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Re: Anyone using Windows 10?
« Reply #300 on: July 29, 2016, 01:52:54 PM »
I have to chase down an alternate program for writing documents.  I still get the prompt to purchase Office.

LibreOffice is a complete suite with equivalents of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and so on. There is also a graphics program that combines features of CorelDraw and Visio, and an equation editor like the extension available from Microsoft. You can get versions that run on Windows, Mac, Linux etc. Download is available from http://www.libreoffice.org/
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Re: Anyone using Windows 10?
« Reply #301 on: July 29, 2016, 02:20:07 PM »
Thanks, I'll check it out. :thumb:
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Re: Anyone using Windows 10?
« Reply #302 on: July 29, 2016, 04:17:16 PM »
I have to chase down an alternate program for writing documents.  I still get the prompt to purchase Office.

Try "Open Office".  It's free and will read new Office documents that my old MS Office XP won't.  Seems to work just like Office.  MS likes to make their old stuff obsolete, so this is great.  It works with the new stuff.

Got it from my son, who recommended this one-stop cite to set up any computer with the best freeware.  Save lots of time and identifies new options.

https://ninite.com/
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Re: Anyone using Windows 10?
« Reply #303 on: July 29, 2016, 04:22:58 PM »
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Re: Anyone using Windows 10?
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Re: Anyone using Windows 10?
« Reply #304 on: July 29, 2016, 04:55:32 PM »
I installed it on 2 of my computers and it slowed down both of them on the internet.  It seems that the ads get priority over all else.  My internet speed is less than 1 mbs.  That's all that is offered where I live.  I'm thinking of dumping my land line and just go to a 4g set up. 
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Re: Anyone using Windows 10?
« Reply #305 on: July 29, 2016, 05:07:39 PM »
I installed it on 2 of my computers and it slowed down both of them on the internet.  It seems that the ads get priority over all else.  My internet speed is less than 1 mbs.  That's all that is offered where I live.  I'm thinking of dumping my land line and just go to a 4g set up.

Out of curiosity, pls confirm what "it" you installed - Windows 10 or "Open Office"?  I don't need to slow down my computer any more!  On another note of probably little interest to most of you reading this thread, but irritating to me, Windows 10 just "changed the rules" on my solitaire game with no notice, no opportunity to keep the former structure, & no apparent way (or at least no instructions) to recover the statistics I had amassed on the original form of the game I was playing ("Klondike").  Just another little clue concerning how much contempt the MS staff has for the non-techie end-user...
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Re: Anyone using Windows 10?
« Reply #306 on: July 29, 2016, 05:53:55 PM »
Try "Open Office".  It's free and will read new Office documents that my old MS Office XP won't.  Seems to work just like Office.  MS likes to make their old stuff obsolete, so this is great.  It works with the new stuff.

Got it from my son, who recommended this one-stop cite to set up any computer with the best freeware.  Save lots of time and identifies new options.

https://ninite.com/

Open Office and LibreOffice are two forks of the same source product. Both are free, both work pretty well, but historically the LibreOffice branch has had a bit more frequent updates and more community support.

By the way, related to another issue raised by OMG, neither of these products are cloud services - they both install to your system and can be used without Internet access.
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Re: Anyone using Windows 10?
« Reply #307 on: July 29, 2016, 06:36:26 PM »
Out of curiosity, pls confirm what "it" you installed - Windows 10 or "Open Office"?  I don't need to slow down my computer any more!  On another note of probably little interest to most of you reading this thread, but irritating to me, Windows 10 just "changed the rules" on my solitaire game with no notice, no opportunity to keep the former structure, & no apparent way (or at least no instructions) to recover the statistics I had amassed on the original form of the game I was playing ("Klondike").  Just another little clue concerning how much contempt the MS staff has for the non-techie end-user...

I've been moving the solitaire games forward from older operating systems since what W10 really wants you to do is buy stuff -- like their solitaire package -- which has all the features they're pulling from the gimme W10 versions.

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Re: Anyone using Windows 10?
« Reply #308 on: July 29, 2016, 07:04:34 PM »
I installed it on 2 of my computers and it slowed down both of them on the internet.  It seems that the ads get priority over all else.  My internet speed is less than 1 mbs.  That's all that is offered where I live.  I'm thinking of dumping my land line and just go to a 4g set up.

I am amazed it doesn`t work perfectly like all other MS products.

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Re: Anyone using Windows 10?
« Reply #309 on: July 29, 2016, 07:43:20 PM »
I've been moving the solitaire games forward from older operating systems since what W10 really wants you to do is buy stuff -- like their solitaire package -- which has all the features they're pulling from the gimme W10 versions.

My son has it together,  go to this and get all the free stuff that works better and doesn't go obsolete after you buy it.

https://ninite.com/

(you can load all the free stuff at once with a few clicks)
« Last Edit: July 30, 2016, 08:00:09 AM by LowRyter »
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Re: Anyone using Windows 10?
« Reply #310 on: July 29, 2016, 09:55:38 PM »
I know that GWX has been around for a while, but Never10 https://www.grc.com/never10.htm isn't as complicated plus the grc.com website has lots of goodies to use.

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Re: Anyone using Windows 10?
« Reply #311 on: July 30, 2016, 01:46:29 AM »
I know that GWX has been around for a while, but Never10 https://www.grc.com/never10.htm isn't as complicated plus the grc.com website has lots of goodies to use.

Steve Gibson is an long-ago correspondent of mine, back to when he first wrote SpinRite (I have a paid license for it from about 1985-87 I think!). He does good work. Either of these two tools are worth using if you don't want to upgrade to Win10.

It will be interesting to see what happens next week when the free upgrade is no longer being pushed. Will MS just do a nag screen with no download unless you agree, or...?
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Re: Anyone using Windows 10?
« Reply #312 on: July 30, 2016, 03:48:17 AM »
Spinrite was an essential tool back in the days of MFM and RLL.  How else could you get your sectors sectioned and your interleave left?

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Re: Anyone using Windows 10?
« Reply #313 on: July 30, 2016, 07:30:53 AM »
I used Spinrite a few months back.  Now that Steve is finishing up his SQRL project, he's going to work on the next version of Spinrite to deal with newer drives, better ACPI support, etc.  And if you want to listen to Steve talk security on a weekly basis, he does a podcast over at twit.tv. 

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