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Post by b1 on Jun 2, 2015 3:49:47 GMT -6
I'm not sure this is in the right place, but Microsoft has evoked an aggravation campaign to get Windows users to upgrade
to Windows 10. Personally, I'm not interested in being a bug reporter for M$ and suffering through driver problems for who
knows how long. Microsoft has conveniently left out an option to close the task bar Icon in the right-click menu. If you feel
the same about avoiding Windows 10, you may open Task Mangler (Manager) and look for the process: "GWX.exe". Right
click and select "End Process". Then look for the process "TrustedInstaller", and right-click to select "End Process" from the
Menu. You'll need to do that every day until (?) an opt out procedure is in place or someone investigates how to block the
"GWX.exe" process from starting.
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Post by swurveman on Jun 2, 2015 6:05:48 GMT -6
Thanks b1
I found the charms in Windows 8 to be incredibly aggravating. Hopefully they'll nix that idea for future releases.
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Post by b1 on Jun 2, 2015 6:39:53 GMT -6
Thanks b1 I found the charms in Windows 8 to be incredibly aggravating. Hopefully they'll nix that idea for future releases. I did a search for the related files to GWX.exe and found over a dozen before explorer crashed... hmmm |
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Post by Ward on Jun 2, 2015 7:16:13 GMT -6
On a somewhat related note, I find the push for Yosemite, Mavericks or whatever else is Apple's latest OS upgrade to be EQUALLY annoying.
I'm still running Snow Leopard on my studio Mac Pro towers and it works just peachy. I have no interest in upgrading it despite Apple's CONSTANT attempts to get me to do so.
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Post by b1 on Jun 2, 2015 7:48:20 GMT -6
On a somewhat related note, I find the push for Yosemite, Mavericks or whatever else is Apple's latest OS upgrade to be EQUALLY annoying. I'm still running Snow Leopard on my studio Mac Pro towers and it works just peachy. I have no interest in upgrading it despite Apple's CONSTANT attempts to get me to do so. I hang onto stuff to the last thread. Still running boxes with XP 32/64, Vista 32/64, Win7 32/64, and still have a couple or 3 Win '98 SE boxes. I've got a lot invested in soft/hardware on all of those platforms. Shucks, I'm still running Cubase VST 5.1 with XP 32 bit on one machine. I find inspiration in different forms through all of the old stuff here. I've ignored Win 8 totally, because it's incompatible with a lot I've got. Unless some remarkable hardware or software comes along, I'll stop the love affair at Win 7, although Cubase 8 Pro is tempting. |
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Post by Ward on Jun 2, 2015 8:41:28 GMT -6
On a somewhat related note, I find the push for Yosemite, Mavericks or whatever else is Apple's latest OS upgrade to be EQUALLY annoying. I'm still running Snow Leopard on my studio Mac Pro towers and it works just peachy. I have no interest in upgrading it despite Apple's CONSTANT attempts to get me to do so. I hang onto stuff to the last thread. Still running boxes with XP 32/64, Vista 32/64, Win7 32/64, and still have a couple or 3 Win '98 SE boxes. I've got a lot invested in soft/hardware on all of those platforms. Shucks, I'm still running Cubase VST 5.1 with XP 32 bit on one machine. I find inspiration in different forms through all of the old stuff here. I've ignored Win 8 totally, because it's incompatible with a lot I've got. Unless some remarkable hardware or software comes along, I'll stop the love affair at Win 7, although Cubase 8 Pro is tempting. Microsoft was like... "The Mac GUI looks Toy Like" and then, "But wait, let's make Windows 8 look like Fisher Price!" |
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Post by Bob Olhsson on Jun 2, 2015 8:46:52 GMT -6
It'll be interesting. I just ordered a 6 core Pro Tools PC with two system drives, one to stay at 8.1 and one I'll upgrade to 10. pro-tools-pc.com |
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Post by b1 on Jun 2, 2015 8:55:14 GMT -6
It'll be interesting. I just ordered a 6 core Pro Tools PC with two system drives, one to stay at 8.1 and one I'll upgrade to 10. pro-tools-pc.comThat would be a better idea - installing 10 on a dedicated drive, but M$ has been pestering "us" for two days to trade in 7 for 10. |
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Post by Bob Olhsson on Jun 2, 2015 11:08:22 GMT -6
It doesn't happen until July. I would image your drive as a backup with Paragon free.
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Post by b1 on Jun 2, 2015 11:34:42 GMT -6
Yeah, the offer was "reserve" a free upgrade. I think I've got the "GWX" process permanently shut down without deleting files. Those seem to be decent prices at pro-tools-pc.com/. I'll keep my eye out for the upcoming dual Xeon version.... well I'll try to have a look see at the parts they use, to incorporate in my own future build. That looks to be a gem for video work. |
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Post by adogg4629 on Jun 2, 2015 12:42:00 GMT -6
It'll be interesting. I just ordered a 6 core Pro Tools PC with two system drives, one to stay at 8.1 and one I'll upgrade to 10. pro-tools-pc.comOh, please report back on how that works for you. I've been interested in the Pro Tools PC for a while. I've talked with Neil and crew a bunch of times and they seem really great. I have a feeling that when Win 10 hits and is stable it will be the go to OS for DAWs. I've been using the beta for some time and I have nothing but good things to say about it (the charms are gone!!!) AD |
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Post by keymod on Jun 2, 2015 14:17:16 GMT -6
On a somewhat related note, I find the push for Yosemite, Mavericks or whatever else is Apple's latest OS upgrade to be EQUALLY annoying. I'm still running Snow Leopard on my studio Mac Pro towers and it works just peachy. I have no interest in upgrading it despite Apple's CONSTANT attempts to get me to do so. I hang onto stuff to the last thread. Still running boxes with XP 32/64, Vista 32/64, Win7 32/64, and still have a couple or 3 Win '98 SE boxes. I've got a lot invested in soft/hardware on all of those platforms. Shucks, I'm still running Cubase VST 5.1 with XP 32 bit on one machine. I find inspiration in different forms through all of the old stuff here. I've ignored Win 8 totally, because it's incompatible with a lot I've got. Unless some remarkable hardware or software comes along, I'll stop the love affair at Win 7, although Cubase 8 Pro is tempting. I've got Cubase 8Pro running on a Windows 7 64bit machine. Everything seems to be working correctly. |
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Post by LesC on Jun 2, 2015 14:27:47 GMT -6
On a somewhat related note, I find the push for Yosemite, Mavericks or whatever else is Apple's latest OS upgrade to be EQUALLY annoying. I'm still running Snow Leopard on my studio Mac Pro towers and it works just peachy. I have no interest in upgrading it despite Apple's CONSTANT attempts to get me to do so. I hang onto stuff to the last thread. Still running boxes with XP 32/64, Vista 32/64, Win7 32/64, and still have a couple or 3 Win '98 SE boxes. I've got a lot invested in soft/hardware on all of those platforms. Shucks, I'm still running Cubase VST 5.1 with XP 32 bit on one machine. I find inspiration in different forms through all of the old stuff here. I've ignored Win 8 totally, because it's incompatible with a lot I've got. Unless some remarkable hardware or software comes along, I'll stop the love affair at Win 7, although Cubase 8 Pro is tempting. Same as keymod, Cubase 8Pro running on Windows 7 64bit without a problem. If you look at the Cubase 8 specs, it requires Windows 7 or 8. |
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Post by b1 on Jun 2, 2015 14:55:27 GMT -6
I've heard how much better Cubase 8 Pro is and understood Win7 is one of the requirements. I may be tempted to go that way at some point, but I'll have to get over being miffed at Yamaberg first. They dropped support for XP and Vista with the UR824 a couple of Firmware revisions ago. I've only today gotten confirmation from them (after a previous failed attempt) that in order to test the DSP Guitar Amp Classics, I'd have to give up XP & Vista, whereas I can't degrade the firmware (why?) if I don't like the modelling. And my wife's UR22 has a problem with some Condenser mics. She uses a Dynamic, but it's the principle of the thing. They won't do a free repair unless we give a Condenser brand and model #, even though the serial # is confirmed to be one of the affected units. I tell you, it's felt too much like a Steinberg circus around here, of late. So they are on "the list", for now.
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Post by Bob Olhsson on Jun 2, 2015 14:59:40 GMT -6
Neil wrangles PCs and consoles for the BBC as his day job. All of the machines are tested with the mac os for people who want an up to date CPU to use with their Pro Tools pci-e cards. I don't want a mac but I do want the option of buying a used HDX or HD native system.
The Haswell-Es offer twice the floating point calculations per core as Sandy Bridge. I'm getting the lesser 6 core because it's a 3.3GHz that can still handle peaks up to 3.6. It seems to be the sweet spot right now performance-wise. Anything significantly more powerful would be both significantly more expensive and noisy.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2015 15:00:01 GMT -6
If you want to get rid of the Win10 nag screen in Win7-8.1, go into Windows Update, choose "Installed Updates", search for Windows Update KB3035583, right click, deinstall.
This is the update that phones home, contains the downloader for Win10 etc...
Then search manually for updates after the uninstall, it will be found again for install.
Exclude it from future updates. Done.
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Post by b1 on Jun 2, 2015 15:14:20 GMT -6
If you want to get rid of the Win10 nag screen in Win7-8.1, go into Windows Update, choose "Installed Updates", search for Windows Update KB3035583, right click, deinstall. This is the update that phones home, contains the downloader for Win10 etc... Then search manually for updates after the uninstall, it will be found again for install. Exclude it from future updates. Done. Ahhh, that's great. I've got the "GWX ConfigManager" blocked from the network and it hasn't poked it's nose out anymore. I'll get that bugger at the root, now! |
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Post by adogg4629 on Jun 2, 2015 16:58:44 GMT -6
Neil wrangles PCs and consoles for the BBC as his day job. All of the machines are tested with the mac os for people who want an up to date CPU to use with their Pro Tools pci-e cards. I don't want a mac but I do want the option of buying a used HDX or HD native system. The Haswell-Es offer twice the floating point calculations per core as Sandy Bridge. I'm getting the lesser 6 core because it's a 3.3GHz that can still handle peaks up to 3.6. It seems to be the sweet spot right now performance-wise. Anything significantly more powerful would be both significantly more expensive and noisy. After playing with Windows 10, I'm itching to build a high end PC for Post production. I just priced out a dual 10 core E5 machine and it comes in at about three grand less than the highest end Mac Pro and doesn't necessitate me having to get a Thunderbolt chassis. I know Neil and crew can have builds like these listed on the Pro-Tools PC site as coming soon. I really think a lot of the naysayers on this thread will really warm up to Win10 when it hits. It really does take the best of Win7 and 8 and throws out the trash. AD |
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Post by Ward on Jun 2, 2015 17:30:36 GMT -6
right click, deinstall. SNIP... uninstall, I find "Windows Speak" hilarious. uninstall deinstall... there's a word in English for that: REMOVE. The antonym of install is remove. If M$ has their way, we will soon "insert a cable" and then instead of removing it, we will "deinsert" it or "uninsert" it. And insetad of ejecting a DVD, we will "uninsert" that as well. Reminds me, I need a toaster that can deinsert the bread automatically. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2015 17:40:10 GMT -6
Haha.
I don't even know the english version. German version MS speak is even worse. Because it is also inconsistent in many places....
Worked once as a freelance technical translator in this field. MS projects were hilarious. Badly paid for the beginner, because you lose alot of time with their glossaries and lectors, at that time seemingly a bunch of exile germans that haven't been in Germany for decades, because their corrections were a bit like automatic translations from chinese sometimes... :-P
We did alot of stuff around Office 2000, back in time...
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Post by adogg4629 on Jun 3, 2015 10:59:20 GMT -6
Haha. I don't even know the english version. German version MS speak is even worse. Because it is also inconsistent in many places.... Worked once as a freelance technical translator in this field. MS projects were hilarious. Badly paid for the beginner, because you lose alot of time with their glossaries and lectors, at that time seemingly a bunch of exile germans that haven't been in Germany for decades, because their corrections were a bit like automatic translations from chinese sometimes... :-P We did alot of stuff around Office 2000, back in time... That's what you get when you let engineers name things, LOL. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2015 12:57:03 GMT -6
And after this, let the names be used by mad marketing philosopers. Newspeak. Doublespeak doubleplusgood.
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Post by Ward on Jun 4, 2015 8:21:41 GMT -6
And after this, let the names be used by mad marketing philosopers. Newspeak. Doublespeak doubleplusgood. Hey, watch it... I resemble that remark! I'll just try to behave myself with good 'Gentle Conduct'. |
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Post by Bob Olhsson on Jun 5, 2015 22:24:03 GMT -6
I got the computer today and Wow! It's blazing fast and really quiet.
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Post by LesC on Jun 6, 2015 0:54:57 GMT -6
I got the computer today and Wow! It's blazing fast and really quiet. That's great! Maybe I missed it, but which motherboard and processor did you go with? And what contributed to the quietness, as in case/drives/cooling or ? |
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