How to disable ads on your Windows 10 Lock Screen
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winsecrets.com - date:
February 25, 2016
The HowToGeek posted an article called How to Disable Ads on Your Windows 10 Lock Screen a few days ago. I thought the article was very useful and thought about all the PC's and laptops I've updated so far and how many I still have to do for family and friends between here and July 29. Loads of them...
To cut a long story short, I've started trying to list and automate all the myriad little tweaks I do to a new Windows 10 system. This HowToGeek article looked like a prime candidate so I used a registry/file comparison program (InCtrl5) to snapshot before and after the changes. It turned out that the following is all that is needed:
Code:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current
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Windows 10 Update Bully
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7forums.com - date:
December 6, 2015
I am one angry customer....!
I have my PC set to remind me to regularly (manually) check for Windows Updates. I now have hidden several updates linked to Windows 10's bullying tactics. However, one tactic I cannot get rid of is as shown in this screen shot.
Why my blood boils...? When I select the updates I want to install - just three - and hit OK, I get this screen. Touch anything and I fear I will begin installing Windows 10, which I definitely do not want.
Can anyone help me stop this gross intrusion let alone it preventing me from updating.
For Microsoft's benefit... I was about to buy a Surface Pro for my wife for Christmas. I bought her an IPad Air 2 instead. Why? Because you make me mad as hell...!!!
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Microsoft confirms that Windows 10 upgrade will not be free after one
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8forums.com - date:
May 20, 2015
Microsoft has been heavily promoting the fact that Windows 10 will be a free upgrade for consumers running Windows 7, 8 or Phone 8.1 when the OS is released later this year. While the company is clearly pushing this 'free upgrade' announcement to make sure they can hit their 1 billion users benchmark, in a post on the company's Australian Partner Network, they explicitly state that the free upgrade offer will expire after one year.
The post says that after the one year free period elapses, upgrades will be obtained via paid boxed product (we suspect there will be a digital offer as well). The post, which you can read here, states the following:
Microsoft will offer a free upgrad
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Any way to guarantee that the Windows 10 upgrade will NOT be offered?
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winsecrets.com - date:
August 8, 2015
For a charity I manage about 65 PCs in workgroups - not domain(s) - which have only fairly recently been converted to Windows 7 Pro. These all use the same Volume Licence Key.
Having read this article about domain-based PCs being forcibly upgraded to Window 10, I wonder whether there is any mechanism which would prevent this happening for my cohort of PCs? They are set to install offered Windows Updates automatically.
Recent versions of Internet Explorer had a registry setting which prevented the installation of the latest and greatest version of IE, so I wonder if anyone has come across such to prevent Windows 10 being installed.
Or am I being excessively paranoid?
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Windows 10 Update Error C1900101
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microsoft.com - date:
July 30, 2015
I have a HP Spectre 13t-3000 and am getting this error code C 1900101 when trying to upgrade to Windows 10. The download works fine but when it reboots, it asks me to select a keyboard setting and then launches into Windows 8.1. I have the hard drive encrypted...
would that be causing this problem? Is there a way to fix the install?
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Recent Windows 10 Update issue continuing
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winsecrets.com - date:
December 4, 2015
Ever since I upgraded to Windows 10 Home, I have had an issue with Windows Update listing my two network printers (HP Officejet Pro 8630 and HP Deskjet 3520) in the queue to be updated when both already have the latest Windows 10 compatible software that HP offers.
Initially, both supposed updates remained stuck in the Windows Update queue for a month or more before I downloaded a little tool from Windows that “hides” them, since Windows 10 no longer lets us do that. This effectively removes them from view, but now Windows Updates only downloads another one in time, sometimes the same day. I only have this problem on this one desktop, and only with these two HP items, and nothing else. All other updates appear to funct
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Stuck In Bootloop After Windows 10 Update Attempt
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7forums.com - date:
November 22, 2015
I recently attempted to update my father's laptop, which is a Dell Inspiron N5050, from Windows 7 to Windows 10. I did this by clicking the link for the free update that showed up on the bottom task bar. At first, it seemed to take well, as I was able to play 1 round of War Thunder without any issues. However, after that first round, it started rebooting constantly, and initiated the computer repair program that comes with Windows 10. I attempted every option that was available to no avail. I tried to go back to Windows 7 via the restore point that was supposed to have been created but wasn't, and a message stated that it couldn't find a restore point to restore to. So, after that, it began a bootloop, in which it would boot up, show the De
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Windows 10 update (KB3081438) and (KB3081436)
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microsoft.com - date:
August 15, 2015
What kind of a BS is this? Why am I having problem updating- Cumulative Update for Windows 10 for x64-based Systems (KB3081438)
and Cumulative Update for Windows 10 for x64-based Systems (KB3081436)?
I called Microsoft for a help, they put me on a hold for almost 2 hours, later on a female rep couldn't help me out and hung up on me without giving me a ticket number.
Some of the sites are suggesting to install the stand alone update, but they aren't understanding that it's not even letting you install the update, when computer 1st reboots install 30%, 2nd reboots 59% and 3rd, 4th & 5th reboots it couldn't finish installing
update.
Is this some kind of a joke? Microsoft doesn't see what is going on? They don't realize
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Windows 10 update KB 3124200 destroys Word customizations
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winsecrets.com - date:
December 23, 2015
Article today on Woody on Windows...
http://www.infoworld.com/article/301...html?nsdr=true
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