Yet again I'm glad I kept going on Windows 7.

The last update scrozzled my AMD display driver. The one before that hosed my ASIO driver too (FastTrack C600). We'll see what happens with this one.
 
Both were fixed by reinstalling the drivers. The R-series graphics card is living on borrowed time because it dropped off the official support list for W10. Running the driver installer in compatibility mode works, though, for now.
 
Avid does officially support the C600 driver on W10, but it was last updated in 2014, so here's hoping nothing breaks!

Cactus MusicHey, does anybody use Windows 8.1 and can you turn off Windows updates?? 
The only problem I had with 8.1 was it updated overnight to W10 without me asking. But if you can turn off the up dates that won't happen again.

 
No problems with W8.1 as it almost only has security updates and definitely no large updates and the free upgrade to W10 is over for mainstream users.
So no need to turn off updates as if you are online you should let it install the security updates for your safety.
It will be getting those until 2021 or 22 so has a long support life. Check exact date online.
Note that if you have more recent hardware it won't be supported under W8.1 for that long; again check online.

It's not looking good for Sonar. It's a lot of fretting when we could actually be singing to another tune without fearing that Microsoft updates will end your musical journey.

There is a setting in windows 10 that lets windows update drivers for other devices besides key windows components, for example,
It insisted on updating my Graphics card drivers even though the ones it kept installing were causing system crashes and instability.
I have since turned this settings off and made a group policy to disable it (just to be sure)
 
Windows can barely keep its own components running smoothly :p i,m not going to let it decide which of my other devices would be better with its own choice of drivers
 
https://www.itechtics.com...river-updates-windows/

Cactus Music
Hey, does anybody use Windows 8.1 and can you turn off Windows updates?? 
 
The only problem I had with 8.1 was it updated overnight to W10 without me asking. But if you can turn off the up dates that won't happen again. 
I'm not finding this fact on line so  if anybody here knows much appreciated.

I'm still on Win 8.1.  I believe you need the pro version which has the group policy editor to turn off updates.
 
The weird thing is, I have Win 8.1 Pro but never went into group policy, and still managed to avoid the Win 10 update.  I just turned off the auto update and changed it to "Check for updates but let me decide when to install them" option.  When the Win 10 update showed up, I right-clicked on it and chose "Hide".  From that point on, I never gave it a thought, and well, I'm still on Win 8.1... so clearly those steps must have worked. 
 
Also interesting.... the Win 10 hidden update is no longer there. I could unhide it for a long time, then at some point it just disappeared -- probably when the free Win 10 upgrade expired.  That suggests to me that Win 8.1 (any version) should be safe from auto-update to Win 10 now, since it's no longer a free upgrade.

I find it odd that everyone is fretting.

I honestly expect to be able to run this version of Sonar until I can no longer lift the guitar.

Sonar will be that beautiful piece of legacy gear you just can't get anymore.

danbottomburp
There is a setting in windows 10 that lets windows update drivers for other devices besides key windows components
... 
Windows can barely keep its own components running smoothly :p i,m not going to let it decide which of my other devices would be better with its own choice of drivers
 
https://www.itechtics.com...river-updates-windows/

Wow - thanks for that helpful article. This will be very handy!
 
While I'm at it (haven't done this in a long while - may be the last on this forum sees?), here is:
../D
a hat-tip from the losguy.
 

Only one minor annoyance noticed...
 
This last update left me temporarily sound-less after switching my default audio device to the long-disabled Realtek interface. Why on earth it would decide to re-enable a device just to mess with me is a mystery. Maybe somebody at MS read my posts saying not to worry, Windows won't break SONAR and decided "yeh, we'll see about that!".
 
This on the heels of last week's update, which switched my default to the built-in speakers of my HDMI-connected monitor. 
 

bitflipper
Only one minor annoyance noticed...

 
LOL. I think we're all going to end up clinging only to the Sampling Theorem before this is all over.