Computer Problems

[jimmyjoe]

3 hours ago, Jigfishn10 said:

My apologies for making what turned out to be a bad joke.

 

I hope you get your computer issues resolved.

 

   No prob.

   You know why they call it the "postal service", don't you?  When my buddy George Washington was a kid, people would write a letter , fold it after the manner of our present-day envelopes, seal it with wax ("sealing" wax) and then attach it to a designated post .... a post, usually with a wooden box on top, situated so that a rider could see it easily and retrieve the letter in muddy weather.

   Really bad weather could ruin the letter, so city people arranged for the central office of the postal service to stack boxes for them under cover of a roof. That was the start of "Post Office Box" numbers.

 

   In those days, "You got mail" was really a cause for celebration!

 

         jj

[Choporoz]

@Sam, I think I have a box of 3/2" disks with Windows 3.1, if you want them

[MN Fisher]

1 minute ago, Choporoz said:

@Sam, I think I have a box of 3/2" disks with Windows 3.1, if you want them

Let's upgrade that - I got a Win-95 install CD here.

[Boomstick]

5 hours ago, CountryboyinDC said:

For work, we still have some applications (Java based mostly, you'll love that as a developer) that won't run on any other browser.  As for the Linux issues, I can imagine that issues would lie dormant (sometimes Windows and macOS aren't exactly speedy about addressing issues), it's just that hackers less frequently target Linux, from what I understand.  

I won't speak for the others, but my connection with them was on the general concern of having lost control of things we used to be able to own.  There will always have to be 'mechanics' for whatever man creates, and you seem to fall into that category (to make sure I don't offend you, I'm not confusing you with desktop support; there's an ENT surgery resident on here that I would by this logic categorize as a mechanic of things innervated by cranial nerve VIII).  Us lay people are then left feeling as though we have lost control, without really gaining much of the 'enhanced experience' we were promised from the previous iteration.  

I would have hoped those things would have finally got phased out or brought up to date by now. Maybe 5 or 6 years ago, I had a VPN at work that required IE. Glad that got updated.

 

As far as the speed of addressing issues, there was several major security issues with Apache and Java to name just a few that were well known and submitted an sat for several years. That never happens with Microsoft and Apple.

 

I'm torn on the auto updates. Many people would be stuck on insecure 7 and not knowing how to update if not for them. They could have been more transparent about it. Maybe for a windows 7 update to add an update to Windows 10 line to the start menu or something and only update once someone hits the button.

 

If anyone really does want a windows 7 that will not auto update, find a copy of windows 2008 server r2 web edition. It does require some configuration to remove the security measures, but it's just like windows 7 but a whole lot faster.

 

 

On 1/14/2021 at 2:24 PM, Jigfishn10 said:

Windows 10 allows you to Reset the computer without losing personal data. If you're nervous about it you can save to the One Drive Cloud prior to resetting. 

I've done it on a couple of computers on my home computers without a hitch.

I buy my office 365 sub every year if nothing else for the 1gb cloud storage. This way I can keep my music on it and play it from work, and some other things in the same boat.

 

If someone hacks it, all they're going to get is pictures of my guitar and fishing gear, some vacation pics, music and shopping lists for guitar related stuff, fishing stuff and camping stuff. Hasn't happened in years. I keep my tax info locally just in case.

[MN Fisher]

13 minutes ago, Boomstick said:

If anyone really does want a windows 7 that will not auto update, find a copy of windows 2008 server r2 web edition. It does require some configuration to remove the security measures, but it's just like windows 7 but a whole lot faster.

I always went through the update list and clicked off/hid those I didn't want. I forget which ones, but there's a few that permanently turn off the Win-10 update 'bug'. I haven't been nagged by that one in years.

 

Win-7 Pro-64 on the desktop

Win-7 Pro-32 on the netbook

Happy to stay right there...thank you.

[schplurg]

I actually need to upgrade from 7 to 10 at home - a few programs require it.

 

I use Win 10 at work and it is set up to look and act like Win 7. It doesn't auto-update, I never use Home versions of any OS. Never seen a BSOD with Win 10.

 

I've had no problems with Win 10 at work. I've hung on to Win 7 as long as I can. 

 

 

[Sam]

21 hours ago, Choporoz said:

@Sam, I think I have a box of 3/2" disks with Windows 3.1, if you want them

Thanks, but no thanks.

Will just keep on trucking along.

Sam

[jimmyjoe]

On 1/15/2021 at 10:37 PM, Boomstick said:

 

I have ran Windows 10 on multiple devices since launch and have not gotten a single BSOD. If you are getting BSODs, I would check your drivers or hardware for overheating or bad RAM or the like.

 

   Thank you! At the urging of my son, and with misguided fingers, I updated all my drivers. Windows Update had already updated them to the latest version ..... all, I guess, except one. When I clicked "update driver" on that one, it took several seconds to update.

   I've had no problems since.

   And no, don't ask me which one it was or where it was. I'm old and crotchety and I didn't really understand what I was doing. But it worked.

 

   So again ....... Thank you!   ?      jj

[Boomstick]

29 minutes ago, jimmyjoe said:

 

   Thank you! At the urging of my son, and with misguided fingers, I updated all my drivers. Windows Update had already updated them to the latest version ..... all, I guess, except one. When I clicked "update driver" on that one, it took several seconds to update.

   I've had no problems since.

   And no, don't ask me which one it was or where it was. I'm old and crotchety and I didn't really understand what I was doing. But it worked.

 

   So again ....... Thank you!   ?      jj

 

Drivers by far are the #1 problem with BSODs, in Windows or Linux something like 90% of the time, and even higher when a recent upgrade is involved.