My computers are all 100% Windows 10 now.

On 07/23/16 05:20, knuttle wrote:
On 7/22/2016 7:35 PM, GreyCloud wrote:
On 07/22/16 14:34, knuttle wrote:
On 7/22/2016 4:12 PM, GreyCloud wrote:
On 07/22/16 12:33, Fritz Wuehler wrote:
No more Vista, no more XP, no more WIndows 7 or Windows 8. All
done and running great!

Apple eat your heart out.


How did you get your old software from previous windows versions
over to
10? I tried and couldn't find any of my software or documents.

Not original poster, but have upgrade three computers from Window 8.1 to
Windows 10.

The first consideration is what was your old OS?

Win7.


If you had Windows 7 or 8.x, did you do it from the upgrade icon, ie
upgrade over the old OS, or did you do a clean install of Windows 10
with a disk reformat.

The upgrade from the icon.


If you did a clean install, you will have to install each of your old
programs.

For most Windows 7 or 8.x, you should be able to find the them in the
app menu, click MS icon, in the lower right there is an icon with a lot
of bars. Clicking this will open the programs menu listing all of the
recognized installed programs. You program may be in a folder in the
program menu. ie Windows Accessories.

If you can not find the program on the installed program menu, go to the
Program files (x86), and locate your program in its folder. Right click
and in the pop up menu select pin to start and/or pin to taskbar.


I found all of my files in some folder called "\\Network".
I don't see why they just didn't put the software in the appropriate
folders. Like VS2010 was in "\\Network". Like how hard was it for MS
to do the right thing?


I had to do this with a couple of my programs that run great under
Windows 10


Then there is the privacy concerns.
Not sure if I like having some of my programs shared with some
corporation that has no business looking at them.

When I upgraded from Windows 8.1, using the Upgrade icon, all of my
files were left in the following directory

C:\Users\username\Documents

All of my programs were in a folder in the

C:/Program files (86)

I do not have a folder called Network

Had you been using a backup program on Windows 7?

Yes, on a passport drive. I put everything back in order to win7.


One thing that I have used when I loose a file is to do a search for a
file that I knew was among those that were lost.

On 07/22/16 18:34, Anonymous wrote:
In
wrote:

On 07/22/16 12:33, Fritz Wuehler wrote:
No more Vista, no more XP, no more WIndows 7 or Windows 8. All
done and running great!

Apple eat your heart out.


How did you get your old software from previous windows versions over to
10? I tried and couldn't find any of my software or documents.

Went over perfectly as part of the upgrades.

Ran a report before and after using SearchMyFiles from Nirsoft
and Folder Report. Not missing a single program, folder, file
or byte after the upgrade.

If your profile is screwed up in any way on the candidate
computer being upgraded, your files and settings will not
transfer over correctly.

Example, if you're cheap and bought a demo PC / notebook from
Costco, Best Buy or Frys that had their **** lockdown software
on it, I can guarantee the profile is hosed.


Nope. An HP HPE Tower.

If you repaired the candidate Win 7/8 disk after a hardware
change and you have any folders with .000 or .001 on the end,
your profile will not upgrade across correctly.

If you have even the most basic file management skills, there is
no reason to keep a build forever these days. Buy a flash drive
and keep backups. If you change hardware, do a clean install
and put your apps / data back. It doesn't take that long and the
payback is all the free time gained for not screwing around with
known problems.

On the other hand, stay stupid and keep screwing up. You're
helping pay for college for my kids.

On 23 Jul 2016, Justin Tyme wrote in
alt.comp.os.windows-10:

In your first post you said your documents were moved . Upgrading
shouldn't move any documents. Of course, if you did a clean
install eveything would be gone. No idea why your files
(documents?) went into a folder called "\\Network". Your programs
should be there in your apps list.

There cannot be a folder called "\\Network". Backslashes are illegal
characters for file and folder names. A double backslash is the prefix
for a UNC name, indicating a network location external to the local
computer.

That makes his complaint even more inexplicable. Documents would never,
under any circunstances, be automatically moved by Windows to another
computer on the network.

In article ,
says...

On Sat, 23 Jul 2016 02:34:48 +0200, Anonymous
wrote:


If you have even the most basic file management skills, there is
no reason to keep a build forever these days. Buy a flash drive
and keep backups. If you change hardware, do a clean install
and put your apps / data back.



If you do a clean installation, you can *not* put your apps back from
a backup. They have to be reinstalled from their original media.


It doesn't take that long and the
payback is all the free time gained for not screwing around with
known problems.


Most of us have spent a lot of time configuring Windows and the
installed applications the way we like them. When you have to do this
it *does* take a lot of time. I've done a clean reinstallation very
seldom, but the last time I did it, it took me about three days.

This particular clean installation was the first-time installation of an
OS on a machine supplied without one. The point is how well W10
functions as a domestic/home-office fileserver.

--

Phil, London

On 24/07/2016 12:56, Philip Herlihy wrote:
The point is how well W10 functions as a domestic/home-office fileserver.

There is absolutely no major difference between Win10 and Win7 or Win8
or Win8.1. The only difference people may find is that security is
rigidly enforced so some tweaking of permissions may be required but
otherwise people won't even notice any change after a few days of use.

In future please refrain from cross-posting to other fringe newsgroups
when one newsgroup (this one) is all that is required to get a
solution. If you are constantly using other newsgroups then post to
those newsgroups, NOT to this one.


--
With over 350 million devices now running Windows 10, customer
satisfaction is higher than any previous version of windows.

On 07/22/16 13:04, Good Guy so wittily quipped:
On 22/07/2016 20:36, Alan Baker wrote:
On 2016-07-22 11:33 AM, Fritz Wuehler wrote:
No more Vista, no more XP, no more WIndows 7 or Windows 8. All
done and running great!

Apple eat your heart out.


Why?

Because somebody was peeing on Apple!!!!!

I saw a somewhat similar *kind* of graphic being used by people's
avatars on answers.microsoft over a year ago. It was evil Calvin
****ing on a flat-looking windows logo [like the one used by "Ape" and
Win-10-nic]
http://s3268.storage.proboards.com/6...7nj8F2EuL7.png

not only that, your example uses an ANDROID logo... which makes sense,
seeing that 'droid is outselling iOS by a huge margin.

On 07/24/16 09:44, Good Guy so wittily quipped:
On 24/07/2016 12:56, Philip Herlihy wrote:
The point is how well W10 functions as a domestic/home-office fileserver.

There is absolutely no major difference between Win10 and Win7 or Win8
or Win8.1.

BULL!****ING!****!

Win 7 is 3D skeumorphic. Win "Ape" (8.x) and Win-10-nic are 2D FLUGLY
(flat/ugly), with all of that "the METRO" **** scattered throughout, and
that ****ed up idiotic "Settings" that attempts to replace the Control
Panel, and gets in the way.

And don't forget Win-10-nic's ADWARE, SPYWARE, alphabetized 'all
apps(sic)' in the "Start Thing" like a PHONE OS might have, etc.


HUGE differences. It's why I *HATE* 8, and *DESPISE* Win-10-nic.

In article
Anonymous wrote:

No more Vista, no more XP, no more WIndows 7 or Windows 8. All
done and running great!

Apple eat your heart out.


France: Windows 10 collects 'excessive personal data', issues Microsoft with formal warning

http://betanews.com/2016/07/20/windo...ection-france/

It will if you are a click idiot and do not read the setup
screens. It tells you right up front that it is going to do it
unless you turn the settings off.

There are two screens during installation and you can't miss
them unless you are a drug addict meth user.

If you are stupid enough not to read them, and you leave all the
stuff turned on, you're an illiterate click idiot who deserves
every bad thing that happens to you.

On 24/07/2016 18:00, Big Bad Bob wrote:

BULL!****ING!****!


You are not ****ing using Windows and you don't even have a window in
your house. So go and **** yourself and stop misinforming Windows users.



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--
With over 350 million devices now running Windows 10, customer
satisfaction is higher than any previous version of windows.

Fritz Wuehler wrote:
In article
Anonymous wrote:

No more Vista, no more XP, no more WIndows 7 or Windows 8. All
done and running great!

Apple eat your heart out.


France: Windows 10 collects 'excessive personal data', issues Microsoft with formal warning

http://betanews.com/2016/07/20/windo...ection-france/

It will if you are a click idiot and do not read the setup
screens. It tells you right up front that it is going to do it
unless you turn the settings off.

There are two screens during installation and you can't miss
them unless you are a drug addict meth user.

If you are stupid enough not to read them, and you leave all the
stuff turned on, you're an illiterate click idiot who deserves
every bad thing that happens to you.


If you do miss the screens, you can always go to Start, Settings and Privacy
where there are at least 15 privacy settings which can be changed, individually,
to "On" or "Off"

On Sat, 23 Jul 2016 13:07:34 +0100, Philip Herlihy
wrote:

In article
remailer.net,
says...

No more Vista, no more XP, no more WIndows 7 or Windows 8. All
done and running great!

Apple eat your heart out.

Me too. Now have two laptops, two desktops, a microserver and a tablet
all running W10, and all performing well. It's great being able to
network them all so seamlessly. Two of the machines (laptop and
desktop) came from Vista, and both perform surprisingly well - even an
ancient 32-bit desktop which runs better than it ever did under Vista.
The only downside is that the graphics adapter isn't recognised (doesn't
even appear in Device Manager) so I'm limited to 1280px instead of the
1920 I had before,

Oh ! Is THAT all ?!

but in any likely future use of that machine this
won't be an issue. It was a cheap and cheerful Ebay-builder special
nine years ago!

Of the other machines, a desktop and tablet were bought with W8, a
laptop with W7, and the server (HP Microserver) was a clean install
(works a treat as a fileserver).

Fritz Wuehler wrote:

It will if you are a click idiot and do not read the setup
screens. It tells you right up front that it is going to do it
unless you turn the settings off.

There are two screens during installation and you can't miss
them unless you are a drug addict meth user.

If you install it yourself... How about if, like 90% will be, Win10
is pre-installed? (Or even the "free conversions". I have heard that
it just goes, without use input.)

--
"get the HW mfrs on board and stop demanding these people give their
code away so that their competitors can steal their hard earned IP."
- "True Linux advocate" Hadron Quark's "tips for Linux success"

knuttle wrote:

Go through all of the settings and disable anything that sounds like it
is automatically sending information back to MS. With use you may find
that you will want to reactivate some of them. Don't for get the
autofeed back in programs.

Be proactive on the updates, and go after them when you can install
them, and don't wait for MS to notify you.

Who has the time and/or skills to be "proactive on the updates"?
Would one need to individually analyze them all?

--
"MS is going to take over linux. Soon we'll have a real linux
desktop." - some piece of **** that calls itself "GreyCloud"

On 7/25/2016 8:05 AM, chrisv wrote:
knuttle wrote:

Go through all of the settings and disable anything that sounds like it
is automatically sending information back to MS. With use you may find
that you will want to reactivate some of them. Don't for get the
autofeed back in programs.

Be proactive on the updates, and go after them when you can install
them, and don't wait for MS to notify you.

Who has the time and/or skills to be "proactive on the updates"?
Would one need to individually analyze them all?

I did not mean proactive in the sense of analyzing each update, only
proactive in initiating the upgrade process.

On 07/24/16 10:24, Good Guy so wittily quipped:
On 24/07/2016 18:00, Big Bad Bob wrote:

BULL!****ING!****!


You are not ****ing using Windows and you don't even have a window in
your house. So go and **** yourself and stop misinforming Windows users.

ha ha you funny guy


User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101
Thunderbird/24.3.0

that's right, THIS machine, my primary workstation, is FreeBSD.
Although, my accounting machine runs Win7 since Quickbooks needs that.
It used to be XP but I upgraded it to a 7 box [purchased on e-bay for
around $130] because next year, Turbotax for Business won't support XP
any more. Dammit.

That of course excludes the MSDN 'Pro' subscription I've maintained
since the 90's. I occasionally need to do windows-related development,
after all. Last time I did it for money, it was for a device driver.

(I'm surprised you could actually find that in the headers, what with
the HTML postings and whatnot)


And when I looked at YOUR post more closely, I saw this:


This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
--------------000804070904090409090500
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

[snip the plain text version, all I'll ever see]


followed by

--------------000804070904090409090500
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

html
head

etc. - ****ing HTML in USENET, only a GOD DAMNED MORON would even *DARE*
to do that!

I should have some FUN with one of my posts, have the HTML do something
*really* funny, and only YOU would see it... maybe put some script or
ActiveX in it, display 'amishrakefight' 'gfy' content as an iframe, or
similar. ha ha ha ha ha!

then again, I don't want to help any malware authors or give the ideas,
so it's probably better if I don't do it at all...