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Old 06-27-2016, 08:30 PM
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X works for me but the upgrade botched on one machine. It lost my login data and I was a guest on my own machine. Luckily the rollback function worked and now all is well.

Having said that, XP is still my favorite in the Windows series.
Mine too. I still have it on one machine.
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Old 06-27-2016, 08:41 PM
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It's excellent spyware. That's why it's "free".
I just taped over the camera. Easy peasy, lemon squeezie.
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Old 06-27-2016, 09:03 PM
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I just taped over the camera. Easy peasy, lemon squeezie.
The camera has nothing to so with it. Windows 10 tracks all your activity, even logs every keystroke you make. Turning off Cortana is a partial fix but there's no way to avoid it all.
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Old 06-28-2016, 07:59 AM
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The camera has nothing to so with it. Windows 10 tracks all your activity, even logs every keystroke you make. Turning off Cortana is a partial fix but there's mo way to avoid it all.
Actually, there is.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/29717...-by-piece.html
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