1903 finally

On 05/07/2019 01:29, lonelydad wrote:
[I also image the C:\ drive to a WD Passport just because I'm paranoid.]

And idiot of course. We have people here who spends all their time
backing up their hard disks. then they come here to cry about not
getting any time to do anything useful on their Windows 10 machine.

With windows 10 there is no need to backup the OS and your data should
be in the cloud and let Microsoft or google take care of it. They are
more reliable then your unlimited backups from which you won't even know
how to retrieve your important data files.




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In article ,
lid says...
The disadvantage of doing it that way ("wait for Windows Update"),
is that the Upgrade can come at an inconvenient time. That's why I
tend to do them with local media and get the job done when
I have time to do it.

There are horror stories of folks waiting to board a
flight when MS swooped in and took over. "Don't turn off
your computer" is really bad advice at a moment like that!

While the installer has "awesome" rollback capability, it's
still a good idea to do a backup before you start the Upgrade.

I cannot endorse that enough.

In article XnsAA827C3822BCClonelydad58gmailcom@
69.16.179.29, says...
so I'm in no hurry
to force the issue.

I sure don't blame you! MS pestered me endlessly.

I read somewhere recently that MS has been working to
improve the installation process. Might that be a response
to the number of people for whom it failed? MS boasts of
gigantic numbers of Win 10 installations, but that also
means that if 1 or 2 percent cannot upgrade it's a huge
deal...

???? Good Guy ???? wrote:
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On 05/07/2019 01:29, lonelydad wrote:
[I also image the C:\ drive to a WD Passport just because I'm paranoid.]

And idiot of course. We have people here who spends all their time
backing up their hard disks. then they come here to cry about not
getting any time to do anything useful on their Windows 10 machine.

With windows 10 there is no need to backup the OS and your data should
be in the cloud and let Microsoft or google take care of it. They are
more reliable then your unlimited backups from which you won't even know
how to retrieve your important data files.

For me, I don't do online clouds too.
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Jason wrote:
In article ,
lid says...
The disadvantage of doing it that way ("wait for Windows Update"),
is that the Upgrade can come at an inconvenient time. That's why I
tend to do them with local media and get the job done when
I have time to do it.

There are horror stories of folks waiting to board a
flight when MS swooped in and took over. "Don't turn off
your computer" is really bad advice at a moment like that!

While the installer has "awesome" rollback capability, it's
still a good idea to do a backup before you start the Upgrade.

I cannot endorse that enough.

Ditto. Something can go wrong even if it's not from MS.
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On Thu, 04 Jul 2019 17:01:16 -0400, Paul
wrote:

Dan wrote:

I have a macrium boot CD is that I made when I installed it on my
desktop. I am testing Win 10 pro 64 1809 on my laptop to see if the
Win update process really works flawlessly. When will 1903 become
available in Win update?

It's "loaded and ready for bear".

If there is no USB storage plugged in, you could
get it at any time. You might see a "prompt" in the
Windows Update window, announcing an Upgrade is available,
even if they don't use the most appropriate terminology.
(I've seen another message, besides the one below.)

The installer will become more aggressive, one month
before the end of the 1903 era.

Find a web page describing the current upgrade policy
(aggressiveness). Apparently they're not supposed to be
pushing the upgrade as hard this time. But I did manage
to get 1903 triggered on one setup here which was
running 1809. Check your Windows Update window and
see what it says.

https://images.idgesg.net/images/art...2885-large.jpg

( https://www.pcworld.com/article/3387...ease-date.html )

I don't like the PCWorld web pages, as they have a
metric ton of Javascript advertising code on them and
jam up the machine. I could barely type until I closed
the browser...

Paul

Cheers Paul.

Ant wrote:
???? Good Guy ???? wrote:
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On 05/07/2019 01:29, lonelydad wrote:
[I also image the C:\ drive to a WD Passport just because I'm paranoid.]

And idiot of course. We have people here who spends all their time
backing up their hard disks. then they come here to cry about not
getting any time to do anything useful on their Windows 10 machine.

With windows 10 there is no need to backup the OS and your data should
be in the cloud and let Microsoft or google take care of it. They are
more reliable then your unlimited backups from which you won't even know
how to retrieve your important data files.

For me, I don't do online clouds too.

It's pretty obvious after last weeks cluster of failures
of Cloud, how much trust a business should put in the Internet.

This won't improve until DNS and routing are fixed.
And that's not ever going to happen... Unless
there's an appropriate-sized "meltdown".

Last week was an attempt at a demo from the
cyber pest industry (nation state flavor).

Paul

On 06/07/2019 11:20, Ant wrote:
For me, I don't do online clouds too.

Backups are the themes of these newsgroups. Read all the posts and
everybody talks about backups. click a mouse, then do a backup!! finish
sending one post, then do a backup!!

It is all about backups! backups! backups! backups! backups!
backups! backups! backups! backups! backups!



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NT (Ant) wrote in
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???? Good Guy ???? wrote:
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On 05/07/2019 01:29, lonelydad wrote:
[I also image the C:\ drive to a WD Passport just because I'm
paranoid.]

And idiot of course. We have people here who spends all their time
backing up their hard disks. then they come here to cry about not
getting any time to do anything useful on their Windows 10 machine.

With windows 10 there is no need to backup the OS and your data
should be in the cloud and let Microsoft or google take care of it.
They are more reliable then your unlimited backups from which you
won't even know how to retrieve your important data files.

For me, I don't do online clouds too.

While you are certainly entitled to your opinion, calling me an idiot
just tells my that you are one of those people unwilling to accept any
other path than what you feel is 'right'.

With only 500kb uplink speed (yeah, I'm on a tight budger) backing up
several terabytes of data to the cloud is not an option. And I am not
'constantly' backing up my system. Once a week is more than adequate. And
as far as restoring backups go, I am an IT professional that has been
doing things like that longer than you have probably been alive.

lonelydad wrote:
NT (Ant) wrote in
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???? Good Guy ???? wrote:
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On 05/07/2019 01:29, lonelydad wrote:
[I also image the C:\ drive to a WD Passport just because I'm
paranoid.]

And idiot of course. We have people here who spends all their time
backing up their hard disks. then they come here to cry about not
getting any time to do anything useful on their Windows 10 machine.

With windows 10 there is no need to backup the OS and your data
should be in the cloud and let Microsoft or google take care of it.
They are more reliable then your unlimited backups from which you
won't even know how to retrieve your important data files.

For me, I don't do online clouds too.

While you are certainly entitled to your opinion, calling me an idiot

I think your response was directed at 'Good Guy', but you replied to
Ant's post.

just tells my that you are one of those people unwilling to accept any
other path than what you feel is 'right'.

With only 500kb uplink speed (yeah, I'm on a tight budger) backing up
several terabytes of data to the cloud is not an option. And I am not
'constantly' backing up my system. Once a week is more than adequate. And
as far as restoring backups go, I am an IT professional that has been
doing things like that longer than you have probably been alive.

???? Good Guy ???? wrote:

Backups are the themes of these newsgroups. Read all the posts and
everybody talks about backups. click a mouse, then do a backup!! finish
sending one post, then do a backup!!

It is all about backups! backups! backups! backups! backups!
backups! backups! backups! backups! backups!

In case anyone didn't read what Good Guy said earlier:
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lonelydad wrote:
NT (Ant) wrote in
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???? Good Guy ???? wrote:
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On 05/07/2019 01:29, lonelydad wrote:
[I also image the C:\ drive to a WD Passport just because I'm
paranoid.]

And idiot of course. We have people here who spends all their
time backing up their hard disks. then they come here to cry
about not getting any time to do anything useful on their Windows
10 machine.

With windows 10 there is no need to backup the OS and your data
should be in the cloud and let Microsoft or google take care of
it. They are more reliable then your unlimited backups from which
you won't even know how to retrieve your important data files.

For me, I don't do online clouds too.

While you are certainly entitled to your opinion, calling me an idiot

I think your response was directed at 'Good Guy', but you replied to
Ant's post.

just tells my that you are one of those people unwilling to accept
any other path than what you feel is 'right'.

With only 500kb uplink speed (yeah, I'm on a tight budger) backing up
several terabytes of data to the cloud is not an option. And I am not
'constantly' backing up my system. Once a week is more than adequate.
And as far as restoring backups go, I am an IT professional that has
been doing things like that longer than you have probably been alive.


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