Nope ... already covered this ... not playing this game.
Then stop talking twaddle.
Nope ... already covered this ... not playing this game.
I installed my Win10 without a Microsoft account and without approving calling home. You mean to say when I changeover to Win11 in some years before Win10 stops being supported that I have to have a MS account and allow calling home? That's rubbish! That and the sidebar cannot be used on the left side.
Nope ... sorry ... not buying it.
The security of this setup is today, exactly what it was 10 years ago ... no better and no worse.
It doesn't deteriorate with time. Sure someone may find a new exploit or write a better virus, but in the end this system is every bit as safe and stable today as it was the day I first installed it.
Sure someone may find a new exploit or write a better virus
Yeah that's many connections. Mostly Armoury Crate from ASUS (Gaming software stuff.), Bitdfender and Chrome. Interesting that the command [netstat -an] does not show as many connections as TCPview.Win 10 calls home, whether you approve it or not. Win11 took it all the way to forcing you to have an MS Account.
I've attached a copy of TCPView from the Windows Sysinternals suite... fire it up and watch the network activity for a few minutes. You'll be surprised how much stuff is going on without telling you...
On Win7 ... I can get that down to 0 off-site connections when the system is idle.
As a computer professional I can assure you that there are countless someones that have been doing this since Windows 7 was released.
They haven't stopped finding those - but Microsoft has stopped fixing them when they're discovered. Which means you're just a sitting duck.
I've attached a copy of TCPView from the Windows Sysinternals suite... fire it up and watch the network activity for a few minutes. You'll be surprised how much stuff is going on without telling you...
Okay... for the last time ... My systems are no more vulnerable today than they were 10 years ago. In all this time, not one virus, not one hack, not one crash and it still runs as smooth and fast as day 1 ... I sit behind a hardware firewall and I'm no sucker for Phishing or PiggyBacking ... so you tell me... how is anyone going to get into my systems? You can't even Ping them... if you did you wouldn't even know there's anything at the address.
What amazes me is the sheer volume of Youtube videos about trivial crap like whether the taskbar is center or left justified. While that stuff proliferates, practically no one talks about stuff like the Pop ups I'm having. Kinda like discussing whether you should take aspirin or an Nsaid to deal with the headache after you've been shot in the stomach.PC Magazine has run several anti-Win 11 articles stating don't upgrade from Win 10. If you have a machine which is not Win 11 compatible, I sure wouldn't worry about it.
There is a lot of nonsense. Please elaborate on the pop-ups. I run Win 11 and have not been disturbed by pop-ups.What amazes me is the sheer volume of Youtube videos about trivial crap like whether the taskbar is center or left justified. While that stuff proliferates, practically no one talks about stuff like the Pop ups I'm having. Kinda like discussing whether you should take aspirin or an Nsaid to deal with the headache after you've been shot in the stomach.
A common mistake made by people trying to "optimize" their system.No swap file
Please elaborate on the pop-ups. I run Win 11 and have not been disturbed by pop-ups.
When the car dealership issues a recall, you don't need to be an engineer or mechanic to accept the free fix.I'm not going to install "Security Update 33234566 - Urgent" without knowing what it's doing.
We have two Win11 machines at home and neither have this issue, either.Me neither and i've been running it since it became available on the beta channel on the Windows Insider programme.
When the car dealership issues a recall, you don't need to be an engineer or mechanic to accept the free fix.
That you are aware of. Not all hacks advertise themselves as easily as e.g.: a crypto miner (CPU taxation) or some "IMMA ENCRYPT EVERYTHING!!1" virus.In all this time, not one virus, not one hack
At least from an ad-blocking perspective, one weakness that I discovered with Pi-Hole and AdGuard alike is that they don't touch IPv6, and quite a few ads were sneaking in that way. But since my computers don't need to reachable by the greater internet, I simply switched off IPv6 networking.For anyone concerned about privacy -- whether that is related to browsing, the telemetry data from an OS, the telemetry data from IoT devices, etc. -- it is worth exploring Pihole. It's not plug-n-play; it requires a real investment of time and energy. But it provides:
Is it perfect? No. It's a DNS sinkhole, so in that regard it's a one-trick pony. It cannot stop, for example, browser fingerprinting. But as a solution it can increase your privacy without compromising your security.
- Visibility into what every device on your network is doing in regards to making external calls. (At least every device that you decide you want to run through Pihole.)
- Full control over what domains to allow vs. which ones to block.