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Messtechniker:

--- Quote from: nigelwright7557 on November 15, 2021, 05:14:42 am ---Since then I unplug the back up drive when installing Windows.

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Have always been doing this and disconnecting all other drives including chip drives
right from the start with Windows 2000, so that there is only one single drive to install to.
To avoid the described messup and prevent Windows from installing
itself on drive H, for example, which some progs cannot handle. :scared:

Berni:

--- Quote from: Messtechniker on November 17, 2021, 06:10:12 am ---
--- Quote from: nigelwright7557 on November 15, 2021, 05:14:42 am ---Since then I unplug the back up drive when installing Windows.

--- End quote ---
Have always been doing this and disconnecting all other drives including chip drives
right from the start with Windows 2000, so that there is only one single drive to install to.
To avoid the described messup and prevent Windows from installing
itself on drive H, for example, which some progs cannot handle. :scared:

--- End quote ---

The drive letters are not actually bound to the drives in the partition tables. So the drive you install it on will likely become the C drive inside that instance of windows, while the old C drive becomes something else. But yeah its more a mater of not nuking all your data, its only in Win7 and newer that if windows is installed on an existing drive the contents of that drive get moved into a "windows.old" folder, however only if you have enough drive space to do so. I do not trust it and move my data off that drive beforehand manually.

This is also why the installer can confuse drives as it only sees it as drive 1 drive 2 drive 3 rather than C D E

VK3DRB:
Today, Microsoft turned all my Outlook setting to a dark grey background when I booted up this morning. I did NOT change that setting before I shut down last night and did not do an update. Microsoft thinks they know what I need. I found out how to change it back. Then I loaded Excel and a message came up like, "We changed some settings for you to make you focus on your work better." What a load of frogshit. I never had problems focussing on my Excel spreadsheets.

We don't think I live in a communist country run by Big Brother with some screwed up ideology, but 1984 is here today. Microsoft seems to know what is good for me because they know better about what I need than I do. Oh, silly me... I repent! I admit I am defective and should turn away from my sin of not following 1 Microsoft Way.

In conclusion, Microsoft can F*** OFF.

Berni:
I recently manually ran a backlog of updates on Win 10.

The result of it was:
- A weather app showed up on my taskbar. I tried the usual way of removing taskbar elements that worked in Win 7, Vista, XP, Win2000, Win98... could not do it. Then when a coworker walked by i randomly asked him how to do it and he shown me the magic hide button under "News" (And he admired it also has takem him a while to find)
- The start menu background is suddenly light blue while before it was dark blue
- Spam notification shown up about setting Edge the default browser
- A what's new tutorial shown up to explain to me 4 exiting new features, guess what feature 3 was.... Alt+Tab shortcut to swap windows
- Possibly more randomly switched settings that i have not noticed so far

Oh and that network shared printer problem that was the reason for me installing updates? Nope still gives same non descriptive error of 0x0000007c when i try to add it. |O

I never had a single problem with sharing a damn printer on Win7

joeqsmith:

--- Quote from: AlfBaz on November 11, 2021, 02:15:03 am ---Ok a bit diva-ish but really wtf?

So I left my pc on overnight to log some important data to work on the next day
I enter the office next morning and instead of a graph populated with measurements I'm facing the login screen

I log in and peruse the event log, Microsoft have decided to install updates and restart the machine, terminating the running measurement program and loosing all of it's valuable data.
The only professional thing about W10 Pro is the professional way in which they ruined my day!

They "virtually" did exactly what the title says albeit remotely

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Our IT department would reset all the PCs during the night to force the updates.  We lost a lot of work because of that department. 

After Windows had forced an update on my PC, I basically blocked all MS addresses at the router.  A few years ago, I was looking at Vivaldi browser and bypassed the router long enough for MS to get their hooks into it.   After their last update, I discovered a few more addresses had been added.  It's been locked ever since.   Obviously not having access to any of MS sites has a down side but for me, it's been worth it.     
 
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