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Looks like it’s time for me to go ahead and try out the free NTLite v1.3.1.5060 version to create some really striped down custom 1703 ISO media before that happens. Let’s see, under Remove in Components, click Compatibility button in the upper left, uncheck: Core Metro services, Cortana, Microsoft Office, Out-of-box Experience, Printing, Recommended. That way NTLite will let me toss a whole lot of components…yeah let’s see now…whistle a happy tune 🙂
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Gee that takes all the fun out of playing hide and seek…
Perhaps this will be the new normal for the future where your identity will depend on knowing precisely where and what position you are in. Along with all the other pertinent information such as heartbeat, metabolism, hormone levels–think FitBit on steroids. Oh the nanny state–think full on Person of Interest! Imagine the all the possibilities for apps to constantly monitor and record every second of your miserable life even when you’re off the grid. An advertiser’s dream to be able to precisely gauge your reaction to ads–and when and where best to hit you over the head with them. You’ll just be a rat in the maze for them to manipulate. Then there’s the potential for AIs to mimic all this too since you’ll be so predicable–and thus allow predators to get you into trouble you’d never have dreamed of. No where to run or hide. Completely vulnerable. You’ll be so stressed-out and those nightmares won’t let you sleep either. Just imagine the neuroses you’ll develop–and the chance for treatments for them to be sold to you. Naturally for the most unlucky few(?) their details will be splashed across the networks–and the opportunity for Experian to sell you a service to notify you when that happens. Just think–you won’t have to update Facebook page–it will be done for you–your whole life will be on display, play-by-play. As the crescendo builds, are you really wound-up tight now? Remember what you’re opting into whether you like it or not.
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Just today there was this:
Microsoft: 500M Windows 10 devices, half of 2018 goal
SEATTLE (AP) — Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella says a half billion devices are now running Windows 10, its latest operating system. That’s up from 400 million disclosed last September, but far short of a goal of 1 billion by 2018.
Five days ago there was also this:
Windows 10 now has over 300 million daily active users
Microsoft’s CVP of Windows of Devices Group Yusuf Medhi just shared a more accurate metric in a recent interview with Bloomberg Tech:
“Windows 10 has been doing great. It’s been many months since we reported we had over 400 million monthly active users. 300 million+ use it every day for 3 and a half hours. It’s the fastest adoption in corporation we’ve ever seen, and we’re seeing great deployment on that. We couldn’t be more thrilled with the progress on Windows.”
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I wish that I would get as much detail as you – “EyesOnWindows” – get. Are you on Win10, Win10 Pro or Win10 Enterprise or something else?
I’m running Windows 10 Pro (just changed my signature to reflect that).
From the Start Menu, in the lower left, choose
Settings (Gear icon) > Update & security > Windows Update
then click on “Update history”.
I just typed in the first three entries as shown above. The last entry should have started with “Update for” (my typo).The 30 last entries in mine are (one of latest patch opera sagas):
Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version 1607 for x64-based Systems (KB4015438) Failed to install on 4/8/2017
Running “WMIC qfe list” in a command prompt lists only the last installation KB3150513 on 5/5/2017.
I see other patches KB3176936 installed on 8/23/2016 thru KB4015217 installed on 4/12/2017 suggesting that the earliest version of this patch predates 8/23/2016.Opening %windir%\WindowsUpdate.log shows:
Please run the Get-WindowsUpdateLog PowerShell command to convert ETW traces into a readable WindowsUpdate.log.
When I do that I get WindowsUpdate.log written to the Desktop. Among other things it only contains those last three entries for KB3150513, nothing older.
Here I’ve hacked the contents of that log down to the essentials for KB3176936:
2017/04/22 http://au.download.windowsupdate.com/c/msdownload/update/software/updt/2017/04/windows10.0-kb3150513-x64-express_407fcd84879fed4cd904b9a234aaf3f0433f2b14.cab 2017/04/22 CBS package identity: Package_for_KB3150513~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~10.0.1.8 2017/05/01 http://au.download.windowsupdate.com/c/msdownload/update/software/updt/2017/05/windows10.0-kb3150513-x64-express_d956cd1711d244b95779db4dc23d9db56e8af8ee.cab 2017/05/01 CBS package identity: Package_for_KB3150513~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~10.0.1.9 2017/05/05 http://au.download.windowsupdate.com/c/msdownload/update/software/updt/2017/05/windows10.0-kb3150513-x64-express_4a1a135808f1594c6010c58d325fc0e3fae85e9a.cab 2017/05/05 CBS package identity: Package_for_KB3150513~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~10.0.1.10
As you can see the last three entries correspond to versions 8, 9 and 10 of KB3150513.
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I might try uninstalling the ‘device’ in Device Manager, but I think that will cause an error in Device Manager (missing driver), so will probably just leave it uninstalled until Intell and or Dell come up with a BIOS fix, although, since this is a rather old system, Dell might not ever come up with a new BIOS for it.
On my systems I solved the “missing driver” driver problem (on Windows 10) with the the null driver offered by Windows Update in Windows 7. Here’s a link to that file: 4892_ad61ee225535c6e58fcb15a5bb92f778f1a1c606.cab.
The particulars of the contents of the cabinet file and the info file itself are:
11/09/2011 02:40 AM 7,077 mgmt.cat
11/04/2011 09:48 PM 1,261 MGMT_4.inf;Null Driver for Intel(R) Management Engine Interface
[Manufacturer]
%ProviderName%=ManagementDriver,NTamd64.6.1,NTx86.6.1[ManagementDriver.NTamd64.6.1]
%DeviceName%=ManagementDriver64_61_Install,PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2E17
%DeviceName%=ManagementDriver64_61_Install,PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_3B67
%DeviceName%=ManagementDriver64_61_Install,PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2E14[ManagementDriver.NTx86.6.1]
%DeviceName%=ManagementDriver32_61_Install,PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2E17
%DeviceName%=ManagementDriver32_61_Install,PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_3B67
%DeviceName%=ManagementDriver32_61_Install,PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2E14Of course it only installs if your hardware matches what is shown here.
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This campaign to lock Windows 10 onto new hardware is aimed squarely at the entrenched enterprises which will continue to put Windows 7 (since they have volume licenses) on any new systems they purchase and then turn around and continue to buy extended support contracts well beyond the EOL date all the while refusing to buy into Windows 10. Doing that is what will cost Microsoft money in terms of unrecoverable support overhead costs and future sales. So what Microsoft is doing attempts to force those enterprises to stop doing that and leave Windows 10 on those new systems and in so doing bring older systems along.
Companys can and certainly do ignore what Microsoft has to say when it come to what OS they must use. Many enterprises have equipment rolled out to the factory floor running custom software that would rather fight than switch. Others simply don’t see any profit in retooling and then having to retrain their employees. As an extreme example of a current situation, I have had a grocery store employee tell me that their self-checkout kiosk systems display the Windows 95 logo when they boot up. Somehow I would not be surprised to find out that those might be 16-bit systems connected by serial cables.
What is perceived as “fud” (fear, uncertainty, distrust) in relationship to Microsoft by experimentalist Windows 7 users is just an unfortunate side effect of this campaign. In Microsoft’s view such users are just an insignificant nuisance to be utterly disregarded–you can be certain that Microsoft is not bothering to go out of its way to do this to them. Those users are not a source of income, just fodder for testing and advertising like all the other users. We’ve certainly come along way from where people camped out overnight and waited in long lines to buy Windows 95 and then end up spend even more on Microsoft’s various Office products!
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Well if you look at the Desktop Top Operating System Share Trend you might be forgiven if you concluded that–statistically speaking–the situation has flat-lined for the past year with Windows 7 at 50% and Windows 10 at 25%.
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I had downloaded the Win10_1703_English_x64.iso and installed it three weeks ago on my test system (same specs as my primary system) on which I had just put 1607. I encountered no problems installing and running it on the old system which was modern seven years ago. Playing around with Paint3D, I found that it doesn’t save in any useful format and so I had to use 3D builder to do that. Ho-hum, nothing new under the sun from my point of view. After simply uninstalling and turning off what 1703 allowed me to, for all intents and purposes 1703 looked no different to me than 1607. If I was into 3D printing, I certainly wouldn’t be using Paint3D and 3DBuilder as my go to software, so I have to wonder what all the fuss is about? I mean, can’t Microsoft just update their subsystems separately the way they always used to? If the .Net Framework could go from 4.5 to 4.6 back on Windows 7, why can’t that and UWP things continue to be done separately in Windows 10? Why would any of that necessitate kernel level API changes? What makes it necessary to change all of this software at the same time? Are Microsoft’s managers and engineers so desperate for relevance in the waning days of the Windows that they resort to this to get attention to avoid getting canned too? Anyway, for right now anyway, I’m treating the Creators Update like a dog treats a fireplug… 🙂
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Beware: I had my WU service disabled in Services and before that, it was set to never check for updates and yet, yesterday I saw that WU had re-enabled itself. It changed it’s setting from disabled to Automatic (Delayed) and had started itself and I never use that “Delayed” setting ever for anything. It doesn’t appear to have installed anything and I’m not sure what could have triggered it, but it happened. Make sure you keep checking on it every now and then.
This is remarkably similar to what Noel Carboni encountered:
It CAN happen. I’ve personally seen it happen.
This year, for example, at the time I installed TurboTax on my Windows 8.1 workstation I shortly thereafter found unexpected entries in my firewall log that showed Windows Update had been started – even though I had set it to Disabled – and was trying to contact Microsoft (it failed, because I also reconfigure my firewall to disallow updates).
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Nah, it’s just the Microsoft elephant-bear mutation tossing and turning in bed with your system. You can hear it rattling your disk filling it with useless nonsense, eating your time and space while you try valiantly to get your work done in spite of it. Careful that you aren’t crushed as it slowly pushes you into the cloud and completely takes over your system. Try not to loose too much sleep over it…you will be assimilated!
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Cocoa Banana…
And if you just want to download the Windows 10 ISO file, set your browser to a non-windows agent and start here. For example, in Firefox you can create a new string in a new tab opened to about:config named general.useragent.override and set it to migaVoyager/3.2 (AmigaOS/MC680x0).
The that brings you to the Download Windows 10 Disc Image (ISO File) web page which has this interesting message:
“Mac customers using Boot Camp: Instead of performing a new install of Creators Update, download and install Windows 10 Anniversary Update ISO. Then install the Creators Update via the normal Windows update process. For more details click here.”
The Select edition gives these options for the Creators or Anniversary Update:
<i>Select edition v</i> [b]Windows 10 Creators Update[/b] Windows 10 Windows 10 N Windows 10 Single Language [b]Windows 10 Anniversary Update[/b] Windows 10 Windows 10 N Windows 10 Single Language
For the English plain Windows 10 Creators Update the 64-bit and 32-bit ISO files have these properties:
Filename: Win10_1703_English_x64.iso Last-Modified: Sun, 19 Mar 2017 04:04:23 GMT Content-Length: 4334315520 MD5: effccfda8a8dcf0b91bb3878702ae2d8 SHA-1: ce8005a659e8df7fe9b080352cb1c313c3e9adce Filename: Win10_1703_English_x32.iso Last-Modified: Sun, 19 Mar 2017 00:27:42 GMT Content-Length: 3232196608 MD5: e6c8bd404dd95a286b3b3ef3a90e2cb34 SHA-1: 1af7b5b5914b718c3f2f6e58907f51c36f8a03c1
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Have you ever examined the web page programming used to access your eMail via your web browser in detail?
Only to the point of killing off the advertising that’s shown in the right panel so that I could block the noise. Naturally it has to be blinking, scrolling or running a video. It certainly drew my attention alright, but not in the way they’d wanted. My attention was focused like a knife to stopping from it from ever running again. I later found that the notification and help button display in the right panel too which hides it, however I have no reason to restore access to these advertising hosts that I had blocked as a result:
127.0.0.1 ad.doubleclick.net 127.0.0.1 ol.at.atwola.com 127.0.0.1 secure.adnxs.com 127.0.0.1 secure-lax.adnxs.com 127.0.0.1 choices.truste.com 127.0.0.1 choices-or.truste.com 127.0.0.1 secure-ds.serving-sys.com 127.0.0.1 tps10244.doubleverify.com 127.0.0.1 sb.scorecardresearch.com 127.0.0.1 ad.turn.com 127.0.0.1 r.turn.com 127.0.0.1 images.taboola.com 127.0.0.1 trc.taboola.com
Otherwise I pay no attention to what Microsoft does on its Outlook Mail web page. Since they are handling the mail already I simply assume it’s in the public domain and don’t expect it to be secure.
I use the safe senders list to filter out junk mail from my Inbox. So junk mail always goes into the Junk Mail folder where it’s easy to spot and where it never gets opened at all. BTW, Outlook Mail does not run scripts or display images from a message which is opened in the Junk Mail folder. Glancing at the titles tells me right away that it’s junk mail and so I just clear the entire Junk Mail folder. If I’m curious about a message, I use the message source option to examine it.
Personally, I find all this advertising bizarre. On TV, I just use it as a signal to get up and walk away, look out the window, etc. If I want to, I’ll have fun looking at the background or see how it’s constructed. To me it’s just sign that someone is spending a whole lot of money trying to sell a product–the cost of which is rarely mentioned–but definitely has that advertising cost built into it. It most certainly does not cause me to want to have it–a behavior which the advertisers are apparently attempting to foster.HP Compaq 6000 Pro SFF PC / Windows 10 Pro / 22H2
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