According to the article you will have no choice but to move to Windows 10. Clinging to W7 will all be for naught.

Im running win 10 and have my updates set on manual but yesterday I got these updates installed. I checked them and most of them relate to office 2007 and flash player so they say.
KB3114431
KB3114457
KB3106614
KB3085616
KB3085549
KB3116869
KB3114422
KB3114458
KB3114425
KB3119147
now like i said most of them are for office 2007 running on win 7 and 8.1 so i don't know why there being installed on win 10.
there's anouther update for silverlight and flashplayer.

I had a similar situation I run MS Office 2003 because mainly I like it more over the new versions, anyway I had KB's listed for MS Office 2007 and 2010! I posted on a Tech site asking do I really need them, answer came back no delete them. I'm now on manual download no auto, you may not need them but best to wait to hear from some one with better knowledge.

It seems MS is getting sloppy over its updates, here you go install this lot hang on as posted here I got four marked for Win7 I'm using Win8.1.

I would hope the opt out is available. I have very little use for Cortana.

http://news.yahoo.com/windows-10-nex...153620360.html

There are quite a few people who have no use for Cortana, myself included. If you Google "disable Cortana", you'll find several links on how tow to get rid of Cortana and its features. I really have no use for it, so I have disabled it and have had no problems...

There is one little bit you should know about Cortana: since it is built into the coding of Win 10, a kernel for it will load when you boot up. The kernel does not really affect the CPU usage (Task Manager shows it as 0%) and seems to have no other negative effects; it just resides there should you ever wish to reactivate the app...

Regarding the whole Win 10 brouhaha, this morning I was thinking about how it must be difficult for software publishers who have been around for a couple of decades, or a bit less, to deal with customers who, for whatever reason, wish to cling to earlier versions of a particular software. On the one hand, you have new customers who are demanding the latest tech advances be catered to; you have an ever diverse hardware base to adapt your product to; and you have to remain competitive with other publishers. On the other hand, you have a loyal base of previous and existing customers who tenaciously wish to cling to the familiar and known. Then, there is the ever-increasing appetite by the potential customer base, in general, to be connected via the various social media outlets existing and being created or modified every day. As a publisher, you have limited resources as regards research and development and, likewise, limited resources for customer support. The question for the publisher is this: Do you devote your R&D and support to creating new product to meet ever-increasing demands or do you siphon off a significant portion of your resources to support what is rapidly becoming a line of outdated, possibly irrelevant, former product for a portion of your customer base whose product use is dwindling as time goes on? There has to come a time, no matter what the product, when a manufacturer or publisher has to take what resources they have and cut the apron stings the ever smaller percentage of die-hards have been clinging to. There is a reason there is not a large public demand for buggy-whips...

In thinking of this, I was reminded of a situation I found myself involved with when I worked for a film production company. The controller/co-producer of the company had worked her way up from accounting clerk to her then high position and had been among the first to use PCs and film production accounting software when they came on line. The problem I faced was she had become very accustomed to the DOS version of the software and adamantly refused to even consider using the newer Windows version of the software. There were occasions when some problem or other would crop up requiring a rep from the publisher to have to come down to or offices and patch or repair the software. More than once the rep would privately ask me if I would please try to get the controller to upgrade to the newer Windows version; our production company was the last one still using the old software and having to upkeep the product was a nagging problem for the publisher. The only reason the publisher even continued to support that one, lone, copy was because the production company was a long-time client and generated a good amount of revenue. However, the rep told me, the publisher was really nearing the point when he would have to "pull he plug" on the lone hold out. Now, take this situation and multiply it by hundreds of thousands or millions of hold-outs and it is easily seen where, in a strict business sense, the cost of supporting such a customer base is just bad business...


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Every problem that has been posted in this forum can be solved in most cases by simply turning that option off.
Even Cortana when you click on the search icon and Cortana starts up it will ask you if you want to use it to search just select no and it won’t ask again.
If you want to use the web browser I.E. then just search for it and when the icon shows just right click on it and select pin to task bar and there you go.
With a few little add-ons my Windows 10 Looks the same as my Windows 7 System although Window 10 handles things a lot smoother and also quite a bit faster.
Windows 10 will run any program that I have installed and working on my Windows 7 machine.
And yes some information is save in my Microsoft account so if I have to re-load Windows 8 or 8.1 or 10 then all my bookmarks in I.E. are saved and will re-appear as will the passwords I also saved in I.E.
This means I don’t have to re-bookmark them.
I myself didn’t like one affect off Windows 10 and after quite a few goes at it I finally manage to turn that problem off for good this also helped with any communication with my machine when it was in sleep mode.
Although I never found that this had happened I read somewhere it was possible.
So nearly all the Scare Mongering can be got rid of with a right click of the mouse.

Dragon Rider, I took the trouble to assemble the vast majority of the diverse materials I have posted to the thread telling you that your sentence above is not only wrong, it is damned wrong. Read them.

Windows resets switches. Switches are not available for all spyware/adware incorporated into Windows. Microsoft has even deleted the entire malware module, renamed and redistributed it, rendering all disabling of your precious options null and void. The right click of the mouse is not respected by Microsoft. And it is not effective anyway.

Example: Microsoft reserves the right to access and modify all your files on any connected drive without restriction. Where is the right-click to disable that? They even uninstall software from your machine. Where is the right-click option to disable that? Are you happy giving away ownership of your machine to a company who profits from it and gives you none of the resulting revenue? Do you acknowledge that you have any property rights whatever or do you see all property as owned in common, subject to confiscation or conversion to others' uses in conflict with your own? Property rights are a central point of republican government. Surrender of property rights puts you in a fascist or socialist regime. Wanna go there?

Only answer people must rise up but as I have often said they will not, result we are boned on and off the Net. :03:

You Keep saying all this but I am using it and have seen no evidence of it :nope:

No point in arguing with them DragonRider, your not going to change their mind. Unless you happen to enjoy stirring the pot, then have fun.

I think you are right and I give up Still I am happy running it so I will use it :up:

I am too!:up:

Many Windows users are rising up. RRobbins posted a pie chart with similar numbers to percentages I've seen. Over 50% of users like their Win 7 and are performing update gymnastics to avoid the step down to Win 10, and the additional loss of more personal privacy. (Win 7 64 Professional upgrades to Win 10 64 Premium etc.) The Cloud isn't where I want my files to exist

I pass on knowledge I gain from RRobbins, Skybird, & others here, plus info from websites, and I hope RRobbins keeps posting his KB findings. AFAIK there are no important Win 7 updates this month.... at least according to info on 'the websites' - so far. Skybird may be correct; forget about further updates from MS.

This Win 10 Topic is a valuable resource for satisfied Win 10 users, and for those of us who wish to avoid Win 10. I hope that nobody is angry. I don't want to lose RRobbins informative posts, or posts by others who do like their Win 10. We can all learn something in this Topic...... Microsoft may even learn from the backlash they're getting from the large number of users who are against being forced to 'upgrade' to Win 10.

I swear, the way this is going, it sounds to me like the NSA must have put a bug in MS ear to make their data mining easier.