This happened to my co-worker just the other day. He develops native windows software so it was pretty annoying for him.
Windows 7 computers are automatically starting the Windows 10 upgrade
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Re: Windows 7 computers are automatically starting the Windows 10 upgrade
#12Strangely nobody has ever caught this on video. Just a handful of anonymous people claiming "I totally didn't hit the wrong button in the UI!!" Now, sure, I'd agree it should be harder to accidentally upgrade your PC. In particular for layman users. But I am generally skeptical that this is any more than just user error until proven otherwise. I have a Windows 7 PC I use regularly, I too get the upgrade prompts, but…
http://www.infoworld.com/article/3043526/microsoft-windows/m...
It's a mainstream journalist so mileage might vary quite highly, but probably a little more trustworthy than a Reddit thread. At first they talk about the Reddit thread but then say they caught it on their own box.
Re: Windows 7 computers are automatically starting the Windows 10 upgrade
#13I use Windows Media Center on my machine so I'll be pretty irritated if it automatically upgrades - MS removed it in Windows 10.
Why not VLC?
I think you're thinking of Media Player, not Media Center.
Media Center is a whole DVR package, consumes TV streams, TV guide data, recordings, can be connected to an Xbox 360... and so on.
Re: Windows 7 computers are automatically starting the Windows 10 upgrade
#14Now with more ads, spyware, constant logging of everything you do to Microsoft, and telemetry!
No thanks. I guess MS wants to cede the entire high-end market to Apple and Linux and re-position themselves as a bargain basement low-end vendor of spyware ridden junk.
Re: Windows 7 computers are automatically starting the Windows 10 upgrade
#15Strangely nobody has ever caught this on video. Just a handful of anonymous people claiming "I totally didn't hit the wrong button in the UI!!" Now, sure, I'd agree it should be harder to accidentally upgrade your PC. In particular for layman users. But I am generally skeptical that this is any more than just user error until proven otherwise. I have a Windows 7 PC I use regularly, I too get the upgrade prompts, but…
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"I clicked 'update security' and it gave me Windows 10!"
Re: Windows 7 computers are automatically starting the Windows 10 upgrade
#16I use Windows Media Center on my machine so I'll be pretty irritated if it automatically upgrades - MS removed it in Windows 10.
This is the exact reason I have been avoiding 10. I still use the DVR capability. I know I don't have automatic update on, but still getting paranoid about it reading all the issues people are having.
Re: Windows 7 computers are automatically starting the Windows 10 upgrade
#17I use Windows Media Center on my machine so I'll be pretty irritated if it automatically upgrades - MS removed it in Windows 10.
Why not VLC?
While it comes down to some level of personal preference - VLC is not faithful to source material in regards to color balance/contrast and this is apparent in scenes with shadows. VLC will have a "washed out" look. Some users prefer that "washed out" look though (for scenes with very heavy shadows it often does look aesthetically better) but others prefer faithfulness to the original.
MPC-HC is more faithful to the original product - so I recommend it over VLC.
Example: http://i.imgur.com/TJng0HW.jpg
E:
Not my image and I noticed the frame is different. I can assure you that the difference isn't due to being different frames. You'll find no shortage of better examples by searching "VLC washed out".
Re: Windows 7 computers are automatically starting the Windows 10 upgrade
#18This upgrade occurred to my father's Dell laptop, which became hung during the install and essentially "locked" from his standpoint. (He lives in another state and I'm not able to assist his technical needs.) In any case, he took it to Office Max where he bought it and asked them to fix it. They did: they wiped his hard drive clean and installed Windows 10. With none of his files. Aggressive updating of an OS is not…
Does your father still have the laptop? If so, ask him not to use it until you can get hold of it, and when you do I'd suggest running a Linux live distro on the machine with tools to recover deleted files, there's a decent chance you'll be able to recover many of them.
I've had success with the tools included in Trinity Rescue Kit before, so I can recommend that to you. I've used it to recover a bunch of pictures that were lost with a drive reformat.
http://trinityhome.org/Home/index.php?content=TRINITY_RESCUE...
Re: Windows 7 computers are automatically starting the Windows 10 upgrade
#19Funny, I've been trying to get my Windows 7 laptop to take the upgrade, but it strangely won't.
Re: Windows 7 computers are automatically starting the Windows 10 upgrade
#20uhh. Could this not set them up for a lawsuit? I mean, I assume and argument could be made that there's some liability involved in MS screws up the installation or if some program fails to continue to function. This should be fun to watch.
I just got upgraded Saturday and the EULA specifically says that you can't bring a class action lawsuit against them. They want you to try arbitration for 60 days and if that doesn't work then you can try small claims. Yeah, sure.
Anyway I had two problems afterwards.
It logged me into a TEMP account so no config changes were saved and my files appeared to be all missing. They weren't, it just the shortcuts all point to the C:\users\TEMP\ directories. There's a few fixes for that one. Mine was checking the box that stopped OneNote from auto loading at start up.
After a reboot the start menu went away. The logo button is there but the menu doesn't come up. I found a site with a few fixed and tried them all in succession. I don't know which one solved it because I only rebooted after doing all of them.
So now I have 30 days to downgrade to Win 7 or forever hold my peace.