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Windows 10?

Discussion in 'Off-Topic' started by Joe, Jun 13, 2016.

  1. 44inarow

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    Honestly, I can't recall ever seeing that. It's possible that it's because I turned off that prompt a long time ago -- I'm fine photos opening in the Windows viewer, but I want my PDFs to open in Acrobat, music files to open in MediaMonkey, etc. Anyway, I can't think of any downside to having files open in non-Microsoft programs (unless you're talking things like .msi installers, but I doubt you're trying to open those in some other way).

    The app/program thing drives me kind of crazy, but I suppose that's just how people think of things now. You don't have "programs" for your phone or tablet, you have "apps", so I guess computers should be the same? If you need me, I'll be off running things from the command prompt...
     
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    Fair enough! I was more thinking of the distinction between "apps" as the word is used today (which almost exclusively refers to phone/tablet functions) as opposed to "applications" (which I associate with desktop/laptop computers). I just find it interesting that Microsoft is now asking people to install "apps" on their computers.
     
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    Uninstalled 10 today. Got fed up with the hang-ups, programs not opening, the entire system just not responding. Reverted back to 7 and my only problem so far is when I go to the start menu for Excel or Word, it no longer shows me the items pinned to it it. That's a PIA. It always did before.
     
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    3.6 G processor with 8 M of Ram, so I don't think that was it. No problems with Win7.
     
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    OK, figured that out. I had to go in and delete several files and then rebuild the pinned list.
     
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    Win7 is their best OS since XP.
    They can throw annoying pop-ups at me forever and I will never upgrade.
    NOTE: One must be very careful when DLing MS updates to Win7. Never allow "automatic updates" and also - be very selective about the ones you allow.
    I now google all of them before allowing them, just to be sure they're actual updates and not just another sneaky way for MS to make 10 seem inevitable.
     
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    Skipped Windows 7 and 8. Went from Vista to 8.1 and now 10. Couldn't be happier with the upgrade from 8.1, that was an interface from the depths of hell
     

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