On Thursday, April 6, 2017 at 1:06:25 AM UTC-4, Diesel wrote:
Oren
Tue, 04 Apr 2017
18:02:35 GMT in alt.home.repair, wrote:

I'm planning to pull the HDD from my bride's old Vista PC and make
an external drive. Buy a cable and box for the drive. And use it
to backup her Win10 machine. The drive is still good. Then sell
or donate the PC. So far no complaints from her on Win10. Just
some slight learning her way around. Me too.

So you're both okay with the telemetry and key logging it performs?
You can turn some of it off, but, not all. And, at any time, a
'windows update' may reset the settings back to default. IE: spyware
functions restored. You may want to take a closer look
at the service agreement you accepted as part of the installation
process.


Whatever they are logging, it's no worse than what goes on with a
smartphone and most of us live with that.



http://www.networkworld.com/article/...agreement.html

And then you have seperate issues with the new 'edge' browser.


You don't have to use the Edge browser, you can use whatever you want.
The Edge browser is half-baked, I use Chrome instead.



http://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs...lso-new-risks/

https://www.howtogeek.com/269331/how...n-advertising/

Do you really like the idea of advertising built into your OS?

What advertising? I don't see any more or any less advertising
than I did with Win 7. And what's there comes up in Chrome, not
Win 10.


Free
upgrade or paid edition makes no difference...I personally think we
deal with enough advertising in our faces just by surfing the web.


And that's all I see with Win 10 too.