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I'm sure we've heard Meyer's problem with patent trolls suing him for "infringing" on vague patents. Here's the update, uploaded a few days ago: Very infuriating stuff... Thankfully, his videos are receiving quite a lot of coverage and hopefully some action will be taken against those that participate in this.

That looks claustrophobic as hell without any windows.

Wow.... So this is why their products are so expensive... :Money Eyes:

Upgrade, then clean install. Sorry, I don't run FS9. I was just commenting on the fact that the computer itself responds much better in the new OS.

Your 2435M/HD3000 would probably run much better in W10 with an SSD than in W7... I had a 2330M/HD3000 laptop that performed much better under W10 than in W7, with a mechanical HDD.

Let's be honest Jessica, nobody really relies on Task Manager for accurate readings on anything related to the CPU. I recommend you download Process Explorer from Microsoft TechNet. It's much more robust and accurate. Task Manager still claims that my i5-2500k is running at 5.8GHz, even though it's overclocked to 4.4GHz.

Right click start button, click "System", click "Advanced system settings" on the left, click the "Hardware" tab, click "Device Installation Settings", and check "No". Restart your PC. This should stop driver updates. No it doesn't. W10 Pro allows you to defer UPGRADES, not updates. An UPGRADE is like a "service pack", such as the November 2015 1511 W10 update, or the upcoming "Redstone" upgrade later this year. Neither Pro nor Home allow you to stop updates completely (unless you use the Group Policy Editor or the Services.msc in the MMC).

5. Right click start button, click "System", click "Advanced system settings" on the left, click the "Hardware" tab, click "Device Installation Settings", and check "No". This stopped W.U. from installing a non-existent Canon driver on my computer. 6. Download this: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3073930?utm_source=twitter and choose the updates you don't want installed.

This is what I do on a clean install: 1. After W10 installs, you will go through the setup. Make sure to choose "Customise Settings" instead of "Express Settings". Disable everything you feel should be off. 2. Create a "local" account to login to the OS. (I don't use the "Windows Store" or "metro apps", nor do I buy "apps") 3. Go to the Settings "app", Privacy, and disable everything possible. Turn off everything under "Allow apps to use X", and on the last box, disable " Allow Windows to ask for my feedback" and "Send device data to Microsoft." 4. Open Control Panel, go to Default Programs, and change default programs that open pictures, videos, and audio from "metro apps" to Windows Photo Viewer and Windows Media Player. 5. Disable OneDrive from starting up when the PC starts up. I'm not sure why this is on by default. Open OneDrive in the task bar notification area, go to Settings, and turn off the option. 6. Make sure to set Windows Updates to ask when it needs to restart your computer. Also, disable P2P updates in the same section. 7. Uninstall all the other "metro apps" that can be uninstalled (such as "Money", "3D Builder", etc.) 8. Disable Defender Cloud Protection and Automatic Sample Submission. There's a huge guide for configuring W10 here: https://tweakhound.com/2015/12/09/tweaking-windows-10/

The "Windows Store" is a joke. And it has been a joke ever since Windows 8 launched in 2012. Microsoft keeps trying to push their "apps" on desktops in an attempt to unify their unwanted mobile phone OS with desktops. Who the hell wants this? Why would I want to run a desktop program on a phone, or a phone "app" on my desktop? I don't see it. With Windows 10, MS introduced their so-called "universal Windows apps" (UWP) that are written in the same Windows Runtime architecture instead of Win32/64. As the OP of this thread pointed out, these "apps" are extremely limited and simply cannot compare to a regular program as Win32. Some say MS's ultimate, distant-future goal is to create a "walled garden" in Windows, in which the user can only get third party software through the "Windows Store" and nowhere else (including regular programs), similar to iOS or Android with the App Store and Google Play store. Whatever they're trying to do, all I know is that reinventing the wheel is not necessary... What's ironic is that Microsoft themselves said they don't want to compete with Steam with their "Windows Store" garbage in August 2015, yet here they are, restricting their games to their store only. http://www.techtimes.com/articles/75531/20150810/microsoft-says-it-isnt-intending-to-compete-with-steam-with-windows-10.htm

Okay, I stand corrected. However, that still doesn't mean MS isn't trying to compete with Steam, which Phil Spencer said they wouldn't. Their silly "app store" is essentially GFWL 2.0.

How's it unrealistic? Mickeysoft is heavily pushing their "app store" in W10. Even the default picture and video program is one of those "apps". Recently they announced that other first party games would be exclusive to the "app store", such as Quantum Break, Fable Legends, GoW, etc. Also, you might want to read the title of the blog post... It says "coming to W10" not "coming to PC". What else could/would that mean? I may be wrong but so far it's not a bad assumption...

Sounds like good 'ol Microsoft will restrict the simulator's distribution to the W10 "Windows Store", which is garbage, full of useless "apps" for phones. Just yesterday, the developers of Quantum Break announced the same thing. M$ must be paying some good $$$$ for that. It's funny since Phil Spencer promised that MS is not interested in competing with Steam, yet here they are, restricting your choice.

When asked for release date and pre-release information for a game, the CEO of TakeTwo simply said: "We're not going to announce it, we're not going to announce when we are going to announce it, and we are not going to announce a strategy about announcing it or about when we are going to announce it either, or about the announcement strategy surrounding the announcement of the strategy."

To be honest, we're talking about security/1st party support, not compatibility. Of course Skylake will be compatible with 8.1, 7, Vista, XP, and prior if you want it to be.

If I were you, don't do an upgrade. Do a clean install, make sure to "customise settings" during the initial setup, and disable all the privacy-related settings that send data. After you're in the OS, make sure you're not connected to the internet and on another computer, download all the drivers you need (including chipset, internet, audio, etc.). Yes, the latest Nvidia drivers are fine, and yes, the latest Saitek drivers are fine as well. Just check their respective websites and your motherboard website and download from there. Put those files on a USB and install from there. If you don't get the drivers onto a USB and install from there, once you connect to the internet, they will be automatically downloaded from Windows Update, which is not recommended.

http://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/15989-device-driver-automatic-installation-turn-off-windows-10-a.html#option1 "Defer upgrades" stops major Windows revisions, like the Novemever update 1511, from installing immediately after release. It doesn't stop security updates or driver updates.

I don't know anyone in the world who chooses the "Install updates automatically" option. On my W8.1 laptop, I have it set to "Check for updates but let me choose to install them". Nothing has changed. No nagging nor "recommended upgrade" nor anything.

Yes

. Defender automatically turns off when you install another AV. Use this tool to stop the printer driver from trying to install: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3073930?utm_source=twitter Then, go here to stop future driver updates through Win Update:

Can't you disable Defender through Services.msc? There's two settings in there for Defender, "Windows Defender Network Inspection Service" and "Windows Defender Service". Try disabling both. Also, since you're on Enterprise, perhaps there's a setting in the GPE. Check there. You're right, it's on by default. But thankfully on the new November update 1511, MS added an option during install for this, so that's good. (Make sure to click "customise settings" instead of "express settings") There's no such thing as a "free" version. W10 Home and W10 Pro and W10 Enterprise are all paid OS's and you get a legitimate license when you upgrade.

I think the upgrade is free because MS wants as many people as possible to be on a platform that has access to the "Windows app Store". Since W8 had it but not W7, the offer was probably extended to W7 so that as many people as possible would be exposed to their "mobile apps" and "app store", which for some reason, MS thinks are wonderful on a desktop computer. The "app store" is rubbish and it's the first thing I always disable when setting up W10. I suppose the "mobile app world" is where MS sees their future.

What? MS has the ISO for Windows 10 available here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10 Download the tool, choose "Create installation media", and then choose whether you want to create a DVD or bootable USB installation. Also, you don't have to reinstall Windows 7 then upgrade again to reinstall Windows 10. Once you do the upgrade at least once and you activate Windows, your motherboard + CPU combination will be authorised, and you can reinstall however many items you want without having to do the upgrade again. This means you can also do a clean install. XP compatability mode is still there...

I agree that in some cases, forced updates in W10 are actually a really good idea (think: computer illiterate relatives that always ask for your help during the holidays with their "slow" computers!). However, let's be honest. Do Microsoft's security updates really fix anything? Have you ever read the security bulletins on the TechNet website? The security updates honestly only prevent very very improbable situations, and I assume most users with common sense don't mess around with those situations that are affected. Of course, I agree that it's important to have all the latest security updates installed, but to me, these "security updates" are mostly placebo. (which is why I don't see the problem with an XP machine with all updates ever released installed, a good antivirus, and a modern web browser). Now of course, in W10, I highly recommend you don't "defer upgrades", since the last major update, Version 1511 "service pack", was a great improvement to RTM.

Not sure what this means, but Microsoft today announced that they're really, really desperate to get people to move to Windows 10: http://www.winbeta.org/news/microsoft-clarifies-support-for-silicon-innovations-enterprises-and-the-best-windows-10-experience See the original post on their blog here: https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2016/01/15/windows-10-embracing-silicon-innovation/ According to them, Windows 7 and even 8.1 are too old to even fully support and take advantage of Skylake. In addition, Skylake apparently won't be supported past July 17, 2017 on W7 or W8.1 systems. Your thoughts?