For all the years of complaints that Windoze was so insecure and so horrible, why won’t Micro$oft fix it… Then they do and now that$ the mo$t horrible thing ever.
And I say that as someone whose CUE install was broken for a week after the Creator Update and had to deal with default, DEFAULT LED keyboard lighting in my games. My games! Lana! (I have have been watching too much Archer lately) but still, OSes that fix themselves and protect me from the myriads of batshit insanity that roams the Interwebs is a good thing. I mean this latest Intel debacle will be fixed, automagically on my computers, my wife’s and kid’s computers, my parent’s computers, etc. without my intervention.
The problem is: they only control the software - the hardware that it runs on is a big wobbly ball of timey… well, it’s a big mess of different combinations and configurations - almost inevitable that a software release into that environment will break something.
I’m not making excuses - the problem has no very elegant solution - let the users easily decline updates and malware prevails; force updates on the users and risk breaking their computers.
Okay, let’s differentiate here between “updates” and “upgrades.” Because Windows 10 shoves “upgrades” like the Creator’s Update that breaks shit and fucks up drivers and the like, but there are regular security updates that are the ones that keep your malware and virus definitions current and patch security holes. There is no safety reason for random “upgrades,” any more than there’s any safety reason for going from a still supported version of Windows to another supported version.
Ask my computer–it’s got all the regular security updates installed and is current. What it does NOT have is the most current version of bullshit because that requires the Windows Update Assistant to install itself and separately download whatever garbage those idiots have decided for us is the latest and greatest. All my drivers are up to date and they WORK, and all my installed apps are still installed and they also still work. The three times I got caught by that fucking Creator’s Update and had to roll it back to the previous version (lost time for me, approximately an hour per occurrence, plus swearing) drivers stopped working, installed apps were either arbitrarily uninstalled or were just not working. Now the Update Assistant can’t reinstall itself, the normal security updates are automatically downloaded and installed just like Microsoft wants and I no longer have to waste my time and energy either uninstalling the Update Assistant or rolling back to a previous version when it catches me off guard. I count that as much of a win as you can get and still remain in the Windows OS environment.
Seriously, follow the instructions I posted above, it really does fix it. I hate that fucking Creator POS with every fiber of my being and it took me a while to find that solution–you could go research it too but my instructions are way easier to follow.
Silly question - but back to the OP, what’s the problem?
When you go to display details what does it show for your TV? Select extend display so it shows both monitors, and see what it thinks the TV is.
What it sounds like, is that your TV is a 4K (hey, I’m using one 43" for my monitor right now.) Therefore, it’s 3840x2160 pixels.
When you ***mirror ***your display, you are mirroring your screen (1920x1080) onto a 4K TV. The HDMI from the TV tells the laptop “I’m really, really big!” Instead of upscaling the screen, it just uses the top left corner or something and reproduces the display pixel for pixel.
Unfortunately, I don’t have a dual display here. (3840x2160 is more than enough). There must be some way to either tell the PC that the TV should use a lesser display mode (1920x1080) or scale the mirrored picture to fill the screen. Poke around in Display settings in control panel (or right-click on empty screen area). I’m betting the problem is the update reset the default behaviour to something different.
After all, it can be annoying. I’ve seen a screen mirrored to an old TV resolution (Video converter to 480i for broadcast through a channel of the TV’s on all the exercise equipment). The screen reduced to the lower resolution even on the fancy widescreen monitor. It’s a “feature”, mirror to the lowest common denominator. However, the question is exactly how to reduce the bigger screen to lowest - use less pixels or scale the image and fill the screen? (What if the aspect ratios are different? For the case I saw, filled screen but black bars on the sides to turn a 19:6 display to 4:3.) Some programmer picked a new default for your hardware but I bet it can be changed.
Hmmm. I got partway through your instructions but when I opened the “Update Orchestrator” file, I did not see the two “Update Assistants” in the middle box.
all with various statuses.
fyi, I am not using the Admin acct but I can if need be.
I have been able to delay the upgrade using the “metered connection” hack (via the Admin acct, IIRC) because I am on an extremely slow, unprotected wifi. Now I can postpone the upgrade weekly (I get a pop up dialog box saying the upgrade is ready to install but I can delay it for up to one week and choose the time) When I am not online, I disconnect the wifi altogether.
It can not mirror, extend, or “second screen only” after the Fall Creator Update, but works fine rolled back to before that.
It only displays the upper left corner of the screen in any mode. Messing around with the resolutions in any mode has not helped. It is not magnified using any kind of magnifier, either.
Maybe it is an Admin thing–I don’t have any other accounts set up on my laptop because why would I? You touch my laptop and I break ya fingers, LOL. But the Update Assistant items should be right there between Schedule Scan and the USO_UxBroker items.
To anyone who still thinks it’s a great idea to let MS autoapply patches and updates, I point you to a report that MS’s fix for Meltdown/Spectre is crashing* some people’s AMD CPU computers.
I always want to wait a while to see if any “fixes” actually cause problems. Making MS Update hard to manage, esp. in Win-10 Home, is basically evil.
The report uses the term “brick” but that’s an abuse of terminology.
Disagree. It’s a soft brick, since it can be fixed, but it’s still a brick. You cannot boot the OS, same as if you brick an update on your phone or tablet. You can only fix it by going into recovery mode and fiddling around, same as when you brick a phone or tablet.
A crash would be something you could just restart and recover from. At least, that’s how I use it. This is bigger than a crash.
I am aware of the distinction between a hard brick and a soft brick*. Without the adjective it means “hard brick”.
And the term “soft brick” is an abuse of terminology. If the device can be restored using basic methods, it isn’t bricked. It’s frozen/crashed/temporarily unusable.
That is exactly how this works. DDOS needs large numbers of bots. Spam is sent trough botnets. My neighbors camera and router are killing the internet. Stop talking about shit you don’t understand; get patching.
Find a solution that doesn’t involve switching off updates; everybody is better off that way.
I think it’s a good idea for MS to impose updates. I don’t think it’s perfect, and I know it causes pain, but I think on a global scale, it’s better than the alternative, because end users are not very good at deciding whether an update is important or not.
Me too (and we do this at work, because we have the tools to manage it) - but what we can’t do is defer the updates forever.
Yes, it is, but I believe it is the lesser of several evils, and leaving users to make their own wrong choices leads to a greater evil.
I don’t mind Microsoft burying the setting and making it difficult, and I think most users should leave updates on. But on more than one occasion I’ve had automatic updates break software that is necessary to run on the machine.
It doesn’t just “cause pain”. In some cases it can render the computer completely useless for its intended purpose.
You’ll note that I was actually responding to a post about computers being rendered inoperable by updates. ‘Cause pain’ is a description of what happens to the affected users, not their computers - and if your computer stops working, it will probably cause you pain.
Other things that can cause pain:
Your computer being rendered inoperable by malware intrusion
Your mailbox being flooded by spam originating from infected machines
Your website being DDOSed by a botnet
Your personal data being held to ransom by ransomeware
etc.
On a global scale, it’s better if all operable machines are patched; unfortunately, imposing that reality is not without risks - but the choice here is not ‘risk vs zero risk’ it’s ‘this risk vs that risk’ - leaving users to be responsible about patching is not without risks.
It is evil to impose risks upon unconsenting parties, but there isn’t a zero-risk choice here. The best thing a (defacto) authority can do is to make the choice that minimises risk - to make the least evil choice - and that, I firmly believe, is to ensure that patching takes place.