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ArishMell · 70-79, M
WIN XP or &, that's which!
I preferred 10. W11 seems just an excuse for Microsoft to load ever more gimmicks onto your computer, and worse, it smashed up my large photo-filing system in its efforts to put everything on its own OneDrive server.
I have switched off OneDrive, and rebuilt my archive separately under a different title from MS' rather childish "Pictures" name. Nevertheless it has ruined a lot of photos, and it refuses to allow me to load a new driver for my external hard-drives.
It still keeps trying to interfere with my photo galleries by picking and mixing random ones of mine with random images it finds elsewhere. Many of those look like company trade-marks, but none I have ever seen. I had no idea of this until I spotted them on that desperately childishly-presented, multi-panel News window that opens if you hover over the weather symbol in the corner of the screen. That placing, among some of the news pages, makes me wonder just what Microsoft is doing with [i]my[/i] photographs [i]without[/i] my permission or even knowledge.
I cannot find that "feature", nor OneDrive, in the so-called "Apps" so they are probably among those that MS will not let you delete. It does list "Edge" but won't let you delete that either.
As for the weather symbol.... It's not a forecast but a general description of what's happening in my region now. I [i]know[/i] the weather's wet. I can see that through the [i]real[/i] window!
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WIN-11's directory and file system is the worst since WIN 5 introduced the facility to create easily-managed directories of files with names longer than 8 characters. It was working perfectly well from W5 to W10 with almost no changes (none were needed), now it's a mess you can do almost nothing about.
It's as if having reached a zenith around WIN-XP / WIN 7, and their associated "Office" software, Microsoft has steadily gone downhill. It tinkers around the edges, and seems now only interested in those who use computers as substitute televisions, live full-time on "smart"-'phones and love gimmicks.
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Unfortunately I do not know enough about computers and operating-system to change it to Linux.
The PC is a factory-rebuilt DELL that came with WIN-10. MS changed it to 11 without asking me. It just did it.
I preferred 10. W11 seems just an excuse for Microsoft to load ever more gimmicks onto your computer, and worse, it smashed up my large photo-filing system in its efforts to put everything on its own OneDrive server.
I have switched off OneDrive, and rebuilt my archive separately under a different title from MS' rather childish "Pictures" name. Nevertheless it has ruined a lot of photos, and it refuses to allow me to load a new driver for my external hard-drives.
It still keeps trying to interfere with my photo galleries by picking and mixing random ones of mine with random images it finds elsewhere. Many of those look like company trade-marks, but none I have ever seen. I had no idea of this until I spotted them on that desperately childishly-presented, multi-panel News window that opens if you hover over the weather symbol in the corner of the screen. That placing, among some of the news pages, makes me wonder just what Microsoft is doing with [i]my[/i] photographs [i]without[/i] my permission or even knowledge.
I cannot find that "feature", nor OneDrive, in the so-called "Apps" so they are probably among those that MS will not let you delete. It does list "Edge" but won't let you delete that either.
As for the weather symbol.... It's not a forecast but a general description of what's happening in my region now. I [i]know[/i] the weather's wet. I can see that through the [i]real[/i] window!
.
WIN-11's directory and file system is the worst since WIN 5 introduced the facility to create easily-managed directories of files with names longer than 8 characters. It was working perfectly well from W5 to W10 with almost no changes (none were needed), now it's a mess you can do almost nothing about.
It's as if having reached a zenith around WIN-XP / WIN 7, and their associated "Office" software, Microsoft has steadily gone downhill. It tinkers around the edges, and seems now only interested in those who use computers as substitute televisions, live full-time on "smart"-'phones and love gimmicks.
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Unfortunately I do not know enough about computers and operating-system to change it to Linux.
The PC is a factory-rebuilt DELL that came with WIN-10. MS changed it to 11 without asking me. It just did it.
rrraksamam · 31-35, M
I haven't even checked out 11 yet.
Windows is history now.
I'm ahead of the curve
Windows is history now.
I'm ahead of the curve
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@rrraksamam I don't blame you, but what do you use instead?
I had no choice: the Seattle company forced it onto my computer. I'm tempted to re-instate my WIN-7 machine (now an off-line spare) and install third-party security software such as Norton.
I up-dated the PC partly for support but mainly only to take a CAD programme whose latest versions won't run on a pre-W10 OS; but which have far more facilities and features than I'll ever need anyway. Though then I'd have a mixture of programmes and data that will be more trouble than benefit.
So I'll just have to try to keep abreast of MS' tricks and turn off or "uninstall" as much of their rubbish as I can.
I had no choice: the Seattle company forced it onto my computer. I'm tempted to re-instate my WIN-7 machine (now an off-line spare) and install third-party security software such as Norton.
I up-dated the PC partly for support but mainly only to take a CAD programme whose latest versions won't run on a pre-W10 OS; but which have far more facilities and features than I'll ever need anyway. Though then I'd have a mixture of programmes and data that will be more trouble than benefit.
So I'll just have to try to keep abreast of MS' tricks and turn off or "uninstall" as much of their rubbish as I can.