On 31/01/17 09:06, Bob Hobden wrote:
Been a bad patch for us recently and one of the problems was the PC
with Win 10 (upgrade from 7) started to become unstable. Lost Office
2016 and Edge and all the apps that rely on it, they were still there
but unable to open. Bit of a problem as a Newsletter I had written had
to go to the publisher urgently.
So after trying various things including their new
install keeping Data I had to do an oldfashioned Clean Install. Now the
PC is working fine but over the process Microsoft stopped support for
Windows Live Mail so I have been unable to get here until I found
there is an App in the store NewsgroupsRT. Seems to work OK, just
different, however I no longer have to rely on AutoHotKey
and WinQuoteFix to correct errors in WLM.

If you can, I would try to dual boot with Linux Mint, set up Thunderbird
and Firefox (instead of WLM and Edge) and use that as system a backup.
At least that's what I would do at the start. Once you've used it a few
times you'll wonder why you are staying with Windows. Maybe you need it
for Office 2016, but perhaps you could try to do your newsletter on
LibreOffice (which also comes with Mint). And, of course, it's all free.

I used Win7 until a couple of years ago, when MS tried to force Win10 on
me, and decided to move to Linux. I installed Ubuntu at first, but found
I preferred the Mint/Cinnamon interface.

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Jeff