FabSwingers.com forum: microsoft ..sneaky cunts !

By *iss_Samantha_Lovecock OP TV/TS
over a year ago

bmth /poole sometimes blandford

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 *olgateMan
over a year ago

on the road to nowhere in particular

They want you to upgrade! Simples

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Are you sure it's a genuine Microsoft pop up?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

turn off automatic upgrades in settings, that should stop it.

i don't get these messages but my laptop can't upgrade to 10 so that'll be why.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I upgraded.

I'd like to reverse it now. It's fooked my pc right up.

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By *iss_Samantha_Lovecock OP TV/TS
over a year ago

bmth /poole sometimes blandford

"Are you sure it's a genuine Microsoft pop up? "

my text was taken from the Huffington post story ... but yes im sure

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

That explains why one of the PCs suddenly had it the other morning

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"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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By *oachman 9CoolMan
over a year ago

derby

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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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"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.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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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By *.gerri.xTV/TS
over a year ago

North west

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 .

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By *oachman 9CoolMan
over a year ago

derby

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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By *ary_ArgyllMan
over a year ago

Argyll

"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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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Id make sure this link that you are getting is actually from MS, personally I doubt it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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 (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Oldies are scared of evolution.

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By *.gerri.xTV/TS
over a year ago

North west

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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By *oachman 9CoolMan
over a year ago

derby

"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 *ellowbabesCouple
over a year ago

newport/cwmbran

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-36376962

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By *obitoutMan
over a year ago

somewhere in the middle

Are your apostrophe's feeling tired today?

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By *imon and saffyCouple
over a year ago

southampton

Dump it and replace it with Linux mint instead.

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By *oachman 9CoolMan
over a year ago

derby

Are your apostrophe's feeling tired today?

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What is that sound in the background I can here it must be the grammar police.

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By *icplshropsCouple
over a year ago

Rock

"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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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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

Like you've said Bro - cus they're cunts ????

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By *uvesmuffinCouple
over a year ago

Barking

You have 30 days to roll it bak to Windows 8.1

Just sayin like

Mr Gimp

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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

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 *innamon!Woman
over a year ago

no matter

How do you go back ? I find 10 slow and cant find anything in files now

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It's easy to avoid the upgrade to Windows 10, get a Mac instead. No viruses, no scams, and it just works.

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By *.gerri.xTV/TS
over a year ago

North west

"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

"How do you go back ? I find 10 slow and cant find anything in files now

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

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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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"It's easy to avoid the upgrade to Windows 10, get a Mac instead. No viruses, no scams, and it just works.

But no gaming....frags, rts.....Sorry...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"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 *iss_Samantha_Lovecock OP TV/TS
over a year ago

bmth /poole sometimes blandford

found out about a site on radio 4 today.. never 10..

download it and it keeps windows 10 off your computer.trying it out now

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The fuckers upgraded mine to 10 this week with the stupid 'X' trick.

So far it seems no less crap than 8.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I love 10 windows 8 was pants

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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 *oyce69Man
over a year ago

Driffield

Tried Windows 10 for a couple of days but have gone back to 7, didn't like it at all.

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By *uthTVDerbysTV/TS
over a year ago

Derby

It was in the news yesterday about this. They've been reprimanded for it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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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By *atietvsheffTV/TS
over a year ago

Sheffield

"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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