to get rid of that icon (and the ******** malware behind it) just remove KB3035583 first and all GWX entries in the registry and on disk afterwards....
It takes about 20 minutes...
Option 3 over here is the safest and is easily reversible,
Get Windows 10 Icon - Remove from Taskbar in Windows 7 and 8.1 - Windows 10 Forums
Get Windows 10 Icon - Remove from Taskbar in Windows 7 and 8.1 - Windows 10 Forums
When I went from XP to Win 7 64 ( came with my notebook ) I regret it. Now looking at the 8.1 to buy but am not very sure if it would be money wise spent. I have a parallel distro of Linux Mint and with the exception of two programs that need a VM, all works fine with the exception of the open source video driver for Ati cards. Last releases of Mint and Ubuntu would definitely give Windows a go if MS do the same mistake to release an OS with limited support for older programs.
Windows 8.1 is like something from play school (kinder garden)
However its reasonably stable...I used it with Classic shell and ditched the stupid tiles..What a step backwards.
You can make it work and look like windows 7.
I am downloading the optional windows 10<<<but I will wait and watch the chaos unfold first! Before I try it.
Then I will do everything I can to make it like windows 7..Then wait for the complete PITA Spartan!
Oh look it says everything should work as before..oh yeah..
Cling the driver is not supported...please reboot to ensure correct install.
The hard drive is missing or corrupted...windows will now flash the bios so you can't install Linux..Bing..the hard drive contains suspicious programs windows will now delete all data and reformat the drive..You now have a working ...blue screen...restart windows does not recognise this planet and will not work until you buy another computer..however this computer is now scrap sorry about that!
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Regards
M. Gregg
However its reasonably stable...I used it with Classic shell and ditched the stupid tiles..What a step backwards.
You can make it work and look like windows 7.
I am downloading the optional windows 10<<<but I will wait and watch the chaos unfold first! Before I try it.
Then I will do everything I can to make it like windows 7..Then wait for the complete PITA Spartan!
Oh look it says everything should work as before..oh yeah..
Cling the driver is not supported...please reboot to ensure correct install.
The hard drive is missing or corrupted...windows will now flash the bios so you can't install Linux..Bing..the hard drive contains suspicious programs windows will now delete all data and reformat the drive..You now have a working ...blue screen...restart windows does not recognise this planet and will not work until you buy another computer..however this computer is now scrap sorry about that!
..
Regards
M. Gregg
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W10 has got no Media Center either... a disappointment for those who use their computer to watch TV.. like I do... but to notice that flaw, you first have got to get your W10 installation in working order 😀
Three weeks later just installing service pack 30020...please wait..
Sorry no internet connection is available..please click rollback for previous install....oups sorry about that..🙄
Restart,,blue screen..dink..restart..dink...ram check...blue screen..windows will now restart...dink..blue screen...the bios is corrupted please reinstall the bios..dink blue screen..
Regards
M. Gregg
...have you asked yourself why it's free for all ?
once you are hooked and dependent......you going to pay !😀
I dislike Microsoft! After 35 plus years they still can't get it right. I'll stick with 7 as long as I can. I hated loosing XP Pro which I liked better. Had a free version that had a universal key for as many systems as you wanted and it was updateable. I liked 98SE even better except for the occasional blue screens. I seldom agreed with the decisions and choices Microsh*t made regarding programs. Had to find a copy of MS Photo Editor that 7 tries to ignore. I won't use some damn "cloud" that MS can easily spy on. I often joked about waiting for windows 10, now it's windows 15.
I still long for DOS days when I could write direct into video memory.
These days you just tell Windows where you want to draw a line/shape and it does it for you. When I were a DOS programmer we had to write the whole lot directly into the video memory.
I wrote a 330,000 DOS assembly language PCB design program.
It worked on EGA and VGA graphics screens.
These days you just tell Windows where you want to draw a line/shape and it does it for you. When I were a DOS programmer we had to write the whole lot directly into the video memory.
I wrote a 330,000 DOS assembly language PCB design program.
It worked on EGA and VGA graphics screens.
I did not program PC's in assembly back then, but remember abusing video-memory in a similar way 😀# 640 Tb ought to be enough for every body...#
I reckoned on having 512K of memory so paged in different modules of my program from a launch screen.
I wrote my own 8086 assembler and integrated editor.
I later expanded the assembler to the 80386.
I converted my CAD program into Delphi2 PASCAL in later years which was fun.
Then a few years later I converted into C# and .net
I then got into a C++ version which had a much faster screen redraw.
I wrote my own 8086 assembler and integrated editor.
I later expanded the assembler to the 80386.
I converted my CAD program into Delphi2 PASCAL in later years which was fun.
Then a few years later I converted into C# and .net
I then got into a C++ version which had a much faster screen redraw.
have been a Windows user since V1.1. Before that I used GEM Graphical Environment Manager (Not M$). Experience had taught me how to deal with new versions of OS (Windows, OS2 and Linux). I have a second sacrificial machine to test stuff on. It is usually my older machine after I build a new one. It typically has all the same software on it so I can see if M$ is going to cause problems. I keep the OS and the apps on an SSD which I have a clone of held in reserve.
I an currently using a freshly built Haswell Core I5 which will stay on W7 for as long as possible, forever if I have my way. I have a backup Sandy Bridge Core I5 that will be offered up as sacrifice to M$ and W10. There is a clone of the SSD and copies of both spinning disks safely stashed I the cabinet.....Bring it on M$
Unfortunately in the music recording, production and performance world there are only two choices M$ or Apple. The Linux DAW's, synthesizers and effects are still pretty far behind the big two.
M$ took the media center out of W10 for a reason. They made it a paid app in W8 and took it out of W10. I used it a lot as a free DVR with antenna TV in Florida. So far I have found no antenna TV signals here in West Virginia, so I have to feed another monopoly....Comcast. My guess is that M$ wants to get into the content delivery business, so antenna TV is a threat. They will probably kill their TV guide system for those who still use WMC on W7 or W8.
I an currently using a freshly built Haswell Core I5 which will stay on W7 for as long as possible, forever if I have my way. I have a backup Sandy Bridge Core I5 that will be offered up as sacrifice to M$ and W10. There is a clone of the SSD and copies of both spinning disks safely stashed I the cabinet.....Bring it on M$
Unfortunately in the music recording, production and performance world there are only two choices M$ or Apple. The Linux DAW's, synthesizers and effects are still pretty far behind the big two.
M$ took the media center out of W10 for a reason. They made it a paid app in W8 and took it out of W10. I used it a lot as a free DVR with antenna TV in Florida. So far I have found no antenna TV signals here in West Virginia, so I have to feed another monopoly....Comcast. My guess is that M$ wants to get into the content delivery business, so antenna TV is a threat. They will probably kill their TV guide system for those who still use WMC on W7 or W8.
I found with Windows that multiple backups of data are required.
I have always had 2 hard drives.
More recently I have 2 flash drives as well and sometimes backup important stuff to CDROM/DVD too.
I got caught out a good few years back when I had to reinstall Windows.
For some reason Windows took it upon itself to format both hard drives !
I had most of my data on CDROM/DVD but still lost a good few files.
I have always had 2 hard drives.
More recently I have 2 flash drives as well and sometimes backup important stuff to CDROM/DVD too.
I got caught out a good few years back when I had to reinstall Windows.
For some reason Windows took it upon itself to format both hard drives !
I had most of my data on CDROM/DVD but still lost a good few files.
I have copies of all the data I have created going back to DOS 2.0 on a Seagate 20 MB drive. I recently found that the big dumb blonde one is as good as M$ for wiping out data. I kept two copies of everything on two identical drives in the same machine (Raid 1). What are the chances of both drives failing at the same time.......zilch until I dropped the entire PC down the basement stairs during the move. One drive was dead, and another was a bit stupid, but I managed to recover all the important stuff. Now there are 3 copies, and one resides in a NAS box that's out of harms way.
The machine that was dropped booted W7 from an SSD. It was not damaged. I cloned all of it into the new machine, and the machine I dropped will be the W10 test PC.
I go back only as far as Windows 2.11. I think I still have the install floppies. I currently have two w7 and two w8.1 systems up. And 2 linux and a Solaris system. I upgrade OS when I have to, not when a new one comes out. I stayed on W2000 for a long time before going to w7...
Unfortunately, we have software that only runs on windows.
Unfortunately, we have software that only runs on windows.
All seems to be going to plan rolling out W10.
One select post of many,
Woke Up and Found Win10 Upgrade already Download - Page 6
One select post of many,
Woke Up and Found Win10 Upgrade already Download - Page 6
Same happened to me this January, moreover, it merged the three drives into a common C: That was with Windows 7 64 bit that gave me a blue screen of death right before this to happen and when I told this to a friend, he said its impossible 🙂
Indeed, the only reason why I went back to it from Linux was because I made the mistake to buy a notebook with an Ati card, company notorious for its lack of support for Linux users. With 10, I would rather wait for SP1 and then probe opinions and reviews before to install. Lessons learned from the past.
I tried 8, 8.1 and neither lasted more than a day.
Last night my 'techie' put 10 on my laptop and that lasted till this morning - a total run time of 10mins before I knocked on his door and proclaimed 'It's utter carp mate!'
Now I'm learning Linux Mint 17.2....... it's Gooooood 🙂
Last night my 'techie' put 10 on my laptop and that lasted till this morning - a total run time of 10mins before I knocked on his door and proclaimed 'It's utter carp mate!'
Now I'm learning Linux Mint 17.2....... it's Gooooood 🙂
8.1 and 10 are certainly different to all that has gone before. For me 8.1 is the star performer. Incredibly fast and responsive (boots from cold to the start menus and the desktop being populated and me being here online in around 15 seconds).
My problems with 10. Its unattractive, the start menu lacks real estate, updates (as far as we know) are not able to e applied selectively or manually and biggest problem of all for me... I have had three attempts at clean installing 10 on my i5 Dell without success. Clean installs fail and an upgrade install took 7 hours and left it a crippled machine... which was all fixed using Acronis to roll back to my 8.1 installation.
So for me its 8.1
My problems with 10. Its unattractive, the start menu lacks real estate, updates (as far as we know) are not able to e applied selectively or manually and biggest problem of all for me... I have had three attempts at clean installing 10 on my i5 Dell without success. Clean installs fail and an upgrade install took 7 hours and left it a crippled machine... which was all fixed using Acronis to roll back to my 8.1 installation.
So for me its 8.1
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