Windows 10 version 1809 Bugs

[John T Smith]

New Windows 10 1809 bug: Zip data-loss flaw is months old but Microsoft missed it | ZDNet

and

How to manage Windows 10 updates to prevent them from ruining your life | PCWorld

[Jeff Arola]

I'm not going to rollback, since it's easy to modify the registry, i just hadn't updated because of all the "issues" that

mostly seem fixed now.

Anyway, i deleted all the OverridePhysicalMemoryMB registry entries before doing the upgrade and then put them

back after confirming pse 15, 2018 and photoshop cs6 didn't see all the ram as before with 1803.

Also, I believe adobe fixed the issue in the photoshop cc and pse 2019 code since there is

no OverridePhysicalMemoryMB registry entry for them.

[MichelBParis]

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Jeff+Arola  wrote

Also, I believe adobe fixed the issue in the photoshop cc and pse 2019 code since there is

no OverridePhysicalMemoryMB registry entry for them.

Yes, the entry is there.

[Jeff Arola]

120.0 is photoshop CC 2018 (version 19.0) and the newest photoshop is CC 2019 (version 20) which would be 130.0 in the registry.

Adobe issued an update to photoshop cc 2018 that is 19.1.5 to correct the ram issue on windows 10 1803 and later.

Fixed issues in Adobe Photoshop CC

So in photoshop cc 2018 go to Help>System Info and if the version on the top line is 19.1.5 or greater you can remove the

OverridePhysicalMemoryMB registry entry as noted in the adobe kb below.

Error while accessing performance preferences - 'An integer between 96 and 8 is required.'

[jane-e]

Hi Trevor.Dennis,

I wonder why I don’t have the option to pause updates. I used Google to find out how because I am not a Windows user any more, but I thought I had done it right.

If I get the blue screen of death like you did, though, I can always delete Parallels and Windows 10 and start again, so I’m not concerned. The only thing I have in there is Office 365 and AFT. I don’t know what Shadow Protect is because I have not been keeping up with Windows. This installation of Windows makes my fifth and final activation of Office 365, so I might have to pick one to deactivate within the next month. You can log in to Microsoft to see your activations, by the way.

How many unused licenses? A kazillion, on my part. I gave my floppy disks and box for PS 3 to a friend a couple of years ago, but didn’t deactivate. Maybe I should I start a thread asking why I can’t run 25 year old software on Windows 10? I still have a lot of other stuff, but need to start tossing.

I’ll look for the Jack Reacher book.

[D Fosse]

jane-e  wrote

I wonder why I don’t have the option to pause updates.

You can only do that with Windows 10 Pro, not Home.

Which is the precise and exclusive reason I got the Pro edition. I get the idea behind automatic updates, and in principle I'm all for it. It's like mass vaccination to wipe out diseases. Malware will have a harder time spreading. It works. But on the other hand you need to be able to control timing if you're in the middle of something.

There's another trick. You can set update to semi-annual, or semi-annual targeted. The latter gets you all updates hot off the press, while the former holds back until all is proven safe. That's the one I have set, and I still haven't seen a trace of anything beyond 1803.

[jane-e]

Thank you, Dag.

You may or may not have noticed in my screenshot that I installed Windows 10 less than a month ago. It's on my Mac running Parallels, and I need it mostly for MS Office and Acrobat, plus one small program that instigated the install. I ought to have asked that question about Pro vs. Home first, as I always got the Pro version when I actually used Windows, but I went by the description.

#mistake

How can I set the update to semi-annual or targeted? Or is that also Pro only? This automatic thing is driving me nuts. I started with Windows with 2.0, but barely use it now, since I am mostly Mac.