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http://www.wired.com/2015/07/stop-windows-10-auto-updates/
"In order to do this, download the troubleshooter from the support page and open it. Once it’s running, you’ll have the option to hide or show hidden updates. “Hide updates” is Microsoft’s polite way of saying “stop these crazy updates!” so you’ll want to click that.
Next you’ll see a list of automatic updates with boxes next to them. Click any of the box corresponding to the update you don’t want and hit next.
If you ever want to see which automatic updates you prohibited, choose “show hidden updates” instead of “hide updates” on the initial screen. This will reveal the list of hidden updates and give you the option of unchecking them. So it’s no big deal if you change your mind later."
This basically allows you to hide and uninstall updates. Thus removing updates you don't want.
This will not prevent future forced driver updates from occurring. It will only prevent a current update from occurring. You will need to do this each time MS pushes a driver update if you don't want their driver version.
Microsoft's support tool to hide updates. Not a default part of the operating system installation.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3073930
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Win7 always has optional drivers for my SoundBlaster and I've tried to download it once - epic fail, no sound anymore at all. Why? Simple, the card is a bit older but Windows thinks it's the latst SB Fatal1ty and it's just not compatible. Same story with GPU drivers. Having installed the latest ones and Win7 has an optional update ready for an older one. How much older? A LOT - half my games drop 25%-50% in performance...
But what baffles me more is that NO ONE on these forums talks about the breach of privacy that WinX is enforcing on you. By default ALL you do on your PC is shared with Mickey$oft, up to the contents of your email (didn't Google loose a lawsuit on that last year?). And to make it better, Mickey$oft has stated in the agreements that they are allowed to PUBLICLY SHARE all data they have gathered from your PC.
Yeah - Win7 4 life and when it's end-of-life Linux will be a good candidate...
Is this gathering data and then sending it all back to Microsoft over the Internet? Or is this just gathering data that stays on your hard drive? Operating systems have to do a whole lot of the latter in order to function properly.
Sounds like a hackers paradise =-)
Ya no lol
Jesus you guys and your doom and gloom. i feel this is like people who complain that snapchat requires access to your camera..
Of course cortana needs access to your loc and calendar and social feeds. its a god damn assistant.. like siri. dont want to have it help you, dont use it.
as for the auto updates of drivers, that is your GPU makers fault if it does not work complain to nvidia or AMD when the newest Windows driver doesnt work, they are the ones who submit it to MS to auto update.
Also you can turn off device updates, but for most people who use their pc to play FB games it isnt an issue. hell most pc gamers wont have an issue with the auto updated nvidia drivers, the ADM ones unfortunately are still test drivers but that is AMD fault.
i have been using win 10 in my gaming enviroment since october of last yr. only had issues with AMD drivers being engineering samples that would keep updating, all i had to do was go into gpedit and turn off updates. but since release last week and live now you can just go into system panel and choose deivces and turn off updates through microsoft.
but again it is not microsofts fault if the device manufacturers suck at making drivers.
this is like going to a car dealership and complaining that the gas you got at a local station ruined your car. and not complaining to the gas station..
Would you believe that Windows 10 also keeps track of every single URL you visit, regardless of which program is used to visit the site?
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/318803
Oh wait, that's Windows XP. But 10 does it, too. So does any other remotely modern operating system intended for devices that access the Internet.
It's called a DNS cache. The idea is, rather than having to look up that mmorpg.com is 216.168.135.100, the first time you visit this site, it will have to hit a bunch of DNS servers to track that information down. Rather than doing that every single time you visit this site, it will store it the first time, so on subsequent times, when you type in mmorpg.com in your browser, it can look up the appropriate IP address from your hard drive and get you here faster.
There's a lot of stuff like that that a good operating system will do. At least since Vista and possibly before, Windows has kept track of which programs you launched and when, so it could try to predict what you would launch and load it into memory ahead of time. If you launch a particular web browser every single day, then Windows will load the browser into memory without waiting for you to launch it, and leave it there unless it needs to free the memory to make room for something that you're actually using. That means that if it correctly guesses that you were going to launch that web browser, it can load a lot faster because it's already in memory.
Stuff like that is useful and makes Windows work better for you. If it's going to take all that data on everything you do and send the precise details all to Microsoft with your name attached to it, then yeah, that would be a huge privacy problem. But storing it locally so that it can make use of it locally and make your computer work better for you? That's what Windows is supposed to do.
Ya my FPS went up after the last update. Really happy with Windows 10 =-)
you do know the type of info they are sharing is not like the dns cache you mention right? also note any even smart tvs who use voice commands need to be on internet so they can access they database while the tv listen everything with is said close to it
the problem here is like any "free service" they do it to collect data then sell it, e-mail provider offer free e-mail so they can sell your data for marketing campaing, also its not hard to think in goverments use this kinda of info to control the population and see fit certain "dangerous" people who don't agree with then are dealty with, note too why the internet want to force push the cloud system, so we can store our files over internet, so tell me who ahve access to it? me only? hardly all that is a data miner, gathering data to be sold later, and win 10 is pushing to it for a bigger degree, when microsoft failed to force his users to use touch screen to sell more hardware, tehy will now go back to the old and good lets just sell more data and no one would be wiser, its not like anyone here will read that license contract everyone just push ok to skip the reading on any software you intall
I like the built in video recorder as well! Worked great in GW2.
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My point is that saying that Windows tracks stuff isn't insidious in itself. It all depends on what it does with the information it tracks. Of course it has to be able to see the contents of your e-mails; otherwise, you wouldn't be able to use e-mails on Windows. But there's a huge difference between knowing that an e-mail client is using some particular range of memory versus taking all of the contents of your e-mails and sending them to Microsoft for Microsoft employees to read them all. The latter is a huge privacy breach and the former is not.
There are a lot of really vague claims that Windows 10 is spying on people because it looks at this or that information. But what I want to know is, what does it do with the information when it sees it? Because without knowing that, it's not reasonable to say that it's some horrible spyware program.
Already HIDE windows 10 update, i wont update it's even WORSE then i thought with privacy 1st of august again a huge privacy change for WORSE.
M$$$...WINDOWS 10 IS MALWARE OF WORSE KIND.
Probaly going linux or stop with internet hehe.
Hope to build full AMD system RYZEN/VEGA/AM4!!!
MB:Asus V De Luxe z77
CPU:Intell Icore7 3770k
GPU: AMD Fury X(waiting for BIG VEGA 10 or 11 HBM2?(bit unclear now))
MEMORY:Corsair PLAT.DDR3 1866MHZ 16GB
PSU:Corsair AX1200i
OS:Windows 10 64bit
How else is Cortana supposed to know when to schedule stuff if it can't look at your Calendar, or who to email when you say "Send this to Bob" if it can't look at your email, or who to call when you say "Call my wife" if it can't look at your contacts?
That doesn't mean that someone with tape on their glasses is necessarily reading all your email and combing over your contact lists - and Microsoft is very upfront about telling you what they are going to be accessing, so if you don't like it, you don't have to enable Cortana. Or install Windows 10. Or whatever. If your that worried, then don't use it.
Besides, I'd be more worried about what they are collecting and not telling you about...
Since you're on Windows 10, can you check to see if it's possible to disable driver updates without disabling all of Windows Update? For the pre-release version, people said that it was possible in control panel, and I'd like to know if it's possible in the release version. Also, are you on the home or pro version?
Go read the terms of service for windows, its been that way for literally a decade. Sticking with windows 7 isnt going to keep you from sending all your crap to MS.
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- Friedrich Nietzsche
The photo app is the best too.
Goodbye Lightroom.
....ok
Tell us how Linux and no internet works out for you.