Posted on 01/13/2014 11:40:15 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Gee, I guess all the businesses that employ those workers should just allow then a few weeks of playing around time to "figure out how to work the thing" at the business owner's expense. No problem for you, Mr. "computer savvy", or for Microsoft, eh??
I know how they could do that - people could put the programs they use in a system variable called PATH, then put that in a file called AUTOEXEC.BAT, then put all the drivers they use in a file called CONFIG.SYS.
But MS is going to make everything right by making you buy a new OS less than a year after buying the last OS to remedy all these totally foreseeable problems inflicted on their most loyal user base. Some things never change.
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I just googled whatever minor adjustments I wanted to make in 8.1, for instance skipping sign in and booting directly to desktop.
I like being able to use the hidden start page to hide all my desktop icons, yet be able to access them easily when I want.
Why thank you!
I find Windows 8.1 very stab;e, but I wish the entire useless Metro-styled sections could be shut off on desktops/laptops. Who likes this dumbed-down interface?
You should try mint 16 petra . I tried mint 13, 14, 15, but stuck with 12 until mint 16. don’t think I have booted into windows in a year or so.
Just six months ago I fired up the old IBM pc jr. for kicks.
Including Windows ME between 98/SE and XP. In that respect Microsoft is consistent. Every other OS is a piece of junk. Second thing is MS has yet to ever admit and apologize to customers for their huge mistakes.
I think you're confused. Windows 7 is terrific. Its predecessor, Vista, was horrible and a disaster for Microsoft, and Windows 8 is rapidly becoming as big a disaster.
But Win 7 rocks solid.
Ah, welcome, VanDeKoik, I just KNEW that as our resident Windows fanboi, you'd simply HAVE to stop by this thread and spread the love around.
It doesn't require any of the persons you list above to have a perfectly good "Trash Windows 8" FR thread. The poor schmucks who have had Win 8 shoved down their throats on newly-purchased desktops are entirely capable of writing even more blistering condemnations than anyone else.
Please... if you think those of us who use and love Win 7 every day are staying with it because "we aren't able to learn how to use Win 8", think again. It's because, for us at least, Win 8 has NOTHING to offer beyond wasted time and frustration. Win 7 rocks solid and it will stay on my systems until something BETTER comes along.
P.S. Are you SURE you're not Steve Ballmer in drag? Please check again. :)
My dislike has nothing to do with its inherent functionality - it's the "new" set-up that irks me.
I miss the standard dropdowns and don't like the way the open windows look and act - I want everything the way it was - I'm too old to keep learning a new set-up every few years - 7 is not XP.
I’ve been using Win 8 then 8.1 for months. It would have been a winner if they had designed it be a desktop and run Metro apps in windows rather that treat the the desktop like a crazy aunt kept hidden in the attic.
Phones and tablets run full screen apps because they don’t have the assets to run a windowed environment not because fullscreen is better.
I’m old enough to remember DOS. I’m also old enough to remember that great moment when I could put DOS in a window, open another program and look at both at the same time, it was liberating. Why does anybody want to go back?
If you spend about 5 minutes with the desktop personalization and taskbar/start-menu settings, you can get Win7 to look and almost feel like XP. It's not exactly the same, but it's real close in most important respects.
Personally I like the Windows 2000 look, what Microsoft calls the "Classic Windows" look. XP's default theme is way too "Fisher Price" for me. So the first thing I did with my XP systems was brain damage them back into Win2K mode.
Then, when Win7 came along, I found I could do the same by using the Classic Start Menu, making a few tweaks, and choosing the Windows Classic theme for the desktop.
I have had people come over to where I'm working on Win7 and say "Hey, what are you doing with Windows 2000?" and I have to laugh.
The only thing I can't get to be like XP that bugs me is Windows Explorer. The Win7 (actually Vista) version sucks and I hate it I hate it I hate it. So I went and got a third-party Explorer that works just like XP's version.
True. The average user doesn’t care about the admin side, hence the reason it has failed so miserably.
I didn’t find a compatible Ubuntu version on the Virtual Box website so I went with 15. I will probably move up as things change.
I do that with my Atari 800XL from time to time. I’m still amazed that the software on those 5.25 disks is still usable.
I always run my machines in “classic Mode”. It is the cleanest for me and it did help keep a consistent interface between the various computers I once had.
I used to have up to 10 machines at home running cancer research using old semi-retired machines. Those are all completely gone now leaving me with just two to maintain.
One of my two is our media server running XBMC under win 7 Home Premium.
My own personal machine runs win 7 Pro on a GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD5 AM3+ AMD 990FX Motherboard with an AMD FX-8350 Vishera 4.0GHz Eight-Core Desktop Processor.
I find that the AMD processors give the best value for the money. I don’t play many intense games but I do a lot of video editing and compressing which requires the horsepower.
Sometime next year my current machine will become the media server after being replaced by the latest and greatest AMD processor running at a higher speed with perhaps 16 cores.
I’ve been working with main frame computers from 1967 until an early retirement back in December 2000 caused by an auto accident. During my career I also served as a PC coordinator at a major telecom company.
My computer background lead to me building PCs for myself and others. The need to keep things consistent across multiple OSs lead to me adopting the classic look.
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