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So far only one update for me. Am I missing something or does that have something to do with your specific computer needs?

From what I've read, folks are getting different updates depending on their specific installation. As reported, there was one big update that everyone should have gotten. I'm including computer specific things like new drivers for my graphics card that were automatically queued up and installed.

One of the reasons why I upgraded so quickly was my continuing frustration with updates in Windows 7. Multiple different errors with multiple fixes that mostly didn't work. I could run Reimage (which took hours and a lot of download capacity) and that would get everything working again, until a week later I would start getting errors again. More than half of all updates wouldn't install. I just decided a Windows 10 upgrade might produce a permanent solution. So far, I've had a couple of failed updates, but they always installed OK on the 2nd go round. Would have liked to do a clean install, but reinstallation of my games, including redownloading from Steam would have taken months.

Change of topic... is it possible to download a Steam game and save an installation file to DVD in case I need to reinstall? With a 10 Gig datacap and plenty of games exceeding that monthly quota (Still waiting to install Shogun 2 at 15 gigs, for example... and still trying to get Homeworld Remastered working (2 gigs still to go). The idea of having to redownload everything in the event of a complete rebuild is daunting.

Of course, I'm stupid to have all these games installed and rarely play any of them. I'm the ultimate dumb collector [:D]
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https://www.reactos.org/download

Has anyone tried this OS yet? I heard its superior to Windows.
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https://www.reactos.org/download

Has anyone tried this OS yet? I heard its superior to Windows.
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Change of topic... is it possible to download a Steam game and save an installation file to DVD in case I need to reinstall? With a 10 Gig datacap and plenty of games exceeding that monthly quota (Still waiting to install Shogun 2 at 15 gigs, for example... and still trying to get Homeworld Remastered working (2 gigs still to go). The idea of having to redownload everything in the event of a complete rebuild is daunting.

pretty sure you can do this - i think you just need to copy the "common" folder with all the games in (or maybe the entire "steamapps" folder)

a better/easier solution might be to use steams own "move game" facility to transfer games to an external hard drive or USB stick
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I have avoided WIN 10 as I see no need for now to jump into the cult of the new.
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Change of topic... is it possible to download a Steam game and save an installation file to DVD in case I need to reinstall? With a 10 Gig datacap and plenty of games exceeding that monthly quota (Still waiting to install Shogun 2 at 15 gigs, for example... and still trying to get Homeworld Remastered working (2 gigs still to go). The idea of having to redownload everything in the event of a complete rebuild is daunting.

pretty sure you can do this - i think you just need to copy the "common" folder with all the games in (or maybe the entire "steamapps" folder)

a better/easier solution might be to use steams own "move game" facility to transfer games to an external hard drive or USB stick

Appreciate the suggestions! Thanks :)
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I have avoided WIN 10 as I see no need for now to jump into the cult of the new.

But don't you love the challenge of rearranging everything to work with a new O/S?

Actually, I'm getting a bit old for that myself... however... I bit the bullet and launched into Win 10. My biggest reason was the persistent problems I kept having with Windows Update on my Win 7 installation. Felt like a fresh start was in order...

However, my biggest peeve so far is something I haven't seen reported in reviews. The new Start menu to display "All Apps"... doesn't. I've already commented that my installation of MS Office '97 wasn't displayed. The only one of my John Tiller HPS games to display was "Midway"... NONE of the others (and I have many) are accessible via the Start menu. AGEOD games are scattered about under their indivdiual titles (but do display), none of my Steam games are displayed and actually neither is the basic Steam App! Microsoft Games displays only a "Safe Start" icon that looks like it might be for FS 2004 and nothing else. No links to launch Flight Simulator X or 2004. I could go on and on... it's a weird mix showing links to PDF files and game manuals ad nauseum without ever displaying a game start icon. Paradox Interactive shows Chrome web links to Europa Universalis III on the web, a link to Uninstall Cross of Iron, a link to the Paradox web site, and a link to Gamer's Gate. Not a single game link. Totally useless.

I almost get this feeling that someone created a half assed system just so they could tell everyone "the Start Menu is back" when they really want you to create live tiles for each application like in Windows 8.

Now, the good news is that I've always created shortcuts in a desktop "Games Folder" and that came through the upgrade intact so I can get to my games that way. If I hadn't had that set up... wow what a mess I'd have had. I suspect I will just bypass the whole Start Menu / tile system and pretend I'm running Windows 3.1 and set up my own desktop folders for all my apps. I've always liked that better anyway! For me Win 3.1 was the most stable OS of them all. I ran my computer for months without needing to reboot. Who can say that about the later O/S versions, eh?

So Windows 10 is working for me and the Windows Update problems have gone away, and all my apps seem to work (once I find a way to start them). No serious crashes other than one desktop refresh problem after unpinning Chrome from the Taskbar menu. I have to run it from a desktop shortcut to get it to start up. The "pinned" taskbar icon doesn't work. Firefox continues to crash immediately upon startup (I only know because a Firefox "error message" pops up to tell me it has crashed). Edge, however, just pops up instantly... I smell an MS plot to discourage competing browsers. Opera won't run but I haven't downloaded a current update yet (not that this worked with Firefox, but it did with Chrome).

I'm sure this will all sort out eventually, but this will be the LAST upgrade I ever do till I die LOL

Edit: and I do LOVE the new Task Manager app... finally a really good network meter included so I can monitor my download speeds accurately. More information included everywhere.
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Yipee! The latest WIN 10 upgrade fixed Microsoft Money! Good job Microsoft....
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Yipee! The latest WIN 10 upgrade fixed Microsoft Money! Good job Microsoft....

They are definitely working pretty hard to clear up issues. I got six updates yesterday.
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Yipee! The latest WIN 10 upgrade fixed Microsoft Money! Good job Microsoft....

Have you tried downloading a transaction file from your bank into MS Money? My Money Plus install starts fine but can't import a file without it crashing??? I have read of a replacement DLL file but not sure about trying a hacked file....
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Classic Shell has been updated for Windows 10

Available here:

http://www.fosshub.com/Classic-Shell.ht ... _4_2_4.exe
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The first time since I've had windows in all these years. Window Defender popped up and advised me it found some malware. And was taking care of it. Could windows 10 bring the good fortune of actually a Windows defender that actually defends. I hope so.
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The first time since I've had windows in all these years. Window Defender popped up and advised me it found some malware. And was taking care of it. Could windows 10 bring the good fortune of actually a Windows defender that actually defends. I hope so.

You know, in all these years, I've never ever encountered a real viral threat... adware and spyware... yep... but nothing serious. Most of my "hits" discovered by my anti-virus has been adware embedded in games that I purchased (and which wouldn't run when the AV quarantined the file... requiring me to restore it to play the game).

Guess I've been lucky [:)]
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Had my first Blue Screen of Death today when I was trying to launch Chrome. No problems since. MS's advice was to check that all my drivers are current. I think I'll wait on that until it happens again. I verified that I have the latest version of Chrome.

Upgraded Sony SoundForge to version 10 today. It was only $22 and added a few new features. Ran the test version first and it seemed faster than version 9. Recorded the new "Walk Off the Earth" album to test it out.

And that was my excitement for the day.
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I am up and running with W10 as well, upgraded from 8.0 to 8.1, now this. So far so good. Amazing how smoothly the upgrade went, it seems all my applications and their settings were indeed preserved.

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Microsoft; The ultimate Big Brother-

http://www.rt.com/usa/311304-new-window ... cy-issues/

Windows 10s privacy settings are invasive and vague.

According to Zach Epstein of BGR News, all of Windows 10’s features that could be considered invasions of privacy are enabled by default. Signing in with your Microsoft email account means Windows is reading your emails, contacts and calendar data. The new Edge browser serves you personalized ads. Solitaire now comes with ads. Using Cortana – the voice-driven assistant that represents Redmond’s answer to Apple’s Siri – reportedly “plays fast and loose with your data.”

“I am pretty surprised by the far-reaching data collection that Microsoft seems to want,” web developer Jonathan Porta wrote on his blog. “I am even more surprised by the fact that the settings all default to incredibly intrusive. I am certain that most individuals will just accept the defaults and have no idea how much information they are giving away.”

As examples, Porta cited Microsoft having access to contacts, calendar details, and “other associated input data” such as “typing and inking” by default. The operating system also wants access to user locations and location history, both of which could be provided not just to Microsoft, but to its “trusted partners.”

“Who are the trusted partners? By whom are they trusted? I am certainly not the one doing any trusting right now,” Porta wrote, describing the default privacy options as “vague and bordering on scary.”

Alec Meer of the ‘Rock, Paper, Shotgun’ blog pointed out this passage in Microsoft’s 12,000-word, 45-page terms of use agreement:

“We will access, disclose and preserve personal data, including your content (such as the content of your emails, other private communications or files in private folders), when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary to.”

While most people are used to ads as the price of accessing free content, writes Meer, Microsoft is not making it clear enough that they are “gathering and storing vast amounts of data on your computing habits,” not just browser data.

Opting out of all these default settings requires navigating 13 different screens and a separate website, the bloggers have found.


Why the NSA should be restrained-
Documents leaked to the press by whistleblower Edward Snowden showed Microsoft was one of the technology companies the NSA siphoned web user data from during its PRISM campaign. The campaign saw the NSA siphon data from many tech firms including Facebook, Twitter, Google, Yahoo and Apple. The NSA used special secret court orders to force the companies to give them the data.



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I tried 10 this weekend but unfortunately my mouse pointer cannot be used when I have my Saitek x52 plugged in. So I rolled back to 8.1 and everything worked fine. I will wait until Saitek has published drivers that work with Windows 10 before I try again.

(The mouse pointer drifts to the upper left hand corner of the screen and does not want to move from there. I have to <tab> my way to a shutdown.)
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OT BTW:

Win 10 spyware.

Google it, and look for free downloads to wipe them out.

There was a reason that the upgrade was free to everyone with Windows. ;-)

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There's always been spyware on Windows, but 10 is very, VERY bad. 50 million people have already "upgraded"; there's no reason for anybody else to do so. Let the poor saps do MS's beta testing for you.
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Honestly, unless you are fearful that your searches for kiddie porn, bondage, or diaper fetish might be revealed... what are you putting out there that is of such concern?

I mean, virtually everything about our public lives is being gathered by someone. How do you avoid it? Grocery store loyalty card? Do you have one of those to get a discount? Now your grocer knows exactly what you are eating... whoa... can't have that now. They might start sending us discount coupons for ground beef after they see that you buy 10 pounds a month. Or maybe I will be blackmailed over my "vegetarian" personna when I actually buy a sack of frozen chicken breasts every few months to make chicken stew or the occasional package of hamburger patties (my weakness is for Cheeseburgers once in a while).

I don't particularly like all the data gathering, but it's a fact of life... everywhere. You buy something with a credit card and there is a record somewhere... your spending habits are aggregated and sold for targeted advertising. The day will come when in like the movie "Minority Report" scanners will identify us as we shop and offer buying recommendations on screens as we walk past. The cat is out of the bag... we no longer have any privacy. Not upgrading your O/S is a futile protest.

I haven't checked yet, but someone posted that Microsoft was going to flip all those invasive settings to "OFF" by default in that big update that just came out a few days ago in response to people's complaints. The only one that really concerned me was the one I posted about whereby you allowed Microsoft to technically use your computer and bandwidth to "serve up" software upgrades to other people's computers instead of using Microsoft's network. That was, indeed, creepy as Hell. I went in and manually turned that one off, not that anyone had accused MS of actually using Win 10 machines as their own "Botnet" to distribute updates. Remembering, of course, that the old "Napster" did just that... allowed you to pull music off someone else's computer hard drive in the background.

I had a rough upgrade, but everything is working pretty well now. I installed "Classic Shell" last night and got all my games and applications back onto the Start Menu. Things like my now invisible Office 2007 after the upgrade was really annoying... especially when accompanied by all the pressure to buy Office 365 or whatever they are calling that subscription service.

Anyway, I have no regrets now.
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