![]() ![]() The reason almost no HDD laptops are available these days is that SSD's are much, much faster than optical drives or HDD's. Posted by All Might Be Well at 1:02 PM on Ap The irritating little reminders to install software updates are like the irritating little reminders from your car that your seatbelt isn't on: they are an attempt to protect you and your data. "They" are playing a cat-and-mouse game with enormous amounts of risk and working as hard as they can to ensure as few people as possible are successfully stalked, ransomware'd, or otherwise exploited because their computers aren't secure. "They" don't want to force people to get new computers, and we don't want to force people to stop using computers they like. I work in IT and I have known some people who are the "they" who write the security updates. Given the level of cybercrime activity we are seeing, especially after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, your chances of getting some email, visiting some website that loads some advertisement, or otherwise being attacked by a threat actor are very high.įor example, the April 2022 batch of Windows 10 updates included fixes for several severe vulnerabilities that are being used in the wild for remote code execution. ![]() Not installing updates and connecting to the internet leaves your computer exposed to publicly-known security vulnerabilities. It is time to get an external hard drive, replace this computer, or stop using it to interact in any way at all with anything on the internet. Posted by fight or flight at 12:57 PM on Ap It's planned obsolescence to some degree, they want you to have to replace your computer every few years. Unfortunately I doubt there will be a way to stop Windows updating at all unless you completely disconnect the machine from the internet. You can potentially update using an external storage device but obviously that's not super useful if you need to be mobile with your laptop. If you haven't already, do some disk cleanup and see if that helps get some space back to keep running. Using Office and Outlook would cause it to chug and hang for ages. The space issues were more problematic, I had to keep juggling things and constantly deleting down to the bare minimum to keep it running effectively. Nothing I did stopped it from nagging at me to update and free up space, but it never tried to force the update. This happened to my work PC trying to update to Windows 10 and eventually it totally ran out of space. Best answer: IANA computer expert, but I was the IT guy at work for a while. ![]()
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