The Last Days of Windows 7

[Maguscreed]

I actually started on dos, I don't remember which version exactly now, I want to say 3...
I have specific memory of 4 through 6 though.

 

[indianacarnie]

Way too happy with 7 to switch to 8,don't care for what little I've seen of it anyway.

NO cloud for me either! No No No

 

[Maguscreed]

The only place I don't really mind the cloud is when it comes to the speech recognition for searches on my phone.
That's about the limit of it though.

 

[legacy7955]

Count me in on Windows 3.1 with an old Packard Bell PC....I was soooo excited to sign on to Compuserve via dial up and surf the BBS systems at the time. Very simplistic but I was hooked on computers after that.

Had BASIC programming classes back in the early mid 80s in HS. DOS in college.


I think Win OS are very good, but I still have a real fondness for Linux.

 

[Vince53]

Had BASIC programming classes back in the early mid 80s in HS. DOS in college.

Were you one of my high school students?

I actually wrote a Basic Programming computer course to teach. I had a Basics manual, the manual for the Texas Instrument 99 computer, and a Computer Science high school textbook, and I wrote the class syllabus myself.

We used donated television sets for the monitors, and Man! Everybody loved that class!

 

[Maguscreed]

One thing I do remember was back when AOL gave you like 20 hours a month and charged additional for anything over.
I once went to bed and left the computer on. My dad damn near killed me when the bill came.

 

[gregrocker]

I helped wean quite a few users off of AOL when it no longer provided their internet and they finally realized the browser is an overstuffed turkey from which AIM and Favorites could be easily exported.

They would call AOL to terminate service and suddenly find themselves in an auction where AOL would bid itself down to $5 a month to try to keep them. Some had been paying $25 monthly for a dozen or more years, for nothing.

 

[Ivan the SoSo]

Getting rid of malware is easier than cleaning a bad case of AOL....

 

[ICIT2LOL]

I agree with some of the previous comments I find some of the really tech stuff so hard to understand.


Me I just want to boot up and be able do some of the simpler fixes. I like the tuts in here and that they don't go into great depths of the machinations of codes and file systems.

I am Windows all the way and those toys that are now all the go I couldn't see them without a magnifying glass and I don't want to have to walk around with both in my pocket. Plus in any case (no pun) I like to get my grubbies into a machine and replace or adjust components - tablet no chance and drop it and hey the original cost later the front glass is right again!

Having said that I did at the suggestion of a member boot a machine into Ubuntu and while it was a bit like the place in my sig at least I was able to salvage docs and photos for someone which would have been lost. So in that sense a handy tool but tool only thank you.

 

[gregrocker]

Getting rid of malware is easier than cleaning a bad case of AOL....

With a MucAfee Registry cleaner? :shock:

No kidding, we actually had one today.

 

[lehnerus2000]

...
I will never understand exactly why linux fans are so die hard about this. Of all the fanboyism I've seen on the internet
Theirs has to be the most extreme. ...and that really is saying something.

I don't have anything against linux outside of a bit of annoyance it once caused me it seems to do it's job fairly well.
This constant insistence that it is just as easy to use as windows or even the super simplified mac os I can not support though.
It's a statement made by someone who doesn't realize how much time and effort they have put into learning the system.

Agreed.
The classic is when they say, "you never have to use the Terminal".

I need to go into the Terminal every 2nd or 3rd time I run Ubuntu.
The GUI tools just aren't good enough.
Try changing the computer name without using the Terminal.

If you point this out, they'll say, "learn to use the Terminal".

"Linux has no design flaws, unlike Windows."
I discovered what I consider to be a design flaw, during my Linux Networking final test (and if it was Windows, the Linux fans would insist that it is a design flaw).

It is easier to accidentally export your secret SSH key, than it is to deliberately export your public SSH key!

This insistence that you only need to learn this or that to use it.
THAT'S THE PROBLEM.
People just want to turn it on and go about their business. I know we lose sight of that especially those of us that are basically chained to a computer everyday, but we've picked up things over the years that it would be ridiculous to expect the average person to know, or to even spend that much time on. I mean god forbid they decide they have a life they need to live instead of spending weeks trying to figure out how to install a single piece of software.
...
Dumb is insisting someone is an idiot because they don't want to spend a year trying to figure out how to do something they could otherwise do in minutes if not seconds.

Agreed.

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Getting rid of malware is easier than cleaning a bad case of AOL....

Yeah mate and Snorton and that ANNOYING AVG search window!!

 

[Ivan the SoSo]

Getting rid of malware is easier than cleaning a bad case of AOL....

With a MucAfee Registry cleaner? :shock:

No kidding, we actually had one today.

Link please:shock:

 

[gregrocker]

http://www.sevenforums.com/performa...-necessary-clean-windows-7-a.html#post1684691

Seems like there are a dozen threads like this a week sometimes with Reg Cleaners or MucAfee corruption, like getting caught in riptide.

 

[Ivan the SoSo]

http://www.sevenforums.com/performa...-necessary-clean-windows-7-a.html#post1684691

Seems like there are a dozen threads like this a week sometimes with Reg Cleaners or MucAfee corruption, like getting caught in riptide.

So what do you use for all the headaches all this headbanging must cause....I especially like the part where he went ahead and done it anyway...But it all makes sense if you really look at his user name :roflmao:

 

[bigmck]

I had actually debated actually typing out millennium edition but then I realized no one would know what I was talking about either way as there seems to be a lot of selective amnesia surrounding it.

I beg your pardon........................

 

[Barman58]

I thought "ME" stood for "Mirage Edition", It didn't really exist did it?

 

[Dave76]

:roflmao:

Definitely a figment of someones imagination.

 

[Corazon]

Personally, I think ME stands for Microsoft's Error.





*grins*

 

[panais]

http://www.sevenforums.com/performa...-necessary-clean-windows-7-a.html#post1684691

Seems like there are a dozen threads like this a week sometimes with Reg Cleaners or MucAfee corruption, like getting caught in riptide.

So what do you use for all the headaches all this headbanging must cause....I especially like the part where he went ahead and done it anyway...But it all makes sense if you really look at his user name :roflmao:

:roflmao: