Do you connect to a domain? Could be a group policy forcing the settings for you.

I have been running Windows 10 and two big concerns:
1) Running Chrome lots of pop-up shopping adds appear (which never happened in "7")
2) Web pages are loading extremely slow...and many times not all pictures load - very frustrating.

I am unsure on how to address these two.

I have been running Windows 10 and two big concerns:
1) Running Chrome lots of pop-up shopping adds appear (which never happened in "7")
2) Web pages are loading extremely slow...and many times not all pictures load - very frustrating.

I am unsure on how to address these two.

Chrome is slow, and now my printer won't print (and it's plugged into the laptop).
It's the default printer but when I click on print nothing happens.

Download this
https://adblockplus.org/

I switched to 10 about a week ago.
So far I haven't had any problems or complaints.

I haven't had any trouble with Chrome. I run Kaspersky Internet Security for Windows 10. It blocks the popups. You might want to check that you don't have an add on running in Chrome that was added with the upgrade.

I just finished the (extremely) painful process of reverting back to Win 8.1, which is like a comfortable old friend compared to what Win 10 put me through.

I have two Windows devices: a Lenovo Yoga 13 and a Lenovo Yoga 2 Tablet 10.

The 13 ran fine for 2 days after installing Win10. Then I got pushed an update that caused the screen to permanently rotate 90 degrees into portrait mode. No matter what I did, I could not force it to stay in landscape mode. To add insult to injury, after a few hours, the keyboard and touchpad stopped working completely. Yes, I restarted/rebooted/coldbooted the machine several times to no avail.

The Tablet was dog slow immediately after the install. The on-screen keyboard took 2-3 seconds to register every keypress. After a day I got pushed an update, the tablet rebooted, and it ran fine. Two days later I got pushed another update and the tablet got even slower than before. I finally gave up.

Un-installing Win10 was a nightmare. As soon as the first pass to uninstall was complete, Windows Update refused to provide updates without also trying to re-install Win10. I had to go through some severe gyrations to prevent Win10 from being re-installed. This website was absolutely critical to getting my issues resolved.

Don't do it, people. Just download ClassicShell and be happy with that.

I always respect the opinions of PC World magazine:

Windows 10 Worst Feature Now Installing On Windows 7 And Windows 8

Screw W10.

Thanks for the link, Bob. I had recently killed off the one update that pesters the Win7 users to 'upgrade' to W10. :-/

I do wonder if people believe that Apple and Google/Android aren't doing similar tracking/metric gathering. :-/

No where to run now, other than unplugging the webs.

Interesting thread. I am using an 8 or 9 year old T61 ThinkPad running Vista. I keep getting messages that my browser will not be supported soon, but old laptop cannot run a newer one.
It's pretty much time to get a new one, but I have not kept up with the latest equipment. Now I have to get into it again to try and figure out what would be best purchase.

I have the same T61 with XP and running Firefox...I never get messages. My rig is still running strong, quick, and reliable.
Maybe download Firefox?

With Chrome on any Windows OS, 7, 8 or 10 there are some issues: I think it is still only 32 bit (mine is) so it will suck on a 64 bit version of Windows, Chrome loads various DLL files as it loads for video, sound and other stuff. This can be turned off but then Google behaves strangely. If you load and run Ad Blocker, it takes some time to get loaded and started. Finally temp files and cache files are on the C:\ drive by default and to speed things up I moved the sub directories to a faster drive away from the OS. I also clean out these sub directories every few days.

I checked my task manager and it shows ONE Chrome application running and FIVE Chrome processes. To see what is inside those processes and what they are doing you will need a process debugging tool that lets you look inside these to see what they are doing. OR you can have Chrome open and kill them one at a time to see what happens, one of three choices, nothing, Chrome will crash or hopefully Chrome will speed up.

It appears Microsoft wants you to use their browsing tools so they seem to try to make other browsers run poorly.

Google doesn't need anybody's help in making their software run poorly. They do just fine on their own!

Bought Dell laptop a few moths back, it came loaded with Win 8. It was awful I hated it. Got the free Win 10 upgrade equally bad. In addition to many of the issues posted above I can not get most of my old programs to work with 10. Of course Office is completely different and you need to buy it. So all of my old office documents are useless.

My wife on the other hand has an Apple macpro I think it is called. She has few issues. When they up date the OS it remains familiar territory and her old programs generally work.

Cue that ominous theme music from "Jaws"...

Microsoft accused of adding spy features to Windows 7, 8 | Ars Technica

I'm only a computer user and not overly savvy about the technical side of it. I was completely happy with Win 7. I downloaded Win 10 because I was sick & tired of the pop ups, so finally gave in. I really don't like it. It seems cumbersome to use and not very intuitive for me. I lost my "fax and scan" after downloading it. My wife downloaded it & fax & scan downloaded on her lap top. I'm assuming I have go to the "store" to download it onto my computer. I use that a lot to archive important documents into folders and back up copies onto flash drives.

My biggest issue is that the "look" of icons, folders, etc., all seem like a throwback to Windows 3.1.

Well James, they could have made it a throw back to Windows 2.0 so the screen would disappear at random times and you'd have to power off to get back to work! Personally I was hoping for a move back to MS-DOS 2.1 so everyone would have to learn how to type commands.....sure would cut down on internet traffic!