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Originally Posted by Tek_Freek
My only concern is that I read that you will no longer be able to stop or defer updates as we can now. Considering the continual screw ups they hand out I'm getting paranoid. And I wonder what else they are going to drop into that 7GB they have decided to steal from me. I keep reminding myself that this is my effing computer. Not theirs.
If they continue in this vein I'm going to end up using a flavor of Unix and leave MS to rot.
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For me, a computer is just an appliance. I have several applications that I run, word processing & gaming, and HAD files stored containing historical photos, a genealogy that I have written over the past fifty years, prior tax returns.
To make a long story short, I bought a new computer which had Windows 10 on it. Because of my limited use, I did not see any change in this "upgrade" from former Windows OSs except that I noticed that Microsoft was always updating my OS and denying me use of my system while this was done, and constantly pushing new applications onto my system whether I wanted them or not, which I uninstalled as soon as Microsoft told me what it was attempting to do.
The pushing of new applications stopped. I see from comments in this forum, that MICROSOFT found a back-door into Win users systems by allocating a portion of hard drives to "update" them. One of these money makers was ONEDRIVE. This "update" was pushed onto consumers without "mother may I."
So although I saw MICROSOFT's ads about ONEDRIVE, I had not given permission for it to operate so never thought about it.
Well it was operating and captured every darn thing and folder I put on my computer's hard drive. I discovered it when Microsoft sent me an e-mail "suggesting" that I pay for MORE storage through ONEDRIVE.
So guess what? I uninstalled ONEDRIVE. No harm. No foul. Right? WRONG! Every fricking folder vanished from my hard drive,- photos, genealogy, IRS tax returns, receipts of Internet purchases not yet received - EVERYTHING.
I didn't ignore warnings; there were not any. What the h*LL!?"
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