WINDOWS SEVEN UPDATES.

Microsoft issued yet another update for Windows 7 in the last 24 hours and it has cause mayhem on my computer....as all Microsoft updates seemed designed to do. This evening when I started up the Steam Machine and opened up Google Chrome my gmail account had disappeared. I tried every way I could think of to find and recover it but, no, I couldn't find it. I managed to get to where I could open my account only to find that my password was not recognised The password recovery system was useless as it wanted another e-mail address to contact to complete the recovery.......I don't have one!!! So I couldn't add a person or open a new account
So as an alternative I clicked on Internet Explorer...........and there was Google Chrome complete with my gmail account What the heck happened there??

 

Good evening @ARMANDII my friend I did hear that Microsoft are playing with Windows 7/8.1 so that you will get so frustrated and will move to Windows 10

 

Yes, Sheal, there is....................Me!!

 

Well, they do do regular updates, Woo, of 7 but it's only in the last 12 months that I've been getting regular problems after a update. I can usually get around them by doing a system restore, but in this last case that hasn't worked. So now, if I want to access my Google Chrome gmail account I'm having to use Internet Explorer..........how crazy is that?!!

 

Well, I've just rescheduled the Windows 10 download for the umpteenth time as I'm still not sure about it.

 

I agree, Pete, but wouldn't you think that Microsoft, with their history of causing problems with their updates, would check first before releasing them and then causing even more resentment about the way they do things.

 

Good morning @ARMANDII my friend, I always only have windows Updates when I want them and decide which ones I want,Windows Update can also be a pain, particularly if it’s scheduled to work automatically. If that’s the case, you’ve probably experienced the head-in-the-hands moment where you’ve stepped away from your computer for a moment, only to return to an updating machine that reboots with all of your windows and work gone.

This is what happens when Windows Update downloads some updates and took it upon itself to reboot without your permission. This should never happen. At best, it's a hassle. At worst, you stand to lose any work you haven't saved

1. Click Start, type Windows Update, and then hit Enter..

2. Click the Change Settings option at left.

3. Change the setting to Download updates but let me choose whether to install them.

4. Click OK.

 

Microsoft hardly do any testing, they just release and wait for customer feedback. They have such a monopoly and make so much money they don't care.