If you watched the tutorial it would have said to watch what you delete. It does however say that you should click on scan with Analyse. Then if all was okay you click Scan with clean. Can't remember exactly what it said but yeah.

The following article appeared in the September edition of WiFiHiFi magazine:

WINDOWS 10

It would take more than one article to do justice to the privacy violations in Windows 10. How-To Geek has a Web page listing 30 different ways that the new OS leaks users' data back to Microsoft. The list ends with the disclaimer that it is undoubtedly incomplete.

European Digital Rights (EDRi) points out that upon installing the 'free' Windows 10 upgrade, users agree to 45 pages of terms and conditions. These give Microsoft the right to use their personal data, directly or in conjunction with affiliates, to "personalize" user experiences and to help make ads "more relevant."

Advertising "opportunities" abound in Windows 10, including promotion of new apps in the Start Menu and Lock Screen, and sponsored responses in Cortana. Even Microsoft's Solitaire Collection now includes huge pop-up ads that cost $1.50 per month to disable.

Ads are 'personalized' by extensive collection of user data. The Cortana voice assistant keeps a database of user activities, contacts, search history, personal calendar, location data and more. This information is shared with Microsoft's new Edge browser, which in turn shares browsing history back to Cortana. Local searches initiated from the Start menu are sent to Microsoft, and return results from Bing and the Windows Store.

Continuous Web browsing analysis is performed by Microsoft "on trillions of URLs crawled in conjunction with Bing." Ostensibly, this is to improve the compatibility of Microsoft's Web browsers. A new 'telemetry' system sends diagnostic and usage data to Microsoft, and can only be disabled in the Enterprise edition of Windows 10.

Security features like Windows Defender send Microsoft "info about potential security problems/' and even samples of software that are suspected of being malicious. SmartScreen checks any application downloaded from the Internet against Microsoft's database of suspect software.

Windows 10 even creates a unique ID for each user, which can be used by app developers and advertising networks to assist in tracking and profiling.
Some of these privacy violations can be disabled, though settings are scattered in various places, including Websites outside Windows 10 itself. Permanently disabling all data collection is probably impossible. Add the new 'Windows as a Service7 approach (i.e. mandatory updates), and Microsoft has essentially turned the personal computer into a connected appliance, with users monetized by collection of their personal data.

Like Facebook, Windows 10 is 'free' because its users are not the customers -they're the product.

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Thank you Dennis,

This is very informative.

How to protect your privacy on Windows 10:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2489212,00.asp

I have been away on business, so I know it is near the end of this offer, but I, too, have tried to install it on my XP desktop (I have a similar program already on my laptop) and had the same result - availability reuest went through, then nothing else happened.

No... but it's good. Worth a download. cnet has some reviews. It creates a restore point during 1st time set-up. Ashraf has a review of the 2014: http://dottech.org/130756/windows-review-synei-system-utilities-free-premiere-program/

Almost no companies would give a portable software as it would permit the user to use/transfer it on multiple computers which is not what they are looking for, but advertisement for their softwares. However there have been exceptionally good companies who did.

@SoftwareJunkie: Have you read those cnet reviews? I can safely bet they are fakes - all (or nearly all) positive ones. Enough to check the activity of their authors. They all are either one-time or (at most) one-brand reviewers.

What do you mean? It says on the Homepage, DL the the portable version.

@krypteller and those who voted down Xenox question:
You really ought to read carefully. Xenox raised a valid question. What do we get here: Synei System Utilities Free (which is free anyway) or Synei System Utilities Premiere? Since there's no mention of Premiere edition in the description, one can assume that we have a freeware as a giveaway today.

It's a 1-year Premiere license, expiration will be 09-12-2015, it will downgrade to the free version then.

I can't remember (in the 7 years I visited GOTD almost every day) that GOTD gave away something that is normally free. So no, I don't assume that this one is free. More likely the giveaway can't be mentioned Premiere because the Premiere version specifically mentions "Premiere email support" as a bonus from the free version..
http://www.synei.com/items/products/system-utilities
But GOTD's never offer free technical support...

B.t.w. I did install the GOTD but I found the software to be too unstable to try any of the functions, including the bonus "Premiere" functions.

If you were to check what Karl wrote about it the last time it was given way, you will see the giveaway is the premiere version.

Why you use this spyware? Forget W 10...

@Jimmy

Agree, a good point, but then again all versions back to XP are. Most people have their workflow allowing them no alternatives because of lack of software available for Linux or Mac, so, they use Windows.

I tried many times WINE on Linux and sometimes it works and at best with bad performance resulting back to dual boot etc... but you probably know that Yoyo Effect already.

In all fairness, what exactly do you suggest as best alternative?

Leslie - I have Win 10 and just installed it and it worked fine.

Jimmy - As long as you know what you're doing, you can disable what you call 'spyware'. You do have options when you install Win 10.

krypteller brings up a good idea. Perhaps software like this would could do that tuning for people.

@xenox: I know there is no alternative to windows and my comment was not against windows. Only against 10 - I stay by 7 so long as I can. The missing MediaCenter is for me reason enough to do it so! But there are a lot of reasons more...

To Miss Pita,
The changes you think you are doing in win 10 are just for your own imaginary peace of mind. The check boxes in win 10 are just that, decorative wish list. The background hard spying is integrated into the operating system and unless you know how to erase those coding line, your perception of privacy is just that an illusion.

Not necessary, there are die hard XP users; including me.
This is equivalent to swiss army knife. 10 in 1 types, too back i never found a use for them. hahaha

mike4,
why do you think that other windows version dont behave in the same way? win10 lost his glance for visible spying, if that invisible concerns you, dont use win nor any google sw nor lenovo ntb nor some harddisks...
well, i try to have such activities on my pc that i dont need to care. and hen needed, use encryption and on important accounts to have dual verification...
paranoia dont help yoh.
btw, i dont have win 10 (yet).

Wow, plan to see the MS fan boys here. Maybe some of US had a chance to install/use and get rid of the preview version which has the SAME functions and abilities as your normal home user. So, unless you had a chance to use it on 8.1 and back, don't slam it because it won't run on your precision windows 10 system. The latest isn't always the greatest, as MANY found out with 8.0 and 1. A brand of tire isn't made for my car, doesn't mean I'm going to trash them because of it.

Jimmy you can install media center in windows 10 using outside sources, like the turbo mode for games and to see how many program are not needed.

Perhaps he was using Synei System Utilities 3.05, jim.

and pressed the wrong thumb.

:)

It's not the 1st time offered here, perhaps he knew already this software.

I think many of the up or down votes apply to the day's choice rather than to its quality. If someone doesn't like what was offered that day, they vote it down. I pay much more attention to the comments than to the up/down votes.

Ths giveaway was up for 3 minutes and someone already left a comment which has absolutely nothing to do with the functionality of the software but rather beats a dead horse instead.

Maybe he was in a different time zone

Reply to Jeff. I think you have a very good point which answers my daily curiosity how there are so many negative user ratings the minute GAOTD is up. Perhaps GAOTD should add another question under the thumb down: Have you tested it, yes or no?