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I download ALL installable files to THAT drive into subdirectories labeled for the particular apps. Newer releases go where their older siblings went before and I run them from there and let the installs go wherever they want on the C:\ drive.
Sort of makes for a backup drive for installables that might not be visible to worms, viruses, etc.
It's worked well for years, and a DVD backup of That Drive becomes a living treasure.
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have an Internet computer at home. I use the ones
at the library. From what somebody in these com-
ments said, I understand that you can circument
Microsoft by using Google, which is what I us-
ally use. But I have long held the opinion that
if you don't want the whole world (or at least ev-
erybody in the United States) to see something,
don't put it on the computer.
Neither MSFT or Apple are perfect vendors with perfect systems. Both have bugs (or features if you are in software sales;^).
Govenment and Apple feel I can't be trusted to manage my own affairs.
I don't consent to either.
If Apple meets your needs, more power to you. Your needs are different from my needs.
I will copy this to a file which I will show to him.
this whole subject scares me. -- j
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could do just what you suggest. . I would rather have it
look up diesel engines or glockenspiels instead, though,
to prevent the intrusion of viruses and stuff which tends
to accompany porn. -- j
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I decided to bite the bullet and go to MS10 after seeing the user-hostile interface of 8 and 8.1.
It wasn't all that bad. Fairly robust and recovers from some of the stupid error situations that forced user gymnastics to recover from with older versions.
But imnsho, virtually ALL of the MS APPS have flaws in them that used to be nice features in earlier generations.
I was/am-still unable to figure out how to graph spreadsheet data in Excel... it was SO simple and easy many rev's ago. Such 'progress.'
The IE replacement lost many of the nice features of IE 7 or 8 or so. Favorites are barely manageable, right-click to open a link on a new tab and the link opens but isn't displayed until you select it! Such a benefit/improvement? Beats me...
And, for counter-counterpoint, when I got my last Android OS update on my Samsung, it conveniently 'forgot' virtually all of my stock-symbols I had tracked and weather locations I'd keyed in. And took an hour or two to download and install before not saving or recovering any such settings. Rocket scientist programming?
So we switched to iPhones. Yep, many new user interface metaphors to learn, but SO Intuitive, right? Bullshit.
One day I wanted to use the built-in calculator. But I wanted memory store and recall! Calculator had nothing visible to do that.
I tapped all the places I could but could find NO reference or explanation of how to get to those features... Until my 15-year-old grandson showed me the Solution.... Turn the phone sideways and in landscape mode, the calculator switches to just about all the functions I was looking for.
Now, I've been screwing around with computers since IBM-360/45 days in college around 1967, and I learned some of the DOS internals because I wanted to learn the why and how 'behind the curtain.'
But any and all of you have a LONG WAY to go if you think you can convince me that there is ANYTHING INTUITIVE about holding the phone sideways in order to get M and MC functions.
NOTHING intuitive about it. Never saw that before in any user interface, and sure as hell didn't see any clues, hints or directions on how to discover that 'feature.'
I still have MS on my desktop and probably won't toss the iPhone, but life isn't as ginger-peachy with Apple products as ... pardon the expression... Believers would have you think.
Happy 'computing,' all...
Have not reached it yet: still hoping that MS wakes up to the fact that business needs a steadfast produce that is not swayed by the latest trend.
Jan
I understand that if you shut off windows updates, you'd be safe... which I did a long time ago because of all the problems the updates caused.
With backups and that means the second you don't want to lose anything no matter what you can always to a high level format and start over from scratch.Linus, Firefox etc. Open office all manner of choices.
The irksome part for me was with XP Couldn't run anything with it crying to call the office. Hard to do from the middle of the ocean. For that. When the mandatory monthlies did arrive it was a full day to get the machine working again. I left all kind of FU very much notes for MS to find. In the late eighties and nineties we told our customers never buy MS until it's at least three years old. It was on a big dot matrix fan fold banner on the wall right behind the cash register. When Vista came out I took one computer and dedicated to no net operation. No problems. The other one was a time waster so I let what happen happen and then went back to C Prompt deleting then began with Linux. I'm typing on a Win 7 the cure for Vista. IT has exactly the same flaws as it did when it first come out.Whatever they do it has nothing to do with customer service. My rate of infection is not at nil. I turned MS off and put in a reputable program. MS treated it as a virus. It was ...but a good one it smashed MS. etc etc etc
Jan
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