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Both excellent antivirus (Avira) and excellent firewall (Comodo) software are available for free.
I am using Comodo firewall, therefore I do not need the Windows firewall to be running simultaneously. After I switch OFF Windows 10 firewall, Microsoft begins an onslaught of popups saying that the Firewall is turned off. TURN IT BACK ON they say in their popups.
Since the pop-ups are endless after multiple reboots, if you so much as CLICK ANYWHERE on the popup to dismiss it even, the Windows Firewall gets turned back on by virtue of you trying to dismiss the annoying pop-up.
10/10 for sneaky mandatory enforcement of Windows Firewall.
I am trying two ways to combat this, one is a complicated way to turn off messages and the other one is a registry hack.
Trying to avoid the registry hack, I am first trying this.
It took me a while to find the Control Panel - they hid it well in the Settings menus, but here's a quick shortcut:
[AFTER TURNING OFF WINDOWS FIREWALL] Right click on the Start button > CONTROL PANEL >
View by: Large icons > Security and Maintenance > Turn off messages about network firewall > You can also turn off all other messages here.
Because most users are stupid, and if given the choice, just don't update their PC at all!
At my workplace, we recently updated our SSL certs, which broke compatibility with XP SP2. We were flooded with enough calls that they backed out the change and when we told people their crap was super out of date, they got hostile with us. Tell me why automatic updates are a bad idea.I wonder why MS has decided to ram updates down the user's throats. I'd like to get the list of available updates and choose the ones I want like I do now with win7.
That looks like the same menu that comes up if you press <Windows>X. I don't think anyone has mentioned that yet in this thread. It was there in 8.1 too.Right click the 'Start' menu icon and you'll have access to another menu.
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/2288-windows-boot-manager-delete-listed-operating-system.htmlI just installed win10 on my win8.1 box & all went real good for the most part.
I do have one small problem - When I boot up the first screen that appears is one that asks me what operating sys. I want to use. It has two boxes one for win10 & one for win8.1. It seems now that it thinks I have a dual boot sys. If I try to select the 8.1 option it will tell me I have a problem & gives me the options to repair the sys. or use a different operating sys. Clicking on win10 boots just fine.
Any ideas how to get rid of this screen?
Dan