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To: ritpg

When Win-10 first started appearing on the upgrade horizon I heard many a complaint about “I lost my email!”. When I pressed for details I confirmed that they were using web-based email (gmail, hotmail, etc) and the default Win-10 web browser - Edge.

It was the browser every time. I showed them how to launch Internet Explorer (or better yet, install an alternate browser like Firefox or my favorite - Pale Moon).

Without exception they all reported that they “got their emails back!”.

If (when) you find yourself on a Win-10 machine make sure to dump Edge.


20 posted on 12/15/2016 5:32:42 AM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: rockrr

That’s good info about Edge, thanks.

I dumped Edge as soon as I saw it. It didn’t have the old Internet Explorer features I had grown accustomed to. The interface looked more like Chrome than IE, and my wife and youngest son had been using Chrome for awhile so I knew how stable it was (and some of its idiosyncrasies, but I digress).

I switched over to Chrome, and for 99% of the time, it has no problems. Works like a charm.

Not happy with Windows 10’s interface, and I don’t want to install a third party thing (classic shell?) to fix it.

Last update did give a nasty memory reference error on computer shutdown. Happened on two computers I have, a desktop (self-built) and a laptop (Dell Latitude). The error was not a showstopper, but I didn’t like it.


49 posted on 12/15/2016 7:02:48 AM PST by angryoldfatman
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