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Post by zippy on Aug 1, 2015 14:32:45 GMT
Thanks for all the above advice.
My laptop is now fully converted and everything seems to run perfectly.
Now to brace myself for the desktop PC with all the important stuff on it (backup already made !)
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Post by zippy on Aug 1, 2015 14:36:27 GMT
Gaz, if you really think that Apple and Google (don't do evil) are any different then you are living an illusion. Just accept that the big three will, to an extent, do as they wish and get on with using a superior Operating System. Life is too short for paranoia, the governments already know everything. Keep that in mind and you'll be fine. Indeed - if you use any form of computing device and/or subscribe to any online services then I think you have to suspect that your personal data is no longer personal. I don't use cloud storage for this reason. |
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Post by stanleyb on Aug 1, 2015 15:01:43 GMT
Privacy Settings:
Left click on the Windows Start button -> left click on Settings -> left click on Privacy, which is in the right hand side of the page. When in Privacy go through each of the menus on the lefthand side and make your own on/off choices in the righthand side of each of the pages that open up.
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Post by gazjam on Aug 1, 2015 15:06:08 GMT
Fair comment guys and I've avoided the Cloud for the same reason.
@chisletts
Microsoft will be accessing data held locally on your hard drive and local folders...that's a different thing all together, especially given as in their privacy statement they talk about unspecified "Partners" accessing it as well.
@martin,
A superior operating system to me is one that respects privacy and doesn't treat the user as "the product".
Not wanting to get into a moral debate on privacy online mate, but its always good to be aware of all the facts, hence my post.
Its a personal choice we all need to make, no such thing as a free lunch.
Not for me.
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Post by gazjam on Aug 1, 2015 15:10:18 GMT
*dp*
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Post by MartinT on Aug 1, 2015 15:13:02 GMT
Sure, Gaz, and as Stan has shown you can choose to set your privacy accordingly and not use the cloud. Personally, I moved to OneDrive some time ago for my document storage and will stick with it. There is nothing so private in my documents that I'm going to worry about it. The moment you use DropBox, Flickr, ImageShack, Photobucket, Facebook etc. etc. you've given up your privacy anyway.
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Post by MartinT on Aug 1, 2015 15:14:10 GMT
I respect that, but may I ask what OS you are choosing to go with? |
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Post by MartinT on Aug 1, 2015 16:01:28 GMT
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Post by gazjam on Aug 1, 2015 16:10:38 GMT
I respect that, but may I ask what OS you are choosing to go with? Sticking with what I have for work stuff Martin, but putting Ubuntu on a laptop for personal use. Making use of this site for the laptop. prism-break.org/en/categories/gnu-linux/Work PC still using Windows 7 as use Win based software exclusively. Hear what you say about Facebook, Dropbox etc but the difference is that you get to choose what you put up there, but with the OS its EVERYTHING. Anyway, I'll get off my soap box now, just wanted to add a careful note to the proceedings.  Windows 10 seems great by the way, like the way it integrates on your 3 devices, cool. |
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Post by speedysteve on Aug 2, 2015 14:15:30 GMT
My experiences.
Privacy and non-invasion all set to max.
All runs fine and fast on Lenovo G500.
Snagging list
- Edge won't let you clear cookies and cache each time you exit - Explorer would. This is important to me as the TennisTV streaming service
has real problems with their cookie management. So much so that inspite of saying they support all browsers, fatal errors always occurred when I paused the stream and then restarted it - only course of action to logout and clear cache and cookies and then it would work again.
After much badgering they finally fixed it! Seems their fix is not Edge compatible.
Why oh why don't I use Google or Mozilla or even Safari I here you ask (just as TennisTV support and SW engs said to me too!). Well they all stream HD into my TV with a very slight stuttering - makes watching tennis unbearable. I've tried all to fix it and to nought!
Explorer and Edge do it fine - Hardware acc on or off doesn't matter, MS does it right where the others fail.
- The default video player won't play .avi - a very common file type - Back to SMPlayer that plays everything I can throw at it.
- I was on a roll and perhaps unwisely allow the install of some Lenovo updates. All seemed fine until the wifi wouldn't work, then there were no available connections at all. A restart did not fix - took quite a while on puke yellow/green restarting screen - who chooses these things?! A connection diagnostic revealed no issues!
A shutdown and power on again left the screen that horrible puke green/yellow for 15mins and when it finally coughed back into life still no connections!
Lan connection however worked.
A further restart and a very long wait - it all came back, it's healed itself! Hurrah! I shall watch the end of the Isner final in the US and Nadal v The Fog final in Hamburg:)
- Don't like the rename being off the bottom of the screen and needing to scroll to get it and a couple of other similar ones. Again who designs that - Rename is one of the most used features I would have thought.
I won't 'upgrade' my 86 yr old dads G500. Any minor change and he's floored! Let alone strange OS and update behaviour.
I'm keeping my other Lenovo X200 on 8.1 for now;)
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Post by MartinT on Aug 2, 2015 14:39:47 GMT
VLC has for a long time been my media player of choice. Plays every known format stutter-free with a nice, simple and clutter-free interface. Properly free, too.
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Post by MikeMusic on Aug 2, 2015 16:22:05 GMT
Surprised
After leaving MS to download and tiddle around a couple of times I assumed there would be loads of messing around.
Nope
Came back up with the exact same Chrome window I was using.
And here I am now.
May or may not be faster on this 3 or so year old PC
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Post by gazjam on Aug 3, 2015 14:03:30 GMT
Can you disable automatic updates in Win 10 Pro?
Are there any other diffrences between Home and Pro regarding Win10 phoning home with your data?
ta.
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Post by MartinT on Aug 3, 2015 19:07:33 GMT
You can disable lots of the 'phoning home' in Settings | Privacy.
Disabling automatic updates is what caused so many computers running XP to become a part of someone else's botnet. By enforcing updates (in a corporate environment we can dictate that they happen overnight), Microsoft are ensuring that the millions of installed W10 machines will not go out of date and become insecure, causing a pain for the rest of us.
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Post by stanleyb on Aug 4, 2015 4:27:01 GMT
May or may not be faster on this 3 or so year old PC I wouldn't worry about the speed of a 3 or so years old PC. My 3 year old laptop was all about raw speed as far as the manufacturer was concerned. Opens up one of my CAD programs in about three seconds. My more recent laptop is all about battery life. Opens up that same CAD package in about 10 to 15 seconds. |
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Post by stanleyb on Aug 4, 2015 4:42:11 GMT
Are there any other diffrences between Home and Pro regarding Win10 phoning home with your data? There are some simple ways to keep your documents, pictures, etc a bit secure in Windows. The steps that I know of are: 1. Don't use Search indexing. 2. Don't use File History back up in W8/W8.1/W10 3. Convert your drive into two partitions and make new folders for Documents, Pictures, Videos, Music on that new partition. Use those folders to store your data, instead of the folders allocated by Windows or Office. But don't point to these folders in their respective Properties settings. 4. Use an older version of Office like 2003/2007/2010. Set them to clear the Recently opened docs etc. in their settings. The web has some write ups on how to do that. 5. Don't log into your PC with your Microsoft accounts email address. 6. Don't use One Drive etc to. Use all of these together if possible. |
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Post by MartinT on Aug 4, 2015 5:53:13 GMT
I've managed to get W10-32 into my little Toshiba Encore 8" 64GB tablet. I thought it would be a squeeze, but clearing the W8.1 installation by performing a full reset (losing all data) gave it enough space to then perform the upgrade from my DVD media in a drive shared from the main desktop machine. After the upgrade, I ran Cleanmgr.exe in System cleanup mode to delete the windows.old files and I now have a tablet with 22.6GB free after selectively synching some OneDrive folders and installing Office 2013. Not bad at all.
Better still, in Tablet mode, it runs really well with great performance even on complex Office files. It's my new go-to mini machine.
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Post by gazjam on Aug 4, 2015 11:44:10 GMT
Are there any other diffrences between Home and Pro regarding Win10 phoning home with your data? There are some simple ways to keep your documents, pictures, etc a bit secure in Windows. The steps that I know of are: 1. Don't use Search indexing. 2. Don't use File History back up in W8/W8.1/W10 3. Convert your drive into two partitions and make new folders for Documents, Pictures, Videos, Music on that new partition. Use those folders to store your data, instead of the folders allocated by Windows or Office. But don't point to these folders in their respective Properties settings. 4. Use an older version of Office like 2003/2007/2010. Set them to clear the Recently opened docs etc. in their settings. The web has some write ups on how to do that. 5. Don't log into your PC with your Microsoft accounts email address. 6. Don't use One Drive etc to. Use all of these together if possible. Thanks Stan. |
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Post by stanleyb on Aug 4, 2015 15:38:49 GMT
One problem that many of us might experience is being able to find the various latest drivers. Use Driverpack Solutions Online to solve that problem. You can download it from drp.su/Bit one word of warning: only use the "install drivers" option. Do Not use "Install All". It will import some crapware that requires a bit of experience to remove. And as always, make an image backup before you install new drivers. That's just in case you need to go back to a previous setting. |
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Post by MartinT on Aug 4, 2015 17:16:23 GMT
My first port of call is the manufacturer's own website. We've found that W8.1, W8 and W7 drivers can all work well. Make sure to match 32 or 64-bit appropriate to the version of W10 installed.
If you have the choice, install 64-bit W10 as long as you have 4GB of RAM.
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