Windows 10: What You Need to Know

[mapuc]

I have noticed something some minutes ago. I do NOT have Chrome anymore. I noticed it by holding my cursor on the Chrome-logo which haven't change in form or other things before and after the big upgrading.

Now it is Microsoft Edge !!

I don't know where my Chrome is can't find it !

A thought: Have Microsoft been stealing some ideas from Google and their browser Chrome and added these to their own new browser Edge ? ´cause it look a lot like Chrome. I visit Chrome same day I got the upgrade.

I can access google in the Edge, but I don't want to use this browser.

Have to download and reinstall Chrome.

Markus

[Reece]

If you have edge I would uninstall that first. I just realized/remembered that Chrome is also Google so it seems there is some problem with Google account, otherwise the browser. I use Firefox and never had any problems in Win XP, Win 10, and Linux.

[Buddahaid]

Do you have the Cortana search box in your taskbar? Just type chrome and it should find it.

[Buddahaid]

So after most of a week using the 1703 build, I've had Onedrive attempt to reactivate twice as a suggestion to saving files, and Windows thinking my printer driver is lost when it is not.

[Reece]

Originally Posted by Buddahaid

Do you have the Cortana search box in your taskbar? Just type chrome and it should find it.

I was told by an "I.T." person to turn Cortana off, it spies on your system.

[Buddahaid]

Originally Posted by Reece

I was told by an "I.T." person to turn Cortana off, it spies on your system.

Suit yourself, but I have Cortana all turned off as well save the search box.

[mapuc]

Everything seems ok now. At start when I opened my internet for the first time today, I got the same message as before. Ignored this warning and continued my surf around. About 20 minutes ago I got a notice saying we have an update for you(something like that) clicked on restart- After I opened my IE I could access both Google and youtube no problems at all.

I am however planning on download Chrome and use that instead.

Thank you all for your help.

Markus

[vienna]

I'm posting this as an informational item that may be of interest to some of you out there:

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/hack-lets...222921730.html

I can't vouch for its efficacy, so you're on your own...


EDIT:

Just noted the article does not have a specified link to the 'patch'; here is another article on same, with link:

http://www.computerworld.com/article...ned-patch.html




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[Rockin Robbins]

Originally Posted by mapuc

Everything seems ok now. At start when I opened my internet for the first time today, I got the same message as before. Ignored this warning and continued my surf around. About 20 minutes ago I got a notice saying we have an update for you(something like that) clicked on restart- After I opened my IE I could access both Google and youtube no problems at all.

I am however planning on download Chrome and use that instead.

Thank you all for your help.

Markus

Notice that MS never admitted they had a problem. That's troubling.

Folks, this isn't going to get better. Microsoft is devolving before our eyes, changing from Dr Jekyl to Mr Hyde, and unlike the story, the real transformation is usually a one-way deal. Even if you LOVE Microsoft, it's time to formulate and get comfortable with an exit strategy.

Barnacles Nerdgasm loved Microsoft. He worked for them for fifteen or twenty years. He led development teams. He was laid off with everyone else who represented the idea that prosperity comes as a side effect of service to mankind. Representing truth is sometimes costly. But it costs less than joining the thugs.

As companies like Adobe realize that Microsoft no longer serves the needs for which it was created, they will move to other operating systems. After all, who has more money to spend for applications, one who spent $100 to $200 to buy Microsoft Windows or someone who uses a free operating system that works much better?

When these commercial companies pick a preferred Linux distro, that will finally give the Linux world a nucleus. Not that other distros will go away, but they will make good and sure that they are compatible with whatever preferred distro, I predict Ubuntu, the commercial world selects.

There will be some distros who retain Linux' traditional hatred of all things commercial (the hippies of Linux, cute, harmless and fun. They tend to be very creative and benefit the ecosystem. If you find one you can feed 'em). That also will be healthy for everyone.

[Rockin Robbins]

Originally Posted by mapuc

I have noticed something some minutes ago. I do NOT have Chrome anymore. I noticed it by holding my cursor on the Chrome-logo which haven't change in form or other things before and after the big upgrading.

Now it is Microsoft Edge !!

I don't know where my Chrome is can't find it !

A thought: Have Microsoft been stealing some ideas from Google and their browser Chrome and added these to their own new browser Edge ? ´cause it look a lot like Chrome. I visit Chrome same day I got the upgrade.
Markus

Edge is a cell phone app. Chrome is a computer app. There is no way Edge either looks like Chrome or steals its ideas. As Microsoft explores its newest feature set: contempt for customers, look for more and more in your face episodes of pure malevolence.

I once read an interview of Steve Martin. He said something like "so there's the audience. They've paid good money to sit in that seat and laugh. And they WILL laugh, no matter what I say. I love to stand on stage and refuse to say anything funny at all. They came to laugh. Eventually they just run out of patience and laugh at nothing at all. It's funny."

When service to customers, respect for customers, eagerly seeking their needs and wants and rushing to satisfy them ceases to be your guiding principle and is replaced by contempt and a strong sense of entitlement, then you have jumped the shark. You are well on the way to "who's he?"

[propbeanie]

I say MS is in contempt of common sense and all that is decent in the world... As of several weeks ago, I no longer allow my Windows installs to update at all. I had quit the "automatic" over 2 years ago, and dumped Win10 preview prior to the final release, when I first noticed them doing Evil Roy Slade deeds... Win7 will soon be relegated to "basement only" status, with no access to the outside world via the internet. They (MS) basically trashed my Win7-64 install the last three times I did the "important" updates (only), and I had to "repair" their deeds. Something undesired always seemed to "come along for the ride". What a crock of $#!+ pie! They've (not me) changed all my file associations for the last time. I waited too long to quit the updates, and the one computer somehow "automatically" flips my jpeg file association back to an MS app every time I'm not looking. Same thing with the avi files. I do NOT want MSMP even thinking of opening on my computer, and I want VLC associated with AVI and MP4, but MS sure doesn't. I've got 3 flavors of Ubuntu running on the three main computers now, deciding which flavor is best for the family to use. The wife already doesn't notice the difference on the web, but does when it comes to "saving" files and re-opening them later, so we'll have to work on that transition for her... The boys couldn't care less one way or the other, so long as their games run... - and a LOT of what they have is on Steam, and is no problem... The umbilical cord attached to Redmond, while made of high-tinsel strength cable, is slowly but surely being sawn asunder here... I already do most of my real "work" (SH4, video editing and music recording) on Ubuntu Studio on the "big" computer. I just wish my store-bought plug-ins would work reliably and natively in Ubuntu.