[charlesray]

Why would you ever do this?

[mccada]

Some people aren't comfortable with the amount of data Microsoft is collecting about them. There are a lot of privacy issues, and their terms of service are really quite jarring if you read them. Even turning all the the tracking and telemetry off, you cannot be sure they are not collecting your personal data.

[charlesray]

But they were already collecting that data. They're still collecting it on 7 and 8. You almost certainly use several other services that collect the same data, or more. The only reason you think Windows 10 is unique in this is because Microsoft did THE RIGHT FUCKING THING and made their privacy policies understandable to regular people. And they're being criticized and villainized for this. It's childish and indefensible.

[sudo_free_cake]

You can block the sites microsoft reports to in your host file, problem solved.

[newsreader]

I did it because of issues with W10 disconnecting from my Bluetooth mouse and WIFI issues. I tried many things such as reinstalling drivers and applying fixes suggested by others that were experiencing the same problems. Also, my computer got slower: slower booting up, and slower shutting down. I'm not blaming Microsoft because it could very well be my laptop that has the problem; the fact is, however, that ever since I downgraded to W8.1 my laptop is working fine -- all over again.

[gambiting]

I'm strongly considering downgrading to Windows 7. After the upgrade I can't put my PC to sleep - it wakes up all by itself after a couple hours,for no reason whatsoever. I tried doing "powercfg - lastwake" and it just doesn't show anything. I've disabled every single wake timer in the task scheduler, and also completely disabled wake on lan in device manager and in my BIOS. It annoys me enough that I actually want to downgrade.

[izacus]

Also try disabling hybrid sleep in power settings, that's usually the cause.

[ionised]

My Windows machine is for gaming only and I have no interest in Windows 10 cloud integration and data collection, much of which cannot be disabled or blocked.

I made the switch from Windows 7 a few days after release and I'm learning more and more about what is going on under the hood of Windows 10 that is making me seriously consider going back to Windows 7.

Windows 7 had reporting and telemetry, but not even in the same league as what is happening in Windows 10.

[snake117]

Seems like the title should be "upgrading to Windows 7".

[yuhong]

You can't disable it unless you have enterprise edition, but you can select between levels of telemetry in Win10 I think.

[charlesray]

It's embarrassing how ignorant you are. Congrats on falling prey to fear mongering.

[morganvachon]

Different reasons for different machines; my wife's laptop was simply unstable under Windows 10 so it went back to 7. My gaming desktop ran great, but I purposely planned to test Windows 10 and go back to 7 after about a week, just to make sure it would run well. Given some of the privacy revelations the past few days though, as well as some incompatibility with older games, I may just keep Windows 7 on that machine indefinitely. My wife's desktop is running great with 8.1 and she has no complaints, so it will probably be a while before we upgrade it as well.

My main workstation runs Slackware Linux so Windows 10 doesn't enter into the picture there, and my laptop is so old (Dell D400 from 2003 also running Slackware) that it wouldn't run 10 due to no DirectX 9 hardware, and even if it did I'd have to buy a copy anyway since that machine came with XP originally.

[27182818284]

>Why would you ever do this?

The complaints I'm hearing from folks running Windows 10 is that it is broken enough to interrupt their work. (E.g., crashing while using an IDE to code.) That's all the reason needed, really. If you can't quickly find a solution, you'd have to spend the time to revert.