GWX control panel prevents windows 10 from force installing on your comp and removes the prompts to do so.

Hellcat1988 said:
GWX control panel prevents windows 10 from force installing on your comp and removes the prompts to do so.

Those prompts aren't around anymore

alekpo said:
now u stuck whit buggy 8.1 or unsuported w7, congratulations.

Windows 7 is still supported and MUCH cheaper now that the advertiser os is out. In fact, windows 7 will be supported until 2020 for security updates. By then, hopefully Microsoft will get rid of the idiot in charge and stop with the stupid. Many people, including major youtube techies are dumping 10 and going back to 7 or 8.

Hellcat1988 said:
Windows 7 is still supported and MUCH cheaper now that the advertiser os is out. In fact, windows 7 will be supported until 2020 for security updates. By then, hopefully Microsoft will get rid of the idiot in charge and stop with the stupid. Many people, including major youtube techies are dumping 10 and going back to 7 or 8.

meanwhile I'm still only using windows XP...

you do not know how many times the Windows 10 just updated out of the blue and ruined whatever I was doing.

dracotay said:
And here I am on a Mac :/

I HAD a mac until my screen shattered. I bought an HP Pavilion (over an Omen) because I wanted a Windows laptop, but I specifically tried to look for a laptop without Windows 10 (and couldn't find one, fuck).

It's not THAT bad, dang it.

long story ahead, prepare your anus

i had a computer that had windows 7 on it that worked fine...then january 1st of 2014, it randomly blue screened on me (happy f***ing new year amirite?) i got it fixed enough for it to work again, with a reoccurring problem of it hard crashing at random intervals of half an hour to 3 three hours after being turned on and sometimes it working fine for an entire day (woop) i dealt with this problem for the next two years. i made sure not to ever have windows 10 touch the damn thing.

finally in early july 2016, i got enough money to buy myself a pre-built pc (cause im dumb and didnt want to build one myself) that, when i ordered it, had the choise of getting windows 10 on it for free, or adding $45 to install windows 7. I didnt care, and selected windows 10 because it was cheaper and because i heard that you could allegedly over-write windows 10 and put windows 7 on it if it hasnt been more than 30 days since windows 10 was installed. the order said it would take 15 buiseness days to arrive starting from july 5th.(the day i ordered)
I figured "ok it'll take about 20 days to get here counting weekends they dont work...so i should have enough time." 20 days pass, no computer yet. finally on june 16th i get a giant package...my machine has arrived. i plug it in and set to trying to install windows 7. (mfw its past 30 days. T_T) i try anyway. spend the next 8 hours trying to load windows 7. screen finally changes after 8 hours of loading bar. "Cannot Install program: Windows 7"
im now stuck with windows 10 and my computer criticizes me for trying to downgrade

the computer with windows 7 has been given to my grandmother and all of my games and logins & shit have been wiped from it and all she does is play diner dash and other food games on it

FML.

[you may now begin criticizing my choices.]

Agreed

Me when my computer is making updates that my HDD can't hold the space for.

Jack_Ripper55 said:
im now stuck with windows 10 and my computer criticizes me for trying to downgrade

Just wipe the harddrive and do a fresh install of Windows 7. That's what I did after pirating Win7 because I am NOT paying 120 goddamn dollars for software that's that old and everything is great.

Oh, and my OS is installed on an SSD with other data on the HDD. I'd love to see it try and figure out how to install 10 over it.

I've had the luckiest break with Win10, then. Not only did it make the computer run smoother, but it's had less issues so far. Even the "shut down and update" feature split to let me either shut down or shut down and update the computer, after a botched attempt due to iffy AMD hardware.

All in all, Win10 is running better for me than Win7 did. Both are fine to me.

CandleJake said:
Just wipe the harddrive and do a fresh install of Windows 7. That's what I did after pirating Win7 because I am NOT paying 120 goddamn dollars for software that's that old and everything is great.

Oh, and my OS is installed on an SSD with other data on the HDD. I'd love to see it try and figure out how to install 10 over it.

I might do that tbh, I have fucking zero desire to put up with Windows 10.

Biggest problem with Windows 10 is the almost unstoppable spyware. And Microsoft thought it was a great idea to backport their spyware to Windows 8 and 7! Fuck that shit.

I barely use Windows 7 these days, except for games. I always use WSUS Offline for my updates, so that Microsoft can't shove their updates unsuspectingly down my throat.

Besides, I use Arch Linux basically all of the time now. Learning curve was something else, but now I know how it hangs together, customization is so much fun. :)

With new games coming out with steamOS support I can conceive of no reason to not be running Linux.

Ubuntu is easier to use, less buggy, and comes packed with a LOT less bullshit than anything I have seen of windows, or mac.

And it doesn't do a whole lot of telling you what to do.

Have fun not updating DirectX.

i feel you az i feel you

I've had a windows 7 HP laptop (I call it my fap top) that I've had since 2008, and it hasnt tried to update to windows 10 once

LuCiel said:
meanwhile I'm still only using windows XP...

Haha, that gave me a good idea. I still have a windows 98 computer. At least it doesn't crash often, run slow, and ask for updates with pointless crap every day.

Me shopping for computers. W10 keeps me from even being able to just install Linux and call it a day.

I feel like you guys don't know what you're talking about. windows 10 isn't buggy at all. In fact id say its pretty much the same as windows 7 only the start menu is different.
windows ten didn't cost me a single penny

XD me best
i hate win 10 but pc crashed a couple times so i said lets make it new buyed new parts and stuff like that
after it i upgraded all of my pcs hardware
after that i startet and what did i see (bouhgt a new hard drive too )
on the hard drive was win 10 installed and on my old ther was win 7 that what i really like even now
i made it so that i can run both systems because of spliting the hard drive XD
now i use win 10 for nothing then just work and the 7 for the rest like porn games vids and stuff like that

I hate Windows 10 too.

alekpo said:
now u stuck whit buggy 8.1 or unsuported w7, congratulations.

gamemaniac said:
Me when my computer is making updates that my HDD can't hold the space for.

jacethehybrid said:
It's not THAT bad, dang it.

Install Gentoo
(unironically though go Manjaro)

There is also the ameliorated one ,,,, ( braces silently for the oncoming clusterfluff )

we all have to move on someday, can't have Windows 7 forever

WhiteWhiskey said:
Those prompts aren't around anymore

Hi! Windows 7 user reporting from July 2021 here and can confirm STILL getting those prompts.

sinshadowfox said:
Hi! Windows 7 user reporting from July 2021 here and can confirm STILL getting those prompts.

Hello, fellow future dweller.

sinshadowfox said:
Hi! Windows 7 user reporting from July 2021 here and can confirm STILL getting those prompts.

if you're getting that full screen prompt then don't click the big buttons. theres another button under those bigger ones that say don't warn me again. never had another one of those screens pop again on start up or during usage.

GUNNER 24 said:
if you're getting that full screen prompt then don't click the big buttons. theres another button under those bigger ones that say don't warn me again. never had another one of those screens pop again on start up or during usage.

I know but I'm afraid if i click don't warn me again microsoft will "poison pill" my OS like they did with windows xp.

GUNNER 24 said:

brace yourself for this wall of text

i later rolled back to w7. would have done it a week after the first contact with that piece of bloatware that w10 home was, but i had no way of installing w7 again.
last year i got a new computer but neither w7 or 8.1 want to update on this hardware.

While W7 is no longer supported (doesn't get updates) it still runs fine even now and if your not up to the last released version you can get the updates you don't have manually from trusted websites.

People who liked windows 7 task bar but use windows 10, try installing openshell on your pc
https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu

Now 11.

Don't see a point with win10. I keep using win 7 forever

makkabbo said:
I have Windows 11, it's fucking amazing. Never been happier with Windows

Also fuck Mac and Linux, they suck lol

Dude, are you serious? Even if I am a game pass subscriber and a slight MS simp, I can see the problems with 11 everyday. Plus the missing features... I did install it on my PC, cuz i wanted that new look or whatever, but then there's no dragging files through taskbar? Seriously? Or no start menu app folders...
And don't get me started on the nonsense that are the official minimum requirements...
While i didn't go back to 10, because i couldn't do the easy revert thing, and didn't feel like reinstalling everything, i went the other way, and joined the insider thing. Don't recommend it. The builds are insanely broken.

Oh and about Linux, i have a really odd Thinkpad, that had some weird sleep issues on windows and it's touchbar thingy didn't work, while on Manjaro (what i tried at first) and Kubuntu (what i have installed right now) it hasn't had any problems. If you don't plan on gaming, and don't use MS office, Linux isn't really a bad option.
Can't say much about MacOS though, the apple ecosystem is cool or something i dunno.

sharp_coyote said:
Agreed

This is late, but that website looks so fake, the Kardashians are jealous.

jack_ripper55 said:
All she does is play diner dash on it

Damn, Granny knows what's up

Linux user here.

Just because DirectX doesn’t really work on Linux doesn’t mean you can’t use things like the proton compatibility system and i386 mesa drivers…

I was gonna make a joke about now hating Windows 11 and staying with Windows 10 now, but I'm actually a bit late for that.

Can't wait until Windows 12 comes out and we all hate it, and want to stay on Windows 11.

jack_ripper55 said:

all she does is play diner dash and other food games on it

[you may now begin criticizing my choices.]

Bro, that game is a classic

This is the same with me and windows 11 notifications for upgrading.

The image has Vargskelethor vibes...

Still me. Yes, even after all this time, I'm still on Windows 7.

Yay, I'm back here to say something nice about Linux again. I recently had to set up an older pc for someone. Problem was i didn't have any spare SSD to throw in there, so i said fuck it, let's grab an old laptop hard drive. And installed Ubuntu with KDE there. And while yes, it is slower, for web browsing, word, zoom, basic PC things it's perfectly usable. If i put windows 10 there, or even better windows goddamn 11 ... HAHAHAHAHAH

And yes, i know booo Ubuntu booo snaps. But i don't care and i don't want to start a distro war on here. That's just what I'm the most familiar with.

What's a good alternative for windows computers?
Asking because I don't know anything about computers.

[Forget what i said]

Mood

jack_foxe said:
long story ahead, prepare your anus

i had a computer that had windows 7 on it that worked fine...then january 1st of 2014, it randomly blue screened on me (happy f***ing new year amirite?) i got it fixed enough for it to work again, with a reoccurring problem of it hard crashing at random intervals of half an hour to 3 three hours after being turned on and sometimes it working fine for an entire day (woop) i dealt with this problem for the next two years. i made sure not to ever have windows 10 touch the damn thing.

finally in early july 2016, i got enough money to buy myself a pre-built pc (cause im dumb and didnt want to build one myself) that, when i ordered it, had the choise of getting windows 10 on it for free, or adding $45 to install windows 7. I didnt care, and selected windows 10 because it was cheaper and because i heard that you could allegedly over-write windows 10 and put windows 7 on it if it hasnt been more than 30 days since windows 10 was installed. the order said it would take 15 buiseness days to arrive starting from july 5th.(the day i ordered)
I figured "ok it'll take about 20 days to get here counting weekends they dont work...so i should have enough time." 20 days pass, no computer yet. finally on june 16th i get a giant package...my machine has arrived. i plug it in and set to trying to install windows 7. (mfw its past 30 days. T_T) i try anyway. spend the next 8 hours trying to load windows 7. screen finally changes after 8 hours of loading bar. "Cannot Install program: Windows 7"
im now stuck with windows 10 and my computer criticizes me for trying to downgrade

the computer with windows 7 has been given to my grandmother and all of my games and logins & shit have been wiped from it and all she does is play diner dash and other food games on it

FML.

[you may now begin criticizing my choices.]

That's.... rough. I'd suggest not giving away the old one until the new one is working.

Me when Windows urges me for the 1746893042nd time to "up"grade to win 11

Mah Brodda... you totally understand me...
😿❤️🐐

This is me. Right now. Learning that next year Steam will no longer operate on Windows 7.

volstiv said:
This is me. Right now. Learning that next year Steam will no longer operate on Windows 7.

*sigh* Windows 7 had a good run. But now we are forced to use an operating system that will clutter our computers with bloatware and forcibly switch our default browsers to Edge every time it updates.

And like hell am I going to W11, it's just W10 trying to be Mac. And I hate Mac. No offense, Mac users, it's just not flexible enough for me.

shylokvakarian said:
*sigh* Windows 7 had a good run. But now we are forced to use an operating system that will clutter our computers with bloatware and forcibly switch our default browsers to Edge every time it updates.

And like hell am I going to W11, it's just W10 trying to be Mac. And I hate Mac. No offense, Mac users, it's just not flexible enough for me.

For a start, you can just prevent Steam from updating. There's the possibility that contrarians will simply come up with a fix. But in the long run, it's the delightful choice between having to use whatever shartware mS pump out, or a Linux distro. Why is 'progress' always like this.

Me everytime discord opens up upon PC start off

I own an Windows 10 that has absolute SHIT FPS.