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bmoc wrote:As for ironing out problems...I guess that varies from computer to computer. The 1511 build removed certain programs on install. Piriform products like CCleaner were sometime affected as well as Microsoft's own RSAT tools.


Yes, this was the first time Windows 10 made me feel a little icky. I was like "hey, where did Speccy go???" But I mean, you can just re-install it. But still. Why did that happen?

Again, I totally love Windows 10 on a utilitarian level. It's just these updates and how MS has gone about them that I'm not really thrilled with.
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I remember reading that about that last update that went through where it would jack stuff right off your computer without asking, then default all sorts of junk to their own software which is beyond pushy and rude.

I'm more worried about the stability issues and that's it. It was fine, didn't like how it was harder to get into parts of control panel as they seem to like to make that harder by the versions over the years. Also all that spying it does sucks, but it's easy to turn off pretty much all of it but the anonymous stuff.
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noiseredux wrote:Yes, this was the first time Windows 10 made me feel a little icky. I was like "hey, where did Speccy go???" But I mean, you can just re-install it. But still. Why did that happen?


While I don't especially love the idea either, I do think it's potentially something that's actually good for the majority of users. There's a lot of stuff out there that's borderline malware, that a lot of the scanners will even pick up ("Potentially Unwanted Programs"), whose presence tends to be annoying at best.
I can completely understand the notion to have Windows automatically clean out stuff like that. Likely, any of us that have spent time cleaning the crapware off of family member's computers and the like do. Similarly, programs/versions that are known bad.

It's the simply going and doing it with no warning or option not to that's a problem. There should just be a basic, easy to find control panel for it, even if the default behavior is the same.

'course, it might also be there to make shifting to the Windows Store more logical. Encourage people to get verified apps from there, versus grabbing .exes.
OS X already does that, effectively - it's easy to change the setting governing it, but it'll block a lot of randomly downloaded programs by default.
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isiolia wrote:It's the simply going and doing it with no warning or option not to that's a problem. There should just be a basic, easy to find control panel for it, even if the default behavior is the same.


this is my thought process as well. I just wanted a little notification. It was a weird feeling to be like "I know I installed Speccy on here, where is it?" because for a moment I worried that I had a corrupt HDD sector or something. Ideally, I'd be totally fine with what you're talking about, as it sort of amounts to an extension of Microsoft Security Essentials. Sure it's more intrusive, but like you said - it could do some serious good, especially to those that don't really know how to keep a PC clean, or just don't want to be bothered with the responsibility. But it would be great if the rest of us were given an option to say "no, Speccy's cool. Keep it."
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windows 10 can pry my programs from my cold dead hands
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That was my first thought too. Warn me, ask me. Don't just do it. Give it a double question where you need to read and have like OK CANCEL boxes switch wording or something to stop pea brains who don't read stuff from causing themselves problems. Default it's a nice idea, so much garbage gets on there, and like on Mac OS if you are stuck using their app store, and you get everything searching off that, the effective ability to pick up crapware, malware, trojans and viruses plummets causing both owners, but also microsoft(and repair shops) far less headaches and wasted time on stupid stuff.
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bmoc wrote:Piriform products like CCleaner were sometime affected as well as Microsoft's own RSAT tools.

YES. Every computer that I've installed CCleaner on was taken out during upgrades. Annoying.
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I keep hoping that Microsoft will announce their next big OS - Windows 3.2.
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oh cool!

My mobo in my main rig has some really nice in-depth hardware monitoring software but I tend to just throw Speccy on everything I build as it's lightweight and easy for quick answers. Nice to see them act so quick to fix that.
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