OnDSnap Loc: NE New Jersey

If you know how to protect your computer it doesn't, (assuming your being sarcastic)

PAR4DCR Loc: A Sunny Place

Thanks for your reply. How can I turn "Quick Access" off or just get around using it? As I stated my edits in
Lightroom 5.7 are not the same after my export from Lightroom 5.7 goes into "Quick Access".

Thanks,

Don

mwsilvers Loc: Central New Jersey

Your edits do "go" into Quick Access. They are exactly where they always were. Quick access is just a convenient way of pointing to them. If you don't want to have that folder accessed by Quick Access, you'll need to do it in Windows Explorer. Open Windows Explorer. Go to the top of the folder pane to where is says Quick Access. Select the folder underneath it that you want removed from Quick Access. Right click on the folder name with your mouse and select "Unpin from Quick Access" in the context menu. Keep in mind that depending upon the version of Windows you upgraded from, the name of the location of the pictures may have changed. In Windows 7 the folder was My Pictures. In Windows 8, 8.1 and 10, its now called Pictures. Anything you have in my Pictures before the upgrade will be in Pictures now.

PAR4DCR Loc: A Sunny Place

Can find pin but not "Unpin".

Don

JamesCurran Loc: Trenton ,NJ

You will only see one. If it's pinned, the menu will offer it "Unpin". if not, it will let you Pin it.

mwsilvers Loc: Central New Jersey

Do you see the folder with your images in Quick Access in Windows Explorer? You may see the same folders elsewhere as well, but I'm specifically taking about Quick Access. In Win Explorer Quick Access looks likes a folder, but it's not. If the folder with your pictures is there right clicking on it should give you the option to Unpin From Quick Access. If it does not you are either selecting something different or your folder is not in Quick Access. Unfortunately, it's difficult to know exactly what you're seeing and what you're doing without actually seeing it myself.

MagiKen

Sorry to hear of your troubles. Many told me W-10 would be better, but I did not trust it. I told it to keep off of my computer and disabled automatic downloads. It stopped asking me and if it did want to "jump onto" my computer I would have the option of declining due to my settings. For those not yet in W-10 disaster mode; change your automatic update settings to manual. Some older photo programs are not compatible with 10 and you need to upgrade them to a w-10 version. "Nice" way to get people to buy a good system twice. Sure, you get a few upgrades, but knowing most upgrades in the past decade they also remove "unwanted" features, usually the ones I use most of the time, to "make room" for them. Newer systems based on W-10 often make you rent with programs with automatic regular upgrades (not just updates) during the term of service. W-10 has not evolved enough in the right direction yet for me to want to fool with it. Someday, yes, we will all lose support for other Windows platforms. By then we will need to decide between Windows, Linex, or other such platforms. Right now I am OK with W-8.1.

PS: On the plus side, I hear W-10 does better support use as a TV or Cable monitor and recorder / TIVO HD. I doubt if that carries over to use by videographers, but that might be its one plus for us. Does anyone know for sure?

Peterff Loc: O'er The Hills and Far Away, in Themyscira.

Who do you trust? Ghostbusters?

Those of us that have tested Windows 10 over extended periods of time, in various ways, and on multiple systems seem to think that it is OK, if not Microsoft's best OS ever. So it would appear that your advice is predicated on "what many told you" and not upon actual experience. I have one thing to say to you: "BOO!"

Perhaps now you should go and do your laundry!

P.S. It is Linux, not "Linex", that sounds like a tissue product brand, or a concept for a diaper accessory!

Gene51 Loc: Yonkers, NY, now in LSD (LowerSlowerDelaware)

For all those who are getting the aggressive nagware notices giving you two choices - upgrade now or do it tonight being the latest one -

These are delivered by automatic windows updates. Now you don't want to necessarily turn off auto-update. Many are to patch the OS and other MS software against malware.

However, nagware, even from Microsoft is a lot like malware. Here is how to turn it off.



Open up regedit
Make a backup of your registry.
Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate
If you don't have that key, you need to create it by right clicking on the parent folder (windows) and selecting New-Key
In the new key "WindowsUpdate" right click and create a new DWORD - DisableOSUpgrade.
Double click on the new DWORD and set the value to 1.

Then navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\GWX
Create the key if it doesn't exist
Create a DWORD in the key called DisableGWX, and set the value to 1.

End your regedit session, reboot. No more threats from MS!

Preachdude Loc: Geneva, OH

I have discovered a **Very** important feature in Windows 10. Go to "Settings," then to "Updates and Security." There you will find a URL for advanced options. One of the options is to "defer updates." If you check this box, you will still get security updates, but you won't be automatically given new "features" and other garbage that Microsoft wants to have in order to sell things to you. The other box you can check is "give me updates to other Microsoft products when I update windows." I don't check this because I don't want Microsoft to sell me the latest version of Office and other stuff.

Peterff Loc: O'er The Hills and Far Away, in Themyscira.

Deferring updates is a good idea. It may not be a good idea to uncheck the "other Microsoft products option". If you use something like Microsoft office, that also requires security updates from time to time, and it is typically done through this option.

Microsoft can't "sell" you anything that you do not choose to pay for, and normally you have to opt in to receive e-mail messages advising you of new products, features and so on. I'm using Office 2010 on Windows 10, and get the product/security updates by have not received any messages asking me to upgrade to Office 2013 or Office 365. Remember that it isn't just the OS that is vulnerable to malware, any program can be compromised which is why updates are a good idea, even if inconvenient occasionally.