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I can confirm that the tool works the same way for me. I have the KB3081424 and the same Defender definitions update waiting for me. Not sure that the Defender update will wait forever, as my tweak of the Windows Updates settings took place over the weekend and several Defender updates have installed on their own since then, but the 1424 has indeed sat waiting for a couple of days now. --JorgeA

Hell is freezing over! A Microsoft uber-fanboi has actually expressed disapproval of something Microsoft did: You don't say. What you have yet to understand is that disrespect for the user and keeping him in the dark is at the heart of Microsoft's model for Windows 10. --JorgeA

jaclaz Hmm... so the user of this nifty device "can wear [it] as jewelry in public," or "use it... in private," or "mix and match as she pleases." I can just picture this "mix and match" usage taking place at restaurants, theater plays, on the bus, etc. --JorgeA

Several thoughts, in no particular order: I make my own assessments. As far as I'm concerned, this award shows the complete and utter lack of either esthetic or practical sense on the part of those who voted for it. Or maybe they were so relieved that Microsoft finally brought back some semblance of the Start Menu, they felt they needed to reward the company for it. I am reminded of the art experts who were shown canvasses covered in random scribbles, supposedly painted by some newly discovered genius, and then they oohed and aahed all over it, singing the praises of the artwork... then were informed that the paintings were done by a gorilla. If this is truly representative of what is taken for design brilliance today, then modern civilization is doomed.A lot of good responses down in the comments section. To judge from his display of logic in that post, Pasta Fagioli isn't the brightest bulb in the pack. --JorgeA

Very good! --JorgeA

* That must be a new world record in pathogen virulence. Ah, to your comment but :angrym: to the situation that prompted it... --JorgeA

Bad guys are starting to take advantage of Microsoft's aggressive pushing of Windows 10 onto PCs running previous Windows versions: --JorgeA

Battle of the hype: Report: Windows 10 is now installed on 67 million PCs as of this morning Windows 10 installs reach 18 million over launch weekend; not 67 million Both reports claim confirmation; both cannot be right. ...And the Microsoft Fanboy Prize of the Month goes to the following commenter under the second headline: Not even Microsoft would be so brazen as to go back on their clear commitment to support Windows 7 for ten years. Wishful thinking. Actually, I can't think of a faster way to increase Linux and Mac OS X market share numbers... --JorgeA

Done, thanks! --JorgeA

That critique sounds pretty devastating. Thanks for posting the link. --JorgeA

There are so many threads now on how to fix or improve Windows 10 (what does that tell you ), that I'm not sure where to post the following: Free up space in Windows 10 by removing unwanted core apps More important IMO than freeing up physical space on the user's disk, is freeing up the user's mental space: no longer will he/she have to deal with these cr*pps as the user visually scans the Start Menu, the Tiles, or the Taskbar. I'm pretty sure this ground (or something very much like it) has been covered before, but it's been a while since it was and it may be a good idea to remind people of it now, especially as there will be new Forum visitors and members looking for precisely this sort of information. Maybe somebody can collect all these tweaks, fixes, and hacks into one integrated volume for readers' convenience. Because he has rich experience cutomizing his Windows environment, I would nominate @NoelC but in reality it could be anybody who has not only the time and the inclination, but also the expertise to assess each candidate fix for inclusion. --JorgeA

^^ I totally agree. It would be interesting to see how Pro sales developed over the next several months, if Microsoft ever released a breakdown of sales of the various flavors of Windows. --JorgeA

Nice job they did there, thanks for posting the link. --JorgeA

That's the version obtained by most people who buy their PCs at a bricks-and-mortar store. <raising hand> Yup! If Microsoft doesn't mess with that strategy, it will go a long way toward mitigating the outrages introduced by Windows 10. --JorgeA

The last OS market share data prior to Microsoft's "by hook or by crook" push to get Win10 on people's PCs: [source] --JorgeA

Thanks for the reminder, I'll change that setting to what you suggest and see what happens. Presumably Home users won't have even this possibility, right? Besides that update troubleshooter, is there any tweak anywhere that might be offered to Windows 10 Home users so they can pick and choose the updates they'll accept? --JorgeA

Well, guess why exactly I am The Finder jaclaz Thank you, that takes care of it! --JorgeA

Now THAT's cool! The performance numbers seem a little low (sequential numbers are 600 / 880 MB/s for read and write). Have you ever come across test numbers gathered on a system equipped with ULLtraDIMM SSDs? ...and if it turned out that these kinds of drives could work only with the privacy-invading, resource-hogging, customer-contemptuous Windows 10 -- would you still get one? (A question for all readers to think about, not directed specifically at you guys.) --JorgeA

Wife happened to visit a telco website today and came across the following notice: An initial quick read had her focusing on the parts about something hiding Internet Explorer and removing bookmarks, so she thought there was a massive malware attack going around the Internet and called me over to look. I said, "Well, technically it's not malware, but..." --JorgeA

Love it. Very apropos. --JorgeA

Should we all be as p*ssed as Mozilla about Edge taking over in Windows 10? First, a background excerpt from a letter by Mozilla's CEO to Satya Nadella, and then Mark Wilson's excellent point, which I was going to make until I saw he'd already done it: The same thing that applies to Edge and the privacy settings -- that it's possible to opt out of them, but far from self-evident how to do it -- can be said about creating and signing into a Microsoft Account in order to use Windows 10. It is indeed a theme running through this OS. --JorgeA

That is a fantastic graphic. It should be posted to every tech forum and to every tech and general news website on the Web. --JorgeA

jaclaz OMG, talk about simplifying dumbing down the interface!!! --JorgeA

The update troubleshooting tool that Microsoft released last week could become a workable alternative for handling Windows Updates, if someone can figure out how to prevent Windows 10 from automatically looking for new updates. Then you could set up a scheduled task to run the new tool, and find out what updates are available that way. --JorgeA

That's very cute . It's a shame that the critical graph is so tiny that you can't tell, at any zoom level, what the author is measuring (X or Y axis). --JorgeA