Has any Mac user spent the same amount of $ on a good quality PC as they have on a MacBook Pro? I hear people bash PC's all the time but they usually bought a cheap piece of junk laptop on sale for less than $600 but then say their MacBook Pro is so much better but spent 4x the amount. Will a Fender Squire Strat be as a good as an American Fender Strat? I rarely hear people say they spent over $2000 on a PC that couldn't compete with a MacBook Pro. Back in the day Macs had SCSI hard drives and the best hardware but people still tried to compare cheap laptop PC's to them.
My PC is from 2013 running Windows 10 and the only issue I had was when I upgraded from Windows 8 to Windows 10. I did a clean install of Windows 10 and haven't had an issue since. I don't recommend disabling windows update permanently but I have a batch file on my desktop for Disabling and Enabling Windows Updates. I make sure to enable and install updates once a week and then disable Windows Update.
There are 3 things you MUST do with Windows 10 for it to run Smoothly:
1. Lower UAC (User Account Control) all the way and reboot
2. Open CMD (Command Prompt) and run the command and then reboot: POWERCFG /H OFF
3. When installing a program, you MUST ALWAYS right click on the install file and select Run as administrator
* NOTE: You may have to follow steps 1 and 2 again after Windows 10 version upgrades
Here's my Batch file code. Just copy the text into a text document (Not MS Word!) and save and name it WinUpdate.cmd and you must right click on the file and select Run as administrator or else it won't work. If you don't know how to do this, donate your computer to a good cause and go back to just playing guitar
Code:
@ECHO OFF
CLS
NET FILE 1>NUL 2>NUL
IF '%ERRORLEVEL%' == '0' ( GOTO MENU ) ELSE ( GOTO NotAdmin )
:NotAdmin
CLS
ECHO.
ECHO You didn't right click on this file and select Run as administrator
ECHO.
ECHO Press any key to exit and remember to run this file as administrator
ECHO.
PAUSE >NUL 2>&1
EXIT
:MENU
CLS
ECHO.
ECHO *******************************************************************************
ECHO.
ECHO This program will Disable or Enable Windows Update
ECHO.
ECHO Type 1 to Disable Windows Update
ECHO Type 2 to Enable Windows Update
ECHO Type Exit to Exit and not make any changes
ECHO.
ECHO *******************************************************************************
ECHO.
SETLOCAL DisableDelayedExpansion
SETLOCAL EnableDelayedExpansion
SET _MENU=
SET /P "_MENU=Type Number, then hit Enter: "
IF /I !_MENU!==1 GOTO WU_DISABLE
IF /I !_MENU!==2 GOTO WU_ENABLE
IF /I !_MENU!==EXIT EXIT
ECHO.
ECHO "!_MENU!" is not a valid selection, Please try again.
ECHO.
TIMEOUT /T 2 >NUL 2>&1
CALL :MENU
:WU_DISABLE
CLS
ECHO.
ECHO Disabling Windows Update Service
ECHO.
SC CONFIG wuauserv start= disabled
ECHO.
ECHO Stopping Windows Update Services
ECHO.
NET STOP wuauserv /Y
ECHO.
ECHO Press any key to exit
ECHO.
PAUSE >NUL 2>&1
EXIT
:WU_ENABLE
CLS
ECHO.
ECHO Setting Windows Update Service startup type back to default
ECHO.
SC CONFIG wuauserv start= delayed-auto
ECHO.
ECHO Starting Windows Update Service
ECHO.
NET START wuauserv /Y
ECHO.
ECHO Press any key to exit
ECHO.
PAUSE >NUL 2>&1
EXIT
