OK, Microsoft has the Windows 8 Pro feature where they send out, and install, updates.
They don't care if your settings are set to "download, but do let me *choose* which updates to apply" -- they reset it to their "recommended" "Dang! If there is an update, install that thing anyway!" setting.
KB2795944 is a "cumulative" update, incorporating several other updates at the same time. A big "update", 19 plus Megabytes of download. In software, not video or audio or even document sizes that isn't much. In terms of updates to the operating system, it is a *bunch*.
When KB2795944 updates on my computer, it *kills* all audio. That means YouTube videos are silent. Adobe Flash crap is silent. Windows Media Player music and songs is silent.
I looked on the Microsoft "support" site (ha! Like calling the block long line at MacDonalds "Fast Food") at http://support.microsoft.com/find-solutions/windows/windows-8/. I quit looking at the Thirty First page of - get this - five - items per page. Without getting to a place to look for issues with KB2795944 or other updates that kill the audio on my computer. Demonstrably. Repeatedly.
And don't ask about the hours wasted, and work time lost, isolating this nonsense.
Apparently there are other issues of installing updates on Windows 8, including 8 and 12 hours waiting for updates to finish.
Sure glad I got in on the Windows 8 Pro offer.
They don't care if your settings are set to "download, but do let me *choose* which updates to apply" -- they reset it to their "recommended" "Dang! If there is an update, install that thing anyway!" setting.
KB2795944 is a "cumulative" update, incorporating several other updates at the same time. A big "update", 19 plus Megabytes of download. In software, not video or audio or even document sizes that isn't much. In terms of updates to the operating system, it is a *bunch*.
When KB2795944 updates on my computer, it *kills* all audio. That means YouTube videos are silent. Adobe Flash crap is silent. Windows Media Player music and songs is silent.
I looked on the Microsoft "support" site (ha! Like calling the block long line at MacDonalds "Fast Food") at http://support.microsoft.com/find-solutions/windows/windows-8/. I quit looking at the Thirty First page of - get this - five - items per page. Without getting to a place to look for issues with KB2795944 or other updates that kill the audio on my computer. Demonstrably. Repeatedly.
And don't ask about the hours wasted, and work time lost, isolating this nonsense.
Apparently there are other issues of installing updates on Windows 8, including 8 and 12 hours waiting for updates to finish.
Sure glad I got in on the Windows 8 Pro offer.
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