Windows 7 weirdness

[Harsh Gupta]

Hi,

Yesterday, I turned off Automatic Updates and disabled in Alert center to report the same. (Both these are "Not Recommended" by MS).

The moment I did it and restarted, my system kept crashing. It happened 3-4 times in a row, and happened about 10-15 minutes later after starting the system.

I changed those settings back and voila, no problems at all.

Is it my imagination or did those settings actually affected the system? Anyone else had similar experience?

[baja_yu]

I do that as soon as I install Windows. Personally, I had very bad experiences with Windows updates. Did them a couple of times, and after each, it could no longer boot. After that I only install service packs as they are released.

[Nightwalker83]

Hi,

Yesterday, I turned off Automatic Updates and disabled in Alert center to report the same. (Both these are "Not Recommended" by MS).

The moment I did it and restarted, my system kept crashing. It happened 3-4 times in a row, and happened about 10-15 minutes later after starting the system.

I changed those settings back and voila, no problems at all.

Is it my imagination or did those settings actually affected the system? Anyone else had similar experience?

You could check to see if anything error was written in the Windows error log.

[Lord Orwell]

I do that as soon as I install Windows. Personally, I had very bad experiences with Windows updates. Did them a couple of times, and after each, it could no longer boot. After that I only install service packs as they are released.

that's funny. I just had to reinstall xp on my acer aspire one because sp3 broke it.

[FireXtol]

Well, Windows 7 is fairly new, and was quite rushed to make up for the 'folly' that was/is Vista. I'm sure it still needs more testing/debugging.

I personally prefer Vista to 7, but I'm old school and still run Windows 2000. And no, I really do not care that my OS is effectively end of life in MS eyes. I have yet to find a more reliable version of Windows, and I have tried them all.

Plus I find the DRM in post-2000 Windows highly undesirable. This is my computer -not Microsoft's. Their evermore buggy software should not be 'making decisions' about whether to run or not on my computer. Just like I'd never buy anything from Sony, Amazon, Apple, Intel, Walmart, and including encrypted/DRMed DVDs/BD/etc, or any other software or hardware that intends to rely on "access control" technologies. I refuse to support monopolies.

I'd really like if the slogan "defective by design" caught on rather than DRM. Ultimately DRM in all forms boils down to anti-competitive practices. It's unethical, amoral, and hurts everyone who buys into it while helping absolutely no one. It doesn't even help the businesses who are (or attempting) locking you into their platform/technologies, as independent analysis has proven time and time again.

Windows became dominant largely due to the ability to freely copy the software(even pirate). Unencumbered by any copy protection(got a new PC, sure, you could (re)install Windows! Got more than one? Could of installed it on them all! Not anymore). This has since been lost, and I feel it'll lead to Microsoft dying by own Microsoft's own hand.

In short, the weirdness is not going to be over anytime soon.

[Nightwalker83]

Hi,

Yesterday, I turned off Automatic Updates and disabled in Alert center to report the same. (Both these are "Not Recommended" by MS).

The moment I did it and restarted, my system kept crashing. It happened 3-4 times in a row, and happened about 10-15 minutes later after starting the system.

I changed those settings back and voila, no problems at all.

Is it my imagination or did those settings actually affected the system? Anyone else had similar experience?

Interesting! I just tried it and had no problems at all.

I personally prefer Vista to 7, but I'm old school and still run Windows 2000. And no, I really do not care that my OS is effectively end of life in MS eyes. I have yet to find a more reliable version of Windows, and I have tried them all.

Please don't turn this in to a war over which operating system is better, etc!

[dilettante]

Please don't turn this in to a war over which operating system is better, etc!

In the end it's pointless anyway. If you actually produce software for sale you don't have the luxury of not making it work on at least the versions Microsoft supports now.

[FireXtol]

Please don't turn this in to a war over which operating system is better, etc!

Thanks, mom!