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AskWoody LoungerIf you read the borncity.com article, he’s obviously running it on Intel hardware.
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AskWoody LoungerI 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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AskWoody LoungerHas 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).
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AskWoody LoungerTen-four.
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AskWoody LoungerCouldn’t you modify your ‘robots.txt’ file to disallow indexing of the /forums directory if it’s being an issue? Just a (random) thought…
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AskWoody LoungerFWIW, 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.
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AskWoody LoungerIt may not be malware, but the only $50 “speed up your PC” product I’ve ever seen actually work was a RAM stick…
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AskWoody LoungerDammit.
How am I expected to get any work done now?
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AskWoody LoungerJune 5, 2016 at 11:20 am in reply to: Windows 7 “SP2” convenience update rollup under examination #41403I’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.
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AskWoody LoungerJune 5, 2016 at 11:13 am in reply to: Windows 7 “SP2” convenience update rollup under examination #41402I 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.
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AskWoody LoungerJune 5, 2016 at 5:10 am in reply to: Windows 7 “SP2” convenience update rollup under examination #41395I’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”?
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AskWoody LoungerMarch 2, 2016 at 5:44 pm in reply to: Three obnoxious Win7/8.1 updates return, plus two warmed-over patches, KB 3138612 and 3138615 #46640With 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…
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AskWoody LoungerFebruary 5, 2016 at 6:17 pm in reply to: Microsoft mystery patch KB 3123862 continues to stump the experts. Don’t install it. #47426Shhhh… 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.
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AskWoody LoungerDecember 17, 2015 at 8:08 am in reply to: Is Microsoft switching machines from “Download but let me choose” to “Install updates automatically”? #48260I’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?
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