I’ve had to bite the bullet and make the switch from Microsoft XP to Windows 7 knowing that based on previous experience, it would be a bumpy ride due to what I think are incompatibility problems with my hardware. However, after a week of anguish, I’d managed to end up with a system that was reasonably stable, so much so that I’d even managed to run my Microsoft FSX flight simulator software on it several times. Anyone who has experience of this will know that that’s not to be sneezed at, as it’s notoriously buggy, unstable and demanding of any computer processor and system. However, last night while I was working on my blog, installing and trying out new types of photo gallery plugins, things began to get very choppy. My graphics began to get unstable, my browser (Chrome) kept hanging and my internet connection became so slow as to be almost unusable. Eventually I threw my hand in and decided to shut down and when I did so, I found the reason for all of the above – the system had downloaded and was trying to install 94 updates!<\/p>\n
At this rate Microsoft are getting more use out of my computer than I am. Can their software be so buggy when they release it to market that it has to be constantly ‘updated’ to this extent? I had to wait around for over half-an-hour before I could switch my machine off last night, and when you add the unproductive time during which it was effectively unusable while the updates were being downloaded, that must equate to well over an hour last night alone. And that’s not counting the time I’ve wasted during the week for the same reason, which must now add up to several more hours, with no end in sight, apparently. Already I’ve had my machine switched on for well over an hour this morning without getting anything done, aside from this post, while another 13 ‘updates’ have been downloaded and installed.<\/p>\n
So it now looks as though I’m facing an all-or-nothing dilemma. I can’t face much more of this as when I switch my machine on, it’s to use it for some purpose other than to have Microsoft install more updates on it, so it looks as though the only way I’m going to be able to get it back under control again is to switch automatic updates off. At the moment I can’t see any other alternative. Are other people having the same problems as me?<\/p>\n
Out of curiosity, I’ve just tried to run Microsoft FSX again and found that it won’t start because of a ‘fatal error’. This proves that MS really have lost the plot. I went through this ‘update’ thing earlier in the week and found then that FSX had stopped running for the same reason. A quick internet search found that I was not alone in this and that people were suspecting that a ‘rogue update’ was responsible. I tended to agree, so did a system restore. This itself caused yet more problems which I won’t bother going into, but it had the desired result and FSX started working again, thus supporting the ‘rogue update’ theory. Now that the same updates have been installed all over again, I’ve got the same outcome. So it would appear that Microsoft is now busily installing updates will-nilly for some of their software which cause other paid-for Microsoft programs to stop running. Where on earth is all this going to end? Surely it is almost time for them to consider packing up their tent and departing this place as the time must be approaching when, like much of their software, they will truly become not fit for purpose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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