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2015-08-04 -Land of the Free
Windows 10 Is Watching and Logging
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Posted by charger 2015-08-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ]  Top

#1 PS

Also, this GEM!

Windows 10 is spying on almost everything you do – here’s how to opt out
Posted by newc 2015-08-04 00:28||   2015-08-04 00:28|| Front Page Top

#2 I've read similar concerns. Even opting 'no' to all this crap upon the install doesn't stop it. I'll do some digging and see if there's a solution to this, other than 'don't install Win 10!'.
Posted by Raj 2015-08-04 00:31||   2015-08-04 00:31|| Front Page Top

#3 I'm staying with Windows 7, although, I would prefer to have stayed with XP.

Call me stubborn but I really have found nothing to like about Windows 8.

I miss some of the neat customizing features of XP.
Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2015-08-04 00:37||   2015-08-04 00:37|| Front Page Top

#4 I had to upgrade to Win 7 because of my tax software; otherwise I'd have stuck to XP.

I ran into a client two weeks ago who was still running Windows Server 2003. Unfortunately, his hardware is just as old (old Dell servers) in a warehouse full of dust, and he doesn't take them offline and blow them clean with compressed air or anything else. You just need to shake your head sometimes.
Posted by Raj 2015-08-04 00:47||   2015-08-04 00:47|| Front Page Top

#5 It seems that newc's link is the same as the other ones I've seen so far for trying to neutralize this intrusive Win 10 crap, but I'm certain there's another shoe or two to drop in the upcoming weeks.
Posted by Raj 2015-08-04 00:53||   2015-08-04 00:53|| Front Page Top

#6 Well, we don't know yet Raj.

The thing is, keeping your secure information from ending up on clowdware is kind of a problem. With onedrive, every time you plug a usb in, it opens and operates as if it is going to move information with or without your permission.

Bad for some government agencies and private companies possibly.

It is a pre-release, and everything I hear is pretty good in fairness.

Windows we all curse for not having a better system. But if not for them, we could not operate basics.

Just be cautious with your data and know what you are getting into.\

No doubts this is going to end up being a good release eventually.
Posted by newc 2015-08-04 01:20||   2015-08-04 01:20|| Front Page Top

#7 I'm nunning win 7 , now it popsup a THIS WINDOWS IS COUNTERFEIT and continies on,

If its fake windows did it.

Looks like a sales point,forcing you to buy win 8, 8.1 or later.
Posted by Redneck Jim 2015-08-04 01:22||   2015-08-04 01:22|| Front Page Top

#8 They have a verification kit, Jim. Takes about 3 minutes and that can be cured.
Posted by newc 2015-08-04 01:31||   2015-08-04 01:31|| Front Page Top

#9 I have several different computers. A Lenovo N580 running Win 8.1 cannot be upgraded to Win 10 despite Microsoft's free offer - Lenovo itself says it cannot be done. A HP 505B running Win 7 Pro cannot be upgraded to Win 10, started to download the Win10 upgrade, which promptly said the onboard Nvidia GPU was incompatible with Win10, & no upgrade unless & until NVidia comes up with a driver. Maybe I'm better off leaving things as they are.
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418  2015-08-04 02:28||   2015-08-04 02:28|| Front Page Top

#10 
. A HP 505B running Win 7 Pro cannot be upgraded to Win 10, started to download the Win10 upgrade, which promptly said the onboard Nvidia GPU was incompatible with Win10, & no upgrade unless & until NVidia comes up with a driver. Maybe I'm better off leaving things as they are.


Have one HP like that I use for gov forms, chase bank and IRS. (Because all 3 use Silverlight). Knew I would need to upgrade it so I could keep doing those 3 jobs. Went to get a vid card but all needed more wattage than HP puts on their little boxes. Had an old box laying about with a huge Power Supply so decided to do a brain transplant. HP had a non-standard PS pin on the motherboard but found an adapter on ebay. Got it all working but the Windows Upgrade wouldn't redo a scan that failed with a new video card. Scratched my head and found an explicit M$S download link of the upgrade and downloaded it skipping the upgrade tool. At that point the upgrade went flawlessly. Lost the fax modem as the vid card covered it slot but I didn't care. Skipped some HP devices and got a few more USB ports doing so. (funky USB built-in WIFI and an HP removable HD port)
Posted by 3dc 2015-08-04 04:24||   2015-08-04 04:24|| Front Page Top

#11 MS figures Google, Apple, Facebook, et al get away with this stuff every day. Why not them too?
Posted by ed in texas 2015-08-04 07:18||   2015-08-04 07:18|| Front Page Top

#12 ....cause they signed two consent decrees saying they won't play monopoly anymore which is OK till someone running the WH decides to release the legal Damocles sword over their head and basically rip apart the corp. When Wall Street howls just point them to the management that made these types of decisions.
Posted by Procopius2k 2015-08-04 07:53||   2015-08-04 07:53|| Front Page Top

#13 Easy to disable.

However, I am tired of companies like Google, Facebook and pretty much everyone else thinking they can syphon all my data and use it for their own marketing.

I post very little online that is personal data for this reason.
Posted by DarthVader 2015-08-04 10:04||   2015-08-04 10:04|| Front Page Top

#14 Also do not, I say again, do NOT keep your pr0n stash on your computer in an unencrypted folder.

Wife finds out about husband's pr0n stash after he upgraded to Windows 10 and made it a screensaver.
Posted by DarthVader 2015-08-04 10:30||   2015-08-04 10:30|| Front Page Top

#15 Linux.
Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2015-08-04 12:19||   2015-08-04 12:19|| Front Page Top

#16 "Scratched my head and found an explicit M$S download link of the upgrade and downloaded it skipping the upgrade tool. "
I already tried that. I found a forum that stated the current Win7/Win8 driver for the onboard GPU will function OK in Win10, tho it won't offer full Win10 graphics capabilities. Just download & install an ISO for the appropriate Win10 upgrade, results should be a limited GPU function, then re-install the Win7/Win8 driver on top of Win10. It will work & will look OK except for the most demanding graphics functions which I never use anyway.
So I tried that. The DVD based upgrade program ground away for hours, and terminated with the error message that the final image of the Win10 system could not be created.
If that is just due to a hard disk problem, should be easy to correct, but I've got too many other things to do this month.
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418  2015-08-04 17:12||   2015-08-04 17:12|| Front Page Top

#17 Linux + xfce
Posted by Fred 2015-08-04 19:17||   2015-08-04 19:17|| Front Page Top

#18 Linux + firejail

But if you have to run windows:
1. I loved xp too but ditch it; security exposures out the wazoo
2. If you have to run windows:
a. http://hardenwindows8forsecurity.com/Harden%20Windows%208.1%2064bit%20Home.html
b. Virtualbox + Ubuntu then firejail :-)
Posted by Jeremiah Spash6318 2015-08-04 21:39||   2015-08-04 21:39|| Front Page Top

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