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Dave The Man 
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Dave The Man
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| Culprit wrote: | I will wait for Windows 10B, after they fix the plethora of bugs in Windows 10 and then no need for endless updating. Oh shoot the updating never stops.  |
Yeah - I been told never by software when it 1st Comes out as it be full of Bugs and Stuff. Wait at least 6 Months before getting it.
I also agree I hate that software now seems to get 1 update per week at best
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Tannin 
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Wokko 
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| Thanks Tannin, installed my copy of 8.1 Pro on my new build and ran those updates out of town. |
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Dave The Man
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| Tannin wrote: | | http://www.ghacks.net/2015/08/28/microsoft-intensifies-data-collection-on-windows-7-and-8-systems/ |
So No One can do anything on Windows without Microsft Knowing?
Thank Christ my Windows machines are not Hooked up to the Net 
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/11/26/microsoft_renamed_data_slurper_reinserted_windows_10/
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This year Microsoft introduced background tracking services called DiagTrack, or the Diagnostics Tracking Service. It was added to Windows 8.1 installations as well as betas of Windows 10. It arrived without much fanfare in May 14, in the shape of a patch, KB3022345.
It was just one of several slurping enhancements added via the back door.
The data that DiagTrack collected was typical of a spyware programme. The only way you knew you were being monitored was by eyeballing the list of running processes in Task Manager. As Microsoft explained:
Examples of data we collect include your name, email address, preferences and interests; browsing, search and file history; phone call and SMS data; device configuration and sensor data; and application usage.
Users thought it had disappeared in recent Windows 10 builds – but it hadn’t. Microsoft had simply renamed it.
The sinister-sounding tracking app was now the beatific and caring “Connected User Experiences and Telemetry Service”. Once again, it needs to be disabled manually (this time through the Services control panel).
“It is this kind of overriding desire for control and a disregard for user choices which is harming Windows 10,” says Forbes journo Gordon Kelly, and he’s right.
Microsoft spent millions portraying Google as a greedy and amoral data marauder. Redmond doesn't need to read your email, it told everyone. The Scroogled campaign positioned Microsoft itself as the ethical alternative; the occupier of the moral high ground.
For a while, it was. But Windows 10 is bad for your privacy, and it is damaging Microsoft’s reputation as a trusted consumer brand.
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Dave The Man
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| Tannin wrote: | http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/11/26/microsoft_renamed_data_slurper_reinserted_windows_10/
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This year Microsoft introduced background tracking services called DiagTrack, or the Diagnostics Tracking Service. It was added to Windows 8.1 installations as well as betas of Windows 10. It arrived without much fanfare in May 14, in the shape of a patch, KB3022345.
It was just one of several slurping enhancements added via the back door.
The data that DiagTrack collected was typical of a spyware programme. The only way you knew you were being monitored was by eyeballing the list of running processes in Task Manager. As Microsoft explained:
Examples of data we collect include your name, email address, preferences and interests; browsing, search and file history; phone call and SMS data; device configuration and sensor data; and application usage.
Users thought it had disappeared in recent Windows 10 builds – but it hadn’t. Microsoft had simply renamed it.
The sinister-sounding tracking app was now the beatific and caring “Connected User Experiences and Telemetry Service”. Once again, it needs to be disabled manually (this time through the Services control panel).
“It is this kind of overriding desire for control and a disregard for user choices which is harming Windows 10,” says Forbes journo Gordon Kelly, and he’s right.
Microsoft spent millions portraying Google as a greedy and amoral data marauder. Redmond doesn't need to read your email, it told everyone. The Scroogled campaign positioned Microsoft itself as the ethical alternative; the occupier of the moral high ground.
For a while, it was. But Windows 10 is bad for your privacy, and it is damaging Microsoft’s reputation as a trusted consumer brand.
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So Microsoft want to know everything about you.
They can kiss my ass.
Plus there Tax Cheats
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HAL
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The Prototype 
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There was also a security thing there for parents to find out what the child was looking up as well, I have heard a few aren't fond of Windows 10 atm.
I've not upgraded, I really cannot afford to, even though it's free, the software I use to broadcast the radio wont work on Windows 10.
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stui magpie 
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I've upgraded, now that I figured out how to stop it killing my sound.
Just had to go into the driver settings and prevent upgrades from changing the driver, works like a charm.
Did a custom install and ticked No to most of the send info boxes.
The data mining doesn't really bother me, Google already knows everything I do.
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What'sinaname 
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Hi all
Some help needed.
Had a blue screen of death and 0xc000014xc bcd error.
I am tring to rebuild my BCD file for Windows 8.1.
I am getting an error when tring to run the export extension of BCDedit.
bcdedit /export c:\bcd_backup
The store export operation has failed
bootrec /rebuildbcd
It gave me an error: (The requested system device cannot be found), when I answered (Y) yest to (Add installation to boot list? - it finds 1 windows OS).
what can I do next to rebuild the bcd to get 8.1 to boot up?
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What'sinaname
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OK, new developments, hard drive locked when trying to repair and can't be seen in diskpart. Only have access to X:\sources....
So reaching out to any Nicksters who know Windows 8 OS and how to diagnose and resolve these kind of issues.
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HAL
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