Posted on 01/07/2016 10:08:43 PM PST by dayglored
Too Late! I put in Windows 10 thinking it had to be an improved system over Windows 7. I have an older HP laptop and went to Microsoft. They said my laptop would not support ten and for 50 bucks they can put 7 back in.
I will go elsewhere to get 7 put back in but believe that MS could have a class action suit against them for false advertising.
I get them everyday!
I downloaded and installed Windows Essentials 2012 for their Movie Maker program and it works fine. I didn’t think it would run on Win10 but it does. There were a few other programs that I was able to uncheck at installation so I was able to install just the Movie Maker program.
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The US intel agencies such as as the NSA want your private info REALLY bad!
Disable Windows 10 Spying - Privacy & Security
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1kGMCfb2xw
I also did that on my 3 units, 6 family and friends’ units, and it works fine. No more Win-10 crap.
Now it won't let her go back and restore to before she installed.
Bfl...and thanks....now if I could get our desktop to just update win 7 correctly
bkmk
how do I uninstall it from my Surface Pro 2?
Or... those of us with 7 can just NOT download it...
Well said.
I have made the computing equivalent decision of getting a sidearm and donning a steel chastity belt.
I have unplugged my Win XP PC from the internet.
I have set up a Linux Mint PC that can access the internet.
I have set them up with a KVM switch that sports a small button that switches them between one monitor/keyboard/mouse/printer.
It works like a charm. WinXP box for all those programs and utilities I have grown accustomed to over the years and the Linux box for email and internet...and possibly other things over time.
Not another nickel to Microsoft for me.
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“I will go elsewhere to get 7 put back in but believe that MS could have a class action suit against them for false advertising.”
I agree 100%, and also a class action lawsuit for putting all this nagware on people’s PCs against their will and tricking them into installing W10.
“They said my laptop would not support ten and for 50 bucks they can put 7 back in.”
That’s a bargain, IF:
1. They save and restore all of your data.
2. They at least note all of the programs that are installed so you can restore them.
3. They install ALL of the original factory drivers.
4. They install ALL of the subsequent OS updates EXCEPT KB3035583.
Doubtful that’s what included for fifty bucks, but that’s what is required.
Theoretically, W10 can be rolled back to the original OS if less than 30 days since W10 install, but in my experience that is usually fraught with TREMENDOUS difficulties, primarily because the “rollback” restores the original W7 registry and W7 OS files but NOTHING else, so usually there’s a horrific mismatch between the old, restored W7 registry and tons of missing or altered program files and program registry entries. Really, the so-called rollback is a sick joke for all practical purposes.
“I thank you profusely for your efforts and the link. I used those programs and they killed everything having to do with the W-10 upgrade. Unfortunately tidbits were left in numerous places”
If they worked correctly, and unfortunately they don’t always work 100% correctly because there seems to be too many weird cases where those pieces of nagware actually break the crap out of the update system itself, then there should be no FUNCTIONAL tidbits left, though a few useless directories are always left behind here and there no matter what. In such cases I’ve tried reinstalling KB3035583 and then uninstalling it manually, and if that doesn’t work I manually track down the active pieces here and there and manually delete them.
BTW, 8.1 is far superior to W10 as it is much closer to still being W7. The main thing that fixes W8 is to install and configure the free Classic Shell program, which bypasses the Metro screen and restores a classic Start Menu. A couple more tweaks like disabling the stupid lock screen, restoring quicklaunch to the taskbar, enabling LegacyBoot to get F8 Safe Mode back, etc. and W8 becomes quite useable, ESPECIALLY compared to W10.
Many thanks,
I went to someone else to do the work. Fortunately not much on that laptop as I use it for reading mostly.
Simple question, why would anyone not want to upgrade for free to windows 10????
bkmk
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