Has Microsoft permanently damaged Windows 7?

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  1. Posts : 166
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
       #11

    strollin said:
    I wonder why MS seems to only be downloading these Win 10 install files to certain machines? I have several Win 7 and Win 8.1 machines, all set to auto update, yet none of them have had the Win 10 install files downloaded. None of them show the multiple Win 10 install failures in Updates History. One of my Win 7 machines is powered on and connected to the 'net 24/7 so MS has had every opportunity to download the files to that machine, yet hasn't done it.
    Yes, there is a certain amount of mystery around the way this stuff gets pushed out. It seems to come out in waves. I was in the Insider Program (still am I supposed), and each time there was a new build, some people would get it right away, and some people wouldn't see it for days. So you may get it yet, or maybe there is some other parameter that we don't know about. Who knows!
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  2. Posts : 880
    Windows 7 Professional 64bit
       #12

    I read about the GWX thing but when I checked my computer there was no such directory and I've luckily set the Updates options as on the first page.

    I thought this thread might be about the sfc problem where it no longer runs w/o error. Does anyone know if THAT little glitch has been fixed in an MS update yet?
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  3. Posts : 20,583
    Win-7-Pro64bit 7-H-Prem-64bit
       #13

    Apparently the fix for sfc errors was included in this update
    https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3080149
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  4. Posts : 7,100
    W7 home premium 32bit/W7HP 64bit/w10 tp insider ring
       #14

    Whats even stranger is that I've set my WU to manual.
    But MS is installing updates anyway, checked via events log.
    I was merrily playing CandyCrush, ( NO comments please), lost internet thought whats going here.
    WU had gone straight into restart mode to install updates

    Roy
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  5. Posts : 21,482
    Win 7 x64 Home Premium (and x86 VirtualBox VM)/Win10
       #15

    torchwood said:
    Whats even stranger is that I've set my WU to manual.
    But MS is installing updates anyway, checked via events log.
    I was merrily playing CandyCrush, ( NO comments please), lost internet thought whats going here.
    WU had gone straight into restart mode to install updates

    Roy
    MS has always reserved the right to install updates without user intervention.
    Tough
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  6. Posts : 166
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
       #16

    NoelDP said:
    torchwood said:
    Whats even stranger is that I've set my WU to manual.
    But MS is installing updates anyway, checked via events log.
    I was merrily playing CandyCrush, ( NO comments please), lost internet thought whats going here.
    WU had gone straight into restart mode to install updates

    Roy
    MS has always reserved the right to install updates without user intervention.
    Tough
    This is getting ridiculous. I have always reserved my right to not use Windows, and if MS keeps up this garbage, I will exercise that right. I've been dual-booting with Linux for over 15 years - it would not be a big yank for me to just say good-bye to Windows. As it is, my Windows partition is essentially a data partition. I do like the way Win7 looks and operates for the most part, and I really hope that MS will see the idiocy of gratuitously alienating people who would otherwise cheerfully use their product. Oh well.
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  7. Posts : 9,600
    Win 7 Ultimate 64 bit
       #17

    ThrashZone said:
    Apparently the fix for sfc errors was included in this update
    https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3080149
    Which is a shame since that is one of the spyware (telemetry) from MSpy.
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  8. Posts : 7,100
    W7 home premium 32bit/W7HP 64bit/w10 tp insider ring
       #18

    Im not to worried about the fact they download em its the fact the've gone into auto restart which is more annoying.

    Besides ive got 10 on another, why try and cripple me twice

    Roy
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  9. Posts : 2,465
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
       #19

    NoelDP said:
    MS has always reserved the right to install updates without user intervention.
    Tough
    Software that does things without and specially against user choices is called malware and should NEVER be allowed to perform whatever action it plans to do. If the user choses not to install updates, then updates must never install, for no reason, unless the user explicitly choses to install them, that's simple. Every program must obey its user, no matter what, that's its reason to exists.

    Microsoft, or anyone else, has NO right to install whatever they want into our computers, it's the user decision what to do with its computer, plain and simple. The fact that they've decided to deliver malware though Windows Update clearly shows that they don't care at all about its users.
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  10. Posts : 20,583
    Win-7-Pro64bit 7-H-Prem-64bit
       #20

    Lady Fitzgerald said:
    ThrashZone said:
    Apparently the fix for sfc errors was included in this update
    https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3080149
    Which is a shame since that is one of the spyware (telemetry) from MSpy.
    Yes but the update is supposed to correct the sending of info if a user does not participate in CEIP.

    But it just shows why early releases of Optional/ Recommended updates should be passed on until they mature and M$ fixes them
    Confirming some updates cause more issues than they're supposed to fix.

    Bandwidth belongs to me not M$ unless they would like to pay my AT&T U-Verse bill that is
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