Anyone done this yet? It seems to be well into the gigabytes. Bout 4 GB so far + who knows how much more, and just 49% done. I don’t seem to be able to stop it happening. Internet connections gets interrupted, and the bloody thing starts again.

Wondered what was chewing my download quota something chronic. Worked out it was this bloody Anniversary update. It’s failed 4 times so far, and up to 11 GB in 3 days of my 30GB monthly quota.

FMD….. Only just got the new NBN satellite up to 30GB quota. Old quota was just 2GB a month and $5 a GB after that…………………………

Thanks for the update on the update. It ought to be possible to block all Windows 10 updates easily by putting the computer in “roaming” mode.

It’s only a month since I figured out how to block Windows 7 updates, which is a more difficult task.

Update = Malware.

Woodie said:

Anyone done this yet? It seems to be well into the gigabytes. Bout 4 GB so far + who knows how much more, and just 49% done. I don’t seem to be able to stop it happening. Internet connections gets interrupted, and the bloody thing starts again.

Wondered what was chewing my download quota something chronic. Worked out it was this bloody Anniversary update. It’s failed 4 times so far, and up to 11 GB in 3 days of my 30GB monthly quota.

FMD….. Only just got the new NBN satellite up to 30GB quota. Old quota was just 2GB a month and $5 a GB after that…………………………

It’s only doing it to Swan supporters.

I have another title for this recent cartoon. I call it “The why of Windows updates”

http://xkcd.com/1739/

It did this puter a couple of days ago, it moved a whole lot of stuff around, made life unnecessarily difficult.

• Bout 4 GB so far + who knows how much more, and just 49% done.

I believe you can answer that with the numbers available…

furious said:

• Bout 4 GB so far + who knows how much more, and just 49% done.

I believe you can answer that with the numbers available…

Not when it decides to start again.

Woodie said:

furious said:

• Bout 4 GB so far + who knows how much more, and just 49% done.

I believe you can answer that with the numbers available…

Not when it decides to start again.

I don’t use Windows, so don’t worry about updates, but why are the updates bigger than the software’s original size? Why not just reinstall the whole OS?

FMD again….. 53% now. That’s 6% in 20 mins. On a 25 MB connection. That means it’ll finish sometime in my 80s.

Resource monitor tells me it’s coming down at 1.5 mbps.

sibeen said:

It’s only doing it to Swan supporters.

Yeah…. it’s working about as well as them Swannies played.

Woodie said:

sibeen said:

It’s only doing it to Swan supporters.

Yeah…. it’s working about as well as them Swannies played.

beaten like a red-headed stepchild…

death to Windows 10.

that pissy-wissy thing took over an hour on my laptop the other day. One of the guys at worked copped it and his went for 3 hours and then crashed.

Steering clear of 10 this end, still on Windows 8 (I didn’t even let them update to 8.1).

Everything keeping very stable so far. I’ll update when it’s unavoidable and not before.

On one machine it installed without great problem, but made two really annoying changes (that I know of):

Switched default pdf reader to Edge.

I don’t even use Edge for the Internet, let alone reading pdfs.

It did something to my printer settings so I couldn’t save as pdf from Office, and it couldn’t find my network printer, until I reinstalled the printer driver.

On the other one it got stuck at 32%, so I switched off. It then re-instated the old Windows 10 (taking about another hour to do that).

BTW, in case this hasn’t been said already, there is a setting you can set somewhere that will stop the upgrades.

Your search engine of choice will have details.

The Rev Dodgson said:

BTW, in case this hasn’t been said already, there is a setting you can set somewhere that will stop the upgrades.

Your search engine of choice will have details.

I set 8 to stop automatic updates some time ago, even though it’s been aching to install 10 for me.

• BTW, in case this hasn’t been said already, there is a setting you can set somewhere that will stop the upgrades.

Ubuntu always asks…twice…

Woodie said:

Anyone done this yet? It seems to be well into the gigabytes. Bout 4 GB so far + who knows how much more, and just 49% done. I don’t seem to be able to stop it happening. Internet connections gets interrupted, and the bloody thing starts again.

Wondered what was chewing my download quota something chronic. Worked out it was this bloody Anniversary update. It’s failed 4 times so far, and up to 11 GB in 3 days of my 30GB monthly quota.

FMD….. Only just got the new NBN satellite up to 30GB quota. Old quota was just 2GB a month and $5 a GB after that…………………………

It’s failed 4 times so far, and up to 11 GB in 3 days

So is anyone liable for that?

CrazyNeutrino said:

It’s failed 4 times so far, and up to 11 GB in 3 days

So is anyone liable for that?

At some stage you must have clicked “Agree”.

Bubblecar said:

CrazyNeutrino said:

It’s failed 4 times so far, and up to 11 GB in 3 days

So is anyone liable for that?

At some stage you must have clicked “Agree”.

I think multiple failed downloads should be liable, why should anyone have to agree to failed multiple downloads?

the liability should be just the returned gigabytes or any loss because of multiple downloads

• So is anyone liable for that?

Yeah, you…

furious said:

• So is anyone liable for that?

Yeah, you…

People should consider charging businesses fees for being a Customer

• People should consider charging businesses fees for being a Customer

Or you could take your business elsewhere…

furious said:

• People should consider charging businesses fees for being a Customer

Or you could take your business elsewhere…

Or start a competitive business….

• Or start a competitive business….

Yeah, good luck with that…

furious said:

• Or start a competitive business….

Yeah, good luck with that…

Yeah, have to careful with thugs around…

I think this was what happened here a week or so back. Mr buffy had to re install the printer driver. But it also moved the “off” button. I was the first one after the update to want to turn the computer off, and I had to search around the screen to find it. Not far from where it was, but moved and differently “symbolated”.
Mr buffy says we have heaps of gigs anyway, but I’ve suggested he check usage.

Worked fine here, downloaded, restarted a few times, good to go…

Woodie said:

Anyone done this yet? It seems to be well into the gigabytes. Bout 4 GB so far + who knows how much more, and just 49% done. I don’t seem to be able to stop it happening. Internet connections gets interrupted, and the bloody thing starts again.

Wondered what was chewing my download quota something chronic. Worked out it was this bloody Anniversary update. It’s failed 4 times so far, and up to 11 GB in 3 days of my 30GB monthly quota.

FMD….. Only just got the new NBN satellite up to 30GB quota. Old quota was just 2GB a month and $5 a GB after that…………………………

Worked OK here but one restart was 1½ coffees long.

3.9 GB and 7 GB overall with retries. 2.30 am it finished.

Woodie said:

3.9 GB and 7 GB overall with retries. 2.30 am it finished.

Happy Anniversary :)

Woodie said:

3.9 GB and 7 GB overall with retries. 2.30 am it finished.

—-

I hope you don’t let cortana into your life.

Woodie said:

3.9 GB and 7 GB overall with retries. 2.30 am it finished.

kill them and then burn them with fire!

11.4 GB in just 5 days so far this month. The whole of June just gone? 1.7 GB.

When it’s your anniversary……………………….. be prepared!

Woodie said:

11.4 GB in just 5 days so far this month. The whole of June just gone? 1.7 GB.

When it’s your anniversary……………………….. be prepared!

Any idea what all that GB consists of?

Bubblecar said:

Woodie said:

11.4 GB in just 5 days so far this month. The whole of June just gone? 1.7 GB.

When it’s your anniversary……………………….. be prepared!

Any idea what all that GB consists of?

0’s and 1’s most likely.

ChrispenEvan said:

Bubblecar said:

Woodie said:

11.4 GB in just 5 days so far this month. The whole of June just gone? 1.7 GB.

When it’s your anniversary……………………….. be prepared!

Any idea what all that GB consists of?

0’s and 1’s most likely.

Billions of that shit on your machine already, don’t know what they think they’re going to achieve.

;)

Bubblecar said:

Woodie said:

11.4 GB in just 5 days so far this month. The whole of June just gone? 1.7 GB.

When it’s your anniversary……………………….. be prepared!

Any idea what all that GB consists of?

It don’t tell you when it starts to download the update. Just goes like shit. Speed tests up the creek.. websites go wonky…. So wadda ya do? Pull the plug and start again. So it starts again. It also don’t tell you it’s downloading when you turn it off. What happens when you turn it back on the next day? It starts again…….. and again…….. and again.

Ya know, my ISP helpdesk told me to unplug the cable to the satellite dish, touch the end to release any static build up, as a possible solution. Say wah???? It still takes 45 mins or so to connect when you turn it on. A problem which is unrealted to downloading WIndows updates. That has been the case since it was installed in June. No timeframe for a fix.

Until WTF is going on here……. and it took me an hour to work it out.

Woodie said:

Bubblecar said:

Woodie said:

11.4 GB in just 5 days so far this month. The whole of June just gone? 1.7 GB.

When it’s your anniversary……………………….. be prepared!

Any idea what all that GB consists of?

It don’t tell you when it starts to download the update. Just goes like shit. Speed tests up the creek.. websites go wonky…. So wadda ya do? Pull the plug and start again. So it starts again. It also don’t tell you it’s downloading when you turn it off. What happens when you turn it back on the next day? It starts again…….. and again…….. and again.

Ya know, my ISP helpdesk told me to unplug the cable to the satellite dish, touch the end to release any static build up, as a possible solution. Say wah???? It still takes 45 mins or so to connect when you turn it on. A problem which is unrealted to downloading WIndows updates. That has been the case since it was installed in June. No timeframe for a fix.

Until WTF is going on here……. and it took me an hour to work it out.

It is a bit ridiculous that something as basic as the OS assumes that everyone on the planet has high speed broadband. Someone tell them they’re dreaming.