In reply to a post by broadband66:

Don't you know?

No, I am not aware of any real stability issues with Windows 8. Perhaps you can inform me of them.

In reply to a post by Pipexer:

In reply to a post by broadband66:

Don't you know?

No, I am not aware of any real stability issues with Windows 8. Perhaps you can inform me of them.

stable here to be honest, only one problem that is really pigging me off now is that it loses connection to the network and I have to reset the adaptor, that happens every hour or so. Fine with Linux, so certainly not a problem with the computer and fine with 7, but windows 8 and 10 it does it.

Anyway,k i had a look on the net today and found something about adding the gateway IP address manually, I have no idea why that needs to be done, but we will see if it helps.

As I said, I'm on W7 and am not aware of any stability issues with that either.

Google is your friend.

It's "Horses for Courses" really, I had a lagging Laptop, which I had on Win7 Pro 64bit - They transferred me to Windows 10 Pro 64bit, although I should really have done a clean install, I didn't, but I can do one later........

I have found the whole Laptop responds very well and is far better all round with Win10 and incidentally, to answer your first post, I CAN alter when the updates are done etc... I have only just found today, whilst checking your post and my laptop that I can actually schedule WHEN to do the updates, which is an improvement if I know I am getting up for a meeting or a break at a certain time etc.

It's not a special Laptop or anything, I am pretty sure I got it from Tesco when they did them, so it's quite old, it's an Acer Aspire 5738Z with only 4gb Ram and a 300GiB hard drive. The old windows7 which is kept automatically for you, along with a copy of all your settings as they were when you upgraded it are kept on the hard drive which is a tad annoying as this has taken the disk from about 100Gib if that to three quarters full at around 233GiB, so I will have to decide soon, or move the whole backup to either DVD or Portable Disk!!! But at least I suppose, for the time being I have the option.

only one problem that is really pigging me off now is that it loses connection to the network and I have to reset the adaptor, that happens every hour or so. Fine with Linux, so certainly not a problem with the computer and fine with 7, but windows 8 and 10 it does it.

I had something like this with one PC (think it's this one with Win7), and found that there was a setting to allow the ethernet to go to sleep. When it was told not to sleep, the problem disappeared (I too was alerted by Linux behaving differently)

" to answer your first post, I CAN alter when the updates are done etc... I have only just found today, whilst checking your post"

You seem to have replied to the wrong person.

OOOooooops!

In reply to a post by dandnsmith:

only one problem that is really pigging me off now is that it loses connection to the network and I have to reset the adaptor, that happens every hour or so. Fine with Linux, so certainly not a problem with the computer and fine with 7, but windows 8 and 10 it does it.

I had something like this with one PC (think it's this one with Win7), and found that there was a setting to allow the ethernet to go to sleep. When it was told not to sleep, the problem disappeared (I too was alerted by Linux behaving differently)

Tried that, tried to fix IP address and gateway address, still have the problem, I updated the drivers a couple of days ago, still get the problem.
I did try to go back to windows 7, but my USB3 ports had problems with it.
I am getting to the stage where I will stick linux on as my main OS and stick Windows onto the slower drive. It is only the video editing software that is keeping me with windows anyway.

Thanks anyway

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I currently have their snooping filtered on my router and I have managed to disable auto updates using only microsoft tools (so no hacking or messing around with code).

Users using the pro version can set windows update to notify when updates are available using policy editor, in addition microsoft released a tool that allows you to hide updates, these two things combined make the update system a lot more like previous versions of windows.

Regarding the filtering I am using ipset and dnsmasq on my router to block hostnames and ip's known to be used for the snooping, although its probably going to require someone to maintain the list as I expect microsoft will keep changing it in a game of whack a mole.

I posted details on kitz forum, so you can search for my posts there if curious.