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Microsoft Downloads Windows 10 Without Consent

by nmwf
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Not 100% sure, but I think this is the boldest act in the history of the Internet.

Microsoft is downloading Windows 10 to your machine 'just in case'- The Inquirer
  • Profile picture of the author lanfear63
    Originally Posted by nmwf View Post

    Not 100% sure, but I think this is the boldest act in the history of the Internet.

    Microsoft is downloading Windows 10 to your machine 'just in case'- The Inquirer
    Old news, we already knew that. Apart from taking up a little bit of space on your zillion gig hard drive it does nothing unless you ask it to be installed.
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    • Profile picture of the author AprilCT
      I'm not adding it even if it has been downloaded, which I've not done myself.
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    • Profile picture of the author whateverpedia
      Originally Posted by lanfear63 View Post

      Old news, we already knew that. Apart from taking up a little bit of space on your zillion gig hard drive it does nothing unless you ask it to be installed.
      I did the update. During the 2 hours it took to install, a messsge was shown stating "Some of your old apps may not work in Win10)"

      I don't have any "apps" just @#$ing hardware and software!!!

      Anyway, the install finally completed and lo and behold, they were right. A lot of my "apps" didn't work including my modem and graphics card.

      Despite having a graphics card less than a year old, and a 27" monitor, the highest screen resolution I coul get was 640x480. I reinstalled the drivers for the card, and even then the best I could get was 1024x768. Nothing I did could get the modem to work.

      Sp after 3 hours installing Win10, an hour trying to get my "apps" to work, and another hour to uninstall Win10, I'm back on my tried and trusted Win7 platform. And that is where I'll stay until I upgrade my system (no pans on doing that in the near future as it looks like I'll have to replace everything).

      FFS, this is the first version of Windows that doesn't have backwards compatibility. What the hell were they thinking?
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      • Profile picture of the author lanfear63
        Originally Posted by whateverpedia View Post

        I did the update. During the 2 hours it took to install, a messsge was shown stating "Some of your old apps may not work in Win10)"

        I don't have any "apps" just @# hardware and software!!!

        Anyway, the install finally completed and lo and behold, they were right. A lot of my "apps" didn't work including my modem and graphics card.

        Despite having a graphics card less than a year old, and a 27" monitor, the highest screen resolution I coul get was 640x480. I reinstalled the drivers for the card, and even then the best I could get was 1024x768. Nothing I did could get the modem to work.

        Sp after 3 hours installing Win10, an hour trying to get my "apps" to work, and another hour to uninstall Win10, I'm back on my tried and trusted Win7 platform. And that is where I'll stay until I upgrade my system (no pans on doing that in the near future as it looks like I'll have to replace everything).

        FFS, this is the first version of Windows that doesn't have backwards compatibility. What the hell were they thinking?
        Wow, you went through the horse there. Apps are the new trendy name for software, any software. Perhaps you had some very old versions of programs that just about worked under 7.

        Perhaps what you should have done was get the latest drivers for sound, graphics etc before upgrading. How old was your machine? What is your machine, a home brew? I say that because you indicated a replacement of the graphics card?

        My Dell is 6 months old and no such problems. A new machine (eventually) with ten as standard seems to be the only option. You already have the nice big monitor.

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        She already indicated she loved ME when I asked her though. "There's a definite spark between us" she said What more proof do you need. I bet she says that to all the guys.
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    How to Block Windows 10 Upgrade Downloads If You're Not Ready For Them
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