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Thanks to Swordmaker for the ping!!
Posted on 08/20/2016 11:07:16 AM PDT by Swordmaker
Microsoft ... for folks ehose time isnt actually worth anything. (Evil grin)
“One thing I left out is “ttf-mscorefonts-installer”.
I was just going to ask you about that.:-)
(I still have trouble putting e-mails into folders.)
Now back to my abacus and slate.
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Breaks webcams? Good! This means they cannot spy on you thru the camera.
AH! Classic Microsoft! It's not a bug, it's a feature.
That wasn’t my goal ... but there’s a huge pile-on effect on any MSFT thread, usually with a lot of wistful text about some Windows or DOS at least two versions old. I enjoyed starting my Apple 2 from an assembly prompt once ... once.
Anyway my last was over the top and I apologize.
I’ve been watching this project with some anticipation: http://www.reactos.org
It is still in alpha stage. But, if the project team can deliver on their vision; you will have a free, lightweight, open source windows platform.
Thanks, Free Republic is full of liberty-minded, Constitutional-abiding, hard-working, American Patriots.
While Democrat Underground is full of ignorant, lazy, folks who want to undermine the Constitution and use the power of big government to rob their fellow hard-working Americans for themselves or how they see fit.
It’s two totally different mindsets so that is why it’s hard to see Free Republic compared to DU in any way. Thanks again for understanding.
CGato
It is still in alpha stage. But, if the project team can deliver on their vision; you will have a free, lightweight, open source windows platform.
Yes, I downloaded an earlier version live CD of this. I can't remember what issues I ran in to but still being in early stages, I thought it was pretty cool. It will be a nice Windows alternative if they continue to get this developed.
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Thanks to Swordmaker for the ping!!
Late to the party, but better late than never... :-) Been out all day, just now getting online...
I do not recall getting an anniversary update although I have Windows 10 installed from a year ago.
FWIW, my personal solution to this problem: Running Win 7 with updates turned off. No problems so far. Have applied the Win 7 Roll Up.
Win 7 forever!
Thank you for the tips on going to Linux. I’m going to hang onto my Windows 7 system for as long as I can, but when I reach the end of that road, I’ll be switching over.
When I downloaded 10 to my other computer is said you could go back within 30 days... but there’s nothing about how to do it...
As long as it hasn't been past the 30 days the Revert back to previous windows option will still be there but after 30 days, it disappears. Here is a video on how to revert back to previous windows OS.
Yeah! That’s what I thought too! GMTA!
The closest you can come is if you use a laptop or a desktop equipped with a WiFi card. It seems that MS recognized the risks associated with metered connections (any connection where you are charged by the data consumed rather than simply a monthly fee) and made allowances to allow filtering of updates if you specified a metered connection.
Please note that you cannot do this with a wired Ethernet connection. As a result, I will only install Win-10 onto laptops and I won’t trust my data to any of them.
I expect that to change any day with them, given their horrible track record.
Where do we sign up for the class action suit?!
Win-10 Anniversary update is 3.5gig - bloatware
Thanks for sharing that Gato...
And that's the rub. Until MS goes back to a more Windows 7-ish type of O/S, they won't gain any new users, especially not me.
I use Windows 7 primarily on all of my computers, however, I have a removable hard drive tray that allows me to insert hard drives with different operating systems on my main computer. For that desktop, I have a hard drive with XP, one with 7, and one with 10. My laptop can utilize either one of two hard drives, one with XP and one with 7. My media tower has 7 exclusively, as does a laptop someone just gave me that previously ran Vista.
I will pop the Windows 10 disk in at times to let it update and to piddlefart around with it, but until someone can develop a way to turn off the automatic updates I won't use it on a consistent basis.
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