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In the small menu bar along the top of the large right hand panel, which contains “Subject” and other items, place your mouse pointer on a hardly visible vertical line and move the two headed pointer back and forth. On my TB this hides or shows “Subject” and others.  Hope this helps.

Corel, who acquired Paintshop from its creator, recently sold out to another company.  Under Corel Paintshop initially purchased from their Canadian-based company, payment made to a German company, software sent from Portugal (from memory) and support from the Philippines – who ALWAYS requested  you send a screen shot.  The amout of “stuff” dumped on your system was beyond normal. I liked  Paintshop when I bought it from Jasc – great experience; have used it for many years. I have recently removed it from one computer and am seriously considering removing it from this one. I’ve totally lost all confidence in the product and its owners, whoever they may be.

Just more mindless moronic MS junk.  Childish IMO.

Finally found it much further back than I remembered  https://www.askwoody.com/forums/topic/60002-guide-to-using-wumgr-for-windows-10-updates/

The penny finally dropped. It was Windows Update Manager with very useful set of instructions.  If this is correct point me in the right direction. Thanks heaps.

Now stumbling through my old grey matter it may have been a similar piece of software by David Xantos – at least that’s all I recall of the name. It may help. Cheers.

A wonderful gesture to a truly great bloke.

Found the very answer to my Firefox 98.0.1 annoyance – see the following link-

https://www.askvg.com/tip-restore-classic-download-confirmation-prompt-in-mozilla-firefox/

In one word “LESS”.  Now seriously, one look at the Aria tweet with it’s lolli pop cartoonish setup leads me to treat this as another piece of MS ‘it’ll never happen’ detritus – and from the Update Manager! It’s no wonder the monthly updating is such a boring painful experience, lacking simple information easily understandable by the average user. MS pipe dream.

OscarCP.  Botticelli update. After scouring the internet I was unable to find a half reasonable image; all seem to come from the same source, which was Google Pics – correct me if I’m wrong.  All had the same image defects I noted on your image. So I went to the Uffizi Gallery and got a better, but not great image. I have attached the Uffizi image and my edit of same. Be aware my eyes, colour sense and computer screen will differ from yours and others.  I hope this has been of assistance. Cheers.

Hello again OscarCP.  We seem to be making some headway. Bah humbug to internet image downloads. Let me see what I can dig up at my end on a Windows computer.  If reasonably successful in my hunt I’ll edit the image as best as I can with my personal preferences.  Fingers crossed. BTW your image looks like it was copied from a framed copy – I ‘think’ I see part of the frame along some of the extreme edges. Be in touch again later.  Cheerio.

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OscarCP: I did quite a few things – very closely scanned the total image and noted several things that looked less than nice, particularly around all four edges; the left side is not good IMO. Question, “Where did this image come from?” If a download from the internet this could be the cause. I note many such images have a watermark on them. I adjusted the JPEG and Moire Artifact Removal settings as well as setting the Texture Preserving Smooth adjustment. To my old eyes the image is still not up to my standard of a reasonably good image. Can you flip the image both horizontally and vertically to see if the problem persists? If not I can do so for you. I’d be keen to know if the problem changes position. If so, I’d hazard a guess it is in the image itself.  If not then more investigation.  I’d like you to use the attached image from my setup and use it to see if it is OK. I’ve had this for many a year and it is A ok. Let me know how this works out. I’d also suggest you locate another new Botticelli image and try that. Keep away from Google pics, Apple etc. some of the images available from such are less than stellar. As a last resort I can source a nother image via my set up, clean it up and send it off to you. Sorry for the long drawn out reply. Cheers, Chris.

Hello OscarCP I have downloaded your image and did a few things with a photo editor to adjust the image. See if any or all of these adjustments make a difference.

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And some actually don’t! Why another change? Change for the sake of change is a pain. I always liked the ‘old Ask Woody’ it was reliable and comforting. Now one never knows what will appear next log on. Follow the leader(MS) now every month all IT firms are bombarding users with update messages – but not MS Edge! You get it like it (or use it) or not. On a more positive note I do appreciae the new Def Con update- so much easier on old eyes. As for the other changes – yawn. Thank goodness the ‘comic art’ is gone.

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