PUBLIC DEFENDER By Brian Livingston New shoot-’em-up and twitch videogames get all the attention, but lots of people still like good ol’ strategy game
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Microsoft Casual: It ain’t all fun ’n’ games
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AuthorTopicB. Livingston
AskWoody MVPMay 3, 2021 at 1:04 am #2362277Viewing 2 reply threadsAuthorReplies-
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AskWoody PlusMay 3, 2021 at 5:53 am #2362312I have played World of Solitaire for years:
He has hundreds of games and variations. This is a labor of love all beautifully done. I highly recommend it. And best of all the games are absolutely free.
He also lets you “Hide Ads”. (I believe you need to register to hide ads, but I have been registered on this site for years.) This also registers your high scores and all game playing data. I have played over 8,000 games over the years!
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AskWoody MVPMay 5, 2021 at 11:08 am #2362894You can still get all the original Win7 games for Win 10 from Winaero.com.
When you unzip the file and run the .exe, the games are installed in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\.
Always create a fresh drive image before making system changes/Windows updates; you may need to start over!We all have our own reasons for doing the things that we do with our systems; we don't need anyone's approval, and we don't all have to do the same things.We were all once "Average Users".
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GuestJune 9, 2021 at 8:43 am #2370170This was a great piece, Brian, (though I’m late). Particularly I want to highlight the section about changing the default browswer – no it won’t let you – but you asked me to install the extension – blocked, etc.
I ran into this a couple months ago, and figured it was me, which is what Microsoft makes you believe very often. So thanks for confirming.
Moreover, game on…
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