Posted on 04/19/2022 10:50:56 AM PDT by servo1969
My wife’s no idiot, but she does seem to think that a laptop has an endless reservoir of memory and storage.
I also believe she has the same endless reservoir of patience and tolerance for staying around me for as long as she has...
...so I give her a pass on the laptop.
Louie Anderson had a good bit on “phone help” - of course I can’t find it now.
“You know - you have that one friend that knows stuff?
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About phones.
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Obiphonekanobi.
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‘Obiphonekanobi - I need your help!’
This inspired me to close my 284 open tabs just now. lol
47?
She’s a piker. Got some 400 in one Tab Group and about a dozen tab groups.😁
Hey! Those shirts are just getting comfortable now!
Just call me Clarice!
Could be worth hundreds or thousands...check out band tshirts on ebay...astounding.
Wow..... thought I held that record at 697 between 5 windows when the comp started acting very sluggish.
Meh. I’ve always got around 47 browsers running on my ‘puter.
How did The Joker put it?
“All the old, familiar places.”
I have a bunch of tabs AND a bunch of old T shirts.
Though I will say that after many years, I have about decided that tabs REDUCED my productivity and navigating between windows works much better. So, I’m trying to stop using tabs, mostly.
I can’t stand it when I open an app and other apps I never touched are also running.
I love the close all feature.
I catch those bastards that open backdoor apps and shut them down.
I have an android and my wife an iPhone. Somehow I get pegged to fix her iPhone. Someday I’ll ask her for help with my android just for fun.
I ran spybot search and destroy on a friend’s PC, it took two hours just to clear his history, 3 hours to clean up the rest. On mine usually about 5-10 minutes for all, but Windows 98 and above was still pretty slow by today’s PC’s standards.
Makes me laugh- at myself! I have a couple of hundred T-shirts and sweatshirts and an occasional hoodie from my running days. A few have survived since the late 70s!
But my Boston Marathon ‘83 shirt is nowhere to be found.
I used to work with a woman who had over 5,000 unread emails in her mailbox.
She eventually solved the problem by faking her own death.
My wife is infamous in our family for leaving tabs open. Her laptop or cellphone, it makes no difference. She might have 12-15 tabs open. I’ll tell her “You’ve got too many programs running- that’s why it’s running so slow”. She’ll tell me “that’s not the reason!” I’ll say “OK, genius, you figure it out”. But Facebook- she knows backwards and forwards, inside and out!
Easier to just get a new computer.
Indeed. Why would I not want to see details and more info than a basic amount? And the trend toward hiding and even eliminating things will continues. Linux is no better as far as GUI is concerned. But thank God for vetted freeware. one major change after XP is the divestiture of much of the appearance settings in later OS versions. W/11 (which i just upgraded to) is no different, and as with the Start menu the interface is worse. However, per usual, there is much tested freeware to enable extensive easy customization, such as,
Like Open Shell, download Open Shell (click on Releases>Latest on middle right side) to replace the mobile device W/11 start menu, and there is Explorer Patcher that restores the Windows 11 taskbar to be exactly like Windows 10, while Windows 7+ Taskbar Tweaker (I am using the beta ver.) provides more customization.
Then there are the over 200 tweaks available in Ultimate Windows Tweaker 4 and now there is Ultimate Windows Tweaker 5 for Windows 11 from the Windows club.
Add to this the many Winaero features of the Winaero Tweaker
Add to this is Right-Click Extender (add items to many right click menus), while T-Clock Redux works in W/10 (far better than the default) but not W/11 as yet.
I think that a simple right click on the desktop should provide a visible GUI menu with submenus listing access most every setting, but instead the trajecory seems to be to make desktops more like mobile devices (though I advocate quick GUI access to most everything on these also). But which is not the case in Windows, apart from customization, nor in the many Linux distros I have found (which can be more of a problem).
But thank God for the tools we have to be used for Good and the glory of God, and for those who provide them.
W/11 Default Start menu>All apps
Versus OpenShell W/11:
Right Click Extender (some additions):
7+Taskbar Tweaker (stacks open pages from same source, etc.):
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