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MikeFromMarkham
AskWoody LoungerMay 5, 2016 at 1:46 pm in reply to: Windows 10 upgrade will cost $119 or more after July 29 – or will it? #43342Betanews.com says the Get Windows 10 nagware is going away too… http://betanews.com/2016/05/05/dont-want-windows-10-good-news-the-nagging-will-end-soon/
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MikeFromMarkham
AskWoody LoungerMay 5, 2016 at 1:40 pm in reply to: Windows 10 upgrade will cost $119 or more after July 29 – or will it? #43340Foley just updated her post with a revised statement from Microsoft that says the free upgrade offer is definitely ending July 29th… I can’t believe they won’t have something else in place to keep some momentum going, even if it’s not free but heavily discounted… Otherwise, they may never hit their iffy 1 billion devices target.
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MikeFromMarkham
AskWoody LoungerMarch 30, 2016 at 8:17 pm in reply to: How to permanently remove KB2952664, and maybe speed up your machine in the proceess #45150I sincerely hope this works as advertised. KB 2952664 has been residing on one of my computers for months despite every attempt to remove it. It’s the only Win10 related update still on that machine and I want it gone, gone, gone.
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MikeFromMarkham
AskWoody LoungerAppeared as Optional, Recommended, unchecked and italicized on my Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit desktop. Hid it again for the umpteenth time. Haven’t checked my Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit desktop machine yet, but if it’s there, I will hide it.
BTW, did no one ever tell the brain trust at Microsoft that doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity?
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MikeFromMarkham
AskWoody LoungerI heartily concur… This is an excellent piece of software from a highly trusted source!
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MikeFromMarkham
AskWoody LoungerGreat list, Woody. I’m comforted by the fact that I already use at least a half-dozen of the items on your list, but I would like to suggest some alternatives for backup software.
All of these have free versions available and none of them has let me down yet.
Macrium Reflect http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx
AOMEI Backupper http://www.backup-utility.com/personal.html
EaseUS Todo Backup http://www.todo-backup.com/products/home/free-backup-software.htm
Iperius BAckup http://www.iperiusbackup.com/software-backup-free.aspx
Fortunately, this is one category that has lots of legitimate contenders for users’ attention.
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MikeFromMarkham
AskWoody LoungerMarch 2, 2016 at 8:21 am in reply to: New Windows 10 build 10586.122, KB 3140743, brings few fixes but some significant changes #46698C’mon, Woody…
If you’re going to quote the Beatles, quote the entire lines…
I’ve got to admit it’s getting better (Better),
A little better all the time (It couldn’t get much worse)…Now that puts things in better perspective!
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MikeFromMarkham
AskWoody LoungerFebruary 26, 2016 at 3:40 pm in reply to: Two different versions of KB 3035583 issued on the 23rd and 24th #46890Same thing happened on both my desktops today. I’ve also hidden it yet again. This piece of malware is harder to kill than the ebola virus.
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MikeFromMarkham
AskWoody LoungerFebruary 23, 2016 at 10:58 pm in reply to: KB3035583, the “Get Windows 10” app is re-re-re-released #46981Windows 7 Home Premium SP1, 64 bits, KB 3035583 does not appear.
Windows 8.1 Pro, 64 bits, KB 3035583 does not appear.
Both are desktop computers.
Both have Windows Update set to check for updates but let me choose whether to download and install them. All other update options are unchecked.
Both computers are running latest versions of GWX Control Panel and SpyBot Anti-Beacon, even though I’ve not installed any telemetry or Windows 10 enabling patches up till now, to the best of my knowledge.
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MikeFromMarkham
AskWoody LoungerMy Bitdefender Internet Security software has the same kind of vulnerability scan and I’ve disabled it on all of my computers to avoid any possibility of accidentally installing any Windows 10 enabler updates…
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MikeFromMarkham
AskWoody LoungerFunny stuff… It would be even funnier if it didn’t feel so close to the truth!
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MikeFromMarkham
AskWoody Lounger130KB of data may not seem like much, but if it’s compressed as well as encrypted, as seems likely for efficient transmission, that could potentially equate to several hundred of pages of text at a time.
Suddenly, the data mining going on doesn’t seem so small after all. Of course, without knowing exactly what is being sent and how it’s being used, there will always be suspicion about this.
I know what Microsoft says about all this, but I no longer trust them to tell users the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
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MikeFromMarkham
AskWoody LoungerBob Dylan said it best: “… something is happening here. But you don’t know what it is. Do you, Mister Jones?” (Ballad of A Thin Man, 1965)
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MikeFromMarkham
AskWoody LoungerFebruary 9, 2016 at 3:33 pm in reply to: Microsoft releases Windows 10 build 10586.104, cumulative update 9, KB 3135173 — with changelog #47355Maybe by the time the free “updgrade” offer is over, Microsoft will have something similar for all of the mystery updates they’ve been foisting on Windows 7 and 8.1 users since last year.
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MikeFromMarkham
AskWoody LoungerI just checked Windows Update on my Windows 7 SP1 desktop. I turned on the recommended updates option just to see what would happen.
Happily, I did not see the Windows 10 “Upgrade” option. But because I have managed to avoid installing all of the previous patches to enable the transition to Windows 10, I did get prompted to install several of those items.
So it seems that Window 10 can’t proceed without the earlier patches being in place, at least not at this time.
Naturally, I re-hid all of those Win10 enablers, unchecked the recommended updates item in my Windows Update settings, and will proceed to spend at least a little more time Win10-free on this particular computer.
Take that, Microsoft. This is my computer, my hard drive space and my bandwith. You will only get access to it if/when I allow it.
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