Socialists gotta keep pushing for more control.
I have windows but thinking to change to linux. Is MS Word and Publisher compatible with linux?
A forced cumulative update also reset PDF viewing to Edge on many PCs.
Right click, chose Adobe.
But someone who knows this stuff better than me switched me back to IE. I hope I can keep it.
I will not install an operating system that has a Key Logger. Period.
Rotten bastards. I have win10 on one throwaway ancient laptop. I will not install on any of my important machines, just based on this type of nonsense alone. So irritated by their tin-eared decisions for years.
My son updated to Windows 10 and was not able to make it work with some software programs. Fortunately, he was able to uninstall Windows 10 and go back to what he had, which had worked perfectly.
I have a working Windows system and have ignored all of the offers to update to Windows 10. Had a forced Windows 10 update changed some of the programs I use on a daily basis to Microsoft programs I’ve never heard of before, I would be spitting mad. No Windows 10 for me, thank you all the same.
Ping!
I use Chrome Browser and the update made absolutely NO CHANGE to default browser (still Chrome) nor any changes to IrfanView.
There’s a LOT of WIN10 mis-information being disseminated.
You must comply. Or shortly. Eventually they say you will not be able to refuse updates.
On one of my older computers it killed Firefox altogether
You can change those auto updates in certain versions of 10, and I think there are other workarounds for those stuck with these force fed auto update.
Microsoft will not be making many friends with this little change.
I hate being forced to use that crap. My engineering software requires Windows and the latest update from them is only supported on Win 10. Yech.
I tried the Windows 10 on my system. Every program but one was supported. I could not find drivers for my RAID, so I switched back to Windows 7. I wish I could opt out of their nag-ware.
The horror. You have to go reset your setting. The horror!!!!
Edge is the worst browser ever foisted upon mankind. Deplorable. User-hostile. Nonintuitive.
Worse than that. Updates killed my wireless and made Firefox disappear. Finally rolled back to a February 2 restore point which got the wireless working again, then had to download Firefox again. Then had to re-set Firefox as the default browser. I’ve disabled any further MS updates on this laptop. Haven’t converted my Win7 desktop at this point, and don’t plan to after this little exercise.
Don't know about KB 3135173, but previous updates during the last few months have pretty much changed browser and other defaults. Unpredictably. Randomly.
I made the huge mistake of choosing my newest Win8/8.1 Desktop to upgrade to Win 10, with all my most useful programs on it: Office 365, WinZip, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Photoshop Essentials, CompupicPro (which worked in Win 7) and other minor ones I may not even remember.
And daily, now, on my surviving Win7 laptop, I get s stupid Message : 110 MILLION PCs HAVE UPGRADED TO WINDOWS10 FOR FREE!
HOW MANY OF THOSE HAVE BEEN THOROUGHLY TRASHED IN THE PROCESS?? AND IN SUBSEQUENT "UPDATES" THAT GOES FROM BAD TO WORSE? 10%? 25%
I know part of the "free upgrade to Win10" was an EUA that forces us to accept all risk resulting from the upgrade
What they failed to mention (or maybe not) is that what we were accepting was to be Alpha testers, and whatever damage resulted from that.
But a wholesale revolt by the suckers (110 million of us?) might have some juice. How much will it cost to fix X% of those 110 million computers?
1. Do not leave any USB devices connected to a Win10 computer before turning it on.
2. Disconnect at the computer if going through a hub. If you Have an external USB Drive as you backup device--- pray.
3. DO NOT use USB memory sticks made pre-Win 10. The results may be disastrous, both to the memory sticks and to the Win 10 machine.
Not discussed much, but Win 10 uses a new File format, and it hates NTFS and FAT, the most popular File formats pre-Win 10.
Bumpp for later
If my memory is correct, it’s less than two years since the EU hit Microsoft with big $ fines for “anti-competitive commercial practices”. I don’t see how this latest kind of behaviour from Win10 [auto-changing your software preferences] is going to go down well with the EU!