I have no idea if this is relevant or not but...I said earlier I keep my systems completely stock, no mods. I'm using Avast Premier for my AV. I've used Adobe like forever with zero issues.

Everybody (well, almost everybody) who have various audio DAW related problems seem to have lots of things going on with their PC's, they change things, mess with things. I don't do that. I'll install well known programs using the defaults and that's pretty much it. No mods, no changes.

The reason MS pushes the updates is because of security. Yes, people can get all paranoid and talk about MS spying and all that. Fine, whatever. I'm very involved in internet security at the office. It's mandatory all updates be done immediately. MS is trying to get as many users as possible running the current version so it cuts down on the propagation of all the bad crap floating around.

If a person is really concerned about all that then keep the music computer off the internet. Lots of people do that. Use two separate systems one for music, one for everything else. Then if these problems come up it's isolated without all these distractions about updates, Adobe, flash, Youtube and whatever else.

Just to give one example of how I do things, I use YT all the time, like daily. Anything I like I download using Firefox's Easy YouTube Downloader and watch them on Media Player Classic or VLC. Almost all of it is music related and there are constant audio/video sync issues playing them from YT itself but MPC has the ability to correct for that. Therefore I don't care about buffering issues. I'll listen long enough to determine if I like it then DL it.

Bob

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