04-18-2016, 04:11 AM
I don't know enough about Windows 10 yet (haven't upgraded any of my home desktops or PCs, and don't plan to), but after you've deleted the Windows updates mentioned upthread, you can go to Control Panel in Windows 7 and Windows 8 (or Windows XP, which I still run on an old HP desktop because it has a wonderful scanner / digitizer combo device connected to it - One so old that it requires installing an Adaptec 2906 SCSI card and infinite DIP switch fiddling, and there are no drivers available for Windows 7 for the device), and set Windows updates to manual, rather than automatic - That way you only get updates when you want them, and then only the components of those updates you select.
I have a couple of Gentoo Linux PCs as well (primarily just for tinkering) - I started my career as a programmer writing device drivers for image acquisition / processing devices (all the way back to the old standalone Gould devices for VAX / VMS with their FORTRAN 77 API) and image display / processing apps for DOS 5.0, SunWindows, and pre-Motif X11 / Xlib for various flavors of UNIX (Tektroniks UTEK IV (BSD based) and UTEK V (System V based), SunOS (pre-Solaris), Digital's DG/UX, MIPS RISC/OS, IBM's AIX, Altek Xenix for the 386 chipset, SCO UNIX for the 386 chipset, and NDS dsunix, and went from there to writing sockets code for TCP/IP applications for Windows 3.11 using the venerable old Trumpet and Novell APIs. My coding days are long past, I'm a disgusting Project / Program manager these days, but I still have stacks of CDRs (converted from old mini-cassete data cartridges) with most of my old code on them, and tinkering with the code (or even just reading my old comments in the code) is entertaining on rainy weekends.Â
Would that I could abandon Windows altogether, but unfortunately MS Excel, MS Powerpoint, MS Project, and Primavera are where I spend 70% of my days...The other 30% is split between conference calls and weekly reports.  Yeah, the pay and benefits are better, but when I was a coder / sysadmin I didn't dread Mondays, where today I certainly do.
Just a few more years before I'm able to retire, and then my wife's Windows laptop and Windows 8 tablet will be the only remaining Windows machines in my household.
I have a couple of Gentoo Linux PCs as well (primarily just for tinkering) - I started my career as a programmer writing device drivers for image acquisition / processing devices (all the way back to the old standalone Gould devices for VAX / VMS with their FORTRAN 77 API) and image display / processing apps for DOS 5.0, SunWindows, and pre-Motif X11 / Xlib for various flavors of UNIX (Tektroniks UTEK IV (BSD based) and UTEK V (System V based), SunOS (pre-Solaris), Digital's DG/UX, MIPS RISC/OS, IBM's AIX, Altek Xenix for the 386 chipset, SCO UNIX for the 386 chipset, and NDS dsunix, and went from there to writing sockets code for TCP/IP applications for Windows 3.11 using the venerable old Trumpet and Novell APIs. My coding days are long past, I'm a disgusting Project / Program manager these days, but I still have stacks of CDRs (converted from old mini-cassete data cartridges) with most of my old code on them, and tinkering with the code (or even just reading my old comments in the code) is entertaining on rainy weekends.Â
Would that I could abandon Windows altogether, but unfortunately MS Excel, MS Powerpoint, MS Project, and Primavera are where I spend 70% of my days...The other 30% is split between conference calls and weekly reports.  Yeah, the pay and benefits are better, but when I was a coder / sysadmin I didn't dread Mondays, where today I certainly do.
Just a few more years before I'm able to retire, and then my wife's Windows laptop and Windows 8 tablet will be the only remaining Windows machines in my household.