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Yes “defer quality updates” in Pro for 30 days (which I usually set after Pausing).
After every monthly ‘Woody approved’ update I just unpause, roll the 30 days back to 0 and let it update without pressing Check for Updates. Then I Pause again, then roll the pause delay up to the 30 day max and that’s that. This time on monday Sept 9, I went to unpause and it was already unpaused on it’s own, but the 30 day still showed 30 days. My last updates were August 3, so I figured maybe you were right it just unpaused on it’s own, but it didn’t 0 the delay it was still set at 30 days. I never got the second batch of August updates only the ones on Aug 3 I deliberately went for.
Would it block them if the 30 days delay was set but not Pause? All this time I’ve assumed I need both to be safe. It was from Aug 3 to Sept 9, so it was 37 days. But if Pause was off all that time and yet delay was still set to 30 days it makes no sense I didn’t get the 2nd Cum updates and the delay didn’t ‘0’ out once the 30 days from the 3rd elapsed.
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Ha, you’re right the gap was over 30 days, just never went that long before. Thanks, b!
Curious, the 30 day “dial” was still set to 30 days, wouldn’t that “zero” out when Pause was turned off automatically?
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This seems to be a long standing issue for a few folks but unrelated to the search issue, except for being in the realm of “annoying things Windows 10 arbitrarily does”.
On this note, I am 1803 on metered and somehow when I’ve allowed Defender to update on metered it switched my Pause Updates to Don’t Pause Updates completely arbitrarily, so to get the August Cum. updates I had to press the dreaded “Check for Updates”. Which happily didn’t force me (phew), but still only ‘Recommends’ I upgrade to 1903. I have never had Defender switch anything on the general Updates settings before. I expect anything from Windows now having had a ton of glitches with every friggin version of 10 I’ve had, but that honestly caught me off guard. I hadn’t checked Updates since I turned on Pause (for 30 days) last month so I cant say which time that occurred, only sometime in the last month of the few times of deliberately allowing Defender to update on metered. Course now I second guess myself that it was me who messed up even though I only go to Updates once a month… Stockholm Syndrome for Windows 10 users.
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Well sure it’s a cute video and thanks, interns, for all the enthusiastic effort you gave to it “outside of our day job”. Some news for youngsters, when you’re on Corporate salary there is no “outside of our day job”, it’s a 24 hr commitment, so your salary covers the effort, I know it sucks but there it is.
This pretty well confirms my suspicions about what Microsoft has become, more a version of “some cult that’s always in the news but shall not be named for legal reasons”, than simply a Corporation. I’ve been with big corporations and I get loyalty and commitment demands (and what the reality ends up being like), but this video is absolutely over the top for a so called spontaneous effort.
But you know, “yay” for Microsoft Corporate getting the very newest drones to adore you to the point of embarrassment immediately upon their acquisition.
Now can you please fix your management structure for deploying desktop Windows so that your paying customers can feel the same? It’s been a long few years since I felt anything like love for Microsoft as a licensed user and one time computer business owner.
But with kids as enthusiastic as this about the Corporate Dogma, there will be no customer concerns, only happiness forever.
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Notebook fans are troublesome, they are often inaccessible and prone to accumulating even more debris than your typical computer case fan. If you can get access, simply blowing the dust out with compressed air is a good quick fix for some noise. But I’ve found many notebook fans are often inaccessible even for a blowout unless you want to disassemble the entire machine.
I had a close call with one noisy fan problem and it wasn’t dust that caused it. A Dell Inspiron notebook circa 2008 owned a very rattly fan pretty well right out of the box, and accessing the fan was a partial disassembly aggravation I didn’t want. I found a fix on the internet that implied removing one screw that held the fan on one side might resolve it, and sure enough with just the front speaker grill taken off for access, removing that one accessible fan screw (loosening wasn’t enough) stopped the rattling with no ill effect- it still runs rattle free and cools effectively 10 years later (5 years of Vista and 5 years of Ubuntu). Apparently the assembly process was overzealous in tightening that screw and warping the fan housing making the rattle, but removing the one screw didn’t unseat the fan at all. Thanks to the tech who figured that one out and posted the solution!
I’ll add that for any notebook fan, you might want to run a core temperature monitoring app to check your fan’s effectiveness, noisy or not. Windows and Linux have versions.
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As if it weren’t confusing enough trying to decide which upgrade to install, now that my 1709 is running out of time and I had hoped 1809 would actually get the SAC blessing, I’m again left wondering what to do. Microsoft saying that they “recommend” 1809 but at the same time avoiding calling it SAC doesn’t instill confidence in the product. On top of it’s tarnished reputation.
Frankly, the twice yearly upgrades are exhausting. Since mid 2017 running Windows 10 I’ve had several clean reinstalls required simply to fix upgrade issues (some issues with drivers were never resolved) not counting the half dozen other people I’ve helped who also required clean reinstalls. In 7 years using Windows 7 I only required clean reinstalls when I installed a new motherboard or bought a new system, never from installing Service Packs, and that’s on a dozen different machines over the 7 years between me and my associates I helped with installs.
It’s now to the point where upgrading Windows 10 is far more disruptive than running and upgrading Linux with all it’s geeky idiosyncrasies. With this latest Windows 10 confusion, I’ll be pulling my 1709 system off the internet completely when MS starts to force upgrading to 1809/1903 and run Linux only on an internet facing system. I’ll see how Windows 10 evolves over 2019 before I go with another upgrade.
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Thanks Woody, for the Plus Membership!
And thanks to Everyone who participates!
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