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General Software Discussion / Re: HashTab - Great little tool ...
« Last post by Carol Haynes on April 24, 2014, 08:15 AM »Thanks - forgotten about this - new version seems OK
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Turn off Automatic updates - there won't be any now since MS turned off the updates except for the malware/scareware nag screen.-Carol Haynes (April 09, 2014, 05:56 AM)
The nag/notification was a part of Windows Update. It was separate from other updates. I think you should be able to just manually deselect it and hide it so that it never shows up in the list again, meanwhile other updates (such as MSE definition updates, etc.) will continue to download.-Deozaan (April 09, 2014, 02:08 PM)
I haven't turned on my XP netbook for a couple of weeks, and now I'm wondering what the best thing to do is. Should I disable the automatic update the next time I turn it on or should I keep installing whatever updates have been or may still be released in the near future?-dr_andus (April 08, 2014, 06:01 PM)
Quick guess (and prob part wrong!) is there are no "mainline" updates, so get whatever you can right up until today-TaoPhoenix (April 08, 2014, 06:34 PM)
Thanks, TaoPhoenix, but I heard someone mention a nag screen. Wasn't that included in yesterday's update? I'd prefer to avoid that one, if I can.-dr_andus (April 09, 2014, 04:27 AM)
Microsoft has basically adopted the ransomware model widely used by criminal hacking groups and increasingly popular with some allegedly legitimate cloud storage firms.
Microsoft will continue to provide support for governments and large institutions willing to pay huge sums to keep large numbers of XP systems safe for the next few years.
So Microsoft will continue to write the necessary patches and provide them to those who can afford to pay their extortion, but it will not provide them to the rest of us, even though it would cost them next to nothing to make them available for download by everyone.
That doing so endangers everyone on the Internet matters not one whit to them.-xtabber (April 08, 2014, 03:11 PM)
Back on-topic, I bought a MBAM license a few years back, not because I wanted/needed the real-time protection, but because I wanted to support them because they have helped me get *metric tons* of crap off of the computers that people have dragged in front of me begging me to fix over the years.-Innuendo (March 15, 2014, 06:39 PM)
That's not exactly fair. You're speaking to the feelings of people on a scale that we can't even know.-wraith808 (February 17, 2014, 08:24 PM)
[...] since Windows 8 was released I have met precisely 1 customer who says they actually like the new interface - everyone else the first thing they say to me is 'how can I get rid of this'.-Carol Haynes (February 17, 2014, 12:34 PM)
in fairness, [I presume] you're dealing with people who are looking for help, i.e. you're [probably] not dealing with people who are coping well with the change (they are out there - look at Josh/Allen/Innuendo/Josh's wife/wraith's son/etc./etc.).
Mind you - even after saying that - I reckon I'd fit well into your customer base-tomos (February 17, 2014, 03:48 PM)
