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  #31  
Old October 9th 19, 06:22 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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On 10/8/19 8:10 PM, VanguardLH wrote:
T wrote:

In an ideal world, he do a Clonezilla every week. Not going to
happen.


Why does the /customer/ have to run a backup (every day would be
better)? That should be scheduled. Anyone who relies on remembering to
save an image backup before a large change is setup to forget to do that
task beforehand, and even small changes can have a large impact.

Backups should be schedule and not require ANY user intervention.


The specialty software is set to do an automatic backup
at shutdown. I just now have it configured to make a
duplicate on a second disk. This is the only software
he runs, so he will be fine.
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  #32  
Old October 9th 19, 08:57 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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On Tue, 8 Oct 2019 18:09:43 -0700, T wrote:

When I moved from a SATA rotating HD to a fast NVME SSD, major Windows
10 updates went from 3 hours to less than 20 minutes. Windows updates
are no longer designed with rotating hard drives in mind.


You were lucky you original mechanical drive was GPT
formatted and booting off of EUFI when you cloned.

Or you started over.

Starting over is a good ting with Windows. It dumps
a lot of trash and bugs.



I started over.


  #33  
Old October 9th 19, 10:25 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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On 10/9/19 12:57 AM, Ralph Fox wrote:
On Tue, 8 Oct 2019 18:09:43 -0700, T wrote:

When I moved from a SATA rotating HD to a fast NVME SSD, major Windows
10 updates went from 3 hours to less than 20 minutes. Windows updates
are no longer designed with rotating hard drives in mind.


You were lucky you original mechanical drive was GPT
formatted and booting off of EUFI when you cloned.

Or you started over.

Starting over is a good ting with Windows. It dumps
a lot of trash and bugs.



I started over.



:-)

That is the way I do mine ever new build. I wipe and reinstall. (I
don't use W10 for anything other than
research, so it is easy.)
  #34  
Old October 9th 19, 11:04 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Kenny McCormack
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In article , T wrote:
....
WinBlows (in its current incarnation) is just a really, really bad choice to
run Point-of-Sale software on.


I think that's really the bottom line. It's not suitable for any purpose
other than watching Netflix and/or Hulu.

That's all we use it for.

Everything else is either Linux or usable (earlier) versions of Windows.

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  #35  
Old October 9th 19, 11:30 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Kenny McCormack
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In article ,
Kenny McCormack wrote:
In article , T wrote:
...
WinBlows (in its current incarnation) is just a really, really bad choice to
run Point-of-Sale software on.


I think that's really the bottom line. It's not suitable for any purpose
other than watching Netflix and/or Hulu.

That's all we use it for.

Everything else is either Linux or usable (earlier) versions of Windows.


I should add that the defenders of WinBlows 10 (e.g., on these newsgroups)
are getting to be almost Trumpian in nature. The lengths they are willing
to go to, and the contortions they are willing to twist themselves into, in
order to defend it, have gone from comic to downright tragic as of late.

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  #36  
Old October 9th 19, 12:27 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Paul[_32_]
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Default flipped power off during an update

Kenny McCormack wrote:
In article ,
Kenny McCormack wrote:
In article , T wrote:
...
WinBlows (in its current incarnation) is just a really, really bad choice to
run Point-of-Sale software on.

I think that's really the bottom line. It's not suitable for any purpose
other than watching Netflix and/or Hulu.

That's all we use it for.

Everything else is either Linux or usable (earlier) versions of Windows.


I should add that the defenders of WinBlows 10 (e.g., on these newsgroups)
are getting to be almost Trumpian in nature. The lengths they are willing
to go to, and the contortions they are willing to twist themselves into, in
order to defend it, have gone from comic to downright tragic as of late.


There are a couple buttons you can click, to control updates.

One provides a delay of seven days.

By arranging that button press, with respect
to your work week, you might just arrange to
not be pestered during the work week.

Do I like this idea ? Of users having no control ?
Of course not.

But, there's a button.

Since this article was last updated before 1903, you might
search around for another page which is more up-to-date.

https://www.ghacks.net/2018/09/27/ho...in-windows-10/

This should be a bit better. The same guy owns both sites.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/...dows-10-a.html

Paul
  #37  
Old October 9th 19, 12:32 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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On 10/9/19 3:04 AM, Kenny McCormack wrote:
It's not suitable for any purpose
other than watching Netflix


Netflix is working here under Fedora 30 and
firefox-69.0.1-3.fc30.x86_64

Don't know about Hulu

I too use Windows 7 for must use Windows programs.
Currently that is Go To Assist and nothing else.
(I hassle them about it frequently.) Everything
else is Fedora or Wine under Fedora.

  #38  
Old October 9th 19, 12:39 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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On 10/9/19 4:27 AM, Paul wrote:
Kenny McCormack wrote:
In article ,
Kenny McCormack wrote:
In article , TÂ* wrote:
...
WinBlows (in its current incarnation) is just a really, really bad
choice to
run Point-of-Sale software on.
I think that's really the bottom line.Â* It's not suitable for any
purpose
other than watching Netflix and/or Hulu.

That's all we use it for.

Everything else is either Linux or usable (earlier) versions of Windows.


I should add that the defenders of WinBlows 10 (e.g., on these
newsgroups)
are getting to be almost Trumpian in nature.Â* The lengths they are
willing
to go to, and the contortions they are willing to twist themselves
into, in
order to defend it, have gone from comic to downright tragic as of late.


There are a couple buttons you can click, to control updates.

One provides a delay of seven days.

By arranging that button press, with respect
to your work week, you might just arrange to
not be pestered during the work week.

Do I like this idea ? Of users having no control ?
Of course not.

But, there's a button.

Since this article was last updated before 1903, you might
search around for another page which is more up-to-date.

https://www.ghacks.net/2018/09/27/ho...in-windows-10/


This should be a bit better. The same guy owns both sites.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/...dows-10-a.html


Â*Â* Paul


I just turn the damned thing off. When I want to do updates, I
can turn it back on temporarily.

But mostly, I leave it off. And when a new build comes out,
I wipe and install fresh.

I am waiting on Windows 7 to discontinue updates, then I
will update it one last time. (Love virtual machines.
I will back up the disk first.)

I have yet to update Windows Nein (w10) other than
when a new build comes out.

I can not have Windows doing a stupid surprise update
when I need to get Go To Assist running to rescue
a customer. I has to work when I need it, period.


  #39  
Old October 10th 19, 02:15 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Carlos E.R.[_3_]
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On 09/10/2019 12.04, Kenny McCormack wrote:
In article , T wrote:
...
WinBlows (in its current incarnation) is just a really, really bad choice to
run Point-of-Sale software on.


I think that's really the bottom line. It's not suitable for any purpose
other than watching Netflix and/or Hulu.

That's all we use it for.

Everything else is either Linux or usable (earlier) versions of Windows.


Well, you should not use Windows Home for business use. You need at
least the Professional version, and possibly with a Windows Server
controlling it all.

Then you can control when updates are applied. And they can be deployed
centrally. Also you have to hire a professional to handle it all.

It is for business and for us ;-)

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Cheers, Carlos.
  #40  
Old October 10th 19, 02:53 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Kenny McCormack
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Default flipped power off during an update

In article ,
Carlos E.R. wrote:
On 09/10/2019 12.04, Kenny McCormack wrote:
In article , T wrote:
...
WinBlows (in its current incarnation) is just a really, really bad choice to
run Point-of-Sale software on.


I think that's really the bottom line. It's not suitable for any purpose
other than watching Netflix and/or Hulu.

That's all we use it for.

Everything else is either Linux or usable (earlier) versions of Windows.


Well, you should not use Windows 10 for any use whatsoever.
(Other than watching Netflix and/or Hulu)


Fixed it for you.

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