[Coco] OT: Upgrade to WIndows 10?

[Arthur Flexser]

And where are all my bookmarks????

Art

On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 9:43 PM, Arthur Flexser <flexser at fiu.edu> wrote:

> OMG, I just did the installation, and everything is f**ked up!!!
>
> Steve, how did you get IE to work?
>
> Why have exe files turned into folders?
>
> Why does my Opera browser want me to upgrade to a version I don't want?
>
> Where have half my desktop icons gone?
>
> Arghhhh!
>
> Art
>
> On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 9:06 PM, Steve Ostrom <smostrom7 at comcast.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Both Chrome and IE work just fine on my Win10 installation, but I did the
>> conversion only about a week ago, so maybe the problems were totally fixed.
>> Not so sure about the use of Cortana yet.  Google is my home page, so
>> Cortana seems a bit unneeded.  I don't have a mic, so I guess I don't see
>> any advantages of Cortana over Google searches.
>>
>> --- Steve ---
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message----- From: Chester Patterson
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2015 7:12 PM
>> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
>> Subject: Re: [Coco] OT: Upgrade to WIndows 10?
>>
>> Win10
>> Difficult if not impossible to find things.  Control Panel is buried, once
>> you find it, put it on your desktop or in your START menu permanent.
>> Windows Explorer takes forever to do things.  Also, even though I have
>> administrator privileges, W10 doesn't let me move or delete a lot of files
>> and folders that I used to all the time. "Pictures" folder is an example.
>> Outlook is behaving oddly, often drags, and I've been having to repair the
>> .ost and .pst files a few times.  Make sure you turn off all the MS spying
>> switches.  I suppose they put them there in order to see how folks use the
>> things, what bugs to fix first, whatever.  I do not like a big fat spy
>> window on my rig.  Apparently several big fat spy windows.  Google it and
>> turn the switches off.   Chrome did not like W10 at all.  Apparently
>> that's
>> been kinda sorta fixed. Kinda Sorta.  Unable to install a Blue Tooth mouse
>> after several tries, even changed the USB BT dongle 3 times (my tablet
>> nabbed it in seconds).
>>
>> Unfortunately I figured out I did not want the W10 "upgrade" too late
>> (over
>> a month) after the install.  So I am stuck with it.  I sure hope they
>> start
>> fixing stuff soon.
>>
>> Chester
>> Costa Rica
>>
>> ===========================================
>> On Sat, 21 Nov 2015 03:23:45 -0500
>> Arthur Flexser <flexser at fiu.edu> wrote:
>>
>> So, any impressions from people here who are Windows 10 users?
>>>
>>> Art
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Coco mailing list
>> Coco at maltedmedia.com
>> https://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco
>>
>> --
>> Coco mailing list
>> Coco at maltedmedia.com
>> https://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco
>>
>
>