Windows 10 phones home when you search your start menu, even with Bing disabled

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Post by ultramancool » Mon, Aug 10, 2015, 10:08 PM UTC

Windows 10 phones home when you search your start menu, even with Bing disabled
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Re: Windows 10 phones home when you search your start menu, even with Bing disabled

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Post by ultramancool » Mon, Aug 10, 2015, 10:08 PM UTC

This occurs even on Enterprise with Cortana and Bing disabled via the UI and via GPOs.

Re: Windows 10 phones home when you search your start menu, even with Bing disabled

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Post by mahouse » Mon, Aug 10, 2015, 10:21 PM UTC

Do "normal" applications look blurry on high DPI screens?

Re: Windows 10 phones home when you search your start menu, even with Bing disabled

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Post by ultramancool » Mon, Aug 10, 2015, 10:22 PM UTC

mahouse wrote: post #3

Do "normal" applications look blurry on high DPI screens?

Applications without DPI scaling support on Windows are like that. More and more apps are getting there, but still not Fiddler apparently.

Re: Windows 10 phones home when you search your start menu, even with Bing disabled

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Post by kyrra » Mon, Aug 10, 2015, 10:23 PM UTC

ultramancool wrote: post #2

This occurs even on Enterprise with Cortana and Bing disabled via the UI and via GPOs.

When going through the "advanced" upgrade install of Win10, there was an option to NOT send Microsoft information about what you search for in the bar. It's set to send by default, but can be disabled.

Re: Windows 10 phones home when you search your start menu, even with Bing disabled

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Post by Paul_S » Mon, Aug 10, 2015, 10:23 PM UTC

mahouse wrote: post #3

Do "normal" applications look blurry on high DPI screens?

What's a "DPI screen"? Couldn't find anything on wikipedia.

Re: Windows 10 phones home when you search your start menu, even with Bing disabled

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Post by ultramancool » Mon, Aug 10, 2015, 10:25 PM UTC

kyrra wrote: post #5

ultramancool wrote: post #2

This occurs even on Enterprise with Cortana and Bing disabled via the UI and via GPOs.

When going through the "advanced" upgrade install of Win10, there was an option to NOT send Microsoft information about what you search for in the bar. It's set to send by default, but can be disabled.

I have everything disabled in privacy settings. Doesn't help. Check for yourself if you like.

It's important to note that this is _not_ info that you search for. No search query was included. Just a lot of identifying information about my machine.

Re: Windows 10 phones home when you search your start menu, even with Bing disabled

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Post by Paul_S » Mon, Aug 10, 2015, 10:26 PM UTC

Reminds me of when canononical did something similar with ubuntu and extended searching your applications to searching merchandise on amazon and other stores. It's really funny when you open the start menu equivalent at work to launch the terminal* and as you type "t" you get to see items you can buy - one of them being "The Simpsons". Genius.

* before you complain I use the start menu to launch the terminal: I never remember ubuntu shortcuts, it's meta+t on my system

Re: Windows 10 phones home when you search your start menu, even with Bing disabled

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Post by hkmix » Mon, Aug 10, 2015, 10:27 PM UTC

Paul_S wrote: post #6

mahouse wrote: post #3

Do "normal" applications look blurry on high DPI screens?

What's a "DPI screen"? Couldn't find anything on wikipedia.

I'm assuming "high DPI screens" was the intention.

Re: Windows 10 phones home when you search your start menu, even with Bing disabled

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Post by acqq » Mon, Aug 10, 2015, 10:27 PM UTC

ultramancool wrote: post #2

This occurs even on Enterprise with Cortana and Bing disabled via the UI and via GPOs.

The most interesting are the fields in the headers tab (machine id, resolution...)