Windows 7 update KB4480970 causes havoc

[RobertX]

On this computer, I dual boot Linux Mint 19.1, using it for general purposes, and Windows 2000 for retro games.

Warcraft III crashes on Windows XP.

[politux]

You guys are still in the abusive relationship known as running windows?

That's an impressive commitment to being abused by your own OS.

[dueda]

It would be interesting to putz around to figure out how to add that usability. With the basic M$ microkernel, it should be possible to add some ReactOs components, possibly some Wine libs, and get some interesting effects. Toss in Cygwin, and let 'er rip!

If you can find an old version of Firefox, XP would be great on a stick or in a VM as its virtually bulletproof these days. It doesnt have the libs or the .net4+ files that nearly all the new boogers use, so you would be pretty safe surfing with it.

Maybe, but one should add the desired parts by hand, the installation references were striped bare. XP is pretty good on a stick and that's why MS never released the USB installation options. Those guys think ahead.

You guys are still in the abusive relationship known as running windows?  

Don't you ever play games on your PC? Lemme guess, you have a XB-1...

[RobertX]

politux, it's actually a love-hate relationship.

[RodneyYouPlonker]

Windows is fine if you know what you're doing with it.  There's no problem really, usually things are fine it's just this one time when this update was released.  It was easy to remove I posted it on here for everybody to see so they can then remove it at their own leisure.  It's simple really if you update your PC and there's an update and your PC goes weird then just go and do a restore and go back in time a few days to the point where the update was installed and then you can see what it was that was causing it.  It's not rocket science really you just remove it.  No need to start considering moving to Linux and all this.  Like I said on the other thread my Printer doesn't work through using Linux as I've already proved and that there's no way to do printing and scanning documents because that is important really and sadly Linux the driver is poor really and it doesn't work and all the print comes out all wrong on the printer and you get lines down one side of the page cos Linux drivers are a mess.

So really if you're like me and you just want to get on and do normal things then Windows is the answer really, haven't got time to sit reading Linux books for days just so I can do something simple like install a graphics driver or get a movie playing on my PC.  Really non of that is necessary as these things just work in Windows, if you know what you're doing.  I don't have time to sit for days on end messing around with Linux because I have a busy lifestyle and I have lots of work to do everyday and I don't have time and I just want something that works and that's easy and doesn't have a load of silly problems where you end up hitting a brick wall and then end up hitting your head on a real brick wall then when it won't work or some package or program won't run cos it's missing loads of stuff that you've already tried to install about 3 or 4 times and then comes up with some dodgy message that you can't figure out and no book will tell you the answer and having googled the problem about 10 times nothing amounts at all and you're clueless with nobody to ask and nobody with any sensible advice to offer a suggestion 

[waregim]

Win driver errors are actually far worse than Linux, which wil normally list them in syslog. In win you get a BSOD with obscure error codes and a dump. The codes are vague at best, the dumps useless, and if they point to an inode there are no win utilities in existence to actually tell what file that inode is pointing to. Insane. Someone produced third party apps that are mostly useless.

However for normal 'consumption uses' nothing beats Win. It was designed for you, the consumer - as a valuable end product.
You: the product.

But the main difference is: In Linux the media program VLC didnt like me running it as admin. I didnt care what it liked, so I recomplied it to do what it was told. A simple effort that would be very difficult in Win (which fortunately does not have that limitation there).

Play with Linux on your spare time, and you may find that the IT skills you learn there may be quite later in other things like work and school assignments.

Also: libreoffice is nice, but for mission critical stuff, stick with M$ office.

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[RobertX]

Funny, I've never used Microsoft Office for years.

The last one I used was MS Office 2016.

[RodneyYouPlonker]

Funny, I've never used Microsoft Office for years.

The last one I used was MS Office 2016.

I was trained as an IT professional in the use of MS Office.  I have been a professional in IT now for over 20 years.  Been and seen that much stuff couldn't even start to describe where I've been.  Not been hot on Linux though, I know exactly what it is but I just prefer to use Windows as it's what most of the world uses.  People don't have all the time it takes to learn about Linux and things.  Some people can't even get their heads around MS Office never mind running a Linux OS.