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Windows 7 users complain of unprovoked Windows 10 auto-upgrades (BOHICA hope ya like it)
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| Mar 14, 2016
| Jared Newman
Posted on 03/14/2016 2:17:19 PM PDT by dayglored
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Yikes.
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posted on
03/14/2016 2:17:19 PM PDT
by
dayglored
To: Abby4116; afraidfortherepublic; aft_lizard; AF_Blue; amigatec; AppyPappy; arnoldc1; ATOMIC_PUNK; ...
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posted on
03/14/2016 2:17:57 PM PDT
by
dayglored
("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
To: dayglored
If they do this to me, then I’m gone. I love Windows 7 Pro.
To: dayglored
For those who are looking forward to a Windows 10 upgrade, HOO RAH.
For those who would just as soon stay with Windows 7 -- BEWARE!
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posted on
03/14/2016 2:19:48 PM PDT
by
dayglored
("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
To: dayglored
I'm running 8.1 and have the updates set to "ask me first".
Hope that's good enough.
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posted on
03/14/2016 2:19:52 PM PDT
by
PROCON
To: PROCON
>
Hope that's good enough. Probably not, as I read this article and others like it.
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posted on
03/14/2016 2:20:42 PM PDT
by
dayglored
("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
To: dayglored
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posted on
03/14/2016 2:21:44 PM PDT
by
glasseye
To: dayglored
Abort, Re-Fry or Flail?
I remember Windows 1.0.
And 10 MB drives
And floppies by the pile full.
Thanks for the heads up.
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posted on
03/14/2016 2:21:51 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(SEMPER FI!! - Monthly Donors Rock!!)
To: dayglored
It kind of sounds to me like users do not know that they can uncheck the upgrade to Windows 10 when doing other upgrades, updates, patches, etc. ;-)
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posted on
03/14/2016 2:23:14 PM PDT
by
spel_grammer_an_punct_polise
(Why does every totalitarian, political hack think that he knows how to run my life better than I?)
To: PROCON
Uh, no way.
BTW, I run a Mac running 10.8 with Windows 7 Pro running via Parallels. I turned off Windows updates long ago — easy in Windows 7, much harder in Windows 8.1.
Research it online.
Good luck!
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posted on
03/14/2016 2:24:28 PM PDT
by
BBB333
(Q: Which is grammatically correct? Joe Biden IS or Joe Biden ARE an idiot?)
To: dayglored
Not me. Tried the free conversion and it messed up my computer big Tim, eg, erasing my CD drive from my computer. Converted back and won’t change. W-10 has all kinds of stuff I don’t need or want.
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posted on
03/14/2016 2:24:46 PM PDT
by
Jimmy Valentine
(DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
To: dayglored
Not the first time MS has done this kind of unauthorized upgrade.
One day I noticed some programs would not work. They were based on IE9. I got to checking and found my IE9 was now IE10. I had Windows7 updates turned to ‘notify me, do not auto-update’.
I was able to uninstall IE10, and it reverted to IE9.
I turned off Windows updates completely.
Even so, I still occasionally run into weird activity on my computer and find that MS had recently installed a ‘critical upgrade’. I have to run a system restore to get my machine back to normal.
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posted on
03/14/2016 2:25:12 PM PDT
by
TomGuy
To: dayglored
Windows 10 went from “Recommended” to “Mandated”.
To: dayglored
It's not that guy again, is it?
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posted on
03/14/2016 2:26:05 PM PDT
by
Koracan
To: dayglored
Yeah, I went with a nice utility that pretty much throws the finger at Win10 upgrades, forced or not. GWX I think it’s called.
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posted on
03/14/2016 2:26:55 PM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(I'm an Islamophobe??? Well, good. When it comes to Islam, there's plenty to Phobe about.)
To: spel_grammer_an_punct_polise
>
It kind of sounds to me like users do not know that they can uncheck the upgrade to Windows 10 when doing other upgrades, updates, patches, etc. ;-) For business (enterprise) users, that's true.
But for everyday home and small business users, this forced upgrade is a steamroller in spite of the settings.
And let's face it, most Windows users are sadly clueless about such system settings. Seriously. Hate it say it, but most consumer computer users (Windows, Mac) are pretty much at sea when it comes to managing their own systems. They take the defaults and hope for the best.
They are the vast majority. Hence, these warnings.
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posted on
03/14/2016 2:27:10 PM PDT
by
dayglored
("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
To: dayglored
Amazing, have yet to get a whisper about 10 on my Win 7 pro machine.
How can this be? All I ever see is a little balloon that says something about updates that I always ignore............
To: Lazamataz
>
GWX I think it’s called. Uh, yeah, that's the one, Laz.
[shakes head and mutters]
:-)
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posted on
03/14/2016 2:28:22 PM PDT
by
dayglored
("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
To: dayglored
I get these messages daily... update to windows 10 and frankly, I am ready to go buy a MAC
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posted on
03/14/2016 2:28:36 PM PDT
by
patlin
("Knowledgee chosen to participate inthat is - 2nd to none but God" ConstitutionallySpeaking 2011)
To: PROCON
Hope that's good enough. No, is is not.
I keep hoping one of the anti-virus companies treats this automatic, no-permission upgrade as a virus with the proper fix...
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posted on
03/14/2016 2:28:52 PM PDT
by
publius911
(IMPEACH HIM NOW evil, stupid, insane ignorant or just clueless, doesn't matter!)
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