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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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To: angryoldfatman

I have a couple of machines running 10 and Classic Shell (I was an early convert during the Vista days), but I have gotten used to the Win-10 start menu.

The first thing I do is dump all the icons that come with Windows. Then I add icons from the most-used programs (depending on the machine since I have different machines for different purposes).

Of course the first thing I do when setting up a Win-10 box is to install Spybot Anti-Beacon (https://forums.spybot.info/downloads.php?id=58) to kill most of the built-in spyware, and then turn on metered networking to block Microsoft updates.


57 posted on 12/15/2016 7:22:11 AM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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