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They need to backoff a little...
Similar complaints were made about the last major Win10 update.
Nasty Surprise #2: Deleting And Changing Default Programs
Message 30317045
A Reddit thread notes that Threshold 2 is deleting a number of installed programs as it upgrades. Posters have a long list, including CPU-Z, speccy, 8gadgetpack, a Cisco VPN client, SATA drivers, SpyBot, RSAT, F5 VPN, HWMonitor and more.
Of course these can be reinstalled and you will be notified of any removed programs after the installation, but 1. This shouldn’t happen in the first place, and 2. There should be a warning in advance, not just after they were removed. There’s also something a theme here: many are system monitoring tools. Has Microsoft something planned in this space for the future and is quietly removing the competition? Only time will tell, but I suspect that won’t stop the conspiracy theories growing.
On top of this gHacks has spotted that after installing Threshold 2 users are finding it has changed a number of default app choices back to Microsoft services. Microsoft has been guilty of this before, but your choices can easily be restored by going to: System > Default Apps and rechoosing what you want – not that you should have to do this in the first place, of course.
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