01-08-2017, 08:48 AM
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I usually have a go, I'll seek advice cnet and wiki how help but often they say press this or that and my page looks nothing like they describe
so I have a nice guy in the village knows how to fix most things, he also explains things in a way I can understand which is quite a feat 
I have to say since I got my iPad I've had so few problems he thought id moved
My husband still believes a laptop is better but has been having problems lately and Microsoft no longer supports his os. He loves his windows 7 so struggles on. I'm trying to persuade him an iPad might free him from his troubles
01-08-2017, 03:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Longdogs
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The majority of Windows updates are unnecessary but unfortunately they won't let you pick and choose. They disguise their updates as critical but they are not. Just another way of infiltrating your system and changing your settings to suit their needs.
I have disabled Windows Updates and, despite not having installed any 'critical' updates, my computer is still running perfectly.
As has been said, if Microsoft would allow us the permission to choose which of its updates we want, I'd re-enable it. Unfortunately, they think they know best and feel they have the right to take control of our computers - that we paid for, including the software!
01-08-2017, 04:38 PM
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Originally Posted by JBR
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I agree.I have disabled Windows Updates and, despite not having installed any 'critical' updates, my computer is still running perfectly.
As has been said, if Microsoft would allow us the permission to choose which of its updates we want, I'd re-enable it. Unfortunately, they think they know best and feel they have the right to take control of our computers - that we paid for, including the software!
Many users will not have had any kind of hit by the time a given fix (update) is released. However, I am confident that, when an update is presented, Microsoft will have had enough incidents to make spending money on that update important.
That's the way it works. i.e. incidents come flying in the the support Centres, incidents are analysed, fixes are constructed, everyone with the right features gets the update. Then that incident is boxed and they start to look at the next one.
Your own PC is probably not taking the hits because of the software/hardware and the amount of actual usage.
But, one day, you might install something new and the hits could then swarm in.
01-08-2017, 05:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Purwell
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I have allowed Microsoft to install all updates and bugger me, my computer is working perfectly well.
01-08-2017, 05:38 PM
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Originally Posted by longdogs
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that's because you computer doesn't have to deal with anything larger than one sentence.
01-08-2017, 08:28 PM
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I've had lots of help from people on here and am very grateful for that. What would be seriously good, would be for you techie types to decide on a maintenance routine which every computer user should follow: essential basics........like virus protector etc. Basic definitions - describe a firewall!!! Then a routine which people can use to keep their computers running.........a bit like oiling the lock on the shed door!! Would be truly handy.
PS - Need the same thing for an iphone!!!
01-08-2017, 09:15 PM
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Originally Posted by OldGreyFox
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Allowing updates is responsible for more computer problems than any other cause.......
Well the reality is, that most puter users just want to store photos, write stuff on facebook, twitter and Over Fifties Forum, pay bills and do some online shopping....They want to be able to boot up their machines and find it just like they left it without having to keep referring to the manual to discover what's gone wrong.
Their machines are probably a few years old when a one gigabyte ram would fulfil their wildest dreams. Operating systems are most likely Vista, Windows Seven or Eight and were not designed to download vast amounts of data that the latest machines can now handle with ease.
So it's hardly surprising that an older system get's screwed up big time when unlimited fixes for this problem or that problem, which didn't even exist before accepting an update.
So if your system does not encounter problems after allowing updates it boils down to three things. (1) Either you are lucky (2) You know quite a bit about computers or (3) You have all the latest gear. And as for the source of my observation, you only have to read through some of the numerous posts on this forum, and other sites just like it, not to mention friends and family who approach me on a weekly basis wondering why they no longer are able to perform tasks on their computers that they once could.....
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