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My experience started with a cheapy laptop with 8.0; the tile/metro thing was a bloody nightmare…then came the free upgrade to 8.1, only a tiny bit better; all this with a mouse-and the OS intended for touch screen. From that nightmare to Dell India to replace the motherboard. Someone there sold my info to somebody in India. 30 min after talking to tech there I would get a “followup call”. Give me a mouse for REAL work. Our church now has a “mickey magic mouse”. Really makes appreciate Windows. Steep steep learning curve with Apple. But it does find the screens every time. Something that Win just could not do; with software written for iOS. Touch to me will be kids playing with their phones for quite some time to come. Been using a mouse at a work station for 20 yrs now; and I am good with that!

I have been using Winaero on my laptop and PC for couple months now. Without any glitches so far. It simply turns off updates until I read that one should update; ie it is VERY safe to do so. Being constantly inundated by patches etc is just not right. Any body else turn them off? Our IP guys where I worked only let out patches and updates when (they were paranoid) they felt completely comfortable with them…Tested them on stand alones etc. I’m running Win 10 Home, and do very well NOT dealing with constant watching the little balls circling, circling, circling….

My old tower is ~ 12 yrs old now, running Win 7 for 8 or so yrs. I upgraded MEM about the same time I went to Win 7. Several upgrades for storage. Tried a PCIE USB 3.0 hub & never could get it to work; and it caused major driver conflicts. It runs at USB 2.0 speeds. After putting off a new install of 7 for 5 yrs I bought a Crucial 500G SSD and did a clean install of 7 on it and then going to Win 10. Boot times went from minutes to seconds. System was so bloated I would turn on and go make a cup of coffee and come back to a system coming on. Over 5 minutes most of the time. The SSD is lightning fast compared to the old HDD. The old HDD’s are used for storage of pics, vids, etc. At our church we have an Intel I5 system that is a screamer with a WD HDD. My old tower boots up in 1/4 or 1/5 the time as the 2 yr old system. I’m running an old AMD Athlon with a wind tunnel. Temp almost never gets over 110 deg F. I think keeping the CPU so cool has kept it alive so far. I read on LangaList how easy it was to build a PC. Color coded and all; and went for it. Thanks guys and it’s great to see you back.

Running Speedtest.net. Sposd to be one of the best. Found this: Start, Run:gpedit.msc
Admin Templates/Network/QOS packet Scheduler
clk on Limit reservable bandwidth, enable, then change the % to 0%
I found an old 10/100 eth card and this helped speed it up, plugged in my 10/100/1000 card and now it’s running at 52M download speed. ?????????

As an old PC user with an Apple only friend, I am becoming the norm in todays’ electronic age. Apple does SOME things incredibly well. I call them the Rolls Royce of computers; when MONEY is no object. PC’s still do many things well and for a fraction of the cost. I buy used “A” products. Graphics and video creation are just amazingly easy and great. Ditto audio. Macs are stable as a rock; almost all the time. They go to sleep and wake up instantly. My iPhone cost $49 and it will do 90% of the stuff I need to do online. I am neither married to PC or Apple only. We are the next gen that uses and chooses the best of both. Seamless and expensive meets reality when costs are factored in. Woody; thanks for writing what you know to be the truth. Take heart: the PC world is simply evolving.