Posted on 05/23/2016 9:37:39 AM PDT by george76
Microsoft's new trick to coax users into upgrading to Windows 10 relies on changing behaviors the pop-up's instilled since December.
This morning, the unthinkable happened: My wife, an avowed PC user who long ago swore to never touch an Apple device, started shopping around for a Mac Mini. And it’s all thanks to Windows 10. Or rather, the nasty new way that Microsoft’s tricking Windows 7 and 8 users into automatically updating to Windows 10.
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The annoying “Get Windows 10” pop-up began using deceiving malware-like tactics months ago, but it recently received an overhaul that seems purposefully designed to confuse users who have been wearily slogging through the nagging for half a year now.
That nasty change trick resulted in my wife’s beloved Windows 7 PC being sneakily upgraded to Windows 10 this morning. Sure, she has 30 days to roll it back to Windows 7, but she feels so betrayed—like Microsoft forcibly removed her control over her own PC.
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here’s the icky part: The redesigned GWX pop-up now treats exiting the window as consent for the Windows 10 upgrade.
So after more than half a year of teaching people that the only way to say “no thanks” to Windows 10 is to exit the GWX application—and refusing to allow users to disable the pop-up in any obvious manner, so they had to press that X over and over again during those six months to the point that most people probably just click it without reading now—Microsoft just made it so that very behavior accepts the Windows 10 upgrade instead, rather than canceling it.
That’s gross.
(Excerpt) Read more at pcworld.com ...
Starting with Vista even if your user account is in the local administrators group there is still something called "UAC" or User Account Control. In order to access the full functionality of some applications - including the command prompt - you need to explicitly run it with elevated privileges.
Instead of just clicking on the link to launch the command prompt, right click on it and choose "Run as Administrator" then try your script or command.
I upgraded and my system behaves faster.
My main machine is now Fedora Linux with KDE desktop. It is still a little grumpy compared to Windows, but this is now a fully functiona and slick system. I still have to use Microsoft Word for some applications (I write books, LibreWrite is fine otherwise). Otherwise I am free at last. No viruses, no Microsoft tax, plenty of specialty software. And it will only get better.
Yeah, I installed it a few weeks ago and have not seen the nagware.
What is the problem with windows 10?
windows 10 is great if you have the balls to accept the present
HEY! Microsoft.
I'm giving you the Magical Middle Widget Finger!
I'm STAYING on Windows 9.7!
I have no problems with Windows 10.
Ditto here--- did the same last Thursday. Had to do a hard power down to prevent MS Gestapo from forcing OS 10 stop installing. My business computer I want to stay Windows 7. My personal laptop I did the upgrade to Windows 10.
I did. Got some dude in Bangladesh or some similar location who, after a half hour of my explaining the problem couldn't help.
Called the Staples store too, they said bring it in and they'd look at it. All I need is the damned code, which I cant find 'cause I cant find the packaging. They want a service charge, apparently.
thanks to my IT department for protecting me....
My computer was unplugged and the hard drives were removed and when I put it back together and booted, Windows 10 was installed.
***the only issue I have so far is Microsoft Edge,***
Same here. I downoaded Windows 10. As a result my computer works faster, but I also have problems. I always kept two browser windows, IE and Mozilla on my computer. All reloaded with Windows 10, but IE(Edge) will not open at all. It says it can’t get to the page I am looking for. Also, on startup, the Windows 10 page has some weird foreign language for the date.
So I use Mozilla Firefox, and have downloaded Google Chrome as IE still will not open. When I tried to r-edownload Windows 10, it said I already have it and will not download anything to clear up the problem.
So I am getting used to Chrome along with Firefox.
The issue is not whether 10 is better than 7.
It’s that Microsoft is being underhanded and duplicitous.
Microsoft is pushing Windows 10 because it has links to the Microsoft Store, to sell more stuff (apps, games, music, videos, etc) like the Google Play Store or the Apple Store.
Windows 7 doesn’t have links to the Microsoft Store. So that’s why Microsoft is pushing Windows 10. The upsell.
If you keep Windows 7, Microsoft doesn’t make any more money from that. From inside of Windows 10, Microsoft can sell you more things. Follow the money.
Windows 10 upgrades are essentially date rape of the computer world. You wake up and realize what has happened when you were asleep.
Windows-based operating systems always run faster at first. The registry is lean and not cluttered. Probably an artifact of performing the upgrade. Wait a few months, and your system should start slowing down.
This happened to me last week, turned the PC on and went to do something while it booted. Came back to find I was in the middle of the upgrade that I had declined about 70+ times over the past months. Well....you do not want to interrupt that process.
It installed fine, looked OK, because if I didn’t have 18,297 ways to reconfigure my opening screen and 1,825 ways to resize the tiles and 7,289 variations of desktop wallpaper I simply could not work the way I do.
But neither could I work the way I do with my second monitor dead and the card invisible to the OS so I could not see it nor get a new driver for it. A call to the mfr of that card determined that there was no suitable driver for WDOs 10. So back to 7 I went.
If your computer is over ~~5 years old and you have almost anything lashed up to it via a card, in other words, in anything but a very very vanilla configuration, you’ll almost certainly lose the driver to that device and it won’t work any more. This is just a fairly plain two-headed video card for driving two monitors.
I too was deeply offended by the unagreed-to upgrade and let MSFT know in no uncertain terms.
The problem with win 10 in my case was the auto updates didn’t kill my installed engineering software until after the thirty days. It all just stopped working. Then, the engineering software companies refused to support win 10
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