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| Lightages:
You might also want to run this: https://github.com/WindowsLies/BlockWindows It adds blocking in your hosts files for servers for the other spying programs being installed during updates even if you don't install windows 10, and also removes and blocks those updates. Any other time in history, Windows 10 forced updates would be called a trojan horse. |
| nctnico:
--- Quote from: ErikTheNorwegian on December 19, 2015, 01:47:57 pm ---W10 is a better and faster operating system than the older ones --- End quote --- That is what people said when Windows 3.11, Windows 95, Windows NT, Windows98, Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows7, Windows8 and now Windows 10 where released. The simple reality is that Windows slows itself down over time so a fresh install or a new version will always feel faster. However after a couple of months it will have slowed itself down again to snail speed no matter what kind of computer you throw at it. |
| rdl:
It's best just to re-install Windows once a year anyway. Try to use as much portable software as possible to keep from cluttering up the registry. Windows 10 benefits Microsoft more than the users due to all the spyware and attacks on your freedom, in that they wish to turn all PCs into a locked down system like X-Box. Best to stay with Windows 7, but be watchful and begin the move to Linux. For years many people have said Microsoft was evil. I would say, no they are just incompetent. I was wrong. |
| eugenenine:
--- Quote from: nctnico on December 19, 2015, 04:09:19 pm --- --- Quote from: ErikTheNorwegian on December 19, 2015, 01:47:57 pm ---W10 is a better and faster operating system than the older ones --- End quote --- That is what people said when Windows 3.11, Windows 95, Windows NT, Windows98, Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows7, Windows8 and now Windows 10 where released. The simple reality is that Windows slows itself down over time so a fresh install or a new version will always feel faster. However after a couple of months it will have slowed itself down again to snail speed no matter what kind of computer you throw at it. --- End quote --- You have the two product lines rolled together, WinNT wasn't the successor to 95. NT 3.5 then NT4 then W2000 were the business products in parallel with 95, 98 and ME. XP was where they combined them. I ran win 3.1 then 3.11 then 95, then NT4, tried 98 for a day but it was a total bust and went back to NT4 until 2k. Ran 2k until XP then bought a new laptop in 2002 with XP and it was just a let down after 2k that after a year I switched to Linux and never went back. Still have that old laptop and it can still run the same current version of Linux I run now. Bought my wife a new laptop with 8 last year and it was so unusable that the laptop sat for months just being used as a stand for her phone. She upgraded to 10 and it almost works now so she can get a little bit of work done on it now but still user her phone more. Was a nice laptop too, if the store hadn't run out of stock I'd have bought myself one too, was a refurbished deal for a good price such a shame to see it go to waste. |
| nctnico:
I switched to Linux too. I'm thinking about getting a new laptop but having it run Linux as the primary OS and XP in a VM for legacy support seems like a very good idea. I installed Windows 8 in a VM once. I had a :wtf: moment, scratched the back of my head and deleted the VM. |
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