Samsung: Don't install Windows 10. REALLY (Samsung laptops don't support a Win10 upgrade)

The Register ^ | May 31, 2016 | Gavin Clarke

[Harpotoo]

My ASUS and LENOVO work just fine.

[Allen In Texas Hill Country]

I’m gonna buy 10 Samsungs PCs, laptop or whatever.

[rockrr]

Short answer: no. The new dealio from MS is that you can’t turn off updates.

You do have to option of tricking it - providing you use WiFi to get to the Internet. In that case you can tell the operating system that the WiFi is metered (cost per megabyte download) and that delays downloads of updates until it senses a hard line connection.

[McGruff]

Don't panic.

[dayglored]

> LOL. Don’t rain on their anti-Microsoft parade.

This is about a Samsung failure, not a Microsoft problem.

I guess it's too much to ask that you read enough to realize that, eh? LOL indeed.

[redangus]

Same thing on our desk top. We had 7 on it and were happy and then one day my wife turns it on and presto chango it’s running 10. We just left it on because we are already running 10on everything else.

[xzins]

MS did the same to me. Win10 killed the Conexant audio driver on my new hp. It is slow and there isn’t a pop up in the world that doesn’t like to critically slow me down or freeze me up.

[McGruff]

Did I strike a nerve with you Microsoft Windows haters?

[TomGuy]

I hate how the constant evolution makes stuff unworkable in a few years

Too many software companies are more concerned about keeping programmers employed than in keeping customers happy.

I have dumped many software programs after their lasted upgrade removed some of the features I specifically got that software for.

I look at new software (new browser software is a prime example) and rather than following an established pattern of menues and GUI's, they alter them and move stuff around. I don't want to spend hours or days trying to find simple tasks or reconfigure things after every update.

Newer is definitely not better, when it comes to end user productivity. Many old programs still run rings around their newer counterparts. One of the worse changes in recent years was to the horrendous ribbon menuing system. In some programs the ribbon takes up nearly 1/4 of the screen.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Lenovo laptop.

Despite months of denying Windows access it got installed anyway.
Could NOT use the “abort installation” dialog box -> That went into an infinite loop.

Now? No audio until I get back into the states and either un-install Winfuck 10 or update all the audio and video drivers.

[Robert A Cook PE]

The uninstall routine doesn’t work.

[dayglored]

> Did I strike a nerve with you Microsoft Windows haters?

Hardly. I was just teasing you for not reading enough to realize this isn't an anti-Microsoft thread. If anything, it's an anti-Samsung thread. But unfortunately you apparently view anything other than unquestioning praise as condemnation.

Are you ready to start your WindowsLoversPingList yet? My offer is still good...

[wardaddy]

Tks

My task tonight

[McGruff]

Let us know how it works.

[Pelham]

Be sure you install the Never10 software that you can get free from Gibson Research. It’s a tiny unobstrusive program than you can control if you ever decide that you actually want Windows10

https://www.grc.com/never10.htm

[Maurice Tift]

  I have 10...wondering if the control panel can stop the updates

  GWX Control Panel is just for Win7/8/8.1. I don't know how to prevent Windows 10 from running automatic updates. Like you said - it's annoying if you're trying to do something else online and it slows the connection.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

That sucks. I have an HP PC and downloaded and installed 10 without any real problems, except that it takes some time to initialize when I turn the computer on. I think that could be solved by adding more RAM.

[TexasGator]

“I’ve tried to avoid Samsung ever since.”

65” TV going on four years.

Galaxy S2 still working fine. Upgraded to S7.

Come back out of your cave.

[CyberAnt]

That is great news. I want to get a new labtap - but I don’t want Win10. I don’t need that fancy software - I just do email and write books.