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F YOU MICROSOFT
Nymr83 Jun 01 2016 12:32 AM |
my computer downgraded to Windows 10 without my permission. I am SURE I never gave permission because I was very careful to avoid the near hourly popups being forced upon me. fuck you Microsoft, i smell a class-action suit.
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batmagadanleadoff Jun 01 2016 02:01 AM Re: F YOU MICROSOFT |
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I hear you. I can't describe how freaking irritating I find their practice. I get that pop-up to switch over to Windows 10 at least once, probably twice a day. At least. Who knows because I'm not keeping track? Maybe there are some days when I get that pop-up five or eight or ten times. I don't know. I reject it every time because I don't want to upgrade. But I'm resigned to the fact that one day I'll accidentally click on the accept link and get that upgrade against my will even though I've already rejected it hundreds of times, because all it'll take is one slip-up from me for them to force it on me. And they damn well know that this is what's going on. It's a rigged game. It's an outrageous practice.
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MFS62 Jun 01 2016 03:30 AM Re: F YOU MICROSOFT |
Happened to me today without any choice. I was on the internet and all of a sudden I got the message "We are updating you to Windows 10. Do not shut your PC off" (or something like that).
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batmagadanleadoff Jun 01 2016 03:56 AM Re: F YOU MICROSOFT |
Microsoft denies forcing Windows 10 upgrade
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MFS62 Jun 01 2016 04:02 AM Re: F YOU MICROSOFT |
30 days to uninstall it?
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Ashie62 Jun 01 2016 11:58 AM Re: F YOU MICROSOFT |
Same here, I keep clicking no and one day it flipped. I am a wuss and will comply with our alien overlords.
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d'Kong76 Jun 01 2016 01:35 PM Re: F YOU MICROSOFT |
For the most part, I'm fine with Win10. The thing I've always found
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Lefty Specialist Jun 01 2016 02:36 PM Re: F YOU MICROSOFT |
I hated Windows 8 so much I went out and bought a Windows 10 laptop. It's much better. Can't wait until I get the annoying pop-ups for Windows 11.
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themetfairy Jun 01 2016 03:45 PM Re: F YOU MICROSOFT |
I hated Windows 8 with a capital H! I couldn't wait for Windows 10.
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Ceetar Jun 01 2016 03:58 PM Re: F YOU MICROSOFT |
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I don't think you will, you'll either just get it, via Windows 10's forced upgrades, or you won't get it because they want you to buy it. the free OS upgrade thing is new.
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metsmarathon Jun 01 2016 05:43 PM Re: F YOU MICROSOFT |
windows 10 won't upgrade itself onto my computer at home, becasue i'm so brutally starved for hard drive space. my 500GB drive is down to about 4.5GB.
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Ceetar Jun 01 2016 06:05 PM Re: F YOU MICROSOFT |
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oof. I've got room on my main drive but my movie/tv show/picture drive is maxed out with photos and stuff I want to watch.
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John Cougar Lunchbucket Jun 02 2016 01:42 AM Re: F YOU MICROSOFT |
Both me and Wifey went to 10 and have experienced daily Internet failures ever since.. Takes a restart to get the signal back. Doesn't play well with our router.
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Nymr83 Jun 02 2016 02:38 AM Re: F YOU MICROSOFT |
Windows 8 definitely sucks and 10 is an upgrade for those folks. But 7 is still better all these years later!
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Ceetar Jun 02 2016 02:38 PM Re: F YOU MICROSOFT |
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ooh, can I blame the 10 laptop for this? I was blaming my daughter for at one point moving my precariously placed router or possibly spyware.
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d'Kong76 Jun 02 2016 02:53 PM Re: F YOU MICROSOFT |
Not a Microsoft Q, but since we're talking internet failures...
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Ceetar Jun 02 2016 03:17 PM Re: F YOU MICROSOFT |
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if you can't move the router, even past one more wall, yeah that'd probably help. I know Verizon will/wants to sell you a Quantum router with super range.
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d'Kong76 Jun 02 2016 06:48 PM Re: F YOU MICROSOFT |
Thanks, yeah the router ain't going anywhere anytime soon. If it were to move, it
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Ceetar Jun 02 2016 08:52 PM Re: F YOU MICROSOFT |
I've never messed around with the access points/extenders so couldn't tell you. I imagine anything would work fine as long as you can clear a few walls or at least a dozen feet or so closer.
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soupcan Jun 03 2016 04:37 PM Re: F YOU MICROSOFT |
Nobody uses Macs?
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Zvon Jun 30 2016 02:49 PM Re: F YOU MICROSOFT |
What's the final consensus on Windows 10? My experience with operating systems is that you can used to anything if you have to.
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Ceetar Jun 30 2016 03:25 PM Re: F YOU MICROSOFT |
it's all fine. There are, as always, backwards compatibility issues with older programs, but usually not modern up to date stuff
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themetfairy Jun 30 2016 03:26 PM Re: F YOU MICROSOFT |
I've been happy with Windows 10. It's more intuitive than Windows 8 was, for sure.
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Zvon Jun 30 2016 04:49 PM Re: F YOU MICROSOFT |
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PsP7 was designed for Windows 98 :0 It's all 1's and 0's though, and I don't understand why any program ever written should stop running. IIRC I needed a patch for it to work on Vista. It wasn't 100%, but the few functions that were effected still worked, but differently. Thanks for the responses. Actually, I have a couple of old towers & Windows 98 & Win98 update discs stored away. All I'd need is a hard drive to make that work. If I make a dedicated set-up like that I'll keep the graphics PC offline. I bet it will run forever.
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Ceetar Jun 30 2016 05:38 PM Re: F YOU MICROSOFT |
oh, that's Paint Shop Pro. I didn't know that still existed.
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d'Kong76 Jun 30 2016 05:45 PM Re: F YOU MICROSOFT |
I was just going to say Photoshop and Illustrater would make more sense. Adobe
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Ceetar Jun 30 2016 06:07 PM Re: F YOU MICROSOFT |
I think it's almost ridiculously easy to run a virtual machine version of older versions of Windows. (checks, apparently it IS in windows 7, not as easy in Windows 10, but still can be done)
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Zvon Jul 01 2016 04:56 AM Re: F YOU MICROSOFT |
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Neveh! Well, not never. Someday I'll find a newer one that suits me. I have looked. I've used a few versions of Photoshop. Not even worth keeping them on the drive. Corel Draw 6 is nice, I have that, but since PsP does all I set out to do I rarely get into Corel Draw to learn how to use it.
Illustrator interested me and I looked into that a while back. It could be the one. Photoshop, I already know it's not the one. I took her out a few times. There was no passion. This will be 64 bit. I'm not really sure what the difference between 32bit and 64bit does. Operation speeds? My old PC had a partitioned drive. That worked well. This new drive is bigger so that should work even better. That's a great idea, thank you.
OOO, even a better idea. I was going to set up a separate tower and allAdat.
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metsmarathon Jul 01 2016 01:41 PM Re: F YOU MICROSOFT |
i still have paint shop pro, and i, too, have tried out adobe photoshop and never had it catch on. though i never gave it a real shot and never had the time or inclination towards putting in the time.
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Zvon Jul 01 2016 03:15 PM Re: F YOU MICROSOFT |
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That's another problem I suffer from. I filled up the old drive every month or so and would have to do the external shuffle. I saw what you wrote before MM and I have looked up to see I have 105MB space left. AHHHH! I thought the old hard drive was plenty of space when I got it. 720GB. Ha! That's almost funny now.
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Zvon Jul 02 2016 03:57 PM Re: F YOU MICROSOFT |
Didn't expect the PC to arrive til after the holiday. It came today. Yay! :)
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Zvon Jul 03 2016 08:22 PM Re: F YOU MICROSOFT |
Everything worked out.
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MFS62 Jul 05 2016 11:10 PM Re: F YOU MICROSOFT |
Ever since I was involuntarily upgraded to windows 10, I've been getting pop-ups and other interruptions galore.
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Nymr83 Jul 06 2016 01:52 AM Re: F YOU MICROSOFT |
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Linux.
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MFS62 Jul 06 2016 12:48 PM Re: F YOU MICROSOFT |
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Doesn't that mean I would have to convert to a completely different operating system? Sounds like an amputation to cure a paper cut. Later
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batmagadanleadoff Jul 08 2016 11:56 PM Re: F YOU MICROSOFT |
Those fucking bastards finally got me, too. Came back to my PC last night to discover it had been Window-tenned, against my wishes.
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Zvon Jul 19 2016 07:22 PM Re: F YOU MICROSOFT |
So Win 10 has a DVD creator, but it's only a free trial? You have to pay for it?
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Zvon Aug 02 2016 12:58 AM Re: F YOU MICROSOFT |
btw, Microsoft browser Edge sucks. I've never had a browser crash so much, or clutter up memory.
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themetfairy Aug 02 2016 01:07 AM Re: F YOU MICROSOFT |
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I only use Chrome.
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Zvon Aug 02 2016 03:22 AM Re: F YOU MICROSOFT |
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I did on my old PC. This new one w/Win10 is all geared up for Edge, so I figured I'd give it a try. Chrome always worked very well and I am going to go back to it. Edge does not want to cooperate and will not transfer my bookmarks. It's like they are fighting against each other. On another note, I've always taken screen shots with my PsP7 graphics program. It's good for game action and making cards and stuff. When I first tried using PsP7 on Windows 10 to take a screenshot I get a message saying "Windows 10 refuses to take screenshots with the current program". WTF? I googled it and found out how I can, but why should I have to use Windows 10 exclusively to take screenshots? When I took them with PsP7 they opened right in the program ready for use. I call bullshit on that. That's restricting for no good reason.
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themetfairy Aug 02 2016 03:27 AM Re: F YOU MICROSOFT |
Definitely bullshit!
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d'Kong76 Aug 02 2016 02:12 PM Re: F YOU MICROSOFT |
Explorer, Edge whatever they want to call it is evil. It always has been and
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