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Yes. You can still get them via an infected USB drive or some such.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Which sounds to me that there needs to be yet another patch to remove USB capability as well.
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I'm sure they're working on it 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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OK - it's not hardware.
I've changed HDD to a spare I used for test restores before the Win10 "upgrade" and it boots Win7 with full networking(I may have mentioned that I like backups before?). So it's the latest MS Win10 update that has b*gg*r*d my system.
And gawd, but I'd forgotten just how pretty Win7 was, how "together", how seamless.
But...Windows 10 it must be, I guess. So I'll download the latest Win10 ISO on this, and reinstall for a clean setup on a third HDD. Maybe that'll "just work"...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Aren't you wasting time here? Stick with 7!
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Get thee behind me Satan! 
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With the exception of Win10 VMs (to verify that my software runs properly on Win10), I intend to have nothing to do with it. The UI is horrible, the snooping is intolerable, and the bugs are incredible.
Other than that, it's the perfect O/S. 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: perfect O/S
You missed it there ...Microsoft clearly states, that Windows 10 is a service - no OS anymore. If you want OS you should look elsewhere...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: Windows 10 is a service
There is another usage of the word 'service' (as a verb, not a noun), but I'm not sure it is KSS.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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OriginalGriff wrote: how "together", how seamless
It's interesting, isn't it?
I get what they tried to do, but they do need to bring things back completely under a single paradigm.
And this does not mean bringing them all under a dumbed-down paradigm. The number of times I have to hunt down the network property dialog to fix things that the lame-as Network settings page just can't handle drives me nuts.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: It's interesting, isn't it?
I do tend to agree with you about the settings screens being terrible - but it's just a matter of using them more to get used to them I think (aside from the obvious missing functionality, of course!)
I am stuck with Windows 7 at work and I must admit, I find the UI very outdated in general and don't find it a pleasant experience to use anymore, but I do like feeling like a power-user still: able to actually control my own windows experience.
Dumbed-down would great if it could just sort everything out without me thinking about it. Windows X.13?
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And it's getting worse, not better - once-good apps are Win10ifying and becoming useless.
I used to use VLC and it was excellent. So a clean install of the OS later, and I thought I'd try the latest version: vlc-for-windows-store[^] and it's useless! It's lost all the tools, keyboard operations, settings...and the display shows green bars where the old one didn't... Hello Mr Uninstaller...hello old version...
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From Windows 10 November update: FAQ[^]...
1. "Windows 10 is a service" - I think you should install an OS first to run a service...
2. "If it’s been less than 31 days since you upgraded to Windows 10, you won’t get the November update right away; this will allow you to go back to your previous version of Windows" - obviously there is no going-back after this update. Don't even dream about 7...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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My PC is currently running Win 7 to d download the Win 10 ISO ... and it's sooooooooo pretty ...
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After playing with Windows 10 preview went to update my base-VM for Windows 7 to block the 10 update for every new copy I create...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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It's not that bad - if you think of it as Win 8 SP2.
But then being "better than Win 8" isn't exactly much of a milestone.
It works, normally. And provided you don't want to do anything complicated (like tell it what to actually do) the it's OK, if ugly. But as soon as anything goes wrong it turns back into Win8.0 with DOS 2 error messages and "ease of use". 
Trouble is that I support a few people, and if I don't run it then I can't check what they are saying and have to drive over to see them and work it out there.
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I always thought, that we are lucky to be a larger company and to be able to set to our customer, which OS to use and which not...A great help...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I'm in that position as well...sooner or later one of my guys is going to either cave in and install it or get it on a new laptop, so I had to know my way around it anyway.
I installed 'Destroy Windows Spying'...it's a composition of things like firewall rules and redirects in the HOSTS file to thwart Windows spying. One of the things it has is to turn off Windows Updates completely by Policy instead of just 'let me decide later'...so far, it's been working really well.
I don't automatically install anybody's updates anymore...they've permanently broken my trust in their good will and intentions.
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Have you tried reinstalling from scratch/iso? I had a problem with the windows 10 upgrade once and downloaded the ISO at a relatives to be sure. I was right and it was a problem with the upgrade. P.S. As far as getting to IP settings did you right click the connection->network and sharing center? which shows a interface like the windows 7 one? I prefer that compared to the settings app non-sense. You have to use settings app for certain settings while most of the important ones are in network and sharing center.
jeffery
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In addition, the new visual studio ISO is so big that you might corrupt windows if you install incorrectly (at minimum a messed up registry and reinstall visual studio but worst case you need to reinstall windows). I was surprised how long the visual studio installation took.
jeffery
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I am sooooo glad I made a full system backup before allowing Windows 10 to do its wicked work.
Having suffered the loss of my favourite applications because Win 10 spits them out and having suffered maxed out SSDs while updates are being installed while I am trying to get some work done, I blew Windows 10 away and reinstalled Windows 7 from the backup.
I'm happy.
I may not last forever but the mess I leave behind certainly will.
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I found that about 06:30 this morning!
Win 10 IS currently installing from ISO onto a third 1TB HDD...
Then I can look at adding Chrome, SQL, VS, ... And my apps and data.
Then yet another backup... 
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So far I did 3 "clean" installs of 10 from an ISO disc. Everything just worked for me.
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
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And if it does help, that means, that Microsoft was able to reintroduce a bug from early preview version - great job!
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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