Windows 10

[Fogdude]

Yeah, WIn10 doesn't like VPNs & proxies, though I don't know why. Since the OS on your machine is now doing all the spying, it doesn't matter what you use to try to maintain anonymity on the web. Everything you do on your machine is subject to monitoring & logging at MicroSoft. You can turn off much of it, but the Cortana service runs no matter what, even if you've disabled it. You can even go to the source folder & delete the executables, but as soon as Win10 does an automatic update, it's back.

[chouette]

Good to know Fog...

[Fogdude]

Yeah, but knowing what Win10 is doing is kinda like a fatal cancer diagnosis. Now you know about it, but what good does it do?

[chouette]

Sweet nothing!!

[bankska22]

Wow! Thanks Fog. Working fine at the moment.

[Pip]

Well, I've given W10 a good trial but this week re-installed W7. i've given it a good run but just can't get on with it.

The main thing for me is my sound quit working after the Anniversary update (desktop PC) and I spent days trying all the fixes reccomended on various sites (including MS support) and nothing worked. W7 has cured the problem.

It could be that my system is getting on a bit but I'm a firm believer in "if it works, don't try to fix it!".

Strangely enough my "older" laptop works quite happilly with it. I presume it's the difference between AMD based and Intel based systems. IDK.

I'm waiting to see what M/S has up it's sleeve going forward. You can't write off a potential 1 Billion revenue (People not cash) and not have plans for a return on the "give away"!

They've already started with charges on cloud based services, a recent update to Outlook email warns you won't get full functionality if you use an adblocker and you need to pay for ad free Outlook.

I have a vague memory of Hotmail restricting the use of 3rd pary email clients for new users, I avoided it as I was classed as a Legacy user so it didn't affect me. Since I also got a gmail account I just use Hotmail (Outlook) as a back-up.

As to the future I still have a spare HDD with windows 10 on it but if I ever use it again remains to be seen. Once support ends for Win 7 I may go onto a Linux system but have win7 offline for other uses.

[Fogdude]

When WIn10 was announced I started to immediately investigate alternatives. A Mac was out. Apple has been more of a tyrant with their systems than M$ has ever been, until now & they still haven't approached the totalitarianism of Apple. Linux was the obvious next option. I looked into the various flavors & options & found that virtually none of the software I use routinely is even available on Linux, even with WINE. I'm not about to change everything I do & everything I use to do it, so I was stuck with going with the flow.

As to your sound, Pip. A friend had a similar issue, though I doubt it matches yours. He had an external surround system on a laptop. When he upgraded to Win10, he found that in some applications, his system would automatically revert to his onboard speakers & there was no way for him to force the sound back to his external sound system, from that application or in the Windows Control panel. I finally figured out that because he was using the headphone/speaker jack to plug in his sound system, whenever the application looked for the sound output, it overrode the jack & just went back to the onboards. I told him to get a USB adapter for speakers/mic & he did. Using that as his sound device solved the problem. Once he had a separate sound port, not tied to his onboard speakers, his external sound system, once selected as the primary device, stayed that way. A clunky workaround, but it works.

[Doc Brown]

One problem I have with W10 it's... i can't play fifa 14.

[Fogdude]

One problem I have with W10 it's... i can't play fifa 14.

[chouette]

Wow that video goes over 5 minutes, mostly on this dude typing what to do? I think CT should show him a thing or 2, lol (Unless it's a joke, as I didn't watch the whole thing).

[Fogdude]

Yeah, it's slow & simple. Should have been done in one minute. That's often the case when non-English speakers do things like this.

[Doc Brown]

Thanks Fogdude

[aLTRe-eGo]

Best resource to get your W10 info and it's problems with updates.

https://www.askwoody.com/
http://www.infoworld.com/author/Woody-Leonhard/