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Good article. Thanks. The critical issue for non-cartridge printers is ink clogging. I had an expensive Epson Pro 4000 printer, 16-inch paper rolls. It came on a palate. The print head clogged twice with a replacement cost of over $1000 each plus transport to service. After the second failure I took it to our dump and pushed it into the bin. I cannot forget that day.

I gave up on professional printing; the head will clog unless you print at least one print every day.
Needless to say, I am wary about using ink in bottles. My Epson Pro-4000 used pigment ink.

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The “365” package of utility “apps” is outstanding. Excel is utterly incredible as is Word. I depend on Outlook for email and contacts where it works exceptionally well. My wife uses Power Point extensively (as does my 14-year old Granddaughter!) I don’t use the other apps.

Anyone who uses spreadsheets or writes extensively will probably be using Excel or Word. In the early days those packages provided fierce competition to anything Microsoft could make. I won’t go into how Microsoft ended up dominating the field since this post is a positive one only.

Further, I have issues with Word and Outlook but since this is a positive post I won’t state them.

Windows 10 Pro 2004 updated yesterday.  It took about a half-hour to get my computer to respond to a mouse command in anything like a reasonable manner.  I did a little work and turned it off.

Today it has been slow for over an hour and a half.  My SSD C; Drive is “spinning” constantly and has been for all this time.  It is slow, very slow, painfully slow.

Am I alone?  When will it end?   Should I expect this to persist?

A security expert told me this past week that after Zoom announced its security updates, he found downloaded conversations on the web, including one of a psychiatrist and his patient. Zoom is dangerous except for the innocuous uses where privacy does not matter.  Even still, probably everything goes to a server in China where it can be culled for useful information on how our country operates.

 

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A friend got hit with ransomware. He SAID he just opened an email and that triggered the ransom screen. Can just opening an email do this? I was under the impression you needed to open an attachment. Thanks.

Nice article. I also had problems with loosing the internet connection after a while. In March, a lightening storm damaged some of my computer hardware even though everything was turned off. Aside from my blu-ray player, I lost one section of my motherboard, the internet networking device embedded in my motherboard. (Strange as it seems, that’s what happened!) I bought a USB Ethernet connector. Simply unplugging it, and plugging it in again solved my problem. But I cannot get my “home group” working properly again, yet, a different issue.

Adobe Acrobat Pro 8 is available as a free download. See: http://www.techspot.com/downloads/4683-adobe-acrobat-8-free.html (note the serial# mentioned there).

This download does not run on 64 bit processors.

Nice article but…. JARGON!
Down below you define BSoD. The proper style is “…Blue Screen of Death (BSoD)….” I am just somewhat geeky.
Second, what is a “hybrid?”
Thirdly, its a bit wordy.

But overall, it’s very good, and much appreciated, which is the whole point, of course.

This is an important, and good article, but it spends too much time addressing legacy software. I know that older software is still useful, regret loosing some good stuff, but I am not a business. I wish you had offered comments on upgrading from Win7 to Win10, and what to do about upgrading from Office 2010. Will there be hardware requirements for Win10? Office?

The Cobra dashcam article was good, but the kind that mount behind the rear view mirror are harder to detect and steal. I think this one would present itself in an obvious manner. Dash Cams are really important. Like seatbelts, you only need them perhaps once in your life, but when you do need them they are really useful.

“Apple’s approach is about a dumb cloud enabling rich apps while Google’s is about devices as dumb glass that are endpoints of cloud services.” I am not sure what this means. What is a “dumb cloud?” What is “dumb glass?”

But the article is very good for those of us “out of the loop.” In fact, it a superb article. Thanks!

Nor do I. I installed Win7 on it, but not Outlook. I have some screenshots from the XP of Outlook 2010.

Good article and great suggestions for Microsoft. I would gladly pay to have continued XP support, but not $200 per year.

Thanks. I thought Lounge would notify me of a post. Here’s the problem. With Outlook 2010 in XP, in Current View, there was an option for “Category View.” I could select any category to view from a dropdown menu. I do not see that view using the same program installed from the same Office professional disk onto my Win7 machine. I really want that view! And, I want to be able to print contacts in card format by category. That used to be very easy in my XP machine. Not so with my Win7 machine. I don’t understand. I was told that the OS has no effect on the performance of Office.

Same problem. I thought it was the power supply, a typical cause. I could not test it so I bought a new one. Wrong choice. I should have had it tested at a computer shop because the new $100 power supply (a Dell proprietary item) was not the problem. It was the motherboard. It was replaced and the problem was fixed.