The stuff you must feed Cortana for the convenience of a voice activated "have my best friends meet me at the nearest pizza place," is pretty much what anyone who would use a robot to do that deserves. The automatic backup of a bitlocker recovery key to OneDrive, where Microsoft and any intelligence or police agency or god knows who else can get it, sounds like it effectively defeats the security of using bitlocker to encrypt your computer. If anyone other than yourself can unlock an encrypted file or drive, it is not a secure container. Edward Snowden famously defeated what must be considered "strict internal policies," which is all that MS says is protecting your files stored there.  If all you need is to keep your kids away from your porn stash, you do not need strong encryption. If you do need strong encryption...

Nope... the W-10 icon is gone. There is a W-7 security update in updates and an optional update for
Intel driver update for Intel(R) Centrino(R) Advanced-N 6250 AGN. I am having NO problem with connection or speed. Do you think I should leave well enough alone on the Centrino driver?
OH... and where is W-10 now that the icon is gone?
J 
 

@jobow  You are correct.  If I had not looked at everything, I would have clicked that big button and in ignorance gave Microsoft the permission to audit everything that I did on my computer and then sell it to other companies.  They are a USA company and our constitution gives us the right to privacy, so they can not do that unless we give them permission to do so.  Hence all of the switches to cut everything off.
 
On the icon disappearing, just download it and do it manually.  To heck with waiting for them to push it to you.  That is what I did, as well as all of my friends at work, after I found the link.  This forum will not let me post links, perhaps because I am new, but I can give you enough to get there.
 
microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10
 
To force the icon to appear, look here (hey, I made a poem!)
 
answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-win_upgrade/i-want-to-reserve-my-free-copy-of-windows-10-but-i/848b5cce-958b-49ae-a132-a999a883265b

StaringIntoNothing
@jobow  You are correct.  If I had not looked at everything, I would have clicked that big button and in ignorance gave Microsoft the permission to audit everything that I did on my computer and then sell it to other companies.  They are a USA company and our constitution gives us the right to privacy, so they can not do that unless we give them permission to do so.  Hence all of the switches to cut everything off.
 
On the icon disappearing, just download it and do it manually.  To heck with waiting for them to push it to you.  That is what I did, as well as all of my friends at work, after I found the link.  This forum will not let me post links, perhaps because I am new, but I can give you enough to get there.
 
microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10
 
To force the icon to appear, look here (hey, I made a poem!)
 
answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-win_upgrade/i-want-to-reserve-my-free-copy-of-windows-10-but-i/848b5cce-958b-49ae-a132-a999a883265b

Thank you. I'm still a bit hesitant. I think I will wait a week or two and see what is happening with others. I was curious about where it went, thanks for that!
 
J

StaringIntoNothing
@jobow  You are correct.  If I had not looked at everything, I would have clicked that big button and in ignorance gave Microsoft the permission to audit everything that I did on my computer and then sell it to other companies.  They are a USA company and our constitution gives us the right to privacy, so they can not do that unless we give them permission to do so.  Hence all of the switches to cut everything off.
 

 
Just like how vampires can't enter your home until you invite them in. 
 

craigb
Just like how vampires can't enter your home until you invite them in. 

Hmmm... A very apt comparison, methinks.

ampfixer
I miss solitaire

FREECELL was best! I think there were only 4 of the 32K versions I could not finish. Over several years, of course!

craigb
 
Just like how vampires can't enter your home until you invite them in. 
... 

That would depend on which interpretation you use ... Stoker's also uses the wind and there is no direct link/evidence that he flew in. Ann Rice also has a couple of stories where it can use one of those magic potions to make themselves invisible. Fortunately, I did not find any at the Auction House lately, so I could not play with it!

jbow
I just looked and the little W-10 icon is no longer sitting on my taskbar. I bet it is now in Windows Updates.
 
On my Studiocat I never could get it to do a preorder or pre-whatever for W-10. The icon never showed up and when I went and tried to do it manually I got squat. They said don't worry, it will still be available later for free but.. I'm waiting. I'm just not sure. New things make me nervous when the old things are still working so well. I worry that I'll need new drivers and they wont be ready. I worry I'll need stuff I've never heard of and don't know where to get. I worry... about OS upgrades in general. I have not forgotten Windows ME.
 

I'm right here with you J. I don't know whether to pull the trigger or wait a little bit. I have such a well oiled machine with my studio stuff, I'm sitting here shaking at the possibility that I'll be down or will need to buy something. I thought of doing it on my net box, but I do a lot of beta testing for various companies on that and don't want to have any issues. Uggh....I so hate change when all is well in my world. I know in the long run I'll probably be better off though. I think I'll test it on the net box and see how everything works. Would love to hear from Jim Roseberry on his take as well as how his machines are handling Win 10. Jim....you around? Any advice? :)
 
-Danny

Moshkito

ampfixer
I miss solitaire

FREECELL was best! I think there were only 4 of the 32K versions I could not finish. Over several years, of course!

https://www.microsoft.com/en-US/store/Apps/Solitaire-Pack-Free/9WZDNCRDLXMP