Windows 10 "updates" ......
Like everything else at QMC in 1969-73, very little was actually taught to Aero Eng students - we spent our days copying down notes and trying to work out what the heck it all meant...
Flying Chipmunks at ULAS was much more fun, so my 3 year course became a 4 year course...
...which was about the time computers began to appear. No-one taught us how to use them either.
Even our simple ones! I recall collecting a huge pile of tractor-feed paper when a program didn't work. But the realisation was that this was an excellent source of free scrap paper. Thus every so often I handed over my Fortran cards to the lovely Linda, then came back a few days later to collect my free paper!
Then in 1973 a Thing appeared known as a 'VDU' - like a little TV with a keyboard attached. I avoided computers for the next 12 years until the squadron acquired a BBC Master, on which I taught myself to write programs for interception procedures using co-ordinate geometry and trigonometry, then the revised figures for tanker rendezvous procedures when the SOP overtake and roll-out values were amended. The RAF was going to pay around £25K for Queera to do that - instead they gave me £0.... The RV values are still in use today.
But programming? Someone else can do that as far as I'm concerned. I just want my laptops to run as I need them to. No childish rubbish like that Cortina thing either!
As for Linux, when I was working for a company in Germany, the resident geek started some message and data store thing which ran on that. The MD asked "What is this bloody penguin nonsense?" and we soon reverted back to Windows!
Flying Chipmunks at ULAS was much more fun, so my 3 year course became a 4 year course......which was about the time computers began to appear. No-one taught us how to use them either.
I do remember at Uni the more complex assignments were done by punching a pile of cards and taking them over the the data-processing building to put them in the queue for running.
Then in 1973 a Thing appeared known as a 'VDU' - like a little TV with a keyboard attached. I avoided computers for the next 12 years until the squadron acquired a BBC Master, on which I taught myself to write programs for interception procedures using co-ordinate geometry and trigonometry, then the revised figures for tanker rendezvous procedures when the SOP overtake and roll-out values were amended. The RAF was going to pay around £25K for Queera to do that - instead they gave me £0.... The RV values are still in use today.
But programming? Someone else can do that as far as I'm concerned. I just want my laptops to run as I need them to. No childish rubbish like that Cortina thing either!
As for Linux, when I was working for a company in Germany, the resident geek started some message and data store thing which ran on that. The MD asked "What is this bloody penguin nonsense?" and we soon reverted back to Windows!
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A Canon Problem rather than a W10 one .....
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...5-67c630795159
Last Win 10 update disabled my scanner
I had two scanners and two printers which worked fine with Windows 10 -- until that ghastly update in September, 2016, which disabled almost all of my peripherals, including the scanners and printers. I had to buy a new printer.
After Microsoft hastily issued a fix for that update, my Canon scanner worked again -- until the last update last week. Now Win 10 doesn't recognize the scanner any more. Or should I say again?
I'm getting really tired of MS's arbitrarily disabling my equipment at what seems to be their whim.
Canon has not issued a driver update for whatever happens to be the latest configuration of Win 10, and I can't say I blame them. The point is, the scanner worked fine until MS started "updating". As far as I can tell, they haven't updated anything except my blood pressure.
I'm a small business -- I don't have an IT department with unlimited funds at my disposal. I just want to get my equipment working reliably.
Does anybody have any idea how I can get my scanner working again?
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...5-67c630795159
Last Win 10 update disabled my scanner
I had two scanners and two printers which worked fine with Windows 10 -- until that ghastly update in September, 2016, which disabled almost all of my peripherals, including the scanners and printers. I had to buy a new printer.
After Microsoft hastily issued a fix for that update, my Canon scanner worked again -- until the last update last week. Now Win 10 doesn't recognize the scanner any more. Or should I say again?
I'm getting really tired of MS's arbitrarily disabling my equipment at what seems to be their whim.
Canon has not issued a driver update for whatever happens to be the latest configuration of Win 10, and I can't say I blame them. The point is, the scanner worked fine until MS started "updating". As far as I can tell, they haven't updated anything except my blood pressure.
I'm a small business -- I don't have an IT department with unlimited funds at my disposal. I just want to get my equipment working reliably.
Does anybody have any idea how I can get my scanner working again?
Try vuescan software - we have used this exclusively in place of any manufacturer software/drives for circa 5 years. There is a free trial available.
It seems to cope with the various maginations of Windows, provides much better quality, control and functionality than manufacturer software and supports an unbelievable range of devices.
It seems to cope with the various maginations of Windows, provides much better quality, control and functionality than manufacturer software and supports an unbelievable range of devices.
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Windows updates can be so big that sometimes they seem to arrive as "This time I think we got it right". Sometimes they arrive as "I think we just broke something, sorry but too bad". I guess there is just so much baggage in Windows that it constantly needs the patch treatment constantly.
Not a fan of mandatory updates. Had a battle with the latest Google Chrome on MacOSX to disable it (It's not my preferred browser but it's the only thing that works for reading my ISP usage). Why, when I only use Google Chrome a couple of times a month to check a site I care very little about.
Once you start developing in it you will be converted.
Not a fan of mandatory updates. Had a battle with the latest Google Chrome on MacOSX to disable it (It's not my preferred browser but it's the only thing that works for reading my ISP usage). Why, when I only use Google Chrome a couple of times a month to check a site I care very little about.
still trying to get my head round systemd, but that's MY problem
I gather that there's a 'Spring Creators Update' coming next month....
More childish toys which grown ups neither want nor need, I expect.
Will Office 365 ever include a 'single Inbox' or 'single Deleted Items' option in Outlook? Something users have been asking for in their hundreds. I doubt it; there'll just be more rubbish like 'Cortana', I expect....
More childish toys which grown ups neither want nor need, I expect.
Will Office 365 ever include a 'single Inbox' or 'single Deleted Items' option in Outlook? Something users have been asking for in their hundreds. I doubt it; there'll just be more rubbish like 'Cortana', I expect....
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Another vote for Hamrick's "VueScan"
Buy it once - lifetime licence. Windows, Mac and Linux.
Understands thousands of scanners, some of which so old that you wonder whether anyone is still using 'em. Regular updates for newer hardware as it appears. Brilliant customer service for problems (so I'm told, never had problems).
Interface is functional rather than beautiful and hasn't changed much, but boy do you get a lot of choices when it comes to control over your scanner!
One of really neat things about it is that you can scan multiple pages with PDF output and, if you want, VueScan will just tack the last scan onto the first so you end up with a single multipage PDF.
One of the best and solidest pieces of pieces of software I ever bought - I never bother to install the lousy crapware-infested proprietary software that you get with a new scanner.
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Buy it once - lifetime licence. Windows, Mac and Linux.
Understands thousands of scanners, some of which so old that you wonder whether anyone is still using 'em. Regular updates for newer hardware as it appears. Brilliant customer service for problems (so I'm told, never had problems).
Interface is functional rather than beautiful and hasn't changed much, but boy do you get a lot of choices when it comes to control over your scanner!
One of really neat things about it is that you can scan multiple pages with PDF output and, if you want, VueScan will just tack the last scan onto the first so you end up with a single multipage PDF.
One of the best and solidest pieces of pieces of software I ever bought - I never bother to install the lousy crapware-infested proprietary software that you get with a new scanner.
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FYI
If you start your Windows 10 PC over a wifi connection which you have set up as a "metered" connection (settings-network&internet-wifi- toggle "metered") automatic update is inhibited.
I have to do this all the time with my wee Acer SSHD laptop as it only has a 32 GB SSHD and it cannot buffer a Windows 10 update.
There is probably some geek fix for this but I cannot be arsed. I only use if for cloud-based apps on the go, so it gets the job done, and there is zero data ever on the device so vulnerability is like w/e.
If you start your Windows 10 PC over a wifi connection which you have set up as a "metered" connection (settings-network&internet-wifi- toggle "metered") automatic update is inhibited.
I have to do this all the time with my wee Acer SSHD laptop as it only has a 32 GB SSHD and it cannot buffer a Windows 10 update.
There is probably some geek fix for this but I cannot be arsed. I only use if for cloud-based apps on the go, so it gets the job done, and there is zero data ever on the device so vulnerability is like w/e.
WSUS Offline Update - Update Microsoft Windows and Office without an Internet connection
This is a freeware third party magic update tool for windows.
Of course you need to run non-microsoft sowtware and give it unfettered access to your system !!
You can have all of the files on a USB stick and it whacks the updates in somehow. I can't now recall the size of the update files, 5GB?
Much faster than MS update process and seems to work when the normal update process fails.
It looks a bit complex but the only decision you need to make is which updates to download Win 7/8/10 and 32/64bit. It gets the updates from MS.
You usually need to run the UpdateInstaller.exe more than once. You need to read the output to see if it is asking you to "reboot and recall" and if it does ReBoot and run it again.
Just accept all the defaults and press "Start".
TOFO, your device's SSHD is probably full with redundant Win10 updates. When I first had a small laptop with similar limitations, I couldn't install Office 365 after Win10 had first update itself.
This was fixed by clicking the 'start' icon, then typing 'clean'. This brings up the option of running 'disk clean up'. Click on that and then on the bit which says 'Clean up system files'. When the music stops, you'll probably find several GB of redundant Windows Update stuff which you can delete - it takes a few minutes to run the clean up though.
This was fixed by clicking the 'start' icon, then typing 'clean'. This brings up the option of running 'disk clean up'. Click on that and then on the bit which says 'Clean up system files'. When the music stops, you'll probably find several GB of redundant Windows Update stuff which you can delete - it takes a few minutes to run the clean up though.
