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Posted by Troll
- April 25, 2015, 20:37:01 PMI haven't mentioned this for a while, but there have been some new interesting developments in the beta world. First off, ANYBODY who owns a legal copy of Win 7, 8 or 8.1 will be able to upgrade to Win 10 for free. They will tell you when it's available...probably around October. Second, capability and features have been added at a pretty quick pace. I took a shot of a dual monitor setup I'm running that allows 2 different resolutions (one monitor is a 23" lcd, one is a 19" h-d tv), and several virtual desktops running on each monitor...I really like how this works!
Posted by John Hopkins
- December 07, 2014, 19:37:11 PMQuote from: Troll on December 07, 2014, 14:12:17 PMYes I still run XP..I am using it now on an old throw away computor that I haven't had time to take to the dump.. but I have win 8 'I think' on a newish laptop.. it seems to me that microsoft take one step forward and two steps back with each new issue...The old XP start up page without the apps was much easier to use... buy a new computor and you need new printer drivers.. little things that you shouldn't have to worry about..Sort of....you're still running XP? That's a problem for security. The big thing is that the new design will do it automatically in 10, and you can do half of it automatically in 7....
I'm not really a conspiracy theorist but I wonder why each new issue seems to use more memory and of course take longer to load than the last meaning that you need a faster computor just to keep up..and I sometimes think that a lot of the new viruses may be introduced by a virus protection company..
I think part of the problem is lazyness on the part of the program writers.. If they want to produce a new program they take pre written segments and stitch them together, this cuts down the writing time but has great chunks of code that aren't needed and just left in and looped past..new newer the program the more old patches and so the more processing power needed..
Like this..
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Posted by Troll
- December 07, 2014, 18:11:02 PMHere's a link to the article exploring some of the new stuff. http://www.techrepublic.com/article/snap-a-truly-slick-feature-in-windows-10/?tag=nl.e064&s_cid=e064&ttag=e064&ftag=TREe331754
Posted by Troll
- December 07, 2014, 14:12:17 PMSort of....you're still running XP? That's a problem for security. The big thing is that the new design will do it automatically in 10, and you can do half of it automatically in 7....
Posted by John Hopkins
- December 07, 2014, 11:33:10 AMI'm missing something here, isn't that the same as I can do on XP by clicking on the middle icon at the top right of my screen and resizing each page to fit and then dragging each page to a different part of the screen?
John.
Posted by Troll
- December 06, 2014, 08:18:18 AMI am in the middle of an experiment with Win 7 that appears quite promising...I have 5 stacked open windows in quadrants and 7 file transfers going all at once, just like in Win 10 with snap....
Posted by Troll
- December 01, 2014, 20:01:59 PMBeen working with 10 quite a bit. I really like it. here's a screen shot of a new version of snap that allows you to stack open windows in 4 different corners...
Posted by DC
- November 27, 2014, 02:39:58 AMQuote from: Troll on November 25, 2014, 15:56:36 PMThanks. I'll check those out.Check out this link to cnet's how to pages for win 8.1. Not a perfect fix, but it's a lot more livable with a default to the desk top rather than the start screen.
http://www.cnet.com/products/microsoft-windows-8-1/
http://www.zdnet.com/the-metro-haters-guide-to-the-windows-8-1-preview-7000018398/
Posted by Troll
- November 25, 2014, 15:56:36 PMCheck out this link to cnet's how to pages for win 8.1. Not a perfect fix, but it's a lot more livable with a default to the desk top rather than the start screen.
http://www.cnet.com/products/microsoft-windows-8-1/
http://www.zdnet.com/the-metro-haters-guide-to-the-windows-8-1-preview-7000018398/
Posted by DC
- November 25, 2014, 13:15:19 PMQuote from: Troll on November 20, 2014, 09:21:17 AMI have 8.1 on my laptop. I have to figure out how to do that setup and get rid of the full screen of tiles.That's a Win 7 theme I made for myself. Works in 10 just fine. You save it for "sharing" and put it somewhere you can easily find it, like on a flash drive. I'm running 10 in a dual boot configuration, but on a separate HDD so it doesn't mess with any of the 7 files. If you "upgrade" to 8.1 through the Win. Store (it's free) you can set the os to default to the desktop and then set up a partial start menu that sort of looks and works like that in 7 or Vista....They found of that MANY people didn't want their computers to look and work like a telephone, and that was the way they "fixed" it...Seems like they learned their lesson, so far, anyway
Posted by Troll
- November 22, 2014, 16:47:12 PMHmmmmm... Perception Vs. Reality.....lemme think, a minute.....I'll take reality for $100, Alex!
Posted by CDNRatMan
- November 22, 2014, 15:53:38 PMit is all perception are you left or right handed? It is just so simple......
Posted by John Hopkins
- November 22, 2014, 12:39:32 PMQuote from: Troll on November 21, 2014, 15:39:56 PMIt's the opposite of widdershins.And so...we return to the question: Which way is clockwise?
John.
Posted by Troll
- November 22, 2014, 10:15:01 AMHell of an oil change....cost you about $!,000.000
Posted by greenbarn
- November 22, 2014, 08:58:20 AMexactly....
But, sometimes I think these same people just might very well look at you and point to your right arm and refer it as your "left" because it's on "their" left...
I think part of the problem is that society and humanism has engrained it into everyone that they are the center of the universe, and everything is viewed from their perspective. Same type of view point as the one that calls with "my car has been broke for a couple weeks, but I need to drive out of town tomorrow, so can you [drop everything you're doing and] get it in to fix it today?"
I especially LOVE this one:
"can I get an oil change today"
--- "we're really scheduled full the rest of the day so is there any way it can wait until tomorrow?"
"I'm leaving tomorrow to go on a 1000 mile trip, and really need it changed TODAY"
--- "well if you leave it here the rest of the day, I'll try to work it in between other jobs, and get it done by quitting time"
"OK. Oh, and while you have it up in the air, can you rotate the tires, and fix the exhaust, and check the brakes, and there is a loud rattle in the front, and when I stop at a stop sign, it wants to die. Oh, the check engine light is on, too - can you fix that? How much will that cost by the way???"
geesh