At least with XP you can disable the automatic updates.
Try that on W7! I cannot stop my W7 from doing some form of updates every time I log onto the internet and I don't have much on here other than MS products
It is possible to disable the updates, but it's not easy.
It's actually easiest in a corporate setting as you have an AD-domain running and can set up 'Policies'.
I cannot stop my W7 from doing some form of updates every time I log onto the internet ...
There are several easy ways to do this. The way you are probably supposed to do it is in the Control Panel.
You will need administrator access to do this.
Start>Control Panel>System and Security>Windows Update
Select "Change Settings" in the left side column.
In the drop-down list box under "Important Updates", choose:
"Never check for updates (not recommended)"
Being Microsoft, since they seem to think their reason to exist is to make the most annoying operating systems on the face of the Earth, this will probably trigger messages from the "Action Center" that Windows Update is not turned on (as if you didn't know). To fix this, open the Action Center and turn off messages about Windows Update under "Maintenance".
You can also just disable the "Windows Update" service in Administrative Tools>Services
The use case for 64 bits is a server that need to memory map large databases into RAM of a single process for fast retrieval. If you are not doing that then you really don't need 64 bits.
For 99% of clients, yes, 64 bits is overkill.
The other 1% of clients do need 64 bits. For example, engineering analysis software.
I work on an application that performs oil & gas well analysis, including visual mapping of several hundred thousand wells at a time. For performance reasons the well and associated data must all be cached in RAM. Unfortunately, the app is still 32 bits, so the users sometimes run out of application RAM. We're looking into converting it into a 64 bit process, but it's not a trivial task (supporting DLL's to be upgraded at the same time).
There are several easy ways to do this. The way you are probably supposed to do it is in the Control Panel.
You will need administrator access to do this.
Start>Control Panel>System and Security>Windows Update
Select "Change Settings" in the left side column.
In the drop-down list box under "Important Updates", choose:
"Never check for updates (not recommended)"
Being Microsoft, since they seem to think their reason to exist is to make the most annoying operating systems on the face of the Earth, this will probably trigger messages from the "Action Center" that Windows Update is not turned on (as if you didn't know). To fix this, open the Action Center and turn off messages about Windows Update under "Maintenance".
You can also just disable the "Windows Update" service in Administrative Tools>Services
I re-installed Win7 ultimate recently because i accidentally messed up my windows partition, and in the set up it asks if you would like security updates and junk like that. I made sure to turn everything off and i don't get any flags or warnings.
so a re-install might help if you are willing to go through that annoying process. Just to add i used the system builder pack on my laptop (even though Microsoft says i can't do that but...) so that might have had SOMETHING to do with it...?
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"The average price on the black market for a Windows XP exploit is $50,000 to $150,000"
I wonder where this data came from?
Try that on W7! I cannot stop my W7 from doing some form of updates every time I log onto the internet and I don't have much on here other than MS products
It's actually easiest in a corporate setting as you have an AD-domain running and can set up 'Policies'.
There are several easy ways to do this. The way you are probably supposed to do it is in the Control Panel.
You will need administrator access to do this.
Start>Control Panel>System and Security>Windows Update
Select "Change Settings" in the left side column.
In the drop-down list box under "Important Updates", choose:
"Never check for updates (not recommended)"
Being Microsoft, since they seem to think their reason to exist is to make the most annoying operating systems on the face of the Earth, this will probably trigger messages from the "Action Center" that Windows Update is not turned on (as if you didn't know). To fix this, open the Action Center and turn off messages about Windows Update under "Maintenance".
You can also just disable the "Windows Update" service in Administrative Tools>Services
For 99% of clients, yes, 64 bits is overkill.
The other 1% of clients do need 64 bits. For example, engineering analysis software.
I work on an application that performs oil & gas well analysis, including visual mapping of several hundred thousand wells at a time. For performance reasons the well and associated data must all be cached in RAM. Unfortunately, the app is still 32 bits, so the users sometimes run out of application RAM. We're looking into converting it into a 64 bit process, but it's not a trivial task (supporting DLL's to be upgraded at the same time).
Walter
Silk road is or was one. Never really looked into it but here ya go.
I re-installed Win7 ultimate recently because i accidentally messed up my windows partition, and in the set up it asks if you would like security updates and junk like that. I made sure to turn everything off and i don't get any flags or warnings.
so a re-install might help if you are willing to go through that annoying process. Just to add i used the system builder pack on my laptop (even though Microsoft says i can't do that but...) so that might have had SOMETHING to do with it...?