timppu: Just an increasing example of where Microsoft seems to be saying "We know better than you what you want.". I guess it is fine for total newbies, but for more advanced users, it is damn annoying.

It also increasingly seems the OS and apps give less and less information what the heck they are doing. You get some circulating symbol and at best a "please wait..." text, and wait there for minutes or hours wondering is it really doing anything, or just stuck there. I would be much happier with a proper text log where it says all the time what it is doing at any point, what commands it is running etc. Even if I didn't understand all of it, at least I can tell if it is proceeding, and where it is stuck, if it is stuck.

It seems as if they feel the less information they give to the end user, the better. The end-user has less to worry about, and MS receives less support calls because users don't detect errors as often.

skerbgs: They were installed on a secondary drive.

dewtech: The program uninstallations are due to hardcoding certain applications and configurations compatibility into windows.
Like a lot of people with not so up-do-date Speccy got it uninstalled but people with the newest versions had it stay and not uninstalled. You can remove those hardblocks.
Here you go, for power users. Remove hardcoded blocks and run whatever you want
The program itself is pretty self-explanatory

timppu: Just an increasing example of where Microsoft seems to be saying "We know better than you what you want.".

dtgreene: Have you thought about running Linux, preferably *without* using one of the popular Desktop Environments? (Use a window manager instead, and use the command line for installing updates.)

wpegg: I like the fact that MS are threatening to remove apps that violate a user's privacy, even while there own privacy violations are being exposed: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/11/26/microsoft_renamed_data_slurper_reinserted_windows_10/