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Windows 10, Yay or Nay?

I have one of those... I've used it like three times.
They work quite well as an AP too. My cousin ran Cat5 from his house to his pole barn/man cave when he built it. We set one of these up with the same SSID/pass-code and he can seamlessly roam with his cell on WiFi between both places. Handy while cutting the grass and listening to Pandora. Never drops the connection ;)
 
My memory isn't what it used to be. The device I meant to refer to is the TP-LINK TL-WR700N. Set it up in AP Client Mode, it will grab an IP from the hotel (or other) WiFi network, then just plug an ethernet cable from it to your laptop. I've found these as low as $4.99 after rebate. They come in handy for connecting ethernet only devices to your WiFi network. There's a PDF file on the TP-Link website to assist in configuration, but it basically works like this when done:
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Tnx for that info, just found one for $9.99 shipping included....
should be home before I get home :) :)
 
There's still a few left. Make a great Stocking Stuffer.

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LOL! I haven't "directly "purchased any M$ OS since the upgrade to Win '95 (and I tricked THAT to do a clean install). Unless pre-installed, they get not one thin dime from me.

I find it really hard to believe that anybody who actually wanted Win10 would have missed that boat. I'm sure there are exceptions. Also note: Limit of five per customero_O
 
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If you're rooted you could try to remove the stock play services apk and replace it with ONLY the latest version. As I understand, updates use up your /data and leave the original in /system (basically unused). You can see how much is free in /system with adb, but I don't recall the command at the moment. df perhaps? or cat /proc/partitions?

Another option is to rollback/uninstall the update and see if it fixes your issue.
 
I'm trying to explain it but they aren't listening. Deaf ears. Blame Google, because they bought an ultra cheap device running an outdated Android version with 0 storage. :(
 
Windows 10 blamed for continued drop-off in system shipments, flat IT spending

Windows 10’s launch last year was a huge success for Microsoft. In the past year, the number of systems running Windows 10 has grown enormously, spurred by Redmond’s free upgrade offer and a number of less-upstanding practices. From a strictly numbers game, however, the shift has been a success.

What’s been less clear is the negative impact this shift has had on the wider PC business. In the past, the release of a new Microsoft operating system gave the PC OEMs at least a minor sales bump as consumers and businesses upgraded to the new operating system. That bump always depended on the release’s overall quality — Windows 7 was more significant than Windows 8.1 — but it existed. Windows 10 didn’t improve sales at all, and a recent Gartner discussion with The Register suggests why. According to Gartner, one in five customers that upgraded to Windows 10 ultimately decided not to replace their PC with a newer one after seeing how well the OS ran.

“People with older PCs upgraded to Windows 10 and held onto them. Microsoft didn’t expect that number to be so high,” research director Ranjit Atwal told the Reg. “Microsoft has a different vision of of where it is headed, which means that it will not be completely aligned with the PC makers.”
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...and I have a new PC on the way, with Win7 installed.
 
That's true.. Someone tried to hack my Facebook With Windows from China the other day. Well they actually DID hack it, just used the wrong OS to do so and the fact it was suddenly on the other side of the world it triggered a lockdown of my account. For all of MS's Win10 push, there's still a LOT of ppl still running earlier Widows OS's. Especially in China, apparently.
 
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