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  • I have actually thought about back to window 7, but I guess I will try the free windows 10 first. I hate windows 8.1

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    • Originally posted by LionsNC View Post
      I have actually thought about back to window 7, but I guess I will try the free windows 10 first. I hate windows 8.1

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      What do you hate, the start screen? It's pretty easy to add a start menu.
      "Your division isn't going through Green Bay it's going through Detroit for the next five years" - Rex Ryan

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      • Lots of complaints coming in on Windows 10 updates that are not wanted by companies.
        19.1119, NO LONGER WAITING

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        • On a separate topic, Directv was gouging us for around $70 on equipment fees. Our bill for just TV, no internet or phone, was $205 per month when everything was tallied up.

          So I switched from Dtv to Charter and setup a whole-home PVR system. Now I've got two HDHOMERun primes with cable cards feeding six tuners. I've got an i5 laptop running Windows Media Center (WMC) for the DVR and running a Kodi interface for all the back end channels also on laptops.

          WMC has a restriction of only seeing four tuners but I ran TunerSalad and upped it to 32 tuners, (so it sees my six easily), but for some reason we can only record four shows concurrently, still working on that one.

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          • Packfan you are in my neck of the woods with this - look at KODI (formerly XBMC) has native support for the HDHomerun Prime, I put one in May of 2014. It is an all in one media solution....
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            • I reference KODI because M$ killed of WMC (the best free un advertised feature of Win 7, now pay for with Win 8.x) with Windows 10.
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              • Originally posted by UKBB View Post
                What do you hate, the start screen? It's pretty easy to add a start menu.
                Actually the thing I hate the most is that I constantly adjust the size of my window without trying or wanting to. Usually when I am trying to click and drag something, it's a real pain in the ass.
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                • I have that happen in Windows 7 too.
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                  • I still use 7. I updated to it just prior to 8 coming out. I don't sit and think about it all the time, however, I still don't understand what 8 does so much better than 7. And now there's 10?

                    Do these updates REALLY make things better? I'm pretty certain they do not, and the frequent updates are just a way to get more money out of consumers.
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                    • Windows 8 was very different than Windows 7 (it's debatable if it was different good or different bad). Windows 10 is a FREE update. If they're trying to get more money out of consumers with a free update, they're doing it wrong.
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                      • Deb, How do you like windows 10 so far? I will probably try it soon. My only hesitation is I had a little trouble getting my gov home use office to reload. I have cd somewhere, but I can't find it.

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                        • Originally posted by -Deborah- View Post
                          Windows 8 was very different than Windows 7 (it's debatable if it was different good or different bad). Windows 10 is a FREE update. If they're trying to get more money out of consumers with a free update, they're doing it wrong.
                          It's possible MS is playing catch up with Apple, which would be a good thing, I suppose.

                          I personally hate updates. How shitty are these apps that they have to be updated every other week?

                          The answer is, they weren't shitty and didn't need updating that quickly.

                          I swear, I could still get by on 90s MS office apps, but everytime they come out with a new iteration, the military buys it and forces us all to adapt to it. I have to learn the entire app all over again, finding where they hid the things that worked well if they didn't remove the capability altogether.
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                          • Curious about ten as well. Saw the free update pop-up a couple times.
                            "Don?t worry about a thing, every little thing is gonna be alright. - Bob Marley "

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                            • Originally posted by LionsNC View Post
                              Deb, How do you like windows 10 so far? I will probably try it soon. My only hesitation is I had a little trouble getting my gov home use office to reload. I have cd somewhere, but I can't find it.

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                              It's fine, no real changes for what I do on my PC. The upgrade was super easy and no need to reinstall anything, you can just do an update and keep your programs in place.
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                              • Thanks, I guess that makes it easy.

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