Posted on 09/10/2015 2:08:56 PM PDT by Signalman
If you have Windows 10 and you want Microsoft to stay the hell out of your computer activities, do the following:
1. Click the windows icon located at the bottom left-hand corner of the main screen.
2. In the Search Windows dialog box, type "privacy".
3. When the Change Privacy window appears, turn all options "off".
4. After that is completed, click "Manage my Microsoft Advertising and other personalization info".
5. When that appears, click the purple box labeled "choose" and turn it off.
6 click the green box regarding personalized ads (you have to sign in with this one) and turn it off.
Marked
Bump
“On the advice of family ITs, they told me to buy a Windows 10 Toshiba laptop on sale this week at Staples.”
no, no, no, no.
buy a dell refurb (from dell outlet - business class channel) latitude e5000 or e6000 series biz-class laptop with W7x64 Pro. has same warranty as new.
BFLR - thanks!
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WOW, sounds like something that I want no part of!!!!!
I used to fight with my Windows 8 phone on a daily basis to turn this stuff off. It only stopped being a problem when it upgraded to 8.1. This is like being reminded of that nightmare, and why I haven’t upgraded to Windows 10.
“I tried that with Linux Mint. The 32 bit versions would install and run but the 64 bit versions would not.”
Odd. Have you tried Ubuntu? You must know that you don’t have to install Linux to test the compatibility beforehand. Download a 64-bit image file, burn a DVD and boot from that to test it before installing. I am running a 64-bit version of Ubuntu Mate and really like it.
BTW, 32-bit versions run very well on 64-bit systems, just somewhat slower. Better than nothing and still a workable alternative to the despised Windows.
BFLR
The live disk ran fine. Installed great on VMware player, just not on the actual hardware. I suspect a misconfiguration on the partitions, and I searched the web but didn’t find a viable solution. I’m gonna leave it as-is until 2019 when the support runs out.
Did you know XP has a simple registry “hack” that tells MS that is a point-of-sale computer and support runs out in 2019? I ran it on a VM image and it works.
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