On Wed, 05 Nov 2014 16:27:50 -0500, Big_Al wrote:

John Aldred wrote on 11/5/2014 4:15 PM:
On Mon, 03 Nov 2014 19:27:39 -0600, philo wrote:



Win8x has been nothing but problems for the people whose computers I
must support.

I've seen it terrorize just too many people who are just plain never
going to learn how to use a computer other than by rote.


I may be agreeing with you very soon.
My 76 year old neighbour came to see me today. His XP machine had gone
belly up and he wanted to buy a new one. I showed him Win 8.1 on my
machine, which didn't seem to give him the horrors, so I have helped
him to purchase a new desktop machine.

The fun starts tomorrow when it arrives. I will have to guide him
through the set-up :-(

Boot to desktop and add classic shell and I think you're 90% of the way
home. I've been on 8.1 for over 2 years. Installed it day one. Can't
live without it.

I was thinking of the initial set up eg Microsoft account/local login.
Will his old printer work with 8.1? Getting his materials transferred
from the old XP machine. etc
Should keep me out of mischief for a while :-)