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I have satellite internet - 10Gb/month. Before my son moved out we were constantly in data restriction. Once he moved I couldn't come up with enough things to download to run out of data. I might add the connection is too slow for netflix so my video watching is limited. Anyway, my wife broke her computer - literally snapped the hinge off from setting too much stuff on top of it. So she brings home a new laptop with Win 10. I made sure she turned on metered connection. We still blew through 4 Gb in a couple hours. I am in data restriction once again with apparently no hope of ever having anything but dial up speeds again. Windows 10 I hate you!  :mad: Thank you for letting me rant. 

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I think there's some function that sends statistical data to Microsoft, and it's on by default. I remember having to turn some stuff off after I switched to Windows 10. Here's a potentially useful link (although by no means exhaustive):

http://www.howtogeek.com/249254/how-to-stop-windows-10-from-using-so-much-data/

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this is why windows 8.1 is as high as i go, and i am very tempted to downgrade to 7. if only i could get wine to run everything i need it to run id be a full time linux user.

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Oh, Win7 was the best. I have Win10 and I hate it.

The auto-installing the Anniversary Edition, with no way to turn off Cortana. (Hint- you can undo updates from the Control Panel. Yes, you have to look for it. No, I don't know why Microsoft overwrote all your settings.)

The constant tracking and invasion of privacy.

The crappy UI.

 

I'm really only using Win10 because OSx won't play as many games, neither will Linux. If there was a system that could give me 80% of what I have with Win10, I'd switch to it in a heartbeat.

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I remember having a data cap twice that about 8 years ago, it was painful trying to keep to ~600MB a day.  I'm amazed anyone still has that kind of restriction short of a mobile phone connection.

Like others, I only keep a Win7 box around these days for gaming.  From memory I think about 80 of the 200-odd games I have in my Steam library have Linux executables, so things seem to be improving on that front, but sadly not quick enough for my liking.

I'd love to say one day I'll never need Windows again, but a large stack of Windows-compatible physical games disks argues otherwise - WINE's voodoo magic notwithstanding.

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6 hours ago, Dman979 said:

The auto-installing the Anniversary Edition, with no way to turn off Cortana.

Wait... What? You mean this stupidity isn't over? Wait til my wife finds out she has to use Cortana. It will be epic. Why are people so willing to just accept this? Where is the outrage? I remember when AT&T was broken up for far less. I've seen enough conspiracy theory TV to have serious wonderings if this isn't a homeland security thing.

I have Win 8.0 on my laptop. I got rid of all the useless app crap and installed classic shell so I could have my start screen back. It takes mere seconds to start up, does what I want it to do, and nothing more. Love it. I have Win 7 on my desktop. Works well but it is slower. Microsoft would be forced into massive changes or bankruptcy if more people had data caps.   

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24 minutes ago, Red Shirt said:

Wait... What? You mean this stupidity isn't over? Wait til my wife finds out she has to use Cortana. It will be epic. Why are people so willing to just accept this? Where is the outrage? I remember when AT&T was broken up for far less. I've seen enough conspiracy theory TV to have serious wonderings if this isn't a homeland security thing.

I have Win 8.0 on my laptop. I got rid of all the useless app crap and installed classic shell so I could have my start screen back. It takes mere seconds to start up, does what I want it to do, and nothing more. Love it. I have Win 7 on my desktop. Works well but it is slower. Microsoft would be forced into massive changes or bankruptcy if more people had data caps.   

There are plenty of tool to disable all that bloat, like fix-windows-privacy. Once you get rid of that Win10 is a great upgrade over 8.

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7 minutes ago, sarbian said:

There are plenty of tool to disable all that bloat, like fix-windows-privacy. Once you get rid of that Win10 is a great upgrade over 8.

A big thanks. This may be difficult for the Purveyor of Nyan Cat (I miss it already) to answer - My wife is a little less tech than myself (example: she had a D drive on her old laptop that was empty because she didn't know how to move pictures to it). Once this fix is run, will it interfere with daily activity? In other words is much maintenance required?  

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1 minute ago, Red Shirt said:

A big thanks. This may be difficult for the Purveyor of Nyan Cat (I miss it already) to answer - My wife is a little less tech than myself (example: she had a D drive on her old laptop that was empty because she didn't know how to move pictures to it). Once this fix is run, will it interfere with daily activity? In other words is much maintenance required?  

I used it on my PC a few weeks ago and did not encounter any problem. However it prevent the use of OneDrive (MS Cloud storage) so you may want to stay clear if your wive use it. No idea of the impact on Win10 market apps since I don't use them. I guess future MS patch could re enable some of those.

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4 minutes ago, sarbian said:

I used it on my PC a few weeks ago and did not encounter any problem. However it prevent the use of OneDrive (MS Cloud storage) so you may want to stay clear if your wive use it. No idea of the impact on Win10 market apps since I don't use them. I guess future MS patch could re enable some of those.

Got it. No cloud. No apps. Should be good to go.

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16 hours ago, Red Shirt said:

Wait... What? You mean this stupidity isn't over? Wait til my wife finds out she has to use Cortana. It will be epic. Why are people so willing to just accept this? Where is the outrage? I remember when AT&T was broken up for far less. I've seen enough conspiracy theory TV to have serious wonderings if this isn't a homeland security thing.

I have Win 8.0 on my laptop. I got rid of all the useless app crap and installed classic shell so I could have my start screen back. It takes mere seconds to start up, does what I want it to do, and nothing more. Love it. I have Win 7 on my desktop. Works well but it is slower. Microsoft would be forced into massive changes or bankruptcy if more people had data caps.   

There's a way to turn of Cortana and get the standard, actually-sorta-useful file search back, but you need to crack out regedit. Which, really, isn't nearly as scary as everybody seems to make it out to be. Get some instructions from a site you trust, make a copy of the registry in case you flub it, open up regedit, go to exactly where the instructions tell you, make exactly the changes suggested, and GTFO.

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6 hours ago, pincushionman said:

There's a way to turn of Cortana and get the standard, actually-sorta-useful file search back, but you need to crack out regedit

I've used regedit many times. Not afraid to fail = or succeed. I'll do a google search for instructions. Thanks

 

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On 22/11/2016 at 2:05 AM, cubinator said:

I think there's some function that sends statistical data to Microsoft, and it's on by default. I remember having to turn some stuff off after I switched to Windows 10. Here's a potentially useful link (although by no means exhaustive):

Unless you have the Enterprise edition, which you will not, turning off telemetry is not an option. Microsoft looks over your shoulder, whether you like it or not.

2 hours ago, HoloYolo said:

Poor you :( I was forced to upgrade to Windows 10 too.

How come? Unless you bought a new computer with a OEM license, downgrading is an option and pretty simple to do too.

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2 minutes ago, HoloYolo said:

I bought a new PC and got rid of my old one :( Should've been more specific.

It actually is not too hard to find a cheap Windows 8.x license, or Windows 7 if that tickles your fancy. I am collecting the former, so I have a little while to go until I am forced to use Windows 10.

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