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<blockquote data-quote="STM" data-source="post: 361891" data-attributes="member: 12827"><p>I recently updated my desktop from Win 7 32 bit to 64 bit. When I did, however, I did not disable the auto updates as I am accustomed to doing. MS downloaded a bunch of updates yesterday and bad and entirely unwanted things happened. First, it automatically updated my IE from 10 to 11. Now, my desktop is not a top of the line Dell but the CPU does run at 2.8 GHz and I do have 12 GB of RAM and it is plenty fast for me. IE 11, on the other hand was extremely slow compared to IE 10 and it kept hanging up. It also did not show up in my Control Panel program list so I could uninstall it. After much searching the web I finally found out how to get rid of it and revert back to IE 10. One problem solved, one to go.</p><p></p><p>Now on to the problem number two. The PS CC icon on my taskbar mysteriously disappeared. Lightroom 5.6 was still there, however. Weird. I went into the Start Menu "See all programs" and it was not there either. I looked into Windows Explorer and lo and behold the files were there but I did not see any *.exe files. So I called Adobe and talked to an Indian guy, who like nearly all of them, I could barely understand, and he told me that it appeared that one of the updates wiped some important CC files including the PS.exe. And then he told me that my PC had to be optimized. Blah blah, blah. I asked him, since I had CC on my laptop as well, couldn't I just copy all of the CC files from there back to my desktop. He said no, that would <em>not</em> work but they could fix the problem for $200. I told him I was going to try it my way first and see. Well, it <em>DID </em>work and now CC is working on both computers again and I am $200 richer.</p><p></p><p>I set up the updates to ask me first if I wanted them to be updated. Needless to say, I will say no. Every single time I get updates from MS it screws <em>something</em> up. My system is back to where I want it and I will set another restore point from now.</p><p></p><p>Just say <em>NO</em>! to any more MS updates!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="STM, post: 361891, member: 12827"] I recently updated my desktop from Win 7 32 bit to 64 bit. When I did, however, I did not disable the auto updates as I am accustomed to doing. MS downloaded a bunch of updates yesterday and bad and entirely unwanted things happened. First, it automatically updated my IE from 10 to 11. Now, my desktop is not a top of the line Dell but the CPU does run at 2.8 GHz and I do have 12 GB of RAM and it is plenty fast for me. IE 11, on the other hand was extremely slow compared to IE 10 and it kept hanging up. It also did not show up in my Control Panel program list so I could uninstall it. After much searching the web I finally found out how to get rid of it and revert back to IE 10. One problem solved, one to go. Now on to the problem number two. The PS CC icon on my taskbar mysteriously disappeared. Lightroom 5.6 was still there, however. Weird. I went into the Start Menu "See all programs" and it was not there either. I looked into Windows Explorer and lo and behold the files were there but I did not see any *.exe files. So I called Adobe and talked to an Indian guy, who like nearly all of them, I could barely understand, and he told me that it appeared that one of the updates wiped some important CC files including the PS.exe. And then he told me that my PC had to be optimized. Blah blah, blah. I asked him, since I had CC on my laptop as well, couldn't I just copy all of the CC files from there back to my desktop. He said no, that would [I]not[/I] work but they could fix the problem for $200. I told him I was going to try it my way first and see. Well, it [I]DID [/I]work and now CC is working on both computers again and I am $200 richer. I set up the updates to ask me first if I wanted them to be updated. Needless to say, I will say no. Every single time I get updates from MS it screws [I]something[/I] up. My system is back to where I want it and I will set another restore point from now. Just say [I]NO[/I]! to any more MS updates! [/QUOTE]
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