Reply With QuoteYes, MS will know every program / app you put on your PCOriginally Posted by cantonboy
its not for me i am afraid
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I need to upgrade the wife's laptop from windows 7, any pitfalls or advice about pitfalls or benefits would be appreciated
thanks...
Yes, MS will know every program / app you put on your PC
its not for me i am afraid
DON'T DO IT.
This might be some help.
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/201...vacy-settings/
Thanks Mrs Steve R...
My only thinking behind upgrading is support being cut off. Is that really an issue or should I just forget it all?
best thing i ever did. my desktop is flying now since i ditched windows 7.
I updated one laptop from Windows 7 and another from Windows 8.
There were a couple of minor issues around firewalls but otherwise it all went smoothly. Now used to Windows 10 and a convert.
Apart from an even bigger 'Big Brother' watching everything I do, there are no worries at all!
I have no idea to be honest, I imagine it will be cut off eventually?
its funny, as in everyday life i have zero issue with big brother watching me, yet the thought of MS knowing what i have installed on my PC is a massive no-no for me
of course support / updates will stop, they always do, but your PC will still do the same stuff that it did before, I have just updated my win XP PC to Win 7 ( its been running for over 3 years non-stop )
When you upgrade choose "Custom" (not Typical) when configuring in post-installation.
READ THE SMALL PRINT CAREFULLY and tick/untick the right boxes.
You can stop those details being sent to Microsoft.
In any case, big data is as targeted as carpet bombing.
Also have a look at this tool (free) to block telemetry to MS.
https://www.safer-networking.org/spybot-anti-beacon/
I have rolled back to windows 7 , not everyone is happy with windows 10 upgrade , might be worth some research before proceeding .
http://www.infoworld.com/article/297...indows-10.html
http://www.cnet.com/forums/discussio...disadvantages/
I upgraded recently, makes my laptop run like a dream.
Those scared of their own shadow should probably avoid it.
They will probably check your pm's more often than you do.
They will probably check your pm's more often than you do.
my 8yr old wants to Upgrade hers as they have in school, i find it hard to argue with that, though she only has Office installed on hers
They will probably check your pm's more often than you do.
unless you're paranoid about privacy settings?? Then no reason not to upgrade. Most of the bugs would have been ironed out by now.
Computer runs so much smoother, I now tend to leave my desktop of for weeks at a go without any slowdown, that would have been impossible under the old windows.
I had to rollback to Windows 7 after I upgraded as after a few days of Windows 10 I lost all my audio. I had no sound on anything. As soon as I did the rollback sound was fine again.
Probably driver problems, if this was a while ago, could be worth trying again as alot of issues have been resolved.
Try downloading new driver software for your soundcard.
I know nothing about computers to be honest so asked a friend who does all this stuff. He said the only option I had was to rollback. It was only a month or so ago that I did it. Not sure why but thanks for the input (not a pun lol)
The main issue is that some of your third party programmes won't work. I use Quicken which is a financial software package and that won't work with Windows 10. For that reason I'm not bothering to upgrade as Windows 7 will continue to be supported by Microsoft until 14 January 2020
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