jesussaddle
Power User
So basically, the updates still were pushed on my computer despite many hours of precautions. The most recent one, although not listed on my system according "updates history", happened an hour ago. Right in the middle of installing Epic's unreal engine (probably corrupt) and doing a long compression of some huge video files.
Microsoft trolls will be happy to know that I have spent hundreds of hours of install time that they believe should be at risk at their whim, have 800+ audio plugins and half a dozen DAWs, and Video Editors and 3D Game Engine software on this system
The steps I took, one by one, were all proven to have been recently bypassed by Microsoft, that admitted to "more aggressive updates". Use of metered connection settings, disabling of Update Service, Registry fixes, removing folders, even removing Microsoft's hidden "permissions" to prevent their being able to do this. A great number of intelligent persons worked on those workarounds..
Note that I have a Windows Home edition, and have had numerous settings removed, and after the Fall Creators update was forced on the system without warning, I began having a weird error message about an unworking Direct X service (even though it appears to work fine after startup).
After this Spring update, once again Windows has turned back on the Windows Defender Firewall, even though Windows Defender remained off (many anti-virus programs, including mine, have their own firewalls that can be much superior to trusting MS). Of course that means I need to hunt around and figure out how this happened, and check other settings as well.
See:
https://community.norton.com/en/forums/windows-firewall-activated-after-latest-win10-updates-4122017
My machine is 95% offline, and in 15 years using my AV and host methods I have yet to get a virus, and the machine is not accessible to others (there isn't even a wifi adapter to access it) so I don't buy the argument that immediate Windows Updates at every possible time are necessary for security.
Some may believe that Microsoft is not violating the standards and laws created to prevent monopolies. I believe they sell a product governed by the requirements that a buyer has rights to it. I believe that in a lot of purchaser's cases they only masquerade as performing a service. It is still a product because the company began by offering a product, and created a virtual monopoly by offering that product and being aided by federal policy. Yet in our case as musicians that do modern software-aided music that product, or the Pepsi version of it..(Apple) is vital to what we do.
While I can see the argument that MS is just a profit-motivated private company, as a result of this recent experience I do not accept that ordinary profit motive explains the domination of the large players in these tech industries. Profit motive will do a lot, but the speed and resolve of such tampering speak to more than that. Restaurant Management.
Microsoft trolls will be happy to know that I have spent hundreds of hours of install time that they believe should be at risk at their whim, have 800+ audio plugins and half a dozen DAWs, and Video Editors and 3D Game Engine software on this system
The steps I took, one by one, were all proven to have been recently bypassed by Microsoft, that admitted to "more aggressive updates". Use of metered connection settings, disabling of Update Service, Registry fixes, removing folders, even removing Microsoft's hidden "permissions" to prevent their being able to do this. A great number of intelligent persons worked on those workarounds..
Note that I have a Windows Home edition, and have had numerous settings removed, and after the Fall Creators update was forced on the system without warning, I began having a weird error message about an unworking Direct X service (even though it appears to work fine after startup).
After this Spring update, once again Windows has turned back on the Windows Defender Firewall, even though Windows Defender remained off (many anti-virus programs, including mine, have their own firewalls that can be much superior to trusting MS). Of course that means I need to hunt around and figure out how this happened, and check other settings as well.
See:
https://community.norton.com/en/forums/windows-firewall-activated-after-latest-win10-updates-4122017
My machine is 95% offline, and in 15 years using my AV and host methods I have yet to get a virus, and the machine is not accessible to others (there isn't even a wifi adapter to access it) so I don't buy the argument that immediate Windows Updates at every possible time are necessary for security.
Some may believe that Microsoft is not violating the standards and laws created to prevent monopolies. I believe they sell a product governed by the requirements that a buyer has rights to it. I believe that in a lot of purchaser's cases they only masquerade as performing a service. It is still a product because the company began by offering a product, and created a virtual monopoly by offering that product and being aided by federal policy. Yet in our case as musicians that do modern software-aided music that product, or the Pepsi version of it..(Apple) is vital to what we do.
While I can see the argument that MS is just a profit-motivated private company, as a result of this recent experience I do not accept that ordinary profit motive explains the domination of the large players in these tech industries. Profit motive will do a lot, but the speed and resolve of such tampering speak to more than that. Restaurant Management.
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