Windows 10

custardy

Money_Saving_Dude wrote: »

[FONT=&quot]If you really really really have to use Windows 10 please be aware:


By default Windows 10 will share your Wi-Fi network password(s) with:[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]- All of your Outlook contacts.[/FONT][FONT=&quot][FONT=&quot] S[/FONT]uggest that you should opt-out.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]- All of your Skype contacts.[/FONT][FONT=&quot][FONT=&quot] S[/FONT]uggest that you should opt-out.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]How-to opt-out?[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]- Start (button)[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]- (type) Wi-Fi[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]- (select) Manage Wi-Fi[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Want to inhibit sharing of you WiFi Access Point?[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]- Add a "_optout" suffix to your SSID[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]To share you WiFi password with your Facebook friends, you must opt-in. It is an all-or-nothing opt-in.[/FONT][FONT=&quot]
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No,they get access to your network when they are at your house/office or whatever.
They dont get the passphrase.

http://www.geek.com/microsoft/windows-10-wifi-sense-does-not-share-your-passwords-1630014/

Jivesinger

custardy wrote: »

No,they get access to your network when they are at your house/office or whatever.
They dont get the passphrase.

http://www.geek.com/microsoft/windows-10-wifi-sense-does-not-share-your-passwords-1630014/

I believe your friends' computers do get the WiFi password, but it should keep it secret from the users.

Assuming you switch it on.

enfield_freddy

custardy wrote: »

Why wouldn't you simply set up an account?
You do really seem desperate to find a problem with W10.

I have NOT got a problem with win 10 , and am happy with it , its other people that are winging about wi fi passwords and child safety


run by Ethernet cable , and boot your kids out when they are 18 , is the simple answer

Fightsback

Windows 10 cured my haemorrhoids, a most excellent and efficacious Ashley Giles treatment

I_have_spoken

Whenever I read someone venting about a Windows 10 wickedness, I always look for the throwaway line that of course they run Linux anyway. Never been wrong yet.:rotfl:

marleyboy

I don't run Linux. Strictly been an MS user. Yet have no intention of upgrading to 10. I didn't want 7 when that came out, but over time had no choice.

I vowed 7 would be the last upgrade I would do with MS. Once my 7 ultimate is no longer viable, its bye bye MS and hello Apple.

Before you wrongly jump to that conclusion - I dont have Apple either.

The_Last_Username

Windows 10 has been on the 2nd HDD, dual-booted with Win8.1 on 1st HDD, for just about a week now.
From a "fresh" install, & didn't take long to re-install my usual prog's and set it up how I like (though like many others, still getting used to it I guess). Not one single problem.
(Am I tempting fate now? :think: )
It's surely testament enough that I've not even booted into Win 8.1 for certainly five days out of this week.
Very useable and (so far, touch wood) very stable.
More important (to me, anyway) is ........... it is less of a "system hog" than 8.1! Seems "snappier" opening & executing tasks AND system overall runs cooler.
And that on a none-too-new AMD Phenom II Quad.
Win win, I say. :T

As for the various "rumours" - "wiFi not safe" etc etc - there are ALWAYS such "stories" upon every new release of Windows.

So, after a week I have to say ........... I like it.

Trouble is, it's taken me off these forums for much of the week that I've been available as I've been "playing" with Win10! :rotfl:

Fightsback

I_have_spoken wrote: »

Whenever I read someone venting about a Windows 10 wickedness, I always look for the throwaway line that of course they run Linux anyway. Never been wrong yet.:rotfl:

I never upgraded from CP/M

buglawton

So, you choose the share option when you first set up your wifi connection with Windows 10. You forget all about it . Many moons later you swap some emails with your neighbour about getting a tradesman to fix the roof guttering you have in common, and add said neighbour to Outlook contacts...

Big_Graeme

buglawton wrote: »

So, you choose the share option when you first set up your wifi connection with Windows 10. You forget all about it . Many moons later you swap some emails with your neighbour about getting a tradesman to fix the roof guttering you have in common, and add said neighbour to Outlook contacts...

Then set your software up so people you email are not automatically added to contacts.