Up yours, Microsoft!

[Bazzer]

Must admit never had a problem with Windows 10 and my browsers, both Chrome and Firefox and are used, have never been tampered with, either when 10 was updated from the sh1te that was 8.1 or in subsequent updates.
The Outlook update of a couple of months back pees me off, but I don't know if that is down to my laptop or the software.

 

[psmiffy]

The Outlook update of a couple of months back pees me off, but I don't know if that is down to my laptop or the software.

Ive been away - your comment prompted me to look to see if my outlook is up to date - it is - and i havnt noticed anything different

 

[User6179]

Windows XP was so easy to use compared to this pile of sh1t , W10 is set up to harvest information and show advertising.

Run command prompt as administrator and type in netstat /f or netstat / b , sometimes I have over 20 connections and I have not even opened the browser

 

[Bazzer]

Ive been away - your comment prompted me to look to see if my outlook is up to date - it is - and i havnt noticed anything different

On mine the inbox messages list opens, but it takes at least a minute to be able to open an individual message. If you click too early an error message appears.

 

[psmiffy]

On mine the inbox messages list opens, but it takes at least a minute to be able to open an individual message. If you click too early an error message appears.

sounds like your connection - mine did that when i came back off holiday - but it was downloading and syncing something like 2000 emails

 

[ufkacbln]

Windows...... a whole new meaning to being sold a PUP



PUP=Potentially Unwanted Program, all the extras that get downloaded and installed without your onset or knowledge, and then have to spend hours tracing and deleting

Potentially unwanted, no potential at all, if I have not asked for it then it IS unwanted!

 

[cyberknight]

Have you clicked on the Edge Browser? this brings up a list of installed browsers to select, apologies if I am teaching my grannie to suck eggs.

I have tried to select my default browser and it does not let me select anything , when i open a link for my mail it only lists edge even though i have chrome and firefox installed,

 

[cyberknight]

Uninstall Edge ? Or does MS-Windows 10 not permit that ?

Wouldn't surprise me.

edge is part of the OS afaik you cant uninstall it

 

[fixedfixer]

Sort of - but Apple can be very irritating. My iPhone updates can be very insistent and one of their tricks is 'install later' which means " yes please I really do want to instal - it just does it automatically next time you start"

Forgot to quote.

 

[fixedfixer]

Buy a Mac....



*Runs of sniggering*

 

[beanzontoast]

I run Windows 10 very rarely nowadays - only to access a few Windows-only software titles (not WINE compatible). The updating, changing of settings and general feeling that I wasn't as in control under Windows 10 as I felt under Windows 7 was what did it for me. I have Windows 7 on its own drive which I can boot into if required. I dumped Windows 10 competely for Mint on my laptop.

Slighty OT.... I bought a Raspberry Pi 3 earlier in the year and it has become my go-to computer. I use it for writing, internet browsing, listening to music, You Tube and so on. I didn't see that change coming at the start of the year. With a proper keyboard and mouse attached, a 2tb external drive plugged in for storage and a £2 USB soundcard feeding into my amplified speakers (I found the onboard sound a bit hissy) it has the advantage of being much cheaper on my electricity and runs quietly too. I'm not sure how secure Raspbian is so I don't do anything financial on it - still have to research that.

 

[Venod]

I have tried to select my default browser and it does not let me select anything

Have you clicked on it in the settings screen ?

 

[mustang1]

Things I dislike about w10:
Sound not working after I dual boot Linux and it's in high res mode. Seems to work better when I selectower res graphics. Weird.
The auto updates while shutting down. If I need to shutdown quick then I don't want to hang around waiting.
Other than that it's fine, I quite like it.

What I dislike about Linux (in 14.04 lts I think)
Doesn't go into standby mode when I close the laptop lid. it's ok, but I use windows most of the time.

 

[mustang1]

Not comparing like with like there. Now you try describing how you persuade Windows to recover if it has a disk problem requiring something as strong as a fsck -A (and no, its automated disk repair thingy isn't).

Meanwhile, to switch browser: Menu: Preferences: Preferred Applications and web browser is on the default tab, so just pick one from the drop-down list and click OK. (Other variants of GNU/Linux may vary - hence, they're called variants.) Updates are forbidden from changing things like that without displaying a big red warning first.

Oh and the big thing is that I learned Linux about 1997 and while some of the parts have changed slightly (stuff like systemd most recently), the basic principles have remained basically the same. Learn Once, Use Forever. How much relearning has anyone debugging Windows had to do since Windows 95?

I thought the NT kernel is mostly the same as it ever was?
I like your LOUF moto. C is like that.

 

[mustang1]

Have you clicked on the Edge Browser? this brings up a list of installed browsers to select, apologies if I am teaching my grannie to suck eggs.

IIRC that was a European.