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Features That Windows 10 Will Deprecate

Posted by samzenpus on from the so-long dept.

jones_supa writes: Microsoft announced that a Windows 10 upgrade will be free for users running Windows 7 and 8.1, but there will be a number of features that will no longer work after that upgrade. The features that will no longer work are listed on the official specifications page on Microsoft's website. Some of the deprecated features include: Media Center, out-of-the-box DVD playback and USB floppy support, desktop gadgets, deferring updates (Home edition), old versions of Windows games, and Windows Live Essentials version of OneDrive.

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  1. You Mean...? by MightyMartian · · Score: 5, Informative

    You mean someone uses Windows built-in DVD playback? The first thing I've done on a new computer for the last five or six years is install VLC.

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    1. Re:You Mean...? by TechyImmigrant · · Score: 4, Informative

      I tried to do that two days ago after I de-regioned my PC's DVD player so I could actually play the DVDs I had paid for.

      I could not get the windows 8 to play the DVD. I found no program that could do it. Media player certainly couldn't.

      I downloaded VLC.

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    2. Re:You Mean...? by ihtoit · · Score: 4, Informative

      in most cases you're looking at a firmware upgrade. Go here: http://www.doom9.org/index.htm...

      HTH.

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    3. Re:You Mean...? by meglon · · Score: 4, Informative

      PC dvd players used to (and still do?) allow you to change the region 5 times before locking it permanently to the last one selected.... so your region 1 dvd player could be changed to play region 2 dvd's (but no longer region 1 ones). Good for a couple movies you want to watch once. VLC is a vastly better choice.

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    4. Re:You Mean...? by Zero__Kelvin · · Score: 5, Informative

      "VLC doesn't let you play through a region locked DVD. At least it didn't for me and my DVD drive."

      There is a pretty succinct explanation of why you had trouble here.

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    5. Re:You Mean...? by PRMan · · Score: 4, Informative

      You forgot to install AnyDVD. In fact, if you install AnyDVD, you probably don't need to change the firmware either.

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  2. Re:Really, USB floppy? by AMDinator · · Score: 5, Informative

    FTFA: You can still get the driver from Windows Update. It's just not shipping with the driver on the system image.

  3. Re:How to get rid of the free upgrade icon? by TypoNAM · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here's an article that lists what Windows updates to remove to do just that. It's primarily KB3035583 that's responsible for the nag screen. However there's several other updates that are suspect to be causing performance and spying/'telemetry' that wasn't occurring until fairly recently.

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  4. Re:How to get rid of the free upgrade icon? by YrWrstNtmr · · Score: 5, Informative

    To remove:
    http://microsoft-news.com/how-to-remove-windows-10-upgrade-notification-on-windows-7-and-windows-8/


    And Win 10 will not be a subscription model.

  5. Re:How to get rid of the free upgrade icon? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://www.ghacks.net/2015/06/01/how-to-block-the-windows-10-update-notification-in-earlier-versions-of-windows/

    1.Tap on the Windows-key on the keyboard, type programs and features, and hit enter. This opens the list of software installed on the system.
    2.Switch to "view installed updates" on the left side of the window.
    3.If you are using Windows 7, locate the following updates: 3035583, 2952664, 3021917
    4.If you are using Windows 8, locate the following updates: 3035583, 2976978
    5.Right-click one update after the other and select uninstall from the context menu.
    6.Select Restart Later when the prompt appears and remove all updates first from the system.
    7.Once done, restart the computer to complete the process.

    To block these updates, do the following:
    1.Tap on the Windows-key, type Windows Update, and hit enter.
    2.This should open the Windows Update dialog.
    3.Select "check for updates" to find new updates to install on the system. Windows should find the updates listed above again.
    4.Click on the "important update is available" link.
    5.Right-click each of the listed updates above that are listed on the page and select hide update from the context menu.
    6.This blocks the update from being installed on the system.

  6. One huge reason by ArchieBunker · · Score: 4, Informative

    VLC has a real audio compressor plugin. No longer am I subjected to whisper quiet dialog and action scenes that cause hearing damage. No compression is not the same as normalizing either. Loud passages are toned down and quiet ones are amplified, like how movies used to be.

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    1. Re:One huge reason by ArchieBunker · · Score: 5, Informative

      Its already part of VLC. Click on Tools > Effects and filters > Compressor tab.

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    2. Re:One huge reason by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

      It's a bit old but lifehacker had a story on it a while ago:

      http://lifehacker.com/5920290/how-to-fix-movies-that-are-really-quiet-then-really-loud