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Anyone who hasn’t upgraded yet has been receiving fairly regular hints and popups suggesting that they do so.
Well now Microsoft has gone a step further: When a user tries to close the popup box by clicking on the ‘X’ in the top right-hand corner the computer registers that as a consent to upgrade.
gotta ask yourself why would they do this ..
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Are you sure it's a genuine Microsoft pop up?
my text was taken from the Huffington post story ... but yes im sure "
This is not illegal then. It should be |
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Well this goes to show how microsoft work in the background if they can do things like that I would,nt be surprised If they don,t do other things, does anyone still get windows phoneing up saying you have problems with your computer we had lots of that and I nearly parted with cash on one occasion to pay pal stopped it going through little seems to change in the back ground... I don,t trust any of them..  |
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"Well this goes to show how microsoft work in the background if they can do things like that I would,nt be surprised If they don,t do other things, does anyone still get windows phoneing up saying you have problems with your computer we had lots of that and I nearly parted with cash on one occasion to pay pal stopped it going through little seems to change in the back ground... I don,t trust any of them.. "
that one was a well known scam, nothing to do with microsoft.
but bill gates himself has admitted to doing some dodgy things to make money, not scams but stuff he could legally get away with that wasn't fair business practice. and it made him shitloads of money. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I didn't upgrade I refused...... But it automatically did it after I said no to it, now my laptop is slow as fuck nothing seems work properly I hate windows 10 ffs! |
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"Well this goes to show how microsoft work in the background if they can do things like that I would,nt be surprised If they don,t do other things, does anyone still get windows phoneing up saying you have problems with your computer we had lots of that and I nearly parted with cash on one occasion to pay pal stopped it going through little seems to change in the back ground... I don,t trust any of them..
that one was a well known scam, nothing to do with microsoft.
but bill gates himself has admitted to doing some dodgy things to make money, not scams but stuff he could legally get away with that wasn't fair business practice. and it made him shitloads of money."
microsoft has always been targeted by scammers and such like folk any thing with bill gates name on his liable for attack as soon as they took skype over its never been the same since scammers make a bee line for that site and they are always popping up on my page to be a friend did ,nt have this before microsoft took over. |
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"lol , microsoft running stuff in the background without your consent , how novel 
A lot of the private torrent sites wont let you join with 10 due to all the reporting back it does . "
Win10 does a lot of reporting back - you can disable it all but you need to make the effort - it would be much better if the defaults were 'off' and you had to turn them on if you wanted. |
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"Well this goes to show how microsoft work in the background if they can do things like that I would,nt be surprised If they don,t do other things, does anyone still get windows phoneing up saying you have problems with your computer we had lots of that and I nearly parted with cash on one occasion to pay pal stopped it going through little seems to change in the back ground... I don,t trust any of them..
that one was a well known scam, nothing to do with microsoft.
but bill gates himself has admitted to doing some dodgy things to make money, not scams but stuff he could legally get away with that wasn't fair business practice. and it made him shitloads of money.microsoft has always been targeted by scammers and such like folk any thing with bill gates name on his liable for attack as soon as they took skype over its never been the same since scammers make a bee line for that site and they are always popping up on my page to be a friend did ,nt have this before microsoft took over."
yeah i get a lot of randoms trying to add me on skype.
and you can't use windows 8 without a microsoft account i noticed, kept having to make new ones because i forgot what my account was that i'd already made...they don't give you an easy to remember user name. |
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By *.gerri.xTV/TS
over a year ago
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Win10 does a lot of reporting back - you can disable it all but you need to make the effort - it would be much better if the defaults were 'off' and you had to turn them on if you wanted."
Exactly and lots of ppl either cant be bothered or don't even know. |
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"lol , microsoft running stuff in the background without your consent , how novel
A lot of the private torrent sites wont let you join with 10 due to all the reporting back it does .
Win10 does a lot of reporting back - you can disable it all but you need to make the effort... yes your right I have the right contacts for that but thats just pure luck and knows a lot about computers. - it would be much better if the defaults were 'off' and you had to turn them on if you wanted."
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By *obitoutMan
over a year ago
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"Well this goes to show how microsoft work in the background if they can do things like that I would,nt be surprised If they don,t do other things, does anyone still get windows phoneing up saying you have problems with your computer we had lots of that and I nearly parted with cash on one occasion to pay pal stopped it going through little seems to change in the back ground... I don,t trust any of them.. "
Are your apostrophe's feeling tired today?  |
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"Well this goes to show how microsoft work in the background if they can do things like that I would,nt be surprised If they don,t do other things, does anyone still get windows phoneing up saying you have problems with your computer we had lots of that and I nearly parted with cash on one occasion to pay pal stopped it going through little seems to change in the back ground... I don,t trust any of them..
Are your apostrophe's feeling tired today? "
What is that sound in the background I can here it must be the grammar police. |
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"Dump it and replace it with Linux mint instead."
Have heard from a friend recently that it's quite a good system!
Thanks for telling us about the automatic upgrade when you press the 'X', as I have programmes I need for my uni work, which I have been forewarned may not work if I upgrade,  |
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"Well this goes to show how microsoft work in the background if they can do things like that I would,nt be surprised If they don,t do other things, does anyone still get windows phoneing up saying you have problems with your computer we had lots of that and I nearly parted with cash on one occasion to pay pal stopped it going through little seems to change in the back ground... I don,t trust any of them..
Are your apostrophe's feeling tired today? What is that sound in the background I can here it must be the grammar police."
*Hear* nee naw,nee naw...whoooooooooo...nee naw,nee naw!   |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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you have 30 days to rollback the install of win10. After that it is a complete re-install. As far as I can tell for now. But all your old Windows OS and files are back-up to your C:drive, and are hidden. Personally need to do a full clean n wipe of this laptop. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Before you do a re-roll, back up everything win 10 you want to keep. Plus win10 is the biggest spyware OS going, apart from from google etc. Get a VPN, I suggest Trustzone. |
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By *.gerri.xTV/TS
over a year ago
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"Before you do a re-roll, back up everything win 10 you want to keep. Plus win10 is the biggest spyware OS g
oing, apart from from google etc. Get a VPN, I suggest Trustzone. "
Totally agree .
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"How do you go back ? I find 10 slow and cant find anything in files now 
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Goto bottom left corner, windows icon, slect search. Type in Settings. Press ente. Enter again. You should see a contol page UPDATE AND RECOVERY. Goto recovery tab.
If you see on the page Go Back An Earlier build try that but I suspect on my 7yr old laptop and well past the 30 day trail. I will have revert to other measures.
Sorry for not been in then game OS wise, use to be a DEVIANT  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I love Windows 10 ..,
I am also part of a secret group on Facebook with 499 other people who also love windows 10 and Microsoft who get freebies to test and blog about  |
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"I love Windows 10 ..,
I am also part of a secret group on Facebook with 499 other people who also love windows 10 and Microsoft who get freebies to test and blog about "
What are the best bits of Win10, it is not Cortana, defo not edge as is crashes still, and a crap search engine, same as bing, goes bong CRASHES ALWAYS on all me systems for the past 3 years. Blog me this. why does windows 10 want your emails address and log into it.....why the slow boot with that addition. Bet you can not advise me.......
Wonder why win10 is spyware, freeware OS DATA COLLECTION, be it MP3,mp4, AUDIO, FILM, DVD OWNED |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Word of warning if you upgrade to 10 - and you have a Microsoft phone -
I had 2 worlds - Work and Private with Sep emails, contacts, facebooks and skypes - on the phone nut all signed out so theres no conflicts - It scooped up everything and jumbled it - Be Careful
IT merges them all !!
So once you plug the phone in - the phone gets 'combined' and even the pc sign in is the same as your phone too.
I have 2 phones and all info has been merged across - |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Google 'donotspy10' it's a little bit of free software that turns off windows 10 'spying' Nothing special, just makes all the necessary settings changes. |
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"I upgraded.
I'd like to reverse it now. It's fooked my pc right up. "
I upgraded too, awful to use so I changed it back to the previous version, didn't take long but couldn't tell ya how to do it now as was 6mth ago |
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