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"Maybe all those people clinging to Windows 7 are on to something after all."
Fun article from How-to Geek today, about Microsoft's latest Windows 10 updates, that now tell you Chrome and Frirefox are unsafe when you try to download them. https://www.howtogeek.com/365983/win...-push-firefox- and-chrome-over-the-edge/ -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://BrownMath.com/ http://OakRoadSystems.com/ Shikata ga nai... |
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"Maybe all those people clinging to Windows 7 are on to somethingafter all."
On 9/13/2018 6:46 PM, Stan Brown wrote:
Fun article from How-to Geek today, about Microsoft's latest Windows 10 updates, that now tell you Chrome and Frirefox are unsafe when you try to download them. https://www.howtogeek.com/365983/win...-push-firefox- and-chrome-over-the-edge/ I'm still a 7-user. curious, I downloaded Chrome ---big mistake --- a lot of other stuff (I know not what) came with it. And now much of we used to call "freeware" or "share ware" comes with Crome included! Like wise, a Firefox download messes with other stuff ---including replacing all the desktop icons with a Firefox logo. |
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"Maybe all those people clinging to Windows 7 are on to somethingafter all."
Mathedman wrote:
On 9/13/2018 6:46 PM, Stan Brown wrote: Fun article from How-to Geek today, about Microsoft's latest Windows 10 updates, that now tell you Chrome and Frirefox are unsafe when you try to download them. https://www.howtogeek.com/365983/win...-push-firefox- and-chrome-over-the-edge/ I'm still a 7-user. curious, I downloaded Chrome ---big mistake --- a lot of other stuff (I know not what) came with it. And now much of we used to call "freeware" or "share ware" comes with Crome included! Like wise, a Firefox download messes with other stuff ---including replacing all the desktop icons with a Firefox logo. Presumably you downloaded Chrome from a Google site. And your Chrome wasn't a drive-by install which included other PUPs as part of the payload. Chrome has a couple Google Updater services. The Updater services stay on the computer, and update any of a number of Google programs. And even if you removed all Google stuff, you might have to remove the Updater materials manually. What was funny about the drive-by install thing, was that a couple people got Chromium on the machine. Chromium is the open source fork of Chrome. And the web site where Chromium is located, even makes it hard to get a copy of Chromium if you wanted to test it. I don't think anyone is paying to promote that, and yet... machines with Chromium, where the user swears they didn't download it. ******* Of course it's possible for icons to be screwed up. And you have to think through the whole "binding" process for file extensions, to figure out what happened. I bet the files on your desktop had a particular file extension, and you're doing something that we're not doing. Paul |
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"Maybe all those people clinging to Windows 7 are on to something after all."
In message , Mathedman
writes: On 9/13/2018 6:46 PM, Stan Brown wrote: Fun article from How-to Geek today, about Microsoft's latest Windows 10 updates, that now tell you Chrome and Frirefox are unsafe when you try to download them. https://www.howtogeek.com/365983/win...-push-firefox- and-chrome-over-the-edge/ I'm still a 7-user. curious, I downloaded Chrome ---big mistake --- a lot of other stuff (I know not what) came with it. And now Where did you download it from? much of we used to call "freeware" or "share ware" comes with Crome included! That is true. Like wise, a Firefox download messes with other stuff ---including A Firefox _download_ shouldn't change anything. A Firefox _install_ isn't _usually_ grasping: OK, it makes itself the default browser, but even there, it does ask during the install, though defaults to yes. replacing all the desktop icons with a Firefox logo. Only the ones that were internet shortcuts - which, presumably, had the logo from whichever browser you had before. It doesn't change, e. g., icons for Word, Excel, IrfanView ... -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf The best things in life aren't things. - Bear Grylls (RT 2015/2/14-20) |
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"Maybe all those people clinging to Windows 7 are on to something after all."
Stan Brown wrote:
Fun article from How-to Geek today, about Microsoft's latest Windows 10 updates, that now tell you Chrome and Frirefox are unsafe when you try to download them. https://www.howtogeek.com/365983/win...-push-firefox- and-chrome-over-the-edge/ I'm not clinging to Windows 7, because I've never had it [1], but I *am* clinging to Windows 8.1, even while Windows 10 was *supposed* to be better than 8.1 (Yeah, RIGHT! :-(). [1] Went from (XP to) Vista to 8.1, just before 10 broke out. |
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"Maybe all those people clinging to Windows 7 are on to something after all."
In message , Frank Slootweg
writes: Stan Brown wrote: Fun article from How-to Geek today, about Microsoft's latest Windows 10 updates, that now tell you Chrome and Frirefox are unsafe when you try to download them. https://www.howtogeek.com/365983/win...-push-firefox- and-chrome-over-the-edge/ I'm not clinging to Windows 7, because I've never had it [1], but I *am* clinging to Windows 8.1, even while Windows 10 was *supposed* to be better than 8.1 (Yeah, RIGHT! :-(). [1] Went from (XP to) Vista to 8.1, just before 10 broke out. I like "broke out". Makes it sound like an epidemic (which is probably what you intended, and arguably it is one). -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf The best things in life aren't things. - Bear Grylls (RT 2015/2/14-20) |
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"Maybe all those people clinging to Windows 7 are on to something after all."
On Fri, 14 Sep 2018 18:24:43 +0100, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Frank Slootweg writes: [quoted text muted] *am* clinging to Windows 8.1, even while Windows 10 was *supposed* to be better than 8.1 (Yeah, RIGHT! :-(). [1] Went from (XP to) Vista to 8.1, just before 10 broke out. I like "broke out". Makes it sound like an epidemic (which is probably what you intended, and arguably it is one). +1 For the first year, roughly, it was spread like malware (or a PUP, if you want to be mealymouthed). -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://BrownMath.com/ http://OakRoadSystems.com/ Shikata ga nai... |
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"Maybe all those people clinging to Windows 7 are on to somethingafter all."
On 09/14/2018 11:10 AM, Frank Slootweg wrote:
Stan Brown wrote: Fun article from How-to Geek today, about Microsoft's latest Windows 10 updates, that now tell you Chrome and Frirefox are unsafe when you try to download them. https://www.howtogeek.com/365983/win...-push-firefox- and-chrome-over-the-edge/ I'm not clinging to Windows 7, because I've never had it [1], but I *am* clinging to Windows 8.1, even while Windows 10 was *supposed* to be better than 8.1 (Yeah, RIGHT! :-(). [1] Went from (XP to) Vista to 8.1, just before 10 broke out. I really liked Windows 8.1 (not 8.0 of course, no one did). And with a 3rd party menu it was great. I bought one of the $39.99 copies so I can put it back but I don't mind Win 10 now. I run Linux 98% of the time but 10 serves me well. |
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"Maybe all those people clinging to Windows 7 are on to somethingafter all."
On 09/14/2018 12:53 PM, Big Al wrote:
[snip] I really liked Windows 8.1 (not 8.0 of course, no one did). I tried the Win 8 preview. The first thing I thought when it installed was how I really don't want an iPhone (since that's what it looked like, not like Windows). And with a 3rd party menu it was great.Â*Â* I bought one of the $39.99 copies so I can put it back but I don't mind Win 10 now.Â*Â* I run Linux 98% of the time but 10 serves me well. I do too (run Linux). I do have a few programs that require Windows, and I use 7 for them. -- 102 days until the winter celebration (Tue Dec 25, 2018 12:00:00 AM for 1 day). Mark Lloyd http://notstupid.us/ "An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support." -- John Buchan |
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"Maybe all those people clinging to Windows 7 are on to somethingafter all."
On 09/14/2018 11:53 AM, Mark Lloyd wrote:
I do too (run Linux). I do have a few programs that require Windows, and I use 7 for them. I put my Windows in a virtual machines. W7 runs okay; W-Nein (w10) os a dog. |
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"Maybe all those people clinging to Windows 7 are on to somethingafter all."
On 09/15/2018 04:09 AM, T wrote:
On 09/14/2018 11:53 AM, Mark Lloyd wrote: I do too (run Linux). I do have a few programs that require Windows, and I use 7 for them. I put my Windows in a virtual machines.Â* W7 runs okay; W-Nein (w10) os a dog. Same here. -- 101 days until the winter celebration (Tue Dec 25, 2018 12:00:00 AM for 1 day). Mark Lloyd http://notstupid.us/ "No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time -nor ever will." [Madelyn O'Hair, "An Atheist Epic"] |
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"Maybe all those people clinging to Windows 7 are on to something after all."
On Fri, 14 Sep 2018 13:53:59 -0500, Mark Lloyd wrote:
I tried the Win 8 preview. The first thing I thought when it installed was how I really don't want an iPhone (since that's what it looked like, not like Windows). Too late now, I guess, but Windows key + D gets you back to the normal desktop, and there's a setting to boot into the desktop at login, instead of the default Fisher-Price interface. But I couldn't get around the missing Start Menu. I tried for over a year on my Win 8 laptop, and finally, with a sigh of relief, installed Classic Shell. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://BrownMath.com/ http://OakRoadSystems.com/ Shikata ga nai... |
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"Maybe all those people clinging to Windows 7 are on to somethingafter all."
On 09/14/2018 10:10 AM, Frank Slootweg wrote:
[snip] I'm not clinging to Windows 7, because I've never had it [1], but I *am* clinging to Windows 8.1, even while Windows 10 was *supposed* to be better than 8.1 (Yeah, RIGHT! :-(). and doing a good job of demonstrating how "better" does NOT imply "good". 7 appears to be the best version (although XP isn't that bad). [snip] |
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"Maybe all those people clinging to Windows 7 are on to somethingafter all."
On 9/13/2018 6:46 PM, Stan Brown wrote:
Fun article from How-to Geek today, about Microsoft's latest Windows 10 updates, that now tell you Chrome and Frirefox are unsafe when you try to download them. https://www.howtogeek.com/365983/win...-push-firefox- and-chrome-over-the-edge/ And maybe because nothing better has been demonstrated- We had win 8, which we changed with "Start 8" so it was like 7. Then 8.1 (= 9) which was changed so it was like 7. Now 10, which we change with Start 10 so it's like 7. What is needed that 7 doesn't have? |
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"Maybe all those people clinging to Windows 7 are on to something after all."
"Mathedman" wrote
| What is needed that 7 doesn't have? Are you kidding?! Try getting a Metro app on Win7 to turn your computer into a flashlight. No can do. |
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