Windows 10

Windows 10’s fall update is deactivating certain apps without asking

Windows 10 is possibly making unwanted changes to your gaming rig.

Microsoft’s first big update for its operating-system-as-a-service is deleting some user-installed apps without asking Windows owners for permission, according to dozens of complaints on message boards and forums. The affected programs include hardware monitoring tools CPU-Z and Speccy as well as the AMD Catalyst Control Center for tweaking your Radeon graphics cards. In all of these instances, it seems that the programs no longer functioned properly with the newest version of Windows 10, and the apps were often causing crashes and the blue screen of death. So, to deal with that problem, the Windows update removes the active versions of these programs and files them away in your “Windows.old” folder where they can do no harm. While this may help most people who don’t want to deal with troubleshooting their system, some PC powerusers are taking issue with Windows 10 removing software without asking.

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