I’m so very close to switching to Dropbox. At some point I’ve got to wade through ALL of them to see which files might be missing from which places. Now I have yet another folder to deal with. It’s done that a few times for whatever reason and the old, full folders are still there. Rather than use the existing files and renaming the folder, it re-downloaded all 1.4GB of them and put them in new folders. The last time this happened was when SkyDrive was renamed to OneDrive. Once again Microsoft has utterly cocked up here so instead of using the existing 1.4GB of small files that are on my computer it wants me to set everything up from scratch all over again. Read more Windows 10 runs again - but for how long? How can Microsoft's own program keep conflicting with Microsoft's own operating system?ĭespite Microsoft’s Windows 10 promising that all my files and programs were where I left them, that doesn’t seem to include Microsoft’s own OneDrive. You can always tinker with what Cortana remembers in the Notebook, disable Cortana in Microsoft Edge or turn Cortana off entirely. In Microsoft Edge, Cortana collects and uses your browsing history. To let Cortana do her best work, Microsoft collects and uses information including your location and location history, contacts, voice input, searching history, calendar details, content and communication history from messages and apps, and other information about your device. Cortana is your sidekick, ready to help with anything that keeps you super, heroic or just on time. Not all networks are secure.” So Microsoft is literally forcing me to agree to connect to networks that it knows might not be secure! One is, “Automatically connect to suggested open hotspots and shared networks. I’ve little idea what all the settings I was forced to upgrade to actually were, but now I have them. If you DON’T want to use Express Settings for, what is your most important item of software, there is NO option to customize them. The 'option' here is to install using Express Settings. Read more Cortana: The spy in Windows 10 You have two choices: ‘Back’ and ‘Use Express Settings.’ So I’m literally stuck with this Windows 10 upgrade. It’s like unscrambling an omelette and the results on stability are equally predictable. Now if I’ve learned one thing over the years, one of the main ways to make a PC more unstable than it becomes after ‘upgrading’ the operating system, it’s winding back an installation of an operating system. I just know it annoys the heck out of me and I’ve always regretted moving from Windows 7 because of it. I don’t use it enough to remember which is which each time. One fills the screen with a half-baked ‘App’ that doesn’t easily do what I want it to do. Choose Skype from the Start Menu? You’ve literally got two choices. Rather than do the obvious thing of making one version of Skype that has both a desktop and a touchscreen interface, some oxygen thief thought they’d make two versions. As many desktop PC users will know, the Windows App store is little more than a confusing cesspool of a crap versions of otherwise perfectly usable software that you’ll often already own if you want to use it. Seething isn’t the word for how I felt at this. Read more How to reinstall Windows like a pro There were two options, ‘Decline’ and ‘Keep Windows 10.’ Here’s what you’ll miss out on: The speed and better security of Windows 10, Thousands of free apps in the Windows Store… and much more. We’ll re-install your previous version of Windows but it might take a while. Declining here means you’re saying no to the free upgrade to Windows 10. The following, almost-sarcastic window appeared which offered up the following ‘option’: “No thanks, I’ll pass on my free upgrade to Windows 10. Welcome to Windows 10.Ĭonfused, I pressed Next and was presented with a license agreement which I wanted nothing to do with. So while I’ve got nothing against Windows 10 per se, you might imagine my shock when I turned on my Windows 8.1 PC and saw the following screen. It’s a massive pain and something invariably breaks. On every occasion, after suffering months of instability, I’ve had to eventually give up and do a fresh install – something that frequently coincides with many hours of tedium, locating software and usually, buying some new hardware. Despite learning this early on, like an idiot, I have continued to do it with every single version of consumer Windows since 98. Basically, when you do an upgrade install, you are left with an unstable turd of a platform that turns your PC into a crash-happy nightmare and some of your main programs stop working properly.
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