There may be an option to avoid automatic updates for Windows 10

[barn32]

I upgraded to Win 10 and there is good and bad, first the good.

Excel spreadsheets took forever and a day to open and even longer to close with Win 8. Now it is very, very fast. And just for that reason alone I'm glad I upgraded.

However, I lost most of my font settings for Windows and for Firefox, and it took a long time to figure out how to get things "close" to the way they were.

But my biggest problem right now is sound volume. With everything set to maximum I can barely hear the audio, and if air conditioning or something is running in the background it's impossible to hear at all.

I've been searching for a solution, but there isn't really much out there yet for Win 10. I did find this little trick, but it doesn't work for me.

Any suggestions?

[MONEY]

I installed windows 10 on 08/12.

Yesterday 08/13 I got an email from my internet provider warning me about stealing music files.
The file that I was accused of stealing was called " You and Your Friends (feat. Snoop Dogg & Ty Dolla $ign).mp3"
I've heard of Snoop Dog in the news & I've never heard of Ty Dolla $ign.

Anyway I checked my programs & found that along with Windows 10, a program called "sugarsync" was installed in my
computer. "Sugarsync" is a file sharing P2P program that can be used for sharing programs & music illegally.

I just finished uninstalling the program and I hope that it doesn't come back.

Just letting you know, to check on may have been installed into your computer along with the upgrade to Windows 10.

[headhawg]

Sugarsync is like Dropbox; a cloud drive that let's you store files. It is not a P2P file sharing program. If something like that was included in a Windows 10 update it would be all over the Interwebz. The warning that you got sounds like a scam to me.

[MONEY]

Originally Posted by headhawg

Sugarsync is like Dropbox; a cloud drive that let's you store files. It is not a P2P file sharing program. If something like that was included in a Windows 10 update it would be all over the Interwebz. The warning that you got sounds like a scam to me.

I checked with uverse & they did send the warning.

[FocusWiz]

Originally Posted by cj

My boot up and restarts actually seem faster, but even if wrong they aren't slow by any means.

I believe that I found the cause of the delays on my machine in the days after upgrading to Windows 10.

Without me realizing it, Microsoft reverted to their earlier 8 rule that your SkyDrive/OneDrive local store could not be on a removable drive. On this machine, the OneDrive data was located on a Micro SD card while I was using Windows 8.

Once I upgraded to Windows 10, the OS thought to itself, "I can't let this data reside there." and it created a new OneDrive location on my C: Drive. The delays and heat and thrashing I was seeing was likely Microsoft copying everything on my OneDrive back to my C: Drive where I do not want it.

That plus the fact that you need to trick the system now to make it think your removable drive is part of your C: Drive has been a small relearning experience.

I am glad I discovered this before I got a Drive Full error.