Windows 10 "updates" ......
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From: Oxford
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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From: Mesopotamos
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
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From: Quite near 'An aerodrome somewhere in England'
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....
Last edited by BEagle; 20th March 2018 at 19:37.
Plastic PPRuNer
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From: Rochechouart, France
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.
Mac
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.
Mac
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From: UK
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.
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From: Here
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".
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From: Quite near 'An aerodrome somewhere in England'
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.
