Microsoft Is About To Start Automatically Downloading Windows 10 Onto PCs
You can’t keep the government from getting your data. But you can keep some private company from doing it. Back off Microsoft.
Ping.
Time to start putting more of the load on the Linux partition it seems.
XP.............still the best!........................
Not perfect, and certainly not impenetrable
but certainly better than Windows 10
If our government was not behind this from the beginning, they would have already shut down microsoft and jailed the perpeTRAITORS
Bookmarked.
To completely clean up the W10 updates from W7 and W8 follow these steps:
Click Start and search for Disk Cleanup. Right-click the application that appears, and select Run as administrator. Select the drive you want to clean up — this should be your system drive — and click OK.
Click on Clean up system files, and select the drive again. In the list you’ll see Temporary Windows installation files. If this contains a sizable number of files, select it and click OK to remove the contents. This will clean out everything in the $Windows.~BT folder, but not in the $Windows.~WS directory (Disk Cleanup doesn’t target this particular folder at the moment). You can delete it manually though.
As for preventing the files being downloaded again, go to Start > Control Panel > Programs > Uninstall or change a program. Click View installed updates on the left. Use the search box to locate the following updates: KB3035583, KB2952664, and KB3021917 (Windows 7) or KB3035583 and KB2976978 (Windows 8). Right-click each one and select Uninstall. When done, go to System and security in the Control Panel, and select Windows Update > Check for updates. Right-click each of the above updates in turn and select Hide update.
That’s good if you want to prevent a Windows 10 update. If you already have Windows 10 (for whatever reason) you want this (one of many similar articles) - http://www.pcworld.com/article/2971725/windows/how-to-reclaim-your-privacy-in-windows-10-piece-by-piece.html
I run Win XP behind Ubuntu. When I have something that has to run on Win I boot XP up and run it. At the end I disable the network and log out to Ubuntu. The next time I boot into XP, unless I have to have something from the web I leave the network shut down. Worked so far.
I’m stuck using Windows 10 now. That filthy company!!! All my engineering software runs on windows and I have to keep current for my companies. The windows 10 system, so far, has cost me over $8500 in upgraded software this year alone. I hate it. I can’t stand it. They do auto updates without permission or warning and you’ll lose all the data you haven’t saved. Walk out to the shop and it will shut down for auto updates you are not allowed to turn them off only acknowledge them. When I plug in my cellphone it will attempt uploading or downloading Win 10 for all the other machines thus wiping out all the data on the phone. Again, without telling you. As much as I’d love to just disconnect it from the internet it is not an option. So I’m stuck with this infestation from some marketing hack at MS dreamed up. Pretty soon I’m sure we’ll all be forced to install a coin slot on our machines and insert a quarter every time we want to do anything.
I wish Linux or Apple were an option but they aren’t.
This thread is a keeper! not only for reference and study, but for all of the OTHER %#%&*)_%^$ problems with windows 10.
The file system is undecipherable (Save, save as and open).
My Windows 10 desktop exploded yesterday, can't even boot, traceable to a problem of using older (pre win8/10) USB memory sticks and fatal conflicts between NTFS and whatever the flock Windows 10 uses.
I'm not sure if I can rescue the current install, data, and the critical applications I use daily...
bfl
Just saying...but if you don’t want your file system scanned then don’t install any games with DRM, especially Blizzard Battlenet (World of Warcraft), Origin or Steam. And... Don’t install the Apple itunes app.
Windows 10 is just one of thousands of commonly used things that farm your system and file info.
There is a way to fix this. They want data, give them data.
Fill your data pipe with dummy google searches when you are not using it. Fill your storage devices with dummy data until you need the storage space.
Give them more data than they can ever sort through. Let them figure out what is real and what is not real