Windows 10: New study shows Home edition users are baffled by updates

Re:Windows 10: New study shows Home edition users are baffle... by Cactus2018 on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @01:46PM (#19265800)

Win 10 Pro -> Start -> Search -> "firewall" -> "allow an app through Windows Firewall" -> "Change settings" -> uncheck apps and features to disallow access to internet.

I turn nearly everything off. ... Check again and find various apps are allowed. (especially after a Windows Update, but seeming at random as well) WTF.

This is bad security.

In the past week the following apps became re-enabled in Windows Defender Firewall: "Xbox Game bar", "Windows Maps", "Windows Calculator", "Movies & TV", "MSN Weather", "Microsoft People", "Groove Music".

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Re:Windows 10: New study shows Home edition users are baffle... by gambler on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @03:52PM (#19266829)

Thank god I managed to click the right button about 100 times and retain my Windows 8 installation. Mots of my friends weren't so lucky. The clicked the close window button instead of "decline" or whatever it was called and got the "free upgrade".

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Re:Windows 10: New study shows Home edition users are baffle... by stuuuuuuuuu on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @02:03PM (#19265944)

Why does Windows Calculator need network access??

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Re:Windows 10: New study shows Home edition users are baffle... by skykooler on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @02:05PM (#19265959)

To get the latest rates for currency conversion: https://www.windowslatest.com/2017/07/23/calculator-windows-...

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Re:Windows 10: New study shows Home edition users are baffle... by noir_lord on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @04:52PM (#19267285)

Then it should ask for network access the first time and remember what you said.

I didn't even know it had a currency converter.

These days I just do "200 GBP in hungarian forint" and google does it for me.

Though in fairness I'm a linux user who does some software dev on windows (in a VM) and that's about it.

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Re:Windows 10: New study shows Home edition users are baffle... by skykooler on Thursday February 28, 2019 @11:29AM (#19272524)

Frankly, I didn't know it had one either. I took a guess at currency conversion being one calculation where the results would need to be looked up daily, googled and found the above article.

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Re:Windows 10: New study shows Home edition users are baffle... by cptskippy on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @04:43PM (#19267229)

Ha, that's really cool. I rather like the Windows 10 Calculator.

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Re:Windows 10: New study shows Home edition users are baffle... by minkzilla on Thursday February 28, 2019 @07:21PM (#19276846)

The programmer mode on the windows calculator is extremely useful!

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Re:Windows 10: New study shows Home edition users are baffle... by chrisper on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @03:57PM (#19266865)

Yes. This drives me crazy as well.

What you have to do is use group policy to manage your firewall (secpol.msc) and tell it to ignore local firewall rules.

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