[AT] OT - computer advice

Bruce Moden brucemoden at yahoo.com
Tue Aug 5 10:18:06 PDT 2014


Negatory Charlie, I purchased my 1st win 8 this spring, had XT, 7 & have a Vista still working- 8 is very difficult to  work with from my experience!  Click an app & go to your desired screen, jump thru more hoops & get what you want, then no little x to leave the screen you are on, go to the top & drag down to remove the program or go back & open another app, then when you finally close you find a lot of open apps.  I find it is not an easy program & I have 25 years on work & personal computers 
PHARMR

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> On Aug 5, 2014, at 12:28 PM, "charlie hill" <charliehill at embarqmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I haven't used Win 8 yet but from looking at the screen it looks amazingly 
> like the Apps screen on my android phone.
> I'm assuming that is the way you use it.  Just click on the "app" and go to 
> work.   Is that right?
> 
> Charlie
> 
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Claude
> Sent: Monday, August 04, 2014 11:23 PM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] OT - computer advice
> 
> I agree with Dean.  The biggest problem with win 8 or 8.1 is the user.  Most 
> people my age don't deal with change real well.  The younger folk that grew 
> up with the computer technology will not have a big problem with.win 8.
> 
> Claude
> 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
>> On Aug 4, 2014, at 9:31 PM, "Dean Vinson" <dean at vinsonfarm.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Mike, I bought a new PC about nine months ago and it came with Windows 8,
>> and then I installed the free update to 8.1.
>> 
>> For the first several weeks I routinely wanted to empty a manure spreader 
>> in
>> Microsoft's office lobby.   But after a while you get used to the system,
>> and in my experience it honestly works fine.   Still annoys me that I had 
>> to
>> learn a bunch of new ways to do what I already could do before, and I
>> haven't totally given up on the manure spreader idea, but I no longer have
>> any day to day complaints.   And especially if your daughter is a
>> smart-phone user (unlike me), I would guess she'll have no trouble making
>> the transition from Windows 7 to 8.
>> 
>> Dean Vinson
>> Saint Paris, Ohio
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
>> [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Mike
>> Sent: Monday, August 4, 2014 8:47 PM
>> To: ATIS
>> Subject: [AT] OT - computer advice
>> 
>> Hi guys, our youngest is heading off to college this fall, and my wife and 
>> I
>> are getting her a new laptop to get her started. From everything I read
>> Windows 8 is a real clunker, and most like Windows 7 better.
>> Although I'm still running two XP machines, the laptop that we use daily 
>> has
>> Windows 7, and we have no problems with it. Should I look for a machine 
>> that
>> comes with Windows 7, or is 8 not as bad as people are making it out to 
>> be.
>> Thanks for any advice. And no Dave, Apple isn't in our budget :)
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Mike M
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