LIGuitar77:

I will just get banned if I told you what I want. Why don't you come on my page and introduce yourself so we can have the conversation there? What's your name?

Take your anger management problems elsewhere buddy, this aint the place for it.

LIGuitar77:

I am not managing anything at all. Just putting x type of people in their place, where they belong. You and anybody else don't get very far when intentionally trying to disrespect me. Maybe if I repeat it a second time, your eyes will see and then you'll finally get it: User1, what is your name? Why don't you come to my page and say hello and honestly tell what you think?

I'm still laughing over your claim that YOU PERSONALLY ALONE are responsible for AMD fixing driver bugs. You a legend in your own mind...and extremely disrespectful of others views. I've never had a Facebook account, I put that in the plus column on my side. You seem a bit 'Dunning-Kruger' to me.

I have upgraded my old LG C400 in 01.15.2018 without removing SLIC 2.1 only using my brain 😀 still people's stay worried about privacy this for me is waste of time lol because is very simple: first I dont use AV for years and never get some malware in any of my rigs so my resolution is: only learn how to configure Windows Firewal & Advanced Windows Firewall blocking a lot of "things" inside there after also disable a lot of "things" in Task Manager user need get attention in first verify what each item make before disable or in another words user need know what are doing and for last open Regedit and also set a lot of "things" inside in HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services with Start=dword:0x00000003 to 0x00000004; although is very dificult for me explain in more details because is very complex and I have fear if some user try make this hard job and resulting in total crash and for last but no less important here in my country old people say: the spell turned against the sorcerer still in another words M$FT make your own poison since times of Windows XP 😉 Edit:I think that Glasses are very bad or I'm staying blind 😉

The whole not upgrading to Windows 10 because of privacy reasons is just plain stupid. First of all, Microsoft has billions of customers worldwide. What is so important about you that they need to spend the time and resources to spy on you? Also if any operating system is more secure than another, it's going to be the most current. But to be completely honest, the second you connect any device to the internet you are throwing your privacy out the window regardless of the OS. If these tin foil hat people really want to protect their privacy so much, just stay off the internet all together. They'd be doing a lot of us a favor.

tensai28:

The whole not upgrading to Windows 10 because of privacy reasons is just plain stupid. First of all, Microsoft has billions of customers worldwide. What is so important about you that they need to spend the time and resources to spy on you? Also if any operating system is more secure than another, it's going to be the most current. But to be completely honest, the second you connect any device to the internet you are throwing your privacy out the window regardless of the OS. If these tin foil hat people really want to protect their privacy so much, just stay off the internet all together. They'd be doing a lot of us a favor.

yep I agree 100% your post make my day very intelligent 🙂

I too don't like Windows 10's telemetry, but I've seen that alot of people that are complaining about it have been using Android phones and Facebook for years without any remorse. But the thing that Microsoft definitely did bad with Windows 10 was trying to force it on everyone, actually making Windows 7 upgrade to it automatically. That screams "we control your PC" and the telemetry is just adding more fuel to the fire. The key thing IMO is being transparent with the telemetry. I do let Nvidia's telemetry be active now, but I was pissed back when they included it in the drivers by sneaking it in without a single word and others had to discover it.

LIGuitar77:

I am not managing anything at all. Just putting x type of people in their place, where they belong. You and anybody else don't get very far when intentionally trying to disrespect me. Maybe if I repeat it a second time, your eyes will see and then you'll finally get it: User1, what is your name? Why don't you come to my page and say hello and honestly tell what you think?

This is a Computer and technology forum, ,you clearly can't take criticism without overreacting, this is not the place for intimidating people, take it elsewhere. stick to the Topic of the thread. Trying to "put people in their place" on the internet makes you look like a fool. As for microsoft ending their "free" upgrade, I think it will only hurt them if its true, win 10 is OK, but its not really a significant improvement over win 7 , practically anything you can do on win7 can be done just as well as on win 10, what they need to do is clean up their updater, updating is probably the worst part of win 10, little to no control and unexpected interruptions , and too many reboots, still boggles me that updating on debian based distros has been faster , can be done mostly with no downtime, and never has to reboot more than once, for longer than win7 has been around.

sverek:

Good, now make Win11 that doesn't smell like bloatware and designed for desktop PCs.

Why should they ? all smartphones users are being tracked, all smart TV users are being tracked... why just a war on Microsoft all of the sudden ? if ppl are really worried about the future of Windows why no one is even trying to fix linux in the first place ?! every single IoT device could be set up as a tracking device You do know that ? your home router could be tracking You, your internet provider is doing just that and all of You are worried about just 1 operating system? why?

Raider0001:

Why should they ? all smartphones users are being tracked, all smart TV users are being tracked... why just a war on Microsoft all of the sudden ? if ppl are really worried about the future of Windows why no one is even trying to fix linux in the first place ?! every single IoT device could be set up as a tracking device You do know that ? your home router could be tracking You, your internet provider is doing just that and all of You are worried about just 1 operating system? why?

You can opt-out off all the things you mentioned or make it nearly impossible to track you except OS. And with that OS they have access to everything you do,what you write in word, what are your pictures and movies on HDD,everything,rest of the pack that you mentioned have at best just snippets of your info. OS has it all. Not to mention that Android and vast majority of Google services are free of charge,your info is their pay,they say that upfront to you, and we all get that, do we all agree onto those terms is irrelevant because we can opt-out or use fake personality's ,but we can not do that on OS that we PAID for, and that OS has access to everything we create or interact while using said system

tensai28:

The whole not upgrading to Windows 10 because of privacy reasons is just plain stupid. First of all, Microsoft has billions of customers worldwide. What is so important about you that they need to spend the time and resources to spy on you? Also if any operating system is more secure than another, it's going to be the most current. But to be completely honest, the second you connect any device to the internet you are throwing your privacy out the window regardless of the OS. If these tin foil hat people really want to protect their privacy so much, just stay off the internet all together. They'd be doing a lot of us a favor.

Some of us refuse to willingly accept the Orwellian dystopia that is being forced upon us. We refuse to allow US corporations use personal information to try to influence our political views, our emotions, what we eat, who we like, who we hate. We refuse to willingly give our data to foreign powers and secret service - the CIA. We will never accept this, we will never be brainwashed into accepting this as normal. And before you ask, no I don't have a smartphone.

I just want an OS that works good and is not annoying.... hence the problem with Windows 10. Fingers crossed Microsoft make a proper desktop OS in the future.

Raider0001:

Why should they ? all smartphones users are being tracked, all smart TV users are being tracked... why just a war on Microsoft all of the sudden ? if ppl are really worried about the future of Windows why no one is even trying to fix linux in the first place ?! every single IoT device could be set up as a tracking device You do know that ? your home router could be tracking You, your internet provider is doing just that and all of You are worried about just 1 operating system? why?

Chill kid, while I worry a bit about my privacy, Win10 is not a desktop OS. I use it daily at job and there just too many useless features. Automatic updates are also very horrible. Win10 is needlessly over-complicated. I like my OS simple. EDIT: IF Win10 was free, I'd say it's ok considering the amount of ads and data surveillance in it. I just don't understand why people pay money for Win10 only to become a product themselves. Oh wait, they don't... free upgrade for Win7,8.1 users. I guess users ARE product for M$.

I wonder more why if folks dislike something, why bother to post? I am not a fan of many things discussed on these forums but it seems a waste of time to just sh!t all over it because I'm not a fan. You people act like there's some golden OS out there. None are perfect so what exactly is the point?

The group of PC enthusiasts that builds their own PC, is into overclocking, modifies their OS image, buys premium parts.........what % of MS customers is this? Is it even .001%? I doubt it. Missing telemetry from this group is meaningless as it: 1. does not represent a realistic user of their product 2. is not a tangible portion of their user base Why not offer an enthusiast build that is just the OS with the option to add in the OEM stuff as an option instead of by force? I would pay a small premium for a build like that. Don't get me wrong, I really like Windows 10.......after I modify the image so I have a clean install free from all the clutter I wont ever use. The OS itself has been great to work with, absolutely no issues.

Ricepudding:

I'm sensing many tin foil hats here 😀

I think it depends on age. 1990's: "In the future, our PCs will be wiretapped and spy on us 24/7." 2010's: "Hey Wire Tap, search for pictures of cats eating pancakes." Younger people accept this as normal, because they never used devices before that were not wiretapped. It's normal for them that there's lists out there containing what books they buy, what movies they watch, what websites they visit, where they go when they leave the house, who they meet, who their friends are, what people they know, etc. These lists make it possible to completely profile you. People like me on the other hand who grew up in the 80's or 90's, think that nobody in the world should own such lists. Personally, I consider the existence of such lists a violation of human rights.

You don't have to play the "privacy card" to show Win10 is a "bad OS". Imagine the following stuff from a business perspective: - You are unable to control the updates you get, except you use WSUS, which brings other problems but is unsuitable for most SMBs. - There were updates which fu**ed up your system to an unbootable state. Not only once, but a few times. The time until an "update fixing update" was made took some time. - Cortana and some other components send data to M$. Let me introduce you to German Data Protection laws: That is forbidden if you cannot control the data flow. (short one, eh?) - Windows 10 does only need a simple key press to unlock the lockscreen, no CTRL+ALT+DEL needed. Any key gets accepted => login mask! - Windows Store is something you do not want to have in a business infrastructure. - All "apps" are somewhat not needed. - You are not able to uninstall some default programs (Win10 Pro example: XBox support), even though they are definitely unneeded. You have to find reg hacks or something for that. But that could break your computer, some program you use or something else, because this is unsupported and undocumented. Good luck raising a ticket at M$ for that. - A nagging Windows Defender which re-enables itself is the worst you could encounter in a production area with CPU/GPU-intense programs running difficult calculations or something where an interruption is critical and could result in the 4-day-crunch-job to be done again. - Driver release control is another thing to be considered. WU installs the newest driver. We had the case where this lead to a not working LAN card (Realtek). The card was working with the drivers from release control, but were overwritten by WU ones, which kicked two servers out of the net. So please tell me again why Win10 is the best OS so far. 🙂 Yes, I stick to Win7, even in business (if I can). And no, I do not know what I will do when the ext. support of Win7 ends. But yes, I think there will be an option, because we have two years to go. Remember when Win8 came out. Almost the same, but this time, the support time for Win7 is shorter.

RealNC:

I think it depends on age. 1990's: "In the future, our PCs will be wiretapped and spy on us 24/7." 2010's: "Hey Wire Tap, search for pictures of cats eating pancakes." [...]

Yes, it does, 80's here. ;-) But be honest, in the 80's / 90's we didn't have this stress at all: modems were slow as fu**, no "normal user" used the internet because of tremendous prices for a 14k dialup and the cats were ASCII art, so not much joy at this time. OK, with 320x240 pixels porn wasn't online either. "Oh yeah, these two pixels could be the head, OH WAIT, THESE TWO ARE THE B**BS!! LOOK AT THOSE BIIIIG PIXELS!!" *lol*

If you complain about Win 10's telemetry and still use Google, Facebook or any other social media then you're quite the hypocrite.

CalculuS:

If you complain about Win 10's telemetry and still use Google, Facebook or any other social media then you're quite the hypocrite.

I don't use Google. Nor Facebook. But if I did, neither one of those things is scanning my disk drives and sending unknown information to someone. That's just not possible.

RealNC:

I don't use Google. Nor Facebook. But if I did, neither one of those things is scanning my disk drives and sending unknown information to someone. That's just not possible.

Well good for you, you're not a hypocrite.

LIGuitar77:

Only thing is, I am. Bioshock Infinite and similar games and certainly, there were other instances. Reported on here too. Are you some kind of stupid or just jealous? Very sheepish behavior. https://forums.guru3d.com/threads/bug-report-involving-atidxx32-dll-on-64-bit-7sp1.403912/ Whole major browser fixed because of my reporting too: https://forums.guru3d.com/threads/amd-radeon-software-crimson-relive-17-9-1-driver-download-discussion.416723/#post-5470173 Haters are some of the most disgusting people going. I suggest trying not to be one.

What are you, 12? Claiming your report alone among thousands was THE report...I guess there are a lot of things I should be taking credit for...hmm. What an odd duck you are.