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| JDFan:
--- Quote from: SavannahLion on September 27, 2015, 01:37:21 pm ---Is Windows 10 the goto OS now? I'm sitting on two activations right now and delayed because of the whole Microsoft-is-watching-us business. --- End quote --- I'm pretty much sticking with 7 for now will see around the end of the 1 year period for free upgrades and decide whether to upgrade then but 7 is working fine right now and don't want to bother going through the upgrade and resetting every program up quite yet. |
| Slippyblade:
Stick with 7 if you have the choice. 8 is an abortion as far as usability goes. 10 is better, but Microsoft has effectively turned their OS into ad/spyware. Even jumping through all the hoops to shut the data collection/transmission off doesn't work - some of the switches are only temporary and turn themselves back on (the dialogs actually state that). |
| SavannahLion:
Sadly, I have the abortions. My XP laptop was so beat, I ended up hacking part of the power supply into it to sidestep the annoying Hardware Rights Managements (HRM?) built into it. I think it was well past the ten year mark. I bought the new laptops just before XP was "shut off" and you couldn't get a new laptop with 7 at the time... or at least I couldn't. Long story. What's the tool(s) of choice for disabling the spy/adware? |
| Slippyblade:
There isn't a tool per se. There are about dozen different system settings related to data collection and transmission scattered around in various dialogs. I made the mistake of actually buying 8 when I built a new machine. Hated every moment of using it. Then upgraded to 10... I've used, in some form or another, every version of Windows since 3.1. 8 and then 10 finally pushed the right buttons and I've dumped Windows. I'm now running Linux and have no urge to go back. |
| knave:
If you are not in a specific user group who "need" windows I had/have a great experience with the new flavors of Ubuntu. Easy to install, lots of support info to get it configured to do what you want...solid and controllable. Even some gaming potential. And free. There are other good distributions too...I just like the support available for Ubuntu. |
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