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Jesse Worley said he'd received a cheque for $650 from Microsoft--seen by The Register--which he told us he'd received after threatening the giant with court action over an unwanted Windows 10 upgrade.
Tech consultant Worley sought payment from the vendor for the 10 hours it took to rebuild his grandfather's custom-build PC, re-installing Windows 7 to resemble Windows XP, in order to banish Windows 10.
[...] "Had Microsoft not gone out of their way to be deceptive, my grandfather pretty clearly wouldn't have been updated to Windows 10", he said.
"They interrupted the basic functions of their own software--the X button--in an attempt to fool people into updating, so any affirmative consent he or anyone else may have given for the update can't be considered valid during that period."
[...] Worley had built the PC 10 years ago when his grandfather was first diagnosed with Alzheimer's. The build was designed to resemble Windows XP, which his relative had used while at work and was therefore familiar with.
[...] Worley was seeking $650 for the 10 hours he'd had to spend rebuilding the PC. He had tried a rollback but that failed, and he was forced to rebuild the installation with a boot drive, as the system lacked a CD.
[...] Worley has now encouraged other customers to take action through the small claims system if they, too, got Windows 10 without wanting it.
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(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Wednesday September 28 2016, @01:50PM
Yesterday an employee, actually a contractor now as he is 85 and "retired" was getting ready to go home for the day with his shiny new windows 10 laptop. He had to wait over an hour because updates decided to run and was afraid his battery wouldn't last. Total waste of time. Windows 10 is a joke.
(Score: 2) by Hyperturtle on Wednesday September 28 2016, @03:24PM
The laptop didn't have a sleep, suspend or hibernate mode? Run that crap later. If shutting down causes it to want to run updates then don't actually shut it down.
If the corporate image doesn't handle closing the lid properly, that is probably not a good sign of a quality image for that model of laptop... XP seemed to get the whole sleep/suspend/hibernate thing figured out, provided the BIOS was also set appropriately.
Maybe my luck has been better, but sleep and hibernate only (anecdotally) seem to cause issues on modern hardware if the hardware is not a typical laptop or desktop -- meaning there is a RAID array in there or has a lot of RAM paired with a tiny SSD or something.
Of course, security policies may prevent use of hibernation, too, but that wouldn't exclude the sleep/suspend state in most cases.
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Wednesday September 28 2016, @04:12PM
It's his personal laptop. He is an older guy an is accustomed to shutting down when finished.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 28 2016, @04:25PM
Few notes. First is that Windows Update in 10 will try to set an RTC alarm to wake the computer to install updates, unless you turn that off in a few places. Second is that you can shutdown Windows without installing updates, although most have been disabled following the Anniversary Update (using alt-f4, the login screen, or holding shift), but mapping the power button trigger to shutdown in ACPI still seems to work.
(Score: 1) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Wednesday September 28 2016, @09:05PM
My brother's machine does not wake up properly.
Could not trouble-shoot it because the commands require administrative access, and the instructions for getting that no longer work (because they removed the "All programs" menu item (required for right-clicking))
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 28 2016, @10:59PM
Highlight the program in question, in your case the command prompt, and press ctrl+shift+enter.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 28 2016, @06:26PM
Amen.
In fact, don't do things The Windoze Way at all.
German Basketball Team Relegated to Lower Division Due to Untimely Windows Updates [soylentnews.org]
The easy way to accomplish this is to install Linux, which BY DEFAULT **separates** the download part from the install part of updates|upgrades.
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...and the response below from LoRdTAW "It's his personal laptop" brings me back to my old question: [soylentnews.org]
What tasks are these people are doing that -requires- Windoze?
(mcgrew mentioned Minesweeper.) [alternativeto.net]
...and I'm remembering The Folgers Test [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [slashdot.org] some guys did where they showed folks a system running Linux + KDE and the folks thought it was just a nicer version of Windoze.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]