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If you read the borncity.com article, he’s obviously running it on Intel hardware.

I just re-read the borncity.com article. His Windows Cloud base install was 12.7Gb, 2.5 – 3 times the size of a ChromeOS install. If MS intends this to give ChromeOS competition, especially on low-end eMMC tablets/convertibles, they’re heading the wrong way right off the bat (which really shouldn’t surprise anyone).

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Has anyone said what the install size or system requirements are? I have a small Win8.1 tablet with only 16gb internal storage that utilizes WIMboot (which leaves Windows compressed, and boots and runs from the compressed image on the recovery partition), so this might actually be of interest if the install size is small enough. All this tablet is used for is basic web browsing and Gmail… it’s my “Throne Tablet” (stays in the bathroom, you know what I mean).

Ten-four.

Couldn’t you modify your ‘robots.txt’ file to disallow indexing of the /forums directory if it’s being an issue? Just a (random) thought…

FWIW, I click on (almost) every ad when I browse AskWoody from one of my my tablets or phone. Not sure how much that helps, but there it is.

It may not be malware, but the only $50 “speed up your PC” product I’ve ever seen actually work was a RAM stick…

http://www.remooptimizer.com

Dammit.
How am I expected to get any work done now?
Lawn needs mowing. Gutters need cleaning. Garage needs… OOO! A cluster of green cells ripe for the pickin’!

I’ve never had System Restore actually fix anything. Ever. No, this is a factory reset on a 6 year old Win7 netbook. PITA, but this one’s been having major issues lately. It was either factory reset or full-blown nuke & pave. Decided to try the factory route first.

I probably should have used “WU” instead of “AU”… I haven’t had mine set to “Automatic” since the Vista & early Win7 days. Been relying on Woody’s MS-DEFCON for many a year.

I’m doing a system restore on an older Win7 (pre SP1) netbook. There’s been two service packs and about a bajillion patches issued since the restore image was created and I want to make sure I get all the important stuff without the fluff, here’s what I believe I need to do…

1) Restore Win7 base
2) Install SP1 (KB976932)
3) Manually install KB2670838 and KB2483177
4) Install “SP2”, KB3125574
5) Run AU and install security updates only.

Am I missing anything? Any other prerequisites to the “SP2”?

With fingers crossed, I installed 3138612. My Win7 notebook has been taking 6+ hours to check for updates, and another 4-6 hours to install them (I typically keep my WU set to “Never check for updates” until Woody calls “Defcon3” or better). ‘Course, it’ll be a month or more before I know if 3138612 made any difference or not…

Shhhh… It’s the super secret bomb/patch that finally borks 7 & 8.1 so badly that you have no option except to “upgrade”…

Joking aside, I’m actually expecting M$ to intentionally do just that, sooner or later.

I’m not surprised in the least. Given Microsoft’s well deserved reputation for questionable (at best) ethics/tactics since the introduction of WinX, I can’t fathom why anyone with the slightest grain of computer management competence would have AU set to “download updates but let me choose whether to install them”. Have there been any reports of tampering when Win7/Win8.X AU is set to notify only?