From my understanding one day you will not be able to decline not installing 10.

But look here to stop the annoyance for now:

http://www.infoworld.com/article/297...-7-and-81.html

RA thanks U!:D http://thumb7.shutterstock.com/thumb...n-94264255.jpg

I'd like to bring up something concerning temp file in Windows 10. It appears some of the temp files loaded on to devices running Win 10 are not being properly deleted by the app located in Settings and will remain even if the app is run; the total file(s) size(s) can be seen in Settings->System->Storage [Click on C: Drive]. One of the tablets I assisted with the install of Win 10 showed a whopping 3.2GB temp file aggregation and the deletion option was not cleaning out the files; neither was the Disk Cleanup tool under Drive Properties. 3.2GB may not be a very large deficit for most desktops or laptops, but it is on tablets having only 16-32GB available. I did a little digging and found out this is a rather common problem and has yet to be addressed by MS. Further digging turned up a freeware app known as Temporary File Cleaner (TFC); I downloaded the app and used it on an affected tablet; it ran smoothly and did the trick, removing the whole 3.2GB mass, and there has been no problem with the operation of Win 10 or any other functions, so if you are having problems with temp files that won't go away, you might want to give it a try...

One other note: there is also apparently a bug between the temp file size given in the Storage data and the temp file size given in the This PC data; this is a known bug and the This PC data can be taken as the most accurate...


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It's interesting that I assemble the research and conclusions of the top minds in the PC press and people have a response "I use it and it works fine, RR is full of crap."

Obviously the detractors have not checked out my links. Bad stuff is happening and it is not a bunch of people with tinfoil hats crying wolf. But those who will not look will not see. That doesn't mean that if they were to look there would be nothing to see.

Malware has evolved past the point where it rendered your computer inoperable or cluttered your screen with ads or slowed down your system. Malware today is carefully crafted by professional programmers paid by organized crime to convert your property to their use. So their object is not to inconvenience you at all.

They detect when you are using your computer and throttle back to 5% of CPU resources so your computer runs fast. They cloak themselves so that task manager won't even show they exist. But when you are not on your computer, it is part of a vast botnet, passing out malware, sending porn, sending spam, whatever the organized crime networks can make money doing. It's big business now and not a bunch of script kiddies after yuks.

Now let's pretend Microsoft is entirely honorable and exercising its equivalent of fiduciary responsibility to protect its customers. The fact that Microsoft is now using "updates" to serve ads and perform spying on you means that bad guys can use their routines to do the same. Microsoft can use your machine as a relay point to upload their "updates" and Windows 10 to other users, whose computers are then used for the same thing. This transfers the cost of uploading updates from Microsoft to their customers without any benefit to the customers. Criminals can use Microsoft's mechanism to use your computer to pass out child porn, scams, illegal software and malware.

And unfortunately Windows has joined the malware wave, acting as they do, professionally written, performing enough service for the user that he will keep it installed, not inconveniencing anyone but the thousands of Internet access capped Comcast users who have had to pay for 2 and three times their allotted bandwidth when Windows uses their machines to pass out copies of Windows 10 to people who don't want it.

I'm afraid the tin foil hat crowd is not who is pressing the issue of the inappropriateness of Microsoft's actions. It is the people who built and maintained Microsoft's reputation since the late 1980s, the betrayed experts who have seen the very definition of "operating system" perverted before their eyes.

RR,

You can lead a horse to water. You know the rest. :up:

Just keep posting what you find as others are interested in what your finding in Windows 10 that proves to be a problem. Although I have no issues with 10 I do read what you have found and ways to shut down items of concern. :up:

We should all go back to writing letters. :haha:

I have my quill at the ready...

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I'm looking rather well in that photo... :D


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Thank you AVG. And so far, it IS POSSIBLE to shut down all of Microsoft's questionable actions. But when Microsoft has had enough of our meddling it's not too difficult to take all the bad stuff out of the updates and shove it into the Windows Kernel itself. That would mean than no fixes would work except a hardened hardware firewall and packet sniffing to verify that Microsoft doesn't simply spawn more servers to replace the ones you ban.

Facebook yesterday saw the writing on the wall and realized, like Google, that service to customers is the source of income. Not that they're getting out of the social networking business, but they just OPEN SOURCED all their data gathering and telemetry software, so it is publically scrutinizable and able to be independently analyzed to satisfy any suspicions of inappropriate behavior. Imagine if Microsoft were so sensitive to the needs of its customers! Instead they hide, bait and switch, force downloading of an operating system we're already suspicious of. It's like Apple planted some moles in the organization to take it down. Their choices have just been incomprehensible in their apparent thuggery.

It's great to see Facebook buy a vowel and I hope they loan it to Microsoft soon or Microsoft comes to its senses to buy one also.

Well....people did and still do take things from mailboxes and go through others trash. Therefore, even the written language can compromised.

This message will self destruct in 5.4.3.2...

We'll call U Erasmus of 'Frisco; U man o' letres!:O:

MS has just released - and meanwhile pulled again - famous KB3305583 nagware trying to sneak W10 onto W7 installations FOR THE FREAKING 6TH TIME. I have no doubt that we will see it again in the not too far away future, under the same name or maybe under a deceiving other one, to keep the game more interesting.

Tells you all you need to know about them.

Mind you, almost none of the updates for W7 in past months were updates improving anything in W7 or sealing it against security threats, but a big part of the updates were related to the W10 offensive, or trying to install data surveillance technologies form W10 into W7, and then some updates were related to Micriosoft software updates like Office and the like.

Mind you also that MS does not shy away from giving false update descriptions now, rates W10 spyware now in parts as "recommended" or "important", and many of the last months updates were not given any patch description in the MS bulletin at all anymore.

One can read the writing on the wall, its is there, clear and big and wide in letters. But that does not help if people actively refuse to open their eyes. Didn't somebody just said "you can lead the horse to water but you can't make it drink"...?

For W7 users, I stick to it. Deactivate Windows Update Service and several other automatic background services than connect themselves with Microsoft servers regularly, and never switch it/them on again. Get a download archive for SP1, and a download archives for patches since SP1 until some time in the past. Do not use Microsoft software packages as long as your job does not demand you to do. Where you can avoid Microsoft, avoid Microsoft. - W7 users must consider themselves to be under siege. So close the gate and raise the bridge - and leave it like that. If you leave one secret tunnel open, one small hidden door, one unknown entry - its only a question of time until MS finds and uses it. Its THEIR OS - they know it better than you ever will.

For putting trust into "options" to "protect" privacy" even when some of these already have been proven to be resetted by MS secretly time and again, or were shown to be fake options, and other data extraction channels not even being documented and not beign represented by such options - for putting trust in where no trust is deserved, I lose no more words. If people do not want to open their eyes although they have even two of them, you cannot help it.


Never has been the taste of Mint on my tongue as refreshing, as in these days. :)

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This is only a partial guide--how to ensure that the controls built into Windows are properly used and how to keep them that way.

And for those trying to keep Windows 7, you're safe, but your mother, ungeeky family member, children, etc are about to find out first hand that the primary purpose of menus in Microsoft products has changed. Their function is now to keep you from finding out what you want to do.
' Get Windows 10 prompt without “no thanks” option

They've removed any "no thanks" option from their GWX (Get Windows X) program and trust you'll be happy using your computer while they point a gun at your head. Facebook knows better. It's still not too late for Microsoft to change its ways.

Class action lawsuit if you were harmed by the downloading of Windows 10 upgrade files

Enough already: Microsoft pushes Windows nagware patch KB 3035583 for sixth time



It's marked important but not set for auto installation this time. Unless...


Is Microsoft switching machines from “Download but let me choose” to “Install updates automatically”?



Is nothing sacred? No.

No, nothing is sacred. I choose to move on is all and not bash my brains against the wall.

In the medical industry for years now you buy expensive diagnostic equipment, but the reality is you don't really own it because you don't own the software that runs it.

That is the new model and there is no going back.

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The answer.

Your answer to a question I'm not asking.