How to Uninstall Google Drive always shutting down fix

Google Drive app can be installed on PC to sync files to your Google Drive in the cloud. Not sure about others, but I never get it right in the first install. That means I need to uninstall and re-install.

For example, this time, I chose the right directory to sync on my local PC, but sign in with the wrong google account. So after uninstall and reinstall, the Google Drive folder was on the desktop, but the service itself was not working at all. There was no icon in the taskbar.

On the taskbar, click Customize, and among the list of icons, is Google Drive with the writing saying "Shutting down...." After many uninstall/reinstall - it is always the same.

Others have reported similar problems but no solution:
https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2565956?hl=en
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/drive/rKsXF3ZZWA8
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/drive/nKPuY8dcn34
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/drive/IvoOGUNafpo


The solution is to:
1) Uninstall Google Drive from the "Programs and Features" window.
2) Then go to File Explorer and DELETE the following:
     C:\Users\chee\AppData\Local\Google\Drive
The AppData is hidden usually, so you need to go to Control Panels -> Folder Options, to choose not to hide files option.
3) Then Reinstall Google Drive - of course with lots of PC Restart between the processes.

 

How To Escape MS blocking MS Win7 from Security Updates

MS is forcing people who buy new systems, ie with new CPUs such as AMD Ryzen or Intel Kaby Lake, to use Win10. If they use Win7 or Win 8.1, they will be blocked from receiving Windows Updates.

What to do?
1. Stop receiving Win updates - actually I have switched off Win updates for over a year, after hearing news that updates can stuff up the PC sometimes. So this not being able to get Windows Update can be a good thing, provided your PC is secured via other means.

2. Someone in the internet has already developed a way to bypass the MS shenanigans.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/19/chap_fixes_microsofts_windows_7_and_8_update_block_on_new_cpus/
http://www.networkworld.com/article/3190832/security/bypass-microsofts-update-block-for-windows-7-8-1-pcs-with-kaby-lake-ryzen.html
https://www.kitguru.net/components/cpu/matthew-wilson/microsofts-no-update-policy-in-effect-for-ryzen-and-kaby-lake-systems-on-windows-78-1/

Apparently a set of Win updates are responsible for checking the CPUs. These updates are listed below, perhaps if we avoid them, then it would not check for CPUs.
KB4012218, KB4012219, KB4015546, KB4015547, KB4015549, KB4015550, KB4015552 and KB4015553.