rcraven wrote:Please don't take offense, but I don't understand the need to run at the 'bleeding edge' when you have music to write and perform.
Can't you turn off automatic updates in Win10?
After spending so much time getting Win7 64 to run well I am loathed to update when I see the constant stream of problems others are having.
I know a new PC comes with this thing installed, but it shouldn't take much to drop it back to an older version and turn off the updates.
It seems that over the past 35 years as the PC speeds up, MS does their best to slow it down.
Have you ever run one of the better older Win versions on a modern fast computer? It works pretty well.
I swore I wouldn't ever waste so much time on an OS again unless there is a good reason.
Is there an advantage that I don't understand?
All the best
Royce
Been using Windows since 3.1, and I've NEVER endured an 'update' this 'intrusive'. In the past we always got information on updates before implementing them, and had control over when and if they got applied. One could easily lock down or delay updates. We could read what was coming down the pipe-line and 'prepare' for whatever changes might be in order. We could easily make and maintain multiple system drive images in case one needed to 'roll back' a week or so to avoid missing a work deadline. In the past, MS also did a much better job of 'importing' user settings from previous versions (or at least letting us know up front what might need to be 'redone' manually before accepting the update). We did NOT get any of this for this so called 'Anniversary' update. It simply went out and got whatever it needed in the background, and decided to install it on its own...at Microsoft's soul discretion.
With the 'Home' version...user control of updates doesn't seem to be an option any longer (at least not by default, without sordid and undocumented registry hacks, or potentially dangerous undocumented suspension of OS services)! Things were working fine on last Friday. This Monday morning I turned on the PC, and it went through an hour long grinding and rebooting process that just took over and pretty much did a fresh Windows installation that wiped drivers, system and network settings, and the list goes on! Even had I rolled back to an earlier image of Windows 10 via Dual Booting...it would have also begun to 'update itself'...thus corrupting my 'backup system drive image'.
Windows 10 Home edition doesn't have many advanced switches for getting control of the update process. Things may be a little different for the Professional version. In the past we didn't need the Pro version for an isolated DAW workstation in a home studio. I suppose things are different now.
I've Windows 10 Home here. I tried the free upgrade from Windows 7 for months on a fresh disk and things went really well! While there were a few things I missed from Windows 7, Windows 10 was more efficient and offered enough changes to the desktop to make me want to keep it (very nice multiple desktop management). Just when I was really getting comfortable with it, and had gained a pretty solid 'trust' in MS to manage it's update system (up to this point small updates had been coming in monthly, and they were always 'security patches' for the better [Fortunately I have AMD graphics so I didn't suffer the problem of broken NVIDIA drivers that kept being forced on folks with multiple screens]) this happened. I'm sure the updates are for the better in the long run, and once I reinstall every app, and get 'my settings' back in order performance and security will most likely be much better. Yes, I do still have a Windows 7 image, but it's at least a year old now (hasn't been used in all this time)....that old Windows 7 image goes way back to Cubase 7, Finale 2012, Sibelius 7.5, etc. I probably would not be able to open the projects I need NOW on it even if I tried.
I'm just a bit upset that I couldn't control and prepare for it all! It was jammed down my throat at a very inconvenient time! It took down system drivers without asking me! It overwrote network and firewall settings without asking me! It broke the registration process of nearly every Music app I have (especially those that use a hardware dongle)!