Q – How can I do a Windows 10 clean install?
Q – My Windows 10 clean install won’t activate?
I’ve been asked variations on these questions several times in the last few days.
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Windows 10 Default Services
Windows 10 Default Services (build 10240, 26JULY2015) by TweakHound.com.
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Windows 10 Upgrade Advice. Warning, opinions ahead…
As most of you know, Win10 gets released this week.
I’ve been asked various questions by many people.
This advice/opinion article will hopefully address some of those questions.
More in-depth articles on these topics will come over time.
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Is This Win10 Final?
Is build 10240 Win10 final? Folks at Neowin, Paul Thurrott, and WZOR seem to think so. [Read more…] about Is This Win10 Final?
Back From Vacation
Sorry for the lack of posts. I was on vacation.
Back with more Win10 stuff this week.
Pics and vacay details if you care..
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Patch Tuesday
Time to run Windows update. I had 18 updates in Windows 7 and 29 in Windows 8.1.
Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for July 2015
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Breaking News! AMD Catalyst Drivers Updated
Holy Cow! Over half a year has gone by since AMD has released a non-beta Catalyst driver.
They finally released Catalyst 15.7 yesterday. Includes Win10 support.
Download
Random Midweek Stuff…
Windows Phone…blah…blah…blah…
Microsoft all but admits Windows Phone is a failure (like we didn’t know that already).
Can we PLEASE get back to Windows desktop/laptop? :banghead:
Oh, and all you sites that have been constantly chirping about the Windows phones, 😛 
Adobe Flash Updated
Download Flash
Windows 8/8.1 users, I don’t see it in Windows Update yet.
Google Chrome Updated
Includes above flash update as well as other fixes.
Download or update from within the program.
Chrome 44 is due next week (14th).
Windows 10 Is Coming Along Nicely
I’m currently on build 10162 of the Win10 preview on my desktop. I’ve been using it constantly in a virtual machine since the first build but I’ve been using it sparingly on real hardware because it wasn’t stable enough for me. That now seems to have changed. I’ll be using Win10 as my main desktop so that I can learn what there is to learn about it.
One thing I can tell you here and now is that if you’re a tweaker who values your privacy you’ll have some work to do setting up Win10. The default is basically to share all you’ve got with everything and everyone. It even wants to share your wifi passwords with your contacts.
Although I did a Win10 clean install on this computer a few weeks ago I put my Windows 8.1 image back on because Win10 was so buggy. This time I did an upgrade (extract iso image and click setup.exe). The only problem I’m having at the moment is bridged networking in VMware Player (Win10 host) (I do the majority of my internet activities in one of my Linux VM’s).
Anywho, Microsoft has put out a lot of Win10 info this week. Here are the links:
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Linux Mint 17.2 Is Out
Linux Mint has released version 17.2 of their Cinnamon and Mate desktops.
Hit up their home page for more info. Download it here.
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