[AT] OT

[charlie hill]

The biggest things that bugs me even with Win 7 are the 
constant attempts to help me do stuff.  The latest thing 
I've run into, I'm guessing as the result of an update,
is if I hold down the shift key to type something like UsP
it will appear just as you see it above instead of USP.   I 
don't know why it does it and it only does the lower case with
certain keys, typically s.  It irritates me to no end.  The thing is
that it doesn't always do it.  I touch type (typing was the most
valuable class I ever took in high school I think but I didn't know
that until nearly 20 years after when computers arrived)  so
I'm not looking at the screen to see what the computer is "suggesting" that
I do.  

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Steve W. 
Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2013 1:13 AM 
To: Antique tractor email discussion group 
Subject: Re: [AT] OT 

Richard Fink Sr wrote:
> Hi need some feed back on computers. My computer with win XP has died
> was looking at a new HP with win 8. Has any one run this and what are
> your thoughts. I am old school love win XP and hate change have been
> told it is all touch and so on takes special screen or
> monitor???????????????? R Fink PA 
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I have run Win 8 for a while now.  Touch screen is NOT needed. It is a 
nice thing for some items but I have found nothing I can't do with the 
mouse/keyboard.

Buying new you will end up with 8.1, it brings back a few of the old 
features, BUT with some minor tweaking and some easy changes you can 
make 8 look and act VERY close to XP.

Like Larry said the big trick is usually the drivers for other hardware 
you own.

Win. 8.1 can be set up to boot directly to the desktop.

Some of the apps on the start screen are actually handy and all of the 
ones that are "active" can be turned off (right click and select Turn 
off live tile in the menu at the bottom)


What died on your old machine? Hardware really isn't that hard to repair.


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Steve W.
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