Re: How do people live with MS Windows ????

On 5/16/24 1:32 PM, Jim Jackson wrote:

Tonight I borrowed ny wife's MS Windows 10 home Laptop to take to a
meeting where I was to give a presentation. I'd logged in to my account
at home and it ll appeared to be working fine - there was the usual odd
pause etcwhich I assumed was the usual updates because I'd not logged in
for a week or so.
 At the venue, as soon as I switrched on the laptop it went in the
"updating do not switch off" thingy. 15 minutes later it's still doing
it so my presentation has to be abandonned (end of meeting time).
 So how do people put up with this? I'm assuming that in business with
Windoes Pro or whateever, this can be controlled so updates don't
interrupt important events. Can it be controlled on the home edition?

That's the nice thing about old versions -- NO MORE UPDATES!  Win7 was good about asking before it did one, and I only did the 'essential' ones.

I don't use MS Windows on my desktop so don't have this sort of thing
to deal with normally.

Windows 11 is worse.  It was seemingly designed for people who use it only for entertainment and don't want to be bothered with anything else.   I'm REALLY sorry I let the Win10 Lenovo laptop update to 11.
The only time I use windows (win7, which doesn't hurt as much as it could) is for tax prep.  I don't need more learning experiences :-(

Is there any way of taming MS windows updates?

There MUST be....
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Cheers, Bev
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