Re: What to do when Windows 7 support ends in a few weeks time?

Posted on 2019-11-04, 15:34

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Big Pink wrote: bfcastello wrote: I am still waiting for the BTTF dehydrated pizza to be invented... Not hoverboards or flying cars? Dehydrated pizza!? 😉 Wellllll... what can I say, I am a hungry man! 😁

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Re: What to do when Windows 7 support ends in a few weeks time?

Posted on 2019-11-04, 12:03

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The whole evolution from technology as was an eventually useful closed box you payed for to become nowdays something almost "free" but that you -must- have and use it and in the only way designed to, basically a lifetime service. It's all about information control. The open IBM PC platform was a …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2019-11-03, 05:09

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My activity for today was to turn on 1st gen ipod nano, 1st gen iphone, iphone 4S and iPhone 5S all for some updates that were delayed by my plans. The iPod is rocking insane and I will use it on my car. When I had the 4S in my hands again, oh God I miss the smaller model. Bring it back Apple, ffs …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2019-11-03, 01:55

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My activity for today was to turn on 1st gen ipod nano, 1st gen iphone, iphone 4S and iPhone 5S all for some updates that were delayed by my plans. The iPod is rocking insane and I will use it on my car. When I had the 4S in my hands again, oh God I miss the smaller model. Bring it back Apple, ffs …

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Re: What to do when Windows 7 support ends in a few weeks time?

Posted on 2019-11-02, 17:23

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Planning to get my mac to run win 10 on bootcamp for some games. I’d rather go for win 7, but in the end I’d have to update at some point, I guess. I now have to figure out how to use the real partition with Virtualbox (I’d go with VMWare but I want a free solution) when I am not gaming and if there …

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Re: What to do when Windows 7 support ends in a few weeks time?

Posted on 2019-11-02, 14:07

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I really adore Linux, but as a desktop, it's pretty hopeless. XFCE is rock solid and afaict is pretty much the same as it ever was. It all depends on the users preferences. And like the 16th century native americans they fall for glistering and shiny trinkets, instead of opting for stability. If …

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Re: What to do when Windows 7 support ends in a few weeks time?

Posted on 2019-11-02, 00:44

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I have to agree with your last paragraph. Nowadays is more like release something incomplete and update later. Terrible

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Re: What to do when Windows 7 support ends in a few weeks time?

Posted on 2019-11-01, 20:13

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I don't understand why I need to buy a commercial application just to be able to tile my windows properly. On Windows I can just drag a window to the edge of my screen and it will be resized to 50% of its size. Or I drag it to the corners and it takes up 25% of the whole screen. That's really easy …

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Re: What to do when Windows 7 support ends in a few weeks time?

Posted on 2019-11-01, 19:54

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Nobody's going to reply "why so scared of change?" when somebody complains about a building designer hiding all the light switches under a three-seashells fixture above the door frame. You expect to walk in, reach to the side of the entrance, and find a light switch. It's convention, it works, …

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Re: What to do when Windows 7 support ends in a few weeks time?

Posted on 2019-11-01, 11:53

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Oh come on. I have zero complaints about the OS X. I use the Mail at work and it just works. I easily added a custom signature for me and for other employees that also use it. It doesn’t work differently to other email apps. If you still don’t like it, try my boss preferred app, Spark. He also uses …

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Re: What to do when Windows 7 support ends in a few weeks time?

Posted on 2019-10-31, 19:30

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OK, then... now back to the subject... What to do when Windows 7 support ends in a few weeks time? Well... Nothing! It's not like it will stop working. It will still work for many years, with the right maintenance (from yourself) and security measures. Like schmatzler said above, it will still last …

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Re: What to do when Windows 7 support ends in a few weeks time?

Posted on 2019-10-31, 18:37

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What I see is that more and more of these arguments boil down to people just defending what they're used to. In the end it's all about "it was fine the way it was and I was comfortable with it, and I hate it now that they've changed it". There is little objectivity in it. If you take someone who …

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Re: What to do when Windows 7 support ends in a few weeks time?

Posted on 2019-10-31, 18:31

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It uses more horizontal space to show useless blocks of stuff that I don't even use - I have never used them since their introduction on Windows 8. First thing I do whenever I install Windows 10 into any machine is get rid of them until I get a smaller, tidy Start Menu. I just can't get rid of the …

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Re: What to do when Windows 7 support ends in a few weeks time?

Posted on 2019-10-31, 15:02

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I also don't get the hate against the search function. Most programs I'm looking for are displaying just after typing in one or two letters. So even if I don't have Photoshop already pinned in the start menu, I can just type "PH", Enter, done. That's useful and I don't know how I would make it …

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Re: What to do when Windows 7 support ends in a few weeks time?

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oeuvre wrote: activate pls That's not mine, mine is activated. This is an image I got from the google search, HA! 😁

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2019-10-31, 13:55

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Caluser2000 wrote: Re-purposed a 1.44 floppy with scratched disk into a 720k floppy. 20191031_212458[1].jpg Edit- The patient booted fine. Now try the other way around 🤣 just kidding. Good job.

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Re: What to do when Windows 7 support ends in a few weeks time?

Posted on 2019-10-31, 13:49

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Even the classic Control Panel from previous Windows (3.x / 9x) was much better. From the icons you know what you wanted to change. Now I have to type in a search box... Windows 3.x https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ce/7a/c2/ce7ac2c821927babf2f8da0ee13eabc9.png Windows 9x http://www.cwdixon.com/support …

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Re: What to do when Windows 7 support ends in a few weeks time?

Posted on 2019-10-31, 02:39

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I think my opinion is probably a blend of SirNickity and schmatzler's opinions. Windows does have a decent UI, much more discrete than the failed "Metro style" though, but I have to agree that it is too white or dark, depending of which theme you choose. I'm going with the light one and very little …

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Re: Escargot: MSN Messenger alternative server.

Posted on 2019-10-30, 20:37

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While I was listening to my playlist at work (don't worry, I am working as well) and I was waiting for some long code to compile and I was also thinking... One of the most used MSN features I loved and I miss a lot currently is the ability to show on my MSN status what (music) I am listening to... I …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2019-10-30, 01:08

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oeuvre wrote: https://i.imgur.com/clo3o6Yl.jpg […] Show full quote dat DoTT Day of tentacle? Cool

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