Windows 10 is now comfortably the most used OS in the world

The Inquirer ^ | 10/25/2019 | Chris Merriman

[daniel1212]

I kept around an old machine that ran Windows 98 because I really enjoyed some of the old programs. Unfortunately the media playback technology became so ancient that it no longer became viable for anything except software of that vintage. Plus the machine took forever to boot up, sort of like waiting for the picture tube to come on back in the 50s and 60s. Windows 7 will someday be a dinosaur but I'm not sure the technology is going to progress much further than it already has

Actually in basic tasks like opening My Computer/Windows Explorer/File Explorer and folders, or Note Pad etc., W/9x could be as fast or faster for me than any of the XP/win8/10 PCs I have used since till my most recent, even with a 4.2. Ghz CPU and 16Gb ram.

In 2005 I was running a build with a AMD Athlon 650 MHz CPU, MSI K7Pro (MS-6195) Motherboardm with 192 MB System Memory, which was quite fast and capable for its day, as long as you watched System Resources via FreeRamXPpro. On dial-up.

Do not want to go back to that though. Thank God for what He provides, to be used for His purposes.

[LouieFisk]

Thank you - oh, yeah, I'm a big fan of Open Shell - going back to when it was Classic Menu, have installed on Win 7 & 8.1. Will need to install it on the Win 10 PC.

I'm not real big on the black menu-theme, though and my biggest need is when it comes to making Windows Explorer more usable/intuitive again.

Do you know which settings I'd tinker with in Open Shell to get this type of a more classic display in Explorer?

[minnesota_bound]

You can buy Windows 7 at ebay which I have done but Microsoft has blocked the sale at regular stores.

[montag813]

Is there a problem with that update? It is on my computer and it didn’t hose anything.

Many people have reported Start menu and display problems and BSOD's they could not recover from.

Details:

Windows 10 KB4517389 Update causing display and BSOD issues Windows 10 Cumulative Update KB4517389 is causing BSOD to Some

[LouieFisk]

Thanks for the heads up. When I crank up the Win 10 PC and start the initial updates, I’ll skip this one for the present and come back to it later if I need it.

[trebb]

Thanks - Early on, I had to update the BIOS in my PC and laptop to straighten out some compatibility issues and haven’t had any problems since. Bought both machines with Win10 on them so I’m guessing some folks have the OS on older machines and/or may not have done some other “issue fixers”.
Of course, Microsoft continues to provide many “undocumented features” which rear their ugly heads from time to time...

[Terry L Smith]

Back in time, it was the pseudo Mustang Toyota Celica GT that had my eye, but $500 too much, at the time.