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Thanks Woody. I just love it when I see this kind of unequivocal statement coming from you, because no one reading it can come back and say they didn’t understand what you where trying to say. I appreciate the warning! I do not want 2004 and will not care if I ever get it in the future.

There must be thousands of people out there like me , who are non technical and who struggle every month to get through the morass which WIN 10 updating has become. We are so dependent upon clear, easy to understand guidance to be able to keep that one aging PC that we own running without breaking down. Because if it does, we just don’t have the expertise to get it back up again. This is why we became members of Ask Woody. We just have no other place to go for good, trustworthy advice, and I for one, follow your advice without question. I have done that on a consistant basis for a couple of years now, and my PC is running pretty well at the moment, with WIN 10 Home vs. 1909, build 18363.836 installed.

The thing that scares me the most about the debacle with WIN 10 vs. 2004 is that it will be forced upon my PC without my permission, and I end up with an unusable box that I will not be able to restore and I will have lost my lifeline to the outside with nothing to replace it. Shame on MS for putting us in such an untenable position.

So what I ask of you, Woody, together with all the magnificent experts who contribute to this site, can you please do your best to find a way for us to be able to lock out a completely unwanted and forced update to 2004 that MS decides to send down the pike and which will probably BSOD my one and only PC, or mess it up so bad that I personally will never be able to overcome the problems. I fear that without such a fix, I, and the thousands of PC owners like me, will be toast, courtesy of MS.

Dell Vostro 270S, Intel Pentium 64 bit processor, 2.00GB Ram 

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cf100 wrote in #125606….Very balanced article with a very good review of the recent updating events for multiple operating systems. Somehow difficult to follow even for those of us “in the know”, I am wondering what would other less informed readers think, especially those who are not among our frequent posters or readers here… 🙂

Well I am one of your less informed readers and have been following this forum since September 2016. This is my first post. I have diligently followed all the Group B recommendations and I can say without reservation and with grateful thanks to you all that without the help provided by all the experts here I would have been totally lost.

But right now this latest debacle with IE patching has me extremely confused. I waited until July 7th to install the June recommended security patches including KB4021558. Now I find it has a double vulnerability with an either/or solution provided. Not being able to print from IE is a non issue for me as I never use it. Firefox is my go to browser.

My primary focus is on keeping my Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1 HP laptop as secure as possible but I have no idea what steps I should take now. It will soon be time to install the July security patches once the Defcon number reaches 3 and this old guy needs some clear direction and soon. I hope someone here has the answer for me. Thanks all.

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