win10 deletes stuff

[stj]

without asking.

http://techfrag.com/2016/03/04/windo...ut-asking-you/

[Uranium-235]

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why I only use it on my new gaming laptop. My work laptop is going to stay win7

[stj]

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what i found funny, they speculate it uninstalls software that may be unstable.
if true - shouldnt it uninstall win10?

[shovenose]

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what i found funny, they speculate it uninstalls software that may be unstable.
if true - shouldnt it uninstall win10?

windows 10 isn't unstable, though.

[stj]

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R-e-a-l-l-y-?

[kaboom]

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without asking.

http://techfrag.com/2016/03/04/windo...ut-asking-you/

We knew this since the pre-vista Longhorn (up yo ass) days; it was under the guise of "copywrong protection." That, and adobe didn't like people holding on to older versions or the "holdouts" that kept using CEP...

what i found funny, they speculate it uninstalls software that may be unstable.
if true - shouldnt it uninstall win10?

This party should've ended years ago; substitute "may be unstable" with "anything we feel like." How many W7 installs, with semi-custom software, have been sabotaged so far? How many sabotaged total?

2016-2007= 9 years of "advance warning" and/or learning the hard way? I've said this before, I'll say it again: M$ didn't learn after xbone- they want to xbone everyone. This goes back to that one plan from longhorn/vista: "deleting infringing files." (Note 1) The more they push, the more I'll shove back; if it means installing those digitalriver W7 images and "r-wat'ing" them, so be it- microslime brought this upon themselves.

windows 10 isn't unstable, though.

What is it then? Borderline? Bipolar? Sociopathic?

Answer: Bullshit.

Note 1: The smart-teevee pushers took a page from M$- remember the "lists of files?"

[Uranium-235]

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10 isn't bad if you uninstall a bunch of crap and get a bunch and disable a bunch of crap. Plays games great. Would not use it for much else

[ratdude747]

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10 isn't bad if you uninstall a bunch of crap and get a bunch and disable a bunch of crap. Plays games great. Would not use it for much else

I tried that and every major update re-installed the stock metro apps. Screw that (otherwise I'd try it on my old windows 7 tablet).

[Ascaris]

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I tried that and every major update re-installed the stock metro apps. Screw that (otherwise I'd try it on my old windows 7 tablet).

This, exactly this. People have managed to get Win 10 into a semi-usable state by unofficially uninstalling the garbage, but the next time one of Microsoft's mini-service-pack updates is pushed out, it just resets everything back to the way it was before you fixed it (sometimes including the privacy settings). I liked it better when Windows was a product and not a service. I'd really prefer not to be "serviced" in this way (in a way that makes me feel like I am servicing them).

Microsoft has pushed the "apps" so hard that now I will accept nothing less than the possibility of the total, permanent (one time) removal of anything and everything "app" as the starting point for evaluating whether to accept Windows 10. I don't want to see any bits of the UI in that awful app "design language." No settings panel, no action center, no bits of the UI at all. I'm never going to buy a Windows mobile device, and I'm never going to use anything from their Windows Store, so they can just back off on the whole app thing.

Microsoft has actually succeeded in making Windows 8 look relatively okay to me. At least (as I understand from reading posts by others; I've never tried it) it can be folded, spindled, and mutilated until it resembles a respectable OS. Windows 10 can't.

As long as 10 still won't let me pick and choose the updates I will accept, it's not going to work for me. That also means splitting them up into individual updates like they've done since the beginning, not these monolithic blobs that all stack on the previous monolithic blob.

If I find one objectionable update with 7, I just hide it. Don't want a telemetry update? Not a problem; I will simply never install that one; I can still get the rest of them. In 10, I can only avoid an objectionable change if I also skip everything else that was changed in that update and every other update from that point forward. Letting people pick and choose which updates to install means little if we have to roll back the clock to a time before that update was released and remain there forever.

No telemetry (without having to hack anything, and once I set my preferences, they had better be permanent), no monolithic or forced updates, nothing that even makes me remember that there is such an abomination in the world as a Windows App. Get that done, MS, and we'll talk. Otherwise, you can bite my shiny metal posterior.

[Uranium-235]

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Windows 10 settings panel:

Go to run, type "control"

[Topcat]

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Windows 10 settings panel:

Go to run, type "control"

With win10, I'd rather boot from a DOS startup disk and type format c:\

[kaboom]

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With win10, I'd rather boot from a DOS startup disk and type format c:\

Ya, but first use FDISK to kill the NTFS partition.

Then FORMAT, but don't forget the /u switch- hardy har har.
Unconditional, baby.


And here's another way to "quick format." Note- you'll never be able to defrag them afterwards..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mX7vrr6NBwA

Throw all the win10 shitboxes (and their UEFI) in there too..

[Per Hansson]

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Windows 10 settings panel:

Go to run, type "control"

Sure, except it's a mess.
Some things are still in the old control panel.
But others have been moved to the new fantastic touch friendly UI.

For example try changing the desktop background from the old UI.
Then try changing the desktop theme from the modern UI.
In both cases you will be thrown to the opposite interface.

I hate shit like this, and there is only one OS in MS modern history which got it right.
I.e. where the UI is more or less completely cohesive: Windows 2000
From there it's just in smaller or larger steps becoming more and more convulted.

[Uranium-235]

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Sure, except it's a mess.
Some things are still in the old control panel.
But others have been moved to the new fantastic touch friendly UI.

For example try changing the desktop background from the old UI.
Then try changing the desktop theme from the modern UI.
In both cases you will be thrown to the opposite interface.

I hate shit like this, and there is only one OS in MS modern history which got it right.
I.e. where the UI is more or less completely cohesive: Windows 2000
From there it's just in smaller or larger steps becoming more and more convulted.

right click desktop -> personalize -> themes -> theme settings

or

'control' -> Personalization

the touch UI sucks, haven't messed with it much

[Per Hansson]

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right click desktop -> personalize -> themes -> theme settings

or

'control' -> Personalization

the touch UI sucks, haven't messed with it much

It's only getting worse.
They are porting everything to the fantastic modern touch UI.

In my case this is build 10586 and in both your examples I finally end up in the old control panel interface.
But it's just a matter of time, a few builds later and only the new interface will be left.

[stj]

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With win10, I'd rather boot from a DOS startup disk and type format c:\

FreeDOS,
it can format with FAT32

[keeney123]

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What is it then? Borderline? Bipolar? Sociopathic?

I love the Sociopathic.

[goontron]

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I suppose end users won't maintain there own siht, so M$ is now doing it for them.... Enjoy!