DISCUSSION: Microsoft can remotely disable pirated games on Windows 10

[seeingeyegod]

Dude we don't really know for sure, it probably won't disable them if they work at all on Win10, but nothing in tech is a 100% guarantee.

 

[BrandonYoung]

Windows 8 and above will scan every sector of your drive looking for read errors while thy are still correctable. If it gets a read error from the disk it will re read it over and over until the entire sector is correctly read. It then moves the data io a new sector and marks the old sector as bad. It does this as a data integrity service. Windows 7 and below require you to do it your self. This action is designed to keep your files from becoming corrupted as spinning mechanical drives bearings wear and the drives servo motors start to become mis aligned with the sector markers on the disk platters. It is not spying, it is doing preventive matainance on a neglected drive. The repair is done when the system is idle, run thru a system thread. There should be lots of disk activity but little network activity associated with this task.

I uninstalled W10 shortly after finding it messing with my audio and video files. The second the PC was idle, high CPU, Disk, and network usage. Always with my mp3s, and home movies.

Call me paranoid, but it appears that W10 may not have its users best interest in mind. W10 may have been designed to have M$ best interest ($$$) in mind.

Well that seems like a noble service. This was not the case for me however based on what you said.
1) That drive is not mechanical.
2) Nor was it "neglected"
3) Windows 8.1 never had this issue.
4) This was -always- followed by very high inbound and outbound network usage.
5) Audio and Video made up a small percentage of the drives used space, but a high percentage of the drive scanning performed.

 

[warmachine8]

I just completely lost use of my laptop yesterday because of a new windows 10 update. I had it working perfectly fine, and actually somewhat fast that morning, and then the update app froze my game, forcing me to do a hard shutdown. After the update, it took 5 minutes to load anything to the point where it would run smoothly, and then, nothing. No screen image, no boot, no OS. My laptop is reading it as a media failure in the PCIe Family controller, and says to "check the cable." Im sorry, I may have agreed to forced updates (only delayable, they still install them, even you don't want em), but I did NOT agree to have an update completely disable my computer! Im going to open my machine and check all the physical connections to ensure that nothing physical is causing this, that way I can at least prove their sole responsibility for this damaging update and possibly gain some avenue for recourse.

I did have a cracked version of Deus Ex HR, but only because I can't afford it right now. I wanted to play it to make sure it was the one I remembered before I bought it.

I feel it may also be worthwhile to note that my system was installed from an ISO I downloaded from their site, after I tried installing windows 8.1 pro because it was just SO MUCH FASTER! I mean, seriously, even without compatible drivers for my i7 and pcie family controller, windows 8.1 ran fast and smooth without stuttering in my graphics dependent games. In the games that relied heavily on the processor though, I did have a lot of lag. I just wish someone would make drivers for these new systems so people can stop using the headache that is windows 10.