Posted on 12/31/2020 7:14:13 AM PST by dayglored
I’m running either W10, W7 or XP depending on the need of the moment. I also have a Linux drive too which I’m slowly transitioning to.
I would use Winaero to help if I get Win10 on my desktop pc.
I use XYplorer as my default windows folder. I can adjust the font, change background color and adjust the spacing of the file names plus adjust the thumbnail size of images.
https://www.xyplorer.com
Powertoys from Microsoft does a few things.
https://winaero.com/powertoys-stable-version-0-29-0-is-now-available/
#59 & 61. The maker of the pc would have all the drivers at their site. Download them and copy to a usb drive and then plug in your old hard drive to the new pc and startup the pc. Any driver conflicts in Device manager you should be able to install the drivers from the usb drive to fix.
I needed to have a secure computer for taxes, etc...so my new laptop has win 10...but my husbands older one still has win 7....
Computer power supplies are indeed switching power supplies and when they go out of spec can generate a ton of hash on the AM Radio band.
Know what else is a switching power supply? Those wall warts that come with every stupid device now. I've lost track of how many of those were bad and generated RF hash in my amateur radio equipment. One of those can also be the culprit. Only way to find out is to go around the house unplugging them one at a time and see if the noise goes away.
True, and that works -- but it's one of two ways. :-) The other is to walk around the house with a hand-held AM radio. Just hold it near each wall-wart and sweep the tuner frequency -- the bad ones will usually reveal themselves.
“I have found zero benefit to using Win 10 over Win 7.”
Ditto.
Boot takes from 5 to 20 minutes. WTH?
Combined with Office 365 and its retarded Outlook...it sucks.
Coders have lost control of their mashup creature.
I’d go back to XP in a heartbeat.
When work PCs (under total control of work IT, the real controllers of the company) are gone from my life, so will bloatware/spyware Windows and bloatware apps that require it. I will crack a good bottle to celebrate my divorce from it.
“Some of us believe, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.””
Shush! THAT thinking does NOT provide jobs for coders and all the H1b visitors.
Yup, did that too! An old am/fm shower radio I had was the best for finding bad wall warts. It also helped me find a break in my dogs invisible fence, saving me a service call and rerunning the wires.
Wife’s laptop, will check for this when she stops facef*ck for a while.
Went to Win 10 a year ago with fear and trembling. It’s been fine - one old game doesn’t run on it, the rest do. Did the free update from 8.1 to 10 on my old laptop also with no issues. Seems to be a good, stable OS.
Not only that, but if you use those features yourself, Open Orifice is going to be a slog. I do have and use OO, but also have the paid version of Softmaker Office. I think the spreadsheet is better than Calc, but I kinda like Writer better than the WP. I still use theirs sometimes though. The only place I find Excel really, uh, excels, is very large spreadsheets like hundreds of thousands of cells with array formulas, etc. Seems to handle memory and threads better. Normal spreadsheets, Planmaker is way better.
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