Posted on 06/28/2013 10:53:01 AM PDT by ShadowAce
Thanks.
I set in my recliner with a laptop in my lap and serf the net, facebook, check e-mail, listen to music while I watch TV. It needs to have a 15” screen, a wireless mouse, and a OS like XP that is easy to use. Is this so hard to make? I'll bet most people use their computer like I do.
I would buy a iPad or tablet but the screen is too small for me and I don't want to sit and hold the damn thing and punch around on the screen because I'm on the internet for hours at a time. Am I asking for too much?
I love how the first new “feature” is the ability to turn off the crappy UI and revert to the traditional Windows UI.
Big progress, there M$. Now, go back to becoming obsolete.
Oh good, they figured out a plurality hate the new UI.
Now if they’d just pull their head out of their rear on the changes to VS2012 they’d restore some of my faith in their decision making. Not all, but some.
Much easier just to get windows 7.
3.0 > 3.1 > Win95 > Win98 > NT > Mill Ed > 2K > XP > Vista > 7 > 8
You might try a smaller independent computer store/repair shop. Coffee spilled in the keyboard of the laptop of my better half recently. I took it down to a shop in town to have them check it out. While they were doing that I looked at their inventory. They had a number of nicely equipped reasonably priced laptops with Windows 7 (which is what we are using and content with).
I didn't have to replace ours (bought a $10 USB keyboard from them and it rocks again), but it was good to know there were still units available that would allow us to avoid Windows 8 like the plague.
It will take you 60 seconds to install classic shell.
It will fix all your problems with windows 8!
Also, one of the most annoying aspects is if you launch a jpg or some other image, you really have to hunt around to find a way to close it. No problem for those of us who do this every day but it drives my wife crazy.
Also, I noticed today when moving a bunch of files around, the Win 7 dialog handling of files already existing is head and shoulders over Win 8.
So far, I have seen absolutely nothing in a power user desktop world the Win 8 did anything better or in most cases even just a good. It would make a better vacuum cleaner as it sucks so much.
i do not want to use search to find things on my PC
In windows 7 I move my cursor up to the taskbar and click the excel icon. Done. So now (after the improvements) my single click is still replaced with a keyboard shortcut + 5 keys + a click. That's one user entry versus seven. This is a good example of how Microsoft has made the UI clunky and user unfriendly. I will keep windows 7 as long as I possibly can.
Neither ME nor Vista deserved the vitriol they got; this Charlie Foxtrot does.
99% of ME’s quirks came from 1 of 2 default but entirely optional processes; there was a small third party tool you could run to uninstall them and the result was something as quick and stable as 98 but considerably more comfortable, compatible, and capable. My uptime on WinME was commonly limited by thunderstorms and power outages, nothing more....3 weeks was common, 6 not unheard of.
Vista has been rock solid as well, merely needed to give it room to stretch its legs. Machine came with 6 gb of RAM and I’ve managed to kill it due to mismanagement or flat out running it out of memory precisely once...due to 3boxing a new release MMO on a machine that’s stock from when SP1 came out. If a couple of MMOs didn’t bork gamma on every OS they touched, including for my sister playing on Linux via WINE, I’d never restart it except for power outages and storms.
It looks like I'll be keeping XP well past the support cut off date. I can't afford a MAC, not tech savoy enough for LINUX, {if I wanted frustration of learning a new OS & finding things I'd go with W-8} so I'm stuck with it. I'll keep updating Firefox for a browser till the computer dies. I noticed my doctors medical group is still using XP also. Most places I've seen are still using XP.
I'm not against newer more portable gadgets to use while traveling or out and about. However I want my Documents located in my home on my hard drive and my back ups plus a screen at I can see. Whoevers bright idea it was for a Desktop Touch screen format should be given Worst Idea Of the The Year Award.
I never could get M.E. to do a simple Disk Scan or Defrag. It was weird. I closed all programs that could be closed and something was still writing to the HD making it start over. Yea I tried booting up in Safe Mode also.
My fingers are apparently perversely greasy. My wife complains always as she cleans her touch screenz.
A mouse seems to be way more precise than my fat fingerz.
Plus I'm a firm believer in maintaining a webless capability to do computiong and data storage,.
It rocked.
bkmk
Now that’s odd...I had that issue if Sygate was running, but if I disabled it temporarily that fixed it.
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