Posted on 12/05/2017 9:16:46 PM PST by dayglored
I think the whole idea for ribbons was that they are (allegedly) idiot proof. Though for you me and others they slow things down and are a distraction.
I vastly prefer the old menus on left hand top corner that were drop down. But this requires basic literacy, vocabulary and ability to read. Ribbons added annoying icons.
Win 7 updates plug security holes. Thus you will not get anymore of these after 2020. At least get 8GB memory or more on your new Windows 7 laptop-desktop. 4GB is not enough though another 4GB can usually be installed after purchase.
Looking at a system with 16GB memory. That should carry me through for a long time.
16 is better that 8. I am able to compare my two desktops. One with 8 and one with 16. 240GB SSD drive in each one.
This will be impossible to find for windows 7 but an SSD hard drive also speeds things up. Dell might make it for you. A current i3 processor is good enough. No need for i5.
No - just searching for key words, and excerpting brief passages for my notes.
There is actually an Adobe pop-up that says I have to subscribe in order to search.
I presume it's some kind of lawyer thing.
I receive, or link to, other PDF files every month, including Adobe files from other sources, and they scan and excerpt just fine with Windows 10.
Try clicking Shut Down
Not if you use Virtual Machines and you should. Imagine having a computer where if anything goes wrong(virus, hack), you throw it away and and open a fresh one that looks exactly like the one you threw away.
Not to mention that everyone complained about Windows 7 when it came out
I was looking at i7 processor and 2T hard drive - and the 16GB. Is that overkill? I’m retired and don’t do gaming or any extreme processing. Watch Netflix at times.
I'm being forced to upgrade my company laptop to Win10 but I'll go kicking and screaming before I relent. I wish they'd simply let us use Linux with a Virtual Box VM for Windows.
” I wish they’d simply let us use Linux with a Virtual Box VM for Windows.”
Everyone should be doing that. If your Windows gets Pwn3d, you just toss the VM and put the backup in its place. You just have to make a copy of the VM every so often as a backup.
Why all the angst about the ribbon?
Just right click on the ribbon and choose to collapse it. All you are left with is the old drop down menus.
Tried that a long time ago. Collapsing the ribbon still does not give the “old” menu options. In Word 2016, for example, just to get started there is no “Format” option; no “Tables” option. Can’t use prior Alt + commands using keystrokes. The ribbon menus are not at all similar, collapsed or not.
Yup- that is what I meant... Like I said it-It does not shut the computer all the way off. It only puts it into sleep or hibernate mode.(Hitting a key on the keyboard turns it back on). It used to shut down all the way until there was a certain update.
Using the Shut Down function in Windows shuts it down(turns it off). Punching the button puts it to sleep. That’s because too many people were accidentally hitting the button and losing everything. Holding the power button for several seconds will turn the computer off. Not recommended. Use the Shut Down function.
You can customize the ribbons.
Pull the “Tables” option out from “Insert” and make its own tab.
You can rename the “Layout” tab to “Format”.
The options are all there. If you feel that strongly about where they are, you have the option to move them.
I am not talking about shutting down using the physical power button on the PC. I am talking about shutting down using windows shutdown.
Do you know that by default windows10 is not set to shut down when you ask it to. You have to go into settings(power options) and tell it to actually shut down when you ask it to shut down. However after sometime around the creators update it no longer does a full shut down even when set to do so.
All of mine shut down completely. I know that because it closes all open applications and frees up the memory. A restart does the same. But I am using the Enterprise Edition of Windows 10
Yeah, but don’t say you don’t miss the malware! Come on, you miss the thrill of having thirty years of personal documents turned to bit rubble.
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