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The Register ^ | Feb 22, 2017 | Shaun Nichols

[dayglored]

> Thanks for all your threads, dayglored.

You're very welcome, LakeEffectLad. Glad you like 'em.

You wouldn't happen to be from Upstate NY, would you? I'm near Ithaca, and Lake effect (snow) is pretty common here this time of year...

[Bob434]

Hmmm- i used windows 7 for many years- still using it and have never once had a BSOD- Now windows 98 was another story- plenty in that OS- Can’t remember if XP had them- don’t recall- only used XP a short while-

[dayglored]

I've had almost no BSODs from 7, in dozens of machine-years of use. Never spent much time with 8 or 8.1.

WinXP had more, especially after installing or updating drivers or system patches.

Win98SE was a whole 'nother story, as you say. Amazing what we put up with.

[Bob434]

driver issues in 98 was the worst- always dreaded having to update drivers, or add new hardware- I always knew there was going to be some issue- AND I only had dial-up at the time so it would take forever just to try to research what the problem might be lol- Seemed like i was always hunting down some .dll file to get something working right- I hated going through the ‘wizard’ to like install a new piece of hardware- you’d get to the ‘have disk’ part- but it could never find the right fail o the disk lol- had to hunt it down manually o nthe disk- Never seemed to work right-

Windows 7 was a real treat- everything was pretty much automatic- and just seemed to work right- I really enjoyed windows 7-
I’d add a new piece of hardware- and it would automatically find everything it needed, or go online and find it- easy peasy-

[minnesota_bound]

I recently bought a new laptop with Windows 10 and have been frustrated by what were simple fixes turned into difficult fixes.

Get Winaero Tweaker for Windows 10.
More tools here 7 Best Tools to Tweak and Customize Windows 10

Fixes many of the things that Microsoft REMOVED from past versions of Windows. Simple things like icon spacing and adding different colors to the title bar and different fonts.
As of the end of January they removed the ability to resize the text under the desktop icons and have them set to Segue UI and 9pt
9pt!! = tiny
All the fixes you find on the internet are now obsolete for that just because someone in Redmond, WA has eyes like an eagle and decided they like 9pt text size.

[LakeEffectLad]

Apologies for the tardy reply, spent the last few days on a media blackout. Yes, southeast of Buffalo. Lake effect snow is an amazing phenomenon especially in close proximity to the lake. IMHO, WNY is one of the best kept secrets in the country - if only we had our own electoral college in New York...
Thanks again for all of the great IT posts.
Freegards, LEL.