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Post by primenova on Aug 7, 2015 9:16:25 GMT
I got Windows 10 last night & had quick look round. Don't like how recent docs is off the start menu - you get it all in full screen file manager format. Then this morning my 3usb dongle does work & it doesn't with Windows 10 because no drivers for it & cost me £30 every month to get device that does work. So be cheaper just to go back to windows 7.
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 7, 2015 11:57:18 GMT
The Windows 10 cinema ad is easily the most vomit inducing one since the Facebook one. It doesn't make me want the product!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 7, 2015 12:01:12 GMT
There's enough bad reports to convince me that staying put is the best thing to do.
Win7 still the best version for my money. Love the recently used lists off of each start menu item.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 15, 2015 12:50:51 GMT
I've upgraded my Mum's laptop to win10 overnight to test what it's like. Very annoyed to discover I can't pin programs to the left side of the start menu like you could in the preview versions. The feature in question is described here: www.howtogeek.com/197836/8-ways-to-customize-the-windows-10-start-menu/interestingly the tool tip changes when I drag it over the start button it just doesn't pin This was the killer sales pt in upgrading my home machines from Win7 that that functionality would be preserved and it appears it's been removed at the last minute :-( If anyone knows a fix lmk. In a related note the settings tab for the start menu appears to be missing from the Taskbar and Startmenu settings. Otherwise win10 looks an improvement over win8 but 7 is still the winner for me. |
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 15, 2015 13:37:08 GMT
We should never have moved beyond BASIC.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 15, 2015 15:21:35 GMT
Basic is a programming language, not an operating system!
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Post by primenova on Oct 15, 2015 17:10:42 GMT
One thing I like about Bill is that he did a good front end & you didn't need to type code in to get the computer working. But it is all this trying to make it fancy & then it doesn't work instead of just giving us a front cover while it gets to work behind the screen. Apart from getting the blue screen of death.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 15, 2015 20:26:41 GMT
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Post by primenova on Oct 16, 2015 6:18:24 GMT
Who came up with the blue screen of death - someone must have had the job to program it for this page of text to appear when something does wrong. I wonder if he has a blue plaque outside his house like they do with TV series locations.
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Post by Stomski on Oct 16, 2015 22:45:27 GMT
Phil - you can pin to the right side of the start menu, just right click on the link in "All Apps".
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 17, 2015 6:46:13 GMT
You don't get the jump menus then.
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Post by Stomski on Oct 17, 2015 12:20:46 GMT
What the frig are jump menus?
You can still add folders with shortcuts in them to the task bar (right click->toolbars->new toolbar), will this do what you want?
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 17, 2015 12:28:48 GMT
If you've got win7 to hand you'll see a little arrow to the rightof eacvh of your start menu pinned programs. Click on them and you get a recentlyused documents list for that program allowing you to jump straight into the file when opening the program. VERY useful
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Post by Stomski on Oct 17, 2015 21:43:10 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 14, 2016 20:15:42 GMT
Anyone know how I make Windows Media launch? I used to launch it on Windows 7 so I could rip audio from cd's but am buggered if I know how to do this on 10!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 14, 2016 20:19:01 GMT
Media Player or Media Center?
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 14, 2016 20:21:13 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 14, 2016 20:30:07 GMT
That doesn't help. Swiping from the right just brings up the calender. ARGH!
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Apr 14, 2016 21:48:42 GMT
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Post by Stomski on Apr 15, 2016 9:47:59 GMT
Use CDex, EAC or AccurateRip instead.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Apr 15, 2016 21:19:23 GMT
To Ralph that reads like hieroglyphics.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 16, 2016 11:38:14 GMT
I found a youtube video that showed me how to find Windows Media Player. They should bundle fucking manuals with computers.
-Ralph
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Post by KnightBeat on Apr 16, 2016 11:39:40 GMT
Ralph learnt hieroglyphics by watching Stargate SG1 reruns. It's not just a written language to him, he can speak it fluently.
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 17, 2016 12:01:43 GMT
Chevon 6...LOCKED!
*whirrr whirrrr chungggggg*
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 14, 2016 9:38:59 GMT
So....
Mum's Win10 Laptop stopped talking to her internet. Wouldn't connect to the wireless box. I couldn't get it to do a thing on site. I could however get my iPad and her spare laptop to connect so thought "The laptop must have got damaged" and brought it back home with me to get m'learned colleagues to look at it.
I wanted to see if it would work over the ethernet cable (didn't have a spare in London) so set the laptop up, turned it on ..... and unexpectedly it found my wireless network and connected just fine.
So any ideas please as to why it won't connect to her wireless, which it has done up till now and other devices still can, yet can connect to mine!
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Post by browny87 on May 14, 2016 11:01:33 GMT
did you try unplugging router at mains and leaving it out for a minute? sometimes just needs a soft reset?
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 18, 2016 21:25:02 GMT
Yup, tired loads of things including telling windows to forget the connection and then finding it again!
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 18, 2016 21:25:10 GMT
Windows 7 has just told me when my scheduled Windows 10 upgrade is. I think not ! <clicks cancel>
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Post by Pinwig on May 18, 2016 21:32:58 GMT
Mine did that the other day. I reckon I'll do it eventually before the free period runs out, but I don't want it deciding for me when it's going to happen!
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 18, 2016 21:38:29 GMT
I wouldn't.
10 is pish.
Not as pish as 8 but still pish.
7's still the best Windows version by a country mile.
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