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grimm
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Derek27 wrote:
Thu Jan 11, 2024 10:34 am
grimm wrote:
Thu Jan 11, 2024 10:32 am
Derek27 wrote:
Thu Jan 11, 2024 10:29 am


No, on any Pro edition you can use group policies to completely disable automatic updates. If you use Home, you can only set active hours to a maximum of 18 (used to be 12).

I'd like to see a car manufacture try to sell a car that you can only use for a chosen 18 hours a day, and have to leave your keys in the ignition so their technicians can come around and service it in the remaining six hours!

I'm taxi driver. I love this idea so I don't have to take car to shop for repairs :twisted:
... until your wife goes into labour and you need to get her to hospital ... during inactive hours. :)
Home delivery I guess.
Shergar6
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foxwood wrote:
Thu Jan 11, 2024 9:02 am
So you didn't update the active hours ?

If so that would mean it CAN restart during those hours or does watching Aus stuff turn everything upside down ?
Sorry for interrupting here but this happened me the last day where laptop did updates while I thought it was working away in backgrounds.(on test mode so another learning point :-))

Do you know if you can disable updates?
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Derek27
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Shergar6 wrote:
Thu Jan 11, 2024 10:52 am
foxwood wrote:
Thu Jan 11, 2024 9:02 am
So you didn't update the active hours ?

If so that would mean it CAN restart during those hours or does watching Aus stuff turn everything upside down ?
Sorry for interrupting here but this happened me the last day where laptop did updates while I thought it was working away in backgrounds.(on test mode so another learning point :-))

Do you know if you can disable updates?
If you're using a Pro edition, Windows 10 or 11:

viewtopic.php?p=153783#p153783
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grimm
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Shergar6 wrote:
Thu Jan 11, 2024 10:52 am
foxwood wrote:
Thu Jan 11, 2024 9:02 am
So you didn't update the active hours ?

If so that would mean it CAN restart during those hours or does watching Aus stuff turn everything upside down ?
Sorry for interrupting here but this happened me the last day where laptop did updates while I thought it was working away in backgrounds.(on test mode so another learning point :-))

Do you know if you can disable updates?
Yes you can disable auto updates. Google how to disable automatic updates Windows 10 or 11.
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conduirez
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grimm wrote:
Thu Jan 11, 2024 10:59 am
Shergar6 wrote:
Thu Jan 11, 2024 10:52 am
foxwood wrote:
Thu Jan 11, 2024 9:02 am
So you didn't update the active hours ?

If so that would mean it CAN restart during those hours or does watching Aus stuff turn everything upside down ?
Sorry for interrupting here but this happened me the last day where laptop did updates while I thought it was working away in backgrounds.(on test mode so another learning point :-))

Do you know if you can disable updates?
Yes you can disable auto updates. Google how to disable automatic updates Windows 10 or 11.
Windows has the ability to switch disable auto updates from ON to OFF and still run an update, there are many trading horror stories out there.

If you are trading using automated software, the only surefire way I know to stop windows from updating is to lie to your computer.

Go to Network Connections - Properties - and switch the option [Metered Connection] to ON
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then

Go to Windows Update - Advanced Options - and make sure the option [Download updates over metered connections] is turned OFF.

Do the above whilst you are connected to your home and/or trading network.
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Derek27
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conduirez wrote:
Thu Jan 11, 2024 11:56 am
grimm wrote:
Thu Jan 11, 2024 10:59 am
Shergar6 wrote:
Thu Jan 11, 2024 10:52 am


Sorry for interrupting here but this happened me the last day where laptop did updates while I thought it was working away in backgrounds.(on test mode so another learning point :-))

Do you know if you can disable updates?
Yes you can disable auto updates. Google how to disable automatic updates Windows 10 or 11.
Windows has the ability to switch disable auto updates from ON to OFF and still run an update, there are many trading horror stories out there.

If you are trading using automated software, the only surefire way I know to stop windows from updating is to lie to your computer.

Go to Network Connections - Properties - and switch the option [Metered Connection] to ON
.

then

Go to Windows Update - Advanced Options - and make sure the option [Download updates over metered connections] is turned OFF.

Do the above whilst you are connected to your home and/or trading network.
I found a way around that when I was using the Home edition. Just create a command script to disable the update service and set task scheduler to run it every half hour in case Windows switches it back on.

viewtopic.php?p=323851#p323851
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Derek27
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£3.99 for 40 brussels sprout seeds - that's 10 pence per seed. :shock: :shock:

If just 4 of them germinate, that's £1 per seedling.

If one of them lives to maturity that's £4 for one brussels sprout plant.

If it produces 8 sprouts, you're paying 50p per sprout on top of all the work, compost, fertiliser, etc!
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Derek27
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Calculate your BMI for free!!!

flipping hell, I've been paying £10 a time up until now!
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firlandsfarm
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I see the 'cheese eating surrender monkeys' and the rest of the EU are happy to leave it to us (and the USA) to keep their shipping routes open for them!
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firlandsfarm wrote:
Fri Jan 12, 2024 9:12 am
I see the 'cheese eating surrender monkeys' and the rest of the EU are happy to leave it to us (and the USA) to keep their shipping routes open for them!
Have you ever thought of joining a political forum and posting about Betfair trading?
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Michael5482 wrote:
Fri Jan 12, 2024 10:01 am
firlandsfarm wrote:
Fri Jan 12, 2024 9:12 am
I see the 'cheese eating surrender monkeys' and the rest of the EU are happy to leave it to us (and the USA) to keep their shipping routes open for them!
Have you ever thought of joining a political forum and posting about Betfair trading?
I'm sorry Michael but I didn't realise the "Rant" thread was only for ranting about trading. Can't see where it says that or from a quick examination of other 'Rants' published that they are all about trading. My sincere apology if I am wrong and if I am please do show me where I have transgressed. Although I wonder if you want this to be a thread that only publishes 'Rants' when you agree with them. That would explain a lot.
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firlandsfarm wrote:
Fri Jan 12, 2024 9:12 am
I see the 'cheese eating surrender monkeys' and the rest of the EU are happy to leave it to us (and the USA) to keep their shipping routes open for them!
Leave to "us" & "cheese eating surrender monkeys"?

This surely comes straight from a National Front play book.

Rant = good
Hate = bad

More cheese please...
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sionascaig wrote:
Fri Jan 12, 2024 10:52 am
firlandsfarm wrote:
Fri Jan 12, 2024 9:12 am
I see the 'cheese eating surrender monkeys' and the rest of the EU are happy to leave it to us (and the USA) to keep their shipping routes open for them!
Leave to "us" & "cheese eating surrender monkeys"?

This surely comes straight from a National Front play book.

Rant = good
Hate = bad

More cheese please...
Well I'm at a loss to understand what you are saying! I have no interest nor connection whatsoever with the NF so if it does come from their 'play book' then that is pure coincidence but are you saying that if NF members take a piss and you take a piss then you are connected to the NF? As for NF attachment to the term I refer you to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheese-ea ... er_monkeys where I can find no connection between the two.

And I expressed no hate, I simply observed that support from the EU countries was non-existent. They use the shipping routes we with the USA are keeping safe ... a simple 'thank you' would have been nice.

And I see the Lib Dems wanted to talk about it first ... so that the action would have been pre-publicised and given the Houthis the chance to move their stockpile of weapons to other (more secure locations) and the 'intelligence' gained in knowing where the weapons were and the risks involved in that would have been for no advantage.
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Kai
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Michael5482 wrote:
Fri Jan 12, 2024 10:01 am
firlandsfarm wrote:
Fri Jan 12, 2024 9:12 am
I see the 'cheese eating surrender monkeys' and the rest of the EU are happy to leave it to us (and the USA) to keep their shipping routes open for them!
Have you ever thought of joining a political forum and posting about Betfair trading?
Actually statistics have shown that anonymous internet forums are the safest place to discuss politics as it's rather difficult to get punched through a screen.
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Kai
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The technology is just not there yet.

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