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    • Cousinjack
      AskWoody Lounger
      January 22, 2021 at 8:58 am in reply to: This should be the best patching experience #2336664

      Should of followed Woody’s advice and got a Chromebook 🙂

    • Cousinjack
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      January 15, 2021 at 8:49 am in reply to: Attention partners Microsoft really is coming for your clients this time #2334577

      Interesting to see if they try this in the EU

      1 user thanked author for this post.
      Microfix
    • Cousinjack
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      October 4, 2020 at 9:01 am in reply to: Patch Lady – what would you change about Windows 10? #2300922

      I have that error as well

    • Cousinjack
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      September 30, 2020 at 1:23 pm in reply to: Patch Lady – why are you running Windows 7? #2300144

      I have 3 machines running 7 unpatch since December 2017 (when the january patch borked old cpus), I have had great stability since then, the risk on line is not that high with good internet hygiene, AV and a correctly configured browser.  When these machines go down to fatigue, I will dual boot Mint and Win10, Win10 will be there for the odd game dev (Epic) that doesn’t support non-MS gaming on PC.  If you back up there is nothing on a  PC that is irreplacable, why get rid of something that works very well.

      4 users thanked author for this post.
      GarthP, Kranium, Myst, Microfix
    • Cousinjack
      AskWoody Lounger
      January 16, 2019 at 12:21 pm in reply to: Patch Lady – Windows 7 documentation is showing it’s age #312193

      And me.  I haven’t been patch my win7 machines since October 2017, no problems so far.

    • Cousinjack
      AskWoody Lounger
      March 29, 2018 at 12:53 pm in reply to: Cloud is in, desktop is uh …. well? #178996

      ‘Having a deep sense of customers’ unmet and unarticulated needs must drive our innovation’

      Our customers don’t know what they want, we will tell them what they want and if they don’t like what we provide they are wrong and not ‘modern’

      Total of 24 users thanked author for this post. Here are last 20 listed.
      Microfix, rc primak, ve2mrx, Rock, OscarCP, HiFlyer, johnf, flackcatcher, Bill C., JohnW, EstherD, wdburt1, Cybertooth, lurks about, Great Lake Bunyip, FakeNinja, samak, Steve, Sessh, David F
    • Cousinjack
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      March 3, 2018 at 8:34 am in reply to: Keizer: Windows 10 shows sign of enterprise upgrading #171950

      I’m dual booting Linux Mint and Win 7, on the basis that Mint will be my main world facing OS and Win7 for some old apps, cannot face Win 10 and the update cycle that imposes.

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      Microfix, Bill C., AJNorth, Ascaris, johnf, Elly, Cybertooth
    • Cousinjack
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      March 2, 2018 at 6:52 am in reply to: Microsoft “helps” Intel by releasing KB 4090007, a Spectre 2 firmware update for Win10 1709, Skylake processors only #171658

      Lost any faith in MS, sticking with Group W, there are no exploits in the wild

    • Cousinjack
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      February 25, 2018 at 4:50 am in reply to: Weird hibernation state on reboot attributed to Win7 patches #170228

      Group W since December 2017 patches, no problems, fixing spectre/meltdown seems to more malware than the non-existent malware

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    • Cousinjack
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      February 5, 2018 at 12:10 pm in reply to: MS-DEFCON 3: Lots of caveats, but it’s time to get patched #164890

      Skipping, as I’m not sure what the actual performance hit will be on old hardware running 7. Going to get a test rig for linux distros in the next couple of weeks

    • Cousinjack
      AskWoody Lounger
      January 24, 2018 at 12:56 pm in reply to: Did you install the latest Meltdown/Spectre BIOS/UEFI firmware update? Joke’s on you #161862

      Group W here I come

    • Cousinjack
      AskWoody Lounger
      January 19, 2018 at 12:42 pm in reply to: Yet another massive release of patches, re-patches, re-grouped patches, and a few explanations #160476

      Is there any substantive data on the impact of the meltdown and spectre patches on pre6 series CPUs; need to decided if I’m ploughing my own furrow or not

    • Cousinjack
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      January 12, 2018 at 12:17 pm in reply to: Intel admits that its Meltdown/Spectre firmware patches trigger reboots on Haswell and Broadwell computers #158844

      I have 3rd, 4th and 6th generation CPUs on my Win7 rigs.  The OEMs/component manufactuers do not appear to be commonly supporting hardware configurations that are more than 3 years old, and there is certainly no reliable information on the patch impact on older hardware. So it seems to me that those of us with older set ups need to act like its 2020, switch off up dates and apply commonsense security controls going forward.

      Personally I think this fiasco is detrimental to IT in general, and pushing people to ‘safer’ thin client, smart phone and console options.  For microsoft are CEOs going to commit to going to the cloud with there core customer and commercial data when every week there are new vulnerabilities in hardware and software

      Old rigs are on their own from here on out.

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      SueW, Jan K., AJNorth, wdburt1, Bill C., Noel Carboni, HiFlyer, rontpxz81
    • Cousinjack
      AskWoody Lounger
      October 21, 2017 at 8:05 am in reply to: New directions for Win 7 and 8.1 patching #139563

      This is really depressing. There seems to be no clear way forward, options

      1/ accept MS domination and move to 10, be a beta tester and be data mined

      2/ learn new OS, some linux flavour and have limited access to programmes/games

      3/ Give up and star at an android pad

      This is meant to be progress.

       

    • Cousinjack
      AskWoody Lounger
      March 23, 2017 at 1:52 pm in reply to: A crisis looms for Win7 and 8.1 customers with recently-built computers #103790

      Built a machine last year with i5-6600k, is it going to have an issue.

      Seems that MS is determined to p off power users

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