windows 10

thanks. Ill do that if it creeps in again. As it stands: it is gone.

this made me LOL..

Sorry Ricky..

No worries, it made me lol too. But it's not what I did to it, it's what it is (they are) doing to me

I once flung a MacBook like a Frisbee. Made me feel reeeeeal good!

Windows 10 Pro is working for me now that I've configured it the way I like it and done so in a way that minimizes notifications and protects my privacy.

If you configure it correctly, you'll get used to it imo. Configured correctly and running classicshell it's a lot closer to Windows 7 Pro, and far better than, Windows 8.

I say take advantage of the free upgrade but understand you're going to have to configure the poopy woopy out of it afterwards.

Windows 10 is obsessed with capturing your email, your online profile information, your family information and sharing it with everyone in your online network.

So yes, that's a major security hole. I simple disabled all of that, chose a local login rather than a Microsoft account email login, and implemented the appropriate security and privacy software. Viole` problem solved.

The nerds at Microsoft need to understand that an operating system is not really supposed to be Facebook if you know what I mean but most of these bemouth software companies are presently obsessed with social networking.

It's not a problem if you know what you're doing, and I do, but the non-sophisticated user is in for a surprise with these new operating systems.

Potential security and privacy threats is a pretty vague statement. Windows 10 is super non-touch friendly much more so than windows 8 ever thought about being. My non-touch laptop was on windows 8 and so happy to get rid of that full screen tile nonsense. Windows 7 don't really need to update to 10, but it is on extended support so no new features will hit that OS such as directx 12 if you like gaming. You don't have to use cloud services in windows 10. Overall i like windows 10 after a few simple configurations.

Not after you specifically define them which I began introducing, in a very general way, in my last post.

Also, Microsoft's new internet browser is called 'Edge' and Christian Chat does not work well with it at all. Constant crashes in which I lose what I'm typing in a reply window and sometimes it won't even let me type a reply at all. Fortunately, Windows 10 supports a wide range of browsers so you can continue using Firefox, Chrome, IE, etc...

Just a heads up CC Admins.

If you like your privacy, dont install that spyware called windows 10. More info on google

I use Opera.. Chrome and IE suck.. FF takes FOREVER to even open.. Opera rules!!!!!!!!!

You're correct, of course, that true privacy advocates avoid Windows altogether. They like Linux distros designed to be secure and private with the most secure of these being, of course, the distro made famous by Edward Snowden called Tails OS (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tails_(operating_system))

I'm just an average guy; however, so tend to install windows on desktops and Linux on notebooks and then configure them to be relatively secure and private.

And you do bring up a very good point about these new non-Linux operating systems being so social networking and sans-privacy oriented with respect to organizations.

If I was the dean at a college, or the CEO of a private organization that dealt with sensitive data in any form I would be like wt[5] (excuse my language) when looking at these new operating system... lol.

[video=youtube;Z1uvnuQkmUU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1uvnuQkmUU[/video]

Though, of course, system policies can be implemented on a directory level (such as Microsoft's active directory) to mitigate those concerns.

The problem, of course, is that there are many concerns to mitigate with these new operating systems and even competent well-trained IT staffs leave security and privacy holes in networks.

I loved Opera once upon a time. When it used its own layout engine, it wasn't the fastest Windows browser by any means, but it was stable, functional, and looked great! Once it became a fork of the Chromium project and adopted WebKit (and soon thereafter and currently, Blink), I lost interest - which is not to say it's a crappy browser. It may even be better than it was in version 12 and prior with the new rendering engine and security features.

I'm currently using Cyberfox (a 64-bit version of FF) and it runs great!

Back to Win 10: Somewhat long read, but there's some interesting stuff here

So I had an IT guy look at my computer since it's been so horribly slow and glitchy. He pulled up an "event viewer" that showed something called "Bonjour service" was attempting to connect to something 2 or 3 times a minute all day long. He said it was hijacking software and that whoever was running it had access to all of my computer including my banking passwords. He wanted $200 to fix it. I was suspicious and told him I'd have to think about it. I searched and found that Bonjour was a part of the iTunes/Apple program(s) and know to cause issues on windows. I deleted it, then uninstalled all apple products, and it seems to be working better now.

But my available ram (memory) is still below 50%. I'm working to identify unneeded processes but that's slow and so far hasn't helped.

Yes, Bonjour is a service produced by Apple for various network features (iTunes shared libraries, AirPort Express, printers, etc.).

How much physical RAM do you have in total, Ricky? 32-bit or 64-bit version of Windows?

Also, check to see how much RAM is cached (you can see this in Task Manager). Windows 7 caches a lot of memory, which is not a bad thing.

It says 3947 total, 1902 cached, 1921 available. It's a 64 bit system

10 is much more like 7 to me. 8 is just an abomination that should have never existed IMO