Problems with Win 10
 

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.





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Regards
Bob Hobden

Problems with Win 10
 

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

Problems with Win 10
 

On 31 Jan 2017 16:15, Jeff Layman wrote:
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

Unfortunately the publisher & printer demand the use or Word 2016.
I too set up a Laptop a couple of years ago with Ubuntu and was quite
impressed but thinking about it I haven't started it up for over a
year now. Had no problems with Win 10 until just after Christmas when
the PC decided, after an update, to go crazy. That said I also have a
Win 10 Tablet (Win 8 updated but also needed yet another Clean
Install) that is working OK.


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Regards
Bob Hobden

Problems with Win 10
 

On 31/01/17 16:48, Bob Hobden wrote:
On 31 Jan 2017 16:15, Jeff Layman wrote:
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.

--

Jeff

Unfortunately the publisher & printer demand the use or Word 2016.
I too set up a Laptop a couple of years ago with Ubuntu and was quite
impressed but thinking about it I haven't started it up for over a
year now. Had no problems with Win 10 until just after Christmas when
the PC decided, after an update, to go crazy. That said I also have a
Win 10 Tablet (Win 8 updated but also needed yet another Clean
Install) that is working OK.

Yes, it was the forced updates which led me away from Windows. Hasn't MS
moved away from them if they aren't security-related? Seems to me the
problem is that you won't know until the next boot that your system is
borked.

You can easily download LibreOffice for Windows and install it. It will
open *.docx files (I assume that's what you supply the publisher and
printer with). If the files open in Word 2016 and LibreOffice
identically (in all honesty I have my doubts...), then try compiling a
newsletter with LO, save it as a *.docx file, and open it in Word 2016
to compare.

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Jeff