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Posted: **Thu Nov 05, 2015 12:27 pm**

I use Gmail, chrome, and android, all under protest.

Posted: **Thu Nov 05, 2015 3:43 pm**

The kid is getting a laptop for Christmas............................ and I'm guessing it will come preloaded with Win10. So I'll probably be messing with it at that point.

Posted: **Thu Nov 05, 2015 3:46 pm**

GORDON wrote:The kid is getting a laptop for Christmas............................ and I'm guessing it will come preloaded with Win10. So I'll probably be messing with it at that point.

Windows 7 preload sunset was recently rolled back.

Posted: **Thu Nov 05, 2015 3:49 pm**

Oh that'll be nice.

Unless I hear about a good sale before then, I'll be purchasing around the Black Friday timeframe.

Posted: **Tue Nov 10, 2015 6:41 pm**

"Accidental" installs are still happening.

Oopsie!

http://www.forbes.com/sites....nstalls

Posted: **Thu Jan 07, 2016 2:54 pm**

MS snoops your system to see if/how long you've been using W10.

Posted: **Mon Jan 11, 2016 9:57 pm**

Microsoft is now checking registry edits people do manually to avoid the Windows 10 nagware... and undoing the edits.

I found this info:

I use this script to clean people's Windows 7 computers up:

wusa /uninstall /kb:3035583 /quiet /norestart

and the same for

kb:2952664
kb:3022345
kb:3068708
kb:3075249
kb:3080149
kb:3021917
kb:3083324
kb:2977759
kb:3112343

Then I hide those updates in windows update, and uncheck automatic updates because MS keeps switching them on and I'm not sure they will eventually push windows 10 as a security update.

Also I found these things to help keep Win10 off but I heard Microsoft is already battling them:

http://ultimateoutsider.com/downloads/

https://www.safer-networking.org/spybot-anti-beacon/

Edited By GORDON on 1452567492

Posted: **Mon Jan 18, 2016 12:24 am**

New CPUs?

Windows 10 only...

Posted: **Mon Jan 18, 2016 8:10 pm**

Leisher wrote:New CPUs?

Windows 10 only...

Microsoft: We Can Make You Love Us

Posted: **Mon Jan 18, 2016 8:53 pm**

95% of the world needs automatic updates and security upgrades.

Posted: **Tue Jan 19, 2016 12:53 pm**

95% of the world needs automatic updates and security upgrades.

Exactly.

I completely understand Microsoft's position and actually support it to a point. Getting the world onto one OS has to really reduce costs for them. 1 OS to develop for, one OS to support, etc. (Reminds me of a fruit based company...) Having the world on a "standard" has to make everything so much easier.

That being said the way they're doing this is completely wrong. Fine, make this change, but make 2016 or even Q1 the last time you can get newer PCs with 7. Doing it this way is just going to piss people off.

Posted: **Tue Jan 19, 2016 1:11 pm**

I understand it. If their latest OS didn't suck compared to the one I'm currently using, this wouldn't be a problem.

Posted: **Wed Feb 24, 2016 8:22 pm**

They're now serving ads on the lock screen, but they can be disabled.

http://www.pcworld.com/article....sh.html

Posted: **Wed Feb 24, 2016 9:36 pm**

I get enough ads from websites, aps, and games I play. I don't want anything to do with an OS that does it as well. Ugh.

Posted: **Tue Mar 15, 2016 1:39 pm**

More "accidental" installs.

Posted: **Tue Mar 15, 2016 1:43 pm**

Leisher wrote:More "accidental" installs.

As I told my buddy who works at Macroshaft, "You dudes might have found the only CEO in the world stupider than Ballmer."

Gaming division: run into the ground and will be missing a major widget when Playstation VR comes out

OS division: in the back room, fucking the end user up the ass like Zed from Pulp Fiction

Windows Mobile division: *** crickets ***

Edited By Malcolm on 1458063928

Posted: **Mon Apr 18, 2016 5:28 pm**

Posted: **Thu May 05, 2016 5:36 pm**

Upgraded a machine to Windows 10.

It's literally walking me through some GOD DAMNED slideshow instead of letting me use my computer. Some unskippable, slower than hell slideshow that I cannot seem to advance via RDP. And it's a machine I ONLY USE VIA RDP

Posted: **Fri May 06, 2016 8:37 am**

I am running 3-4 machines on 10 and I have no recollection of a slideshow?

Posted: **Fri May 06, 2016 11:12 am**

Leisher wrote:I am running 3-4 machines on 10 and I have no recollection of a slideshow?

Slideshow may have been excessive.

It was a 2 minute thing where it showed 3 messages.
"All your files are where they were left"
"something something something"
"we have new features to show you"

And I assumed the last one meant it would continue into a slideshow showing me those features. And I couldn't get past the screens at all.

I upgrade my daughter's laptop to it last night as well. Of course, it completely failed to import her bookmarks into the new browser.

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