[dba-Tech] clean up

[Heenan, Lambert]

Classic Shell (http://www.classicshell.net/) helps immensely to get away from the dreaded tiles, and once you've changed a whole bunch of privacy settings (http://www.pcworld.com/article/2971725/windows/how-to-reclaim-your-privacy-in-windows-10-piece-by-piece.html) it feels better. Not much you can do about automatic updates, except fool Windows into thinking you are on a metered connection, which stops all updates.

Lambert

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From: dba-Tech [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Peter Brawley
Sent: Friday, March 25, 2016 11:34 AM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] clean up

On 3/25/2016 9:15, Arthur Fuller wrote:
> Susan,
>
> I'm most definitely with Gustav on upgrading the system to Windows 10.
> Whenever I see a message here indicating that its author is holding 
> out on Windows 7, I shake my head. Win 10 is way better and way 
> faster,

Win10 boots up faster, power management is better, but: it's positivel polluted with advertising and chockablock full of crapware, looks designed to encourage commercial clicks and use of paid M$oft services; whether you like tiling on a non-touch screen will have a lot to do with how well you like the overall interface and how well you like ribbon menus (they drive me bananas; updates are unconfigurably automatic (acknowledging that Windows remains insecure for the foreseeable future); the Start menu is hard to customise; and security is even more corporate-baroque.
>   and Edge
> (its replacement for IE) is faster and cleaner than IE ever was, even 
> in its dreams.

Edge has many unpleasant issues ...

- https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3083635
- many features that many users count on are missing, awkward or inadequate ... address bar, extensions (you like Lastpass and Flashcontrol? Too bad), interface customisation, PDFs not handled correctly, convenient search engine switch, does not display protocols, tab history, right-click search with your choice of engine instead of Bling, sorry Bing.

PB

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