[Sweetpea]

Originally Posted by fjtorres

It doesn't actually do anything unless you go out of your way to tell it to.
That's what's so funny about the handwringing.

The new default is the same as the old default.

Wrong. The new default tells my pc to "share" the updates I downloaded with others. That was not the default in Windows 7.

Originally Posted by John F

I just upgraded and it went nice and smooth, except...

I unchecked all the options for "sharing" (my location, my contacts, ...), and the first time Edge comes with MobileRead I get a local ad.

I noticed that too. Google insists on going to the Dutch version even though I have an English version of Windows and I have all my location information off. I wonder how Google knows I have my settings in Dutch...

Originally Posted by crane3

YouTube does the same thing, but there's an option to not use one's location for the Ads/recommendations.

However, you need to check how your windows update is being done. Click notification icon on the tray bar; select "all settings";
click on "update & security, windows update, recovery, backup"; select "advanced options"; select "choose how updates are delivered". Then get shocked!!! on what the default is!

Suggest one do the turn off of "updates from more than one place". You can leave the get/send updates to the PCs on your local network if you feel safe. BUT do turn off the get/send updates to PCs on the internet!

I turned off everything as it is a nice way to get viruses/trojans/etc even from m$ or more likely, other PCs on the internet.

Spotted this on the win10 newsgroup & something I wouldn't think of doing/checking; VERY SNEAKY like a torrant based file xfers.

Indeed! Another thing where I think: what has MS been smoking to think about this... (together with the default "let's all share wifi passwords with everybody", time to never ever give out our wifi passwords to anybody anymore, you never know with who they'll share it...)

Originally Posted by howyoudoin

For those who can't stand the bright white title bars on windows with Win 10, there's a method to colour them according to your tastes again. I don't know what MS were thinking making those plain white.

http://www.windowscentral.com/replac...0-colors-theme

The idea is that developers can colour those title bars. But if they haven't, it'll revert to white. Why not let it revert to the colour of your choice?

Originally Posted by howyoudoin

Also, a word of caution for those that rely on OneDrive storage.

The OneDrive client on Win 10 breaks a feature that many people rely on - local place-holders for online-only files.

Previously one could mark selected files and folders as online-only, which would remove those files from local storage (freeing up room on your local storage), leave them stored on the cloud, and also leave place-holders on the PC so you could locally browse the entire contents of your OneDrive. Win 10 breaks that simple functionality I hope they bring it back soon.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/testers...onedrive-sync/

This is an old article from 2014, but I can confirm that the issue still persists.

One thing I noticed about OneDrive in Windows 10: it looks and works exactly like on Windows 7. It's almost as if the Windows 8 version never existed...