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

[Cecil Bearden]

I have a new HP 6830S laptop just received Thursday.  I got an upgrade 
coming for Windows 7 for 12.99 from HP.  It had Vista Business on it...

Cecil in OKla

Al Jones wrote:
> 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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