"See the new interface? Notice how it shines?" This is what passes for technology from this company. Changing the look of the menus and how they can be accessed.
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But MS gives repeated alerts re upgrade to Windows 10. Maybe there are too many so that people respond, or not, automatically. So blaming MS is not a valid excuse.
That said, i just upgraded, modified a to. Of security and privacy settings and I've been pretty pleased so far. It seems to run faster than Windows 8.1. I lost my desktop screen, which is an irritant, but I'm getting used to it, as I have the idiosyncrasies is all operating systems.

My distaste of them comes from bogus changes that do nothing to improve productivity, just makes everything look different for the sake of looking different.

The 'Aero' design where they make it harder to tell what you have highlighted.

The 'ribbon' confusion, where they make it more difficult to find menu options.

The utterly pointless attempt to put meaningless icons next to every menu item, thereby making it more difficult for the mind to process.

They say they conduct extensive user tests but none of those three items I mentioned are in any way, shape or form beneficial to users. They are just changes for the sake of changing.
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Just like how cars have a "new" model every year, even when it's just a barely perceptible change in tail-light shape.

I had internet connectivity problems. I deleted it and returned to 8.1.

KB-3035583 installs the Get Win10 app, but it won't stay hidden unless you also hide KB-112148, and probably a few others. MS can be sneaky when it wants to be so it's back to manual updates for now.

I haven't been able to conclusively determine that MS has Win10's dual-monitor difficulties fixed, at least without a pain-in-the-ass workaround. Without that very basic bit of functionality (I rely on two monitors for my work...big, annoying changes to how I work w/ only one), no way I'm upgrading.

and I clicked install before I realized what had happened.

My printer immediately quit working.

A software burning program died on me.

Even my computer tech now admits they are doing it.

and switch to an Apple iMac.

Once Windows 10 was installed, it constantly slowed down the PC for the first ten minutes after boot up while it scans in the background and eventually pops up a window giving you a choice of paying to upgrade to Windows 10 Pro, or "Do not remind me again."

However, after you boot up again the same background scan begins anew with the same followup pop up window. Very annoying. I couldn't be happier with the iMac now. Thanks of pissing me off Microsoft, your screwup has improved my overall computer experience.

Literally wouldn't start. Turned out the BIOS had gotten messed up and by the time I figured it out I'd scrambled my HD which I still haven't fixed. So I got a new HD, loaded Win 7 pro, and am much happier with it. For one thing it runs on all the other machines I have or deal with, and Win 8 (which I had before) simply refused to network correctly.

My beater PC that I have in my workshop runs on XP, couldn't be happier with the way it is.

GWX Control Panel is a nifty little too to keep the Win 10 crap from your PC...

http://ultimateoutsider.com/downloads/

but it's starting to get as slow as Jeb!'s poll numbers were moving.

since I upgraded from 7 my PC runs smoother, boots much faster and has less problems.

"I restrained myself from pitching my netbook out of the window" great, or "I'm plotting some horrible things for the designers of this atrocity" great?

since XP. Comparing Microsoft to Microsoft.

or great as in avoiding having your head flushed down the toilet with the blue stuff?

rather than spend half my day doing Tech support because I am running Linux.

and that doesn't work for most PC users.

Or is there some other acronym that has passed me by and I have to resort to hunting the internet to figure out what on earth someone is talking about?

That was meant as a joke - Lord knows I'm the last person to chide others about making tpyos.

Yes, DIY.

But I've been happy with it. It seems faster. A few issues, though. As I said, can't retrieve my desktop view. And searching for stuff is s little more difficult.

not great compared to, say, Breaking Bad.

Will Windows 10 be a great OS on my seven year old laptop, or will it grind everything to a halt?

but depending on how old the laptop is, you may wait until you get a new one. 7 years is pretty close to the time limit on a PC.

But the windows update in your service tray should tell you if it's compatable.

here is an article about old pcs.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2951112/hardware/can-your-old-pc-run-windows-10-the-answer-will-surprise-you.html

I have a icore 5 /3GHs with 8 g of Ram

I still have a working PC running Windows 98 with no trouble at all. That one's probably 16 or 17 years old. I have another one running XP that's fine as well, but I don't use either for Internet.

Thanks for the article.

since you don't use them for the internet, bugs and patches don't really matter.

Mostly I use the aforementioned aging laptop.

Our family PC is about a month old and came with Windows 10 installed. We've had absolutely no trouble with it.

will support older PCs with Win 7 until 2020. So you should be good. Odds are the laptop will go before that.

Should be glad it didn't get worse.

Upgrading to Linux is the better choice.

Microsoft has lost the plot.

SO long as it doesn't not really an option.

that run on Windows.

want to jump out of the window because every relative, friend, coworker and passing acquaintance has called repeatedly.

Repeatedly.

God forbid you be helpful.

It. Will. Not. Stop.

update

Not only that but I checked the view all available updates and Windows 10 upgrade was on the list but was also checked for download

No other updates were checked for download

I had my settings selected of autodownload so the next time I started my computer it would have proceeded to install Windows 10

I reset my computer to notify before downloading updates

I stupid thing is that I have an old laptap that doesn't even have the hardware resourses to handle Windows 10 So the install would either be refused or it would proceed and failed half way through wrecking my computer

I'm waiting for the message to appear on my computer.

I was getting a pop-up several times a day asking me if I was ready for Windows 10.
Nah, I'm good!

And hoping we won't notice.

uncheck the boxes below as well

If you select the always ask option and check updates again and you will find Win 10 checked in
the available updates menu again even though you have unchecked the update

Microsoft is determined to force every Windows user into Win 10 whether they want it or not and in spite of their computers lacking the resources to install and run it

Microsoft has turned the the PC into a Cable TV set top box model where you will be forced to accept and pay for every upgrade whether you want it or need it

I updated my machine only a month ago and their are now thirty more recommended updates in the dropdown menu Microsoft is purposely force feeding updates to bog down your machine and force people into Win 10

Big Gov has nothing on Big Corp in terms of their determination to control our lives and live in our wallets

The best plan is to assume your Win 7 machine is no longer supported by Microsoft and run it until it starts to fail and buy a Mac

Have all the spy settings off and manually edited registry.

You should have to opt-in to spying only by deliberate and unambiguous choice.

And it's ridiculous that an allegedly top tier operating system should require any manual editing of the registry.

Besides that, win10 runs all my gamesvgreat

I managed to revert back to 7, but 10 keeps intruding. Steve2470 gave me a link to something that should get rid of it entirely, but I haven't had a chance to try it out yet.

I had been postponing it - they gave me that one hour, one day, one week thing .... so I kept saying one week thinking I could head it off completely, somehow. I went out to cut grass and it was installing. I let it finish because I feared losing all my files (I do accounting, invoicing, etc. for a couple of small oil companies a few days a week) and hunted on the internet for a way to get rid of it, which I did. It made me angry though that it would install by itself the way it did after I had chosen to 'postpone' it.

Windows 10. Windows 10 download is more than my 5 GB monthly internet allowance. I like Windows 7 and why in hell would I use up my monthly internet allowance and have to pay dish for more data for something I don't even want?

it has already been downloaded to your commputer with the installer and all the files waiting to be executed

Just like a virus hiding in the background waiting for you to reboot to trigger the install

If you go with the show me updates before installing route you will find Wind 10 'update' already checked

If you disable updates by going the never check for updates route the same thing will happen if you try to update in the future Win 10 will be on the list already checked

If you uncheck it and reboot it will show up again on the list already checked

This is because the entire Wind 10 downloader installer with all the necessary files are sitting in your programs folder without your knowledge

The only solution is to remove the Win 10 install files from your computer and block all future Win 10 updates from Microsoft

The following utility does that and appears to work after I installed it and rebooted and checked Win Updates three times The download is free and it works


It's called GWX Control Panel

http://ultimateoutsider.com/downloads/