Posts by nweightman

Windows 10 Pro Anniversary Update tweaked to stop you disabling app promos

I have windows 10 pro running on my much older Acer 6920G and it runs without problems. I am concerned that a forced update and changes in the policies that I certainly use to stop certain things from being installed is changed, then I might jump ship over to the Linux platform. I already use a Linux server for most of my stuff already, it wouldn't be too much of a change moving over to it completely. Microsoft I feel is going too far in forcing things on people who do not want them regardless of the OS being issued free of charge as an upgrade.

Surface Book nightmare: Microsoft won't fix 'Sleep of Death' bug

Its not just Surface Book

The problem in question i don't think is just on the surface laptop. I have an Acer laptop which i did a full upgrade on and after going to sleep for a few hours, the bug seems to affect my system - but slightly differently. It causes the system to actually lock the screen every hour - at first it was a little annoying, but in task manager I just kill anything with Lock at the beginning as well as killing off RuntimeBroker - this stops the problem from occurring during that session. After a full reboot the problem doesn't occur but always happens after its been sleeping for any amount of time.

Firefox update fixes zero-day JavaScript flaw

Annoyed at Firefox

I tried the 3.5.1 and it crashed when i tried to access a password form online, i did a system restore to go back to 3.5. Then the pesky thing installed itself without giving me the option to cancel it and had the same problems as before but as the system had only just rebooted it also caused Rocketdock to have an illegal error too - not sure if there is a connection with that though.

So i had to restore once again and finally switched off all updates - i think that did the trick - I'll keep this copy until they can get it right.

We shouldn't really complain though being the application is free - but then again, we do deserve a good working browser from them if they are intent on taking on Microsoft. I shall hold off until 2.5.5 is perhaps ready lol