[AT] OFF TOPIC

Mon Jul 24 18:08:21 PDT 2017

I've said before that I dumped windows for Linux years ago. I then tried
Windows 8 (Hated it...) that came on a pair of laptops I bought just before
my quad bypass in November 2013. I had a silly notion that I was going to
use my recovery time working on genealogy stuff. With the drugs and
pump-head I did well to keep track of who I was...  :-)
After Windows 8 "blue-screened" 3 times in one day and lost a whole big
batch of pictures I hadn't backed up yet I formated the hard drive and put
Linux back on.
Six to eight months ago we bought two new laptops because there were some
things we wanted Windows for and it was easier to buy it on the new laptops
than to install it on laptops that were already aging and a little limited
to start with.  I had been using an old copy of XP on an old desktop for
rare use but it was quite old and MS bailed on XP.
After all of these years I actually have to say that Windows 10 doesn't
totally suck...  We still use our old Linux laptops a lot but I don't hate
Windows 10 like I did previous  versions.
On Linux I used Chromium which is the Linux version of Chrome. These new
laptops are supposed to be faster and more memory but after Ubuntu and
Chromium using Windows 10 and Edge browser feels a bit like dragging a
parachute behind your car. I got past the worst of that by switching to
Opera Browser. Much faster...

.

On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 7:02 PM, charlie hill <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
wrote:

> I switched to Win 10 a good while back and have no real problems with it
> other than the browser and e-mail are terrible.  There is a way to set
> Win 10 up to run in a format that looks and acts like Win 7.  I can't begin
> to
> remember how but I found out about it and set mine up that way.  Since
> I don't have a computer that will run touch screen I couldn't see any
> reason
> to run it in the applications mode that it defaults to.  I don't remember
> it
> being
> very hard to change the settings but it's been long enough ago that I don't
> have
> a clue where to tell you to start looking.
>
> Charlie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: deanvp
> Sent: Monday, July 24, 2017 4:00 AM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] OFF TOPIC
>
>
> Ralph,
> Windows 7 is nearing  the end of it's support life and MS is aggressively
> trying to move users to Win 10. SO make sure you have installed Service
> Pack
> "One" and you should be OK until 2020  I think the issue may be facing is
> that Win 7 still uses Internet Explorer as it's Browser and Windows 10 has
> moved on to a new browser "Edge". I haven't checked to see if MS is even
> still supporting IE. Around 48% of the world is still using Win 7.  You
> might want to check if some start-up add-ons have gotten in to your system
> without your knowledge.  I use what used to be called Crap Cleaner now
> called CCLEANER By Piraform  to keep the system cleaned of trash that
> builds
> up over time. I use the free version. Then I use a paid for diagnostic and
> system cleaner from IOBIT, I can't think of name right now but it is very
> comprehensive catching all the crap that floats around on the Internet.
> It's not all that expensive less than  $20 a year. I've learned to
> appreciate all that it does to keep the system running at peak performance.
> It's called Advanced System Care by IOBIT.  I would recommend that.
>
> Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy Tablet
> -------- Original message --------From: Ralph Goff <alfg at sasktel.net>
> Date:
> 7/23/17  10:05 PM  (GMT-07:00) To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com> Subject: Re: [AT] Loading the Ford
> On 7/23/2017 10:36 PM, deanvp wrote:
> > OFF Topic
> > Warning for Windows 10 users.  One of the recent Microsoft updates is
> > causing some, not all, users computers to have a black screen on sign in.
> > Microsoft doesn't know which update is causing the problem. I find that
> > hard to believe but that is what I have been told. Anyway, I have had to
> > send my computer out for repair to get it back to normal. First time in
> my
> > life I have not been able to fix any PC problem, hardware or software,
> > that came along since the personal computer was invented. I guess there
> is
> > a first time for everything. So.... if you are using Windows 10 and you
> > get a black screen on sign in, go get professional help ASAP.
> This one is still Windows 7 and it has been limping for several years
> now. Several months ago it started just crashing in the middle of
> whatever I was doing. For no obvious reason. I've done clean ups and
> system restores but no matter. Every few days or sometimes every day, it
> will just crash. Go through the restart and it is fine. For a while.
> >
> > Ralph in Sask.
> >
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