Recent content by ad47uk

I will stick with Duck Duck go.

Not something I would use, I have all the sites I use in bookmarks, so I don't see any reason for me having them anywhere else. Ones I use a lot, I have in the bookmarks toolbar. I don't use Edge anyway, I use Firefox, far better browser for me.

I don't use Chrome, I use Firefox, and I am certainly not going to use Edge. I am thinking of going back to Cent.

I have a Terramaster F4-210, now that is a budget model, more or less the bottom of their NAS range, the only one that is lower is the f2-210. You get a lot of hardware for your money compared to other brands, sure the CPU is ARM and the meory is only 1GB, but for network storage it is fine. i...

I am a premium user of spotify, if MS took over Spotify I would drop it like a stone, simple as that.

I tend to set my computer not to keep any history and just in case I use third party software to delete any that is left or Io hope it does anyway. I do not have a MS Account, so Timeline would be limited anyway. Maybe you find a use for timeline, but to be honest I have not had any reason...

Not I feature I need to be honest, my problem with it is security or the lack of it. I have disabled it.

What is wrong with using our computers as if it was running Windows 95? I did not ask for the bloat that Ms have pushed onto Windows 10, I have no requirement for it, to be honest I did not use most of what came with windows 7. All I need is an OS to run the software I want to run.

I more or less done the same as you, including getting rid of Cortana well and truly. A chromebook would be no good to me as it will not run the software I want to run and at the end of the day that is all I want Windows to do is run the software I want to use, not what Ms thinks i should use.

No. maybe some but not all. I use my computer a lot more than I use my phone, but i do not use the Ms eco-system. I have disabled cortana, I do not use windows apps, so there is no need for them to send me notifications, if i plug a usb into my computer i know what I plugged in, so I do not need...

I have turned off all notifications on my computer, but i did get one yesterday from defender saying if have not found any infections and that my computer have been scanned six times since when ever, strange really because i thought I disabled defender. I must have a look at that. I find...

We use office 365 at work, but it is only for info and we can not really store anything on it, apart from the odd document and we can not download or install the office software. but to be honest, I do not really want to use it at all, so only sing in when I really need to and that is about once...

i do not see the problem in using normal software to be honest. i do not use any UWP and to be honest i have no interest in using them. I certainly would not stop using better software just because they are not available in UWP. i do not see Adobe sticking their software into the store, yes i...

i get the problem with having to reset my adaptor, it is not every hour, sometimes it is 15 mins apart, other times it can be hours.

No way to disable Cortana without using Reg edit or group policies, be nice to put it in the settings, If I was going to use Edge, the extensions I use would be nice, there are some, like Xmarks, but they are not integrated into edge. Stop changing my defaults back to Ms defaults when updating...