Sooooooo....quit *****ing and use the other options like millions of people worldwide?

lololololol....this thread. Hi guys! Its not 1997 anymore.

Short answer: The other options are worse.

MS is that devil friend you know and hate...just hide the cheesecake before he comes over.
The others are opaque.

Apple destroyed the USB port and the headphone jack. Just to be an A-hole.
Where is your music? Hahaha. We don't know.
(Oh but we still keep a copy of evvverythink you do. Don't believe the occasional underdog article.)

Goggle?
Where to even begin..
When even government websites don't function without Google javascript, it might be an indicator that something has gone wrong with society.

So this morning I turn on my computer as usual. I go get laundry ready to go out to the garage and come back to find the screen is showing what I'd expect to see if I was trying to get to the BIOS.
It's telling me the battery might be dead, do I want to continue or go to the BIOS menu?
Can Win 10 even do that since I haven't allowed updates of 'features' to happen for quite a long time?
Do I have to allow those 'features' to update in order to get MS Defender updates?

Microsoft will fix all that with the new Windows 11 coming soon. ;)

HardDrive, you've mistaken this "I am the victim of big tech" thread for a "solve a problem for OP" thread. I mean, switch operating system? "The other options are worse!" And anyway every OS in existence is still going to have to have a web browser that cannot escape "Google Javascript" so what's the use? Don't forget about computers and their cozy relationship with big magnet.
And lest we forget john70t's background on the subject of tech (seriously, use the search functionality... I'm barely scratching the surface here) tech companies are in cahoots with...

That should be unrelated to MS or Windows. There's a battery on the motherboard, maybe that's gone bad, or something else at a low level hardware level.

Yep ... or the stone age.

Interestingly and I didn't know this prior, the same lawyer represented Gore way back then.

That's what I thought too. Guess I'll see how it reacts tomorrow when I start it up.

Can't you find the file it reads from and move one component to a new folder on the desktop. I did that with that stupid cortana thing.

Oh Tishbet, you've gone so far above your duties.
It's almost like you have been writing all my words for me....
(also known as "poisoning the well" or "ad-hominen")

Only the first part in bold actually applies to this particular complaint. And the complaint is valid.
I bought an operating system.
Not a social network.

The closest analogy would be buying a house, but then the previous owner sticks a freeway billboard in the front yard.

Or imagine if this spilled over into other forms of electronics and retention of 'manufacturer rights' to alter a purchased device and a legal contract long after the fact. You drive your kid to school and try to have a conversation, but then the radio decides to turn on by itself to announce a message "too important to miss".

edit: A third one. The car won't even start until some poll/essential test/registration/etc process is completed. I'm sorry Dave I can't do that

( Let's keep this on subject shall we.)

Microsoft has become a virus
 

Excellent analogies.

I sometimes think the tech savvy guys have lost perspective. They seem to enjoy the challenges of managing/tricking software and have forgotten what it was there for in the first place. Making our lives easier, not serving us up to xyz company as a potential customer.

I'll play ;)

No, you can turn it off using the taskbar menu, right click mouse I think on the taskbar, don't take my word for it, try it out yerself. (On a side note, can we desist from these bold font shouting ? We can hear you clearly sans, this time and the previous times !)

Did someone say you're a "tech guy" maybe a writer, youtube tech star, marketing guy, exec , analyst, investor, the stereotypical old school Linux guru, just guessing , help me out ?

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1624209744.jpg

And that browser war is stone age stuff from the previous century. These days, security concerns are paramount so better have everything on auto-update folks, that's the price of entry into the modern Interweb, it being too dangerous to drive on otherwise.

Unless you're a tech guru, then yes, you can change anything you want in theory just like any other piece of software, reverse engineer the code and modify it to your purpose or more colloquially hack it ... what's the term they use on iOS, yes jailbreak, easy peasy. The only question then is whether you are good enough to do so. So, as a tech guy, take the challenge and go do it !

Well I certainly didn't want to offend anyone by using bold letters or Courier New. SmileWavy
Just figured that we read enough wall-of-text throughout a day to become tiresome without the cliffs notes.

Naw, I'm just one of those "consumer grade" people you've heard about.

All those extras become additional security risks in their own way. Doesn't it become a liability at some point?
I'm sure it's probably still there in the background sending and receiving data.

I wasn't able to undo the changes through the layman menu options.
The was no "rollback to last". Only reset to factory new.
Did they hide this on page 14,754 of the updated manual?
Win10 now disallows many functions such as removing unwanted browsers and other embedded software.

Funny thing was I provided some um choice words in the feedback section and the changes were gone with the next startup.

So when does spyware or adware become acceptable and commonplace?
Is there a definable line?

Mine started doing the same about a week ago.
After trying various steps...I found right clicking on the lower toolbar there was an option to stop the thing.

I know, like androioogle... they don't track anything or anyone. - oh . . wait. .

No, I found the option on the taskbar menu.

Looks like stevej37 did so as well.

No easy way to remove Safari from iOS or MacOS either ... for a non tech savvy person.

So what now ? Buy a chromebook :eek: ?

The likelihood is that the average non tech savvy consumer customizing e.g. deleting features, modules, modifying, hacking the system if you will perhaps in reaction to what they read online and following instructions they find online, becomes the liability at some point earlier than someone not. Again, no one's suggesting the tech guru shouldn't just go do it and test their mettle against the rest of the hacking world.

The virus part of this thread title is the installation of unrelated bloatware, aka spyware.
There are now zero laws which I am aware of regarding the stealing of proprietary data from users.
Everything (company data, medical info, tax info, etc) on a person's computer is fair game at this point. Open book.

Even after removing of unwanted software by the 'owner' these are automatically re-installed by the Operating System.
There shouldn't have to be two-tier system of 'hackers' vs 'average joes'. That should be assumed. As in "always opt out".

The non tech savvy consumer shouldn't have to fight their own product for control.