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|    TOM WALKER to HOLGER GRANHOLM    |
|    Re: TON OF UPDATES    |
|    09 May 18 18:51:14    |
      > MSGID: 2:20/228 01470999       > In a message on 04-28-18 Tom Walker said to Daryl Stout:       >        > GM Tom,       >        > I'm very glad to see you here again. It's been long since ......       >        > > What is going on with Microsoft Windows Update lately??       > >        > > In the last 2 days, Windows Update has repeatedly bugged me with a 30       > > KB Quality Service Rollup for Windows 7. If I choose the Install Update,       >        > Does M$ still really support Windows 7 ?       >        > > And, in the Control Bar (where you choose to shut down or restart), I       > > keep seeing the Windows Update Shield in "Shut Down". I click on that,       > >        > > It is the same thing each time, and I'm wondering what is going on.       > >        > > Despite Microsoft's desires, I am NOT upgrading my OS...I'm content       > > with Windows 7 32-bit.       >        > Well, that's your choice. I have never been a friend of Windows but I       > don't regret the upgrade from XPpro to Win10pro 32-bit.       >        > I have jumped all versions between XPpro and Win10pro but I wouldn't       > trust Windows to run a (my) BBS. I do every once in a while get the blue       > screen telling me "Your PC ran into a problem .......". It's not the PC       > that has got a problem but apparently Windows 10.       >        > >Wise Move on not upgrading to Win 10       >        > I got the itch to upgrade when I received a laptop as XMAS gift from my       > eldest grandson working in Stockholm, and found Win10 quite usable.       >        > TW> IT also as it comes in some cases does the same thing.       > TW> On the wife's Win 10 machine it keeps downloading an upgrade and       > TW> then saying that upgrade not allowed.        > TW> I have done multiple tricks from the Internet and nothing has       > TW> helped. The roll up Win 10 upgrade still fails.       >        > So far all the upgrades to my stationary PC as well as the laptop with       > Win10pro have worked without a hitch.       >        >        > 73 de Sam, OH0NC       >        > aka Holger              I have tried multiple more tricks form the internet and the wife's       machine still refuses to update. something about permissions even though       I was logged in as Administrator.       >        >        > .. Mushrooms always grow in damp places... so they look like umbrellas!       > -- MR/2 2.30       >        >        >        > --- PCBoard (R) v15.22 (OS/2) 2       > * Origin: Coming to you from the Sunny Aland Islands. (2:20/228)              --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.0pr5        * Origin: Fido Since 1991 | QWK by Web | BBS.DOCSPLACE.ORG (1:123/140)    |
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