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Just face it. You're getting old and can't or rather couldn't be arsed to keep up with the changes. Happens to us all...

Of course he can't! That's why everyone calls him 'Dennis the Dunce.'

win XP and win 7 changed during their life. probably as much as win 10.

I haven't found any stuff that won't run on win 10 that did on win 7 that is worth running. YMMV.

Linx distros tend to change frequently too and only the LTE ones don't do so about once a year or more frequently.

Of course I can but there isn't any other stuff like you described in win10 so I assume you did it wrong or are making it up.

That from someone that contributes zero to DIY. An actual waste of oxygen.

are you asking to go in my killfile?

I take exception to that

I wasn't logging on.

I was running the system update "program"

tim

These Linux people are as bad as the greenies.

Bill

I use Bullguard and it seems to work perfectly.

Bill

That's what they all claim, but I wish I had some proof of results.

(laughs)

In message <7awNE.118221$ snipped-for-privacy@usenetxs.com, "dennis@home" snipped-for-privacy@invalid.invalid writes

The big difference with W10 is that suddenly one can be faced with a major update that moves things around and makes biggish changes.

With XP and W7, major changes occurred in service packs. That way was much more manageable.

I did embrace W10 at first, and ran a test machine as an Insider for quite a while.

I've stopped checking because I have things set up as I want, but a couple of Firewire audio interfaces here, including an automated, flying faders, mixer/interface, certainly stopped working on a check with W10. As I've said, the main audio machines have remained on XP and Vista. I've not even bothered moving the latter machine to W7 because it works fine as it is, and I'm doing much less now even as a hobby.

I repeat that I want an Operating System, not a "Service", whatever that may be.

Dennis the Dunce strikes again.

Exactly. Which asks for a password.

So patently you were NOT doing what you claimed to be.

Perhaps it was a custom script for updating and the company were running a mishmash of computers on the network?

It was six years ago and you want me to remember some minutiae

If I did have to type in my password I missed that part out in the explanation as not being anything unique to the task I was performing

I was, so there

Idiot!

tim

Yup.

I was a Certified Novell Instructor and at the time saw the rapid erosion of the Netware being used commercially (mainly to NT / Windows Server) because Windows was 'much easier to install / manage'. ;-(

It was (as you say) probably also cheaper to maintain a Windows Server as there would likely to be more Windows people out there (even if it took more maintaining than Netware etc).

I knew of one place that kept a 'Linux geek' in the local Pub, only calling on him when required (by sending a taxi for him and dropping him back). ;-)

Cheers, T i m

Nah, TNP knows everything about all linux software distributions.

He also probably knows that linux is a very small part of a distro but like most linux fanatics never acknowledges all the hard work put in by the software developers that did the 99% of the software.

That goes for most things, not only linux.

Except that most Windows / OSX software is made by companies, often for sale and sometimes with a free (of cost) version (few people are interested in any other meaning of free).

Much Linux software is developed by people in sheds, mostly to be offered free of charge (and often the other free that mostly only Linux geeks are bothered about) and commercial buyers don't like that they rarely get any level of support.

Linux is often like buying a plain white packet of seeds that says on it 'Mixed Salad', perfectly fine if you are into that sort of thing and are looking for a hobby (rather than dinner). ;-)

Cheers, T i m