Windows 10
Windows 7 preload sunset was recently rolled back.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.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
"Accidental" installs are still happening.
Oopsie!
http://www.forbes.com/sites....nstalls
Oopsie!
http://www.forbes.com/sites....nstalls
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
Microsoft is now checking registry edits people do manually to avoid the Windows 10 nagware... and undoing the edits.
I found this info:
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/
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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/
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"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
New CPUs?
Windows 10 only...
Windows 10 only...
"Happy slaves are the worst enemies of freedom." - Marie Von Ebner
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
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.
"Happy slaves are the worst enemies of freedom." - Marie Von Ebner
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
They're now serving ads on the lock screen, but they can be disabled.
http://www.pcworld.com/article....sh.html
http://www.pcworld.com/article....sh.html
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
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 ***
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Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Re: Windows 10
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
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
It's not me, it's someone else.
Re: Windows 10
I am running 3-4 machines on 10 and I have no recollection of a slideshow?
"Happy slaves are the worst enemies of freedom." - Marie Von Ebner
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
Re: Windows 10
Slideshow may have been excessive.Leisher wrote:I am running 3-4 machines on 10 and I have no recollection of a slideshow?
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.
It's not me, it's someone else.