What's with the Win7 updates?

My issue with Win 8/8.1 was not that it couldn't be used, and it was too complicated. My problem was "Why?". It wasn't being used on a phone, why make it look like a phone? It wasn't being used on a touch screen so why do you have to navigate on it like it had a touchscreen?

For me Win 8/8.1 was change for change's sake. It wasn't easier to use than Win 7, and without changing certain aspects of it, it actually added steps to do simple things. Why?

horton333 wrote:
I have yet to find *anyone* who likes Windows 8/8.1 enough to bother learning navigation all over again.

You know I've been seeing and hearing this since 8 first came out. Admittedly when I first saw it it looked different and somewhat intimidating. Not too long ago I got a new computer with 8.1 installed. I knew if I did not like it I could just revert back to 7. When I first set it up I sat down fully expecting to have a lot of trouble figuring it out. In reality it took me about 5 - 10 minutes to become comfortable. I was a little dumbfounded why so many folks were making comments like yours. Even though we have not met in person you have now at least met someone online who likes 8.1 and bothered to "learn navigation all over again". Although in reality the navigation really is not so different and is actually pretty intuitive.

Just in case you think I am someone who is new to this, my experience goes way back to before DOS. When windows first came out I was a DOS holdout for many years. Although I was familiar with and worked with Windows I did not run it on a machine I owned until Windows 95, did not change from that until Windows 98. Stuck with that until XP, which I really, liked for the longest time. So much so that even though I had computers with 7 and was comfortable with it, I kept one of my computers with XP until this past year.

2oldman wrote:
Turn auto updates off. Get them when you want to.

This.

Or get them never if you choose.

hawkeye-08 wrote:

fj12ryder wrote:
Yep, only got until January 14, 2020.

I better get on it, don't want to be left with unsupported OS. LOL

In actuality, this date is for the Extended Support only for Windows 7. Mainstream support ended January 13, 2015. Mainstream support ending means no new features and Extended support means that patches will continue to be distributed, so get them while you can.

Update Tuesday included 2 updates requiring a restart. On Tuesday if you did not go back and check "update" for the left-over update requiring a restart you most likely saw it on Wed. Three days included "Windows Defender", and a extra Windows update. Since I run both Norton and W.D. (no problem for a gaming lap-top), I see about 3 days per week of W.D. updates. Then again Norton updates 3 to 4 times each day.

While I never allow auto-updating I actually check every day at least once.

With all the hacking going on each day, anyone who does not down-load all updates is just asking for trouble.

I have yet to find *anyone* who likes Windows 8/8.1 enough to bother learning navigation all over again.

SCR wrote:

This will hlep clear things up:
Windows lifecycle fact sheet

That's interesting- they list the end of sales for Windows 7 as being October 31, 2013, yet you can still buy it for the same price as 8.1, plus they give no end date for preinstalled versions- no surprise given the lack of love by businesses for 8.1.

GordonThree wrote:
enjoy the updates while they last, since Windows 7 is now "end of life" and in process of being fully discontinued and unsupported by Microsoft

This will hlep clear things up:
Windows lifecycle fact sheet

The only things I have on the Win7 install is Magnifinder (an RV parts application), iTunes, Turbo Tax and Adobe acrobat reader- I did have it on 2 20gb drives, but had to resize them to 2 40gb drives when I installed iTunes.
Magnifinder does use a lot of .NET stuff, so a bunch of the security stuff is, I believe, for that. Adobe and Apple update their own applications.

One thing that drives me crazy is having the update install, Windows tells me it has to restart, I click "Restart Now", it fades out and says "The Following application is keeping Windows from restarting: Windows Update. Click to cancel or force restart."

D'ohh!

FWIW- I'm used to updating- my other computers update nearly every day, as I use a testing branch of my OS. It's just easier to do on them, and nearly never need a reboot ;)

fj12ryder wrote:
Yep, only got until January 14, 2020.

I better get on it, don't want to be left with unsupported OS. LOL