Well, I finally downloaded Windows 10 for my desktop, yesterday. I had to download in during the 5 free hours of downloads that I am allowed through my satellite system. It took all 5 hours and then some. Now, I am at 8.9 gbytes and have only 1.1 left until I go back to zero on August 12. The file was huge at 2.669 gigabytes. My connection has a pretty slow transmission speed as well, something like 180 kilobits per second. Talk about slow, but when I got up the next morning, I was glad to see that it was busy installing itself.
So far, I don't think much of the new operating system. I have the opportunity to roll it back to Windows 8.1 for a month. Well, I suppose I will stay with 10, but there's nothing to like about it. The whole interface that I have learned to like with Windows 8 and 8.1 is gone. One big problem is that Microsoft has removed your ability to control when it updates your system. In 8 and 8.1 all you had to do was go into Control Panel, click on the update section, and tell Windows, you wanted to be notified of updates and would decide when or if you would download them. Now, you can't even find the update app. It is nowhere to be found within Control Panel. I finally discovered that if you click on the icon in the lower right corner of your screen, the one that looks like a newspaper bulletin board, then click on "all settings", then click on the last icon that looks like a circle, you can go to Windows Update, but you can't do anything because Windows has you locked out. At least, they think they have, but there is a workaround for people like me, who don't have unlimited downloads.
Here's the workaround, as I see it from the following website:
How to Change Windows Update Settings When Managed or Disabled by System Administrator? - AskVG
1. Type gpedit.msc (group policy editor) in run box and press Enter.
2. On right side of box, click Computer Configuration.
3. Double-click Administrative Templates.
4. Double-click Windows Components.
5. Scroll down and double-click Windows Update.
6. Double-click Configure Automatic Updates.
7. Click Enabled.
8. In the drop down box, select 2 - Notify for download and notify for install.
One of my other pet peeves regarding the update system in 10 is that you can't see how big the patch is that you're supposed to download unlike in 8 and 8.1. That's important to me because I have to know the size of the files I download. Otherwise, I will be in the hole with Wild Blue.
Although the new logon system they have built in, that requires a special Intel camera looks very promising. Same system is used with fingerprint scanners.
