"Stop Your Bitching and Stalling; Just Take The Software Upgrade
Already" says Jason Perlow on ZDNet.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/stop-your-bitching-and-stalling-just-take-the-software-upgrade-already/
On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 12:49 PM,
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> On 2016-05-26 15:40, Stephen Russell wrote:
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>>
On 2016-05-26 15:40, Stephen Russell wrote:
This isn't the same Balmer windows anymore.
Thank God...or M$'s new leadership or whoever you choose. Too bad they
didn't fire Balmer years ago.
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Subject: Re: [NF] Win10 Free Upgrade Expiration???
Well, expiration has become a moot point - yesterday I found my Win7
HP laptop displaying a screen saying "Installing Windows 10 Update -
Do not switch o
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>> Kurt Wendt
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>> AndyHC
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: [NF] Win10 Free Upgrade Expiration???
Well, expiration has become a moot point - yesterday I found my Win7 HP laptop displaying
a screen saying "Installing Windows 10 Update - Do not switch off your PC". I
had NOT clicked accept.
This morning (!) the installation was complete. I could h
Subject: Re: [NF] Win10 Free Upgrade Expiration???
Well, expiration has become a moot point - yesterday I found my Win7 HP laptop
displaying a screen saying "Installing Windows 10 Update - Do not switch off
your PC". I had NOT clicked accept.
This morning (!) the installation was complet
Hi Andy:
Sorry for the news.
I've deactivated Windows Updates a year ago on my virtual machines, so for
now I've not this problem. Let's see next days.
Regards.-
2016-05-23 11:44 GMT+02:00 AndyHC :
> Well, expiration has become a moot point -
> yesterday I found my Win7 HP laptop displaying a
Ongoing status report required Andy!
Dave
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Subject: Re: [NF] Win10 Free Upgrade Expiration???
Well, expiration has become a moot point - yesterday I found my
Well, expiration has become a moot point -
yesterday I found my Win7 HP laptop displaying a screen saying
"Installing Windows 10 Update - Do not switch off your PC". I had NOT
clicked accept.
This morning (!) the installation was complete. I could have declined to
accept the ms licence, but in
At 10:54 2016-05-18, Ted Roche wrote:
Another story of caution about auto-updating to Windows 10:
http://explosm.net/comics/4303/
Like Microsoft did, they should break the naming
style. Microsoft skipped version 9. "Magic" could now reflect the
die inside: Magic d20.
[snip]
Sincer
On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 12:54 PM, Ted Roche wrote:
> Another story of caution about auto-updating to Windows 10:
>
> http://explosm.net/comics/4303/
> -
Anyone see the Star Trek Bridge image with the Install Windows 10 on the
screen?
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Another story of caution about auto-updating to Windows 10:
http://explosm.net/comics/4303/
On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 7:45 PM, Kurt@VRFX wrote:
> So - I'm here on my laptop - and, as usual lately - as I boot up - I get the
> Dumb Ass Win10 Nag pop-up!
>
> As such - it Begs the question. When does i
> Microsoft is going to move everything to Win10, and eventually expire
> and stop supporting Win 7, 8, 8.1. Win10 upgrade is "free" if you
> don't count your time, bandwidth and frustration at finding where
> they've hidden everything this time
They haven't moved/changed anything as much as the a
At 19:46 2016-05-05, Vince Teachout wrote:
Well, here's what I'm doing. This (My Daily Bread) computer is
staying at 8.1. I have several magical warding programs to ensure this is so.
I am the same way with 7. I wish I were still with
XP. "Upgrades" can be such a losing proposition.
Well, here's what I'm doing. This (My Daily Bread) computer is staying
at 8.1. I have several magical warding programs to ensure this is so.
My older boot-disk-fail-on-startup Win 7 computer will get a new SSD
drive and will then go to Win X.
My recently late Mom's laptop will become my "Le
I get the nag update screen too. Win7Pro here. I'll probably just keep
it at Win7Pro though and get a new machine with Win 10 Pro so I can
adequately test my apps in both 7 & 10. (No, I don't use VMWare and
have multiple M$ licenses with which to apply to said VM.)
VM always sounded like so
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Russell
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Kurt your company should have some sort of license agreement with M$ at that
count of machines. In our situatio
> Senior Systems Analyst
>
>
> Tel. +1-212-747-9100
> www.GlobeTax.com
>
>
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> From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Mike
> Copeland
> Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2016 9:03 PM
> To: profoxt...@leafe.com
> S
I have 3 machines running Win 10 and have personally upgraded 3 others.
Only 1 caused any bother, it crashed when the owner was saying No to an
upgrade (spite?). It had Win 7 and was then upgraded to Win 10 as part of
the recovery process. I partitioned the hard drive using Partition Master
which
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On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 7:45 PM, Kurt@VRFX wrote:
>
> Although - am also curious as to how Good Win10 is. I know there has
> been a Lot of Shit talk about Win10. But, since Evil M$ decided to use
> the Whole World as Beta testers. I su
On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 10:24 AM, Stephen Russell wrote:
> 10 likes a good CPU. If you have that it just hums along.
Interesting that you say that. My first attempt at Win10 was to
upgrade a tablet-laptop thingie with an Atom Z-something processor and
2 Gb RAM, 32 Gb SSD. Runs fine. Mostly a VFP
ay, May 05, 2016 8:37 AM
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> Subject: Re: [NF] Win10 Free Upgrade Expiration???
>
> On 5 May 2016 at 00:45, Kurt@VRFX wrote:
> > So - what say you all? Go for it and Upgrade - or should I say F That
> > and just stick with what I have (Win 8.1 on my lap
it
is intuitive most of the time (unlike 8.0/8.1)
Dave
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Hey Paul - thanks for that input. Glad to see s
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No direct experience, just have helped a few clients downgrade to 7 after they
were hijacked to 10. I didn't care for 10, I don't see the benefit of 10 (to
the user, I see a lot of benefit to MSoft) and at this point I
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On 5 May 2016 at 00:45, Kurt@VRFX wrote:
> So - what say you all?
m] On Behalf Of Ajit Abraham
Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2016 1:12 AM
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Subject: Re: [NF] Win10 Free Upgrade Expiration???
To remove the upgrade nagging screen -
https://www.grc.com/never10.htm
Ajit Abraham
Kurt@VRFX wrote:
>> So - I'm here on my laptop - and, as usual la
10 likes a good CPU. If you have that it just hums along. No showstoppers
for me and I have 3 at home on 10 now.
Auto taking of updates is just like Chrome and Firefox do today and you
have not been bitching for years about that happening here.
Considering your programming for clients who proba
On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 7:45 PM, Kurt@VRFX wrote:
>
> Although - am also curious as to how Good Win10 is. I know there has been a
> Lot of Shit talk about Win10. But, since Evil M$ decided to use the Whole
> World as Beta testers. I suspect that by now most of the Bugs have been
> worked out.
>
It
On 5 May 2016 at 00:45, Kurt@VRFX wrote:
> So - what say you all? Go for it and Upgrade - or should I say F That and
> just stick with what I have (Win 8.1 on my laptop & Win7 Pro on my Desktop)!
Upgrade, if you don't like it there is an option to roll back.
It will take some time though.
Person
On Thu, 5 May 2016, at 12:45 AM, Kurt@VRFX wrote:
> As such - it Begs the question. When does it expire? At which point I
> have to Pay - which I would rather not.
29th July.
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To remove the upgrade nagging screen -
https://www.grc.com/never10.htm
Ajit Abraham
Kurt@VRFX wrote:
So - I'm here on my laptop - and, as usual lately - as I boot up - I
get the Dumb Ass Win10 Nag pop-up!
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No direct experience, just have helped a few clients downgrade to 7
after they were hijacked to 10. I didn't care for 10, I don't see the
benefit of 10 (to the user, I see a lot of benefit to MSoft) and at this
point I'm willing to pay $130 for a copy of Win 10 'someday' if I ever
decide it's t
So - I'm here on my laptop - and, as usual lately - as I boot up - I get
the Dumb Ass Win10 Nag pop-up!
As such - it Begs the question. When does it expire? At which point I
have to Pay - which I would rather not.
Although - am also curious as to how Good Win10 is. I know there has
been a Lo
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