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I believe we have a system wide problem! No, I am not kidding. I routinely run SFC on computers and it almost always returns a report of no problems or not often but sometimes reports that it found problems and fixed them. Rarely, it reports corruption found and not fixed. In those instances the only way I know to fix this in Windows 7 is to re-build the OS.
In the past several days I have run SFC on 5 different computers all running Windows 7, but in different places, used by different people.
All report SFC found corrupted files and was unable to fix them.
I do not know if there is corruption, if SFC is itself incorrect, let alone how to fix this. There is suspicion that the May 2015 patches may have caused this.
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Arnold
No, you can't opt out. Windows 10 collects your information whether you like it or not, regardless of which option you choose.
As usual you are not entirely accurate. I think there is a two level feedback to Microsoft. The first level is a diagnostic level and the second is about usage. You cannot opt out of the first level but you can disallow the sending of usage information to Microsoft. It is the second level that intrudes on a users privacy.
No, you can't opt out. Windows 10 collects your information whether you like it or not, regardless of which option you choose. There's language in the installation agreement that states Microsoft basically owns your PC and everything on the machine effectively belongs to Microsoft if you choose to install Windows 10.
The only real solution to this problem is to get rid of Windows altogether, which I strongly recommend to most users. The only reason anyone should still be using Windows is if you have a particular piece of software that you are required to use for work. If you're an average user, then Linux Mint, Ubuntu or Zorin Linux is an ideal replacement for the Windows OS.
I'm forced to deal with Windows machines at work because most of my co-workers aren't as savvy as I am and they're fearful of making the switch, but for all of my personal machines I use various Linux distros and have reached the point that I wouldn't keep a new Windows PC if it was given to me for free.
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Another member of EVGA forums already started a thread complaining about the spying and forced updates and forced restarts in Windows 10. We all want our OS to be stable and most of us agree that Windows 7 is perfection incarnate. We at EVGA are mostly focused on performance and gaming. Most important to us is the video drivers being forced on us as all video drivers are not created equal and perform poorly in some games. Equally important is having our Windows 10 PCs having a forced restart after updating. This is especially important to me as I participate in Stanford University's "Folding at Home" project in an effort to cure cancer. To me it is personal since every one in my mother's family has died from cancer. I am the first to have a chance to fight back and having my PC restart during the night while I am Folding loses all of the progress in the Work Unit I am currently folding with my video boards. My twin GTX-980 video boards can spit out some WU and points and I take pride in doing my part. I have Windows 7 notify me when updates are available but let me decide which ones to download and install. Windows 7 forever! Windows 7 users need to unite and put our foot down to stamp out spying by Microsoft!
It has come down to the point that if you want to protect your Windows 7 investment, you are going to need to bar the door. The only way I have found to do that is to set Windows Updates to NEVER. Then at your convenience, manually start it, and uncheck the ones you do not want, allowing what are probably worthwhile updates to be installed.
The challenge will be somehow keeping track of the objectionable ones.
