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Post by alpha128 on Oct 9, 2019 11:53:32 GMT
Update from last night on AskWoody.com: Missed the September patches – now what?Posted on October 8th, 2019 at 21:29 woodyJust got a message from an old friend: It’s easy. Don’t do anything. I moved quickly to MS-DEFCON 1 when it became apparent that MS was releasing really buggy patches. Then releasing even buggier fixes to the buggy patches. Then pushing still-buggy fixes to the even buggier patches. Yep, three rounds of patches, all infested with bugs. If you didn’t get the September updates installed, don’t worry about it. There’s absolutely nothing in the September updates that has to be installed right away. That said, there is a significant looming problem. You need to make sure you don’t use Internet Explorer – and you have to disable IE as your default browser. Almost all of you have done that already, but if you haven’t, follow the detailed instructions in Monday’s AskWoody Plus Newsletter, or the original advice here.
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Post by alpha128 on Nov 2, 2019 22:31:52 GMT
Posted on Askwoody.com yesterday: I skipped the September patches, which were then superseded by the October patches. But when I went to actually install them, the October patches had disappeared and the September patches were being offered to me again. I installed the September patches and rebooted. I was then offered a Servicing Stack update which I installed. I was then told I was up-to-date, but I knew Windows Update was lying. I checked for updates and then the October roll-up was found. I installed that, and then I was truly done. All told, I installed the following patches in this order: Security Update KB4516065 NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM 11/2/2019 Security Update KB4474419 NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM 11/2/2019 Security Update KB4516655 NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM 11/2/2019 Security Update KB4519976 NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM 11/2/2019
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Post by mslo79 on Nov 3, 2019 6:41:12 GMT
You basically have two months left of Windows 7. I assume at this point your probably just going to use it till the last second or a bit beyond that point?
p.s. maybe I have mentioned before but I dumped Windows for Linux in Jan 2019 as I can pretty much do what I need to do on Linux be it a small amount of Windows programs (ran through Wine etc) or a small amount of games I used to play on Windows through Wine/Lutris combo as I recently got a game working (i.e. Mafia III (2016)) using Lutris that does not work using a basic Wine installation (it loads up but textures are too dark and missing characters skin textures etc. but with Lutris using a certain option, the game seems to work as expected on what little I tested of it so far), although for that game specifically it only works in windowed mode and not full screen like a typical game is played. but Mafia (2002)/Mafia II (2010) work fine in full screen mode like usual (they are only a small amount of games I replay once in a while and it's nice I don't have to worry about needing Windows now). even on the occasion I have not found a decent alternative to something... I can always run Win10 in a virtual machine (you can just install Windows 10 to it and don't have to worry about activation as without activating you can still use it, just can't tweak certain options on it which is not a big dea for use in a virtual machine) through VirtualBox which is what I use to create a multi-boot USB drive so I can load up multiple bootable ISO's from a single USB stick using. so while it's not realistic for someone does plays plenty of games on Windows to switch to Linux, it's a possibility for some people who play some games here and there. but I did have to manually adjust one setting to get Mafia III working but it was easy enough (I backed up my OS install with Clonezilla prior to testing out that Mafia III stuff so I could restore things if it did not work out or messed up something). although initial setup does require a little bit of figuring out what to do etc.
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