notuptome2004
 
you have a choice to use one drive or not in windows 10 lkeast i seem to have that choice  and all the so called spy craft or ware MS has in place you can disable  in settings menu  turn off  the ad stuff in the start menu 
 
below are pictures   of just 2 of the menus  in which ya got full control over privacy and can turn allot of stuff off   in just the primacy concerns   and stuff 

James_L

notuptome2004
 
you have a choice to use one drive or not in windows 10 lkeast i seem to have that choice  and all the so called spy craft or ware MS has in place you can disable  in settings menu  turn off  the ad stuff in the start menu 
 
below are pictures   of just 2 of the menus  in which ya got full control over privacy and can turn allot of stuff off   in just the primacy concerns   and stuff 

Privacy advocates are still investigating these settings to see if you can separate the accounts once it was initially done. Currently there is still a transfer of private data even with these settings turned off. The only known way to keep any private data from being transferred is to not invoke the Cortana application and to not ever install using an account synced to the Microsoft Asure/One Drive application from installation. Disabling them seems to continue to send/scan private data because of the Cortana application being invoked and collecting voice/account/email data from inception. I, myself, have a separate virtual machine evaluating the data transfers to ensure these settings do not leak anything unusual but so far it still is and will be until the changes that are being demanded by the EU are invoked.

notuptome2004

James_L

notuptome2004
 
you have a choice to use one drive or not in windows 10 lkeast i seem to have that choice  and all the so called spy craft or ware MS has in place you can disable  in settings menu  turn off  the ad stuff in the start menu 
 
below are pictures   of just 2 of the menus  in which ya got full control over privacy and can turn allot of stuff off   in just the primacy concerns   and stuff 

Privacy advocates are still investigating these settings to see if you can separate the accounts once it was initially done. Currently there is still a transfer of private data even with these settings turned off. The only known way to keep any private data from being transferred is to not invoke the Cortana application and to not ever install using an account synced to the Microsoft Asure/One Drive application from installation. Disabling them seems to continue to send/scan private data because of the Cortana application being invoked and collecting voice/account/email data from inception. I, myself, have a separate virtual machine evaluating the data transfers to ensure these settings do not leak anything unusual but so far it still is and will be until the changes that are being demanded by the EU are invoked.

 
 
microsoft has been up froby on cortona as she gets to knoe you so she csn better assist uou omg these  privacy  nutballs who read betweenthe lines   yhey had the same issues about windiws 7 guess what turned iut they was nuts cause it amounted to nothing .  
 
 
i have a core i7 2600k 16gb of ram and a gtx 960 4gb card i sure as heck dont my system to be held  back by the operating system .
 

James_L

rjohnson11

candle_86
well I found a pretty severe bug that makes the OS unstable and useless to me. My system even without any updates installed and using windows 8.1 video drivers still locks up and crashes every 30-45 minutes, nothing prevents it. 8.1 works just fine on it how ever, just 10 is unable to work at all. Maybe it doesn't like my chipset, or maybe it hates Core2 quads I dunno, but if windows 10 is a functional OS I havn't seen it

What does your device manager look like? Any yellow exclamation marks there?

It is possible that there may be a conflict with the updated Microsoft provided drivers and the imbedded graphics processor on the system motherboard. There are a few instances where, because of a programatic bug, the video drivers are activated improperly and cause a system lockup. Disabling one of them, either the onboard or daughter card, clears this issue up. Normally I would expect to see this on a newer laptop with a FM1 or iCore processor with an imbedded GPU but stranger things have been known to happen. Most of the time the system which exhibits this problem does so in the first minute or two of the OS startup. Going into the system device manager and disabling one of them appears to keep it from occurring.

bobmitch

Nereus
 
lmao.. I was playing GW2 last night and a discussion started about the merits of Windows 10. I joined in and pointed out the issue with forced Windows Update and hardware drivers, and a couple of people got extremely pissy at me for daring to say anything bad about Windows 10 and how I must be a conspiracy nut etc etc.. so I started giving examples, next thing I know I've been kicked out of the guild that I've been in for nearly 3 years. Seems one of the fanboys was a guild officer. How pathetic is that? I thought Apple users were bad. On the flip side, within about 2 minutes of being kicked, a competing guild asked me to join them, so I did. :D

Just for giggles and grins...I upgrade my Dell Venue Pro 11.  It takes a lot of time and effort to customize Win 10 to where it works like it did with Windows 8.1.  With that said...I will liken it to buying a new car and not checking to see what it has under the hood.  I keep finding things out that were not advertised.  Like the fact that after 30 days, the activation key for your old OS is invalidated.  Also, the Dell VP 11 had Windows 8.1 core, so I have Win 10 Home.  Mind you...I don't care about that, but I had to use the tool from MS to hide an update that kept failing (Logitech touchpad drivers, which are simply NOT used with the tablet, until the keyboard is attached).  Everything else is pretty simple and straightforward.  However, I cancelled the upgrade on my HP Envy 17, because I simply do NOT trust AMD, nor Microsoft to get switchable graphics right and cannot afford to mess with the machine due to all the important data on it. 
 
Getting kicked from the first guild shows that the officer is blindly an MS follower or is being way too harsh and not willing to see all sides of the coin.  Windows 10 has more than two sides to it's coin and most intelligent users will see through that pretty quickly.  I would say that about 10% of potential upgraders are in your class of computer knowledge.  The other 90% are every day users that simply don't have the knowledge to know the difference.  Kudos to the second guild that invited you.  They gained a very knowledgeable member who will make a difference. 

schmorblatz
When upgrading from Win8.1 to Win10, I disabled all "spies". After the last Windows Update, most of them where reactivated whithout any warning !
 
Local account only, no cloud-crap, no auto updates, and online only when needed.
 
Do not trust privacy options !

schmorblatz
When upgrading from Win8.1 to Win10, I disabled all "spies". After the last Windows Update, most of them where reactivated whithout any warning !

Pgcmoore
If you have any other drives connected to the PC running Windows 10 and they have sensitive and private data on them, you should also physically remove them. It can and will read and write data to those drives even when disabled in the MB Bios,. I noticed this back in February when running the preview.

Pgcmoore
If you have any other drives connected to the PC running Windows 10 and they have sensitive and private data on them, you should also physically remove them. It can and will read and write data to those drives even when disabled in the MB Bios,. I noticed this back in February when running the preview.

schmorblatz
When upgrading from Win8.1 to Win10, I disabled all "spies". After the last Windows Update, most of them where reactivated whithout any warning !
 
Local account only, no cloud-crap, no auto updates, and online only when needed.
 
Do not trust privacy options !

bobmitch
Gonna try to roll the tablet back to 8.1.  Will let you know how it works out.

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