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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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Apr 14, 2016 - 07:02pm PT
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Goto 'File Explorer".
Click on 'This PC', click on 'Documents'. Anything?
Or just click on 'This PC', towards the top of the page is a search bar for the entire 'This PC' or C: drive. Type the exact filename you need. See what file location that file is stored at.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Apr 14, 2016 - 08:27pm PT
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John Gill:
I just saw your VB 6 comment. It surprised me because MS was so proud of Visual Basic. Remember, Gates himself was a BASIC programmer.
Anyway, for what it's worth, this guy claims it's an EZ install.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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jogill
climber
Colorado
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Apr 14, 2016 - 09:07pm PT
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Thanks, but I use Liberty Basic now and have no plans to return to MS for programming. I got the impression that the new .NET programming process would require using MS over the internet. They want to control everything you do on a computer. Nasty company.
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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Apr 15, 2016 - 05:40am PT
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What MS apparently does not understand is that people get used to operating systems and their workflow on the computer is reflected in that.
When you completely change the OS, you require people to exhaust time/effort that they did not ask for! You are making the computer harder than it has to be. And for what? What brilliant thing does Win10 bring to the table that justifies completely cluster-fing a decent OS like Win7 or XP?
What does it offer that justifies such a change? I am typing this on Win10 laptop after I upgraded to utter disappointment. And Win8 was no real prize either, which is why I think they rushed Win10, to 'conceal' Win8.
I bought my laptop with Win8 on it and hated it! Again, a drastic change from using Win7. Why??????
This is why i chose to implement the free upgrade, to salvage Win8 into something better. Win10 sucks, but I ain't un-installing it yet. Downgrading from drastically different OS's is a data-dump waiting to happen.
Better to just wipe the system and start from scratch, but of course back up all the data you'll want to transfer.
Still hate Apple-people more than their products. Apple does their OS's well, I'll give them that!
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Apr 15, 2016 - 07:08am PT
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From my perspective, modern computing is an absolute necessity, and it's also absolute crap. Of course I use PC.
Not willing to argue back and forth about PC versus Apple, "my purchase is better than your purchase" and so forth, no thanks. Even if it is true. And that is not what John was asking for here.
Continually making manual backups to external hard drives and USB thumb drives is just too slavish and imprecise. But, yes, I do that too.
For that reason, I started also using Carbonite backup, which continually backs up all my files to their server. I also pay for the mirror image backup to my operating system which uses a separate hard drive for that function alone.
Anybody else rely on this type of backup service?
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I can't stand losing any of my work, ever. I like to write and I don't like losing any of what I write, even if that is just a single phrase, nevermind an entire document. And Dragon NaturallySpeaking, which I am totally dependent on for hands-free, voice control of my keyboard and mouse, routinely crashes Microsoft Word. Just lovely. Dragon blames Microsoft and Microsoft blames Dragon.
Anybody see the movie Brazil?
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ms55401
Trad climber
minneapolis, mn
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Apr 15, 2016 - 09:46am PT
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anyway to disable the incessant prompts to upgrade that appear on my desktop? running Windows 7
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Apr 15, 2016 - 10:01am PT
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The way I got my prompts to go away was to start the process of converting to Windows 10. IIRC my NVIDIA video card wasn't compatible, and luckily I couldn't go through with the conversion to 10. After that the prompts went away.
But I still have the portal on my taskbar and I'm told that cannot be removed. It also happens that the portal occasionally de-rails my Carbonite backup. At Carbonite, they said the portal has to stay and that I need to manually recheck some settings every now and then, or the cloud-based backup they offer won't run automatically.
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Tom
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo CA
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Apr 15, 2016 - 10:18am PT
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Microsoft has stated that their new business model is based on everyone upgrading to Windows 10. They want to embrace, and cash in on, the new "Cloud" paradigm. Software as a Service is a euphamism for every time you access your data, you pay a fee. Microsoft's Windows 10 blatantly declares itself to be an operating system as a service.
The new-fangled corporate profit darling, "Cloud Computing", is moving towards charging you by the machine cycle. Amazon is already bragging about how wonderful that is to their bottom line. Amazon's consumer product retail business has lost money for over a decade, but their cloud computing service makes the company profitable.
In the old days, people paid to time-share mainframe computers. Nobody could afford their own computer. Like houses connected to a Devil's Canyon nuclear power plant for electricity, people had to connect to a mainframe computer and pay a fee.
Then, PCs allowed people to do their own computing, at home, without any sort of pay-to-play cost structure. People owned their own computers and software. There were no on-going fees.
Corporations today are exhuming the mainframe paradigm, to monetize people's computer use. The "dumb terminal" of the mainframe era has morphed into the "smart phone". Instead of saving data locally on a personally owned machine, it is uploaded to the Cloud and charged an ongoing fee for monthly storage.
Collecting and storing everyone's data in the Cloud has an additional, insidious risk: all that data is just one Congressional Act away from being accessible without any regard for the Fourth Amendment.
And, that Cloud data is just one clever hacker away from being stolen.
The corporations cheerfully call their new, monetized computing paradigm the "Cloud", which is ironic, because that word invokes a vision of oppressive, dreary, sad and cold conditions that are the antithesis of human happiness.
HAL, open the Word document, for free.
I'm sorry, Dave, but I can't do that.
EDIT:
Senators propose new laws to access citizens' data - SF Chronicle
Microsoft sues US government to stop secret access to cloud data - BBC News
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Apr 15, 2016 - 12:47pm PT
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Apple required an update. It couldn't be done unless files were dumped from the device.
Great work fellas.
Apple sells just as much info as does Microswift.
Worst of all, Apple spreads MP3 files like the plague.
Apple’s iPhone event off to a shaky start as tech problems plague live viewers
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Apr 15, 2016 - 01:02pm PT
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Microswift is just as bad.
I only stopped using XP (much) recently. Still have a very reliable machine with lots of stuff on it running XP.
I won't go from 7 to 10 soon.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Apr 15, 2016 - 01:09pm PT
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I guess I missed out on my free Win 10 upgrade as I procrastinated too long.
I'm shattered, my life's in tatters! I expect Win 8.1 to serve me just
fine until I'm ready for Win 11 or 12. 8.1 works like a charm.
Did I mention how upgrading my iPhone OS caused it to literally have a
meltdown* which cooked the part that does wifi? I don't understand why I
am buying a new iPhone other than it's a case of the devil you know.
*Me and how many thousands or millions of others?
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Apr 15, 2016 - 02:59pm PT
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Let's just hope John TP has by now utilized some remote service like Geek Squad to get him whole again.
In this situation, I fear no news is bad news.
John?
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Apr 15, 2016 - 04:00pm PT
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Hocking, just call the FBI, they'll be right over.
"Uh, Mr Hocking, we see quite a number of highly suspicious emails from
individuals named Klimmer, RonDog, Vitaliy, Reilly, and Sheepbuggerer.
Would you care to comment on them?"
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Apr 15, 2016 - 05:11pm PT
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I just got the Prius re-cycling mulcher fingered out the other day.
It's a worthwhile option. What I haven't fingered out is how to get
over 12 mpg, but I've been assured it will improve, but who the hell
cares when there are so many Priuses to terrorize?
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Apr 15, 2016 - 05:33pm PT
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I'm still getting the free Windows 10 message all the time.
On another front.
SAN FRANCISCO - A cyber security team at the US Department of Homeland Security is advising people to remove QuickTime media software from Windows computers to avoid being hacked.
The US Computer Security Readiness Team (CERT) on Thursday issued an alert after Trend Micro put out word that Apple will no longer be updating defences in QuickTime and that two vulnerabilities in the programme could be exploited by hackers.
http://www.bangkokpost.com/tech/world-updates/934749/us-advises-deleting-quicktime-from-windows-computers
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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Sep 17, 2016 - 01:22pm PT
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I expect Win 8.1 to serve me just
fine until I'm ready for Win 11 or 12. 8.1 works like a charm.
My understanding is that Windows10 is the end of the line. That is to say instead of releasing new systems, 10 will just keep getting upgraded. At least that's what Leo LaPorte says...
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madbolter1
Big Wall climber
Denver, CO
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Sep 17, 2016 - 01:27pm PT
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Microsoft's Windows 10 blatantly declares itself to be an operating system as a service.
Just say "no."
Various Linux distros are better alternatives to Windows. My company is moving entirely that direction. Many of us dual-boot into Windows to play particular games, but even gaming is embracing Linux. I'm looking for the day in the next couple of years (thank you, Steam!) when I don't need even Windows 7 for anything. It's very, very close now.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Sep 17, 2016 - 01:50pm PT
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I bit the bullet and switched to 10 a couple months ago. I liked the 8 interface better but 10
seems fine. Whaddya gonna do?
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