I finally bought a new computer. Trusty Desktop, a Compaq Presario SR 1750 NX,
is ten years old, and is still running Windows XP. My web browser and my anti virus and my
TurboTax vendors all say they don't support XP any more. It's time.
I found a used Dell Optiplex on the net at Amazon for $206 delivered. Came with Win 10 Professional, the fast I5
processor, and acres and acres of RAM and disk space. Hardware is ten years
faster than poor old Trusty Desktop. The
Dell keyboard has nice key feel. Win 10 is so much slower than XP that the new
machine is little faster than the old one.
Migration was sluggish. My photos
filled THREE DVD disks. Thunderbird took
most of the day to get working on the new machine. The menu entry to point Thunderbird to your
email file is deeply hidden and concealed beneath an obscure label. And what little documentation Google found on
the web is wrong.
I looked at my
patch file from Win 10 laptop and put in most of them. Some of them, mostly removing frill programs,
were unnecessary on Win 10 Pro. Most
stuff is now working EXCEPT control C, control V. and Delete (strike out
forward) doesn't work. Web searching
turned up a number of fixes, none of which worked. Web fixes, re install keyboard driver and
update keyboard drive didn't fix it. I'm
still working on it.
1 comment:
That's why I use Linux. The only place I still use Windows is at work because I have no other choice.
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