Just a new laptop,and some here have been helping me load stuff and understand stuff.Just got a note from my Verizon that half my month service has been used in two days ... never used more than half in a month until now - and that's several years of account.Am guessing that's a buncha these programs I don't want that came with it downloading and updating ... Not sure I can ID all of them, but would it be a safe bet to assume anything I didn't ask to download personally, and has a date of it in the past couple days is something I can delete? Some have names I've never heard of, but some even put icons on the screen and some already had the icons on it. Almost none of which I want or use ... I'm guessing some are apps too, which most I won't use either, but I bet they use time as well.Any advice here -

turn off "automatic windows updates"that is where the largest data use will be

I wouldn't assume you can update anything loaded in the past couple of days. Computers usually with a version of the operating system, some utilities and antivirus software protection that may be weeks or months old. The updates to these programs can be critical to keeping your system safe from viruses and hackers. Antivirus updates come out almost daily and operating system updates often monthly or less if it is a critical update. The names of the updates are not always easy to identify. You can turn off automatic updates but I would not do it for the operating system or antivirus software.

monkey44 wrote:Just got a note from my Verizon that half my month service has been used in two days ...What is your monthly allotment?

5gb, but I've never used more than 50% in a month - in two days, 50% ?

I don't know if this is parsing words or not but it is very important to "uninstall" programs not "delete" programs.

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MrWizard
Moderator
May 17, 2013
turn off "automatic windows updates"
that is where the largest data use will be
NEOK
Explorer
May 17, 2013
I wouldn't assume you can update anything loaded in the past couple of days. Computers usually with a version of the operating system, some utilities and antivirus software protection that may be weeks or months old. The updates to these programs can be critical to keeping your system safe from viruses and hackers. Antivirus updates come out almost daily and operating system updates often monthly or less if it is a critical update. The names of the updates are not always easy to identify. You can turn off automatic updates but I would not do it for the operating system or antivirus software.
2oldman
Explorer II
May 17, 2013
monkey44 wrote:
Just got a note from my Verizon that half my month service has been used in two days ...
What is your monthly allotment?
monkey44
Nomad II
May 17, 2013
5gb, but I've never used more than 50% in a month - in two days, 50% ?
LostinAZ
Explorer
May 17, 2013
I don't know if this is parsing words or not but it is very important to "uninstall" programs not "delete" programs.
sue_t
Explorer
May 17, 2013
With our laptop that travels with us, I learned the hard way that it is best to turn off automatic updates. I had logged in to the free wi-fi at a gas station and the laptop started some Microsoft updates. I was unaware of it updating and so we drove away.

The update could not be completed. System crashed. Big time.
Fortunately, the laptop had a recovery partition as I didn't have the systems disks with us.

Moral of the story ... don't have automatic updates turned on when travelling. I keep it set to notify me but let me choose when it updates.
monkey44
Nomad II
May 17, 2013
LostinAZ wrote:
I don't know if this is parsing words or not but it is very important to "uninstall" programs not "delete" programs.

No, uninstall is the method, but tech monkey said delete in the sense it should be gone, deleted, dead, out-a-my-hair, and successfully uninstalled - which I did to a buncha dead weight ...

I believe i stopped all the junk - some has a turn-off, some I uninstalled if I'm sure. So will see where it goes now, but it's much faster with all the nasty icons gone. Surprising what a little house-cleaning can do ... :)

Hope it did everything correctly, and nothing got hurt.

I turned the updates to 'ask me' instead of auto ...
Jmactootall
Explorer
May 17, 2013
For system updates you could change to never check and do a manual check/update when on a free WIFI and have time to do it. I would leave Virus protection on "check and notify me".
bwanshoom
Explorer
May 17, 2013
For Windows updates, the 2nd Tuesday of the month is "Patch Tuesday". There were several updates this past Tuesday.
MrWizard
Moderator
May 17, 2013
LostinAZ wrote:
I don't know if this is parsing words or not but it is very important to "uninstall" programs not "delete" programs.

this is correct
deleting the icon on the home screen will Not uninstall the program
it will still be there and if it auto starts .. it will still be using resources

the OP may have meant uninstall when he said delete
however we can't be sure , until he tells us

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