New Version of Windows 10
Discussion
Oakey said:
So has anyone else noticed that Cortana is always listening now and can't be fully disabled?
A couple of times she activated without input from myself then I realised she was responding to what sounded like "hey cortana"
Sneaky
Updated yesterday, halfway through was given a yes/no choice on using Cortana: voted no. My choice seems to have been noted, it's not running at all. A couple of times she activated without input from myself then I realised she was responding to what sounded like "hey cortana"
Sneaky
[quote=Who me ?]BIG QUESTION is- have they let users stop data leaks back to MS?
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Quite the opposite. They have now came out and said what telemetry they are recording but removed options to stop it. You have it on "basic" but it still sends nearly everything back. A few programs available to block it, After an windows update the programs usually have an update but microsoft seem to be building telemetryinto core processes so hard to stop.
There is meant to be a Chinese version of windows 10 with it all disabled as the chinese government have refused to use it. Doubt this will be easy to get your hands on.
I just pray adobe port their software to linux.
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Quite the opposite. They have now came out and said what telemetry they are recording but removed options to stop it. You have it on "basic" but it still sends nearly everything back. A few programs available to block it, After an windows update the programs usually have an update but microsoft seem to be building telemetryinto core processes so hard to stop.
There is meant to be a Chinese version of windows 10 with it all disabled as the chinese government have refused to use it. Doubt this will be easy to get your hands on.
I just pray adobe port their software to linux.
grumbledoak said:
The tinfoil hat brigade might want to google "Windows 7 telemetry".
Thank you for this informationI had no knowledge of this and am more determined than ever to stop using Windows for on-line work
I had already decided to stick with Windows 7 and not upgrade to 10 thinking that 7 was clean
Just updated to Creators in a vain attempt to fix the problems I was having with Build 1611. It's now worse than before. 
Windows stutters or has lag-spikes, which causes my Logitech G27 steering wheel to go through a self-test, which is very loud and annoying. It also causes my Corsair K95 RGB keyboard to self-test too. Mildly annoying when reading a web-age but absolutely maddening when playing a game and the game hangs for 20 seconds.
If that wasn't bad enough, the PC occasionally hangs which needs a reboot, which causes 2gb of System Error dumps to be written to my NVME SSD....using up valuable write cycles!!
It was never like that with Build 1507, so I've no idea what they've changed to make it so buggy on my PC.
EDIT: I have read that Windows 10 is pretty buggy on overclocked SkyLake CPU's, so I've turned mine down from 4.6Ghz to 4.2Ghz. I don't know how I'll manage!!
Windows stutters or has lag-spikes, which causes my Logitech G27 steering wheel to go through a self-test, which is very loud and annoying. It also causes my Corsair K95 RGB keyboard to self-test too. Mildly annoying when reading a web-age but absolutely maddening when playing a game and the game hangs for 20 seconds.
If that wasn't bad enough, the PC occasionally hangs which needs a reboot, which causes 2gb of System Error dumps to be written to my NVME SSD....using up valuable write cycles!!
It was never like that with Build 1507, so I've no idea what they've changed to make it so buggy on my PC.
EDIT: I have read that Windows 10 is pretty buggy on overclocked SkyLake CPU's, so I've turned mine down from 4.6Ghz to 4.2Ghz. I don't know how I'll manage!!
Edited by mp3manager on Saturday 6th May 01:41
Just a little warning......
Upgraded three PCs at the weekend: one Dell XPS 8500 desktop (Win 10 home, i7 3770, GTX 970, Soundblaster Z), an Alienware 17 R4 (i7 6700, GTX 1070, Realtek HD ) and an Alienware 17 R2 (i7 3630 QM 660M Soundblaster Recon 3D).
All three had the sound messed up after the update - defaulted to 5.1 in the case of the soundblasters and 7.1 in the case of the RealTek HD. This wasn't apparent at first as the windows desktop sounds pass through the front left/right. So only noticed when I fired up a game or two (intro sounds/music worked - in game nothing)
So took me a little while to work out what the problem was (for the realtek you have to turn off the effects which somehow defaulted to on after the update).
Upgraded three PCs at the weekend: one Dell XPS 8500 desktop (Win 10 home, i7 3770, GTX 970, Soundblaster Z), an Alienware 17 R4 (i7 6700, GTX 1070, Realtek HD ) and an Alienware 17 R2 (i7 3630 QM 660M Soundblaster Recon 3D).
All three had the sound messed up after the update - defaulted to 5.1 in the case of the soundblasters and 7.1 in the case of the RealTek HD. This wasn't apparent at first as the windows desktop sounds pass through the front left/right. So only noticed when I fired up a game or two (intro sounds/music worked - in game nothing)
So took me a little while to work out what the problem was (for the realtek you have to turn off the effects which somehow defaulted to on after the update).
Upgraded one for a friend this week, Windows 7 home to latest W10. It was necessary because she'd forgotten her login password, plus whoever has set it up originally made "C" as 250 Megabytes, and the rest of the 500 Gig drive as "D"
Using the "Media Creation tool" to put W10 on a bootable flash-drive, I was able to repartition the whole drive into a single partition, and the setup was straightforward, everything just 'worked'. It accepted the W7 home product key, and was activated for free.
One problem: being used to leaving computers to 'get on with it' overnight, it was most disconcerting to have Cortana start babbling away at 3:30 AM, asking me to pick a language.
'er indoors made a few suggestions.
Using the "Media Creation tool" to put W10 on a bootable flash-drive, I was able to repartition the whole drive into a single partition, and the setup was straightforward, everything just 'worked'. It accepted the W7 home product key, and was activated for free.
One problem: being used to leaving computers to 'get on with it' overnight, it was most disconcerting to have Cortana start babbling away at 3:30 AM, asking me to pick a language.
'er indoors made a few suggestions.
ash73 said:
Since the update my Logitech G25 wheel thought it was a Driving Force Pro. Fixing it was a right faff.
Previous Win 10 updates have gone very smoothly, they've dropped the ball a bit with this one.
That's not a problem with Windows, that's a problem with Logitech and their horrible, horrible software.Previous Win 10 updates have gone very smoothly, they've dropped the ball a bit with this one.
karona said:
Upgraded one for a friend this week, Windows 7 home to latest W10. It was necessary because she'd forgotten her login password, plus whoever has set it up originally made "C" as 250 Megabytes, and the rest of the 500 Gig drive as "D"
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I've set them up like that for years - best way IMHO.<snip>
You then use D: for all your data, which enables you to upgrade / re-install Windows on C: without losing data.
As for the lost password - there are several bootable images out there which would have blanked the password - could have been fixed in minutes without installing that POS called Windows 10.
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