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June 28

Windows 10 upgrade assistant thingy

I can't seem to be able to find a working download link for the assistant that tells you whether or not some of your apps or drivers will work with W10. (I believe it even deletes them without your permission) I remember having uninstalled the annoying white Microsoft tray icon, though. When it comes to Windows Update, I only have the option for "Upgrade to Windows 10 Home". Any ideas? Even the hyperlinks to the- upgrade assistant are redirecting to upgrading-now-without-testing-before pages. The deadline is prompting me to upgrade, that and DX12. Don't really care about the privacy implications. Matt714 (talk) 10:00, 28 June 2016 (UTC)

Chances are that if you have find waiting until now you can as well stay with version 7 - or you'll find you're losing some usefull keyboard alternatives for mouse-clicking and contextual menus, and will want to disable some or the other to you superfluous services (Skype.. whatever); I did not find however that drivers and apps were affected: UI, and low-level tweaks only. Upgrades of other levels are routinely propagated to version 7 it seems. If you upgrade and want to keep a familiar touch and feel grab the custom setup when proceeding (I did not, had to haunt the system parameters for a while and I'm still at it sometimes). --Askedonty (talk) 10:38, 1 July 2016 (UTC)

Picasa

File:Jaques Jarrige at work.jpg has no information in the Metadata section, except for

Software used = Picasa
Exif version = 2.2

Does this mean that someone uploaded an image to Picasa and edited it, and then someone (whether the uploader or someone else) downloaded the edited image from Picasa and uploaded it to Commons? Moreover, the image was uploaded this month, some while after Picasa was closed; do images edited in its replacement, Google Photos, include references to Picasa in their metadata? Someone's claiming that the image is a copyvio, and the near-total lack of metadata makes me more sympathetic toward that claim, but I want to make sure I'm understanding things correctly before I go any farther. Nyttend (talk) 21:07, 28 June 2016 (UTC)

PS, I've just found the image at [1] and am about to delete it; the image in question is at the left end of the page, with him looking to the right (his left) while holding a string-like object with his ring-wearing hand, which is visible at far left. Nyttend (talk) 21:12, 28 June 2016 (UTC)