Windows 10: CONNED

Dear Sir,



We have been receiving receiving harassment calls from Ms. Meghna of Bertelsmann Marketing Services claiming to Mircosoft/Micorsoft Agency and demanding information about our PC’s , Operating System. On our insistence they sent us mail and no where the link of Microsoft is legit. And neither the site of their so called Bertelsmann opens.



We have provided invoice of our OEM Sr.No. from where we have purchased . Now we are worried whether they will hacked into for the keys and give them a go on further piracy or whatever fake business they do. How do we know with whom we are pitted against, a fake of Microsoft or genuine? Last but not least, there is no address mentioned in any of their mails from Bertelsmann

Marketing Services.



Need some help from the community to fight this.

:)

 

Move Users Folder Location in Windows 10  

I've never seen or heard about doing this in the way you describe, not even thought about it. Now reading your chronological workflow I still do not understand why you are doing it in such a complicated way.

The verdict, my personal opinion:

• Pros: None.
• Cons: Everything.

Method 1 as told in tutorial will work for you if you do it exactly as told: clean install Windows 10, boot to Audit Mode from OOBE region selection prompt, run Sysprep. That's it. Notice please that with clean install I mean booting from Windows 10 install media and installing Windows normally, not restoring a system image!

 

OEM Pros/Cons

I wanted to know what people thought of the OEMs they had to deal with mostly in regards to the following subjects:

• Customer Service
• Warranty Repair
• Non-Warranty Repair
• Driver Support
• Customizing the Computer for Specific Needs
• Bloatedness of new Computers
• Inflated Price
• Sign-Me-Ups
• Technical Support
• Freebies (Software on Disks--Stuff that is preinstalled goes under Bloatness)

Fanboyism is not permitted here. Try to be focused on points that are good and bad.

I'll start with a few...
Dell
Pros

• Drivers were available when needed.
• System Restore disks (when provided) appear to be relatively clean.

Cons

• Driver disks include multiple hardware configurations so you don't know exactly which drivers are needed.
• The driver disk uses a web format which means all the shortfalls of a website (have to "save as..." everything).
• Some of their case designs are ridiculous (folding this way and that way).

HP
Cons

• Seven disks to reinstall Windows XP--bloated to the heavens.

Toshiba
Pros

• Customer Service speaks English.
• Customer Service tried their best to remedy my issues.

Cons

• No drivers available for my specific model (web or otherwise).
• Customized model shipped over a week after purchase directly from China. I got the bag long before I got the laptop.
• No disks, what-so-ever, included with laptop purchase.
• Technical Support would not lift a finger to get me a disk that "I could install Windows Vista Ultimate from after erasing the entire hard drive with DoD 5220.22 M compliant method."
• Over 80 running processes on first boot (and this was a business-class computer)--bloated with no erase means to get rid of it.

Lenovo
Pros

• Solid construction.
• Lots of features.

Cons

• Six or seven disks to reinstall windows from scratch--bloated.
• Some included software (backup or something) caused the OS to be irreversibly damaged. One tech spent three hours to clean up some of the mess. I spent another four hours erasing, installing, and deleting everything that may have originally caused the problem (Lenovo software).
• Warranty extensions are extremely expensive.
• Generally more expensive than most.

Systemax
Pros

• All systems include at least one disk: System Restore (basically a Windows disk--no extras).
• Most systems include an additional disk: Applications & Driver (is what it says).
• Solid construction.
• Most parts included in machines you could buy from Tiger Direct (obviously not the case with laptops).
• Customer Service and Tech Support speak English.
• Customer Service is very helpful.
• Every time I contacted Tech Support, I recieved a favorable outcome.
• Machine-specific bundled software (very limited). For instance, a computer with a TV Tuner may come with Cyberlink software to run record and watch TV.
• Sent CDs via phone request for software that came pre-installed (lost after erase).

Cons

• Limited selection of products and very few places to buy them from.
• Generally more expensive than the competition.
• Technology-wise, tends to be slightly behind the curve.
• Techsupport is quick to have you send it in and don't seem to be a wealth of knowledge.
• Service turn-around times are long (over a week).

Add to the list. This is a buyer-beware service. XD

 

Pros and cons-XL UPDATE

Those apps included in cons list, have to do nothing much with a system update.