“I walked through the valley of the shadow of WIN 10 OS death, but I felt no evil: for my help files are with me and my rod (USB boot stick) and a staff of support (help) writers, comfort me.” I wish it really was as easy as that sounds. I almost made a fatal error doing an update to my new WIN 10 install on my “office” computer. I have been hearing a low grinding noise when...
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OH Noooo! (Again)
I did what I wrote that I wouldn’t. I updated my “Office” computer to Windows 10 Pro. I figure it is OK for me to change my mind. There were two reasons. First was, I have been watching the roll out and early problems getting corrected in WIN 10. My experience with it in trial was actually very favorable. It still does have a problem with older hardware and I don’t think that is going...
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I did some “maintenance” on my “office” computer. I cleaned out old files that were found using the Windows “Disk Clean up” utility. Disk De-frag is automatic at least on my WIN7 as the user doesn’t really have to make a decision. A human should interface with the clean up. You may not want to discard some of the old files it finds. So it doesn’t run automagically <sic>. In fact if the user doesn’t...
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I must be a glutton for punishment. I am allowing Microsoft to update my little baby NETBOOK from Windows 7 minimal version to Windows 10. The good part is that it is a free upgrade. As I have written previously saying I thought Win 10 was a pretty good operating system. I was having issues with old Asus motherboards and AMD processors. The NETBOOK is an Asus so we will see how that goes. I...
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