Cormac
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Ah… I suspect I had deferred the updates too long and thus it didn’t offer to upgrade me to a newer version.
There’s $19.99 surcharge every time you upgrade to another hundred in the version number. E.g. 1800 to 1900. Except you make the check payable to me instead of Microsoft.
Yeah I really like Windows 10, but the YakAttack Tax is the worst!
It should be showing you 1909 is available. It was made to everyone in January. You don’t have to pay (and even if you did, it would tell you it was available for a cost). But once you’re on Win10 you can upgrade to the latest version for free.
Are you some kind of enterprise license?
Cormac
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Can’t remember exactly where I bought the licence from, its been quite a few years. I was running the Pro version and its been “updating” regularly, but apparently never offered me a big version upgrade. But like I said, I might have disabled that myself at the time when I was wary of MS shutting down my pc while I was using it…
That probably explains it. Have you been getting security updates?
Welp you guys were right, the update to 1909 was super painless. Didn’t even have to reinstall VoiceMeeter, which I need to do after some bigger Windows updates sometimes.
It might be possible to find a higher build number through the MS Update Catalogue,
or use this: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=799445
You might also get to 19xx if you update your Service Stack:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4498140
Cormac
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Thanks for the links! Will check it out tomorrow.
Finally got around to giving my son’s computer a brain transplant - Ryzen 5, x570 motherboard, new SSD with a blank fresh install Win10 pro.
Everything else stayed, included the inexpensive USB wifi that had always worked fine, but is now a huge problem. Its an offbrand that shows up in device manager as a Realtek RTL8811 in both Win 7 and Win10 (we have a 2nd identical one in an unmodified Win7 computer that I’m using right now, still works fine).
In the Win 10, it drops to zero throughput quite regularly. Router is an Orbi, the satellite sits 3 feet away. The one in this box hits ~200Mbps.
Is there likely to be some setting we haven’t found yet? Should we just junk it?
Have you tried different ports? Does it get hot to the touch?
Yes and no.
I could swap it with this one next. Also dragging out the old Trendnet powerline adapters as a possible stopgap. Ordered an ASUS PCIe card, hopefully that will be the final answer, but it won’t get here for a while.
Is there no onboard WiFi?
Looks like we found the problem, and it is, in fact, a Win 10 thing. Windows insisted on installing a Microsoft driver. Even if you explicitly install the manufacturer’s driver, Windows reinstalls the Microsoft one. Opened Change Device Installation Settings, set to No (to opt out of windows updates for drivers), uninstalled the wifi device, uninstalled the drivers, rebooted, reinstalled the actual Realtek driver.
Looks good. 240Mbps, hasn’t dropped connection yet.
Nice work @gruntled, that is some solid troubleshooting and solving.
Hey y’all, not sure where to ask this. I found that my mixer program, VoiceMeeter, is preventing my PC from sleeping. Is there a way I can tell Windows to kill VM automatically after a certain amount of idle time? I can’t find anything.
Yeah, I did a test. Wouldn’t sleep with VM on, would sleep with VM off.
What I’d love is a way to kill VM automatically after say, one hour and 50 minutes of idle, so the PC would sleep after 2 hours.
