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Windows 10

Even when told not to, Windows 10 just can’t stop talking to Microsoft
It's no wonder that privacy activists are up in arms.
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Windows 10 uses the Internet a lot to support many of its features. The operating system also sports numerous knobs to twiddle that are supposed to disable most of these features and the potentially privacy-compromising connections that go with them.

Unfortunately for privacy advocates, these controls don't appear to be sufficient to completely prevent the operating system from going online and communicating with Microsoft's servers.
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Details and more at: http://arstechnica.co.uk/informatio...ndows-10-just-cant-stop-talking-to-microsoft/

Why Bill? Why? :(
 
Gord_in_Toronto said:
Details and more at: http://arstechnica.co.uk/informatio...ndows-10-just-cant-stop-talking-to-microsoft/

Why Bill? Why? :(
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One of the annoying aspects of Vista is that it is very difficult to figure out what is causing disk accesses and what is causing network accesses. It looks like it should be simple because of the information supplied by the task manager. But Microsoft buries a lot of what they do in ways that can't be divined easily using the task manager. One of the reasons this is a big deal is that it is hard to tell when there is hard disk or network activity whether the activity is due to routine MS hidden crap or because some sort of malware is firing off.

The only real success I've had at discovering the reasons for disk activity is to turn off MS services that might be causing the disk activity until the disk activity is reduced. This is really annoying and I hope that Windows 10 is more open about what is really going on in the background than Vista.
 
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Wudang said:
Even worse the bar stewards are only stealing one of each pair. Check your sock drawer.
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That's the reason the MS explanation is plausible. If it was just regular thieves they'd take both socks, but since MS's goal is to maximally annoy me they only take a single sock.
 
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davefoc said:
One of the annoying aspects of Vista is that it is very difficult to figure out what is causing disk accesses and what is causing network accesses. It looks like it should be simple because of the information supplied by the task manager. But Microsoft buries a lot of what they do in ways that can't be divined easily using the task manager. One of the reasons this is a big deal is that it is hard to tell when there is hard disk or network activity whether the activity is due to routine MS hidden crap or because some sort of malware is firing off.

The only real success I've had at discovering the reasons for disk activity is to turn off MS services that might be causing the disk activity until the disk activity is reduced. This is really annoying and I hope that Windows 10 is more open about what is really going on in the background than Vista.
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The Task Manager is very robust in 10.. There is a panel that shows all processes with their CPU, Memory, Disk & Network usage...

You can sort on any function and bring the leaders to the top..
 
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