Windows 10 gaining desktop market share

backstreetboy said:
Check to see if there's store apps that updated.
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Thanks - do you mean all those icons represented in the start menu ?
How can one even stop them from updating, as I'd of thought they'd be done through the normal Updater ? (ie. when you check for updates).
 
I O U said:
Thanks - do you mean all those icons represented in the start menu ?
How can one even stop them from updating, as I'd of thought they'd be done through the normal Updater ? (ie. when you check for updates).
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Go to the Windows store (the carrier bag with the windows logo). Under settings you can disable App updates just like on Android/iOS.

Pitbull said:
I will only move over to Win10 once I can have FULL control over the OS like with Win7. Still way too many things the user has no control over.
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The registry and powershell is still there. You have all the control in the world...
 
Have a couple of laptops (work plus personal light-use machine) on Win 10 - quite like it.

My desktop at home is on 7 and will probably stay that way for awhile - no real incentive to switch up yet.
 
Windows 7 is still the best. Stuff just works and no spying.
 
backstreetboy said:
Go to the Windows store (the carrier bag with the windows logo). Under settings you can disable App updates just like on Android/iOS.



The registry and powershell is still there. You have all the control in the world...
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Which version? No way you have that control on Basic or Home. No way in hell.
 
supersunbird said:
And that's it was FREE for a year and kept telling you it is free, over and over and over...
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You only have yourself to blame for not upgrading then. Had you upgraded it would have stopped.
 
backstreetboy said:
Go to the Windows store (the carrier bag with the windows logo). Under settings you can disable App updates just like on Android/iOS.
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Thanks again. Will check the Store settings out either tonight or tomorrow.
Will be much happier about Win 10 if it work, as a result.

Was considering wiping out Win 10 on the one machine, and putting Solus OS onto it - have Ubuntu MATE on a 3rd laptop, which to me is like using XP or 7 from a simplicity & control point-of-view re doing updates.
 
Thor187 said:
Windows 7 is still the best. Stuff just works and no spying.
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Windows 10, even more stuff that just works including DX 12. And you do ofcourse realise windows 10 spying was delivered to Windows 7/8 in a 2015 patch. Unless you took specific action to block that update you probably have less control over spying than in Windows 10 where you can disable it.
 
Munch said:
You only have yourself to blame for not upgrading then. Had you upgraded it would have stopped.
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Even though they officially stopped allowing the move from 7 or 8.1 to 10 months ago, it can still easily be done, as I did so on my laptop with Win 8.1 only a few weeks ago. Win 10 activated immediately without needing to contact Microsoft.
 
Pitbull said:
I will only move over to Win10 once I can have FULL control over the OS like with Win7. Still way too many things the user has no control over.
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Such as? Windows updates and what else?
 
Munch said:
Windows 10, even more stuff that just works including DX 12. And you do ofcourse realise windows 10 spying was delivered to Windows 7/8 in a 2015 patch. Unless you took specific action to block that update you probably have less control over spying than in Windows 10 where you can disable it.
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Took specific action
 
I'm still running Windows 7 at home and at the office. See no reason to change. Cost is too prohibitive and I don't like being locked into updates with no control.
 
Munch said:
Windows 10, even more stuff that just works including DX 12. And you do ofcourse realise windows 10 spying was delivered to Windows 7/8 in a 2015 patch. Unless you took specific action to block that update you probably have less control over spying than in Windows 10 where you can disable it.
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Specific action enabled....

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

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I O U said:
I now have 2 laptops on Windows 10 Home - the one, a newly purchased Dell (Black Friday), and the other, a Lenovo that had Win 8.1 on it. In both cases, I'd done fresh Win 10 ISO installs of the Anniversary Update, so there are no Dell or Lenovo apps on the machines ***

Last night, I decided to check for updates. As soon as I turned on each laptop, I noticed that the data started 'flowing'. As it turned out, the Dell received about 530MB of (background) data, and the Lenovo around 750MB.

Independently checking for updates, all there was for each machine was a minor amount for Windows Defender since the last time I checked a few days prior .. nothing else was available, and everything was up-to-date.

I have both machines set to Defer Upgrades & both are used via wi-fi, so set as metered connections.

Anyone know what might've been downloading all that data in the background ?
Furthermore, I have very few things running on each machine - Chrome, Opera, Firefox, all of which I check for updates manually .. and WPS Office which I've prevented from updating automatically. The one machine has Outlook for GMail.

*** = unless there are apps in the BIOS of each machine downloading things out of my control ?

I can only guess that Microsoft are pushing things out in prep. for this next build coming up in a few months time, without people even knowing it's going on in the background .. as it's not going through the normal Update channel we're all used to.
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This is because on Windows 10 Home you cannot stop receiving updates. Even if you apply registry hacks published on some websites, it doesn't work in the long run.

Solution for Home users is a free upgrade to Pro version. Install demo copy of Windows 7 Pro or Ultimate with DAZ, validate online, then generate Windows 10 Pro digital certificate. Then make a clean installation of Windows 10 Pro without Internet access, insert certificate and then activate online. Remember to not enter any keys during Win 7 or Win10 installation.

Upgrading to Enterprise version is also free, but different. :)
 
backstreetboy said:
:sick: only reason it did well is people believed Vista sucked when in fact it was the specs of their PC's and the underspecced PC's being sold in shops.
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No, had a quite high-end laptop with Vista, often had windows explorer crashes, driver errors, etc.
Got W7 on it on release, no more problems.

W7 > W10 > ... > W8.1 > ... > XP > ... > W8 > ... > ... > ... > Vista
 
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