Not sure if this shouldn't be in the rants and raves forum but..
I just had bill gates' legacy forcibly update itself
One hundred and thirty updates were downloaded and installed over a three hour period taking control of my computer away from me and making me stay up half the night waiting for this travesty to stop even though I had long ago unchecked every checkbox in Control Panel > Windows UpDate > Change Settings and had already selected the 'Check for updates but let me chose whether to download and install them' option.
Getting to this forum was a struggle because everything about internet explorer had been upgraded and I got a wtf is this ? expression all over my face already. I reserve the right to boldy go where I never went before as and when I chose not at microsoft's whim. If this slows my computer as upgrades occasionally do I got to reinstall everything. I seriously need to find a reliable way to make copies of partitions so the next time bgl goes north I can use the copy.
Did anyone out there ever have this happen to them ?
Just another reason for putting a horizon between myself and bgl althought I can't lose it completely because my favourite word processor, a trusted and capable friend for more than twenty years, cannot be made to run on linux no matter which virtual environment I tried.
Theemahn if you ever do make Ultimate Edition capable of running Wordperfect Office I would be more than happy to pay you for it the same as I used to pay microsoft for their abomination
For now I have changed the update service type to manual in Administrative Tools > Services > Windows Update > Properties hoping it will only run when I tell it to and any microsoft representatives in my vicinity might want to put some distance between us..