Posted on 09/08/2016 1:45:39 PM PDT by dayglored
Let’s not beat around the bush: Windows 10 is wonderful. It’s head-and-shoulders better than Windows 8.1, at least for traditional PC users. The fact that it banishes full-screen apps and the Metro Start screen, focusing instead on the tried-and-true desktop, should be reason enough to make PC purists smile. The massive Windows 10 Anniversary Update released on August 2, 2016, added even more features, functionality, and polish.
The obvious desktop improvements are just the tip of the iceberg, though. If you’re fresh to Windows 10, these are the cool new features you’ll want to check out first.
Editor’s note: This article has been updated several times to reflect new capabilities as major Windows 10 updates roll out.
[Lots more at the link...]
(Excerpt) Read more at pcworld.com ...
Just set the default browser to IE:
https://www.infopackets.com/news/9675/how-force-internet-explorer-11-default-windows-10
bfl
I’ve noticed that. What the hell is it doing?
I think FreeRepublic.com uses the "default" font of the browser, whatever that is. And like IE before it, Edge appears to default to Times Roman.
I'm sorry to say, I can't find a way to tell Edge to change it to another font, either.
Any FReepers figure this out?
Better yet, get the Chrome browser.
Certainly not to risk all the known downsides of the NSA's operating system of choice.
Not nice enough.
Other than the minor issue of Windows 10 being spyware (MS probably fully cooperates with the NSA, etc), be wary of new MS software....can be buggy.
I was happy with MS Office Word 2010.
I got MS Office Word 2016.
The Word 2016 would not let me save a doc file into a .pdf format. Word 2010 would. So I deleted my MS Office 2016 and re-installed MS Office 2010. Better now!
Well, there’s no “one size fits all” browser any more than there is a “one size fits all” automobile. Also, there are situations where Chrome will not work at all, but IE will.
Enjoy it -- you earned it! :-)
Actually it's kind of a relief to be posting some positive stuff, even if it tends to be a little fluffy around the edges. Could be worse -- I could be posting HuffPo articles about how wonderful Hillary is. [*barf*]
> I'm going to have to look into virtual desktops. That seems interesting. I want to find out exactly how those work, because they might help someone I know who keeps a very messy desktop.
YES!! I've used multiple virtual desktops on Linux for years, and on the Mac the last year or so, and it is GREAT to finally have them on my Windows boxes.
Full disclosure: There have been "multi-desktop" extension apps for Windows for a long time, but none of them worked stably enough, or had enough capabilities, to really be useful to me.
Enjoy!
LOL. If you prefer, I can start posting Microsoft Marketing blurbs. Those will probably meet your "nice enough" needs better than these tech articles.
:-)
Win 10, to me, is a big glob of feces. It HAD to be designed with malice and hatred toward the people who would have to use it.
I’ll cite just one example. When finished in a given window, you can’t close just that window. Your only option given is to CLOSE ALL WINDOWS and start over from scratch. There is no HOME icon anymore, which takes back to your home page. Close all and start over. SUX bigtime!
Haha, thanks :D
But seriously, I’m not sure if you saw my last post in the thread that was pulled since I posted it rather late. It may have been pulled before you had a chance to see it.
Just in case that happened, it was an apology from me to you for acting like an asz in the thread.
I can’t remember the entirety of it, but basically I admitted that I might have misperceived things.
So just for the official record, I’m sorry about that. I can get out of hand from time to time.
Dunno about 10, never touched it.
Win 8, now, you have it nailed. To ruin 7 with that atrocity had to be malice.
Mrs. Thinking recently needed a new OS on her XP laptop so since she had to learn something new anyway, I gave her Sarah (Mint 18). Facebook works, Netflix works, built in Office stuff for the rare letter writing, and she's good. She's no techie, and she has no problems using it at all.
Dos 3.1 is head-and-shoulders better than Windows 8.1.
A better comparison would be to XP (probably the best ever to come out of Microsoft) or 7 (which might be a fair fight with 10)
Heck, anything between me and the DOS screen is a waste of time, money and effort.
No, unfortunately the thread was pulled before I had a chance to see where it had gone, including your comment you mention above.
No worries, FRiend, we had a good time getting "energized" and I can get out of hand from time to time too. :-)
I'd like to extend my thanks to you, for pointing out that I'd gotten into something of a rut posting complaints about Windows 10, and wasn't doing service to the larger goal of helping my fellow FReepers get more familiar with the good things about the technology.
Hell, I even found an article (same author as this one) that touts the good things about the Anniversary Update, the one that got pounded into the dust by nearly everybody when it came out. I plan to post that as a thread later tonight.
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