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Howl howl howl: the Luddites' refrain
Nothing but nothing makes me want to lie on the floor and scream, or go and slit my throat, or just get seriously drunk for the next week, like a new edition of Windows. So now I have XP and I hate it.
Everything that used to be in Windows Explorer has been transferred to My Computer but Windows Explorer is still there, apparently for navigating the flipping desktop. If I want the actual drives, My Computer it is. Which *will* not remember that I want list-not-tiles, which is bad enough, but worse, won't give me the file extensions for my various documents. Possibly this is a glitch while I still lack a copy of Word, because the info appears when the mouse hovers over it; and then it insists that it's a wordpad document. But I think it expects me to look at the little icons to tell what's .doc and what's .htm. Thank you, I want to look at the flipping extensions.
Maybe Word will look better than Wordpad but I doubt it. The fonts are all the wrong size and they display too thin and there's too much space all around them. Screw 17" monitors, I hate them. I want my old old Win 95 back with its 15" screen and 640x480 resolution. I could write on that. I haven't been able to write happily on anything since, but even Win 98's humoungous screen is better than this, where my html documents display in blue font, which I hope they don't do on the net.
It has IE7 on it, and I want to be rid of IE7 aussitot que possible. Why in the name of sweet heaven did they get rid of the 'sites visited' on the right clicked back button? Seriously, *why*? But I can't DL anything because, ahem, like my Win98, this system won't connect to the net. Which is the only reason *why* I bought a new system, you know?
I congratulate myself on at least having transferred my OE folders successfully, but that's because I saved my OE folders to documents in the first place. I assumed basic stuff like Identities would be transferred when the files were but no, evidently not, so yes, good I backed up but dear god, seriously, what do people do whose computers crash? Back up to a separate system, obviously.
So I went to Staples to look at the mini computers, which are $400 if you want Windows. And the fonts are still pale and tiny (unlike this laptop, where they're too dark and blunt.) The world is contriving to silence me, she says, and it may succeed.
Everything that used to be in Windows Explorer has been transferred to My Computer but Windows Explorer is still there, apparently for navigating the flipping desktop. If I want the actual drives, My Computer it is. Which *will* not remember that I want list-not-tiles, which is bad enough, but worse, won't give me the file extensions for my various documents. Possibly this is a glitch while I still lack a copy of Word, because the info appears when the mouse hovers over it; and then it insists that it's a wordpad document. But I think it expects me to look at the little icons to tell what's .doc and what's .htm. Thank you, I want to look at the flipping extensions.
Maybe Word will look better than Wordpad but I doubt it. The fonts are all the wrong size and they display too thin and there's too much space all around them. Screw 17" monitors, I hate them. I want my old old Win 95 back with its 15" screen and 640x480 resolution. I could write on that. I haven't been able to write happily on anything since, but even Win 98's humoungous screen is better than this, where my html documents display in blue font, which I hope they don't do on the net.
It has IE7 on it, and I want to be rid of IE7 aussitot que possible. Why in the name of sweet heaven did they get rid of the 'sites visited' on the right clicked back button? Seriously, *why*? But I can't DL anything because, ahem, like my Win98, this system won't connect to the net. Which is the only reason *why* I bought a new system, you know?
I congratulate myself on at least having transferred my OE folders successfully, but that's because I saved my OE folders to documents in the first place. I assumed basic stuff like Identities would be transferred when the files were but no, evidently not, so yes, good I backed up but dear god, seriously, what do people do whose computers crash? Back up to a separate system, obviously.
So I went to Staples to look at the mini computers, which are $400 if you want Windows. And the fonts are still pale and tiny (unlike this laptop, where they're too dark and blunt.) The world is contriving to silence me, she says, and it may succeed.
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I wouldn't uninstall IE in case you ever need it for downloading stuff from Microsoft.com.
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I won't completely uninstall IE, I'll install IE6 over it. Generally I prefer IE to Firefox for many things, but on the old computer it used to hang if asked to view any page with more than 20 comments. So I want both.
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It like 100x worst.
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(And if that isn't damning with faint praise then I don't know what is.)
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Hang in there! Fiddle with settings! Your silence would be unbearable!
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ETA- too early for this. Thought I was selecting an icon and pressed post instead.
I fiddle. Discover that Open Office on the laptop is perfect for what I want. May not be so ideal on a monitor, but better than Wordpad, whatever. And no one has ever succeeded in shutting me up.
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I still have 98 on my desktop machine, but the rapid decline of my XP laptop keyboard suggests vista (or linux) may be threatening.
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So yes echoing what everyone says .. do hang in there! *hugs for pc woes*
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I hang. I am not given a choice in this matter.
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I just installed a copy of XP over Vista on this new laptop. Tho I dislike having to check in with Big Brother Microsoft, I rather like it otherwise (though I'm keeping Win2K on the other machine). It's pretty neat. Once you get used to the differences in appearance (and the way some things are organized), you're going to like how much easier it makes things like installing software and hardware. And Firefox under XP is a wondrous thing. Seriously.
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As always, it's screen size and resolution that I hate most. I want large but not too large, dark but not too dark, and a screen that recommends 1440x900 is going to give me nothing but bitsiness. I went through this heartbreak with 98 too, as I suddenly recalled last night as I was fiddling with DPI settings (which it seems you can't do on a laptop, or possibly in vista). Did that five years ago and wasn't happy then either. Technology doesn't love the presbyopic.
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Actually, one of the primary reasons why I prefer Firefox over IE (aside from tabs and way cool add-ons) is because it's so easy to magnify fonts on the fly (Ctrl = to increase, Ctrl - to decrease). I don't spend a lot of time lurking in the system folders, so I don't worry about the fonts there very much.
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IE lets you control + to increase and decrease. But what I want is the old Mozilla buttons that let you do it with the mouse. Why'd they get rid of those? (And how do I turn off spellcheck on this thing?)
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But you have a desktop monitor that lets you sit three feet away and see the fonts at, I assume 800x600? What brand is that? Because that's what I want.