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REMINDER: fake your id, email. NEVER USE REAL INFO

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Because Donald Trump supporters are so vile, ugly, nasty, anti-semitic and threatening, PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU NEVER USE YOUR REAL NAME, NOR ANY IDENTIFYING INFORMATION NOR ANY VALID EMAIL ADDRESS. If you have any such data in your account now, delete...

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Well, you can post it yourself in any forum you want. I'd suggest posting it in Computer Stuff, but it's up to you. If you're selling something, put it in the Selling Forum. I don't change others's posts, that's up to you to do. I don't censor,...

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YOUR PRIVACY IN FRANK FORUMS

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DISCLOSURE

As hopefully you learned by now ( click here and read the topics, for more details), you can sign up to FrankForum without a real name or email. You don't need a social account, and there are no ads, no tracking. So, your identity is...

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HOW TO REGISTER

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11 Aug 2015, 15:05 brainout » in Admin Stuff

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SO HOW DO YOU SIGN UP? Well, The 'Register' and 'Login' options are in the first strip at top left of the Board Index, just below the logo; or, you might see them also at the bottom of the Board Index (Board styles vary). You can register with a...

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I changed the MX. Forgot to allow this post to show. Now remembered. Thank you!

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If you need computer help

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Go to . They have a lot of knowledgeable people.

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Godaddy provides a phpBB forum as part of its services in hosting my domain. So I don't consider this forum 'mine', but rather it provides an opportunity to have AD FREE and TOTALLY ANONYMOUS discussion for folks. So, on August 10 2015, I started...

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Win10 -- AVOID IT like the plague

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01 Oct 2015, 22:31 brainout

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EDIT AND UPDATE, 10/02/15: still don't have a provable license of Win10 Home, but click here for more posters who also say that the reversion can be at any time, just as in the official EULA link posted by MSFT (next paragraph); the...

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Okay, I'll change the title.

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'EULA' Win10 Links: BY LICENSE, MSFT controls your machine

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14 Aug 2015, 15:50 brainout

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EDIT: This and the next two posts, are designed to provide orientational material and links. By contrast, click here to go straight to the Win10 EULA License links so you can read them for yourself. Posts focusing on the illegality of the EULA --...

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Welcome to frankforum! :TVpopcorn:

Thank you for explaining how MS doesn't innovate. I wondered where the live tiles came from. Am sure some of the others here will be grateful to talk with you on this, and on any other topic! :campfire:

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Snooping 'Telemetry' is Compulsory, and uptake stagnates!

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11 Aug 2015, 01:07 brainout

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EDIT: For the source text on the hitlerian EULA terms which apply to Win10 and all 'services' now offered, click here . For the latest (11/12/15) numbers game pandered, click here . Or, for the pandering about business uptake, click here .

Upshot:...

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Well actually I'm going to verify the claims of that article on Windows 10 later and install the mentioned programs and the update. Just to be double sure, I'll post results here later.

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Installing Windows 10, Tips

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11 Aug 2015, 06:40 brainout

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EDIT: This just in 10/8/15, Woody Leonhard's laundry list of common Win10 installation problems, click here .

If you're still trying to decide whether to update to Windows 10, see 'Upgrading to Windows 10?' post in this forum.

If by contrast...

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Very detailed article, here . Sorry I didn't list this before, I didn't know NBR did articles on Win10. :drummer:

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Quarantine Win10 Users: simple how-to

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06 Sep 2015, 20:58 brainout

It has long been known and is now being admitted more often, that Windows 10 uses what's called a 'keylogger', a program which keeps track of all your "typing, inking, and voice" as Microsoft states in its own disclosure about this, at...

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Updating to Windows 10?

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11 Aug 2015, 20:00 brainout

EDIT, 10 updated reasons not to update to Windows 10, click here .

EDIT, update, someone else's review, click here . And for a past prognosis which makes a lot more sense now, click here .

Main sleuthing thread on this was in PC World Alumni...

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Formatting floppy diskettes in Windows 10

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15 Oct 2015, 03:19 hupostasis

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There seems to be a problem in Windows 10 when formatting floppy disks. Explorer.exe completely resets itself disallowing a format to any write or non-write protected diskette. It doesn't even attempt to try.

Another oddity is that I couldn't get...

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Sure you can do it, they lie. I bought an external floppy drive for $5 at Amazon, plugged it into Win10 and it formatted just fine. It offers to format when you put the disk in.

But I stopped using Win10 a year ago. Even so, can't imagine it would...

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Microsoft's Windows 10 breaches data protection law, say Dutch regulator

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Microsoft's Windows 10 breaches data protection law, say Dutch regulator

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Thank you for that. I'm beginning to think the Russian hackers and Russian propaganda in general learned their trade by watching MSFT lying.

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Windows 10 The potential 'gotcha' has reared its ugly head just two years following the 'forced upgrade'

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17 Jul 2017, 07:35 5735guy

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"An entire generation of PCs, most only three or four years old, are now unable to receive new feature updates to Windows 10. If Microsoft doesn't deliver a patch within the next six to nine months, those PCs could be cut off from security...

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What's the latest status on this?

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Woody Leonhard and Ed Bott telemetry lies (in unison)

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28 Nov 2015, 07:29 hupostasis

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After getting more resources to configure my Windows 8 installations, I keep running across stupid articles from Ed Bott and Woody Leonhard which irritate me for two reasons:
#1 their articles are pollution when you're trying to find scripts and...

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It looks like Ed Bott posted about the French government review on Windows 10:

What's funny about this is, he effectively contradicted himself as this goes against what he said on his original article that there was nothing for data being...

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Newer Sleek Design to Win10 (/sarcasm)

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WOWOWOWOW

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ZDNET Reviewers hate Win10S

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21 Jun 2017, 06:49 brainout

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For our wonderful computer geeks in the forum, I just got this notification in my gmail, article by Ed Bott, and it's rare: he's CRITICAL of Windows, himself. Figure we should memorialize the article:

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Windows 10 S is in fact a rehash of RT.

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Microsoft's Windows warning: Hackers hijacked software updater with in-memory malware

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06 May 2017, 10:24 5735guy

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An interesting accusation made to ZDNet.....

"Although this article is titled, "Microsoft Windows warning", the malware has nothing at all to do with Windows. It is merely another attempt to smear Windows. You people have no...

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Wow, is ReactOS back in the saddle? Last time I looked at it, the thing was shutting down. That article is from 2008.

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Windows 10 S......RT all over again.....

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03 May 2017, 00:17 5735guy

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What is Windows 10 S?

....The most important part of the Windows 10 S configuration is a setting that prevents it from running any apps that aren't included with Windows 10 or available through the Windows Store.

RT all over again. Hell what...

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Thank you! More and more I find that leaving Windows 8+ behind is a happy future.

Am in the middle of configuring the new PCLinuxOS which if you add Synaptic 'task' programs, lets you use more 'sessions' (variants like Gnome or KDE or LXDE,...

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Windows XP: Why it won't die for years to come. Steve Ranger telling exactly how it is in a few words

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12 Apr 2017, 17:10 5735guy

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Windows XP: Why it won't die for years to come

"And other stats show XP with a much lower share still, as my colleague Ed Bott has explored elsewhere."

The world according to Ed Bott. Just a Microsoft puppet and an obnoxious one at...

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LOL adorable! XP also lives on in Linux. I've spent the past weekend trying to find a replacement distro for my beloved PCLinuxOS which bit the dust last year. Mageia is the same basic type, with two features other distros lack:

1) the ability to...

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Ed Bott close to Ejaculation as Windows 10 Creators Update nears release!

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22 Mar 2017, 12:52 5735guy

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Looks like Ed Bott is slapping his dink around glorifying the creator's update (which by the way, this article has so little substance it may as well have been written by Donald Trump, Trump Bott):

Hmmm, that's a good nickname for Ed Bott, the...

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Windows 10 Telemetry and Cortana Gets Worse

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22 Mar 2017, 13:31 hupostasis

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In the upcoming 'Creators Update' to Windows 10, Telemetry and other services (like Cortana) will be baked inside explorer.exe and other critical processes so they can no longer be individually turned off, removed or modified.

Microsoft has done...

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Some of my audio stuff claims it's not compatible in a VM, but I hope by that time virtualization has reached a point where device passthrough is seamless with no problems.

It looks like MOSAIC does run under Linux, so that's good...

I guess the...

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Windows 10 Insider Preview. Microsoft have Complete Control over your PC!

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30 Jan 2017, 01:32 5735guy

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In Windows 10 Insider Preview, the Windows Update will be set to automatically install important updates as they become available. You won’t be able to turn off automatic updates.

Furthermore this makes for disturbing reading

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So now you can't even delay updates?
Also, did I miss somkething in the new privacy statement? Seems tamer than before, but I still maintain Win10 is a confidential-data (i.e., HIPAA) breach lawsuit just waiting to happen.

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Windows 10 UI so disjointed it requires a detailed article on guidance to the most Basic of tasks and functions

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26 Nov 2016, 10:33 5735guy

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Need help navigating Windows 10? Let Windows pro Ed Bott be your guide.

Yep you've got it our favourite ZDNet commentator is at it again. Completely in denial that the Windows 10 UI is an utter mess. Aside from which it is of little use as ZDNet...

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Dang I've not gone back there for months. Same old crowd?

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Microsoft and Telemetry. Ed Bott once again feels the need to go on the defensive....

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"The problem of fake news isn't just limited to election campaigns. Legitimate tech reporters have been tearing their hair out over bogus stories for years. The latest example is a report that Microsoft is giving telemetry information to a...

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Microsoft out of desperation resort to claiming Windows 7 to be insecure!

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14 Nov 2016, 16:54 5735guy

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Microsoft: Windows 7 is way more exposed to ransomware than Windows 10

The Microsoft Corporation are showing utter desperation in response to the slow adoption of Windows 10.

Reduce the threat of ransomeware by installing the spyware which is...

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while its SmartScreen Filter blocks on average 200,000 automated attacks over the web from so-called exploit kits that deliver ransomware, according to Microsoft.
I would like to challenge that claim actually / "SmartScreen" rarely caught...

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Microsoft releases fix for Windows 10 cumulative update issues

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06 Oct 2016, 09:19 5735guy

Microsoft releases fix for Windows 10 cumulative update issues but the default automatic update policy falls under further scrutiny.

As predicted the usual suspects have been quick off the mark to defend the Microsoft Corporation.

In the article...

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Windows 10 installed base grows, as businesses become less cautious

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28 Sep 2016, 09:07 5735guy

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Windows 10 installed base grows, as businesses become less cautious

As always Ed Bott has been spouting propaganda generated by the Microsoft Corporation (bearing in mind none of the statistics have been independently verified).

Mr Bott is the...

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Thanks for posting that!

I decided to take a look at the source where Ed Bott generated his ugly chart (btw the one with his Windows 7 usage is conveniently unavailable)... and there's a lot of things he didn't mention.
Operating Systems
Windows:...

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In a world of free operating systems, can Windows 10 survive?

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23 Sep 2016, 22:40 5735guy

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In a world of free operating systems, can Windows 10 survive?

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"To run OS X (legally) you need to use Apple hardware which is priced at a premium"

That particular point is very much a straw man argument.

Much of the time to expect similar performance the cost of the Hardware is similar to that of a...

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Microsoft: Windows 10 now on 400 million devices

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26 Sep 2016, 18:05 5735guy

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Microsoft: Windows 10 now on 400 million devices

The word 'Microsoft' at the head of the article deems the remainder of the article mute as the Microsoft Corporation can so easily manipulate these figures.

At no time have such claims be...

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LOL so of the 400 million including well over half of device types which couldn't even HAVE Windows on them -- how many of these were actually sold, does the article say? How many users?

Or are they up to their same old chicanery? Wasn't it only...

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Windows 10: 'Microsoft should pay compensation for user upgrade woes'

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22 Sep 2016, 23:23 5735guy

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Windows 10: 'Microsoft should pay compensation for user upgrade woes'

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Great article, thank you. So instead of 1B by the end of the year, it's only 350M devices. I'm SO GLAD I retired my Win10 back in August 2015.

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ZDNet and the Windows 10 Apologists

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David Gewirtz has just written an interesting article on ZDNet

"In a world of free operating systems, can Windows 10 survive?"

Of course comments have quoted that a Mac needs to be purchased to get the free macOS upgrades and as usual...

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Configuring Windows 10 - removing the stupid junk

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25 Jun 2016, 20:39 hupostasis

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I've cloned my Windows 7 install to another SSD (using Marcium Free) and upgraded it to Windows 10 so I'll have a free copy available when (if*) Microsoft decides to stop offering Windows 10 upgrades for free.

* Due to the fact Ed Bott...

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So you can't install it to a new partition, and keep your Win7, right?

That's correct there are no separate partitions (it does keep the Windows installation under windows.old / but who knows how good it will work on reverting it, I've never tried...

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Windows 10 UEFI boot via bootx64.efi

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26 Jun 2016, 21:27 hupostasis

On systems that support UEFI and GPT, Windows 10 configures its bootloader in an EFI system partition (ESP). Therefore, just configuring your UEFI to 'boot' from say, Hard disk 0, nothing will actually be loaded.

The disk where you have Windows 10...

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New Tyranny: CPUs will require Windows 10

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17 Jan 2016, 11:12 brainout

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So be sure to buy your computers early, folks. You won't get but 18 months if you buy a Skylake chip but an earlier version of Windows. Article, here . Apparently comments are no longer allowed, I've not seen any ZDnet comments allowed over the past...

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This is what Paul Thurott says:
As I’ve noted many times in the past, this behavior is mostly hard to justify, and is a far more serious issue, than the non-existent Windows 10 privacy issues that others carp about. For both consumers and now,...

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Analyze Windows 10 traffic

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Windows 10 is very chatty (even when you run things like spybot's anti-beacon and remove the telemetry garbage).

There's a great tool which allows you to analyze and view what Windows is doing and what communication is sent out:

The basic...

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FastStartup causing issues with NTPasswd (Windows 8 / 10)

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09 Nov 2015, 17:53 hupostasis

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If you're like me and you had to use NTPasswd to reset a password on Windows 10, there's a few things to be aware of.

Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has introduced "FastStartup", which essentially means the system always goes into a...

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Related thread:

It's entirely wrong for Microsoft to be using the hibernation file as a workaround to make their operating system faster; just so they can squeeze an extra dime and say "hey, look at our operating system running on our surface...

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Microsoft wants every Windows user on 10

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18 Dec 2015, 05:08 hupostasis

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I couldn't find this portion of the Windows 10 insiders email anywhere, so I thought I'd post some of the email here.
Here in the Windows group, we've been working hard over the past couple months on getting people upgraded to Windows 10. With...

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Yeah, I just finished deleting that from my email, reported it as spam so I never hear from that liar again. I can't figure out how to upload attachments which are email, so I pasted the full text, below:

Spreading holiday cheer - family upgrade...

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Microsoft LIES for Christmas

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04 Dec 2015, 14:38 brainout

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Ever notice, that when someone cannot counter facts provided, they have to resort to name calling? The latter is not ipse wrong, but it's no substitute for facts.

Well, that's the level to which MSFT has sunk, now. Now, it hires someone to lie for...

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Wow, hupostasis, I didn't notice that other stuff. Thank you for bringing it up. Some of the commenters did notice it too, as I found out later. You'll be gratified to read the comments, in that article.

What I noticed, was that he neatly sidesteps...

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what Windows 10 glitches do you have

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30 Sep 2015, 06:38 hupostasis

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So my computer at work (running Windows 10) is starting to exhibit strange behaviours. I thought I would share them.

#1 when I lock and unlock my computer, sometimes it changes my main monitor to a different one, and also changes the order of my...

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Lenovo ThinkStation with the Xeon option (it is a discontinued model).

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Win10 services to disable, article by ghacks

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29 Nov 2015, 00:15 brainout

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This just came in my email from NBR, a ghacks article, click here .

WARNING: the article is somewhat inaccurate. Many of the services you cannot really stop. They will seem to stop, but really do not, such as Cortana. For Enterprise, usually the...

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Actually Martin in a previous article mentions about the services starting themselves back up again after updates (and Diagnostic Tracking Service was renamed):

And get this! Woody Leonhard goes out of his way to immediately throw criticism...

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Win10 violates HIPAA?

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07 Nov 2015, 16:13 brainout

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HIPAA is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, designed to make health insurance more stable, inter alia. Clearly a cornerstone of it, is confidentiality of data.

Win10 violates that confidentiality, and that is one of my side...

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Well, I tried, using this link, to help NEMT with the issues, but I don't know if my comment went through. Their link is here .

Links where I'm trying to assess the same question for my physician clients include the 'website' ( master listing of...

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Windows Mobile Tanking?

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19 Nov 2015, 10:53 brainout

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Latest ArsTechnica article, here .

MS fanboy Thurott's article, here .

The betanews critique, here .

The comments for both articles are actually more informative than the articles. That tends to be the norm, for computer articles on the web....

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I'm not that interested in phones myself (my company provides the phone as it is required for some aspects of what I do). I need a real keyboard to get any work done.
Me neither. I keep my landline, and the RAZR is only for driving.

Did you know,...

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Windows 10 big updates

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19 Nov 2015, 09:10 hupostasis

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As per the insider program (which I am a part of), some new features to Windows 10 were added.

It looks like the xbox is finally being converted to Windows (which is something Ed Fries mentioned that Bill Gates always wanted-- Gates wants...

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Here's Mary Foley's update on that, with extras re Windows Mobile.

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ENTERPRISE not allowed to refuse Win10 Updates!

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16 Nov 2015, 13:15 brainout

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This just in, click here : in its disgusting 'benevolence', MicroSS has decided that even Enterprise will not be allowed to say no to the Windows 10 updates , and even then can only DELAY them for up to four WEEKS, in one week increments.

But now...

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Okay, thanks. I have no idea what all that stuff is. But others will need it. Thank you again!

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Will Windows 10 cause more people to use Linux?

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14 Nov 2015, 04:18 hupostasis

This is a question I've been thinking about recently; while many have different interpretations on Windows 10, these seem to be the most common problems with the operating system:
#1 Privacy (re: questionable services that cannot be disabled without...

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Windows 10 Not Optional?

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12 Nov 2015, 23:48 guest

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Quote from article, TechRepublic:

Users will still need to confirm the installation manually for it to continue. If they choose not to proceed, Korst said "the customer will have the ability to delay it for some period".

He was unable...

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Well Microsoft states that the extended support for Windows 7 ends in 2020 and that mainstream support for Windows 8 ends in 2018:

So I don't think they'd automatically roll out upgrades prior to that point (and it would only be possible if you...

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Windows ENTERPRISE license alternatives

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06 Nov 2015, 05:37 brainout

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This just in , I learned that you don't have to own a bazillion Windows machines to get Windows Enterprise. But it's expensive, and there are restrictions. Click here to read the post, and keep reading until that subtopic ends.

An Enterprise...

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Yeah, the enterprise license is designed for servers--which operate with critical data and cannot have forced automatic updates and privacy breaches: so it's no surprise these elements are removed. The same is true also for consumer vs. enterprise...

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Fix Win10 utility

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02 Nov 2015, 06:47 brainout

This guy is well-known for making freeware that works. Clone or backup your Win10 before you use the utility, which you can install to a stick rather than install within Windows, click here. . ZDnet article recommending it just came out, click here...

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Borked Drivers due to Win10, summary

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31 Oct 2015, 02:06 brainout

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There are many reports of this on the internet, but one guy's post summarizes the nature of the problem best: click here (and wait, for there will be a huge lag until the program navigates to the post). For specific driver problems, you're stuck...

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Oh yeah. Just stay on whatever you're using. At best, Win10 doesn't improve what you have. That quote is here provided because it's the best summary of the driver problem I've encountered.

I don't have Windows 10, and the inner workings of...

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Privacy Protection re Win10, by Condobloke

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15 Aug 2015, 01:12 brainout

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For his link on installation tips, click here .

For his link on usage and configuration tips post-installation, click here .

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Great!

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Rolling Back from Win10, by Asok Smith

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16 Sep 2015, 23:02 brainout

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Click here, then click on the red 'comments' button, then search on 'Asok Smith' to see the quote below.

The really horrible thing that's going on is if you actually "upgrade" to Windows 10, but then roll it back, the upgrade keeps...

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Okay, you're not thinking through or researching as I'd asked. So you just dig in your heels, I won't reply further.

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DESKTOP FONT CHANGE in Win10

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I've been writing about this all over the place; this post lists the better links. Point is, you can ONLY change Windows 10 desktop fonts using an old Windows 95/98 program called 'Plus! '. Now, if you have old Win95 and 98 machines/disks, you'll...

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Display fuzzy, in Win10? Try this

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26 Aug 2015, 21:27 brainout

Besides redoing Clear Text (without which Windows is unreadable), you can try these steps in a post I just found in PC World , by a user-commenter there named Darren Fajcz.

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