That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons bring us some web forums whereupon we can gather
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It's a photo slideshow viewer, not an editing app. That's why God invented Paint.NETSmoove_B wrote:I'm trying really hard to understand why an image resize tool isn't baked into the Win10 Microsoft Photo app.
And yet I can sharpen things, retouch elements and adjust colors. But resize the photo? That's would be ridiculous.RunningMn9 wrote:It's a photo slideshow viewer, not an editing app. That's why God invented Paint.NET
Fair enough. I've never once actually run the Windows 10 app.Smoove_B wrote:And yet I can sharpen things, retouch elements and adjust colors. But resize the photo? That's would be ridiculous.
Indeed, that's why my initial suspicion was a third party firewall driver messing with your network configuration.JetFred wrote:Holy &%$@*^#&%$@*^#&%$@*^#&%$@*^#&%$@*^#&%$@*^#&%$@*^#&%$@*^#&%$@*^&%$@*^#&%$@*^#!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
After hours of sensible attempts to fix the problem with four different network adapters, it turned out to be nothing but ZoneAlarm. Exiting it wasn't enough. No adapters would work until it was completely uninstalled. It has been on here for years and I don't know what changed, but I thought the fact that it wasn't running made it irrelevant.
That's about 20 hours of my life over the last two weeks that I'll never get back.
He probably has a set number of sites he trusts and visits, uses a two or three ad-blockers, never clicks ads that get through, knows how to avoid bad email attachments, doesn't deal in pirated media, and sits behind a firewall/router that doesn't forward the world's sputum to his computer. In short, he feels safe and thinks he's above getting infected randomly.JetFred wrote:The network guy at work just told me that Windows Defender is enough antivirus for his personal computer but that he is a "fringe case". He hasn't told me what a network guy does at home that makes him need minimal security.
CIS and the Comodo Firewall use WFP.Kasey Chang wrote:My Comodo Internet Security still runs fine, and it has a built-in antivirus. I do have Malware-Bytes anti-exploit running, and I occasionally scan with Spybot S&D.
I can tell you Comodo *does* install a firewall driver and it's shown in device manager. I can't tell you what it does, of course.
Yea, he is probably like me. I do a lot of my browsing through remote systems that do run more extreme protection and VMs, I have some software I run manually like Malwarebytes occasionally. But I don't like my system to be wasting a bunch of cycles and memory on applications running I don't need most of the time. When I need them I know it.Paingod wrote:He probably has a set number of sites he trusts and visits, uses a two or three ad-blockers, never clicks ads that get through, knows how to avoid bad email attachments, doesn't deal in pirated media, and sits behind a firewall/router that doesn't forward the world's sputum to his computer. In short, he feels safe and thinks he's above getting infected randomly.JetFred wrote:The network guy at work just told me that Windows Defender is enough antivirus for his personal computer but that he is a "fringe case". He hasn't told me what a network guy does at home that makes him need minimal security.
Your 'average' user is less safe, and the scale moves rapidly downhill as the user shifts through degrees of computer knowledge, until it bottoms out with Grandpa Jones who clicks everything regardless of how often you tell him not to and gave away his bank account info to a phone scammer in Russia. No amount of internet security will help him.
i was, but the last time i had backed up my save games was many months before. at least i have my Binding of Isaac progress.Kasey Chang wrote:Use GameSave Manager periodically. Saves all your savegames, SteamCloud or not.
PC WorldBooTx wrote:I've been using 10 for a few months now and this absolutely was an issue. I did find out that you can set your connection to "metered" and it will stop the updates. It's certainly not ideal, but it turns a deal-breaker into merely an annoyance.Pyperkub wrote:Better not do that for laptops (download automatically). sometimes I'm on a data limited connection...
While there’s no official way to prevent updates in Windows 10 Home, a workaround is to mark your Wi-Fi connection as metered. The Windows Insider Preview Build 15058 released on Tuesday reduces the effectiveness of that workaround, as WinSuperSite recently spotted.
In build 15058, heading to Settings > Update and Security > Windows Update reveals the following note: “We’ll automatically download and install updates, except on metered connections (where charges may apply). In that case, we’ll automatically download only those updates required to keep Windows running smoothly.”
That last sentence, where Microsoft says it will automatically download updates to keep “Windows running smoothly,” is absent in the current version of Windows 10. Microsoft told WinSuperSite it made the change so that it has the ability force critical update patches if necessary. “We don’t plan to send large updates over metered connections, but could use this for critical fixes if needed in the future,” Microsoft said.
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The good news is that while Microsoft is taking a little bit away from Wi-Fi metered connections—assuming this change makes the final cut for the upcoming Creator’s Update—the company is also giving back. The new metered connections settings in build 15058 also allow users to set a wired ethernet connection as metered, while the current version of Windows 10 allows this for Wi-Fi connections only.
Microsoft keeps trying to prove that Windows 10 may be the best thing that ever happened to desktop Linux. The company is yet again adding ads to Windows 10, but this time it’s in possibly the most egregious spot yet: File Explorer.
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Right now, the only ad reported is for an Office 365 subscription, hidden in an offer to expand your OneDrive cloud storage space. It appears in a large tile area at the top of the File Explorer window with two buttons to either “Learn More” or to dismiss it with “Not Now.”
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While the new ads are surprising, really we should have seen this coming. In August, Microsoft rolled out Windows Insider Preview build 14901, which included a new “notifications” feature. Notifications appeared at the top of File Explorer—just as they do now for people getting hit with ads. At the time, Microsoft said the notifications would be used for “product education,” which we should’ve expected was code for “trying to sell you more stuff.”
Luckily, there appears to be an easy way to banish File Explorer ads—though sadly, it's not tied to any of the settings you need to disable Windows 10's other ads.
Open an Explorer window and go to View > Options > Change folder and search options. In the properties window that opens, click on the View tab, and under Advanced settings scroll down and uncheck “Show sync provider notifications.” The list is organized alphabetically.
I never thought I’d be writing “How to turn off ads in the Windows Start menu,” but here we are.
i'm nearly there myself. if it weren't for the pile of Windows-only games i have (that don't run fantastic under WINE), i'd have switched to Ubuntu already. absolutely shameful of M$.Microsoft keeps trying to prove that Windows 10 may be the best thing that ever happened to desktop Linux.
...what??While there’s no way to disable the ads in Solitaire and Minesweeper (sacrilege! horror!) short of paying $10 per year per app—not even a one-time purchase, but a subscription
this is indeed the casePaingod wrote: Out of curiosity, if you didn't snap up the "Free" version of Win10, are you still subjected to ads if you actually buy a licensed copy?
I went out and paid an extra $20 to make that go away when I got my Kindle. It infuriated me to pick it up and see what amounted to junk mail in my hands, and kind of ruined the initial moments of getting back into my book.stessier wrote:I don't see anything I recognize as ads, which is all I care about. Most of what that article describes is like seeing an ad on a Kindle sleep screen - it is so easy to block out that I don't even see them anymore.
I remembered you posting that which is why I described it that way so you'd know what it was like.Paingod wrote:I went out and paid an extra $20 to make that go away when I got my Kindle. It infuriated me to pick it up and see what amounted to junk mail in my hands, and kind of ruined the initial moments of getting back into my book.stessier wrote:I don't see anything I recognize as ads, which is all I care about. Most of what that article describes is like seeing an ad on a Kindle sleep screen - it is so easy to block out that I don't even see them anymore.
I suppose I'd prefer to live in a pre-internet advertising society where you could easily avoid it. It kind of bothers me that I'm a digital profile that people earn money on by selling me around to their friends. I always opt out of "participation" options that send my data back home. I never thought I'd live in a world like Minority Report, where I'd walk through a store and it would scan my eyes and throw custom ads at me as I walked by - but it's getting closer by the day. I'll be the weirdo wearing "scanner blocking" sunglasses all the time.stessier wrote:I remembered you posting that which is why I described it that way so you'd know what it was like.Paingod wrote:I went out and paid an extra $20 to make that go away when I got my Kindle. It infuriated me to pick it up and see what amounted to junk mail in my hands, and kind of ruined the initial moments of getting back into my book.stessier wrote:I don't see anything I recognize as ads, which is all I care about. Most of what that article describes is like seeing an ad on a Kindle sleep screen - it is so easy to block out that I don't even see them anymore.
I still don't get your disgust, but I don't have to live with you so it's all good.
stessier wrote:I don't see anything I recognize as ads, which is all I care about. Most of what that article describes is like seeing an ad on a Kindle sleep screen - it is so easy to block out that I don't even see them anymore.
Till now there are three options (Basic, Enhanced, Full) for Windows 10 users to select from under its diagnostics data collection section, with no option for users to opt out of sending their data to Microsoft.
Also, the company has never said precisely what data it collects behind these options, which raised huge privacy concerns among privacy-conscious users.
But now for the first time, Microsoft has revealed what data Windows 10 is collecting from your computer with the release of the Windows 10 Creators Update, bringing an end to nearly two years of its mysterious data collection practices.
The Windows 10 Creators Update, which will be available from April 11 for users to download for free, comes with a revamped Privacy settings section.
Blackhawk wrote:I've got 10 on four machines, and I've never seen a single suggestion/ad/notification.
The only thing I do special is that I ran the Spybot Anti-Beacon once.
Really!?!KDH wrote:spybot anti-beacon has a switch that makes sure that your settings aren't changed by a MS update after a reboot
Has anyone installed this yet? My computer is nagging me.Victoria Raverna wrote:Microsoft released a new version of Windows 10 (Creators Update) that come with a Game Mode feature. It is available now for manual update (Using Windows 10 Upgrade Assistant) and will be available from Windows Update in phases starting next Tuesday.