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OhZone

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8. I bought a new really good HP Win7 machine -

Reply to Boxerfan (Original post)

Thu Dec 14, 2017, 09:16 PM

Dec 2017

About a year ago. Maybe a little more. With the express purpose of not updating it to avoid win10. Microsoft forced win10 on my ex, and it really pissed me off. I have freeware anti virus and things like malwarebytes.

I may go Linux with my next machine.

Or if I go win10, I'll anti beacon.

Oh well.

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I run a old fart special HPs5000 & windows 7. Updates are a crash / restore [View all] Boxerfan Dec 2017 OP

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I bought a new really good HP Win7 machine - OhZone Dec 2017 #8