[Coco] A WARNING about Windows 10 Updates...

[David Ladd]

James,

That article you posted reminds me of this quote from Star Trek made by
Scotty:
Scotty: The more they overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up
the drain.

​Never fails does it?

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On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 5:30 PM, James Jones <jejones3141 at gmail.com> wrote:

> This isn't about updates, at least not recent ones... but it turns out that
> somewhere between Windows 7 and Windows 10, there was a change that forces
> all exiting threads to acquire a lock that only one thread can have at a
> time, making it a bottleneck for Windows performance. More info here:
> https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2017/07/09/24-core-cpu-
> and-i-cant-move-my-mouse/
>
> On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 4:10 PM, Steven Hirsch <snhirsch at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 11 Jul 2017, Joe Schutts via Coco wrote:
> >
> > I've been a faithful Windows user since Windows 3.0 and before that DOS
> >> 3.0. I just discovered a FLAW or BUG in their UPDATE Process and I
> wanted
> >> to warn EVERY Windows 10 User out there about it before it ruins their
> day.
> >> If you're like me I tweak EVERY setting for optimum setting (making
> >> everything run faster), the only thing I DO NOT tweak is the Clock
> Speeds
> >> of my CPU, I just buy the fastest CPU out there available. Recently I
> had
> >> an update preformed and I noticed that my Ethernet Adapter seemed to be
> >> running much slower than normal. I then went into the Device Manager and
> >> checked out the settings. I found out the the JUMBO FRAMES on all my
> >> Ethernet Adapters had all been changed from 9KB MTU to a new setting of
> >> DISABLED (and therefore slowing down all my Ethernet Adapters). I have
> yet
> >> to check out my other settings and am in the process of doing so now. My
> >> advice is for everyone to check out their settings to see IF anything
> has
> >> been changed in any negative way. Why MicroSoft did this (or even IF
> they
> >> are aware of this, I do not know. But it is something to be aware of and
> >> check out for yourselves.
> >>
> >
> > Is it possible that at some point you were connected to a router or other
> > device that didn't support 9k frames?
> >
> >
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