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I honestly don't understand the issue at all. While the automatic Windows updates were a big problem for me, a problem which resurfaced a few times, I have never had an issue with the app store. I do not even have a Microsoft app store login. My Windows 10 has never tried to automatically install any apps.

Since buying this laptop a year and a half ago, I've done two Windows upgrades on it. Both times Cortana, Edge, and a few other built-in bits that are hard to remove showed back up, requiring install_wim_tweak to remove. But no app store programs have ever appeared.

Windows Update, though, was a huge problem for me. Microsoft doesn't get free reign to put updates on my computer, I vet each one and apply them. Microsoft has been pushing hard, especially with its last two "upgrades" to prevent people from disabling automatic updates. And I mean they have gone to heroics. Two "protected" windows services which have no other real duty except to look out for if the Windows Update service is disabled and undisable it. Also a whole host of task scheduler settings are doing the same thing. For those wanting control of Windows Update back, I highly recommend Windows Update Blocker in concert with Windows Update Mini Tool. There are several forum threads that speak toward how to do this relatively easily.

The guy before her, who says "worst browser in history", is mistaken. IE5 for the Mac was not bad. It had its own rendering engine, Tasman, which was very W3C-standards-compliant. Unlike the infamous Trident engine of the Windows version. (Feels old, man.)

Other than that, everything you say is right. I miss that 90s interface style. Strong lines, good contrast, definition, physical volume! You knew where one thing ended and another began.

Let me give you an example of a disastrous modern interface: the current version of Windows Explorer. Look at it. See the separation between the file list and the preview pane? No? Well, look again, I swear it's there. A vertical line, just one pixel wide, in a very subtle light gray between two white areas. Depending on your monitor, it may be literally invisible.

This truly irks and baffles me. Not because one moron had a stupid idea. One lone indie coder makes a shitty interface, you can forgive him. But that's Microsoft, a massive company with thousands of employees, whole teams of highly trained developers. And somehow NO ONE had either the brain or the guts to point at that stupid near-invisible separator and say, "that's a bad design, it should be changed."

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All that is left is extend and extinguish.

This implies they have the leadership and intelligence to do so. That unfortunately left with its founder. The Microsoft we are left with today is the Microsoft that thinks it's a good idea to change the name of Windows Photos to "Stories Remix"

There is nothing left by incompetence. Certainly no visionaries or strategic thinkers capable of executing the last two Es in the EEE strategy.

My office computer is set to lock on wake and lock on screensaver, and some days I'll forget to win+L and come in to work the next morning, wiggle the mouse to wake the monitor, and the computer will not be locked.

This isn't new to Windows 10, either. My 8.1 laptop, when I open the lid there's a 50/50 chance it will automatically unlock itself. I open the lid, the screen turns on to the clearly labeled "This computer is locked" screen, which will then sometimes within a second or so slide up automatically without me touching a thing.

If it happened every single time then obviously I fucked up on the configuration, but when it only sometimes works, I'd like to know what the hell is going on.

Oh, here comes another stuck-up arrogant jackass techno-weenie. We can all tell by the "you need to educate yourself" horseshit. Third party drivers and filesystem filters eh? Oh, well guess what? Those aren't an issue on my system because I know how to see them. I'm a sysadmin and a multi-platform programmer, not a moron that can't find the "any" key.

This is a widely reported problem.

Feel free to take your condescending attitude and spaces before exclamation points and shove it all forcefully up your asshole. :^)

Oh, here comes another stuck-up arrogant jackass techno-weenie. We can all tell by the "you need to educate yourself" horseshit. Third party drivers and filesystem filters eh? Oh, well guess what? Those aren't an issue on my system because I know how to see them. I'm a sysadmin and a multi-platform programmer, not a moron that can't find the "any" key.

This is a widely reported problem.

Feel free to take your condescending attitude and spaces before exclamation points and shove it all forcefully up your asshole. :^)

Have you tried the reboot (restart - not shut down) and see if the problem goes away?

And yes, before you think I'm crazy, there's a huge difference between restart and shut down. A shut down will actually 'hibernate' the kernel state, but a restart will not, hence a problem like this can conceivably persist over a shut down but not restarts.

This makes me think it's conceivable it will go away with the next few Windows updates, and no doubt they force a full restart as they could patch the kernel, and it does explain Microsoft's advice to restart (not shut down) if you are affected.

Freezes like Windows 10 Anniversary Edition

1. The most hated feature of VLC by far is the Rebuilding Font Cache message. Why does VLC persist with it?
2. Why does your rival MPC Home Theater play high-def videos so much smoother than VLC?
3. Why does the Continue video button disappear so quickly before you can click on it? Why did it take you so long to add it? Does it disappear so quickly because you are philosophically opposed to it?
4. The progress bar is the spoiler bar because you can predict how something will end. How about a way to disable it without disabling on screen volume?
5. Is it true Cray is relaunching with a new line of supercomputers so people can watch H.265?

See Options 3,4,5..

The latest Windows 10 preview has native SSH, via Bash - http://www.tenforums.com/attac...

FTA "Rover is largely undetected by today's antivirus engines"

Can of worms here but the malware community as a whole is working with others allowing "stuff" to get through.

Case in point that Microsoft GWZ update of April 4, 2015 KB3035583 (misspelled as CWZ in my journal) sent out 24 hours of a users (your) computer usage. I have that file, my HOST file kept it from leaving for 11 days before I found it. Not one anti-malware program has ever been set-up to catch it, nor scan for it -and you don't want it on your system, let alone what it sent out.

Yet any decent malware program or firewall will warn of an unknown file attempting to leave, allowing or requiring your consent; if not warning you of it's activity first. Of course I followed it and not once has it been detected.

Even warnings of this GWZ got me banned from sevenforums_com for "posting crap" (the first and only time I've been banned from anywhere). I'm not conspiracy minded but this does reek of us and them.

The GWZ file that was sent out has no identifiable information and as I see it one reason it's being allowed, yet one can watch me install new video card drivers scanning it.

You have it? It can't be hidden in the update files one selects to download; it's location Windows\system32\GWZ (entire directory). Look around in it and notice all the odd protections that protect it. Then take ownership of it http://www.tenforums.com/tutor... and remove it.

Look for it after every update you receive. Accept the fact your 24 hours of computer usage has long ago been sent.

That's the tragedy of all this nagware... upgrading is not guaranteed to work and can lead to a hosed system.

Best thing to do is mothball your old drive, get a new SSD, and install fresh. All you need is here to create a legit installable DVD or USB stick, and a license key from any of Windows 7, 8, 8.1 or 10, and you don't really even need the key because unlicensed Windows 10 doesn't do much to bitch at you except put up a water-mark on the desktop and present an alert from time to time about how great it is to have a fully legal copy. Unlicensed Windows 10 does none of that auto logout or shutdown nonesense (at least, not for now).

If you think you have too much installed cruft on your machine to start fresh, well, all that cruft is more likely to fuck up the magic upgrade process. Catch-22. Back up your shit, find your old install media, check out ninite for installing free software and Steam or Gog for installing games. Besides, new SSDs these days are way good and affordable. Better than taking a chance at some hit-or-miss upgrade routine. Even Linux distros haven't perfected major in-place upgrades. Always safer to start over fresh, and your rig will thank you for it.

Windows is hibernating. Your bootloader is still there, but you won't see it until you turn off fast startup or do a restart.

The thing that pisses me off about Windows 10 is the apparent lack of control the user has with their own machine. Exhibit A: http://www.tenforums.com/attac...

Check out the real-time protection option. "You can turn it off temporarily, but if it's off for a while, we'll turn it back on automatically." What bullshit is that? First, it doesn't tell you what it constitutes as "a while". A day? A week? A month? Second, the fact that it believes that power users are extinct and might have an edge-case for permanently disabling it is ridiculous. It's based off of Microsoft Security Essentials, and I disabled the real-time protection when installed on Win 7 on my netbook because it was just too much for the poor little Atom processor to deal with. If I needed to scan something, I'd do it on-demand. Here, I have no permanent solution because Windows 10 thinks it knows better than my situation.

Windows 10 is peppered with many other areas which make me feel less in control than I used to. I know that I can't have full control when running a proprietary system, but it's all about degrees, and Win 10 feels far less catered for power users than Win 7.

And to be fair, no power user will run a PC, specially a Windows PC without an AV, plus activating the an AV ocasionally is pointless, if it isn't on all the time, why putting it on anytime?

The thing that pisses me off about Windows 10 is the apparent lack of control the user has with their own machine. Exhibit A: http://www.tenforums.com/attac...

Check out the real-time protection option. "You can turn it off temporarily, but if it's off for a while, we'll turn it back on automatically." What bullshit is that? First, it doesn't tell you what it constitutes as "a while". A day? A week? A month? Second, the fact that it believes that power users are extinct and might have an edge-case for permanently disabling it is ridiculous. It's based off of Microsoft Security Essentials, and I disabled the real-time protection when installed on Win 7 on my netbook because it was just too much for the poor little Atom processor to deal with. If I needed to scan something, I'd do it on-demand. Here, I have no permanent solution because Windows 10 thinks it knows better than my situation.

Windows 10 is peppered with many other areas which make me feel less in control than I used to. I know that I can't have full control when running a proprietary system, but it's all about degrees, and Win 10 feels far less catered for power users than Win 7.

That's weird, i have another AV installed on mine since install and Windows Defender is disabled since then.

The thing that pisses me off about Windows 10 is the apparent lack of control the user has with their own machine. Exhibit A: http://www.tenforums.com/attac...

Check out the real-time protection option. "You can turn it off temporarily, but if it's off for a while, we'll turn it back on automatically." What bullshit is that? First, it doesn't tell you what it constitutes as "a while". A day? A week? A month? Second, the fact that it believes that power users are extinct and might have an edge-case for permanently disabling it is ridiculous. It's based off of Microsoft Security Essentials, and I disabled the real-time protection when installed on Win 7 on my netbook because it was just too much for the poor little Atom processor to deal with. If I needed to scan something, I'd do it on-demand. Here, I have no permanent solution because Windows 10 thinks it knows better than my situation.

Windows 10 is peppered with many other areas which make me feel less in control than I used to. I know that I can't have full control when running a proprietary system, but it's all about degrees, and Win 10 feels far less catered for power users than Win 7.

I wouldn't be surprised... the Windows 10 BSOD is already silly enough

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Lennart already has two forums, why would he need a third?

Then again, I guess neowin and tenforums don't mind the competition. I can imagine them saying, "Welcome back into the fold!" instead.

So shut it off and go on with your life. With multi-terabyte drives being the norm, don't tell me you are seriously concerned with disk space.

I have entirely disabled the Windows Store and Modern UI on my Windows 8.1 computer also.