I've got my computer back!
mod parent up - I don't install any of the optionals anyway. Thanks for that :)
that's Software As A Service for you. Cloud-based login for a local account is just about the stupidest idea I have ever heard of. What if you don't have an internet connection (for example, if you're sitting in a roadside cafe)?
Windows 7 and no automatic updates for me, and I've just started ripping out the other CEIP crap, there's fuckin' loads of it.
Would the editors consider adding a section for analysis of Windows updates so we can read then decide if we want them instead of having to go on click marathons through the desktop client? Even some sort of Patch Tuesday digest just indicating which of the updates are actual security patches would do it.
oh, ok.
fuck off AC, I don't need to justify myself to anybody.
They're there already. There're onboard AV suites for smartphones and enough processor power to run them in the background. It's ridiculous, there are phones out now that are more powerful than my four year old LAPTOP. What the fuck do you need to make a fucking phone call??
First time I rooted a phone it was my MotoRAZR V3i, because I hated the red-themed Vodafone softbranding. I got a factory image and flashed it with that, it's been unlocked and absolutely peachy ever since.
They're not even in the list of makers that I know of:
Samsung
Apple (Samsung again)
Motorola
Nokia (Microsoft)
LG
Sony
Sagem
Siemens
ZTE
Blackberry
(not exhaustive but my brain's a bit fucked right now).
If there's a yes/no in the headline, the answer is invariably "NO".
Apart from that, considering how easy it is to spoof an IP, then you might actually be breaking the Law by enabling targetted attacks on private computer systems which is covered under the Computer Misude Act (in England) and on public systems, potentially you could be engaging the Official Secrets Act and the Terrorism Act.
no, you made the claim, YOU fucking back it up.
citations needed for your statistical claims, because the Rand Corporation does not agree with you.
no, the most certain way to kill yourself is to be born. Smoking comes pretty far down the list. You're six times more likely to die from CVD than cancer (Mayo Clinic). Sturm and Wells of the Rand Corporation conducted a statistical study and concluded that obesity is the most common cause of terminal CVD, by over 40% risk factor - smoking increased the risk of terminal CVD by only 23%, obesity by nearly 70%. 23% of Americans were obese at the time of the report, which means that obesity-related CVD is the single biggest killer in the United States.
Don't let the report convince you against something you've already decided as your world truth, go right on ahead and call me an ignorant cunt.
my son was on DA for a while, it basically turned him into a zombie - he took himself off it after the paediatrician put him on it, because he realised it was the wrong thing for him. Leads me to conclude with your anecdote that while ADHD covers a lot of symptoms, it also has several and diverse causes both environmental (diet) and biological (brain chemistry). Even HPA imbalance has been known to cause similar symptoms. Putting every child who shows rambunctious behaviour on DA is like slapping a butterfly stitch on a hull breach "because it's been shown to be effective in stopping bleeding". That's not dealing with the condition, it's shadowmasking the undesired behaviour with a chemical cosh. You've got to study the child and work out where the behaviour comes from - whether it's learned or a reaction to something.
yes, but not very many devices (a few HP printers and certain external hard drives is about all I managed, even a Netline ethernet dongle once). OSR2.1 was a pig to use, it almost put me off Windows completely. NT was the future of Windows and Microsoft, as more recent history has proven.
it's not so much that I think, in Virtualbox you can assign all cores to the VM and if you then load an APM kernel (as opposed to ACPI/EFI) it will peg the CPU (all cores assigned) unless you make effort to control it. It's like a gas, it expands to fill the available space unless you contain it in a flask.
I made no such claim, so fuck right off.
Not according to the European Court of Auditors Style Guide, the € sign (ALT+0128 or €) is placed before the number without an intervening space, or if the ISO code "EUR" is used, again before the number and with an intervening space.
ATOS don't do it any more, they backed out of the contract after they were exposed as frauds for passing people as fit for work regardless of conditions - including (and I bullshit you not), a woman who was in a coma who was passed FFW after simply not turning up for the assessment. Capita do it now, perhaps unsurprisingly using the same agency staff, the same agency supply nurses (invariably completely unqualified) to carry out the assessments, to the same scripts, in the same facilities.
only 20 years? Cellphones have been commercially available for at least 30 and the earliest ones were literally portable microwave ovens - modern handsets emit at power levels on the order of MILLIWATTS.
Incidence of lung cancer due to tobacco use since the smoking bans came into force in Britain in 2007 HAVE NOT CHANGED, this suggests that the ban has had NO EFFECT except to cause public houses to close since many people prefer to have a smoke with their beer! Lung cancers have other triggers as well, such as genetic predisposition (the most common cause), smog and other toxic gases and airborne particulates, Alpha particle emitters such as plutonium dust and radium, lead compounds, asbestos, car emissions, industrial effluent and some food additives. Clean air laws and the introduction of electric cars have had more effect on lung cancer than any smoking ban.
citation needed.
Followup: what is the MAXIMUM safe level of EM radiation exposure? Given that the MINIMUM safe level is greater than 0 to allow the body to adapt, the answer is NOT 0.
being a parent of a child who was diagnosed with ADHD and put on ritalin for nine years, I can absolutely say with conviction that the condition is (or was in his case at least) caused by environment. I didn't like the idea of him being on an UNTESTED medication, one which had and to this day remains UNPROVEN efficacy, and made fucking huge amounts of noise to determine the cause rather than skimming over the symptoms. He himself found (he's 18 now and ugly enough to make his own decisions and deal with the consequences) that if he simply cut a couple things out of his diet, any adverse symptoms miraculously DISAPPEARED.
The two main things he cut were ASPARTAME and YELLOW DYE #5. He has also recently cut SUCRALOSE and ACE K, which were both causing him gut problems.
Point: Anecdotal evidence to support a claim is still EVIDENCE, even if it is a sample of one.
sure, it's only three miles thick in Antarctica.
what they don't take into account is the amount of sea ice that reforms during local Winter.
Or the fact that in Summer in the Northern hemisphere, it's Winter in the South and vice versa.
Plus they ignore data prior to 1976 for the simple reason that according to them it's not accurate enough when the truth is it doesn't fit their model.