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Microsoft in process of killing drivers, etc.
03/03/16 at 10:09:51

Microsoft, having announced they will begin deleting any driver or software that conflicts with the Microsoft standard bits and pieces has now REPEATEDLY scrapped my utility softwares and my AMD Catalyst Driver for my video card.

They are killing stuff in my Linux Directory as well as in my Windows directory and are replacing it with Microsoft brand bits and pieces that do not do NEARLY the same level of good functionality.

When your monitor doesn't work well and your printer doesn't work well you are supposed to get all pissed off about it and GO BUY A BRAND NEW WIN 10 PC.

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AIN'T HAPPENING, MS .......

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springman Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 2217 Spring, Texas Gender:	Re: Microsoft in process of killing drivers, etc. Reply #1 - 03/03/16 at 11:39:02 Wow, had me worried there. I thought you meant they were shooting at people in cars. Good thing I have a motorcycle.
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LANCER Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Savage Beast Performance Parts Posts: 10666 Oklahoma Gender:	Re: Microsoft in process of killing drivers, etc. Reply #2 - 03/04/16 at 07:41:27 springman wrote on 03/03/16 at 11:39:02: Wow, had me worried there. I thought you meant they were shooting at people in cars. Good thing I have a motorcycle. Don't laugh ... that is next !
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Reply #3 - 03/04/16 at 07:49:17

LANCER wrote on 03/04/16 at 07:41:27:

springman wrote on 03/03/16 at 11:39:02:

Wow, had me worried there. I thought you meant they were shooting at people in cars. Grin

Good thing I have a motorcycle. Grin

Don't laugh ... that is next !

Not "Next"!!! Long standing practice around this neck of the woods.... Shocked

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springman Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 2217 Spring, Texas Gender:	Re: Microsoft in process of killing drivers, etc. Reply #4 - 03/04/16 at 08:46:08 I guess that means don't go cruising around central New Mexico.
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old.indian Serious Thumper Offline Fighting Foreign Terrorism since 1492 Posts: 975 Central New Mexico Gender:	Re: Microsoft in process of killing drivers, etc. Reply #5 - 03/04/16 at 10:47:02 springman wrote on 03/04/16 at 08:46:08: I guess that means don't go cruising around central New Mexico. YEP!!!! Tex-Ass chicken rustlers will be required to show passports and visas to enter...Oklahoma and Louisiana are enacting similar laws as I understand it....
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Art Webb Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 3007 columbus, Texas Gender:	Re: Microsoft in process of killing drivers, etc. Reply #6 - 03/05/16 at 07:40:06 And here I was thinking of a trip to Carlsbad caverns one fine day Oh well, we got caverns here in Texas, too
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: Microsoft in process of killing drivers, etc. Reply #7 - 03/05/16 at 08:27:31 Ain't America grand?
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jcstokes Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com is very useful Posts: 2119 Mauku New Zealand Gender:	Re: Microsoft in process of killing drivers, etc. Reply #8 - 03/05/16 at 19:15:18 OF, I got a larger "window" saying "Get Windows Ten, please wait". I turned it off before waiting,
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Reply #9 - 03/05/16 at 20:36:51

Well, I've got one laptop that Windows can no longer mess with, although it was running Windows Vista and is not eligible for a Win 10 upgrade.

I had been dual-booting Vista and Ubuntu for a long time, and hadn't booted back into Vista for a few months. I was running 32-bit Ubuntu and the Chrome browser was complaining that support for 32-bit Chrome would be ending.

I backed up my /home directory to a usb external drive using the built-in deja-dup application. I also booted into Windows and backed up my data files in the Windows partition using an old program called Karen's Replicator.

I did a fresh install of 64-bit Ubuntu from a bootable usb stick, using the entire disk for Ubuntu. Goodbye Windows partition. I then used deja-dup to restore my home directory. The install and restore was done within an hour. I reinstalled the Chrome (not Chromium) browser, updated LibreOffice to v5 and reinstalled the Wine Windows emulator and a game that I like to play that runs under Wine.

All my date files and app settings came back with the /home restore, thanks to Linux keeping all my data, user config files and settings in my /home directory.

Two hours later, I had my complete system installed and data files restored. If I was rebuilding using Windows, I would have still been sitting in patch update hell for many more hours.

As I need any document, picture and media files that were on my Windows partition, I will simply copy them across from the backup on my external drive. Easy-peasy, since linux can read Windows file systems.

Granted, this is not my main computer. It is used mostly for Web browsing and some games and document creation while sitting in front of the TV. However, it can do everything I need it for.

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Reply #10 - 03/06/16 at 07:32:12

I was using my little vista 14" laptop to experiment with Linux 15 and 16 and could do a lot of things needed for just browsing, picture viewing, and document storage.
I hadn't tried any programs for video editing or office documentation, before I got a boot error... got mad and dumped the whole thing... come to find out, I think it was a hard drive error and not Linux, because a month later the drive crashed.
Well, I reinstalled my vista (took two days) and am using it now for my wireless D-Link security system (only 3 cameras at the moment). I am wondering if wine would run the D-cam software, since it is already loaded on the windows side, I might be able to just "link" it.
I believe I did a drag and drop on a couple of games I was playing doing that process (its been about 8 months so my memory fails).
I do believe I had to use firefox browser because of the 32 bit non-support thing. I am thinking of doing the dual boot thing again so I guess I will find out

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Reply #11 - 03/06/16 at 11:40:38

I'm nowhere near a Wine expert, so I can't tell you what works under Wine and what doesn't. I know Apple itunes has issues. That's one reason I'm keeping a Windows box around, so I can back up my iphone to a local computer.

I generally use Firefox instead of Chrome. The dropping of support for 32-bit Chrome was just a good excuse to rebuild the laptop as a Linux-only device.

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