The time comes to prove empirically once again what I said in, I look for some activator in Google, there are hundreds of results, I download one from one of links that gives me some hope of not have a virus, immediately after download the executable file and Windows Defender warns that it have a virus, I run it anyway and click on the button to activate the Office, a message indicating that the activation has failed, I try several options without apparent effect to see if I am not right and Microsoft has done its job to avoid piracy. I start Word and it shows me a message that after about 30 days many of its functions will be disabled. However, Office is what they use, do they ask students to take a license that still costs about 125 € for students? 250 € for other mortals? It ’s the start of 2016, it’s the weekend and I do not want to think much about it, I download the latest version of Office and I install it. Finally I am asked to install the office suite Microsoft Office as it will be used, my intention fails, I propose to recommend some alternative option as Google Docs or LibreOffice. I have to install the basic additional programs with the intention of being free software or respecting the licenses Firefox along with AdBlockPlus, VLC, PeaZip, ImgBurn, Acrobat Reader, FreeFilesync, uTorrent to which I add Java. A few minutes of waiting, a couple of reboots and several privacy options deactivated that could give Windows 10 the name of spyware, supposedly for the sake of user, and after creating the user account the system starts with all the devices working properly including graphics card, network and WiFi. In one of the installation steps I deleted all the partitions recovering the space reserved for the recovery partition. The installation media images are offered kindly by Microsoft so I had not to search them in the file sharing networks like in the older times. I continue starting the Windows 10 installation step by step from scratch. As I have done many times in years and with previous versions I start by downloading the Windows 10 installation image media and the installation media for Microsoft Office, Home and Students. Starting the installationĪt the point of doing the reinstallation I had no problem, the computer had Windows 7 originally, had been upgraded to Windows 10 and activated correctly in the period of free upgrade offered by Microsoft. So to fix the problems I did a clean reinstallation. With hard drives with capacities of 320/500 GB that are reserved 10 GiB is no bigger problem but more than one has asked because its available space does not correspond with the specifications of the equipment that bought. On the other hand since Windows Vista era the computer can be reinstalled and leave as factory included all the bloatware previously quoted but for this they reserve about 10 GiB of the hard disk space that is not usable by the user. The manufacturers are the ones who pre-install these undesirable programs and will be the main culprits but if Microsoft knows the bad name they give their systems, and so far has not prevented it, some guilt will have, if its operating system is an imposition in practically the whole laptops that are sold in stores, Do you know the Windows tax?, they could impose some condition to allow Windows pre-install and make their users happier. The computer had several bloatware programs typical of Windows laptops provided by manufacturers, an antivirus that could fit the definition of what it tries to protect that expires after a while and leaves it unprotected, a music player that starts with the desktop and hides at the top of the screen in case you atypically need it. That was not all, a virus encrypted the personal files, photos and documents, asking in exchange for recovering them something that I did not even bother to see in detail, surely nothing good. It was slow to start and launching programs in addition to some antivirus message popups complaining that its trial period expired that appeared when entering the desktop. The need for reinstallation came from the fact that the laptop was remarkably slow despite having a mechanical hard disk and it was not because the equipment was old or had little memory, the processor was an AMD Athlon x2 QL-65 with 4 GiB memory and 320GB hard drive, something that should be more than enough for the purpose of surfing the internet, watching movies, listening to music and do office tasks. I normally do it willingly, this time I received another in exchange for another kind, so perfect. One of those favors that we as advanced computer users habitually do. This 2016 I have started nothing more and nothing less than installing the operating system and programs of a laptop.
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