I may have missed this: did you do a clean reinstall of the latest? It's a pain, but getting easier every day with cloud and app stores.
You need to backup first, naturally, to an external drive. But I think its generally worth the trouble. -- Owen On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Gillian Densmore <[email protected]> wrote: > Nope it's still rebooting becaus---reasons even after suggesting it redo > what ever idiot update it seemed to want.All the damn automatic reboot now > messages I can find are unecked I just want the idiot thing to get throught > it's head: ask me before rebooting so I don't loose work and don't even > think about it otherwise. > > > On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 6:35 PM, Gillian Densmore <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Even though at this point I have little trust in the Del. Reliability >> monitor shows there's some some kind of hardware issue and one of the >> updates installed twice. >> >> The damn thing infuriates me and the front bit that says dell came off, I >> doubt it was put together right in the first place. >> >> On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 3:45 PM, Tom Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Perhaps relevant: >>> >>> "My boomerang is home....and the solution was something I'd never heard >>> of, so there is a chance it will help some of you. >>> >>> First: Tried unplugging external drives as suggested. No help. >>> >>> Ran chkdsk again. No help. >>> >>> Ran memtest66. No help >>> >>> Scanned with Dell online hardware troubleshooter (My system is Vestros >>> 470). Nope >>> >>> Uninstalled all MS updates for last 2 months. Nope........At this stage >>> was still getting freezes, BSOD, log off and shut down stalls. Decided to >>> try Resource monitor. Couldn't get anything useful (to me, at least) there, >>> but saw a link to something in my Win7Pro system called*Reliability** >>> monitor. *Bingo! Showed some problems were Windows ("We're working on a >>> solution and will get back to you when we find one"), but most were either >>> the Dell datasafe (included with the system) or a program I had installed >>> months before and forgotten about because I thought I hadn't activated it - >>> a firewall call *Glasswire**. *I uninstalled both the Dell and >>> Glasswire programs, and have been problem free for the last week...long >>> enough to stop holding my breath. The takeaway here is the Reliability >>> Monitor may be a good addition to your bag of tricks. Hope it helps. Thanks >>> again to everyone for the many suggestions. >>> >>> Larry Aronberg, DPM" >>> >>> --tj >>> On Nov 18, 2015 10:57 AM, "Gillian Densmore" <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> I have no idea if the is the mailing list to ask >>>> >>>> I have about enough of windows rebooting crashing and being a POS. >>>> >>>> Is there anyway to get this crappy os to not insist on rebooting when I >>>> don't want. Or spamming me with adds about crap I don't want (Java updates >>>> and 10K spamware) >>>> It's slower than cerillos traffic and sucking to use to the point that >>>> I'd rather chuck the damn box off a tall building and hit it with a large >>>> mallet to the toon of the 1812 Overture.run it over and replace it with >>>> something that's actually fun and simple to use. >>>> >>>> I have checked it's update settings. nothing stands out, the neither >>>> Avast or MS's Essentials reports malware or rootkits. Seven forums says uh >>>> just reformat and start over. I somehow doubt that'd fix it. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -G >>>> >>>> >>>> ============================================================ >>>> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >>>> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >>>> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >>>> >>> >>> ============================================================ >>> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >>> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >>> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >>> >> >> > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >
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