Windows 10 - yes or no?

[Ray McCarthy]

Control Panel Mouse
Or disable the device in Device Manager
Some BIOS Setup (del or F2 before windows boots) have an auto disable mode if PS/2 or USB mouse detected.

 

[Glitch]

There is an issue that 8.1 is really only designed with tablets in mind

I used to tell people that until someone asked me to set up a Windows 8.1 tablet for them. I soon realised it didn't work properly on a tablet either!

 

[Ray McCarthy]

I soon realised it didn't work properly on a tablet either!

I didn't say how successfully. MS lost a Billion US Dollars on the first release of Surface Tablets.

 

[Parson]

Ray, ---- Works like a charm!! Thanks so much.

Control Panel Mouse
Or disable the device in Device Manager
Some BIOS Setup (del or F2 before windows boots) have an auto disable mode if PS/2 or USB mouse detected.

 

[Ray McCarthy]

Works like a charm

Leviticus has possibly a prohibition on using charms?

 

[Parson]

No, but there is a prohibition on using witchcraft!

 

[Ray McCarthy]

So tame daemons are ok, they aren't Witches. That lets UNIX and Linux off the hook as long as you don't worship it. So charms that don't involve witchcraft are OK? But probably their conception of what constituted Witchcraft is different from mediaeval times or today.

 

[Parson]

I'm sure that our Medieval forebears would consider the whole idea of computing to be a Faustian deal with the devil. ---- On some consideration, I think that might not be far wrong.

 

[Ursa major]

It's certainly true that some of our smartphones/tablets/PCs are far too... er... familiar, particularly those being possessed by spirits such as Siri and Cortana....

 

[Ray McCarthy]

computing to be a Faustian deal with the devil

Not computing per-se, but Google owned services, as they only exist to exploit us (Google+, Translate, Books, Scholar, Chrome Browser, Chrome OS, Android, PlayStore, Maps, YouTube, Search, Docs, Google's cloud, gmail, google hosted fonts, javascript/ajax/apis etc etc)

"Do no evil"? Ha. What sort of company needs that as a motto.

Cortana....

Fully exorcising that from Win10 desktop isn't simple. "She" is inclined to just hide rather than be truly un-installed.

 

[J Riff]

Meanwhile - good old XP .... is... oop it doesn't work on youTube anymore. And IE8 will not update to a newer browser.
So, this particular laptop must go to WIN7, tonight. Also, I get the 'security certificate' error for every page, and turning it off in internet options does nothing.
So much for surfing on XP.

 

[Ray McCarthy]

Use Firefox and No Script. IE is nasty anyway... But I am keeping XP installed, just not connecting it to Internet.

 

[Mark Ragland]

Use Firefox and No Script. IE is nasty anyway... But I am keeping XP installed, just not connecting it to Internet.

IE is a joke, IMO. I've used FF for years.

 

[J Riff]

Yes, but there's always issues if bloody IE isn't installed at least. I'm just now fighting with a fresh win7 install. Kept rejecting certificates, couldn't fix it. Finally I reset the date/time and Duh! All better. Now Adobe won't update./ Windows update not responding. About 75 updates to install but NO.
I can't even imagine the horror of Win8 or 10.

 

[Dave]

This may have been covered but I don't want to read 8 pages about how bad Windows installing can be.

Someone has told me that the upgrade from 7 to 10 is currently free, but then after an unspecified, limited period, they will withdraw any support for 7 and charge to upgrade to 10. Any truth in that?

I have a PC with 7 that runs fine, no problems. (I have laptops and other things with 8.1 that are okay, better than Vista, and much better than 8.0.) I don't want to upgrade anything to 10 until all the problems are ironed out but if they blackmail in this way, I don't want to be left with an unsupported 7 either.

 

[willwallace]

I'm pretty sure W7 is supported through 2020, so you should be good to go. The free upgrade to W10 is available until July 2016, so you have plenty of time to upgrade later. You can always get your copy reserved, just don't download and install it.

 

[Ray McCarthy]

You can always get your copy reserved, just don't download and install it.

No, don't reserve it.
MS is now forcing Win 10 downloads.

Also they are /have backported much of the Win10 spying as mandatory silent updates to Win7 and Win8.x under near anonymous security upgrades.

Future is looking bleak for windows. After promoting and supporting MS products for over 25 years I'm typing this on Linux Mint (Mate Desktop). Keeping one laptop with XP and not using it for email or general Web use.

charge to upgrade to 10

Win 10 may ALWAYS be free to install. It's clear MS is moving to a Cloud & Subscription model like Adobe.

EVERYONE that got "free" W10 will be paying ... the first trip from the pusher is free. Stick with w7

I have one laptop used with test gear (not used Internet) with win 2000. I have a PC for programming motorola radios and satellite boxs with DOS and Win98.

In reality, a sensibly used XP on the Internet via firewall/router is actually safer today than Win 10 used by someone clueless. Support only means much to big companies. The majority of people don't properly keep supported stuff up to date.

 

[J Riff]

I like Linux Mint 13. I have a bunch of Linuxes around somewhere, it may be time to test them out again.
I tried to stay w/ XP but it glitches like crazy now.

 

[Brian G Turner]

Just had a pop-up ask me if I wanted to upgrade to Windows 10. The options were:

Upgrade Now
Upgrade Later

I clicked for "Later" (ie, never) - but the bloody thing then tried to start the Windows 10 download! Luckily I was able to cancel this in the next pop-up, which provided a direct link to my Download settings - so I clicked through "Optional downloads", saw Windows 10 was checked, and then unchecked it.

Cheeky Microsoft!

 

[thaddeus6th]

I got a pop-up the other day. Unfortunately there was no "**** off" option.