Win Ten Update

[Terrel L. Shields]

I hate updates. My laptop 10 was forced to update. It caused me to have to rekey saved passwords, and made changes I hate. A few relate to the touch keyboard. One, it tries to anticipate your words far more aggressively and a misspelling often leads it to post an entirely different word than you expect, you can out type its little pea brain (when I typed "pea" just now, space, it jumped back to the "a" as if expecting an "r or l ?"), I'm assuming this was an Edge update since the touch keyboard is somewhat different when running under Firefox.
Now there's a microphone button on the touch keyboard. Next scrolling suddenly is sideways from topic to topic instead of page to page, so careful positioning of the cursor is required. On the taskbar my Craftsman update button now loads a new additional icon each time I boot up. I have to delete the extras. Also, typing suggested emojis keep popping up.

This really sucks but they forced the issue at Microsoft and after avoiding it for two weeks it simply did it anyway and basically told me to STHU.

 

[Randolph Kinney]

Don't you just love Microsoft?

 

[Riick]

10 sux.
Install 7, which afaic does everything 10 does, and allows you control.

 

[QWERTY Pi]

Flash your machine’s BIOS (if your OEM manufacturer or mobo has released one) and buy/upgrade to Win10 Pro (at least with win10 pro you can push back auto-installation -unlike win10Home). Windows is scrambling to patch the Intel/AMD nonsense (so a firmware update by you helps integrate the MS’s patches -most of the time, lol, May 2018 had many BIOS roll-backs). Spectre/Meltdown are messy beasts!! Or, as the previous user suggested, change your OS. Cute cat btw. Adorable

 

[Tim The Enchanter]

Flash your machine’s BIOS (if your OEM manufacturer or mobo has released one) and buy/upgrade to Win10 Pro (at least with win10 pro you can push back auto-installation -unlike win10Home). Windows is scrambling to patch the Intel/AMD nonsense (so a firmware update by you helps integrate the MS’s patches -most of the time, lol, May 2018 had many BIOS roll-backs). Spectre/Meltdown are messy beasts!! Or, as the previous user suggested, change your OS. Cute cat btw. Adorable

Flash my what now? Ah, my basic input output system thing. Danger Will Robinson!

I'd buy a new computer first.
Ditch the Edge program (The U2 guy too) and go Firefox.

 

[QWERTY Pi]

Flash my what now? Ah, my basic input output system thing. Danger Will Robinson!

I'd buy a new computer first.
Ditch the Edge program (The U2 guy too) and go Firefox.

Yessir! Probably the most important function on any system when you press power “on”. It’s not that hard (but I would encorage anyone considering a BIOS update to do some homework before attempting). Most OEM’s have tools that do it for you, versus literally “flashing” from a USB drive (I prefer the latter, but Id go a Windows application route if it was my first rodeo). Imagine if you have a pretty sweet Intel Skylake, say an i7-6700 4ghz. You’d want to keep that optimal as you prob paid $500 for it as little as 2 years ago. Windows updates alone help, but most will say firmware patches are optimal (even if security isn’t your bag, you don’t want force-fed Windose Updates bricking your machine).

This article is from Jan, but it has an up to date list of each manufacturer’s latest BIOS. Unless you’re throwing down huge $$ for a 9th gen. Intel or a sweet Ryzen, these firmware updates are worth investigating.

Check the link. Keep in mind we’re nowhere near the end of this caching/side-channel/speculative exploit, Spectre and Meltdown story. Arguably, even definitively, the worst hardware exploit ever (not software). Just this week, various news pieces have reported a cpl instances of Meltdown found “in the wild”.

Mostly, firmaware updates help your machine deal with Microstinks update nonsense. Ask Woody!

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ne...updates-for-the-meltdown-and-spectre-patches/

 

[Riick]

My friends at Lenovo don't list my machine as vulnerable & needing BIOS update; guess my i5 processor too bleeping old.
Whew.

 

[QWERTY Pi]

My friends at Lenovo don't list my machine as vulnerable & needing BIOS update; guess my i5 processor too bleeping old.
Whew.

Some of those 6th generation i5’s held up well. I had an i5-5600 on an older machine that I recently souped-up and sold to a friend (reluctantly -great Processor). She was like an old bulldozer. No firmware updates needed for it. Good on you for checking into firmware updates. Maybe 90% of the general public doesn’t know that these Intel/AMD firmare updates are a pretty big deal. Props to yous

 

[Sid Holderly]

Chromebook solves all of this (if any clould "broweser operated" software is relaeased) if only they had a keypad. Of course you can use a usb keypad.
W7 in a virtual box on a linux machine (older i5)got rid of most of the Windows problems.