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Can you uninstall Candy Crush? It doesn't seem that egregious if so. It is / was an extremely popular game, they probably figured: * We can make some money *

Can you uninstall Candy Crush? It doesn't seem that egregious if so. It is / was an extremely popular game, they probably figured: * We can make some money * Users love this garbage anyways I haven't been a Windows user for years, but Windows 10 looks fairly impressive - especially from a security standpoint.

iliketosleep 8y ago
I found that Candy Crush and other junk kept coming back after updates, wasting a lot of time and data. This combined with the crazy amount of telemetry sent to MS makes it less impressive from a security standpoint. It's a pity because Windows 10 does have great potential.
- staticassertion 8y ago
  Oh yeah - if it kept coming back that's pretty annoying.
- Santosh83 8y ago
  Must be peculiar to some users. I have used Windows 10 Home since 2015 on my laptop and yes, Candy Crush was installed the very first time I installed 10 (as a free in-place upgrade over 8.1), and I uninstalled it from the Store app and never saw it again in my menu. This despite upgrading through several versions of Windows 10 from 2015 to now (1809 at present.) As for updates force rebooting, they only do so during designated non-active hours, which I set from 2AM to 5AM and leave my laptop on. By the next morning, its updated and ready to use. One thing I don't like about 10 is how updates tend to uninstall my hardware manufacturer's drivers and replace them with vanilla Windows ones and I have to go through the tedious process of re-installing them. Happens most often with webcam and sound drivers. Oh, and I don't use any hack software like ShutUp10 etc. This is just stock Windows.
  - Silhouette 8y ago
    As for updates force rebooting, they only do so during designated non-active hours, which I set from 2AM to 5AM and leave my laptop on. This presumes that any hours can reasonably be designated non-active. For some professionals, and for that matter some home users if they work shifts or the like, that simply won't be the case.
- cptskippy 8y ago
  The junk, including Candy Crush, was never downloaded or installed on your system. Those were just tiles that, if clicked on, would download and install them.
  - JetSpiegel 8y ago
    So, they are ads? I already pay for Windows licences, why do I need to pay again for ads? Is windows cable tv?
- wayneftw 8y ago
  I mostly use Manjaro Linux for my work now because Windows can be quite annoying when trying to use many popular `nix-first` dev tools that I need to use. I also maintain a couple of Macs that are used for testing and doing stuff for iOS. I'm saying this to point out that I'm not some Windows zealot... But I have 4 Windows 10 PCs in my house and dozens at work and I never had this problem. I see people on HN complaining about it every time a story about Windows 10 comes up though. It's not a complaint that I've ever heard in real life either, ever, from anyone that I know that uses Windows 10 (that's a ton of people at my company.) It's also not a complaint that I hear outside of this kind of tech circle online very much. I wonder if people who "know what they're doing" with computers take some drastic unnecessary action in Windows 10 that causes this problem?
- m-p-3 8y ago
  I wish their stripped down version (LTSC) was available to the tech-savvy general public. I don't care about the App Store, I just want the security updates with stable features.

iliketosleep 8y ago

I found that Candy Crush and other junk kept coming back after updates, wasting a lot of time and data. This combined with the crazy amount of telemetry sent to MS makes it less impressive from a security standpoint. It's a pity because Windows 10 does have great potential.

staticassertion 8y ago
Oh yeah - if it kept coming back that's pretty annoying.
Santosh83 8y ago
Must be peculiar to some users. I have used Windows 10 Home since 2015 on my laptop and yes, Candy Crush was installed the very first time I installed 10 (as a free in-place upgrade over 8.1), and I uninstalled it from the Store app and never saw it again in my menu. This despite upgrading through several versions of Windows 10 from 2015 to now (1809 at present.) As for updates force rebooting, they only do so during designated non-active hours, which I set from 2AM to 5AM and leave my laptop on. By the next morning, its updated and ready to use. One thing I don't like about 10 is how updates tend to uninstall my hardware manufacturer's drivers and replace them with vanilla Windows ones and I have to go through the tedious process of re-installing them. Happens most often with webcam and sound drivers. Oh, and I don't use any hack software like ShutUp10 etc. This is just stock Windows.
- Silhouette 8y ago
  As for updates force rebooting, they only do so during designated non-active hours, which I set from 2AM to 5AM and leave my laptop on. This presumes that any hours can reasonably be designated non-active. For some professionals, and for that matter some home users if they work shifts or the like, that simply won't be the case.
cptskippy 8y ago
The junk, including Candy Crush, was never downloaded or installed on your system. Those were just tiles that, if clicked on, would download and install them.
- JetSpiegel 8y ago
  So, they are ads? I already pay for Windows licences, why do I need to pay again for ads? Is windows cable tv?
wayneftw 8y ago
I mostly use Manjaro Linux for my work now because Windows can be quite annoying when trying to use many popular `nix-first` dev tools that I need to use. I also maintain a couple of Macs that are used for testing and doing stuff for iOS. I'm saying this to point out that I'm not some Windows zealot... But I have 4 Windows 10 PCs in my house and dozens at work and I never had this problem. I see people on HN complaining about it every time a story about Windows 10 comes up though. It's not a complaint that I've ever heard in real life either, ever, from anyone that I know that uses Windows 10 (that's a ton of people at my company.) It's also not a complaint that I hear outside of this kind of tech circle online very much. I wonder if people who "know what they're doing" with computers take some drastic unnecessary action in Windows 10 that causes this problem?
m-p-3 8y ago
I wish their stripped down version (LTSC) was available to the tech-savvy general public. I don't care about the App Store, I just want the security updates with stable features.