Hornet
Supreme [H]ardness
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God damn people like to whine.
Maybe you can give us a good reason why we should all download a huge file for Win 10 even if we have no intentions on changing to the new OS yet?
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God damn people like to whine.
Maybe you can give us a good reason why we should all download a huge file for Win 10 even if we have no intentions on changing to the new OS yet?
Not really happy with W10 and Microsoft.
I thought the plan was to gain users not piss them off.
Well, the OS itself really isn't that bad. Some of the UI is still sort of rough around the edges and not overly easy to learn since it's unintuitive, but the core functionality is pretty much okay.
The problems are more the forcing it on people whether they want it or not and collecting a lot of information about system activity regardless of the settings the user picks with those slider thingies. At least, that's my opinion. I'm not a huge fan of creeper-type stuff the OS does even if there's nothing much on my computers except for cat pics and screenshots of angry [H] user posts.
What makes no sense to me is they worked so hard to generate positive buzz for Windows 10 and now squandering it with first the spying revelation, now auto download without permission and eventually probably auto-installation. But why not wait like 6-12 months to get this obnoxious and ride the positive publicity wave, instead of sabotaging any goodwill a month in?
Guess the switch in leadership doesn't change the fundamentals that caused the Xbox One foul-up...
No matter what Microsoft does, a lot of tinfoil-nutters will whine and light the torches.
Always been like that...when Windows 95 offered a new, better UI...you shoud hear the whine of the 3.11 crowd.
It sounded just like ANY windows release.
So boring...so predictable...
@echo.Uninstalling worthless MS Updates that Spy on You!
wusa /uninstall /kb:2952664 /quiet /norestart
wusa /uninstall /kb:3035583 /quiet /norestart
wusa /uninstall /kb:2990214 /quiet /norestart
wusa /uninstall /kb:3068708 /quiet /norestart
wusa /uninstall /kb:3022345 /quiet /norestart
wusa /uninstall /kb:3075249 /quiet /norestart
wusa /uninstall /kb:3080149 /quiet /norestart
@echo.
@echo.Done uninstalling. Settings will not apply until a restart is performed.
@echo.
@set /p restartComp=Restart the computer now? [y/n]:
@if "%restartComp%" == "y" shutdown /r /t 0
@echo.
@echo.All operations successful.
@echo.
@pause
Here's a batch file you can use to get rid of the "spy" updates:
Code:@echo.Uninstalling worthless MS Updates that Spy on You! wusa /uninstall /kb:2952664 /quiet /norestart wusa /uninstall /kb:3035583 /quiet /norestart wusa /uninstall /kb:2990214 /quiet /norestart wusa /uninstall /kb:3068708 /quiet /norestart wusa /uninstall /kb:3022345 /quiet /norestart wusa /uninstall /kb:3075249 /quiet /norestart wusa /uninstall /kb:3080149 /quiet /norestart @echo. @echo.Done uninstalling. Settings will not apply until a restart is performed. @echo. @set /p restartComp=Restart the computer now? [y/n]: @if "%restartComp%" == "y" shutdown /r /t 0 @echo. @echo.All operations successful. @echo. @pause
You'll still have to manually hide these updates so they don't download again.
You have user A who is frustrated about not being able to get the update fast enough and then user B who is frustrated that files are getting onto their machine they have no intention of using. To deliver the software early or not is going to please and displease one user or the other.
Personally I'll put it on every machine it is safe to use it on. Others may love to stick with XP
Not really happy with W10 and Microsoft.
I thought the plan was to gain users not piss them off.
The windows 10 download is only a few gigs... if that is the difference between your drive having plenty of space or being low on space, you should probably just get a bigger drive...
No matter what Microsoft does, a lot of tinfoil-nutters will whine and light the torches.
You have user A who is frustrated about not being able to get the update fast enough and then user B who is frustrated that files are getting onto their machine they have no intention of using. To deliver the software early or not is going to please and displease one user or the other.
Personally I'll put it on every machine it is safe to use it on. Others may love to stick with XP
You own the computer. They own the software, and somewhere in the 10,000 page EULA there's probably something about them being allowed to download anything they want to call an update, and you've most likely already agreed to it by installing whatever version of windows/some minor update agreement. They're going to do whatever they damn well please, and all we can do is un-do it. I'm not an IT person and I don't spend tons of time involved with my machine. It's one reason that I come hear and read stuff, to learn what all the smart computer people have to say. Hell, I even read stuff from morons. Never can tell when an idiot will have something useful to say, or when a genius will say something idiotic just for laughs.Do I own my computer or does Microsoft?
Do I own my computer or does Microsoft? Do I control what goes on it or does Microsoft? Do we not live in the world of bandwidth caps? In some cases this actions costs the user money out of their pocket.
But hey, we live now in an era of government run healthcare for everyone so I should lie back and think of England as it were. Let our Lords and Masters do all the thinking for us.
Dude just fucking delete windows and stfu.
Downloading updates is not a felony nor is it "hacking". Good grief.How is doing this without permission not a Federal Felony of computer hacking?
Downloading updates is not a felony nor is it "hacking". Good grief.
Zarathustra[H];1041861813 said:Depend son your definition of "updates".
If that update claims to be a security update, but instead installs a bit-torrent client that runs in the background downloading, AND distributing software you neither asked for nor want, we have a real problem...
And that problem exists in Windows 10. There is no defense for defaulting everyone's PC and Internet connection to being a torrent box to help MS distribute Windows 10, as well as ongoing patches and updates. Indefensible.
In this case the torches are justified so STFU about tin foil nutters.
How is doing this without permission not a Federal Felony of computer hacking?
Bullsite
You can disable P2P in settings.
Do you have any documentation for that setting being overriddeen...or are we in tinfoilhat-land once again?
Cool strawman. I said DEFAULTED. Yes if you can dig around in the settings eventually you might find where you can turn off the P2P. But legions of people that won't even know P2P is happening will be getting their bandwidth stolen by MS because they don't even know the P2P is happening. are you seriously defending this bullshit?
Bullsite
You can disable P2P in settings.
Do you have any documentation for that setting being overriddeen...or are we in tinfoilhat-land once again?