Well, as far as I'm concerned, you can have that spyware freeware piece of malicious trash.
There's a reason why malware is free. And there's a reason why Win10 is free.
Acting as though half the software on your computer and 99% of websites you visit aren't already gathering telemetry data.
Welcome to the internet age. Nothing you do involving technology is private unless you never ever connect it to another device.
Well, as far as I'm concerned, you can have that spyware freeware piece of malicious trash.
There's a reason why malware is free. And there's a reason why Win10 is free.
Well, perhaps you shouldn't run the express installation then and manually select the options. You can easily deactivate all the tracking and data mining Win10 does, even after the installation. It's not like other OS don't do the same. Well, except Linux. Most of them anyway.
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For booting Win10 from a USB flash drive, I use the utility Rufus 2.2. Takes a bootable ISO and voila..... easy as eating pie.
Win 10 is amazing... So far.
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Amazing? hmm...
I have Win7 and my habit when leaving my PC for more than 1/2 hour is to put the system in "sleep mode". When I come back, I hit my space bar and am in.
From Win 7:
1. Left click on the Windows icon, located bottom left of monitor
2. from the pop up menu, click the select shutdown arrow located at the bottom right of the popup menu.
3. Click on sleep
With Win10, I can't find the "sleep mode" option. My two options are restart or shutdown..... useless!
@ Shiniasn I went fopr a clean install as my PC was carrying glitches that I wanted rid of. Besides it doesn't matter anymore as I've gone back to Win 7 anyway as Win 10 isn't to my liking atm.
It just keeps crashing my PC, downloaded three times trying different things...., last time was nearly a catastrophic failure.
Gets to 91%, then fails and has to reload Win 8.1..., bloody frustrating because there are thousands of people with the same problem, just "ONCE" I would like to install something without having problems and need patching.
Cheers
If you want to send the PC to sleep manually, it works the exact same way as W7, except that "select shutdown " is labeled "power" now. Start button, power, sleep. How did you not see this? You need to get past the sleep option to shut down the PC.
I prefer to do this by timer, myself.
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Strange.
From the Power button I get two options RESTART or SHUTDOWN. Could be because win10 is a guest in my VM with "general purpose" devices.
Not to worry.... thanks for the help
I'll see if there is an patch for this
There are a few nice things I can say about Windows 10 though. The games I was able to run on it did run a lot smoother when I was able to get them working it looked smart and installed nice and easy as well at least for me. I just think it needs more work on the compatability side before I consider moving over to it on a more permanent basis. I think this will happen but for now though I think in my case I'll stay put on Win 7 as I don't feel it's quite the finished product yet.
@ Sartoz: check "Power Options" in the Control Panel. Now that I think of it, there was a problem in the early builds with options like Sleep and Hibernate defaulting to being hidden.
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Aahh... a possible clue..... will check after dinner..... thanks.
Well, as far as I'm concerned, you can have that spyware freeware piece of malicious trash.
There's a reason why malware is free. And there's a reason why Win10 is free.
Say, what OS do you run atm? What browser do you use? What cookies do you have on it?
Just here to report that Waindows 10 works just fine for me, on all PCs.
question: has it been mentioned at all if Mass Effect Andromeda will be exclusive to windows10 on PC?
question: has it been mentioned at all if Mass Effect Andromeda will be exclusive to windows10 on PC?
Highly doubt it. Will most likely support DX 12 since Battefield 1 Alpha has it. If you have an AMD GPU? That could be VERY nice. AMD GPU performance past GCN 1.1, I believe skyrockets on the API. Nvidia? Meh. Nvidia is about the same on both API's. Pascal at least sees SMALL gains on it, but Maxwell is a dud with Async. Nvidia just disables it on the driver I believe on last gen cards.
Now if you are asking if you should get Windows 10? The telemetry was also added to Win 7 and 8 in patches. You have had "privacy invasion" if you have a patched Windows 7,8 in like the last year. Darn near every big tech company is part of the PRISM program so if you want privacy dual boot Arch Linux and do not touch chrome, because even popular Linux distros are a privacy nightmare and google is every bit as bad as MS. As far as gaming? You have zero reason not to go to 10. Do a local account install (skip option on MS account during install), do NOT choose express and choose custom, and tell MS no to everything and post install you can turn all cloud services off...
https://support.offi...38-6efb09f944b0
And you can still use the Xbox Live store. I do just that with a hotmail account and sign in and out of xbox live to play Forza, Killer Instinct and Quantum Break. You can also turn off cortana. Type "privacy" in the search bar and you can shut off all the annoying stuff.
You can unpin anything from the start bar, you can throw control panel on the desktop. Win 10 is basically a Windows 7 with a new API that boots faster and has WDDM 2.0 which will be nice.
TPM 2.0 is worse than Windows 10 will ever be and that is darn near every company agreeing to use that crazy #$%^$. I laugh at people who buy OEM's with TPM 2.0 already enabled on the PC when they talk about Windows 10 and MS as far as privacy. TPM 2.0 hands someone the keys to your pc and it ain't you.
I don't remember doing anything to play on Win 10. It just worked. Funny thing is, even tweaking didn't make much difference. The game almost looks like it did when I played on 360 years ago. edit: Oh, this is an old thread. 
Haha, yeah. Nice try.
I'm not installing Windows 10. And nothing is going to change my mind.
Haha, yeah. Nice try.
I'm not installing Windows 10. And nothing is going to change my mind.
Good for you, I didn't have a choice. My computer was like "You will have Windows 10 now! Deal with it."
Windows 10 did not notably affect any ME game on my computer, with the small exception of needing to approve ME1 with UAC box.
I suppose I'll move on to Windows 10 when a must have game or program is released that absolutely requires it, but I can't see that happening for a good long while yet.
Personally speaking I have no great problem with the tracking Microsoft do, especially since you can turn it off at install. rather for me it is the usability of the system
Why do people praise the Start Menu in Windows 10? It's the Start Screen of 8 but shrunk into a window. This means it is even less user friendly as everything is crammed together and requires far more scrolling. Sure you can use the search but you could do that in 8 as well.
The look is just even more fractured than before. You have the classic Windows styling, Metro is still about, and many things have been pushed off into the flat white material look that every smartphone app wants to use these days.
However the big thing for me is the lack and ease of control over Windows Update. Why can't I control this from a single window as I could in previous versions of Windows? Why do I need to go into advanced settings, download first and third party apps, just to get somewhere near what I could do in Windows 8.1 and down.
I have no problem with Windows Update being set to automatic by default but removing functionality is not a good thing. Newer software and drivers are not always better software and drivers, and choosing what I install onto my system should be far easier than what it has been made into on Windows 10.
The positive to this rant is that all the Mass Effect games work on Windows 10, as does Dragon Age: Origins, DAII, and Inquisition.
Personally speaking I have no great problem with the tracking Microsoft do, especially since you can turn it off at install. rather for me it is the usability of the system
I'm not sure how accurate this is, but... http://www.forbes.co...ws-10-tracking/
Not a great concern to be honest. Google pretty much knows every site I visit and what I am watching, so Microsoft having automatic error collection isn't something I consider troubling, I always send the error reports anyway.
Not a great concern to be honest. Google pretty much knows every site I visit and what I am watching, so Microsoft having automatic error collection isn't something I consider troubling, I always send the error reports anyway.
OK. I just wanted to make sure you knew. That's all. 
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