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Post by dave on Mar 2, 2016 23:45:02 GMT -5
I have relented and purchased a refurbished Dell box through a discount program run by the company I retired from after 30 years. I had wanted a Lenovo since I've had such good luck with them, but the best deal was a Dell Optiflex which I believe is one of the better lines produced by Dell.
I gave up on XP when I found new applications being produced for some of my radio programs require a level of windows and .net equivalent to roughly Windows 7, which I don't like but have gotten used to on my laptop. Also , I can purchase an upgrade to Windows 8 and then get a free download from µSoft for 8.1. I temporarily migrated my XP machine to 8.0 over a year ago. I didn't mind the user interface, but µSoft lied about the availability of drivers and I had to suffer the loss of some of them. The others I had to spend hours getting them to work. However, drivers are now available on 8 that were not there a year or two ago.
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Post by clarencebunsen on Mar 3, 2016 6:23:25 GMT -5
I bought Barb a Lenovo with Win 10 for Christmas. She had been using a notebook which had gone through the Win 8 to 8.1 upgrade. So far I heard no complaints or requests for assistance. Last summer I upgraded our little netbook directly from Win 7
Starter to Win 10. The first few weeks were rough with multiple updates holding it hostage every time I tried to use it. It seems pretty stable now. I find Win 10 pretty easy to use but I was never real happy with 8/8.1
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Post by dave on Mar 3, 2016 10:09:41 GMT -5
I bought Barb a Lenovo with Win 10 for Christmas. She had been using a notebook which had gone through the Win 8 to 8.1 upgrade. So far I heard no complaints or requests for assistance. Last summer I upgraded our little netbook directly from Win 7 Starter to Win 10. The first few weeks were rough with multiple updates holding it hostage every time I tried to use it. It seems pretty stable now. I find Win 10 pretty easy to use but I was never real happy with 8/8.1 When you think of it, we wouldn't put up with that kind of performance with a new car. Every little chore I have to accomplish in getting a new computer up and running was labor saved by the manufacturer. I'm sure he didn't take that off the price, but rather added it to his profit. |
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Post by dave on Mar 4, 2016 7:24:08 GMT -5
Wow! I ordered it on 3/2 and it arrived yesterday, 3/3. I did not specify any fast shipment. In fact, it was free shipping. That's the fastest response to an order I've seen yet.
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Post by dave on Mar 5, 2016 14:43:10 GMT -5
Well, here I am on Windows 10! For Free! My plan had been to bring everything over to the Windows 7 system on the new computer (refurbished Dell), get all my radio software working, get used to it and then purchase Win 8 from Amazon ($65). From there my understanding was I could get a free download upgrade to Win 8.1 and then I wasn't sure if I could get a free or a bargain upgrade to Windows 10. But I figured it would be a while before I got that far.
However, as soon as I brought up Windows 7, I was sent to a web page from microsoft telling me I could get a free upgrade to Windows 10 if I had a "qualified" Windows 7 system. When I downloaded the upgrade and tried it, I was told my pC didn't qualify. But this morning my PC told me I hadn't registered Win 7 yet. I wondered. I registered it, downloaded Windows 10 a second time and it's now working. So now I'm trying to migrate applications, etc.
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Post by dave on Mar 5, 2016 18:35:59 GMT -5
So here I am working for Bill Gates for nothing! Working through some problems. I just learned how to overcome the message "Windows has blocked this software because it can't verify the publisher," when the "run as administrator" doesn't help. And File Manager (I'm glad they recalled part of the name File Manager from Windows 3.1, which by the way installed from three 1.4 Meg diskettes.) wouldn't let me paste into the "Libraries" mock directory until I discoverd that you don't paste into, you "Expand" into it.
Anyway, Keith or anyone else reading this, here are a couple of questions for you:
1. How come I can't grab the scroll slider bar any more? I can scroll using the top and bottom arrows.
2. Is Chromium an up grade to the Chrome browser?
Feel free to post any questions you might have. I may have stumbled across answers or will have them in mind if I do in the future. I'll post more of my own as they come up.
I'm disappointed the GUI (user interface) is so much like XP and Win7. I actually liked the Win8 graphical, especially when you could make it act like the legacy when you wanted.
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Post by clarencebunsen on Mar 6, 2016 6:29:33 GMT -5
From How-To Geek
"Chromium is the open-source project that forms the basis for Google Chrome. Because it’s completely open source, Chromium is available in many Linux distributions’ software repositories for easier installation.
The Chromium web browser is also available for other platforms. You could run it on Windows or Mac — in theory. Similarly, “Chromium OS” is the name of the open-source project that forms the basis of Google’s Chrome OS."
I can grab the scroll bar on my netbook at least on the Firefox screen of course that's an upgrade from its original Win 7, I'll have to try Barb's native Win 10 with other applications and see how it works.
That "paste" thing is good to know. I hope the Ctrl X & Ctrl V commands are still the same. Life is too short for me to learn new keyboard shortcuts.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2016 10:17:18 GMT -5
CB did you know that Chromium also helps speed up metabolism by breaking down carbohydrates. I take 1000mcg of Chromium three time a day. It comes in two forms picolinate and histidinate.
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Post by Clipper on Mar 6, 2016 10:58:29 GMT -5
I am able to scroll by sliding the bar on the right side of the screen Dave. I have Windows 10. It seems to be working fine for me. I use control C and control V to copy and paste and it works. I have never used control X. I am surprised that I had never heard of using control X before. I will try it.
I tried both X and C and both worked okay. I am not familiar with any shortcuts other than those that I have learned from the members here, so I was surprised to see Control X to copy. I had learned the Control C prompt here on the forum.
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Post by dave on Mar 6, 2016 20:34:29 GMT -5
Thanks for the info, CB, Cllipper. Alan, I wonder if you'll begin to glow at night this summer.  Regarding the scroll bar slide, after looking around the knowledge.microsoft.com site I'm beginning to think it may be due to my cutting off the updates when they seized my compuer and said "Don't turn your PC off, we going to install 229 updates." I verified I can grab and slide the scroll bar in all my applications. It's the windows programs like File Manager and various others. |
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Post by clarencebunsen on Mar 7, 2016 6:13:26 GMT -5
From what I've seen over the past few months MS has been rolling out cumulative updates so at least you don't have to roll through all the updates which have been issued between whatever version was installed on your computer when it was built and the day you bought it. The update cycle for everything seems to have sped up lately. Every time I check notifications on my phone, it tells me that 3 aps have just been updated and 4 need some sort of permission from me in order to update,
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Post by dave on Mar 7, 2016 8:15:56 GMT -5
I guess I knew what I was getting myself into. I've been playing with and complaining about windows 7 for a couple of years, but at least I had most of my radios running on it. I did, however, want to bring things up to date here, regarding the operating system anyway. Since I learned to put old apps in the Program Files (x86) folder, I've been steadily getting them up and running.
Strange one today ... I learned that to create a new folder I had to be in File manager at the level in the tree where I wanted it and right click "any empty area, choose new, etc." I have always put the mouse on the mother folder and right clicked, chose new, etc. That doesn't work in Windows 10. When I attempt it, "New" doesn't appear in the drop-down.
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Post by Clipper on Mar 7, 2016 9:20:54 GMT -5
Thanks for the info, CB, Cllipper. Alan, I wonder if you'll begin to glow at night this summer. Regarding the scroll bar slide, after looking around the knowledge.microsoft.com site I'm beginning to think it may be due to my cutting off the updates when they seized my compuer and said "Don't turn your PC off, we going to install 229 updates." I verified I can grab and slide the scroll bar in all my applications. It's the windows programs like File Manager and various others. I don't know if you are being facetious or if you actually had 239 updates to be completed. It brought a chuckle for sure. It reminded me of the updates that accumulate on my laptop because I only use it when we travel or when my desk top PC is in the shop. When I put my PC in the shop the last time my laptop had not been used since last summer when we came to NY. It took 30 minutes or more for the updates to all be installed. With Kathy going into the hospital later this week for her back surgery, I took out the laptop to update it and even after a short period of time there was 18 updates waiting. |
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Post by dave on Mar 7, 2016 9:49:17 GMT -5
No, it's true. The UPS man brought me my brand new refurbed computer. I got it hooked up, flipped the switch and got a message like "Congratulations on your purchase. You have 239 software updates waiting." I can't guarantee that was the wording, but 239 was the number. So the updates begin and I'm hoping they're all really short ones, but after a few minutes of staring at "Do Not Turn OFF Your Computer!" I turned off the computer. With 19 of 239 installed. When I turned it back on, it might as well have said, "I Told You Not TO Turn Off The Computer." Instead it said, "Installing 220 updates. Please wait." So I turned it off again and went to bed. Next day it didn't say anything. Like Mrs. Dave does to me sometimes. I think I pissed it off. The little problems I mentioned above, like the problem with the scroll bar ... you guessed it... Ms. Updater was getting even. So, I thought I'd appeal to Cortana. She is Microsoft's personal assistant for Windows 10. I'm beginning to like her, especially since seeing the video "32 Funny Questions to Ask Cortana" www.pcadvisor.co.uk/feature/windows/32-funny-questions-ask-cortana-in-windows-10-2016-3621530/I guess it only works in audio mode and I haven't gotten to audio yet. Also: |
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Post by chris on Apr 15, 2016 10:03:08 GMT -5
I finally bit the bullet and ordered a new computer desktop. Currently running Windows XP which still runs well. My new computer will be running Windows 10.
I bought a Dell XPS 8900 6th Gen Intel i5, 8 gb, 1TB ....should be getting it around 4/19/16. Hope not to big of a learning curve/change.
The only thing I need to do now is find out how to transfer my files from old machine to new one. Then find out how to clear the old machine so I can trash it. Wish me luck.
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