Windows 10: Windows 10 Users Rail Against Microsoft Bloatware

We accepted a free gift (Win-10) that came with strings attached. No surprise. It's how the world operates today. Thankfully, we also have the freedom to change to another operating system, if we get fed up with the overall Win10 package at some point.

 

Or don't accept this "free gift". There is no need to install Win 10 if you have a well running system.

 

Well that's the way all computers are. They gotta have something on there and a lot of it can be useful.

 

I'd rather pay MS a one time price to avoid their non system critical data gathering all together, oh, that's right remember when you paid for Windows XP, Vista, 7, and 8? LOL

MS should offer a paid version that avoids all this added crap, if you want to choose it. They could offer the same for OEM machines as an option, I would GLADLY pay several hundred to avoid the "free" version of Windows 10. *Thumbs*Thumbs

 

in my experience, when i install windows10 RTM, it only give me offer to isntall Candy Crush

at later point, where i need to reinstall windows10 again, i thought hey maybe good idead to redownload windows10 using mediacreationtool
so i download, install the newer build win10, and i got candycrush and twitter preinstalled
default startmenu also slightly changed, it have cortana (on RTM cortana no available yet)

 

On the desktop I'm using now I'm using a Version of Win 10 that was paid for and not a free gift. It's no different then the free upgraded version of Win10. All strings still attached.

 

I think I need to stop posting news from Softpedia *Wink.As far as this news is concerned,the feedback exists for the same.

 

I got some bad news for you. In Win8 MS collected telemetry and with that data they determined the usage of the start screen and from all of that information they decided to drop it from Win10. *Wink

 

Yes,, this would be best and if you do post news get it from a better source. Blog posts like this just stir things up and generate more heat than light on the subject.

Jeff

 

Pay me 66% of that and I will gladly uninstall the unwanted programs for you - LOL.

 

All Apps and Programs that are not inbuilt into the W10 O/S.....ie-.....Candy Crush or any other can be easily removed by opening All apps (under power button) and right clicking mouse where the option to uninstall is revealed.

 

While I have zero issues with someone removing these apps I personally can see no reason to do so. If the PC has more than 30gb of storage removing them is not going to free up enough space to justify the effort and to top it off when a new build is dropped to users they have to.. re-remove the apps again.

I've found over the years that the best way to keep an OS stable is to do as little modifying it.. yup. The less you do the more likely you'll have issues. Modifying the registry.. bad idea. Just a bad idea. The more it's changed the more likely the system will be unstable.

I got the offer for candy crush and I put it on ignore(don't offer again) and it didn't install.

In case of TLDR.. the less you do the more stable the PC is and there is zero reason to remove unused apps. IMO

Jeff

 

I've also purchased a Windows 10 Product Key but, for the time being, we're using the same ISO everybody else is using.
There is no "special" version.
Only difference is, I can install a copy on any other machine I wish.

 

I'm confised by the argument - Windows 10 is free, they can do anything they want. It's not really free. Just because you used a free "upgrade" option, does not make it free. And the copy that I actually purchased (I don't want to "upgrade" any of my machines) is exactly the same and has exactly the same issues.

I'm also confused by the arguments that extra "apps" are so small that you won't gain anything by uninstalling them. Clearly, I do not uninstall them in order to gain storage space. We're using terabyte hard drives these days, few megabytes of junk is irrelevant space-wise. However, these little "apps" constantly update themselves, interact with some web sites, and so on. It's just annoying to have them. And it's not just candy crush. Why do I need a "sports" app on my PC? Is it really an essential part of the OS? You seriously believe the OS will be less stable if I remove it? If that's so, then the OS is just bad and should be avoided.

 

Well I'm sure that most apps in a OS are ment to be there if they were not they would not be there.