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You have the option to turn all of that stuff off.  During the upgrade, select the tiny custom link on the left instead of the large Next button.  As you go through the custom pages turn all of the Microsoft phone home switches off.  If you miss it during the upgrade, it is somewhere in the Windows settings.

Yup get off that cloud and own your own cloud. I use a Synology server.

What's the point of calling that a cloud? Isn't that just a NAS backup that could be just as destroyed as your computer in a fire?
 

Freecell is my personal addiction game.  I play it whenever I'm using the restroom or when I need to sit in a waiting room while my Mom sees a doctor.  I've got over 3,800 wins so far (and have never lost). 

Do you go for speed or are you more a stamina guy craigb?

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Do you go for speed or are you more a stamina guy craigb?

Went for speed originally until I got a 1:37, now I just play it.  I usually take around three minutes per game with an overall average of 6:01 (thanks to a few really tough games that took over 45 minutes to solve).  I've got a Samsung Galaxy Note 3, so a nice big screen with a stylus.  Makes it easy to play.

That's amazing craigb!!! I'm very impressed.
 
The Microsoft games for free are really great. I thought I would smash it on the wordament one but all these freaks are making 5 times as many words as myself forming two letter words that don't exist in everyday life. What motivates these people.
 
Having said that, as a cheap hobby I have now learnt to do 3 by 3, 4 by 4 , and 5 by 5 rubiks cubes!

Here's another one for ya.  I was once in a Guiness Book of World Records playoff for solving a Rubik's cube (the original 3x3 one - this was 1982).  Because some positions don't require as many moves, we each had to finish five cubes and then they took the average time.  I averaged 29.4 seconds but wasn't really near the winner who did his in about 24 seconds.  I can still solve a cube in under a minute and can even do alternate solutions (i.e., ones where you actually have to solve the cube in that solution, you can't just spin a normally solved cube to get the pattern - like the checkerboard or diagonal lines).  Here's an example:
 
 One half of the cube.
 The other half.
 A bit of both.
 
I'm pretty sure I can still solve a 5x5, but I'm not sure if I remember the move to resolve the middle squares on the 4x4 any more...
 
 
 

I watched pro dudes do it in what seemed like less that 10 seconds.
 
We were at Disney World and there was convention at the hotel where we were staying (the Disney property Pop Culture no less, DUH!).

I think they've gotten down to about 15 seconds.  However, some solutions don't require all the moves (and the last one I would do is one of the longest), so I've done some cubes in far less than 29 seconds, but that's why they had us to multiple cubes and take an average.  Some math wizards have discovered that any cube can be done with only 22 moves, but how you know which 22 is beyond me!
 
BTW - Those YouBoob videos that show people solving the cube blindfolded or with their feet are almost always done starting with a solved cube that they mess up then play the video backwards.

craigb, I will never equal your magnificent attainments on the "cube". I'm a 3 minute man (3x3) and still getting the patterns down. However , I am the only New Zealander to achieve a ceiling score on the WOMBAT test which NZ Airforce used to use. I sat that at Otago Univeristy and won a box of Cadbury Crunchie Bars.