Windows 10 for DAW

[rod_zero]

Yeah, after all the hassle autoupdates bring at least performance in audio tasks has improved a lot for me. I used to have lots of glitches with heavy plug ins as DIva, or Bazille, now I can run more instances at the same buffers that were giving me glitches before.

[koolkeys]

Well, you know me, I bitch about the things that DON'T work

I just hate shitty unnecessary things. If everyone is happy, don't f**k with it. What can cortana do for me? STFU and go away

I don't use Cortana. But many people DO want the features that you may not want. People use that stuff (I use Google Now on my phone, and it is fantastic and does similar things to Cortana). I personally like the look of Windows 10, and the new multi-desktop features, the improved window management, etc. are all very helpful IMO.

So in the end, I can't really complain. No operating system will be problem free.

I do NOT like the forced updates, but I've come to grips with it. I'm on my computer enough and always postpone to a specific date whenever an update is available. I haven't had it interrupt my work yet (not that it can't, but it hasn't).

Brent

[incubus]

Sorry, my point is that in the past, cortana was something you could kill dead if you didn't want her.

Now, unless you HACK it, it's going to "HAL" you to death. And let's be honest, they'll figure out some borg assimilation for the "hack"

[T-CM11]

Ok, I say it again, even though there are SUPPOSEDLY ways of stopping updates,

THEY
DON'T
LAST.

Sorry, but most of us have tried to keep it from updating. The collective is too strong.

Disable the update service... and enable it back when/if you want to update.
SOLVED.

[Googly Smythe]

Ok, I say it again, even though there are SUPPOSEDLY ways of stopping updates,

THEY
DON'T
LAST.

Sorry, but most of us have tried to keep it from updating. The collective is too strong.

Disable the update service... and enable it back when/if you want to update.
SOLVED.

This is an all or nothing solution. You could also just stay off the web.
It would be nice if you could pick 'n' mix the updates that you want, not the ones ms tell you you should have. It would also be nice if ms described their updates in language that is plain, simple and not threatening.

[Googly Smythe]

Yeah, after all the hassle autoupdates bring at least performance in audio tasks has improved a lot for me. I used to have lots of glitches with heavy plug ins as DIva, or Bazille, now I can run more instances at the same buffers that were giving me glitches before.

Not all of us have been so fortunate.
I tried Win10 on 3 occasions. Audio performance ranged from bad to abysmal.
(i7, RME AIO, Cubase, AMD video. Win10 Pro.)

[T-CM11]

Ok, I say it again, even though there are SUPPOSEDLY ways of stopping updates,

THEY
DON'T
LAST.

Sorry, but most of us have tried to keep it from updating. The collective is too strong.

Disable the update service... and enable it back when/if you want to update.
SOLVED.

This is an all or nothing solution. You could also just stay off the web.
It would be nice if you could pick 'n' mix the updates that you want, not the ones ms tell you you should have. It would also be nice if ms described their updates in language that is plain, simple and not threatening.

Want to pick 'n' mix? What are you waiting for? http://download.wsusoffline.net/
SOLVED.

Yes, nowadays every idiot has a computer (-like-device) and THEY are the biggest target group - so things could be a lot worse (=Apple) than how it is now (sadly enough).

[Googly Smythe]

Ok, I say it again, even though there are SUPPOSEDLY ways of stopping updates,

THEY
DON'T
LAST.

Sorry, but most of us have tried to keep it from updating. The collective is too strong.

Disable the update service... and enable it back when/if you want to update.
SOLVED.

This is an all or nothing solution. You could also just stay off the web.
It would be nice if you could pick 'n' mix the updates that you want, not the ones ms tell you you should have. It would also be nice if ms described their updates in language that is plain, simple and not threatening.

Want to pick 'n' mix? What are you waiting for? http://download.wsusoffline.net/
SOLVED.

Yes, nowadays every idiot has a computer (-like-device) and THEY are the biggest target group - so things could be a lot worse (=Apple) than how it is now (sadly enough).

We should not have to rely on 3rd party solutions, or any other kind of hacking. We should not have to protect our machines from ms in the same way we would protect our machines from malware.
Microsoft should have a little more respect for advanced users.
By all means have a dumbed down edition for the "average" user. But any software with "Pro" in the name should offer "Pro" features.

[golemus]

Disable the update service... and enable it back when/if you want to update.
SOLVED.

Does this really work (even with the newest versions, anniversary update, etc...) and will it not cause any other problems in the operation of the system?

I mean when you google Windows 10 disable automatic updates, there comes quite a few articles about it and none that I read mention that there would exists this simple solution.

[Googly Smythe]

Disable the update service... and enable it back when/if you want to update.
SOLVED.

Does this really work (even with the newest versions, anniversary update, etc...) and will it not cause any other problems in the operation of the system?

I mean when you google Windows 10 disable automatic updates, there comes quite a few articles about it and none that I read mention that there would exists this simple solution.

Can't speak for the Home edition, but I used the gpedit facility in the Pro edition to stop them. It worked, but that was July. I hear that ms are taking steps to prevent even this.

[T-CM11]

Disable the update service... and enable it back when/if you want to update.
SOLVED.

Does this really work (even with the newest versions, anniversary update, etc...) and will it not cause any other problems in the operation of the system?

I mean when you google Windows 10 disable automatic updates, there comes quite a few articles about it and none that I read mention that there would exists this simple solution.

Yep, it works, like it did in the previous Windows version.
I read a lot that the gpedit fix (in Pro) doesn't work after the anniversary update. But it still works here (Pro OEM non-EDU) - no automatic downloading/installing/rebooting on my system.

[telecharge]

Perhaps it was an anomaly, but I just did a fresh install of Win 10 a couple of weeks ago. The first thing I did was disable the Windows Update service so I could apply the anniversary update because I assumed it was a roll-up. It didn't work. Windows re-enabled the service and ran Windows update in the background.

[Zombie Queen]

Sorry, my point is that in the past, cortana was something you could kill dead if you didn't want her.
Now, unless you HACK it, it's going to "HAL" you to death.

So there's at least one advantage of having a less popular language Windows version, there's no Cortana in Polish.

[T-CM11]

We should not have to rely on 3rd party solutions, or any other kind of hacking. We should not have to protect our machines from ms in the same way we would protect our machines from malware.
Microsoft should have a little more respect for advanced users.
By all means have a dumbed down edition for the "average" user. But any software with "Pro" in the name should offer "Pro" features.

I'm with you on that! Also... there should be world peace, no pollution, no disease, no overpopulation, an average IQ that's a lot higher, Star Trek transporters and replicators, etc...

[T-CM11]

Perhaps it was an anomaly, but I just did a fresh install of Win 10 a couple of weeks ago. The first thing I did was disable the Windows Update service so I could apply the anniversary update because I assumed it was a roll-up. It didn't work. Windows re-enabled the service and ran Windows update in the background.

Yep, it does that... so just disable it again.
It's not a constant enabling of the service - some settings just got reset to default with that 'big' update.