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| From | knuttle <keith_nuttle@sbcglobal.net> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.advocacy, alt.comp.os.windows-10 |
| Subject | Re: How will we pay for Windows 10 you ask? |
| Date | 2016-09-14 15:52 -0400 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <nrc9pl$qqa$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <nrc587$9ke$1@dont-email.me> <ePoEX1DRoZ2XFwEu@jasper.org.uk> <nrc8fi$lsl$1@dont-email.me> <3r9jtbphbffmhetgi7bvjok785fbnc4j0f@4ax.com> |
Cross-posted to 2 groups.
On 09/14/2016 3:41 PM, chrisv wrote: > knuttle wrote: > >> I have realized that MS Solitaire is a problem if you perpetually don't >> let it phone home. The way I get around this and the ads is to turn >> off the wireless on my computer. >> >> Doing this, I do not get the ads. However after a period on not >> phoning home when the game becomes unwinnable. > > Ha! That's funny... > >> Then I let it talk with >> mommy MS a couple of times and every thing is back to normal. Again I >> can play with out ads. > > I would put some tape over your Web cam, too, if I were you. 8) > May sounds like a conspiracy theorist to you but it is true. Normally I can win one out of 4 or 5 games. After preventing it from phoning home, I can play 10 or 20 games and not win one. Let it phone home and we are back to one out of 4 or 5 games. If this happened once, I would say that it is probably, but it has happened multiple times.
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How will we pay for Windows 10 you ask? Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-09-14 14:34 -0400
Re: How will we pay for Windows 10 you ask? Mike Tomlinson <mike@jasper.org.uk> - 2016-09-14 19:42 +0100
Re: How will we pay for Windows 10 you ask? knuttle <keith_nuttle@sbcglobal.net> - 2016-09-14 15:29 -0400
Re: How will we pay for Windows 10 you ask? chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2016-09-14 14:41 -0500
Re: How will we pay for Windows 10 you ask? knuttle <keith_nuttle@sbcglobal.net> - 2016-09-14 15:52 -0400
Re: How will we pay for Windows 10 you ask? Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> - 2016-09-14 17:50 -0400
Re: How will we pay for Windows 10 you ask? The New Other Guy <Newsgnus@gmail.com> - 2016-09-14 14:45 -0700
Re: How will we pay for Windows 10 you ask? Vladimir Vučićević <vladimir@vucicevic.iz.rs> - 2016-09-14 21:43 +0200
Re: How will we pay for Windows 10 you ask? knuttle <keith_nuttle@sbcglobal.net> - 2016-09-14 15:55 -0400
Re: How will we pay for Windows 10 you ask? Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-09-14 15:51 -0400
Re: How will we pay for Windows 10 you ask? Melzzzzz <Melzzzzz@zzzzz.com> - 2016-09-14 19:13 +0000
Re: How will we pay for Windows 10 you ask? Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-09-14 20:00 +0000
Re: How will we pay for Windows 10 you ask? Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-09-14 16:17 -0400
Re: How will we pay for Windows 10 you ask? Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-09-14 20:24 +0000
Re: How will we pay for Windows 10 you ask? Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-09-14 16:28 -0400
Re: How will we pay for Windows 10 you ask? Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2016-09-14 22:57 +0200
Re: How will we pay for Windows 10 you ask? ronb <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2016-09-15 00:44 +0000
Re: If you can't configure Windows 10 properly, don't use it... benj <nobody@gmail.com> - 2016-09-14 23:30 -0400
Re: If you can't configure Windows 10 properly, don't use it... The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-09-15 23:49 -0700
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