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I have the same problem as a Brit living in the US. I now claim to be bilingual, I can speak both English and American!  
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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... but right now, I'm not a happy camper! 
When I started my computer this morning, I got a message that it had been updated - and it took FOREVER to start up! Irritating, but not that uncommon of course... 
After that, I've noticed:
1) I have been FORCED to log into OneDrive AND it wants to upload all the contents of My Documents folder to same. First of all, I don't WANT all my documents in the cloud! Second, I use Dropbox for the stuff I DO want there, and I'm perfectly happy with that!
2) My Windows Media Player seems to have disappeared, and all of my media file associations have been changed to stupid apps like Itunes etc... 
Just waiting to find other irritating changes!!!
[EDIT] 3) Oh, the Start menu has changed and doesn't look anything like what it did yesterday. Now I don't even know how to lock my computer! [/EDIT]
[EDIT 2] 4) I cannot play ANY video in ANY webbrowser - presumably somthing that has to do with 3) ! [/EDIT 2]
Anybody know why Media Player has been removed? And what Microsoft expects you to use instead? (I do use VLC as well, but Media Player was perfect for ripping CD's etc)...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
modified 23-Sep-16 4:47am.
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For edit 3......Windows + L
All things you need are in Windows + X, for anything else there is the Search circle on the task bar....can't think of the last time I actually browsed the start menu!
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I prefer to use the mouse becuse I can never remember the shortcut keys. But now they have made that much harder! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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I never remembered them before Win8 happened.
After that it became magically essential. Huh, I guess Win8 was good for something after all!
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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At least you have a mouse to use. I'm not kidding. This Win10 update was a complete fail for me as it broke my trackpad driver. Oh, the pointer moved, but they reset it to settings that made it practically usable. When I tried to get into the mouse settings, it forced, yes forced, me to uninstall the driver, just so I could get to the settings they whacked. A few reboots later and there was some sort of driver for my trackpad, but its so buggy the mouse is still nearly unuseable.
I still need Windows, which is why the laptop is with me at work today. I making a backup disk image (in case I need to boot it in a VM to get something off it) today. This weekend it's being reverted back to Win 8.1.
I've been waiting until Linux became stable and featured enough for the masses to start switching over. Little did I suspect MS would lower their quality until it was lower than Linux. I predict the savvier non-computer-people users will start switching soon. So, apparently Microsoft was right after all, Windows 10 is the last Windows OS they'll ever make.
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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Thanks for hint on Win+X
Menu way to
* lock PC: WinKey Click head-and-shoulders icon, select Lock (same icon can be used to change user etc
* Close down (This one I spent some time looking for when W10WA arrived): WinKey Standby icon (one everyone calls the on/off or power icon) Click, select Shut down
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To listen music I'm using MusicBee and it is really nice... like mediaplayer but it remembers the song it was playing when you shut it down so you can continue from there...
To copy CDs... and so I'm using cdburnerxp... free and works wonderfully well.
It is somehow incredible that Microsoft is following this path... it is incredible... windows 10 is nice but those things...
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A problem with a Win 10 update?*
Such posts qualify as a Leslie.
* Note to Fanboys (and Fangirls): are we having fun, yet?
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When I try to open Outlook.com, I get a warning:
Insecure connection!
The owner of dub111.mail.live.com has configured his website wrong
Now, let's see - who should we contact about that? Who owns live.com? Who could be incompetent enough to configure the site wrong?
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Johnny J. wrote: Who could be incompetent enough to configure the site wrong?
I hope that is a rethoric question...
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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It looks like all UWP apps disappeared from my start menu. And when I have Edge or the Windows Store apps open, their icons are missing from the task bar and they don't show up in Alt-Tab either. It's like Windows in trying to remove the new features they want everyone to use...
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Kaladin wrote: It looks like all UWP apps disappeared from my start menu
Where can I get this update? This sounds handy.
(Almost not kidding)
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Lol. It happened after an update sometime last week.
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Johnny J. wrote: 1) I have been FORCED to log into OneDrive AND it wants to upload all the contents of My Documents folder to same. First of all, I don't WANT all my documents in the cloud! Second, I use Dropbox for the stuff I DO want there, and I'm perfectly happy with that!
Yeah. Installed the update yesterday and they prompted me to login. But I was in no way FORCED to do so. I could easily just close that window.
What annoyed me was that I shut it down with "Shutdown and install updates" and needed the PC an hour later again. It booted up to "installing updates now. Please do not turn off your computer" and it's sweet time (including a few automatic reboots) to finally show that login screen. Is it finished then? No, there comes an annoying full screen about "Hey, I'm updated now".. Of course you couldn't have installed the updates before actually shutting down... they need to get installed when you urgently need it booting up
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Nicholas Marty wrote:
Yeah. Installed the update yesterday and they prompted me to login. But I was in no way FORCED to do so.
Really? I tried to close it down and it just popped up again... Maybe I should have tried harder... 
My system has installed several more updates today, requiring several reboots which took quite some time all of them.
And I had to manually search for and install Media Feature Pack[^], reinstall Java and edit the Firefox config just to be able to see videos on Instagram and other similar sites! Took me some time just to figure out how to solve it
This is the worst F-Up of my system Microsoft has EVER seen fit to release. I hope it'll take a long time before they do something similar again!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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I haven't used it for more than like 15 minutes after the updates. So I might get nagged again.. I also didn't try to watch any videos so far.
Only thing I noticed at first glance, was that the changed start menu which seems to be a big UI mess.
I'm glad that I don't have Java installed. So that's one thing they can't mess up on my machine
But it looks like I might still be in for a surprise. I think after the last big update in fall '15 I had to reinstall everything (all the Windows Universal Apps wouldn't work (even "calc.exe" - btw whoever chose to "redesign" that app should get fired) and told me to reinstall from the Windows Store. Problem was: The Windows Store App wasn't working either and told me to reinstall from the Windows Store. So after trying to mess around with it for a bit I just scratched it...)
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Nicholas Marty wrote: I'm glad that I don't have Java installed.
Are you sure you haven't???
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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I am. Unless the Anniversary Update installed it... Why would I need it?
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Well, apparently I need it to view videos on quite a large amount of web pages (Instagram included - but strangely enough not Farcebook).
My point is that it might have been installed unbeknownst to you to cover some functionality that you didn't know requires java?!?!?
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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I don't have a lot of software installed on my machine at home. I really can't imagine that a website like Instagram requires Java (and I don't bother to find out). I regard any website trying to run Java as malicious. :P
As for my reasons to keep my OS free of Java:
I've once botched my OS by trying to uninstall an old JRE version. Since then I try to make sure to not install anything related to Java ever again. As far as I remember, I didn't need it once in the last 5+ years.
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Johnny J. wrote: it took FOREVER to start up!
Doesn't that mean it's still going?
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Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Forced to serve, he followed closely. (7)
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Whats the solution...?
cheers,
Super
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