[Coco] A WARNING about Windows 10 Updates...

[Steve Strowbridge]

I've had a few trials and tribulations with Windows 10, starting with the
Creator's update, then I foolishly opted in for the rapid release program,
which broke VCC, and even after going back to the Stock creator's update,
within less than a month certain drivers stopped working, and I had to nuke
the system and load from scratch again.

That was last weekend, so far, a week later, things are still smooth, it's
not a bad OS, however how it handles drivers and updates are not how I
would prefer, unless you are running a Pro or Enterprise version, you can't
even turn off automatic updates.

I actually teach classes on how to get Microsoft certified, and the
Creator's update wreaked havoc throughout my class, and after certain
updates, Hyper-V, which is their own virtualization technology would
actually lose all it's settings, more than once.

Good times.

I still like the OS and will continue to use it, but yea, it's got plenty
of Microsoft "isms"



Steve Strowbridge, aka
The Original Gamer Stevie Strow
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On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 8:21 PM, David Ladd <davidwladd at gmail.com> wrote:

> James,
>
> That article you posted reminds me of this quote from Star Trek made by
> Scotty:
> Scotty: The more they overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up
> the drain.
>
> ​Never fails does it?
>
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> On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 5:30 PM, James Jones <jejones3141 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > This isn't about updates, at least not recent ones... but it turns out
> that
> > somewhere between Windows 7 and Windows 10, there was a change that
> forces
> > all exiting threads to acquire a lock that only one thread can have at a
> > time, making it a bottleneck for Windows performance. More info here:
> > https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2017/07/09/24-core-cpu-
> > and-i-cant-move-my-mouse/
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 4:10 PM, Steven Hirsch <snhirsch at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, 11 Jul 2017, Joe Schutts via Coco wrote:
> > >
> > > I've been a faithful Windows user since Windows 3.0 and before that DOS
> > >> 3.0. I just discovered a FLAW or BUG in their UPDATE Process and I
> > wanted
> > >> to warn EVERY Windows 10 User out there about it before it ruins their
> > day.
> > >> If you're like me I tweak EVERY setting for optimum setting (making
> > >> everything run faster), the only thing I DO NOT tweak is the Clock
> > Speeds
> > >> of my CPU, I just buy the fastest CPU out there available. Recently I
> > had
> > >> an update preformed and I noticed that my Ethernet Adapter seemed to
> be
> > >> running much slower than normal. I then went into the Device Manager
> and
> > >> checked out the settings. I found out the the JUMBO FRAMES on all my
> > >> Ethernet Adapters had all been changed from 9KB MTU to a new setting
> of
> > >> DISABLED (and therefore slowing down all my Ethernet Adapters). I have
> > yet
> > >> to check out my other settings and am in the process of doing so now.
> My
> > >> advice is for everyone to check out their settings to see IF anything
> > has
> > >> been changed in any negative way. Why MicroSoft did this (or even IF
> > they
> > >> are aware of this, I do not know. But it is something to be aware of
> and
> > >> check out for yourselves.
> > >>
> > >
> > > Is it possible that at some point you were connected to a router or
> other
> > > device that didn't support 9k frames?
> > >
> > >
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