You are undoubtedly correct. The PC acts up in other ways too, like "blue screening" in .PDF files (occasionally). What's stopping me from getting a new PC is that I own a copy of Office 2007, which I understand is incompatible with Windows 10. I don't want to give Microsoft the satisfaction of paying for the latest version of Office. I did a little experimenting with an Office look-alike clone but found that it does not replicate Office 100%.
You are undoubtedly correct. The PC acts up in other ways too, like "blue screening" in .PDF files (occasionally). What's stopping me from getting a new PC is that I own a copy of Office 2007, which I understand is incompatible with Windows 10. I don't want to give Microsoft the satisfaction of paying for the latest version of Office. I did a little experimenting with an Office look-alike clone but found that it does not replicate Office 100%.
Try downloading Apache OpenOffice. It’s free and has the functionality of MS Office
Been using LibreOffice at home since I got a Windows 7 machine back around 2014. Main difference I notice is that some keyboard shortcuts vary (the work machine has MS Office, so I flip between them).
Ah, keyboard shortcuts. You mean those key combinations that you accidentally hit that send your document off into limbo. There's a special corner of hell reserved for the person who came up with the idea of keyboard shortcuts.
I'm probably the only person in the world still using Windows 7. The computer is 6 or 7 years old. I'm probably due for a new one.
Probably older than that. Windows 8 came out in 2012 and Windows 10 in 2015. Retail computers are generally sold with the newest OS.
You could still buy a PC with Windows 7 in stores for quite a while after 8 came out (perhaps because 8 was such garbage), although I suspect that Miss Amanda's PC is probably closer to a decade old.
You're probably right. I don't remember when I bought it. But browsing for a new PC, I see that Windows 11 is now the norm. My experience is that ever since Windows XP, each new version of Windows has been more difficult to learn and more complicated to use. I think I'll stick with my old Windows 7 klunker until either it or I end up in the grave.
There are features I wish we had in the SoF software. I would like to be able to search for a phrase. I would like to be able to download the entirety of a thread from Oblivion (in particular, threads I started).
You're probably right. I don't remember when I bought it. But browsing for a new PC, I see that Windows 11 is now the norm. My experience is that ever since Windows XP, each new version of Windows has been more difficult to learn and more complicated to use. I think I'll stick with my old Windows 7 klunker until either it or I end up in the grave.
There's very little difference from a user perspective between 7 and 11.
I would say if you're connecting a W7 machine to the internet please don't do any internet banking or have any personal data on it.
You're probably right. I don't remember when I bought it. But browsing for a new PC, I see that Windows 11 is now the norm. My experience is that ever since Windows XP, each new version of Windows has been more difficult to learn and more complicated to use. I think I'll stick with my old Windows 7 klunker until either it or I end up in the grave.
There's very little difference from a user perspective between 7 and 11.
7 was the last version of windows to have a sensible, clean "start" menu.
I've noticed for some time now that . . . my connection seems to freeze up after awhile. I'm unable to browse to other sites and have to reset my PC to regain connectivity.
You may be interested in knowing that I appear to have solved this problem. I disabled IPv6 on my wireless network connection and hard-coded the IP address of a DNS server rather than let it find a DNS server automatically.
Just now -3 February 18.30 UK - the Ship is either not loading, or loading one page but not another. If I close the non-responding page and re-open, that works sort of.
I've been having the same issue since about 16.00 UK time today (3 Feb). Other sites all working fine, but Ship loading a page, then needing multiple attempts interspersed with timeout messages due to taking too long to load the next one. Using Chrome on my phone, in case that's relevant.
I tried to post last night that I was still experiencing issues. It let me in enough to compose the post, but would neither save nor post it. It’s still sticky and erratic this morning.
I wasn’t able to access the Ship website from yesterday until this morning. Using IOS or Android-ish (Kindle Fire). I have got an old DeskTop using Windows 10 but didn’t try that. It’s too slow to catch cold!
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Try downloading Apache OpenOffice. It’s free and has the functionality of MS Office
You could still buy a PC with Windows 7 in stores for quite a while after 8 came out (perhaps because 8 was such garbage), although I suspect that Miss Amanda's PC is probably closer to a decade old.
There's very little difference from a user perspective between 7 and 11.
I would say if you're connecting a W7 machine to the internet please don't do any internet banking or have any personal data on it.
7 was the last version of windows to have a sensible, clean "start" menu.
You may be interested in knowing that I appear to have solved this problem. I disabled IPv6 on my wireless network connection and hard-coded the IP address of a DNS server rather than let it find a DNS server automatically.
Now announcing error when I try to post.
Not a big deal, but occasionally [rarely] when I post something a draft remains. It is easy to delete, but just thought I'd raise it as an fyi.