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Both of my units are dual booted with the Primary System being Ubuntu 14.04.3. I honestly tired of the inability of Windoze to hold some point of stability. Just as 8 and 8.1 are prone to do, 10 can loose ongoing work while a body is in the middle of it. The average Home Network does not have a Linux Server backing up every 5 minutes or less and I find the idea that my work is someplace in Hyper-Space on a windoze server to be very risky. Consider, does NASA operate Space Craft on windoze systems? Computers from the government of the United States have become available with Ubuntu loaded on them because it meshes so easily with a windoze system, not such an easy thing to do from windoze, though. The Duetch Bank swapped over 30,000 computers from windoze over a weekend. Governments are swapping over to Ubuntu or one of the other of the thousand or better flavors of Linux.

Do they know something? I'm home again and I'll stay.
 
Hey Brother Bill, I'm just not tech savvy enough to try all that stuff you're talking of, but I tried the new Windows 10 switching from Windows Pro 64 bit, and found several things not compatible to my use of it; it wouldn't even bring certain documents up on search. I quickly switched back to my Windows 7, and am happy again. :yes
 
Eugene said:
Hey Brother Bill, I'm just not tech savvy enough to try all that stuff you're talking of, but I tried the new Windows 10 switching from Windows Pro 64 bit, and found several things not compatible to my use of it; it wouldn't even bring certain documents up on search. I quickly switched back to my Windows 7, and am happy again. :yes
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My wife and baby girl are also back to seven. My daughter prefers Ubuntu to 10 and has and will run it in the future.

Ubuntu is my go to system for new converts though I will, most often, dual boot them with Linux Mint driven with the Cinnamon Menu and Desk Top because it is most windoze appearing and acting.

Doing the dual boot id the logical way to go and unlike MS, the Linux folks have guaranteed that the rank beginner can succeed as long as they install to a windoze computer.

Basically, You go into BIOS and insure the CD/DVD boots first and then put the DVD in and reboot. ( I'll get to the hang up in a minute.) On the screen you are offered the chance to run the system from the disk 9r to9 install it.


Choosing Intsall from the start screen or from the Desk Top rings up 7 choices, one at a time. In the Time Zone (New York default) I type Chicago for central. on the keyboard and language you will select English (one or the other forms) and I believe I went past the Install choice but the default is to install alongside Windows. Leave it there for an automatic dual boot.


The rest is adding your personal info and a password y7ou will never, ever, forget. It can be changed if you do but you're not a techy, so... Let it run and reboot itself and bingo, you have 10 seconds to hit an up or down key to stop the clock to default boot.
 
Now, issues! None of these should apply to your win7 unit.

The Newer computers are EFI or UEFI instead of BIOS driven Mainboards. On my mainboard I tap, repetedly, the ESC key to access what used to be the BIOS but is now UEFI where I have the option to boot in Safe Mode and turning that off I can return to Classic Mode (BIOS) and to never e able to boot more than two operating systems. (in UEFI I can boot 75 or more operating systems because instead of 4 partitions I can create more than 250.) If you find yourself there, ask and I and the other nerdy people here will render aide for free.
 
reba said:
:cries i want widow XP :cries
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Reba,
It still runs and there are anti-virus' that are free for it. And if you want the latest version, Windows XP Black x86 or x86_64bit is a free download but not from MicroSoft.
 
th1b.taylor said:
Now, issues! None of these should apply to your win7 unit.

The Newer computers are EFI or UEFI instead of BIOS driven Mainboards. On my mainboard I tap, repetedly, the ESC key to access what used to be the BIOS but is now UEFI where I have the option to boot in Safe Mode and turning that off I can return to Classic Mode (BIOS) and to never e able to boot more than two operating systems. (in UEFI I can boot 75 or more operating systems because instead of 4 partitions I can create more than 250.) If you find yourself there, ask and I and the other nerdy people here will render aide for free.
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:lol Let's see, I do upteen things you describe, and constantly call for free aide, or I can push one start button and within approx 30 seconds log in to the programs I want. Hmmm? :chin
 
I'm still running XP & Linux, in 2006 i got interested in security so i went to work as a beta tester for Avira, that lasted 3 years, then i became interested in privacy after hearing about the snoop squad, a few weeks ago i found this..

https://www.privatesearch.io/

Inside i found a privacy section you might want to look at.. in there you'll see an article about Windows 10 that says "Don't Use Windows 10 Its A Privacy Nightmare..

https://www.privacytools.io/

tob

*edit: forgot something "again" a comment from the author

Over the last 16 months, as I've debated this issue around the world, every single time somebody has said to me, "I don't really worry about invasions of privacy because I don't have anything to hide." I always say the same thing to them. I get out a pen, I write down my email address. I say, "Here's my email address. What I want you to do when you get home is email me the passwords to all of your email accounts, not just the nice, respectable work one in your name, but all of them, because I want to be able to just troll through what it is you're doing online, read what I want to read and publish whatever I find interesting. After all, if you're not a bad person, if you're doing nothing wrong, you should have nothing to hide." Not a single person has taken me up on that offer.
 
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