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No issues here – WSUS running on Server 2016 with Windows 7 Pro and 10 Pro (1803) clients, most with MSI-based Office 2016 installed. Everything is syncing properly.

Just checking – you’re specifying your exclusion option after the source and destination, correct? For example:  robocopy c:\ d:\ /xf command.*

But by declaring ISPs to be *common carriers* same as the Post Office, let’s say, the now defunct rules would have put on them a clear responsibility to give assistance in cases of dire emergency, and do so without delay.

You keep saying this…

Who is going to repay the ISPs for the billions/trillions of private dollars they’ve invested in their infrastructure?

Who’s going to make the stockholders and bondholders (which include, of course, a ton of already over-exposed and under-funded public pension funds) whole for their loss of private income?

I suppose you could take the Maduro approach and just declare that all these privately-owned companies are now public property.

Btw, what sort of completely inhuman drone doesn’t slap their own credit card down and demand an immediate bandwidth increase in this sort of situation?

Your colleagues’ lives are/were on the line, and you did nothing except whine about it?

There are always ways to make things happen if you’re willing to go beyond the call.

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satrow, Kirsty

Somebody wanted a cheaper deal – they didn’t want to actually PAY for the privilege of the bandwidth they would need in an emergency.

Well, this is what happens. People die, houses are burned, and expenses go through the roof.

Who’s at fault? Whoever signed that limited bandwidth contract on behalf of the fire department.

When your local 911 board procures too little bandwidth to handle an emergency, why should it be anyone else’s fault when the lines are jammed?

Would you rather have internet providers be like old-school public utilities? Sure, you say… until you pay HUGE taxes and receive sub-DSL speeds in return.

Some of us are old enough to remember how that particular monopolistic environment actually works. The younger folk think they’ll get all the benefits of private investment with some sort of public-funded “free” pricetag.

Nothing is free. Not even for the firefighters. Not for you and me.

Emergency coverage is expensive, no matter what business you’re in.

FYI, the release version of Sumatra PDF hasn’t been patched since a vulnerability in the OpenJPEG codec (included/embedded in Sumatra) was patched 09/28/2016.

Pre-release versions exist which contain the patched codecs or you can build your own.

Don’t trust it just because it’s written by someone other than Adobe.

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AlexEiffel, Geo

Buy a Windows XP disc on ebay, then repair the MBR.

Copying an MBR from a different disk isn’t going to work unless the partition table is exactly the same.

Not sure whether to trust these folks or not, but there’s an XP iso for download here.

I’m on the latest build and I’m not seeing issues with “Run as Administrator.”

It’s there for Desktop shortcuts, and it’s under the “More” submenu when you right-click on individual items on the Start menu.

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rkm1

If you don’t setup online access to your financial accounts, someone else will. All the information needed to do so is available at low cost to those who will profit by using it.

Plant your flag now, even if you’ll never use the access.

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Bill C., Kirsty, HiFlyer

According to Microsoft, “Semi-annual Channel (Targeted)” is just the newly-renamed Current Branch (CB), which means you get slammed with updates as soon as MS deems it appropriate.

“Semi-annual NOT (Targeted)” is the newly-renamed Current Branch for Business (CBB), which should give you the usual ability to delay those updates.

Maybe that wasn’t what you were asking?

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HiFlyer

Not that anyone should like Norton Safe Web, but one could make the point that links to anything on microsoft.com really are phishing links…

… especially links to the Windows Update Catalog.

🙂

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HiFlyer

Cybertooth wrote:

Wow, I am overwhelmed at the avalanche of responses. 🙂 No one, really?

Hmm… Vista?

Wasn’t that kind of like Windows ME for the Core 2 Duo?

🙂

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Cybertooth

Cybertooth wrote:

The “Windows PC” region in the chart cannot be correct. Windows 1.0 wasn’t released until late in 1985, yet the chart would suggest that in the previous year almost 50% of computers were already shipping with Windows. And in any case, Windows didn’t take off commercially until 1990 with version 3.0. Starting the curve in 1986 or 1990 would shatter the illusion of symmetry before/after the iMac’s introduction. The chart might work if one includes DOS systems as “Windows” machines, but of course Windows is a very different computing paradigm from DOS.

IMO, “WindowsPC” should be replaced with “x86” as that’s what the chart actually displays.

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Cybertooth

wdburt1 wrote:

But this little chart is mostly a product of the arbitrary assumption that smartphones and PCs belong in the same category. How many smartphone users, much less those who buy “smart” refrigerators, etc. actually think they are doing “computing” on those devices? The fact that Microsoft attempted to colonize these devices doesn’t mean that it was a valid concept or strategy.

Agreed.

If we’re going to include phones in this chart, why are we excluding countless other devices? What about vehicles (most have more processing power and storage than anything on the left side of the chart), routers, all IoT devices, etc.?

The chart looks like what usually happens when you start with your conclusion, then back-fill the presentation of data to support it.

My phone does not do what my PCs do; I also have trouble stuffing a 17″ laptop into my pants pockets. Both types of devices serve different purposes, and neither will likely replace the other anytime soon.

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Updates installed – new build: 17134.48