Originally Posted By: Dave R
[quote=jazzmammal] ..... One advantage of Windows 7 was that you could pick and choose the Windows Updates, only installing those you wanted. They then killed that ability for users when they started issuing only monthly cumulative rollups for Windows 7 about a year ago.


Mentioned this several times before: I have windows update disabled in services, and got an (even paid) version now of (also free) 360 Total Security; it has a for me perfect ability of selecting only the necessary (security related) windows updates for win10. You'll find this under 'Tool Box', called 'patch up'. Generally 360TS makes occasional mistakes on heuristics, and these are easily reverted and marked as safe. No more than say (paid for) Bitdefender and Webroot, the ones i bought earlier. 'Patch Up' is the reason i moved to 360TS since a year ago.

Tip: Don't use 360's meager GlassWire embedded firewall BTW. If you want a Firewall (i disabled Windows Firewall too) i can recommend Privacyfirewall, free and very adaptable as Comodo's free firewall and Zonealarm free used to be about 3 years and more ago.

Originally Posted By: Matt Finley
... A similar one is PCI Express, Link State Power Management. That should be set to OFF .... In general, don't let Microsoft do any 'management' of your power. And check these settings after each operating system update. They can get flipped.

Didn't know about PCI Express, thanks for the tip, as my USB for audio runs via a PCIe Freslogic USB bus ... -F