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  • More interesting differences betwwen win 10 Home and Pro

    From micky@21:1/5 to All on Sat Dec 16 20:50:59 2023
    Another interesting difference betwwen win 10 Home and Pro

    When I started up Macrium Reflect Free in Home, a box appeared on its
    own saying that there would be no more updates (other than security and
    bug fixes iirc) after this Jnauary 1, some of it in red, and there was a
    button to update.

    OTOH, on Pro there was no popup message box, and when I clicked on Check
    for Product Updates on the Internet, I got the same box that described
    the same last bug fixes and improvements that Home had given, but there
    was no warning at the top like what appeared in Home, in red or black.

    The file dates on my Pro installation are about 8 months older than my
    Home, March 2021 rather than November 2021. So I'm 8 months more in
    need of an update. How come Pro is treated differently? Do they think
    anyone who has Pro ought to know what he's doing, or maybe ought to buy
    it instead of relying on Free?

    I've been backing up my data files with XXCopy frequently, but this is
    the first time for many months? that I've backed up the whole partition.
    Should I buy the non-free version?

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  • From micky@21:1/5 to NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com on Sat Dec 16 21:04:11 2023
    In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Sat, 16 Dec 2023 20:50:59 -0500, micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote:

    Another interesting difference betwwen win 10 Home and Pro

    Oops. After I dled the latest update to Pro, it said that it was
    Macrium Reflect 7. 7, and did I want to go to 8. So I wen to 8 and
    then it gave the same message box that Home had given.

    Sorry.


    When I started up Macrium Reflect Free in Home, a box appeared on its
    own saying that there would be no more updates (other than security and
    bug fixes iirc) after this Jnauary 1, some of it in red, and there was a >button to update.

    OTOH, on Pro there was no popup message box, and when I clicked on Check
    for Product Updates on the Internet, I got the same box that described
    the same last bug fixes and improvements that Home had given, but there
    was no warning at the top like what appeared in Home, in red or black.

    The file dates on my Pro installation are about 8 months older than my
    Home, March 2021 rather than November 2021. So I'm 8 months more in
    need of an update. How come Pro is treated differently? Do they think >anyone who has Pro ought to know what he's doing, or maybe ought to buy
    it instead of relying on Free?

    I've been backing up my data files with XXCopy frequently, but this is
    the first time for many months? that I've backed up the whole partition. >Should I buy the non-free version?

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  • From micky@21:1/5 to winstonmvp@gmail.com on Mon Dec 18 18:58:17 2023
    In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Sat, 16 Dec 2023 20:03:00 -0700,
    ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ <winstonmvp@gmail.com> wrote:

    micky wrote on 12/16/23 6:50 PM:
    Another interesting difference betwwen win 10 Home and Pro

    When I started up Macrium Reflect Free in Home, a box appeared on its
    own saying that there would be no more updates (other than security and
    bug fixes iirc) after this Jnauary 1, some of it in red, and there was a
    button to update.

    OTOH, on Pro there was no popup message box, and when I clicked on Check
    for Product Updates on the Internet, I got the same box that described
    the same last bug fixes and improvements that Home had given, but there
    was no warning at the top like what appeared in Home, in red or black.

    The file dates on my Pro installation are about 8 months older than my
    Home, March 2021 rather than November 2021. So I'm 8 months more in
    need of an update. How come Pro is treated differently? Do they think
    anyone who has Pro ought to know what he's doing, or maybe ought to buy
    it instead of relying on Free?

    I've been backing up my data files with XXCopy frequently, but this is
    the first time for many months? that I've backed up the whole partition.
    Should I buy the non-free version?


    Pro and Home when running check for updates - Windows does the exact same >thing.

    Pro, unlike Home - may have an option to download updates prior to
    clicking the check for updates option; Home typically updates without
    giving the user a chance to decide, i.e. automatic download and install
    of updates.

    Someone here wrote and posted NoReboot which is a suprisingly (to me)
    simple program that just repeatedly changes the 8? hour period which the
    user can set to prohibit updating, so that it is always within that 8
    hour period. I think it makes the period run from 2 hours ago to 6
    hours from now, but it updates frequently, so it is always 5-6 hours
    before updating is allowed.

    If you or anyone wants it, I can send it to you .

    Note: there may be some variation on other updates, like .NET which may
    or may not prompt to download/install on Pro or Home.

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