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Perhaps you're right and you just have to keep shutting your laptop down and booting up from cold to prevent Windows problems.. sorry, updates from happening at
by superflyguy 8y ago
Perhaps you're right and you just have to keep shutting your laptop down and booting up from cold to prevent Windows problems.. sorry, updates from happening at the wrong time.
I watched a three hour stream of a professional chess player and youtuber and at the start he's saying "...oh, and I just updated my Windows laptop a few days ago so hopefully it won't start to slow down or apply an update while I'm playing". Amazing - he's playing bullet chess where you typically make each move in a second or so, and hundreds of games like that in a row so even a hint of lag is going to result in him moving the piece to the wrong place, or timing out and losing the tournament and he has to "hope" that his own computer won't decide it knows when to update and/or reboot.
I have no idea how people put up with this shit. It's like an abusive relationship.
- baud147258 8y agoWell, I don't have to put up with it, even if I'm on Windows 10.
- digi_owl 8y agoThose really in the know seems to upgrade to a variant that allows them to go into group policy and curb stomp the auto-update. Others achieve the same via registry modifications...
- baud147258 8y agoOr you block the download of updates via setting the wi-fi as a metered connection.
- digi_owl 8y agoNot sure if that trick works any more in recent updates.
- superflyguy 8y agoYeah I think you're sort of missing the point if you think it's acceptable to have to keep up with this season's registry hacks or hex edit a DLL or whatever so you can play a game or do your job.
- baud147258 8y agoThe thing is, beyond the wi-fi blocking update on my personal PC, I've never had to do anything else and I can't remember a forced reboot in Windows 10.
- baud147258 8y agoI don't know, with this trick I haven't downloaded them. (at least since february)
- megaman22 8y agoIf you can get it, LTSB is your friend.