Sorry. To Lloyd, not Floyd! Brad On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 4:35 PM Brad Rehm <bradr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Helpful comments, Rick, and thanks to Floyd too. My XYL's computer never > has to run Flex software, but all of mine do. So I'll keep the canary for > the time being. My friend's computer doesn't run Flex software, and his > was definitely affected by the update. It's interesting that we now have > to use third party software to bring back the W7 desktop. Ah well... > > Brad KV5V > > On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 4:22 PM Richard (Rick) Karlquist < > rich...@karlquist.com> wrote: > >> >> >> On 8/14/2020 1:26 PM, Brad Rehm wrote: >> > Phil, >> > >> > I've turned off updates for the maximum allowed 35 days on Pat's and my >> > computers but not on my new laptop. I use it occasionally to access my >> > Flex, so it will be my "canary in the coal mine" for future updates. >> For >> > now, if it survives the next couple weeks, I'll allow the other updates >> to >> >> Regarding Flex: that is a special case. I have numerous W10 computers >> on auto update. The updates have never broken the OS or any ordinary >> applications. They have only ever broken Flex, who admits they don't >> know how to completely fix the audio and CAT drivers, and they say that >> have gotten no help from MS or the 3rd party that supplies the drivers. >> The Flex is not a good canary because it can be knocked out by updates >> that do nothing to other computers that are not running Flex. >> >> Rick N6RK >> > _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector