Thursday, July 05, 2018

Windows 10 nightmare part two

I thought I was finally going to get a good nights sleep and I was having wonderful dreams, I was playing music with a friend of mine from about 20 years ago and we were making some really great noise and I almost remembered the song when I woke up, except for this: at about 5 o’clock in the morning in my half dream state I hear this mysterious sound of my computer rebooting and I’m going what the fuck!! so I have to get my ass up and trip over everything and then sit on my chair and switch over to my windows 10 computer and Yep! once again it is fucking trying to update itself.

I went through all of the settings that I sent yesterday and I found even more automatic update Settings hidden in the task scheduler so after I disabled all of those triggers I found something strange in my windows start up, something called EOL notify. Which basically tells you that your computer is at end-of-life and that you have to update. Huh? I’m already on windows 10, fuck you.



So with a little bit of searching I found the actual hot fix (cold break) that controls this, and I deleted it. Write this down: KB4091461. Then I isolated and deleted the windows 10 upgrade apps: there were two of them on the system, one of them called upgradeassistant, The other called Windows10upgradeassistant, both identical. It’s like, they really want you to fucking update, and they make it impossible for you to not update. Fuck Microsoft up the ass with a fucking trident.  In order to find them and delete the fuck out of them, I had to use Revo UnInstaller and activate the “show system modules“ feature.



After that I found more errors on my hard drives - can’t afford to buy a new one this month. Just fricken GREAT!

 I guess I have no excuse but to put my second Dell OptiPlex 980 in that slot and migrate (migraine) my programs over to it.  I had been hoping to take the 8 GB of RAM from that machine and stick it in my other OptiPlex.

Whoops, don’t you know I can’t add my images,  because there is no longer any official blogger app for iOS version that they have won’t work with iOS 11, fuck you google very much.  And the images that are available to me when I choose “from Phone”, aren’t from my phone.

Windows 10 nightmare part one

 When windows 10 came out I thought Microsoft had done something good, I thought wrong. The biggest mistake that Microsoft has ever made is in this operating system: unstoppable, forced updates.  And today if you have managed to stay on the original version of windows 10 you are no longer able to because it is end-of-life.



 This is a fucking nightmare that started at 1 o’clock in the morning.

My main PC had blue screened, then when I try to reboot, it said “boot sector not found“, meaning bad sector on the boot drive. So, I booted up to my Flash Drive that has the repair programs, and I run GWscan.

This morning at about 10 o’clock I’ll check it out and of course it was repaired. So I check the structure of the file system using CHKDSK, it’s fixes a few things and then repairs so I can now boot.

Within five minutes I have this gigantic nag screen that’s informing me that my fucking system is updating to a new version of windows 10 without my permission of course. So with some Finagling, I managed to halt that process and delete the files on the computer that were causing it.

So then I try to deal with my antivirus which had updated to The latest, unwanted version, when the freaking windows 10 upgrade assistant nagscreen pops up again (you cannot click out of it), I was able to force it closed again and then delete the files again. Meanwhile my antivirus refused to downgrade itself to the earlier version so I had to uninstall it meaning I had to go into safe mode and run this uninstaller tool. Fortunately I was able to back up all of the settings before I uninstalled it. But I couldn’t reinstall the earlier version until I had run the UnInstaller.

Finally I looked up the problem on my phone and it brought me to a website that show me how to disable the windows 10 upgrade assistant, it turns out some update process installed a few lines into my task scheduler that was telling my computer to keep on downloading the update and to keep on trying to run it.


So getting rid of that complete bullshit took about 8 hours today, thank you and fuck you very much Microsoft.

 I had thought this had subs it but this morning at about 4 o’clock I heard some unusual rebooting of my main computer while I was trying to have a nice dream: