Windows 10 - you can't possibly want to use your PC outside of a 12 hour time period
Posted Aug 7, 2016, 1:56 AM UTC
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Wow. This is seriously a thing? So glad I haven't gotten that shitshow of an OS.
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I used to be a staunch Microsoft guy in the DOS days. Now I will never buy another Windows device again.
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OSX is just as bad. Scheduled boot and shutdown is broken, gets stuck at login screen and won't shutdown. So it won't work properly unless you start disabling logins or password on wake. Been using the feature since 10.6.8. Being staunch anything these days gets nowhere- you gotta know how to squelch around the shitshow of multiple OSs.
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While Windows 10 Mobile allows you to set a 16 hour time period
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You missed the part where it checks to see if you're using the computer anyway. Can you really honestly say you use your computer for more than 12 hours at a time on a regular basis?
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Yes. If not personally using it, very many people leave processes running that take longer than 12 hours. Think of large downloads or video rendering.
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How many is "very many"? Does your mom regularly wait 12 hours for something to download or render a video?
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Hundreds of thousands of people, if not millions. Probably a small percentage of Windows 10 users overall, but there is rarely good reason to make your OS intentionally less stable and functional.
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I wasn't asking you to guess. How many?
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My antivirus/anti-spyware/anti-malware/anti-cryptolocker needs to run at least 24hrs.
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Those are just background services. They'll run while the computer is running. You don't spend at least 24 hours manually scanning and going through histories and definition updates, do you?
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It's not about using it 12 hours at a time, it's about computer availability. Some days I need to for work in the morning, others in the evening. And on neither of those occasions do I want to be waiting for a stupid update to finish!
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The window makes it clear that it will check to see if you're using the computer, so I don't see what the issue is. One issue that I do see is that people don't read the things programs or OSs tell them. If a dialog box pops up, most people will automatically click ok and then wonder why something isn't working. Chances are that dialog box just told them what was wrong.
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It doesn't always check. I have other computers that are used far less that update when not being used. Which is absolutely fine, but it does invite the possibility that I could sit down to use it and find it updating.
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It has always been a possibility that you could sit down to your computer updating, no matter which OS you have. Your OS has to update itself at some point. If you don't want it updating, don't let it on the Internet. If you decided you definitely aren't going to be using it, like when you're sleeping, plug it in and let it do its thing. People are complaining left and right that their computer is interrupting them to update but not realizing that they don't give their computer an opportunity to do it at a more convenient time.
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I should have been named Windows '84
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It needs the other 12 hours to update