Dave-H Posted October 25, 2016 Share Posted October 25, 2016 I must say that I agree with that to some extent. There is an argument that MS should get as much telemetry back as possible from XP systems so they know that there are loads of them still in use out there. Every time I have an application freeze or crash, or a system BSOD crash, I always make a point of sending the information to MS on principle for that very reason! The downside of that of course is that drawing attention to the fact that a lot of people are still using XP systems might encourage MS to start deliberately blocking things like the WES09 and POSReady 2009 updates. Frankly I don't think that's likely though. @niko32 Looking at my MRT log, there is no record of any telemetry being sent by MRT.exe until August 10th 2016, when the final XP compatible version was served by Windows Update, and my log goes back to 2005. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dencorso Posted October 26, 2016 Share Posted October 26, 2016 Ditto! The only instance of calling home is quoted (in part) below: Quote Results Summary: ---------------- No infection found. Successfully Submitted MAPS Report Successfully Submitted Heartbeat Report MS Windows MSRT Finished On Tue Aug 09 16:57:23 2016 Return code: 0 (0x0) With this, they counted all (or most) the currently active XP machines (all XP were still receiving MRT, IIRR). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niko32 Posted October 26, 2016 Share Posted October 26, 2016 (edited) 10 hours ago, Dave-H said: @niko32 Looking at my MRT log, there is no record of any telemetry being sent by MRT.exe until August 10th 2016, when the final XP compatible version was served by Windows Update, and my log goes back to 2005. This is the article from 2007 where it is debated about this. I guess MRT just didn't send any telemetry in period before August 10th 2016, or didn't report that it sent. By the way my log goes back to 2009, although I've been using XP since 2005, then still dual booting with win98, of course. Edited October 26, 2016 by niko32 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glnz Posted October 28, 2016 Author Share Posted October 28, 2016 I'm a bit ... concerned. My trusty old XP machine is giving me some BSODs. I started a new thread on this forum at xp-growing-hair-need-a-barber-how-to-cut-back-msconfig-load-everything . Could it be some of the recent updates? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cc333 Posted October 28, 2016 Share Posted October 28, 2016 My Latitide D630 has been getting a bit cranky too lately. No BSoDs so far, but I'll be going along, and suddenly, I'll get a hard freeze where EVERYTHING goes unresponsive, and I can't shut it down or get to Task Manager (I can get to the dialog-thing that has buttons for Task Manager, Shutting Down, and locking the screen, but I cannot do any of those things because it's frozen). It seemed to start when I installed Dell System Detect, so I suspect that might have something to do with it. I'll try uninstalling it to see what happens. c Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dencorso Posted October 28, 2016 Share Posted October 28, 2016 5 hours ago, glnz said: I'm a bit ... concerned. My trusty old XP machine is giving me some BSODs. I started a new thread on this forum at xp-growing-hair-need-a-barber-how-to-cut-back-msconfig-load-everything . Could it be some of the recent updates? Thanks. I don't think so. Were it so, most of we all should be getting BSODs, too, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dibya Posted October 28, 2016 Share Posted October 28, 2016 Dencorso my three pc still running fine with october update but My Compaq 620 bacame unresponsive after 5 minute of startup. Quite horrible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dencorso Posted October 28, 2016 Share Posted October 28, 2016 I have two machines running fine from their 1st (and only) install, and that's from 2007 (SP3 is from 2008, remember?). Of course, they've been kept up to date, to this day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dibya Posted October 28, 2016 Share Posted October 28, 2016 31 minutes ago, dencorso said: I have two machines running fine from their 1st (and only) install, and that's from 2007 (SP3 is from 2008, remember?). Of course, they've been kept up to date, to this day. It may be some other issue causing so. If there is such problem then other 3 also faced same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave-H Posted October 28, 2016 Share Posted October 28, 2016 All seems OK here too, touch wood! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glnz Posted November 8, 2016 Author Share Posted November 8, 2016 Ten updates (including for Office 2003-7). So, who's going first? (Not me - water's too cold.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluebolt Posted November 9, 2016 Share Posted November 9, 2016 (edited) Reporting that the update experience has been unusual here on three-for-three machines so far… MU runs and runs, so I leave it once the yellow shield pops up, or I just wait for the yellow shield in the first place. Then, hovering over the yellow shield shows 0% download progress indefinitely (defined as when my patience runs out). So I reboot, and find the downloads are ready to install. I install them, after which all is well, apparently, so far. EDIT: Fourth machine, no such anomaly. EDIT: Fifth machine, same anomaly, but this was a W2k Pro machine, otherwise not pertinent here, except that it only involved the Office update... So maybe the XP update quirk stems from the Office update. Edited November 9, 2016 by bluebolt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liamZ Posted November 9, 2016 Share Posted November 9, 2016 (edited) Hi for me, I just installed the updates and after restarting, only classic theme is avalaible. I'm going to restart again and see what happends. edit: after restarting, the desktop is OK again. 8 posready updates plus 4 for office 2010 through windows update, another one KB3197835 wasn't offered, and kb3192321 is installed again. Edited November 9, 2016 by liamZ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dencorso Posted November 9, 2016 Share Posted November 9, 2016 It took somewhat longer to find out the 10 updates it offered me. From that point, all went OK as usual. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave-H Posted November 9, 2016 Share Posted November 9, 2016 No sign of any yellow shield here yet. I got my Windows 8.1 updates yesterday, and my partner's Windows 7 laptop has got them today. I'll wait a while longer and see what happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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