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As soon as I saw 'Use Express Settings' my antennae twitched.
I locked it down via Custom Install and later through every Privacy setting I could find. I still daresay there is hidden access in the backgound. "Allow MS access to my Contacts and Calendar"? Cheek. |
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The privacy watchdog now gets involved with the Mail one of the first to actually report it, yet again.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...dogs-warn.html "The privacy statement says: ‘your typed and handwritten words are collected.’" |
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#1328 |
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Cameron must be envious.
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#1329 |
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"Allow MS access to my Contacts and Calendar"?
Cheek. Apple does the same thing with Siri on iOS, and do people moan about privacy? |
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Cameron must be envious.
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#1331 |
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Ipswich Suffolk
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It was something that was there in 8.1 also......
To remove the input indicator from the taskbar.... Settings - System - Notifications & Actions - Turn system Icons on or off - Input indicator - Set to Off... Lots of other choices in there.. Hope that helps. |
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#1332 |
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How else is (for example) Cortana going to schedule things for you or send emails to your contacts?
Apple does the same thing with Siri on iOS, and do people moan about privacy? |
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Oh dear, read his message
site update - 4 august this guy knows his onions talking about windows http://www.tweakguides.com/ Quote:
I could provide plenty more examples of annoying or counter-productive feature and UI changes
I wish he would!!
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#1334 |
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Apropos harvesting data, there's an app for iOS that helps users with their online purchases and looks for cheapest offers of a particular product. The user must give access to their emails. Which then the app, besides doing what it promised to, scans and analyses online purchase receipts and reports to the HQ. They have tens of millions of installations and use the data to estimate how many pieces of a particular product were sold. They estimated among other things that purchases of Apple Watch are on the decline.
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Tried edge last night but awful to use, it just kept freezing up for a few seconds. This needs some fixes applying.
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Join Date: Oct 2002
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Edge is so slow and clunky for me. Firefox is better but still not as fast and slick as it was with win 8.1. Same goes for IE now with win 10.
If Edge doesn't sort itself out soon, I will revert back to win 8.1 for this reason alone. |
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#1337 |
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Default Apps/Desktop Applications for Win 10, or indeed Win 8.1 which seems to be only marginally different.
https://www.thurrott.com/windows/win...e-default-apps |
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I blocked evil Google ad servers in hosts file since there is no other way yet and now Edge works nicely and rather fast, too.
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I blocked evil Google ad servers in hosts file since there is no other way yet and now Edge works nicely and rather fast, too.
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As soon as I saw 'Use Express Settings' my antennae twitched.
I locked it down via Custom Install and later through every Privacy setting I could find. I still daresay there is hidden access in the backgound. "Allow MS access to my Contacts and Calendar"? Cheek.
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Edge is so slow and clunky for me. Firefox is better but still not as fast and slick as it was with win 8.1. Same goes for IE now with win 10.
If Edge doesn't sort itself out soon, I will revert back to win 8.1 for this reason alone. I've been using Edge solidly for the past 2 days and it's fine on 90% of sites. |
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Yes, you can.
Start > Settings > Personalisation > Colours Turn off 'Automatically pick an accent colour from my background' Turn on 'Show colour on taskbar, Start menu and Action Center' Click on a tile of your preferred colour in the colour palette |
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#1343 |
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How is that done please?
http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hostswin8.htm |
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Love the notification icon in the taskbar.
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I was rather amused by the following article....
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...ow-repeat.html .... but it begs the question, will W10 find pictures in other folders such as My Documents? Not that I've got anything like that poor bloke, of course!
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You would stop using W10 because of Edge, even though you can install any browser you want? Not very logical...
I've been using Edge solidly for the past 2 days and it's fine on 90% of sites. I did say that IE and Firefox is the same. Slow and clunky. Edge is the worst of the three. |
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I just downloaded it again onto a USB drive to do a clean instal, it said I should have my key ready, that's not needed is it as it's registered at MS.
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try this guide to hosts files:
http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hostswin8.htm |
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mail story strange as win10 gave me a screensaver of a blank screen & that was only after going through lots of setup windows
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mail story strange as win10 gave me a screensaver of a blank screen & that was only after going through lots of setup windows
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