Posted on 09/26/2021 2:40:46 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Windows 11 may be on the way, but more than 1 billion people are still using Windows 10 -- and many have no idea about the default settings that collect information, make you see more ads and notifications and may be slowing down your device. (It will be free to upgrade to Windows 11 if you're already using Windows 10 -- here's how to download Windows 10 free if you haven't already. And here's how to tell if you can upgrade to Windows 11.)
If you're a Windows 10 user, you'll want to spend just a few minutes looking into these default settings, and potentially turning them off, for the sake of privacy, speed and convenience. Here are eight settings that are turned on by default that you can disable in Windows 10. (You can also check out the top Windows 10 tips and tricks, and how to troubleshoot common Windows 10 problems.)
Mark for later.
Bkmk Win features
I'm thinking of removing W10 from my main tower and going with just W7/Linux on it. I absolutely have no trust in W10 at all.
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Wow. Your comment took me back in time. I remember doing the same thing, with a Commodore VIC20.
Mark-sense cards here, AND cassette tapes.
K-Mart sucks
Windows sucks
I am a bona fide paranoid conspiracy theorist, but I am not in your league!
Yes, I spent who knows how many hours and days typing in programs for the Timex Sinclair, TRS-80 pocket computer, TI99-4a, VIC20, and the first MSX prototype computer the Spectravideo SV-320. These came from books and magazines. This actually was good in some ways as far as learning goes. This didn't really stop until I after I got a Commodore 64 with a disk drive. With the IBM XT clone I ended up typing in programs for the incredible “automated” macro language built into Lotus 123 which was not truly surpassed by MS Excel for years.
It was possible to create a program in the lotus macro language in a few minutes that would have taken hours to create in a home computer BASIC programming language.
Add to this Winaero features of the Winaero Tweaker
Then there is Right-Click Extender (add items to many right click menus) , and T-Clock Redux and Classic Shell, now called Open Shell (https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu/archive/master.zip)
Composite (with my own Quick Launch menu) using T-Clock and Open Shell, by the grace of God.:
I assume that you are joking or you forgot to take your meds this morning. The linked article on CNET is a good one and makes only suggestions on how to make Windows less annoying. If you desire not to be bothered with idiot suggestions from Microsoft and nags to link your phone to Windows every time that Windows takes an update and other such things it might be a greatly appreciated article.
It’s this Asus but with 8g of ram.
Hope it works but I have to wait for the MS app that examines it for the upgrade, I reckon.
Just did the thing it’s version 2.
As someone who has worked on the Windows stack for 20+ years, I can tell you that Win10 is the most secure desktop software cranked out of Redmond since the beginning. They're completely up front about privacy settings and allow you ton control everything you should from the out-of-box experience. If an end user chooses to gloss over those settings, that's on them.
Further, Microsoft's footprint in the desktop arena is substantial, and they invest billions of dollars a year on security to ensure that footprint remains stable. The most important thing anyone can do to keep themselves safe is to update their operating systems. This goes for Apple and Linux too. If end users are choosing to put off a Windows update, that, too, is on them.
Microsoft is not without their flaws, but to say they're trying to pull one over on your average home user is disingenuous.
Purest like me? How dirty Gates of you. Lol.
Congratulations (I hope!)
I’ll use Windoze 7 until none of the games I play can be played on it.
I won’t do anything unless Clippy tells me to!..................
You should have 12 or 16GB if you load many programs and or web pages, which many today make around 200 network requests (as does the CNET page, and 557 after 10 minutes) in loading the page in the first minute or so (FR makes 3). But switching to a SSD drive for your OS is the cheapest way to increase speed.
"Hope it works but I have to wait for the MS app that examines it for the upgrade, I reckon."
This PC, with 32GB RAM, a Ryzen 3200G 4.0 GHZ CPU does not qualify yet since W/11 requires Secure Boot and TPM 2.0 is also required to run Windows 11. . Download Microsoft's PC Health Check here
However, Tom's Guide informs us that,
After initially claiming that Windows 11 won't work on a PC without a TPM 2.0 (or Trusted Platform Module), Microsoft has now confirmed to Tom's Guide that the OS actually requires only the older, much more common TPM 1.2 module — but also that if you install Windows 11 on a machine without a TPM 2.0 chip, you'll be taking a risk.
According to the latest reporting and what we've heard directly from Microsoft, you can indeed install Windows 11 on older PCs that don't meet the Windows 11 system requirements. On those machines, Windows 11 will run in an "unsupported state" that may cause you to miss out on important security fixes and Windows updates.
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