Win 7 vs Win 10 – Upgrade vs Spying.
My computer works well with Win 7; however, I keep getting popups telling me to upgrade to Win 10 for free. Each time I ask myself “Self, why is MS giving away Win 10 when they could charge $$$ for it...
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First, a "thank you" to 1492 for his recent OP alerting me to the win10 upgradeware being deposited on win7 and win8 machines. Since then I've strapped on my big ol tinfoil hat and done a little googling and digging. Here are some random thoughts, FWIW:
Some of the updates mentioned (and there are a few more in addition to the ones 1492 posted) are now HARDWIRED into recent revs of win 8.1. This means that while you can view them under update history, you do not have the right-click option to remove them, as you do with most others.
You can remove the entire problem by going into "gpedit.msc". A search online will list the functions to be disabled, but basically it is the "user satisfaction" node that does all the spying.
If MSFT has decided to drop win10 turdlets on your machine, they put them in a temp file that you can remove. This requires admin privileges under "free up disk space" or something like that. Again, an online search will get that.
On a machine that has win7 installed I would never change for any reason. I bought a machine that has 8.1 and I found that downgrading to win7 would cause more problems than it solves. So I learned to be happy with 8.1. I know that win10 is a better, more polished OS, but I've gotten 8.1 to work well enough that I'll probably never go to win10, even when they take the spyware out in the $300 Enterprise version.
Some of the updates mentioned (and there are a few more in addition to the ones 1492 posted) are now HARDWIRED into recent revs of win 8.1. This means that while you can view them under update history, you do not have the right-click option to remove them, as you do with most others.
You can remove the entire problem by going into "gpedit.msc". A search online will list the functions to be disabled, but basically it is the "user satisfaction" node that does all the spying.
If MSFT has decided to drop win10 turdlets on your machine, they put them in a temp file that you can remove. This requires admin privileges under "free up disk space" or something like that. Again, an online search will get that.
On a machine that has win7 installed I would never change for any reason. I bought a machine that has 8.1 and I found that downgrading to win7 would cause more problems than it solves. So I learned to be happy with 8.1. I know that win10 is a better, more polished OS, but I've gotten 8.1 to work well enough that I'll probably never go to win10, even when they take the spyware out in the $300 Enterprise version.
