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Post by brian on May 26, 2017 10:59:06 GMT
OK, so last night when I shut down I got the choice to shut down or install updates and shut down. There was also a third possibility of install updates and restart.
So I chose the second.
What they hadn't mentioned was that on start up it would take something like 2 hours to continue installing the updates, had I known that I would have let it continue overnight.
Why can't they be a bit more forthcoming with information?
I was forced to find more useful things to do like mow the lawn!
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Post by Admin_Vistamike on Jun 3, 2017 17:20:02 GMT
Brian, I believe you are running win 10.
Just recently there was an update that I did not see and it overrode my settings in Group Policy in Windows 10 Pro.
I started the PC on a visit to a customer visit.......AH>>>>>> took 45 mins to get to desktop!
My Office 2016 pro became almost useless, couldn't open .docx or .xlsx files. It told me that I needed to DOWNGRADE office to 365.
My work requires opening excel files every day and this really miffed me. What caused I do not know. I just reimaged to a previous backup and all was fine.
When I forced an update it worked and word and excel worked. DUNNO
When I did have a lawn to mow I took the easy way out. Sat down and quaffed a bottle of scotch and the grass came up half cut
Now, thinking of more useful things to do....gotta do a washload. I disconnected the washing machine from the internet thus halting updates, may be able to through the whole cycle without rebooting!
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Post by brian on Jun 3, 2017 21:23:23 GMT
Well I am still running the earlier Office, and so far have not noticed a problem. That doesn't mean there isn't one I haven't seen of course. They are pushing more and more towards Edge too, I use IE11, and now I have a new tab direct to Edge. Not one of the Home page tabs, so not easy to remove.
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Post by Admin_Vistamike on Jun 4, 2017 14:52:26 GMT
I think the problem arose that when I bought this laptop, Lenovo, Windows 10, it came with a one year subscription to Office 365. Logging into Microsoft account recorded that fact so when I wiped drive and clean installed 10 Pro, the Microsoft account 'remembered' that. I didn't want 365, even though after clean install M$ 'remembered' the 365 one yr and promptly installed it.!! I wanted Office 2016 pro and installed it but there was a conflict between the 2. I found 365 had kindly reinstalled itself on the M$ account. I uninstalled it and that took a load of time, prompts telling me that I still had a paid 365. 2 hours later I applied the 2016 activation and now all is well, all files now open. Office 2016 Pro, is a fully paid for stand alone Office app that I paid for. After de-registering the 365 the 2016 account then appeared as activated. Yep, Edge is being pushed especially when you have multiple browsers, mine are FF, Palemoon, Cyberfox and a completely useless Vivaldi browser. Now and then I'm alerted to the fact that Edge is available, Bing is my friend and Cortana could help me. I don't use IE. Configuring Edge is quite a hardy task, like home page, no home button, new tab just a blank page, The search is in the address bar. Actually almost all browsers allow you to use the address bar as a search engine, given that you have allocated the engine in your preferable browser. (google or duckduckgo for instance)
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