microsoft Microsoft forcing Windows 10 Users to Use Its Other Products After Updating

[vissha]

Microsoft forcing Windows 10 Users to Use Its Other Products After Updating

 

 

Windows 10 update forces users to use Microsoft products on default – and you can’t change it back

 

From the time Microsoft launched its new operating system, Windows 10 in July last year, it has continued to remain in the news for all good and bad reasons. And the saga continues. According to its users, the Windows 10 update is automatically switching a user’s chosen programs over to Microsoft alternatives without their permission. Even worse, the forced cumulative update not only knocks out PCs’ default settings, it also prevents the users from resetting them.

 

If you are a windows user, you probably have certain programs that you prefer to use. For example, you might have set the Google Chrome as the default browser on your Windows 10 computer. However, you may not be able to do so, if your computer has downloaded the KB3135173, a cumulative update issued for February that was pushed out as an update last week. The forced update is causing users’ default programs to return to Microsoft alternatives, such as Chrome going back to Edge as the new default, or IrfanView returning to Microsoft Photos app.

 

Angry users of Windows 10 took to Reddit to say that Microsoft forcibly changes the default programs back again within two hours, even if they go into the system’s settings to change the defaults back to use the programs they like.

 

User pmjm posted on Reddit, “THIS HAS BEEN HAPPENING TO ME!!! It’s maddening. I change my default apps for images, videos, audio, even PDF’s. Within a few hours it’s back to the MS defaults. And I’m running from the default administrator account with UAC turned off, so those apps can’t even run!”

 

Microsoft is now aware of the issue and hopefully is trying to fix it, if their statement is anything to go by – “We are aware of this issue that some customers are experiencing, and are actively working to resolve it,” a spokesperson told the Inquirer.

 

In the meantime, the Reddit users have recommended a few options to Windows 10 users, even though none of them are perfect.

1. Reinstall Windows 10 completely and don’t install the update KB3135173
2. Uninstall all possible default Microsoft programs that the operating system might use as a replacement to the ones you want to use; or
3. Forget Windows and switch over to Linux.

Many forum members are hanging on the hope that Microsoft will provide with a fix soon. Like Reddit user mrcandyman, who says that besides the bug he has enjoyed using Windows 10.

 

“So why don’t I move to Linux? I would love to. I actually love Linux for the most part and was a big advocate for it for a long time. However now I need to use Excel (no, OO.org and LibreOffice are not good enough for what I need) and I need to use Autodesk Inventor and Solidworks,” mrcandyman wrote on Reddit.

 

“Besides what I need it for, I have to say my Windows 10 experience has been really good for the most part. I would actually say that it’s been my favourite Windows OS so far. Yes, I do really hope they fix this problem soon, and no, this ‘bug’ shouldn’t have ever happened. Hopefully they will remedy the situation soon.”

 

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[vibranium]

 

1 hour ago, vissha said:

“We are aware of this issue that some customers are experiencing, and are actively working to resolve it,” a spokesperson told the Inquirer.

 

What an incredible statement by the spokesperson.

 

Corporate speak: we are aware of the issue = we knew the issue before but are only now aware how much people hate it.

Actively working to resolve it = we are examining other ways of pushing our agenda with fewer people objecting.

[humble3d]

Did anyone see the PBS Charley Rose interview this Month with Bill Gates ??

 

Gates is a jackass and he deserves what he is going to get... 

[VileTouch]

This security update for Windows 10 Version 1511 includes improvements in the functionality of Windows 10 Version 1511 and resolves the following vulnerabilities in Windows:

• 3137893 MS16-022: Security update for the .NET Framework to address denial of service: February 9, 2016
• 3133043 MS16-021: Security update for NPS RADIUS Server to address denial of service: February 9, 2016
• 3136082 MS16-018: Security update for Windows kernel-mode driver to address elevation of privilege: February 9, 2016
• 3136041 MS16-016: Security update to WebDAV to address elevation of privilege: February 9, 2016
• 3134228 MS16-014: Security update to Microsoft Windows to address remote code execution: February 9, 2016
• 3134811 MS16-013: Security update to Windows Journal to address remote code execution: February 9, 2016
• 3134225 MS16-011: Cumulative security update for Microsoft Edge: February 9, 2016
• 3134220 MS16-009: Cumulative security update for Internet Explorer: February 9, 2016

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3135173

 

the problem is in red.

[vibranium]

Can't help wondering if users of Win 7 or Win 8.1 are facing the same problems after KB3136082 is installed.

 

[steven36]

3 hours ago, vibranium said:

Can't help wondering if users of Win 7 or Win 8.1 are facing the same problems after KB3136082 is installed.

 

KB3135173 is a cumulative update though meaning if they ever decided  to do this and never fix it you would not be able to get anything  more updates if you didn't take it. Any updates on windows 7 or 8.1 botched  or intentional  can be uninstalled more people use  Windows 7 than windows 10 if KB3136082 were a problem I'm sure  we would have been told to uninstall it by now . I know the Windows 7 user on my network has not complained about it . Ive not logged on my windows machine since before patch Tuesday so i want know for sure  tell i bother logging into windows and do updates .

[eurobyn]

anyway to disable it from registry ?

 

[vibranium]

7 hours ago, steven36 said:

KB3135173 is a cumulative update though meaning if they ever decided  to do this and never fix it you would not be able to get anything  more updates if you didn't take it. Any updates on windows 7 or 8.1 botched  or intentional  can be uninstalled more people use  Windows 7 than windows 10 if KB3136082 were a problem I'm sure  we would have been told to uninstall it by now . I know the Windows 7 user on my network has not complained about it . Ive not logged on my windows machine since before patch Tuesday so i want know for sure  tell i bother logging into windows and do updates .

 

You don't get why I asked that question.

[steven36]

14 minutes ago, vibranium said:

 

You don't get why I asked that question.

You ask you he question I presume because KB3136082 is  in KB3135173  and also a update in Vista , Win 7 and win 8.1  but  botched updates happen all the time that only effects one o/s  or the other but they all get the same update . I dont read nothing in the news  about KB3136082 giveing problems in anything other than Windows 10 though.

[vibranium]

The question was: why does this same update not have the same undesirable effect in any OS but Windows 10?

 

Let me be clear to you now. That was not really a question.