For those already running W10, these tools may come handy. Be advised I just give the link, I have no experience with these, since I do not have W10.

http://www.ghacks.net/2015/08/05/don...vacy-settings/

https://github.com/10se1ucgo/Disable...cking/releases

Every time I read something about W10, it gets worse. Worse and worse and worse and worse.

I installed Windows 10 way back as a Beta tester and got Herpes.
Danged things fly around the house and mess with all kinds of stuff!
:nope:


Oops. Harpies! I meant Harpies!
Nasty creatures.
:haha:

yes that what I meant sorry

I have used the tool that is described in the fist link and it has disabled a lot of the stuff mentioned here had no problems so far.

Yeah, imagine when MS gets hacked a la Target, et all. It could be a mess.

Not found on my Win8.1. :)

Not sure whether you are ironic or not, i do not know what you mean. Target...?

I just say: banking apps. Steam. Webshop access codes for Amazon or Ebay. Antisocial media. And when you change the codes for any or all of that: MS - and who knows who else behind them - already learns about it the moment you change these codes and feel safe again.

Just in case you were ironic, here at the latest you better stop it.

I have started to scan for a cheap notebook. I will install a Linux version on it and then use that for banking and shopping only. My tower main system is to be reinstalled and then only used for gaming anymore. Things have become too dangerous and too suspicious. And I have not even spend much attention to the role of government intel and surveillance in all this.

But I need to learn more about Linux first. I am still almost clueless.

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I know for certain - from an insider - that the BKA ("German FBI"), when being engaged, takes it as a clue that raises suspicion and could even trigger investigation, when somebody does not own a smartphone. Smartphones could be used for movement profiling, and movement profiles can be used to identify people with as great validity than fingerprints these days, it has been demonstrated that it takes only an unbelievably small number or geographic coordinate references to individually identify any human. Also, smartphones can be used to spy on people's bank transactions and communications, obviously. Not owning a smartphone thus now gets rated as a hint that you have something to hide that makes you wanting to avoid detection. Some politicians even want to make the right to own a smartphone even a basic human right. :o In principle they want to chip people, like cattle, sheep, and pets. In Sweden, some companies already do that with their employees. Naive as the Swedes seem to be on so many issues, they even like they idea. They also want to abandon cash money and force all people to digital money accounts, so that the state can easier steal and plunder and rob from them, and people not being able to defend themselves from this plundering anymore.

A perfectly reasonable, perfectly harmless habit/attitude/wish to not own a smartphone - now is an affirmation for the suspicion that you are guilty in any way, that you have to hide something.

Already several years ago, after 9/11, it got uncovered some time later that for American investigation services, US citizens not having debts and credit cards, were seen as more suspicious possible terror suspects, than citizens who had such debts and credit cards to juggle their debts.

Its getting more and more crazy, and I honestly do not feel like just grinning, and ignoring it with a laugh. Its all not funny anymore. Money, privacy, claims of national security and national freedom - it all gets turned into tools for our suppression. Its frightening. And it becomes worse every quarter of a year.


It is these greater contexts that makes Microsoft's moves so suspicious, dubious, dangerous, and untrustworthy.

I trust nobody anymore, when it is about all these things. Nobody.

no sir, not being ironic at all

http://money.cnn.com/2013/12/22/news...dit-card-hack/

^Oh. New news to me.

Alright, my first hands on with Win10, man, it sure is butt ugly. :dead: Am I missing a basic UI setting here? I mean, the windows are all white and beige, the icons look like something from 1987. It's just so simple and crude looking, a big departure from the sleek UI in Win7.

I've installed Classic Shell, that helped a little, got rid of ll those cartoony live tile things.

As for the actual functionality of Win 10, so far, so good, I guess. Nothing that Win XP couldn't do every day of the week and twice on Sunday.

I'm not sure what you're seeing. My desktop looks much like it always has. Windows 8.1 (or probably 7) fixed one thing that always annoyed me about XP, but it's a minor screen thing.

I agree about XP though. They could have left well enough alone, and just included some improvements. Kind of like SH5. :O:

I'm seeing this. Note the toolbars....about the same color as the window. Very bland.

I tried changing to "High Contrast", man, that was 10X worse :haha:

What are you seeing? I know there is probably some setting I am missing....

Agreed but set up your defaults apps such as email and search engine etc. etc. then get used to the functionality over the next week or so.

I can't say I noticed any major improvements but you get accustomed to it and seeing as it will be the only kid on the block for Microsoft users in a year or so time, the sooner you become assimilated the better.

*hides under rock to avoid incoming*

This is mine (W7 Style).

http://i.imgur.com/lfxNx8B.jpg