{"id":642,"date":"2015-08-02T15:09:09","date_gmt":"2015-08-02T22:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/?p=642"},"modified":"2015-08-26T14:42:29","modified_gmt":"2015-08-26T21:42:29","slug":"after-installing-windows-10-upgrade-what-to-do-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/2015\/08\/02\/after-installing-windows-10-upgrade-what-to-do-first\/","title":{"rendered":"After Installing Windows 10 Upgrade &#8212; What to do first"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, you upgraded a Windows 7 or Windows 8 PC to Windows 10 &#8212; for free. Cheers. What did you do next?<\/p>\n<p>PC World suggests these explorations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"PC World article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/2952232\/windows\/how-to-maximize-your-first-30-minutes-with-windows-10.html\" target=\"_blank\">How to maximize your first 30 minutes with Windows 10<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"PC World article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/2874400\/windows\/windows-10-the-10-coolest-features-you-should-check-out-first.html\" target=\"_blank\">Windows 10: The 10 best new features you should try first<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"PC World article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/2875600\/windows\/windows-10-the-best-tips-tricks-and-tweaks.html\" target=\"_blank\">Windows 10: The best tricks, tips, and tweaks<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"PC World article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/2952717\/windows\/the-10-best-hidden-features-of-windows-10.html\" target=\"_blank\">The 10 best hidden features of Windows 10<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"PC World article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/2955454\/windows\/windows-10-superguide-everything-you-need-to-know.html\" target=\"_blank\">Windows 10 superguide: Everything you need to know<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my checklist:<\/p>\n<p>1. If you didn&#8217;t Customize your <strong>privacy settings<\/strong> (vs using Express setup) in the final setup stage of the upgrade, then consider revising those settings. What do you really want to share with Microsoft &#8212; <a title=\"Wall Street Journal - Windows 10 Isn\u2019t Spyware but It Wants Your Data\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/personal-technology\/2015\/08\/05\/windows-10-isnt-spyware-but-it-wants-your-data\/\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft, Windows 10, and your personal data<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAny information shared with Microsoft is at your discretion\u2014we will not collect information without your permission,\u201d says a Microsoft spokesman.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s good to hear, but many of Microsoft\u2019s data collection systems are turned on by default. Opting out requires knowing where to look, and disabling some of the features in Windows 10.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What can you do about it? In addition to the above article, &#8220;<a title=\"The Washington Post\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-switch\/wp\/2015\/08\/03\/here-are-the-privacy-settings-you-should-check-in-windows-10\/\" target=\"_blank\">Here are the privacy settings you should check in Windows 10<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>2. Check that your anti-virus app is still there and working okay.<\/p>\n<p>3. Consider whether you really want Microsoft&#8217;s new Edge app to be your default web browser &#8212; rather than Chrome or Firefox, for example. If not, <a title=\"CNET article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/heres-how-to-set-your-default-browser-in-windows-10\/\" target=\"_blank\">here&#8217;s how to change that<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>4. Re-enable <a title=\"PC World - How to turn on System Restore in Windows 10 to protect against bad updates\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/2955023\/windows\/how-to-turn-on-system-restore-in-windows-10-to-protect-against-bad-updates.html\" target=\"_blank\">System Protection<\/a> on your boot (C) drive so that Restore points will be created before Windows updates are installed.<\/p>\n<p>5. If you intend to use Microsoft&#8217;s Edge browser, customize the settings &#8212; such as your home page and whether to show the home button and favorites bar.<\/p>\n<p>6. If using WiFi, check that your local area network (LAN) still is designated as a Private network.<\/p>\n<p>7. Review <a title=\"PC World - How to uninstall programs and apps in Windows 10\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/2954296\/windows\/how-to-uninstall-programs-and-apps-in-windows-10.html\" target=\"_blank\">how to uninstall programs and apps in Windows 10<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>8. Customize the Start menu &#8212; perhaps to make it more like Windows 7&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>9. Uninstall <a title=\"Important update on the MSN apps and MSN.com website\" href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/kb\/3073273\" target=\"_blank\">MSN apps that are being discontinued in 2015<\/a> &#8211; MSN Food &#038; Drink, Health &#038; Fitness, Travel.<\/p>\n<p>10. Perhaps you don&#8217;t want to use Cortana (maybe your PC lacks a microphone and the other aspects of Cortana aren&#8217;t compelling) or you don&#8217;t like Cortana or you&#8217;re concerned about privacy (sharing all that data with Microsoft); so, review <a title=\"PC World - Killing Cortana: How to disable Windows 10's info-hungry digital assistant\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/2949759\/windows\/killing-cortana-how-to-disable-windows-10s-info-hungry-digital-assistant.html\" target=\"_blank\">how to disable Cortana<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, you upgraded a Windows 7 or Windows 8 PC to Windows 10 &#8212; for free. Cheers. What did you do next? PC World suggests these explorations: How to maximize your first 30 minutes with Windows 10 Windows 10: The 10 best new features you should try first Windows 10: The best tricks, tips, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[57,56,52,55,48],"class_list":["post-642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","tag-cortana","tag-customize","tag-tips","tag-upgrade","tag-windows-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":677,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions\/677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}