Re: The Patio - and widows 8
WooHoo fellow Feds. Another week gone. 733 work days left! That is not counting use/lose leave. Also doesn't count the "voluntary" extra day each week.
Finally ordered that new laptop last weekend and it is here. Posting on it right now. What a useless piece of...I mean what a steep learning curve moving to win8 involves. Fortunately there are lots of places on the internet you can find answers about how to actually use the computer with this fine new OS. This thing was obviously designed for the user who lives in someone's basement and pays no bills. Tile land offers lots of places to go and spend money downloading stuff. The desk top conveniently installed icons for movies, amazon and the MS store. I somehow managed to make the admin account log in an ancient Hotmail account I never use. I had to search a bit to tell it no thank you I would rather save things to the local hard drive and not someone's cloud. I managed to create a local admin account. I connected to my isp's email account. All these things were "not recommended" by the setup. Go to microsoft, we will take care of it all, just make sure someone pays the ISP bill and for your twinkies.
I foolishly started the process of setting up my shiny new computer last night. Setup told me it got all the windows updates. Setup lied. I finally figured out how to force it to get updates and after about an hour went to bed. It was about 2300 by then. This morning it had gone to sleep and was waiting for a reboot. I did so and went to work. This evening I forced another update and it took 55 minutes to download and install them. Maybe it will be faster in the future. I still haven't tried to install any software on this thing.
A common comment at work where we are upgrading to win7 is that every time we get a new OS our normal tasks take twice as long. True. As someone who has been around .gov since z-dos days, we can do more now but the "legacy" tasks take much longer, especially getting them to work with the shiny new stuff.
Happy weekend all. Any questions or comments about this transition are welcome.
PO
Re: The Patio - and widows 8
I went through the same thing when I bought my new Win 8 computer but worked it out. Free upgrade to Win 8.1 helped a bit.
Re: The Patio - and windows 8
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I went through the same thing when I bought my new Win 8 computer but worked it out. Free upgrade to Win 8.1 helped a bit.
Getting there. A few things still going on. I think it is pissed at me for deleting the hotmail/msn/Skype login account and refusing to use several cloud services. I turned the tap function off for the touch pad and now I am not zooming or going places I don't want to. I never got along with these things much anyway. I got it to boot the desktop without a password. When I installed visio that I bought it unpinned all the office icons from the task bar. Other computers on the home network come and go seemingly at random when I go to network places.:confused:
I bought it with win8.1 but it was not until I downloaded all the updates. This did change the behavior some. I am using an IR mouse but it doesn't work well with the glass patio table. I cannot find even one of the dozens of mouse pads I have acquired over the years. :suspicious:
Only took three days to get to this point. Now on to installing legacy software I like to use. And I now have an OS that Microsoft will support until-say 2015?
Beautiful day on the patio here.
PO
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It was hell, I couldn't even find the shut down/restart button!!Attachment 28484