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Windows 10 Forced Update Resets Default Apps To Microsoft Products (theinquirer.net)
Freshly Exhumed writes: Microsoft has told The Inquirer that it is aware of a bug which has been causing users' default programs to switch to the bundled Microsoft options. After deleting the update, a user discovered the next day that Windows had reinstalled it and reset the default settings again. InfoWorld gives some real world scenarios: "If you have Chrome as the default browser on your Windows 10 computer, you'd better check to make sure Microsoft didn't hijack it last week and set Edge as your new default. The same goes for any PDF viewer: A forced cumulative update also reset PDF viewing to Edge on many PCs. Do you use IrfanView, ACDSee, Photoshop Express, or Photoshop Elements? The default photo app may have been reset to -- you guessed it -- the Windows Photos app. Music? Video? Microsoft may have swooped down and changed you over to Microsoft Party apps, all in the course of last week's forced cumulative update KB3135173."
Basically, its happened to me too. They also re-install their shitty metro apps you may have removed.
It didn't happen to me. Just checked. All up to date, and nothing MS is my default anything (except some media files I don't use I think would go to WMP, if I had any of them).
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Isn't it the infamous "tablet mode" that get automagically enabled ? Took me one hour to understand what happened and disable this damn shit, another hour to rant against yet another windows 10 crap.
I tried to use Corel VideoStudio X5 yesterday, but it crashed on startup. Did some searching and discovered Micrososoft security updates KB3134814, KB3126587 and KB3126593, installed on Feb. 9, 2016 were the culprits. After removing them Corel worked fine again.
Windows 10 upgrade only resets the defaults if you go with the "recommended settings" option. If you select "customize" then it prompts you whether to update your default programs or keep the existing.
If you take Microsoft's "recommended settings"; is it any surprise that they set you up on Edge for your browser, the new windows 10 photo viewer, etc, and a few other application defaults?
It's nuts. There is a REAL problem with Microsofts telemetry situation; but too many of you get side tracked by every little irrelevant detail; and then run around like chicken little foaming at the mouth; and it takes all your credibility away.
- "Oh no! Windows 10 has waaay too much telemetry ... "
o "Oh, that sounds a little disturbing, tell me more?"
- "Oh no! Windows 10 sets your default browser to edge if you select 'recommend settings'.
- "Oh no! Windows 10 tries to connect to the internet so that it can update the icon that says whether or not you are connected to the internet!"
- "Oh no! Windows 10 connects to the internet a thousand times in the first 24 hours"
o "er...I see you left Windows update service turned on!"
- "OMG Micro$$$oft evil! Bing sounds stupid. They made it easier to get to device manager and control panels... by changing somehting. EVIL!!"
o "Yeah, I've forgotten why I was listening to you."
So, I haven't been experiencing any of the Windows 10 nag/force upgrade problems on my Linux machine.
Just sayin'.
With virtualisation and web-based services, the OS barely matters any more. This is part of the reason that MS are suffering - they can't tie you into their application format, or even their browser, and neither can they stop you running Windows only where necessary for compatibility and in isolated VM's.
Look at Chromebooks - the browser is the OS nowadays. And any service supplier that doesn't realise that is going to be ousted as soon as their competitors do. Hell, with Node.js, emscripten, etc. you can run traditional programs in the browser almost as if they were native (go have a look at the emscripten example 3D games on their website).
The tie-downs for my uses are actually hardware-based. Where you have to have a USB dongle, or a Smartcard reader (e.g. banking, etc.) in order to do a task. Though USB passthrough exists, it ties you to particular computers and locations, and it also means that it's harder to setup and maintain.
I can't move our banking software because it relies on a USB smartcard that ties itself to the machine's Windows installation.
But, pretty much, if I was in charge of a company in my industry or any of the others that I could conceivably work in, I could easily justify and manage without any particular OS or proprietary software at all. There's not much nowadays that relies on such things, and those that do seem very limiting and old-fashioned.
Hell, a few years back, there was a boiler in the place I worked - a serious thing that covered a huge site from one location. The software was the most locked-down thing I've ever seen. But I was still able to virtualise it by tricking the installers into thinking the machine they were in front of was just a physical machine. They installed all the software, set it up, activated and registered the MAC interfaces, etc. And when they were gone, I took the VM image they'd actually been working on and moved it to the servers, and turned the workstation back into just-another-client.
I've had to deal with quite a few manufacturers who just don't like you VM'ing things but can't justify exactly why. For at least three of them, I've tricked them like that or just virtualised it and then fixed the software. The manufacturers who get my custom easier are those who go "Oh, yes, well we have an image for VMWare or HyperV if you want one, we just don't advertise it".
Hell, the firewall where I work is actually a VM nowadays, and our VM's are 40:60 Linux and Windows. Even then, it's usually only because we separate by task and are licensed on Server Datacenter (so we can run unlimited VM copies of Windows on them), so we're running many more copies of Windows than strictly necessary. If costs changed, we could easily go 90:10.
FOXIT is now malware It has been bought out by a malware company. After uninstalling I would re-image your system as it installs some backdoors and other evil stuff.\
This and of course we all know uTorrent installs bitcoin miners too since it was bought out too
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Sigh... You're pointing to a throughly debunked and retracted claim. Having your router deny all connections causes the networking stack to retry them, hence the overblown connection numbers. The IP addresses listed at things like the NetBIOS and DNS broadcast IPs (used by machines on a local network to identify each other).
http://www.zdnet.com/article/w...
Everything you're saying is just rubbish.
If you want more LEGITIMATE sources how about Ars Technica, or how about MSFT themselves for a source? And please note that 19 pages of shit running in the background that CANNOT be turned off by anybody that isn't running Enterprise, aka "Not you you filthy peasant pissant". Also note that MSFT themselves have stated that will NOT turn off all phoning home, so even Enterprise can't completely STFU that OS!
It takes about 15 minutes to make Win 7 as quiet as a church mouse, with no phoning anybody, about 30 for 8.1, Windows 10? So far nobody has been able to stop it, not using MSFT's own tools, not using third party, NOBODY. Hmmm...let me think...is there any other software that the user 1.- Has no control over, 2.- Makes connections the user cannot stop, and 3.- Resists both first and third party tools to try to deal with it? Why yes there is...its called malware.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.