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Originally Posted by badgoodDeb
Is Windows 10 any easier to use than Windows 8? IE more recognizable to a Windows NT (for example) user?
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Depends on what you consider easier. Win10 brings back the Start Menu, but in Yet Another Case of fixing what wasn't broken, it's rather different from the Win7 version.
That's an easy fix - I run the open source
Classic Shell, which works fine under Win10 (and worked under 8.1) to restore the Start menu. The default is to look like the Win7 version.
I don't use IE, never have, and strongly recommend others don't. I use Firefox, but Chrome is also a viable option.
Win10 has IE 11, but defaults to a new MS browser called Edge, which does
not look and act the same as IE. I won't use it, either.
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My neighbor's dead cheap machine might need to be upgraded before the free offer runs out. Since her home internet has been snafued for more than a year, that means I'd have to offer to bring the machine to my place to fix it. AND would have to run a backup first, in case it fails in the middle of the upgrade (as you mention above). Cuz I'm more familiar with Macs than with PCs, and wouldn't be able to trouble-shoot it.
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I'd want to investigate why her Internet was snafued before upgrading. A Win10 upgrade is unlikely to magically fix the problem. And what are the specs on the machine? What does it run now? Will it successfully run Win10? (If she previously ran Win8.1, it should. The hardware requirements are basically the same.)
Mine did not fail in the middle of an upgrade. The upgrade itself went fine. My problems started when I was up and running under Win10. Per my earlier message, changing how the desktop handles power fixed the inability to shutdown or restart, and turning off write cache buffer flushing on the SSD I boot from seems to have fixed the application hangs. Right now, all is good.
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BUT if the end result would be best for her (& me*), I'll do it. Just wondering if I should volunteer to do so ....
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Hard to say. Sounds like you're unpaid tech support, and anything that reduces support issues will be a boon.
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*and me: I recognize the desktop on a PC, but have a hard time with the Windows 8 huge-button interface. When I have to trouble shoot her machine, that is. She doesn't even know what a desktop is. Nor a "browser". She knows Office, and email, and thinks that means she knows how to use a computer. Sigh....
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The Metro interface is an attempt at a One Size Fits All UI that can be used from a tablet on up. The touch screen stuff is questionable on a desktop unless you have something like an All-In-One machine that incorporates it. I understand what MS was trying to do with Metro, but I don't think a one-size-fits-all UI is really possible. The default Win10 interface is sort of a combo of Start Menu and Metro.
As for your neighbor, just tell her that what she sees on her screen when she boots her machine is her desktop. What she's in when she goes online to surf the Internet is her browser. What's she's in when she's doing email is likely MS Outlook, since that's part of Office. Everything she uses is a program, and isn't the only program that can do those things.
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Dennis