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Can anyone tell me which is the easiest site on which to publish
pictures. I set one up years ago on a previous computer but can no longer remember how I did it! If I had ny old XP computer I'd probably have it still!!! I'm struggling with W7. |
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Pam Moore wrote:
Can anyone tell me which is the easiest site on which to publish pictures. I set one up years ago on a previous computer but can no longer remember how I did it! If you already have a google account (e.g. for gmail, or an android phone) you can use Picasa Web Albums https://picasaweb.google.com/?noredirect=1 Or Flickr? Plenty of others, but the "low end" sites like imgur, tinypic and photobucket are a painfully full of adverts, flash and even malware, so best avoided. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_photo-sharing_websites |
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On 27/05/15 21:02, Pam Moore wrote:
Can anyone tell me which is the easiest site on which to publish pictures. I set one up years ago on a previous computer but can no longer remember how I did it! If I had ny old XP computer I'd probably have it still!!! I'm struggling with W7. Flickr IME - has all the features and uploading and editing (that's tagging/titling etc rather than hard core image editing) is pretty easy. |
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"Pam Moore" wrote in message ... Can anyone tell me which is the easiest site on which to publish pictures. I set one up years ago on a previous computer but can no longer remember how I did it! If I had ny old XP computer I'd probably have it still!!! I'm struggling with W7. I am with Flickr and agree with you windows 7 and 8 are rubbish, hopefully 10 will soon be out and it is said it will be a free upgrade for windows 7 & 8 users! -- Charlie, Gardening in Cornwall Holders of National Collections of Clematis viticella and Lapageria rosea cvs http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk |
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On 27/05/15 23:13, Charlie Pridham wrote:
"Pam Moore" wrote in message ... Can anyone tell me which is the easiest site on which to publish pictures. I set one up years ago on a previous computer but can no longer remember how I did it! If I had ny old XP computer I'd probably have it still!!! I'm struggling with W7. I am with Flickr and agree with you windows 7 7? That was the last of the less rubbish windows versions. and 8 are rubbish, hopefully 10 will soon be out and it is said it will be a free upgrade for windows 7 & 8 users! Linux is free and works a hell of a lot better :) |
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"Charlie Pridham" wrote
"Pam Moore" wrote Can anyone tell me which is the easiest site on which to publish pictures. I set one up years ago on a previous computer but can no longer remember how I did it! If I had ny old XP computer I'd probably have it still!!! I'm struggling with W7. I am with Flickr and agree with you windows 7 and 8 are rubbish, hopefully 10 will soon be out and it is said it will be a free upgrade for windows 7 & 8 users! I use and find Flickr easy and intuitive, you get an "Uploader" program which makes it a simple case of drag and drop and it's done. Getting them into a "Set" (one file) is not that difficult either so you keep all the photos on one subject or date together. As for your comments on Win 7, I find it very good, certainly much better that Vista and Win 8.1 on a desktop, and on a par with XP for ease of use. That said Win 8.1 works well on a tablet or phone because they are touch screen (which is the key to Win 8.1). -- Regards. Bob Hobden. Posted to this Newsgroup from the W of London, UK |
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On 28/05/15 08:43, Martin wrote:
Linux is free and works a hell of a lot better :) In what way? Updates takes minutes not 10's of minutes upwards (OK I am comparing to Windows Server 2008 which I run a few instanced of at work). Less hackery and malware; Free (beer and speech); Installation is quicker (Mint install takes about 10-15 minutes and is ready with a load of applications from the get go; Can boot a "live" version from a USB stick to try without installing; (http://www.linuxmint.com/) Current versions tend to run better on lower specc'd hardware compared to current Windows versions; GUI Desktop is just a component, so choose for heavy and pretty (eg KDE) to medium and Windows 95 like (XFCE4) to absolutely insanely minimal (eg Ratpoison) I could go on :) |
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On 28/05/15 08:46, Bob Hobden wrote:
"Charlie Pridham" wrote "Pam Moore" wrote Can anyone tell me which is the easiest site on which to publish pictures. I set one up years ago on a previous computer but can no longer remember how I did it! If I had ny old XP computer I'd probably have it still!!! I'm struggling with W7. I am with Flickr and agree with you windows 7 and 8 are rubbish, hopefully 10 will soon be out and it is said it will be a free upgrade for windows 7 & 8 users! I use and find Flickr easy and intuitive, you get an "Uploader" program which makes it a simple case of drag and drop and it's done. Getting them into a "Set" (one file) is not that difficult either so you keep all the photos on one subject or date together. Yes - I like the Albums feature - and it is easy to share albums (or not share specific albums) either to the general public (they do not need to log in) or to specific people with a guest share link. It's generally quite well thought out. As for your comments on Win 7, I find it very good, certainly much better that Vista and Win 8.1 on a desktop, and on a par with XP for ease of use. That said Win 8.1 works well on a tablet or phone because they are touch screen (which is the key to Win 8.1). |
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On Thu, 28 May 2015 09:51:33 +0100, Tim Watts wrote:
On 28/05/15 08:43, Martin wrote: Linux is free and works a hell of a lot better :) In what way? Updates takes minutes not 10's of minutes upwards (OK I am comparing to Windows Server 2008 which I run a few instanced of at work). Less hackery and malware; Free (beer and speech); Installation is quicker (Mint install takes about 10-15 minutes and is ready with a load of applications from the get go; Can boot a "live" version from a USB stick to try without installing; (http://www.linuxmint.com/) Current versions tend to run better on lower specc'd hardware compared to current Windows versions; GUI Desktop is just a component, so choose for heavy and pretty (eg KDE) to medium and Windows 95 like (XFCE4) to absolutely insanely minimal (eg Ratpoison) I could go on :) Yes - you missed off: Difficult for the average domestic user to install and use. |
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On 30/05/15 12:52, Judith in England wrote:
On Thu, 28 May 2015 09:51:33 +0100, Tim Watts wrote: On 28/05/15 08:43, Martin wrote: Linux is free and works a hell of a lot better :) In what way? Updates takes minutes not 10's of minutes upwards (OK I am comparing to Windows Server 2008 which I run a few instanced of at work). Less hackery and malware; Free (beer and speech); Installation is quicker (Mint install takes about 10-15 minutes and is ready with a load of applications from the get go; Can boot a "live" version from a USB stick to try without installing; (http://www.linuxmint.com/) Current versions tend to run better on lower specc'd hardware compared to current Windows versions; GUI Desktop is just a component, so choose for heavy and pretty (eg KDE) to medium and Windows 95 like (XFCE4) to absolutely insanely minimal (eg Ratpoison) I could go on :) Yes - you missed off: Difficult for the average domestic user to install and use. Compared to Windows? You jest! |
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"Tim Watts" wrote in message ... On 30/05/15 12:52, Judith in England wrote: On Thu, 28 May 2015 09:51:33 +0100, Tim Watts wrote: On 28/05/15 08:43, Martin wrote: Linux is free and works a hell of a lot better :) In what way? Updates takes minutes not 10's of minutes upwards (OK I am comparing to Windows Server 2008 which I run a few instanced of at work). Less hackery and malware; Free (beer and speech); Installation is quicker (Mint install takes about 10-15 minutes and is ready with a load of applications from the get go; Can boot a "live" version from a USB stick to try without installing; (http://www.linuxmint.com/) Current versions tend to run better on lower specc'd hardware compared to current Windows versions; GUI Desktop is just a component, so choose for heavy and pretty (eg KDE) to medium and Windows 95 like (XFCE4) to absolutely insanely minimal (eg Ratpoison) I could go on :) Yes - you missed off: Difficult for the average domestic user to install and use. Compared to Windows? You jest! I thought one needed a Phd in computer science to run Linux. Hasn't one got to learm a whole new set of complex unix type commands, just to get the PC to basically run as in DOS , let alone figure out how to get a GUI Windows type system to run. I had a look in a Teach Yourself Linux type book once and gave up after reading several pages. Just horrendously complicated. |
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"Bob Hobden" wrote in message ... "Charlie Pridham" wrote "Pam Moore" wrote Can anyone tell me which is the easiest site on which to publish pictures. I set one up years ago on a previous computer but can no longer remember how I did it! If I had ny old XP computer I'd probably have it still!!! I'm struggling with W7. I am with Flickr and agree with you windows 7 and 8 are rubbish, hopefully 10 will soon be out and it is said it will be a free upgrade for windows 7 & 8 users! I use and find Flickr easy and intuitive, you get an "Uploader" program which makes it a simple case of drag and drop and it's done. Getting them into a "Set" (one file) is not that difficult either so you keep all the photos on one subject or date together. As for your comments on Win 7, I find it very good, certainly much better that Vista and Win 8.1 on a desktop, and on a par with XP for ease of use. That said Win 8.1 works well on a tablet or phone because they are touch screen (which is the key to Win 8.1). -- Regards. Bob Hobden. Posted to this Newsgroup from the W of London, UK I was perhaps a bit harsh lumping 7 with the truly awful 8, I used 7 only briefly, probably not long enough to get used to it before passing the laptop to daughter its replacement has windows 8 but does not have a touch screen and is beyond irritating to use! -- Charlie, Gardening in Cornwall Holders of National Collections of Clematis viticella and Lapageria rosea cvs http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk |
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On Mon, 01 Jun 2015 18:21:32 +0200, Martin wrote:
Anybody using Win7 or Win8 can have a free upgrade top Win10 when it is released later this year. Release date isJuly/August 2015 according to rumours Just this morning I had a message from Microsoft inviting me to register to get a free upgrade to Win10. ---- Gardening on Wilts/Somerset border on slightly alkaline clay underlying soil worked for many decades. |
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cotula wrote: , Martin wrote: Anybody using Win7 or Win8 can have a free upgrade top Win10 when it is released later this year. Release date isJuly/August 2015 according to rumours Just this morning I had a message from Microsoft inviting me to register to get a free upgrade to Win10. A "Get Windows 10" icon has appeared on the toolbar of my Win7 PC. If I click the icon, I am invited to reserve a copy. When Win10 is released a 3GB upgrade will be installed. Luckily I have a Windows tablet with 8.1 and will certainly update that to Win 10 as soon as possible as I also will my phone. I will then see how it works before deciding whether to "upgrade" my Win 7 desktop. I know two people who bought new Laptops with Win 8 and because both were non touchscreen devices they have both found them almost unusable. One has bought an iPad and uses that instead and the other now only uses her laptop about once a week (so emails to her are now next to useless) and hates it with a passion. -- Regards. Bob Hobden. Posted to this Newsgroup from the W of London, UK |
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Bob Hobden wrote:
I know two people who bought new Laptops with Win 8 and because both were non touchscreen devices they have both found them almost unusable. One has bought an iPad and uses that instead Should have spent a couple of quid on Start8 which makes Win8 usable, rather than a few hundred on a iThing ... |
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Bob Hobden wrote: I know two people who bought new Laptops with Win 8 and because both were non touchscreen devices they have both found them almost unusable. One has bought an iPad and uses that instead Should have spent a couple of quid on Start8 which makes Win8 usable, rather than a few hundred on a iThing ... From what I read that does not remove the constant opening of bars and stuff if you get the curser to close to the edge of the screen, it only gets you back your Start menu which can and has been done on both with a free program. Why the manufacturers ever sold non-touch Win 8 machines goodness knows, it's damaged their reputation, the reputation of Microsoft, and driven some users elsewhere, I suspect permanently. -- Regards. Bob Hobden. Posted to this Newsgroup from the W of London, UK |
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On Tue, 02 Jun 2015 12:12:39 +0100, Bob Hobden wrote:
Why the manufacturers ever sold non-touch Win 8 machines goodness knows, it's damaged their reputation, the reputation of Microsoft, and driven some users elsewhere, I suspect permanently. The HW manufacturers are not Microsoft. They just sell kit, MS told them they could sell non-touch versions so they did. Start of rant: As for MS, they don't care about you, they've got you (mostly because you volunteer for it) by the gonads. As witnessed by this thread you'll continue buying that "the next version will fix whatever." Because of MS's near monopoly the herd instinct is very strong in the consumer PC world. In the server and portable world, not so much: Linux is dominant in servers (and very dominant in HPC), and of course Android is linux derivative. (Apple's iOS IIRC is based on BSD, so similar but different.) On the subject of Linux today, it has a number of slick user interfaces available that are similar to Apple or Windows. It's easy to use. It's also free. My wife and children are essentially computer illiterate. They all use it without problems (we have a Mac too, it causes far more problems, constantly). I don't administrate Linux for them, because there's nothing to do. All the drag and drop stuff works find. It's true that there are some obscure HW configurations that are hard for Linux to deal with, the same is true of Windows and Mac also. I have an Intel-made server card that Windows can't make sound run on. (BTW I was working with MS who bought this computer, and their engineers were unable to figure out the problem!) Our Mac has never figured out how to talk to one of our printers, a major brand. My daughter is going off to Uni this year and needs a new laptop. Based on her own experiences -- believe me she would never dream of taking my advice! -- she is only considering Linux laptops. In her words: it just works, I don't have time to faf around with windows. So if you love Windows and want to stay with it, by all means. If you've got a killer app that is only supported on windows, by all means. But lets not pretend that other alternates don't exist. BTW if you'd like to try other operating systems it's quite easy to do under Windows as virtual machine. Sounds complicated but isn't. Curiously I found that applications running on a virtual Linux machine under Win2008 server were faster than on the server itself... ;) End of rant. -E -- Gardening in Lower Normandy |
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Bob Hobden wrote:
"Andy Burns" wrote Should have spent a couple of quid on Start8 which makes Win8 usable From what I read that does not remove the constant opening of bars and stuff if you get the curser to close to the edge of the screen, It does allow you to disable the charms bar and the hot corners, you still get a bar for Wired, WiFi and VPN connections. it only gets you back your Start menu which can and has been done on both with a free program. It can, but ClassicShell is more geeky, which it sounds like your friend(s) are not ... |
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On Tue, 2 Jun 2015 12:12:39 Bob Hobden wrote:
"Andy Burns" wrote Bob Hobden wrote: I know two people who bought new Laptops with Win 8 and because both were non touchscreen devices they have both found them almost unusable. One has bought an iPad and uses that instead Should have spent a couple of quid on Start8 which makes Win8 usable, rather than a few hundred on a iThing ... From what I read that does not remove the constant opening of bars and stuff if you get the curser to close to the edge of the screen, it only gets you back your Start menu which can and has been done on both with a free program. No, but those "bars" have been taken out of Windows 10. David -- David Rance writing from Caversham, Reading, UK |
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"Emery Davis" wrote
Bob Hobden wrote: Why the manufacturers ever sold non-touch Win 8 machines goodness knows, it's damaged their reputation, the reputation of Microsoft, and driven some users elsewhere, I suspect permanently. The HW manufacturers are not Microsoft. They just sell kit, MS told them they could sell non-touch versions so they did. Start of rant: As for MS, they don't care about you, they've got you (mostly because you volunteer for it) by the gonads. As witnessed by this thread you'll continue buying that "the next version will fix whatever." Because of MS's near monopoly the herd instinct is very strong in the consumer PC world. In the server and portable world, not so much: Linux is dominant in servers (and very dominant in HPC), and of course Android is linux derivative. (Apple's iOS IIRC is based on BSD, so similar but different.) On the subject of Linux today, it has a number of slick user interfaces available that are similar to Apple or Windows. It's easy to use. It's also free. My wife and children are essentially computer illiterate. They all use it without problems (we have a Mac too, it causes far more problems, constantly). I don't administrate Linux for them, because there's nothing to do. All the drag and drop stuff works find. It's true that there are some obscure HW configurations that are hard for Linux to deal with, the same is true of Windows and Mac also. I have an Intel-made server card that Windows can't make sound run on. (BTW I was working with MS who bought this computer, and their engineers were unable to figure out the problem!) Our Mac has never figured out how to talk to one of our printers, a major brand. My daughter is going off to Uni this year and needs a new laptop. Based on her own experiences -- believe me she would never dream of taking my advice! -- she is only considering Linux laptops. In her words: it just works, I don't have time to faf around with windows. So if you love Windows and want to stay with it, by all means. If you've got a killer app that is only supported on windows, by all means. But lets not pretend that other alternates don't exist. BTW if you'd like to try other operating systems it's quite easy to do under Windows as virtual machine. Sounds complicated but isn't. Curiously I found that applications running on a virtual Linux machine under Win2008 server were faster than on the server itself... ;) End of rant. I put Ubuntu on an old Vista laptop and it works well but I'm not sure I want to change over everything especially as the printer of the newsletter I publish insists on MS Word being used. -- Regards. Bob Hobden. Posted to this Newsgroup from the W of London, UK |
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On Tue, 02 Jun 2015 16:33:23 +0100, Bob Hobden wrote:
End of rant. I put Ubuntu on an old Vista laptop and it works well but I'm not sure I want to change over everything especially as the printer of the newsletter I publish insists on MS Word being used. You can easily use MS word on any linux, either under wine/crossover, or if your version doesn't work very well on Windows in a VM. Google vmplayer or virtualbox. I use the free version of the former to run Finale, music composition SW that is pretty much a windows "killer app" for me. -- Gardening in Lower Normandy |
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Emery Davis wrote: On Tue, 02 Jun 2015 16:33:23 +0100, Bob Hobden wrote: End of rant. I put Ubuntu on an old Vista laptop and it works well but I'm not sure I want to change over everything especially as the printer of the newsletter I publish insists on MS Word being used. You can easily use MS word on any linux, either under wine/crossover, or if your version doesn't work very well on Windows in a VM. Google vmplayer or virtualbox. I use the free version of the former to run Finale, music composition SW that is pretty much a windows "killer app" for me. It's quite easy to read, modify or create Microsoft Word documents using OpenOffice or LibraOffice. Indeed, I have got several people who were shafted by Microsoft Word (variation X) not reading a Microsoft Word (variation Y) document by sanitising it in one of those and giving it back to them. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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On 02/06/15 16:33, Bob Hobden wrote:
I put Ubuntu on an old Vista laptop and it works well but I'm not sure I want to change over everything especially as the printer of the newsletter I publish insists on MS Word being used. Just download LibreOffice (it's free) and save any documents in *.doc or *.docx format. For simple docs it'll work fine. For complex docs you might well see some layout differences. -- Jeff |
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On Tue, 02 Jun 2015 18:21:24 +0100, Jeff Layman wrote:
On 02/06/15 16:33, Bob Hobden wrote: I put Ubuntu on an old Vista laptop and it works well but I'm not sure I want to change over everything especially as the printer of the newsletter I publish insists on MS Word being used. Just download LibreOffice (it's free) and save any documents in *.doc or *.docx format. For simple docs it'll work fine. For complex docs you might well see some layout differences. LibreOffice (or OpenOffice) is great and it's what I use. But it's true that the layout differences between Word can be a deal killer for professional publishing. My wife publishes a newsletter and these issues basically ruled out LibreOffice although she did try it for a good long time. LibreOffice Impress (equivalent of Powerpoint) is even more problematic, she was giving an important talk in Shanghai last month (with an Ubuntu laptop) involving some fairly complicated graphics, and it crashed several times during the presentation. Not ideal! None of that is a Linux vs Windows operating system issue, of course. There are only a few very specific situations where libreoffice doesn't do the job and you would need to use a VM for Office. -E -- Gardening in Lower Normandy |
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Emery Davis wrote: On Tue, 02 Jun 2015 18:21:24 +0100, Jeff Layman wrote: On 02/06/15 16:33, Bob Hobden wrote: I put Ubuntu on an old Vista laptop and it works well but I'm not sure I want to change over everything especially as the printer of the newsletter I publish insists on MS Word being used. Just download LibreOffice (it's free) and save any documents in *.doc or *.docx format. For simple docs it'll work fine. For complex docs you might well see some layout differences. LibreOffice (or OpenOffice) is great and it's what I use. But it's true that the layout differences between Word can be a deal killer for professional publishing. My wife publishes a newsletter and these issues basically ruled out LibreOffice although she did try it for a good long time. That is why such publishers demand a particular version of Microsoft Word, run on a particular version of a particular operating system. No, the same version of Microsoft Word is not enough - Apple and Microsoft Windows often differ badly, and so do versions of Microsoft Windows. And don't even THINK of using different versions of Microsoft Word! LibreOffice Impress (equivalent of Powerpoint) is even more problematic, she was giving an important talk in Shanghai last month (with an Ubuntu laptop) involving some fairly complicated graphics, and it crashed several times during the presentation. Not ideal! None of that is a Linux vs Windows operating system issue, of course. That's not a problem - it's a feature - bug for bug compatibility. When I have had a seriously problematic Microsoft file, I have often tried it out on a real Microsoft system, and got EXACTLY the same failure! Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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writes "Martin" wrote cotula wrote: , Martin wrote: Anybody using Win7 or Win8 can have a free upgrade top Win10 when it is released later this year. Release date isJuly/August 2015 according to rumours Just this morning I had a message from Microsoft inviting me to register to get a free upgrade to Win10. A "Get Windows 10" icon has appeared on the toolbar of my Win7 PC. If I click the icon, I am invited to reserve a copy. When Win10 is released a 3GB upgrade will be installed. Luckily I have a Windows tablet with 8.1 and will certainly update that to Win 10 as soon as possible as I also will my phone. I will then see how it works before deciding whether to "upgrade" my Win 7 desktop. I know two people who bought new Laptops with Win 8 and because both were non touchscreen devices they have both found them almost unusable. One has bought an iPad and uses that instead and the other now only uses her laptop about once a week (so emails to her are now next to useless) and hates it with a passion. Youngest daughter has a laptop with Win 8 (well now 8.1, which improved things). Whilst it certainly has a few oddities with regard to the interface I certainly don't think it is any sense unusable (as it happens it does have a touch screen, but it is rarely used). She uses it all the time and switches between it and the Win 7 desktop quite happily. I sometimes use it and find it fine. (though I'd not upgrade any of the win 7 machines to it). I've tried Win 10 Preview a bit and it does seem to have sorted out the interface issues -- Chris French |
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On 05/06/2015 00:04, Chris French wrote:
Youngest daughter has a laptop with Win 8 (well now 8.1, which improved things). Whilst it certainly has a few oddities with regard to the interface I certainly don't think it is any sense unusable (as it happens it does have a touch screen, but it is rarely used). She uses it all the time and switches between it and the Win 7 desktop quite happily. I sometimes use it and find it fine. (though I'd not upgrade any of the win 7 machines to it). I must admit to being puzzled by people having so many issues with W8.1 Apart from the start tile screen (which you can bypass if you want) the interface is almost identical to W7. It might take a little practice to get used to not having a start menu a la W7 but it is actually not difficult. And if you really need it, then one of the paid or free add-ons will work fine. Start Menu Reviver, eg, is a free program that is *much* better than the W7 Start Menu. http://www.reviversoft.com/start-menu-reviver/ That aside, W8.1 has better features than W7 and is inherently more secure. I do have a touch screen but rarely use it. I've tried Win 10 Preview a bit and it does seem to have sorted out the interface issues Yes - I like W10 a lot. Some very useful stuff in it. -- regards andy |
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