Subj : Re: TON OF UPDATES To : HOLGER GRANHOLM From : TOM WALKER Date : Wed May 09 2018 18:51:14 > SGID: 2:20/228 01470999 > In a message on 04-28-18 Tom Walker said to Daryl Stout: > > GM Tom, > > I'm very glad to see you here again. It's been long since ...... > > > What is going on with Microsoft Windows Update lately?? > > > > In the last 2 days, Windows Update has repeatedly bugged me with a 30 > > KB Quality Service Rollup for Windows 7. If I choose the Install Update, > > Does M$ still really support Windows 7 ? > > > And, in the Control Bar (where you choose to shut down or restart), I > > keep seeing the Windows Update Shield in "Shut Down". I click on that, > > > > It is the same thing each time, and I'm wondering what is going on. > > > > Despite Microsoft's desires, I am NOT upgrading my OS...I'm content > > with Windows 7 32-bit. > > Well, that's your choice. I have never been a friend of Windows but I > don't regret the upgrade from XPpro to Win10pro 32-bit. > > I have jumped all versions between XPpro and Win10pro but I wouldn't > trust Windows to run a (my) BBS. I do every once in a while get the blue > screen telling me "Your PC ran into a problem .......". It's not the PC > that has got a problem but apparently Windows 10. > > >Wise Move on not upgrading to Win 10 > > I got the itch to upgrade when I received a laptop as XMAS gift from my > eldest grandson working in Stockholm, and found Win10 quite usable. > > TW> IT also as it comes in some cases does the same thing. > TW> On the wife's Win 10 machine it keeps downloading an upgrade and > TW> then saying that upgrade not allowed. > TW> I have done multiple tricks from the Internet and nothing has > TW> helped. The roll up Win 10 upgrade still fails. > > So far all the upgrades to my stationary PC as well as the laptop with > Win10pro have worked without a hitch. > > > 73 de Sam, OH0NC > > aka Holger I have tried multiple more tricks form the internet and the wife's machine still refuses to update. something about permissions even though I was logged in as Administrator. > > > .. Mushrooms always grow in damp places... so they look like umbrellas! > -- MR/2 2.30 > > > > --- PCBoard (R) v15.22 (OS/2) 2 > * Origin: Coming to you from the Sunny Aland Islands. (2:20/228) --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.0pr5 * Origin: Fido Since 1991 | QWK by Web | BBS.DOCSPLACE.ORG (1:123/140) .