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Re: Another W10 thread...

#21 Post by PHXPhlyer » Tue Jan 14, 2020 2:08 am

I didn't realize it was happening this soon!

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/13/tech/mic ... index.html

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#22 Post by Pontius Navigator » Tue Jan 14, 2020 3:47 pm

Boac wrote:
Sat Jan 04, 2020 11:35 am
Does this not work?
https://www.howtogeek.com/221709/how-to ... soft-edge/

If not, I suggest you change browser.
Now here's a funny thing. I thought I had already done this but now it work except:

I entered something directly into the address bar and pressed Enter. The screen immediately refreshed with a search bar Bing. Almost immediately it switched to Google.

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#23 Post by Boac » Tue Jan 14, 2020 4:11 pm

I assume you are using 'EDGE'? It is only M$ fighting for its cornet.

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#24 Post by Boac » Tue Jan 14, 2020 4:21 pm

I didn't realize it was happening this soon!
- after Tuesday 14/1, anyone using W7 on-line is running an increasing risk.

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#25 Post by Pontius Navigator » Tue Jan 14, 2020 5:13 pm

Boac wrote:
Tue Jan 14, 2020 4:11 pm
I assume you are using 'EDGE'? It is only M$ fighting for its cornet.
Quite - every f***ing update. Bastards.

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#26 Post by ribrash » Tue Jan 14, 2020 5:57 pm

Boac wrote:
Tue Jan 14, 2020 4:21 pm
I didn't realize it was happening this soon!
- after Tuesday 14/1, anyone using W7 on-line is running an increasing risk.
Been using XP since 2014 when they stopped supporting it.Should I be worried ? :-?

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#27 Post by Pontius Navigator » Tue Jan 14, 2020 6:39 pm

ribrash wrote:
Tue Jan 14, 2020 5:57 pm
Boac wrote:
Tue Jan 14, 2020 4:21 pm
I didn't realize it was happening this soon!
- after Tuesday 14/1, anyone using W7 on-line is running an increasing risk.
Been using XP since 2014 when they stopped supporting it.Should I be worried ? :-?
Make plans.

You could find the reverse problem with software you use not working with XP as it gets updated or upgraded.

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#28 Post by Boac » Tue Jan 14, 2020 7:03 pm

ribrash wrote:Should I be worried ?
The answer is it depends on what you are doing with it and how secure you need any on-line activity to be - and we do not know. So - don't know, but good luck.

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#29 Post by ribrash » Tue Jan 14, 2020 8:09 pm

Boac wrote:
Tue Jan 14, 2020 7:03 pm
ribrash wrote:Should I be worried ?
The answer is it depends on what you are doing with it and how secure you need any on-line activity to be - and we do not know. So - don't know, but good luck.
Just use it for internet,emails but don't do internet banking.Use AVG,Malwarebites and versions of Adblock plus.I would class myself as very low risk.Never had any trouble.

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Re: Another W10 thread...

#30 Post by jimtherev » Tue Jan 14, 2020 11:32 pm

Well, I still have a Windows 95 disk somewhere. Want it?

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#31 Post by llondel » Wed Jan 15, 2020 3:26 am

I think I do too. I've also got an ME install disk, but I guess that's one of the things we don't talk about in polite company.

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#32 Post by Boac » Wed Jan 15, 2020 8:09 am

I have offered before - a set of 3.1 floppies. Just what some of you need :))

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#33 Post by Pontius Navigator » Wed Jan 15, 2020 8:50 am

I had a Program called Powermenu. It listed 10 items, one click and that program opened. If you reserved a couple of lines they could open sub menues. One of two mouse clicks after the BAT file loaded it and you could open any program. Who had more than a dozen or so with a 40 mb hdd?

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#34 Post by izod tester » Wed Jan 15, 2020 11:24 am

I can provide DOS 6.2, Word Perfect and Lotus 123 on floppies if anyone wants. I could also provide same as a Virtual box VDI if you want.

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#35 Post by jimtherev » Fri Jan 17, 2020 11:27 pm

Well, I now have no machines in the house with W7 on - apart from Mrs Jim's old lappy which is going to Ebay as soon as I'm convinced that the hard drive is wiped.
My desktop install of W10 this afternoon went relatively smoothly, except that the wireless connection to the router didn't work. Fortunately, being a squirrel, I had an old a/b/n one in the junk pile; that will work until I get something better.
Oh, and AdBlock plus needs updating. Had forgotten how bad the advertising had got on TOP. I'll go off and do that in a minute. Byeeee.

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#36 Post by ian16th » Sat Jan 18, 2020 2:09 pm

jimtherev wrote:
Fri Jan 17, 2020 11:27 pm
Well, I now have no machines in the house with W7 on - apart from Mrs Jim's old lappy which is going to Ebay as soon as I'm convinced that the hard drive is wiped.
Very difficult to do these days, without some specialist s/w.

Only really safe way, remove the hard drive and hit it many times with a large hammer.

Unfortunately this rather degrades the resale price of the PC.
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#37 Post by Pontius Navigator » Sat Jan 18, 2020 2:34 pm

jimtherev wrote:
Fri Jan 17, 2020 11:27 pm
Well, I now have no machines in the house with W7 on - apart from Mrs Jim's old lappy which is going to Ebay as soon as I'm convinced that the hard drive is wiped.
My desktop install of W10 this afternoon went relatively smoothly, except that the wireless connection to the router didn't work. Fortunately, being a squirrel, I had an old a/b/n one in the junk pile; that will work until I get something better.
Oh, and AdBlock plus needs updating. Had forgotten how bad the advertising had got on TOP. I'll go off and do that in a minute. Byeeee.
I use a Program called Eraser (I think) it is Israeli which seems good provenance. Wiped my work computer down to C:/ then wiped the OS. My boss complained there was nothing on my computer 🙈🙉🙊

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#38 Post by jimtherev » Mon Jan 20, 2020 11:02 pm

Comments about drive wiping are noted. Fortunately, neither of us uses our machines for financial transactions; it's just the Data Protection gods I'm pacifying by erasing the data.
Not got the software to hand; it's on a Western Digital CD somewhere, but it claims to write 0s and 1s all over the blank bits up to 7 times: that's going to be good enough for me.
And if anyone wants to go fishing on the drive after that, then they'll be pretty disappointed.
Oh, and got me wireless chip working again.

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#39 Post by jimtherev » Tue Jan 21, 2020 11:17 pm

Cometerthinkofit, my worries about how efficient over-writing hard drives is are of course uncalled for. (How many uncalled-for and misplaced conjunctions there: what an ugly sentence!) I was reminded as I started the drive-wipe programme that a ddr hard drive has no residual magnetism on the disk for someone to find.. there is no disk.
Silly me.

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