Windows 10 questions
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Is there any way to turn off Cortana & prevent the flow of information to Microsoft?
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/turn-cortana-on-or-off
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The UK magazine "PC Advisor" issue 242 September 2015 had an article on "upgrading from XP" and mentioned a utility called
"Magical Jellybean Keyfinder" which searches registry for this info.Note: I haven't used it, that's why I mentioned it was from a magazine article. You can search/investigate yourself to verify the safety of the utility.
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I don't think the upgrade process will ask for the key.
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It does not. If your copy is legit and activated, it just upgrades you, leaving all your files and software in place.
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It does not. If your copy is legit and activated
It does not. If your copy is activated. To be more precise.
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Is there any way to turn off Cortana & prevent the flow of information to Microsoft?
http://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10
http://www.thewindowsclub.com/ultimate-windows-tweaker-4-windows-10
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Actually, the only way to turn off Cortana completely is to rename it:
http://superuser.com/questions/949569/can-i-completely-disable-cortana-on-windows-10
If you only turn Cortana off in the settings, the process will still be running…
There is also a way to uninstall the built-in modern apps - as some people don't have any use for those:
http://www.howtogeek.com/224798/how-to-uninstall-windows-10s-built-in-apps-and-how-to-reinstall-them/ -
Actually, the only way to turn off Cortana completely is to rename it:
http://superuser.com/questions/949569/can-i-completely-disable-cortana-on-windows-10
If you only turn Cortana off in the settings, the process will still be running…
There is also a way to uninstall the built-in modern apps - as some people don't have any use for those:
http://www.howtogeek.com/224798/how-to-uninstall-windows-10s-built-in-apps-and-how-to-reinstall-them/I've played around with this and it breaks my Windows, in the previous comment I posted, there are two links for two different programs, one of them can disable built-in apps that can't be deleted, such as Store, Cortana, etc. It's better and safer to just disable them than delete them, because most likely if Windows doesn't fail to start, you will get a sh*tload of errors after that.
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You can follow my guide here to remove the components on an installed windows or even before install it.
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I have a legit W8.1 copy, I'm wondering if W10 is going to ask me the product key again to activate.
Any tested way on retrieving my W8.1 key from my own pc?try Belarc Advisor (i'm not 100 percent it will give it, but it gives lots of info)
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i can now confirm that there is a battery drain in windows 10 when shut down.
i upgraded my notebook (win 7 starter - which when fully charged, did not lose any charge even when being off for over 4 months). however, now with win 10, a 100% charged battery when turned off for just under 2 weeks has lost 7% of its life. advice to the contrary is simply incorrect.
i rolled back to win 7 starter for this reason. on a positive note, rolling back was very quick and easy. and i can still elect to return to win 10.
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Is there any way to turn off Cortana & prevent the flow of information to Microsoft?
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/turn-cortana-on-or-off
i think if you don't sign into it with your microsoft account, cortana doesn't implement.
winprivacy is said to be working on blocking microsoft spying.
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I have a legit W8.1 copy, I'm wondering if W10 is going to ask me the product key again to activate.
Any tested way on retrieving my W8.1 key from my own pc?You won't need a key if you upgrade to Windows 10. Even if your copy has been activated with an activator, it still works fine after you upgrade.
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you said a "Hybrid Shutdown has nothing to do with the battery life"
I write it again if you prefer Hybrid Shutdown has nothing to do with the battery life.
The sentence is right now as it was the first time i wrote it.
Then you should decide if you want the right answer, or if you want someone that backs your prebuilt (and wrong) idea about the matter.
Such an arrogant reply. Microsoft disagrees with you in their FAQ.
"What's the difference between sleep, hibernate, and hybrid sleep?
Sleep is a power-saving state that allows a computer to quickly resume full-power operation (typically within several seconds) when you want to start working again. Putting your computer into the sleep state is like pausing a DVD player—the computer immediately stops what it’s doing and is ready to start again when you want to resume working.Hibernation is a power-saving state designed primarily for laptops. While sleep puts your work and settings in memory and draws a small amount of power, hibernation puts your open documents and programs on your hard disk, and then turns off your computer. Of all the power-saving states in Windows, hibernation uses the least amount of power. On a laptop, use hibernation when you know that you won't use your laptop for an extended period and won't have an opportunity to charge the battery during that time.
Hybrid sleep is designed primarily for desktop computers. Hybrid sleep is a combination of sleep and hibernate—it puts any open documents and programs in memory and on your hard disk, and then puts your computer into a low-power state so that you can quickly resume your work. That way, if a power failure occurs, Windows can restore your work from your hard disk. When hybrid sleep is turned on, putting your computer into sleep automatically puts your computer into hybrid sleep. Hybrid sleep is typically turned on by default on desktop computers."
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you said a "Hybrid Shutdown has nothing to do with the battery life"
I write it again if you prefer Hybrid Shutdown has nothing to do with the battery life.
The sentence is right now as it was the first time i wrote it.
Then you should decide if you want the right answer, or if you want someone that backs your prebuilt (and wrong) idea about the matter.
Such an arrogant reply.
Again. Hybrid Shutdown has nothing to do with the battery life
Microsoft disagrees with you in their FAQ.
Hahaha, where?
I think you should read the quotes you post.
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Well if you remember the spying days of XP when we needed XPAntiSpy? Well now with the Windows 10 from hell I found there's a similar piece of software out and that seems to hinder Windows 10 SpyOS actions so here's a link for you to try but my advice is to stick with windows 8.1 or a Linux distribution.
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