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02/26/2016, 03:59:33

    Peter2 writes:

    I'm getting distinctly annoyed with Microsoft. Every day now, I'm getting at least one message asking me to upgrade to Windows 10. I don't want to upgrade to Windows 10. Some of my friends have already been down this route, and have hit the dreaded "Something happened" error. Matters have not moved on from there in any happy way, and at least one of my friends has gone back and re-installed Windows 8.

    Have none of these clowns at Microsoft ever heard of the old saying "If it ain't broke, don't mend it?" *mutter, mutter*

    OK, rant over!





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Personally, I think Window XP is good enough.
02/26/2016, 05:58:06

    tp writes:

    However, Microsoft wants to push you to upgrade for whatever reasons.




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In my experience, . . .
02/26/2016, 08:03:18

    Peter2 writes:

    . . . major system upgrades don't work nearly as well as starting with a clean disc and installing everything "from the ground up", so to speak. Nowadays, the only time I change my operating system is when I buy a new computer, and occasionally even that doesn't work well. I remember once having to buy a new laptop in an awful hurry, and ending up with one that ran on Vista *shudders*. NOT a good system!




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Funny, I also had a laptop with Vista. Definitely not a good system.
02/26/2016, 08:08:26

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Desktop computer is still on Vista. Chrome now has the dreaded 'no longer support' XP & Vista warning
04/03/2016, 18:41:39

    dave_rickart writes:

    and given the buggy nature of Vista, an update to Win7 is imminent.




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I've never been happy with Chrome.
05/15/2016, 11:17:44

    Peter2 writes:

    I've tried it, but I don't really get on with it, and I've had problems using it on laptops when on battery power. It seemed to drain the battery faster than Firefox did, and so I now only use it when something goes wrong with both Firefox and IE.




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There are three ways to get rid of that annoting 'Get Windows 10' pop-up....
02/26/2016, 08:37:05

    Bones writes:

    The easiest way is to hide the notification. Click in the tray near the time, choose 'Customize notification icons', and specify y 'Hide...' for GWX.

    The other two ways are a bit more drastic. All three are detailed at the link below.



    Related link: How to Get Rid of Windows 10 Upgrade Notification in Windows 7 & 8

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Win10 update icon
02/26/2016, 17:42:54

    Peter2 writes:

    Bones, thank you very much indeed for that – I owe you one. It was driving me round the bend!




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Haha I love it. Gone it is. Thank you
03/10/2016, 09:37:32

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Try Linux!
05/14/2016, 06:28:50

    Sudo writes:

    If you are not playing new AAA games, and mostly good old games like MM6, then I'd recommend Linux.
    Just get the Ubuntu iso, put it on a USB drive with the software from pendrivelinux.com, and see if it works on your computer. If it seems to work good enough (might lack your wifi drivers in the live version), you can install it on a new EXT4 partition on your drive.
    Or perhaps just try Puppy Linux, as it's made to be used from an usb drive or SD card.
    Though you probably have to change your boot options in bios, to make usb-drive your first option.

    Anyways, once you've got Wine, you can play all the MM games right away, though you have to make sure you aren't running any of the games in windowed mode, then Wine throws an irrelevant error, which doesn't even tell you about the problem.
    And for the best results, launch the game from a terminal opened in the game directory with "wine MM6.exe".

    Anyways, Wine is great for playing old games, much better than Windows in my experience.





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Sudo, have you just volunteered to be the Taverns' resident Linux guru?
05/14/2016, 08:25:57

    Bones writes:

    There are probably lots of folks who would like to replay these games but can't because of changes in Windows. Wold you want to handle their questions? Or can you give us some links to forums where their questions might be answered?




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Sure, I will definitely be visiting for as long as I'm playing my 2-player party.
05/16/2016, 14:58:03

    Sudo writes:

    And hopefully after my playthrough as well

    I myself has learned everything by just Googling, I don't have any goto-sites for learning about specific problems. Wait, that's not entirely true. I can definitely recommend the Arch Linux Wiki, for specific technical problems.
    And for playing good old games, refer to winehq.org, and playonlinux.com.

    And as I said earlier, try Linux by installing Ubuntu or Puppy Linux to an usb drive, as those are very user-friendly, and has good forums (they are good people, hehe).





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I'm glad to hear this. Thank you!
05/16/2016, 21:25:47

    Bones writes:

    OK, so I'm going to start a new thread at the top of the board. I'll ask incremental questions so that everyone can follow along. I have limited experience with Ubuntu. I'm expecting that this will be a valuable resource for M&M fans.




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