Thanks for the heads up Ted. Don't think it'll help my problem at home, my
ISP just sucks.. (COX) Though for commercial, it does better, but still
has issues.
Fred
On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 12:30 PM, Ted Roche wrote:
> Follow-up: I disabled 802.11ac on the 5 Ghz band on the router and the
> la
Follow-up: I disabled 802.11ac on the 5 Ghz band on the router and the
laptop stabilized. Go ahead, you explain it.
A friend tells me that one of the "features" shipped in this month's
Monthly Update was a re-ordering of the priorities for accessing
protocols on the Wifi, and that might cause prob
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>> Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2017 2:10 PM
>> Subject: Re: [NF] Windows updates August problems?
>>
>> We STILL have about half our machines at work and my personal laptop, that
>> won't reboot properly after some updat
On 2017-08-11 09:21, Ted Roche wrote:
That's what's great about Windows. Make America Reboot Again!
LOL!!!
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On 2017-08-11 09:16, Malcolm Greene wrote:
You guys are making me jealous. I've been supporting my company's five
(all different models) MacBooks since Jan 2014 without a single hiccup
across 4 OS upgrades. No unexpected reboots ... everything pretty much
just works. Very boring :)
Malcolm
RO
From: Fred Taylor
To: ProFox Email List
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2017 2:10 PM
Subject: Re: [NF] Windows updates August problems?
We STILL have about half our machines at work and my personal laptop,
that
won't reboot properly after some updates. Get the black screen with
the
Bragging or complaining?
On 08/11/2017 09:16 AM, Malcolm Greene wrote:
> You guys are making me jealous. I've been supporting my company's five
> (all different models) MacBooks since Jan 2014 without a single hiccup
> across 4 OS upgrades. No unexpected reboots ... everything pretty much
> just w
On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 9:16 AM, Malcolm Greene wrote:
> You guys are making me jealous. I've been supporting my company's five
> (all different models) MacBooks since Jan 2014 without a single hiccup
> across 4 OS upgrades. No unexpected reboots ... everything pretty much
> just works. Very borin
You guys are making me jealous. I've been supporting my company's five
(all different models) MacBooks since Jan 2014 without a single hiccup
across 4 OS upgrades. No unexpected reboots ... everything pretty much
just works. Very boring :)
Malcolm
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On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 8:16 AM, Michael Madigan wrote:
> All I use now is a chromebook logged into a terminal server, but it's not
> without problems.Seems you have to have a computer with few extensions
> loaded to avoid freezing.
Absolutely! Chromebooks rock! I picked up a 15" ASUS with
ndows updates August problems?
We STILL have about half our machines at work and my personal laptop, that
won't reboot properly after some updates. Get the black screen with the
spinning white dots forever. The only common thing between them is they
are all Dells.
Microsoft is really beginn
At 10:30 2017-08-10, Ted Roche wrote:
[snip]
And as a double-bonus, if you had any updates hidden, say because they
corrupted your machine, the cumulative update un-hid them so they get
applied and, *boom*.
How can you not love the company that does this?
I can very easily not love the
At 03:18 2017-08-10, Ted Roche wrote:
On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 8:37 PM, Ken Dibble wrote:
[snip]
> Windows Automatic Updates. Just Say No. (TM)
Yeah, a mixed blessing at its very best. A lot of folks wouldn't
update at all if the machine didn't do it for them, but I'd really
like to wait 48 ho
Likely running enterprise-class package management, with controlled
releases, though, I would hope.
On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 5:02 PM, Stephen Russell wrote:
> The entire IT dept. is on win10 for 3 months now. No problems with updates
> and we get them all the time. Have two home laptops that hav
The entire IT dept. is on win10 for 3 months now. No problems with updates
and we get them all the time. Have two home laptops that have fared well
also. Dell at work, Acer and HP at home.
On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 2:11 PM, Laurie Alvey wrote:
> I have an Acer machine running Windows 10 Home an
I spent about 7 hours on the phone with about 7 to 10 different people at
Microsoft the first time we ran into that. They were more interested in
passing me off to someone else rather than coming up with a solution.
About the 3rd person I had talked to at least gave something that works,
but not i
On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 3:11 PM, Laurie Alvey wrote:
> I have an Acer machine running Windows 10 Home and never had an problems
> with updates. Perhaps the Pro machines are a bit more fussy.
>
Same was true of this box for about two years. Something in this
update. It's russian roulette. It's fin
On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 2:02 PM, Fred Taylor wrote:
> We STILL have about half our machines at work and my personal laptop, that
Ouch! Sorry to hear that!
> Microsoft is really beginning to bug me (more so now then ever!). We have
> been considering ChromeBoxes and remote desktop into a Windows
I have an Acer machine running Windows 10 Home and never had an problems
with updates. Perhaps the Pro machines are a bit more fussy.
Laurie
On 10 August 2017 at 19:13, Ken Dibble wrote:
>
> And as a double-bonus, if you had any updates hidden, say because they
>> corrupted your machine, the cu
And as a double-bonus, if you had any updates hidden, say because they
corrupted your machine, the cumulative update un-hid them so they get
applied and, *boom*.
How can you not love the company that does this?
I DO! I DO love them!
We STILL do not have any Windows 10 machines (and I have te
We STILL have about half our machines at work and my personal laptop, that
won't reboot properly after some updates. Get the black screen with the
spinning white dots forever. The only common thing between them is they
are all Dells.
Microsoft is really beginning to bug me (more so now then ever
On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 8:37 PM, Ken Dibble wrote>
>
> A recent Win 10 update broke the Update History. Could that be why the user
> thinks nothing has been installed?
>
> http://www.computerworld.com/article/3214488/microsoft-windows/windows-10-1607-cumulative-update-kb-4034658-wipes-out-update-hi
"Good morning, IT: Have you tried turning it off and back on again?"
It would be easier, but it takes so long for them to get their
workstations set up, logged in, etc.
On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 6:46 AM, Peter Cushing
wrote:
>
> On 10/08/2017 11:41, Ted Roche wrote:
>>
>>
>> One of our clients cal
On 10/08/2017 11:41, Ted Roche wrote:
One of our clients calls after every second Tuesday complaining the
app fails on startup with an "goDataManager is not an object error"
message, despite the fact that we've told them for 10 years that means
a network share is disconnected, and they should g
On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 3:41 AM, Michael Madigan wrote:
> I would just reboot it again.
>
> Every couple of months I'll get a call on a Wednesday that my software is
> slow, and every time I tell them to reboot the servers and everything is OK.
> I've never seen it ask for another restart befo
On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 8:37 PM, Ken Dibble wrote:
>
> A recent Win 10 update broke the Update History. Could that be why the user
> thinks nothing has been installed?
>
> http://www.computerworld.com/article/3214488/microsoft-windows/windows-10-1607-cumulative-update-kb-4034658-wipes-out-update-hi
On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 8:23 PM, Mike wrote:
> I would roll back the updates individually, then reboot to see if that
> helped.
> CONTROL PANEL
> UPDATE AND SECURITY
> UPDATE HISTORY
> UNINSTALL UPDATES
>
> Look for the most recent "Installed on" and start un-installing.
Sorted on the "Installed O
ir servers on Wednesday, if
it's slow.
From: Ted Roche
To: "profox@leafe.com"
Sent: Wednesday, August 9, 2017 8:14 PM
Subject: [NF] Windows updates August problems?
One of our office workstations has been very unhappy since the
shutdown Tuesday asked to install updat
Later, "Restart Now or Restart Later?" revealed that some of the
recent updates STILL were not successfully installed. Restarted.
Lather, rinse and repeat the above three times.
A recent Win 10 update broke the Update History. Could that be why
the user thinks nothing has been installed?
h
I would roll back the updates individually, then reboot to see if that
helped.
CONTROL PANEL
UPDATE AND SECURITY
UPDATE HISTORY
UNINSTALL UPDATES
Look for the most recent "Installed on" and start un-installing.
Only other idea would be to make sure all the drivers (video, chipset,
NIC, etc) ar
One of our office workstations has been very unhappy since the
shutdown Tuesday asked to install updates.
Dell Precision M6800 Workstation i7 2.80GHz, 16 Gb RAM, dual 1Gb HDDs
Windows 10 Pro Version 1607 (14393.1593)
Got the usual "Updating..." when restarting this morning. And waited,
and waited
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