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From: Jim Jackson <jj@franjam.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: How do people live with MS Windows ????
Date: Tue, 21 May 2024 15:33:29 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-05-20, mm0fmf <none@invalid.com> wrote:
> On 16/05/2024 21:32, Jim Jackson wrote:
>> So how do people put up with this?
>
> They're smart enough to know how the OS works and handles its updates so 
> this doesn't happen. i.e. they update well before they intend to present 
> or they disable updates temporarily before presenting or they make sure 
> they don't go online before presenting.
>
> Just because you are clueless about the OS doesn't mean everyone else is.

:-) point taken. BUT, as I understand it, the ability to prevent 
updates for a period is a (comparatively) recent introduction. 

The fact that one can prevent updates for a period came as news to many 
MS Windows users I've chatted to about this with, some of them pretty au 
fait the OS. So it appears that there are a LOT of us "dumbos" out there.

I have always understood that for the home edition the machine updated 
when it needed to - so how do you force it to update earlier as you say 
above?