“Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.” - Robert E. Howard
"Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas and not eat a chicken fried steak." - Larry McMurtry
resister (03-19-2017)
When I get one of those "tell us what you're calling for" automated phone things I just keep repeatedly hitting 0 until I get a live person. I refuse to "talk" to a $#@!ing computer program. I have too much dignity for that $#@!ry.
Most of the time it works, except governmental lines that just hang up on you if you do that.
Hooray for democracy...
my junk is ugly
I have a touch screen on my lappy and I can just swipe inward from the right edge of the screen and then click the windows button to get to the desktop. I can also minimize everything by clicking the lower, right corner of my screen with the mouse pointer, revealing my desktop. Those are the only ways I know of.
I have a big cook.
‘There is no God but Resister and Refugee is his messenger’.
Book of Democrat Things, Chapter 1:1
Yeah, I guess I do see my desktop...I was confused and misspoke. It's been a very long weekend and I should be getting some sleep. Still, it was certainly easier to find and save things with 7. I even dislike the photo saving feature; saving, sorting and finding photos on 7 was MUCH easier.
“Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.” - Robert E. Howard
"Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas and not eat a chicken fried steak." - Larry McMurtry
Even when I turn file indexing off, the Explorer in Windows 8 - 10 (where did 9 go?) is amazingly slow. If I try to open a folder with more than a few hundred files in it, it can take up to 20 seconds. In XP it would be almost instant. It really slows down productivity.
Anyway, I checked this Start Screen box when I got my computer and now it goes to the desktop automatically.
I have a big cook.
resister (03-20-2017)
It does that, and, to my mind, it has no right to do that.
Windows 10 came pre-installed on my new PC, but I'm constantly disabling its "monitoring" program, "Cortana," which will re-enable itself regularly. I still run 7 on both my laptops without too much trouble.
As consumers, we shouldn't have to do things like uninstall and reinstall programs to clean up messes Microsoft makes on the machines we pay for.
As I understand it -- Windows 10 is already downloaded on all computers that run previous OS, just sitting there, lurking, biding its time. My old PC did the same thing yours did and I did not accept the conversion either.
""A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul" ~George Bernard Shaw
Adelaide (03-20-2017)
Microsoft has already started their heavy handedness when they realized WIN10, win10 users have far less privacy. Over a year ago MS started when you went to reload win7 you couldnt get the updates and service packs. You sit there waiting for the download that never came. 3rd party wrote a program to get all the updates for a new install quickly and bypassed MS. For a while when win 10 was free the first year, they started just installing it without permission and the shop was inundated with screwed up opsys that would not run. They got sued and they stopped that practice. MS announced there would updates for win7 until 2021 then they reneged on that. They want everyone on Win10 because they have far more control over everyone.
I fight and kick and scratch till the bitter end before i go to win10
LETS GO BRANDON
F Joe Biden