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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It’s Heck to get OLD
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...
Continue reading...The Curse of Minecraft
My 7 year old granddaughter was playing Minecraft on her IPad. I guess you aren’t C00L if you’re a kid and don’t have an IPad. Hers was acquired second hand from her mom. Anyway she was smashing and building all types of blocky things and telling me about all kinds of monsters that inhabit the software program. She was spending summer days with us as her parents worked, the game program helped keep her busy....
Continue reading...OH Noooo!
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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