Win 10 free upgrade

[Halsey]

No need to be nasty to me.
I didn't direct my comment directly to any of your responses.

Others may prefer not to have their browsing or shopping habits on record for others gains.
Just an FYI for any who might care.
Nothing is ever free.

[Aurelian]

I turned it all off.

[Gilmer]

ORIGINAL: Aurelian

I turned it all off.

Me too.

[KISSMEUFOOL!]

Honestly, unless you are fearful that your searches for kiddie porn, bondage, or diaper fetish might be revealed... what are you putting out there that is of such concern?

I mean, virtually everything about our public lives is being gathered by someone. How do you avoid it? Grocery store loyalty card? Do you have one of those to get a discount? Now your grocer knows exactly what you are eating... whoa... can't have that now. They might start sending us discount coupons for ground beef after they see that you buy 10 pounds a month. Or maybe I will be blackmailed over my "vegetarian" personna when I actually buy a sack of frozen chicken breasts every few months to make chicken stew or the occasional package of hamburger patties (my weakness is for Cheeseburgers once in a while).

I don't particularly like all the data gathering, but it's a fact of life... everywhere. You buy something with a credit card and there is a record somewhere... your spending habits are aggregated and sold for targeted advertising. The day will come when in like the movie "Minority Report" scanners will identify us as we shop and offer buying recommendations on screens as we walk past. The cat is out of the bag... we no longer have any privacy. Not upgrading your O/S is a futile protest.

I haven't checked yet, but someone posted that Microsoft was going to flip all those invasive settings to "OFF" by default in that big update that just came out a few days ago in response to people's complaints. The only one that really concerned me was the one I posted about whereby you allowed Microsoft to technically use your computer and bandwidth to "serve up" software upgrades to other people's computers instead of using Microsoft's network. That was, indeed, creepy as Hell. I went in and manually turned that one off, not that anyone had accused MS of actually using Win 10 machines as their own "Botnet" to distribute updates. Remembering, of course, that the old "Napster" did just that... allowed you to pull music off someone else's computer hard drive in the background.

I had a rough upgrade, but everything is working pretty well now. I installed "Classic Shell" last night and got all my games and applications back onto the Start Menu. Things like my now invisible Office 2007 after the upgrade was really annoying... especially when accompanied by all the pressure to buy Office 365 or whatever they are calling that subscription service.

Anyway, I have no regrets now.

I do so enjoy Rhonda's candid observations. [:D]

Not upgrading your O/S is a futile protest.

(Silly girl. Ive been using WinXP for 13 years & Linux for 18 years. My 1982 Totyota Tercel is still running just fine too! No need to change a thing.) [:'(]

[rhondabrwn]

ORIGINAL: KISSMEUFOOL!

Honestly, unless you are fearful that your searches for kiddie porn, bondage, or diaper fetish might be revealed... what are you putting out there that is of such concern?

I mean, virtually everything about our public lives is being gathered by someone. How do you avoid it? Grocery store loyalty card? Do you have one of those to get a discount? Now your grocer knows exactly what you are eating... whoa... can't have that now. They might start sending us discount coupons for ground beef after they see that you buy 10 pounds a month. Or maybe I will be blackmailed over my "vegetarian" personna when I actually buy a sack of frozen chicken breasts every few months to make chicken stew or the occasional package of hamburger patties (my weakness is for Cheeseburgers once in a while).

I don't particularly like all the data gathering, but it's a fact of life... everywhere. You buy something with a credit card and there is a record somewhere... your spending habits are aggregated and sold for targeted advertising. The day will come when in like the movie "Minority Report" scanners will identify us as we shop and offer buying recommendations on screens as we walk past. The cat is out of the bag... we no longer have any privacy. Not upgrading your O/S is a futile protest.

I haven't checked yet, but someone posted that Microsoft was going to flip all those invasive settings to "OFF" by default in that big update that just came out a few days ago in response to people's complaints. The only one that really concerned me was the one I posted about whereby you allowed Microsoft to technically use your computer and bandwidth to "serve up" software upgrades to other people's computers instead of using Microsoft's network. That was, indeed, creepy as Hell. I went in and manually turned that one off, not that anyone had accused MS of actually using Win 10 machines as their own "Botnet" to distribute updates. Remembering, of course, that the old "Napster" did just that... allowed you to pull music off someone else's computer hard drive in the background.

I had a rough upgrade, but everything is working pretty well now. I installed "Classic Shell" last night and got all my games and applications back onto the Start Menu. Things like my now invisible Office 2007 after the upgrade was really annoying... especially when accompanied by all the pressure to buy Office 365 or whatever they are calling that subscription service.

Anyway, I have no regrets now.

I do so enjoy Rhonda's candid observations. [:D]

Not upgrading your O/S is a futile protest.

(Silly girl. Ive been using WinXP for 13 years & Linux for 18 years. My 1982 Totyota Tercel is still running just fine too! No need to change a thing.) [:'(]

To each their own makes life interesting [:)]

[Tejszd]

The upgrade from Win7 was smooth and most software is working; only had problems with MS Money crashes when importing bank transactions and Matrix CC games WAR/TLD/LSA not being able to run full screen.

I turned off all the data mining features/settings I could find but MS is still getting info and believes they own my PC now as MS;
- upgraded my version of Skype which I hadn't updated on purpose as I was going to possibly uninstall it
- installed Office 2010 OneNote which I didn't install from the Office CD on purpose
- installed an Office 365 upgrade advertising app