[Elecraft] K3S Sound Devices Issue

[Don Wilhelm]

I do not recommend disabling updates unless your ham station computer is 
not connected to the internet.
Most ham computers ARE connected to the internet, and updates are 
necessary to keep up with security issues.
If you are developing software, then an internet isolated computer is 
necessary.

As one for-instance, how do you keep up with DX spots if you are not 
connected to the internet.

Updates may cause some problems with your configurations and drivers, 
but that is a minor problem compared to a virus attack that can disable 
the computer.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 3/14/2018 9:05 PM, Bill Johnson wrote:
> I don't recommend disabling updates as you need the latest patches included to protect your OS.  Deferment only last for, I believe 60 days.   See my other recommendation posted earlier.
>
> 73,
> Bill
> K9YEQ
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net <elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net> On Behalf Of Rich
> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 8:41 PM
> To: donwilh at embarqmail.com; Elecraft <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3S Sound Devices Issue
>
> Thank you.  I never even thought about Win updates.
>
> Rich
>
>
> On 3/13/2018 20:03 PM, Don Wilhelm wrote:
>> The only way I can think of to avoid problems like that is to disable
>> Windows updates.
>>
>> Yes, this is a computer related situation, and not a K3S situation.
>>
>> 73,
>> Don W3FPR
>>
>> On 3/13/2018 2:38 PM, Rich wrote:
>>> I think this issue is Win10 related but this seems to be the place to
>>> ask the question.
>>>
>>> I had my K3 upgraded to the "s" last summer.   Once Windows created
>>> the USB sound device I renamed them to K3 Receive Audio and K3
>>> Transmit Audio.   Everything was working fine.
>>>
>>> Last night I was trying to work some RTTY and found that MMTTY was
>>> not decoding RTTY.   After much confusion I realized that Windows (I
>>> guess) created another sound device called USB Microphone and it was
>>> ignoring the original K3 Receive Audio device which still existed.
>>>
>>> Has anyone seen this happen?
>>>
>>> Is there a way to avoid it happening again?
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