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1 posted on 03/14/2016 2:17:19 PM PDT by dayglored
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Windows 10 whether you want it or not... PING!

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

2 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.")
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To: dayglored

If they do this to me, then I’m gone. I love Windows 7 Pro.


3 posted on 03/14/2016 2:19:31 PM PDT by Enlightened1
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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!

4 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.")
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To: dayglored
I'm running 8.1 and have the updates set to "ask me first".

Hope that's good enough.

5 posted on 03/14/2016 2:19:52 PM PDT by PROCON
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To: dayglored

Must.
Learn.
Linux.


7 posted on 03/14/2016 2:21:44 PM PDT by glasseye
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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.


8 posted on 03/14/2016 2:21:51 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (SEMPER FI!! - Monthly Donors Rock!!)
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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. ;-)


9 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?)
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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.


11 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)
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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.


12 posted on 03/14/2016 2:25:12 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: dayglored

Windows 10 went from “Recommended” to “Mandated”.


13 posted on 03/14/2016 2:25:32 PM PDT by BipolarBob
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To: dayglored
It's not that guy again, is it?


14 posted on 03/14/2016 2:26:05 PM PDT by Koracan
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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.


15 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.)
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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............

17 posted on 03/14/2016 2:28:22 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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I get these messages daily... update to windows 10 and frankly, I am ready to go buy a MAC


19 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)
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Windows 7 users complain of unprovoked Windows 10 auto-upgrades (BOHICA hope ya like it)

How about Microsoft leave other people's property the F*** alone?

This is where I would like to find out who's responsible for this, and beat them stupid with a baseball bat.

24 posted on 03/14/2016 2:35:35 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: dayglored

About an hour after I remarked on this yesterday on Free Republic, my secondary Computer, running windows 7, upgraded to Windows 10. Weird..


25 posted on 03/14/2016 2:36:41 PM PDT by heights
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You stupid Windows 7 users just don’t know what’s good for you.

Whine and whine... /s/


27 posted on 03/14/2016 2:38:47 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: dayglored

We told you this was coming.

Microsquish warned you this was coming.

Time to fuch msoft up the can and go somewhere else.


33 posted on 03/14/2016 2:46:59 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: dayglored; onyx

Thank you so much, dearest dayglored!

I’m pinging myself because my eldest granddaughter is coming here in a few days and she is an IT expert.

She’s my Taylor from the Cayman’s who DrO and I raised for all those years when she was a little girl of age 3 and he was still practicing medicine in San Diego. She’s all grown up now and residing in Cana-duh, finishing law school and working for Microsoft as an expert.

I’m going to have her set this cheap laptop exactly the way I want it. We do Team Viewer whenever I run into trouble.

:)


38 posted on 03/14/2016 2:53:02 PM PDT by onyx (You're here posting, so sign-up to DONATE MONTHLY!)
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To: dayglored

Yup, just happened to me on Saturday morning — and I am pretty sure I clicked on the opt out button when I saw the “scheduled update” pop-up. Ah, well, so far it’s been fine ... but I haven’t tried to use any of the “new features” yet


39 posted on 03/14/2016 2:55:05 PM PDT by twyn1
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