As technology marches on, some people get trapped using decades-old software and devices. Here's a look inside the strange, stubborn world of obsolete Windows machines.
I have a laptop that still runs win10 that I need for a few obscure programs to work that won’t work on anything else. I haven’t booted it in a while and I would love to know if I really should start it offline and disable window updates on it so I can keep using it.
Don’t let it update. Find a list of their update servers and block them locally. My computer was totally normal and during this last update last week it took a long time updating. So I tried logging in and it would just load part of the desktop ui before freezing totally. I found it was the cryptographic service. Once you kill that service the machine works just fine. But then that program gets called by every program multiple times. So you open services and keep ending that service multiple times during the day. Its annoying to no end. Definitely not encouraging me to get windows ever again.
I will do that today. I am blocking all window updates. My wife has Windows XP on an old laptop and it works fine. She just doesn’t connect to internet.
That’s why Microsoft sent out one last update to windows 10 to fuck it up and make it in usable.
Wait, it did? When? What did they break?
I have a laptop that still runs win10 that I need for a few obscure programs to work that won’t work on anything else. I haven’t booted it in a while and I would love to know if I really should start it offline and disable window updates on it so I can keep using it.
Don’t let it update. Find a list of their update servers and block them locally. My computer was totally normal and during this last update last week it took a long time updating. So I tried logging in and it would just load part of the desktop ui before freezing totally. I found it was the cryptographic service. Once you kill that service the machine works just fine. But then that program gets called by every program multiple times. So you open services and keep ending that service multiple times during the day. Its annoying to no end. Definitely not encouraging me to get windows ever again.
I will do that today. I am blocking all window updates. My wife has Windows XP on an old laptop and it works fine. She just doesn’t connect to internet.
Wonder what would happen if she did?