Windows 10 setup and security advice

Or two physical cores each with two logical cores, rather.

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If you use Bing, Cortana, OneDrive or Skype on Win 10, by virtue of using it and explicitly or implicitly accepting the EULA you:

"grant to Microsoft a worldwide and royalty-free intellectual property license to use Your Content"

as it says in the EULA for those products.

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Win 10 often just ignores this setting.

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Microsoft says Win 10 will be the last "boxed" release of Windows. The idea is now to provide "Windows as a service" and you don't get a DVD with an installer that gives you a fairly recent version and install a service pack, it's more like there's an app called "Windows" that is distributed via the cloud and incrementally updates itself over time, with little user control over the process or what it changes.

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"Carl" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@news2.newsguy.com:

This from a guy who doesn't even know how to properly quote in Usenet?

More like YouGoofd.

Of course... you would have made the world differently.

You sound more like a GloatGoat.

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bitrex wrote in news:oJQmD.93665$ snipped-for-privacy@fx45.iad:

mfgr's

WTF are you on about now?

You were pissing and moaning about seg faults.

You have hardware issues or you are tweaking setting you know nothing about and using "It works under Linux" as your qualifier for the shit you spew?

ALL of my machine ALSO "work under Linux".

But damn, child... The problems you are having are so ten years ago that I cannot help but think that you either tweaked it up or it was shit from the get go.

My current hardware is a Lenovo P71 with a Xeon and Quadro P5000.

Amazing to me how so many billions of transistors can all get along so well together and the menagerie of code running it does too.

Maybe you are like those guys who cannot even wear a watch without it going dead on them.

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bitrex wrote in news:jL0nD.58153$ snipped-for-privacy@fx34.iad:

No. One use the Windows Media Creation Tool. That tool builds a current , streamlined ISO at the current release level.

The ESD iso and 1803 are current. 1803 is what the current update blocks are putting on machines.

There are no multiple versions. All are on a single ISO.

Most machines today get KEY locked via their BIOS.

So my Windows 10 home machine was able to be fully reset and MS saw the key and activated it. They also upgraded it to Windows 10 pro thru the store.

So you must be "toying" with it and then you come here a spout bullshit about how you are back to windows 98.

I doubt you ever used that one right either.

Maybe the world should just flood again and wipe us all out.

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Actually, the problem is that the BSOD does not produce a detailed error message as in the older versions of Windoze. For that genuine blue nostalgic look, go to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\CrashControl and create a new DWORD registry key called DisplayParameters=1 If you want to dig into the minidump file: Unfortunately, with Windoze 10, I sometimes see empty minidump files.

When I get a BSOD complaint from a customer, I use this to determine which device or device driver is screwing up this time. I don't recall getting any BSODs from applications, but see plenty from video cards and video drivers. The OEM video drivers are usually a few versions behind those from Nvidia and AMD. An update usually fixes the problem.

Win 10 performance is not very mysterious. I constantly get complaints of really slow performance only to find that yet another megabloat Microsoft rollup update is being downloaded. Fire up the Task Manager and look at the pretty graphs for a clue. If the network is busy, it's downloading. If the hard disk is busy, it's installing. If both are busy, then Microsoft spyware is collecting and delivering "telemetry" to the mother ship. Do something else while MS is gobbling your CPU cycles and bandwidth. Resistance is futile. (Yes, I know that Linux doesn't have this problem).

Win 10 is reasonably fast according to benchmarks, but in my never humble opinion, not very responsive. All the well hidden and wasted activity running in the background does take its toll. The extra few milliseconds of delay when hitting the mouse button makes it "feel" like Win 10 is slow.

As for cryptic error messages, explanations can often be found using a Google search. Often, you can find other users with the same problem by searching for the error message.

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+1 Although I don't notice that the slowdowns are particularly bad.

FWIW, this is on a +5 year old T530 Thinkpad

2.8G Core i7-3840GM, 8G RAM, Windows 1803 Build 17134.285, Toshiba THNSNF128GCSS SSD

Upgraded in-place from Windows 8.0 with which is was shipped.

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You're just being your usual dramatic self. Oh, you. /yawn

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Jasen Betts wrote in news:pnnqdv$9i1$ snipped-for-privacy@gonzo.alcatraz:

Not much experience with ExpressCard eh?

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No actual expreience plugging hardware in, but I've read that it's PCIe and USB combined, so not a real 16550 unless that card includes an ISA bus bridge.

Hey wasn't some doofus trumpeting that angle brackets would make URLs work?

In this PC I have a NetMOS/Moschip something (PCI ID 9710:9904) which has the same registers as a 16550 and is covered by the linux serial_8250 driver

Also been using NXP 16IS752 which is dual 16550 compatible UART with I2C or SPI interface (using this with raspberry pi)

Your ExpressCard looks like it might use OXPCIe952 which is a PCIe to

2S1P chip, I've used other Oxford UARTS and they seem 16550 compatible too, but I did have to change something with setserial to get the baud rates right. (kernel devs may have fixed that)

these days it seems that most UARTS have a serial interface of some type on both sides.

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Yes. That was this doofus complaining about word wrapped URL's. Mr Decadent Linux User Numer Uno is using Xnews, which ignores the < > quotes and word wraps URL like is was ordinary text. Here's a work around: I don't have Xnews on my Linux box so I can't test it and don't grok Delphi so I can't fix it permanently.

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