From my experiences, the "average" user is more advanced than he/she was 10 years ago. I am talking about people that struggled with using a mouse for months 12-13 years ago, but now they can read most KB articles just fine and get many troubleshooting tasks done themselves. In my opinion, what the average user finds most exasperating is learning something, then having it taken away from them for something that's not obviously faster/better/more secure. I would say it's even worse for them, because they put in considerable more initial effort to develop a sense of the concepts than "we" had to. This is why I never install optional updates unless I absolutely have to.
that has little to do with it, they could have just put admin level stuff under and 'advanced' sub menu. It's more to do with cost
Thanks for this information. I saw an optional update with something about "telemetry" in the description and thought I had avoided it. I boot Win7 very infrequently. But holy cow does It take a lot to disable this thing!
I don't think you get what I mean, I'm talking about putting system management ect in the same place as basic n00b setting just a little hidden
I am confused by what you're saying but why is hiding such thing a bad thing? I take it as trying to reduce the chances of a basic user lowering security.
Cortana is unable to be terminated no matter how much you try on win10. You can kill it but it comes back not even moments later even with all the work to put an end to it. Lots of people are very much against this. Hell if you've been wearing tinfoil on your head as much as I have youd even see how much data is being sent out to MS. Even so much as clicking the start menu sends data. As a result people have been backing down to Vista as its the only "non spied on" winOS. Not trying to concern anyone but it's very much intrusive regardless and I hope MS is gonna reconsider this. Not that OSX isn't as guilty or anything...
its not hidden it's just in the wrong place. Windows 10 has control panel (like windows 7) but half the features are now in "settings"
Right click "Start Button" = All common tools , settings, etc. Right click "Task Bar" = Cortana , Hidden (I despise the search box)
When the original Windows 98 (4.10.1998) was first installed, sometimes it would display something like "Error loading EXPLORER.EXE. You must reinstall Windows". Thankfully Microsoft made another release, which had a lot of these issues fixed.
Is this also true on Windows 7? I haven't seen Cortana proper on Win7, but it looks like I kicked telemetry to the curb.
I have GeForce GT 630 and win 7 x64. This happens on completely fresh Windows installation, i have no idea why. Any game works perfectly, 1080p blu-ray movies through VLC/MPC seems 100% stable, but firefox and Twitch/Youtube 720p60/websites that use similar modules - will crash sooner or later (firefox or chrome no differences). So weird, happens very often suddenly. Yes my PC specifications isn't the best, but should be enough for stable HD streams playback in real time as viewer. (somebody suggested that those troubles can be generated due hardware failure of RAM itself, but it isn't confirmed)
If it's hardware it could be anything, how does said person know it could be ram, I have GTx660 that was crashing all the time, there was a capacitor and trace missing, replaced the cap and have had zero issues. It could be just cruddy drivers
When I had the same symptoms as you I needed both new RAM and motherboard. There are tools out there to troubleshoot both, I recommend you do that.
When that happens it's sometimes just VRAM. Or the Driver hates whatever you're running. This happens to me if I run dosgames.
Yes, these issues are very hard to trace. You sort of have to eliminate each component in your system one by one. I had a video card I thought was bad, but it was the power supply. Replaced it. That same card, later the fan stopped working, but it still ran for quite a few months. Every now and then it would overheat. A few caps busted, it was still running. Summer came, a few more caps busted, and it started crashing. To this day it will ran as long as I don't use it with any acceleration. I had a motherboard with busted caps that started crashing. I replaced it. Ran fine for months. I upgraded the power supply with a better one someone gave me. Few months later, the replacement motherboard died completely. I put in the old motherboard, runs fine till this day, busted caps and all. Just to be sure, I swapped the old power supply back in, sure enough motherboard started crashing. Basically, I'm sure there's a reason for all this if you have good electronics skill, but for a lay person like me, it's an inexact science.
