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Selling my personal interests to target ads towards me doesn't take more than an algorithm. Microsoft has given up being an innovative software company, for being an advertising company like Google. If they can't be innovative without riding the coattails of the end user, that's their fault, not mine. I don't want them in my personal data, therefore I'm not going to give it to them. Mass collection of end user data to sell it for marketing purposes is wrong. Thinking that Microsoft will be innovative with the data they collect when they can simply sell the information for higher revenue is ludicrous. There is a reason Windows 10 is free. It's the same reason it is being touted as the last operating system they will produce. All software that is free and NOT open source all has the same motive. And that motive is money. Why should I have to give up my personal data so Microsoft can make a dollar?

I think you're confusing using services that Win10 features, with telemetry data collecting. They are all owned by Microsoft. There is no difference. In the EULA for Win10 (including all services featured in Win10) it states very clearly the data will be collected for three things. To provide and improve its services, to send customers personalized promotions, and to display targeted advertising. They don't display targeted advertising for free. We'll see how that changes Aug 1st. I doubt it will at all.

I'm well aware of what makes Windows 10 installs fail. I still contend that just clicking upgrade it many cases does not work although that is how it is touted by Microsoft. I back up every system I upgrade, and have had to format and clean install many systems. And that does not work every time. Not at all. Even if the compatibility check perfectly. My company runs CentOS exclusively on front end machines. I pay RHEL for support. I also pay for applicable 3rd party training for my admin staff and techs alike. We have zero problems. If the Linux community came together, Linux wouldn't be what it is, free to make it anyway you want to. All of the other issues you speak of aren't really issues at all. We write invoices, service tickets, send emails, and handle any other correspondence just like any other company, and I don't have to pay Microsoft. No I'm not okay with any of those sites/services. I have a Facebook and a Twitter, for my business, and don't use any of the other services listed unless it is required. I locally host my own mail server, host my own cloud service, and use end to end encryption and disk encryption everywhere. I mask my IP with proxy services like VPN's. Microsoft is actively using the "Telemetry Data" they are collecting for revenue, not only "improving the user experience". Why does Microsoft need my contacts lists, the contents of my searches, and sound bytes of the music I listen to, etc? To improve my user experience, I don't think so. Telemetry data collecting is not something new, the way people define what telemetry data includes is in fact new. Read the EULA again. I concede that I have a Google Nexus phone, listed under an LLC that I in fact am the owner. I use it everyday and give up to Google everything they can collect, but only as a necessity for work. I preach data privacy everywhere I go.

I'm running Mint on my new Asus Zenbook Pro UX501. Had a ton of problems with hardware compatibility. But it's working great. Bye bye Microsoft.

Is your new OS located on a separate partition from your old OS? If so delete the old partition (plenty of tools including Windows tools) and extend your current partition with the OS you use to include the empty space you created. And don't forget to back up everything in case something goes wrong.

You're one of many that is having similar problems. Hope you backed up your data. You'll want to format your boot drive and do a clean install if you have your data somewhere else. It's going to save you time.

How many upgrades have you completed without problems? I've had some go great, especially from Win7.

This is a rant. I can't stand behind Windows anymore. I've lost time, money and had to restore more data because of this OS than ever before. I've performed around 50 home user upgrades and I'm not doing it anymore. I attend a local weekly Linux meetup where we install Linux on user's machines. We help them learn the basics of using a Linux based OS, show them open source software alternatives, and answer any questions we can. Attendance is up over 400% this year. I hate the argument "Win10 is new give it time". Maybe you don't mind bricking your personal computer and calling someone to fix it. I'm not going to put beta rollout garbage on a users PC and end up having to change ungodly amounts of money to spend hours debugging a install, restoring data I shouldn't need to backup in the first place, and in general just spending too much time on an OS upgrade. The #1 question I get is, " Will Windows 10 be intentionally spying on me?". As much of a convoluted question that is, and with how convoluted the EULA is with the free upgrade, there is absolutely no way I can say no. Even if the data collected is anonymous in nature, the data will include private information which can and will be tracked back to the end user. I hope corporate environments move towards alternatives like RedHat, and begins to snuff out Windows' market share in big business. What I really can't stand is Microsoft saying that the software is good, there is no problems. And also saying we're only collecting data clearly outlined in the EULA, when the EULA doesn't outline it at all. It boils down to trust, and whether or not I can hang my hat on a Windows 10 install/setup. But I can't trust it at all, so I'm not going to do it anymore. Windows 10 is garbage.

Thanks for the response. Unfortunately I use Firefox for Android and the LTT site doesn't work well at all in that browser. I use Firefox for security reasons and don't want to run Chrome. I guess I'm just looking for something where I can utilize the toolset (code boxes, reply function etc all broken in FF) provided on the forum but not by Tapatalk. If anyone has any more suggestions I'm all ears. I like having my forums in one place, I'd just like to see a little more from an app to contribute to the forums.

Does anyone have a favorite forum app? I'm currently using Tapatalk and was wondering if anyone knows of something that is a little more comprehensive.

I always like reading my fail2ban alerts every morning. Not really a monitor, but useful nonetheless. I compare blacklists on different subnets to look at who's been trying to access what, but you'll need to extrapolate the data into something useful like I do to make it a valuable tool.

A nifty free little piece of software called Recuva can recover corrupt files and even deleted files. Also Windows can rebuild the usb stick. Windows can scan and automatically fix file system problems as well. Google searches of any of the above options will get you started. Good luck!

It's the game not using the memory controller properly. If your RAM was bad you would get frequent BSOD's.

Run the following in CMD prompt as administrator for ten minutes one at a time. Use ctrl + C to stop each test. This will tell us more about where the latency/dropped packets are originating. Post results here. Also run pingtest.net test multiple times and post results here. ping (your gateway address) -t ping www.google.com -t ping (game server in question) -t

I currently have a HP 6550b (native serial port son) that has a spinning box of rust garbage in it still. I would happily smash that old drive into pieces, then set it on fire, and plug Apacer in a video if I was lucky enough to win one of these drives.