Windows 10

custardy

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...

So the neighbour who is emailing you on their internet?
So you would have the same in your scenario?
However I dont just add randoms to my contacts.

deanos

all my thumbnails have returned , very strange

Yolina

deanos wrote: »

all my thumbnails have returned , very strange

Possibly because a batch of improvements is being rolled out which could well have fixed your thumbnails issue.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-delivers-first-cumulative-windows-10-update/

Fightsback

Yolina wrote: »

Possibly because a batch of improvements is being rolled out which could well have fixed your thumbnails issue.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-delivers-first-cumulative-windows-10-update/

Fingers crossed there won't be a needed patch for the patch

RumRat

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...

OK, now go and do some research on how it really works......;)

buglawton

Dunno I only read the MS FAQ like this part:

What determines if Wi‑Fi Sense will automatically connect me to Wi‑Fi networks my contacts have shared with me?
Wi‑Fi Selected Use Express settings when you first set up your PC with Windows 10

Chose Customize settings during setup, then turned on Automatically connect to networks shared by your contacts will automatically connect you to Wi‑Fi networks your Facebook friends, Outlook.com contacts, or Skype contacts have shared with you if you have Connect to networks shared by my contacts turned on in Settings > Network & Internet > Wi‑Fi > Manage Wi‑Fi settings and you've shared at least one network with your contacts. This is turned on already if you did either of these:

Selected Use Express settings when you first set up your PC with Windows 10

Chose Customize settings during setup, then turned on Automatically connect to networks shared by your contacts

My point being that based my poor understanding of that FAQ, neighbour may now have free or unwitting access to broadband via my WiFi.

RumRat

buglawton wrote: »

Dunno I only read the MS FAQ like this part:

What determines if Wi‑Fi Sense will automatically connect me to Wi‑Fi networks my contacts have shared with me?
Wi‑Fi Selected Use Express settings when you first set up your PC with Windows 10

Chose Customize settings during setup, then turned on Automatically connect to networks shared by your contacts will automatically connect you to Wi‑Fi networks your Facebook friends, Outlook.com contacts, or Skype contacts have shared with you if you have Connect to networks shared by my contacts turned on in Settings > Network & Internet > Wi‑Fi > Manage Wi‑Fi settings and you've shared at least one network with your contacts. This is turned on already if you did either of these:

Selected Use Express settings when you first set up your PC with Windows 10

Chose Customize settings during setup, then turned on Automatically connect to networks shared by your contacts

My point being that based my poor understanding of that FAQ, neighbour may now have free or unwitting access to broadband via my WiFi.

No. Read this......http://www.zdnet.com/article/no-windows-10s-wi-fi-sense-feature-is-not-a-security-risk/

It's been posted before here, so your research wouldn't have taken much more effort.;)

Laurensalive

I lost my start menu today. Basically I had to crash the pc and turn off the power. Also lost icons too. Seems like an old Microsoft issue.

Fightsback

RumRat wrote: »

No. Read this......http://www.zdnet.com/article/no-windows-10s-wi-fi-sense-feature-is-not-a-security-risk/

It's been posted before here, so your research wouldn't have taken much more effort.;)

Come on RR, that's Ed Bott we are talking here, Redmond Central. Do you know he has absolutely no computing qualifications, majored in politics and was involved in editing Playboy magazine ? He may know his b00bs but not his bits

Yolina

Am I the only one who's really irritated by the fact that in the Edge browser, downloads start automatically as soon as you click on them and you no longer get asked whether to save or cancel? Gonna have to be super careful when the cat is about and "helping" me do stuff :rotfl:

Talking about the Edge browser, Adobe flash player is turned on by default (it's in the advanced setting inside the browser) and also the flash setting in the control panel are set to allow sites to save information to the computer. I've changed all that of course