Yeah, I live with over 40 still with mommy and daddy, especially where I moved to the other side of the world. Your wall of text was a pointless rant about rubbish. If you are one of these few users with certain issues, then there is for sure the OS / M$ to blame. Driver-Issues => old or crap hardware => blame the manufacturer, upgrade your hardware, stay with your old OS Paranoid about "Data-Mining" => stay away from TP's, Alpha's, Beta's or the Internet in general You don't have to be a Geek to do some research or to simply ask someone for help. To have a high IQ doesn't make you a Geek, because you are not born as a Geek and even intelligent people need some kind of input to become a Geek. Geeks and Nerds are a different bunch of people, but even that doesn't matter, because they have both still a life, believe it or not.
127.0.0.1 is although Localhost and if you run any local server on your Machine, as more entries pointing to 127.0.0.1 as more the connection will slow down. While using 0.0.0.0 there will be no slow down because 0.0.0.0 will not report to anything back.
But you state it yourself that Toshiba is the one which is causing you that issues, because their driver-support is at least not top. A manufacturer usually only supports the OS they made the hardware for and not any previous ones. Up to Windows-7 you were able to fiddle around even with drivers for a previous OS-Version, but that was not always without issues either. Support for Laptop's or cheap "off-the-shelf" Desktop-PC's, like HP / Compaq / Dell etc., is in general pretty poor. What model do you have ? Maybe there is something we can do about it, but it would be better to start a sep. thread for it. PS: ... but not tonight, as I have to stand up early for work.
Windows has been locked so much, these few topics are all that are left for most average users, to talk about. Point: Most average users only care about, activation, watermarks, themes, aero glass, start menu, being hacked / spied on, AND NOW BEING watched with keyloggers.
the issue i am having with windows 8.1 which is the factory installed os aside from the no windows start menu and all the modern ui apps not having the necessary tool bars with drop down menu to execute the necessary commands to make them useable and not having the ability to install addons in the metro web browsers is the internet. found a workaround for the start menu by installing vistart to bring back the start menu uninstalled all modern ui apps to get rid of the problems with that at least the ones that can be uninstalled threw change pc settings. my problem with the internet is that i can only get 30 meg per second download speed when i am on a 100 meg download connection which works fine for windows 7 computer and for the linux laptop the supervisor for my internet company had when he came out several times. I was told by several it professionals that work for my internet provider that the problem is the way windows 8.1 handles tcp ip and the settings in my computer must be messed up. from what i can find online it isnt possible to change this in windows 8.1 because when you reboot or shutdown and restart the computer these settings are restored to factory default hence my statement that windows 8.1 doesn't handle internet correctly and my desire to install windows 10 even at this early date in the hope it will handle this better. from feedback i have read online about windows 10 it was reported to handle internet allot faster at least for gaming. when i am more awake i will find the model of my laptop and post it and find out how to make a new thread which i think should probably be posted in the windows 8.1 forum.
I think that if peeps want to remove keylogger it's their choice. If peeps want to run TP stock, that's also their choice. I remember the big shout when Windows Experience started appearing in XP. A lot of users weren't happy and some didn't care. Difference is this is a TP not a an RTM. I bet you a bunch of users don't even bother to disable the OFFICE feedback on RTM which actually asks you to send files like Word, Excel etc. That's RTM! I don't see anybody crying foul if you try to activate a volume license when you don't have that right. Or those who try to find a free key crack to Windows. Some do it and others abstain. Still a choice. The difference between technical preview and beta test is beta testers will push and shove to come in and agree to all requests from MS. TP is open to all, so opinions will vary. Still a choice
We might need that in future builds if they lock certain permissions behind the trustedinstaller permissions.
we still don't know how to remove the keylogger in win10. I suspect it has something to do with Internet Explorer and some sort of plugin, but I haven't spent much time on that.
If we knew exactly what the keylogging is/does it would be simple to circumvent. Right now we just know they record keystrokes for auto-fill data analysis. Auto-Fill is a thing for Internet Explorer and other web browsers, but we don't know if the logging is aware of other browsers and is OS-based or if it's specific to IE. There's so much data being recorded and sent in this TP that it's hard to find out which programs do what.
Like I said, there's so much data being logged and transferred, it's hard to tell. We've yet to test the deagles service disable and subsequent keylogger hunting. If you wanna go test it and whip out wireshark and start hunting, be our guest. I made an easy enable/disable script the other day. You can scroll back a few pages for that. I personally don't have much experience with the network monitoring so I've been kinda backseat driving the more expert of the MDL people. I guess I could, but I have a big problem with false assumptions. I may just do that if nobody reports about the keylogger within a couple days. I'm going to be pretty busy today with the Win8.1 patch date.
what about ping -a (numerical ip) which shows the address. which can then be added to the hosts file. i'm sure somebody has done this, but figured i'd suggest.