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Do you get the feeling maybe they're not "making their numbers" and need to spin the crank a little harder?
1 posted on 12/16/2015 6:30:12 PM PST by dayglored
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To: dayglored; Abby4116; afraidfortherepublic; aft_lizard; AF_Blue; Alas Babylon!; amigatec; ...
Windows 10 Now Or Tonight, Right? ... PING!

You can find all the Windows Ping list threads with FR search: just search on keyword "windowspinglist".

2 posted on 12/16/2015 6:31:10 PM PST by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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To: dayglored

This is funny... and I wonder if it’s real, or a sneak link to somewhere else. Someone ought to check the links.

PS—W10 works great if your computer is only a year or two old.


3 posted on 12/16/2015 6:32:51 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: dayglored

Uninstall and then hide the update for KB3035583

I had to do that to stop the Windows 10 nagging on my Win 7 machine.


5 posted on 12/16/2015 6:36:26 PM PST by Elderberry
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To: dayglored

The next Microsoft update will replace every “7” or “8” on your PC with a “10”. So 7+8 will equal 20 instead of 15. ;-)

If operating systems were like ice cream, Windows would be vanilla, Linux would be 31 Flavors.


8 posted on 12/16/2015 6:37:00 PM PST by r_barton
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To: dayglored

DO NOT UPGRADE UNLESS YOU ARE 100% SURE YOUR SOFTWARE WILL WORK!!!

My computer and OS are the least of my expenses. I am a design engineer and a recovering aerospace engineer. I had one of my laptops upgrade to windows 10 about 3 months ago. Everything worked just perfect. All my CAD CAM CAE FEA software was just fine. Until last week when WIN 10 shoved a non optional update and now none of them work.

The cost to get new software (and as of yet NONE of mine are supported) is in the $8500 range PER computer.

Luckily it was a win 8.1 (I despise by the way) and I can restore the computer to factory mode. Everything worked great until the 30 day option to uninstall Windows 10 expired (of course).

Not Happy.


9 posted on 12/16/2015 6:37:11 PM PST by Organic Panic
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To: dayglored

I had this pop up on my Win7 machine about a month ago. I just X’ed out, and it has not returned.

The constant upgrade reminders in the system tray were bad enough (until I removed them); but this is way too intrusive, and misleading for the less savvy.


10 posted on 12/16/2015 6:37:14 PM PST by kevao (Biblical Jesus: Give your money to the poor. Socialist Jesus: Give your neighbor's money to the poor)
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To: dayglored

microsoft has been flicking these boogers on my screen for a few months


12 posted on 12/16/2015 6:44:02 PM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: dayglored
But early next year that will be changed to a "recommended" update, meaning that those who have set the patching cycle to Automatic will download the new OS by default.

Well, I'm glad I saw this warning, I just changed my update settings to manual.

I don't want Win10 yet, waiting for some more positive feedback from you tech nerds.

13 posted on 12/16/2015 6:45:51 PM PST by PROCON (It's not islamophobia, it's islamonausea)
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To: dayglored

microsoft’s nagware doesn’t know ‘no’ means ‘no’

they’re trying to ‘rape’ my system every week


17 posted on 12/16/2015 6:50:36 PM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: dayglored

Ah, Microsoft.

I see the sleaze still goes in before the code comes out.


21 posted on 12/16/2015 6:58:22 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: dayglored
Odd, never seen anythin like that on this 7 64bit machine.

Maybe not downloading any updates after the first week almost two years ago did the trick?

Been just as solid as the old XP box as well.

30 posted on 12/16/2015 7:24:06 PM PST by doorgunner69
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To: dayglored

I just got a major windows 10 upgrade notice which downloaded lastnight from the one I installed in July. Took over an hour....I have no clue what changes occurred. As long as I can get into my stuff, I am happy.


31 posted on 12/16/2015 7:24:32 PM PST by hsmomx3 (GO STEELERS!!!!!!)
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To: dayglored

And you can’t turn this crap off.

It’s not the only nuisance software out there. Opera nags me even with updates turned off.

“Hey we’ve got something new, are you SURE you don’t want our latest, it’s ready to install!”

Stop loading crap on my system killing my bandwith and eating up my storage.

This message isn’t just aimed at MS.


37 posted on 12/16/2015 8:26:58 PM PST by a fool in paradise (The goal of Socialism is Communism. Marx and Lenin were in agreement on this.)
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To: dayglored; All

Stop the Nag:

Simply go into windows update, click on update history on left, then click on installed updates up top on right, down a little bit- look for KB3o3558 and right click uninstall- you’ll have to restart machine- When you see the update again in future list- (just update the list) right click it and select ‘hide’


44 posted on 12/16/2015 9:03:05 PM PST by Bob434
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To: dayglored
Never seen it.

But of course I do not have Automatic Updates turned on...

46 posted on 12/17/2015 3:24:50 AM PST by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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