Re: OT: Windows 10 free upgrade

[J R FOX <jr_fox@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Not to tout something with which I am not presently

familiar, but Spybot has been a significant player in

their software category.  I would imagine that if their

product for this issue did not work or had serious bad
ramifications, that would tend to impair their reputation ?

   Jordan

On Tuesday, July 30, 2019, 10:37:24 AM PDT, Paul Breeze wrote:

Dear Daniel

Thanks for the link.  Unfortunately the site does not seem to indicate
how efficacious these tools are.  There is another called Blackbird that
sounds valuable, but again no objective way of evaluating it.

Paul

On 30/07/2019 18:15, Daniel Say wrote:

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Subject: Re: OT: Windows 10 free upgrade

(PS.  Should have read this more closely; effective appears too often.)

Following Carl's message a couple of weeks ago, I too have been looking
at Windows 10.  I could not upgrade my version of Windows 7 but after a
clean install I was able to buy a pro licence for about £2 on Ebay. This
    new OS is on a new hard disk so that I can swap it in and out with my
active Windows 7 system.

I now have a working version of Windows 10.  I would like to contain its
ability to send data back to Microsoft.  There are various programs that
try to do this but I have no idea how effective they are.  The one I
have installed is called WPD.  It appears to be comprehensive but I have
no way of testing how effective it is.  Does anybody else have any
experience of this, or of trying to control Windows 10 by any other
means.  There seems to be a community interested in making Windows 10
private and I would be happy to go down this route if I knew that it was
effective.

Paul

See, for example the  AlternativeTO.net site

https://alternativeto.net/software/wpd/