Yes windows 8.1 sucks. Just got it when it went from 8.0 to 8.1 Bought another HP at the same time. As usual with any new OS trying to get older functions or even in the same place sucks. Reason I got rid of XP and Office 2002 is that Microsoft is dropping all support as of April 1st (?). My double geek son in law did recommend and was nice enough to load all data and preferences onto a thumb drive.
I will admit that speed is about 10 times as fast as several unwanted items on old computer. If I could just get same start up page each time -------------------------
ModelcarEd, thanks so much for the comments. I thought I too was protected with my external hard drive...but seems that didn't happen.
I, too, have an external hard drive, to which my computer is supposedly backed up on a regular basis. I just have to remember what program I need to install on a "new" computer to recover said data.
When I sent a bunch of computers to recycle a year or so ago I pulled the hard drives. The largest of them is installed in my computer and that's where most of my image files are stored. I'm afraid to delete them from the primary drive, though, so I really didn't save much space...
Larry Resident Microferroequinologist (at least at my house) Everyone goes home; Safety begins with you My Opinion. Standard Disclaimers Apply. No Expiration Date Come ride the rails with me! There's one thing about humility - the moment you think you've got it, you've lost it...
evening
Ns has cars ready to go uptown . mamma is deciding what she wants to do tonight. Going to see what Csx is up to tomorrow morning. Time to see where we are going .
stay safe
joe
Deshler Ohio-crossroads of the B&O Matt eats your fries.YUM! Clinton st viaduct undefeated against too tall trucks!!!(voted to be called the "Clinton St. can opener").
....Ed, thanks so much for the comments. I thought I too was protected with my external hard drive...but seems that didn't happen.
As I get my feet on the ground so to speak with this new unit, I shall do the checking what happened in the way I was set up with it, or not set up...
Just one cable {USB} to connect to the computer from it, but I must dig deeper just what I must do for it to positively do what it's supposed to do.
So far, this Windows 8 OP system has me struggling. Again thanks Ed.
Quentin
I refused to go with Windows 8, and had some difficulty finding a laptop with Windows 7. After surviving the change from Vista I decided to upgrade the desktop to 7 also. Windos 8 sucks.
Norm
.Quentin,
I run Windows XP Office…since forever I think.
My old HP lost its media driver, so no monitor display or sound, replaced the old guy with a Toshiba laptop…and an external hard drive.
You may want to play with your settings, and find the way to make the computer save everything like music and photos to the external hard drive automatically…I know you can choose to have it do so automatically, besides saving to the hard drive in my laptop, all my music and photos are backed up at the same time I save them to the external hard drive in case the laptop bites the dust.
According to my daughter, the external hard drive can hold 1000 times the amount of data my laptop can, after three years and all of my previous photos and music from the old HP were transferred to it, the thing still shows less than 1% of capacity has been used.
I have no clue how my daughter did so, but it only took her a few seconds to set it up…someone with real skills here should be able to walk you through it
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Quentin - I usually resist upgrades to new operating systems as long as possible, as I invariably lose some functionality or another in the new version - and that would be some functionality that I use frequently. I'm still running Vista on my machines. Sometimes I wish I was back on Win95.
mudchicken Back to dealing with the balky motel room door lock. I prefer to come and go as I please, not when the door decides it wants to. (*) never saw batteries on sawzalls/hackzalls fail like they did today in the cold - back to slow hacksaws.
Back to dealing with the balky motel room door lock. I prefer to come and go as I please, not when the door decides it wants to.
(*) never saw batteries on sawzalls/hackzalls fail like they did today in the cold - back to slow hacksaws.
That's one way to get in a hotel room, I guess.
It's been fun. But it isn't much fun anymore. Signing off for now.
The opinions expressed here represent my own and not those of my employer, any other railroad, company, or person.t fun any
.....I'm stumbling thru this unit to try and learn how to use it. My previous HP unit...{Ed, remember 10 yrs. ago you said you had one just like it}, well it finally wouldn't let me log on to Windows this past Saturday evening.
Larry....If you see this, let me know your thoughts if I should take the offer on here to upgrade to Windows 8.1...This new one is running Wind. 8. Would like your opinion please. I know very little about either...
Trivia: I lost 700 photos when the other one gave up. They {Staples}, pulled the hard drive out of it but couldn't retrieve anything. I had an external Toshiba hard drive connected on the other unit too.
Maybe I didn't do something correct when I installed it several years ago. the only connection is with a USB cord....I didn't connect it to this one yet until I find out more info why, etc....
Mookie JoeKoh evening snow and cold,snow and cold next week? snow and colder!!! Matt missed a "D" in his spelling bee today. Tomorrow is Friday. Going to get cleaned up. stay safe joe D...rat!
JoeKoh evening snow and cold,snow and cold next week? snow and colder!!! Matt missed a "D" in his spelling bee today. Tomorrow is Friday. Going to get cleaned up. stay safe joe
snow and cold,snow and cold next week? snow and colder!!! Matt missed a "D" in his spelling bee today. Tomorrow is Friday. Going to get cleaned up.
10 degrees and 60mph winds this morning. Not good for survey equipment* or mudchickens. I was getting beat up enough climbing slippery steep rocky slopes to go set monuments. (Murphy: methinks Wyoming is more of a potential suspect than Nebrasky. Somewhere Willy2 is having a good snicker...)
Up at 8700 feet, we came across fresh big kitty tracks and some halfsize kitty tracks. After dinner last night, the deer were wandering the streets of Buena Vista like they own the place. The only railroad activity was the taking down of x-mas decorations and clearing snowaround the Colorado Midland brown caboose.The big city isn't having the hard winter that the high country is. Hope the kitties, fox and coyotes don't figure out the big city is over-run with wabbits. (calling Elmer Fudd!)
Just enough snow here to foul the evening rush hour. Glad I don't have to do that any more.
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
It's January 16th! Always thought that was an interesting name for a play...
Always thought that was an interesting name for a play...
Alberta blew back into town last night. She clipped in about 5:00 a.m. from Canada. Frozen apples being shot into your roof by a 50 m.p.h. wind sound like a body hitting the kitchenette floor in an Agatha Christie novel. My first thoughts upon being suddenly woken up were "What are the kids up to now?" and "We need to put the cat on a diet."
Thanks to Chris / CopCarSS for my avatar.
What a bunch of sweeties. Lucky Ed!
Took care of my annual hazmat ops refresher tonight. Think I taught the instructor a thing or two...
Ah, yes. The family with eyes you can get lost in.
Summer, the other partner in powdered sugar crime.
And their older mentors, my two youngest daughters Beth and Morgan.
BC - I think - you are one season short. I think this is Autumn, but I am sure Houston Ed will straighten this all out. Maybe he will post the girls together.
Must be Summer!I mean Sugar-face...any mention of the season would be only wishful thinking! She's a cutie!I'd love to retali...I mean reciprocate, but I still haven't mastered the posting of pictures on this Forum, after all these years. Granddaughter No. 1 has a solo in her school's talent show; I guess we'll be making the trip on Friday night to see her.Joe, how did Matt do on his geography bee? I hope the hobby has been as helpful to him as it has been to me.It's cold and windy out there...not like the stuff of last week, but I was told not to worry about my Historical Society chore today, and didn't mind staying indoors for that.Tomorrow may be a different story. If it's not too snowy I just might head out on my own, with no place to visit but the platform and the hobby shop (and perhaps a nice venue for lunch).
Carl
Railroader Emeritus (practiced railroading for 46 years--and in 2010 I finally got it right!)
CAACSCOCOM--I don't want to behave improperly, so I just won't behave at all. (SM)
Joe - you don't want to be caught up too much at work - next Xmas is a long way off!
Go Matt! I will x my finners!
afternoon
bosses said we are caught up at work. Saw a stack train go over to track 2 this morning. Sometime today an Ns crew came and got the MOW gons. They had to dig some snowpiles to get them out. Tomorrow is the spelling be for Matt.
Workin' in the shadow of the Colorado Midland on Trout Creek Pass (Elev 8800 feet) the next few days. Take a wrong step and you're waist deep in snow. How the heck did those old railroaders boil water and for that matter breathe up here? (We could be a lot more productive come spring, but the client wants stuff in the ground now for some reason.)
edblysard Powdered sugar donut junkies first "hit" of the day...
Powdered sugar donut junkies first "hit" of the day...
Tree - isn't she just a heartbreaker? She and her sister are pretty special!
Murphy Siding Mookie Ok Windy! Shut off the blast! I know it is you, cuz it is a north wind! Maybe they are having a squirrel funeral? Show some respect, please! (smirk) Actually, I rather like your singles mixer. Now yer askin' for it lady! Do you know why South Dakota is so windy? Huh- smarty pants? Well, I'll just tell you. (From what I've been told) It's because North Dakota blows, and Nebraska sucks.(Sorry man. The made me do it.)
Mookie Ok Windy! Shut off the blast! I know it is you, cuz it is a north wind! Maybe they are having a squirrel funeral? Show some respect, please! (smirk) Actually, I rather like your singles mixer.
Ok Windy! Shut off the blast! I know it is you, cuz it is a north wind!
Maybe they are having a squirrel funeral? Show some respect, please! (smirk) Actually, I rather like your singles mixer.
Visiting with my grandson is always an adventure.
Perhaps it was a cornfield and they found a few stray cobs?
The weather is bland here right now. Above freezing, rain has stopped. Doesn't feel like January, though. We're supposed to see some snow on the weekend, which will make the snowmobilers happy.
Apparently there was (and may still be) a special weather research project going on in our snow belt. Students from SUNY Oswego, as well as some weather scientists, have been watching for lake effect. The last couple of weeks they got plenty. According to one news story, they may even have the famous "doppler on wheels" of tornado chasing fame here for the study.
Back to house cleaning.
Planning ahead - if anyone is attending the big model railroad show in Springfield, MA (actually West Springfield) in a couple of weeks, look us up!
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