Win 10 Users. No more Windows F'updates!

[madscijr]

Yeah, screw OneDrive, and shame on Microsoft for being so heavy-handed. Now they're going to prevent running Windows 11 without a Microsoft account? Will OneDrive be enabled by default? It's almost like they WANT to push their smartest users onto Linux or Mac. 

The best advice to anyone is to disable the automatic OneDrive backups before you do anything else - that restores your folder locations and stops the ridiculous nagging. It still mirrors whatever is under the OneDrive folder, but at least you now have control over what gets saved to the cloud.

One other thing - Steve said it moved his files to the cloud but not locally. You can control that by right-clicking on a file and clicking "always keep file on this computer". Or you can click "free up space" which will maintain a copy in the cloud but locally you just have a pointer (which you can download locally as needed).

[SMcNeill]

The problem I had was with the syncing of the same file across multiple computers.  One computer wanted to keep the file, the other wanted to free up space... When the one freed space, OneDrive would delete the other as well, and then delete the cloud version once the other was gone to.

It's a glitch they probably patched and fixed, but it burnt me out from ever trusting them or wanting them on my machines ever again.  I'm a digital packrat.  Eat my files...  YOU IS DEAD TO ME!! 

[madscijr]

It's a glitch they probably patched and fixed, but it burnt me out from ever trusting them or wanting them on my machines ever again.  I'm a digital packrat.  Eat my files...  YOU IS DEAD TO ME!! 

Who can blame ya?

[Pete]

What good is one-drive? Even on a course with 4 par three's, you need at least 14 drives.

Pete  

- The golf course. The only place on earth where you can hide from your wife in plain sight.

[Dav]

I had to install Win 10 the other day so I could install and use the latest itunes to update my ipad os.  Wow - it is so different than Windows 7 which I still like and use on my windows laptops.  After updating the ipad I put linux mint back on it.  Not knocking windows 10 - it's seems an awesome os, but somehow it didn't seem like "My Computer" as windows long ago use to say.  I may install win 10 again some day just to learn it though, my friends are always asking for windows help and I'm so outdated I can't begin to help.

- Dav

[madscijr]

Lots of people still love and miss Windows 7. Microsoft should have really just added options so that if you want, you could configure your Windows to look/feel like whatever you want. Instead they have taken away options. Boo, Microsoft!!!

[hsiangch_ong]

i don't miss windows7.  in fact i'm glad it deprecated.  i don't miss the screen flashing whole.  for example, whenever i used reaper.  on my first 64-bit portable machine.  after i obtained a code "0a" error on bsod.  i didn't know if it was a blessing.  because it allowed me to use ubuntu studio 32-bit from a pen drive.  or if it was a wicked turn against me.

that said.  windows10 was a poor replacement.  a bunch of programs that worked just fine on windowsxp.  suddenly had to be put off in windows10.  however i did use a couple of programs that were buggy.  never made it past "release candidacy."  thanks to sloppy programmers offering freeware having to change their real-life priorities.

in case some of you don't know already.  i like to do music production on my computer.  but i'm anti-pro. (tm)

The best advice to anyone is to disable the automatic OneDrive backups before you do anything else - that restores your folder locations and stops the ridiculous nagging. It still mirrors whatever is under the OneDrive folder, but at least you now have control over what gets saved to the cloud.

even before that.  in 2022 i used wps office suite.  which did this stupid junk.  i should have been warned.  microsoft would do it also before long.  it would have caused me.  to get another computer to maintain completely offline.

[Dav]

in case some of you don't know already.  i like to do music production on my computer.  but i'm anti-pro. (tm)

Hey!  Nice to know another person anround here making music!  I mostly produce on an ipad these days.

- Dav

[Petr]

Although I use Windows, I’m familiar with Windows 11. The only thing that keeps me from switching to Linux is my limited (well, practically zero) knowledge of Linux command-line commands. I learned DOS at a young age.

As for your discussion about computer hardware, games, or gigabyte graphics cards, that doesn’t really concern me. If I can run Open Transport Tycoon on that system, for example in Wine, then I'm perfectly fine. I don’t have any other games on my computer anyway, but I do have thousands of BAS files.

I have experience with some live Linux distributions, so that part doesn’t worry me. Since I don’t agree with Microsoft’s policies, I use LibreOffice, and it runs on Linux as well. So, simply put, if I can run QB64PE on Linux, run WINE, run Tycoon… then I don’t need Windows.

We were here before Windows, and we’ll be here after it.

[bplus]

I had QB64pe and exes made from it working fine on Linux Mint OS with Wine years ago. Too bad it's on really old machine so slow its difficlut to tell what is a bug or just slowness. 0 knowledge of Bash except that's Linux version of command line and batch files.