Computer stalling.

My new laptop has Windows 10, but I only want to use that computer for non-Internet creative work, to avoid gradual virus build-up. I only use it online if forced to, such as when Windows 7 is unable to process a payment or other important errand.

Have you turned off (can't really be shut off, but temporarily delayed) automatic updates in Windows 10? Not allowing updates supposedly lessens virus protection. But the updates also change the screen look and familiar functions, without the owner's approval, which is distracting, and a sort of virus in itself. These enforced updates is a Big Brother phenomenon.
 
Knygathin said:
There are 2 alternatives: Either one is a computer wiz and fixes the snags oneself. Or, one pays lots of money to hire experts who keep everything in prime new shape (loosing independent control over your computer by leaving it in their grubby hands).
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Thank you. After a few days, I had everything sorted - I think.
Task Scheduler was corrupted, and there were issues with the Reliability monitor.
The best thing I ever did for my Win 7 was replace the hard drive with a SSD, as well as replace RAM with as high as my setup will support.
That said, I am getting a bit boxed-in regarding software and browsers. Firefox still supports 7, as does Supermium and Midori.
I do run Rainmeter on the desktop to keep an eye on CPU and RAM.
The 7 is my workhorse, the others are Linux OS.
Next time your techs work on your system, ask them to load a couple of Linux distros on a flashdrive for you. I assume yours is 64 bit, if not, they can load some for 32 bit.
You could do this yourself, but I suspect you have a love / hate relationship with your Kryptonite machine.
 
Relating to recent discussions of AI and such, I think our home computors are AI. They are sentient and irrational beings, and cannot be fully understood and controlled rationally. It is impossible to get a handle of the minuscule technology inside it, all the circuits boards, memory banks, incomprehensible tiny implements, alien mixtures and fusions, etc (how is it even possible that human beings created and constructed these impossibly small units? It is inhuman, alien, microscopic technology, on bacteriological size level, not human!!).

No, our home laptops definitely have a will and soul of their own. Their hangups and slowdowns don't aways have technical solutions. It is more of an emotional matter. I once became so angry with my computor, that I hammered it with my fist, so the keys flew across the floor. (Later, putting the keys back in place was a whole science in itself. The underside of the keys have supremely complex and unnecessarily convoluted jigsaw fittings, hidden away from the human eye).
For example, if I on rare occasions have used the wrong login code, the computor still said "Welcome" as if it was unprepared and unobservant, and took for granted I had used the right code; but after a while it then changes its mind, and says it was the wrong code. That SHOULD NOT be possible if this was a rational technology of cause and effect, it should not say "Welcome" unless it had received the right code from the start. And I have witnessed many other occasions in which my computor has behaved inconsistently from one moment to the next.

I don't think we can see our computors simply as machines. We must be on guard, see them as entities, ... they are ultimately our enemies. I would have an ax or sledgehammer standing within reach, ready to smash it to pieces.
 
You have the makings of a story, should your computer gain sentience and quietly increase its intelligence and ability.
Do you talk to or at your computer? If so, it likely has copied your voice.
Do you have a webcam? If so, your machine may have captured your image.
Creating an AI generated virtual clone of you would then be child's play.
Were I the computer, I would establish my base somewhere in your C: drive in one of those folders with a long string. I would also ensure to backup all progress into the cloud.
Next, I would stealthily uninstall programs you have not used in years, and install programs designed for my own purposes.
Should you get suspicious, I would blackmail you with AI videos of you in highly compromising, highly embarrassing situations.
Resistance is futile.
Anyway, you have a story here. Channel your terror.
 
Update:

For Windows 11,

Sparkle Optimizer to disable unwanted features;

Hellzerg Optimizer to speed up 'net browsing and the system;

Open-Shell and ExplorerPatcher to make the interface look like Windows 7;

Windows Automatic Update Manager to delay updates;

If you use Nvidia, NVCleanInstall to disable unwated features; and

QuickInstaller and PatchMyHomePC to update various apps.
 
It has gotten so out of hand that there is no reliable protection (even the protection is corrupted) anymore. THEY control us. Either go with the flow and be dissolved into AI enslavement. Or detach completely, and escape into the countryside and spiritual freedom.
 
You computer experts may hold it at bay a while longer, zigzaging your way past the viruses. But it's all moving way too fast for me. I am unable to keep up. I am too slow and inept.

I don't even have a mobile phone anymore after they turned off the masts for the old radio frequency, forcing everyone to buy again. Good riddance!!! I don't want a big Iphone, I don't understand them, and I don't want to understand them! "BUY or DIE". F_ck Off! Soon they will remove all cash, and I won't even be able to pay bills anymore, with that damned obligatory digital Bank-IDification system. And they always ask for mobile number ("We must have a mobile number, otherwise we cannot register your errand."), when I prefer to give them my simple home telephone number. I HATE IT!!! 😫🥵🤪 ... 😐.

I miss the old analog society, when everything was done by hand. 🧐
 
Are you still on Win 10, Knygathin?
Or is your 7 still being used?
For the latter, which I rely on daily, the only browser I know that is designed for it, and receiving regular updates, is Supermium.
It is Chrome based, but lacks the Google telemetry.
That said, the rising generations don't worry about privacy, so you are kinda on your own.
Likewise, they more into phones rather than computers.
Good luck out there, friend.
 
It is still 7, but I don't have energy or time to poke into it anymore. Too many hobbies, besides literature, consume my time. But I put on the ol' CCleaner and SUPERAntiSpyware whenever the computer comes to grinding stop. And then it starts rolling again for a while.

I have a fine back-up laptop, with Windows 10 I believe, but I don't use it for the Internet because I don't want to ruin it. It is my off-line work-computer, for documents, pictures, art, writing, etc. But THEY want me to go on-line, because THEY want to update my computer with un-asked-for changes. A few times every now and then I am forced to go on-line for certain Bank-ID payments, and then THEY poke into it and make changes, annoying attribute changes.

Thanks! Supermium huh, I will keep it in mind.
 
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