[AT] So, How do you Like Windows 7? (Off topic computer question)

[charliehill]

Well you need an excuse to go to Raleigh every now and then anyway.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Al Jones" <farmallsupera at earthlink.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 30, 2010 11:51 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] So, How do you Like Windows 7? (Off topic computer 
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> I'll be able to do a lot of it from home.  I am taking a statistics class 
> now that requires me to come to campus to take the tests.  (THe stats. 
> dept. seems to be a lot like the chem. dept. at NCSU--they are determined 
> to do everything just as backwards from everybody else as they can!)
>
> Al
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>>From: charliehill <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
>>Sent: Jan 30, 2010 11:28 AM
>>To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>>Subject: Re: [AT] So, How do you Like Windows 7?  (Off topic computer 
>>question)
>>
>>Can't help with the new laptop Al.  I need to be getting one myself.
>>Congrats on going for the Ed.D.  Do you get to do that mainly from home or
>>do you have to spend some time in Raleigh?
>>
>>Charlie
>>----- Original Message ----- 
>>From: "Al Jones" <farmallsupera at earthlink.net>
>>To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" 
>><at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>>Sent: Saturday, January 30, 2010 10:58 AM
>>Subject: [AT] So, How do you Like Windows 7? (Off topic computer question)
>>
>>
>>>I guess really it's too late to ask now.....at any rate, I bought myself 
>>>a
>>>laptop last weekend.  My old desktop was giving trouble, I have just
>>>officially become an Ed.D. candidate in  agri. education at NCSU, and it
>>>seemed like a good time. I ended up with an HP G60-630US notebook.  I 
>>>have
>>>never liked laptops. I use one in my classroom all the time and with 
>>>these
>>>bricks for hands, it's hard to type with any sort of speed.  This one has 
>>>a
>>>little bit larger keyboard, and a separate numeric keypad.  So so far, 
>>>that
>>>part is working out pretty good.  I'm getting used to it anyway.
>>>
>>> We're on dialup with no hope of high speed access anytime soon, so I got 
>>> a
>>> little usb modem for it.  That seems to work good.
>>>
>>> I like the "look" of windows 7.  The one thing I have noticied, this
>>> machine can't seem to cope too well with several windows of Internet
>>> Explorer open at one time.  I get a lot of "Windows Explorer has quit
>>> working and we are looking for a solution to the problem."  Then, that 
>>> tab
>>> will close and re-open and all is well until it does it again.  I wonder
>>> if that has anything to do with the fact I am on dialup and it's just
>>> moving so slow that the computer thinks there's a problem?
>>>
>>> One other thing. If I go to Google, and do an image search, none of the
>>> thumbnails will show--just little boxes with red x's in them.  If you
>>> click on the thumbnail the page opens normally.  What's up there??  Must
>>> be a setting somewhere that needs to be changed but I don't know what it
>>> is.....
>>>
>>> I love the DVD player.  Finished watching "Inglourious Bastards" last
>>> night while checking email at the same time!  :)
>>>
>>> Al
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