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| The impudence of Microsoft has reached new (criminal?) heights |
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| ejeffrey:
--- Quote from: SilverSolder on June 20, 2020, 06:59:04 pm --- --- Quote from: SiliconWizard on June 20, 2020, 05:20:51 pm --- [...] And then why a preinstalled, but non-essential app can't be uninstalled is fricking annoying. It may not be an MS issue per se (but as for MS, I still warn people about this app.) The fact it was drawing a lot of power with also abnormal data consumption, although I have no proof of what it does, doesn't look good. --- End quote --- I have noticed the same thing with Android - a whole class of applications that cannot be uninstalled? :wtf: Sadly, this seems to just be part of the "conspiracy" to force telemetry and tracking down everyone's throats - can you think of any other plausible reason? --- End quote --- You can't uninstall manufacturer installed applications because they are part of the base OS image which is read-only. But you can disable them which keeps them from updating or launching. This will stop them from taking up additional storage beyond the base image and also avoid using CPU, memory, or collecting data. Last time I checked you have to do this from the setting menu under Apps. Unless this has been fixed if you go to the play store app and select the "uninstall" option for a built-in app it uninstalls the version that has auto-updated but leaves the original factory app behind (which will then eventually auto-update). I have no idea if you technically have to use uninstall to revert them to the factory version followed by disabling if you want to avoid having it take extra storage as I don't care that much about storage as long as I can disable the app. Also note that there are applications that are not part of the system image but are instead automatically installed by the welcome/signup app on first boot. Those should be able to be uninstalled completely. |
| joeqsmith:
That's pretty bad. I wouldn't be surprised to see MS force something like that on the few users they have left. It's looking like 1903 is the full install as it's been pounding the network non-stop once it made it to that one. There appears to be no indicators as to how long it will take. Last time they had pulled this shit, I had no idea what they were doing. Will the PC will ever boot again and if it does, will all of my tools still work. Will it be as stable as it has been. Will I get a new candy crush game? Maybe some new fancy menus that I have to navigate. It's just so fucking productive. |
| joeqsmith:
1903 appears to be over a year old. :-DD :-DD Well, I did say I have them locked out. Reading through MS notes on 1903, I didn't find one feature that looked like it would be of benefit to me. So glad they shove it down my throat. Of course, their quality updater failed about an hour an a half into the process. It oozes quality.. |
| Monkeh:
You have, after all, gone out of your way to make it difficult for them.. |
| joeqsmith:
--- Quote from: Monkeh on July 06, 2020, 11:46:52 pm ---You have, after all, gone out of your way to make it difficult for them.. --- End quote --- It's wide open for them. Just like the wild west. If they can't make it work under these conditions, they best be looking for new talent. After about a half hour of resetting, it's back, just in time for the next round of updates. 2.5 hours so far of doing nothing but watching this stupid PC load patches I don't give a shit about. ** While poor Microsoft is normally locked out, they are not the victim. Those of us having to deal with their shit are. 2 hours, 40 minutes. Pull the trigger on 1909? Anyone here running it. If so why? |
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