Recent content by howards

Yes, but it's only been the past couple years where I've started to feel completetly defenseless against them. It used to be you could delay and delay, disable certain services, force-trick updates off for a while, etc. And it feels like there's some lone engineer sitting in a closet at MS...

Does Microsoft not see the irony here. I can be and am always careful about keeping suspicious files out of my system. But I am defenseless against MS's forced updates.

Here's what I did to fix it today. Go to Settings > Windows Updates > Update History > Uninstall Updates (a "tab" at the very bottom of the list). What I found there were two files with an install date of today -- a Windows Update and a Security update (sorry I no longer have the KB numbers for...

I've run into the same issue today after allowing the latest Windows update. Windows Explorer just crashes and restarts itself (i.e. desktop and taskbar momentarily disappear before redrawing themselves) every time I try to open MyPC or click on a folder shortcut. Right-clicking on MyPC and...