Posted on 04/05/2021 1:35:41 PM PDT by upchuck
Vista was horrid. I had a Vista laptop that was pretty much useless. Worse than ME.
Don’t know why XP is on the list, though - was a reasonably stable system. Vista made XP look great.
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COOL !!! Thank You, I’ll check it out.
Do You mean for Apple Devices ?
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Nah. I’m just used to dealing with bad software. :) I learned on Unix - still a Unix person at heart. Well and DOS (think I just dated myself LOL).
Windows 10 is the only one I have refused to have on any of my computers.
Well I do not think I am very exceptional in much of anything , but God made me the type of person that looks at the keyboard and says, "I wonder if somebody created a free program to turn this into a piano (and people have even though I cannot play the piano !). And if I could create a operating system the clock, meaning the system tray, would have an extensive right click menu , compact yet enabling one to quickly reach areas of configuration and customization . I would also want to have a mature speech to text program that is at least as good as the Dictation box free software that works quite well in Chrome, and in fact which I have been using to dictate this (with a little editing.but leave the extra space it places before a period) .
It is my arthritic fingers that makes me find this appealing yet I would also want it to be so that it could be made to launch any program that you want based upon a certain command, such as go to freerepublic.com . And so as you know windows phone speech-to-text software is not very good at all , or dragon is 5 too expensive and is slow to improve . And that's I guess we need some who kind of think outside the box while i am lacking in ability to do much myself outside the Box .
This test of the emergency speech writing software has ended period in the case of an actual emergency redirected to tune into somebody actually type with more than two fingers at a time
#7 You should uninstall Onedrive so you can save your files to where you want without Onedrive intercepting them.
Office 365 records everything. I have Office 2016 on my home pc and do not sign into a Outlook account. I have one for work and they use Office 365 / Microsoft 365 yet I find on my Office 2016 on my home pc, links back to my work docs and my profile image I use. I find that I am signed into say Word with my work id which I never did. I sign out but it will sign me in again later on.
I also see my profile image from Outlook at Amazon!! and I am signed in there as I order all the time from them. Companies are linked together to follow you around the internet and using software on your pc to do so other then just a web browser.
Your iPhone and android devices listen (SPY) on what you are saying and deliver ads that only you see be it on the phone or tablet or the tv set if you sign in say using a samsung or roku etc account.
Sure do - I was working in the Microsoft Home (a test platform for new technologies) and saw it crash during a demo given by the big man himself.
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Same here. :)
Found a smart person on the FR, how about that?
I don’t use outlook mail or windows mail server. I just use it to access a separate mail server. I do have an MS account, required for the laptop thingy with Win 10 on it. But none of them are connected to each other. Probably doesn’t matter. They only need a few clues to connect the dots as to who a person it.
Oh you said ‘uninstall’. I misread it as ‘install’.
OK I may just do that.
Haven’t used it. Figured it was some cloud thingy. Never logged into it. Should be no problem to uninstall it.
Exactly correct. By the time my Vista laptop was no longer erratic, it was no longer quick, either, even though I kept taking more and more “stuff” off of it. With just the OS running, even Notepad was slow-doggy as heck.
30 years in OS rollout for home and business use, I was also a beta tester for 9x.
Win 3.0 and earlier were awful. 3.1 was the first stable version and I used that for 10 years while using 3.11 for workgroups in a Lan Manager network.
Win95 was a step up but the first release was very crash prone. That said... Start menu. Windows has never been so easy to use.
This shows how easy - I have worked on French. German. Hebrew, Arabic and Japanese desktops. I installed and beta tested non-english builds where I didn’t know the language, before even seeing the English language version.
Win98 first edition was a mess, with a prototype driver model that broke certain classes of device. I beta tested 2nd edition after Microsoft sent me a free shrink wrapped version. Much better than FE but my TV tuner card never worked again (even after I reverse engineered the driver). ME was pointless, it just slowed everything down.
2000 was excellent and we replaced 9x on desktops. The corporate view was it was NT4 made stable, with plug and play. It needed every service pack though. Vista was like ME.
XP - good all round, especially if slipstreamed with extensive drivers. I had a universal OEM preactivated install disk for reinstalling home computers and I never found a machine it didn’t work on. Security on it sucked though.
Win7 - 2k with everything fixed and the good stuff in XP incorporated. Tiles replacing GINA opened up interesting use cases like webcam and fingerprint lock/unlock and multiple active logons.
Win8 - an abomination. Totally impossible to use as a development station, barely usable on laptops unless massively overspecced, no “I don’t have a touchscreen” default setting.
8.1 - only partially fixed the crippling of Win7 that went into 8.0.
10 - Since Creators Edition it’s been rock solid on every machine I’ve tried it. An old laptop that had been upgraded from 8.1 was dog slow until I migrated the drive to SSD and it now boots to logon in 11 seconds.
To use 10 properly without the telemetry you need Pro not Home, the latest feature version, minimum 8GB Ram and the OS on at least a SATA SSD.
If you have all of that there is LITERALLY no difference between it and Win7 in everyday usability terms - and, it’s faster than 7. And more secure. If the new interpretation of Start doesn’t float your boat, or you LITERALLY can’t cope with it having buttons as well as text, you can still party like it’s 1995 with a classic shell bodge.
The one thing I miss is F8 for safe mode.
So, worst: 8, 1, 2.
Bad but salvageable: Vista, 8.1, 98 first edition, NT4 until sp3
Average: 3.1, 3.11 for workgroups, 98 second edition, XP Media Center Edition
Best: 95 osr2, XP service pack 3, 7, 10.
Also, the crud you used to get preinstalled on OEM builds accounted for a lot of performance issues that you don’t get anymore.
The one OEM add that’s the exception is the laptop optimization for performance rigs. Power and graphics card management in systems with Intel and Nvidia graphics for example never worked as effectively on a vanilla Win7 install as it did with OEM Preactivated build; win10 on the same system is by far the best of the three.
#27. My computer casing says Windows Vista/Vostro 220s unit but it has had Windows 7 (great), replaced by a Microsoft corrupted Windows 8.0/8.1 (still using some of it) and possibly now Windows 10, 10/1, 11, or who the hell knows what is inside.
Even a repairman and Microsoft can’t tell me what is in my systems. Still using Internet Explorer because I’m afraid that I will lose a lot of data if I go to the newer Microsoft version.
Got this computer in late 2009 and until they screwed up with Windows 8, I never had any problems. Now I can’t find an old scanner that will link with the old internal link-systems. My basement looks like a graveyard for incompatible/more recent scanners and complete units.).
The old adage of “Keep it simple stupid” never made it to the leadership of Microsoft. Should rename the program “Microcrap”. More truthful in advertising.
Vista was the prototype for Win7.
Luckily, I got all of my m$ WinBlows free (beta tester).
(Never liked WinBlows though)
You need to set BIOS ‘Secure Boot’ to off (to install Linux).
Also, make sure that you install WinBlows firstm then Linux (it will make it a lot easier for GRUB).
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