Windows 9 Upgrade for Win 7 $30.00

On 04/10/2014 1:39 AM, Troll wrote:





"Bob Henson" wrote in message ...


- and that was the main use of the start
button. I know there is a menu of the pretty pictures on one side, but I
won't be using any of the cut-down versions :-)

People are still fixated to the start button. Just grow up boy. Time to
move on to newer technology whether it is good or bad. Just learn it like
any good boys would do.



No. I will stay at Windows 7 and move to Linux if all else fails. "New"
is not always good, and there is no need whatever to change for change's
sake. There is absolutely nothing in the new Windows versions that is
not in Windows 7 - for the desktop user anyway.

--
Bob Tetbury, Gloucestershire, UK

You know you're old when "getting lucky" means finding your car in the
car park.

On Fri, 3 Oct 2014 12:27:10 -0600, Buffalo wrote:
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/mic...old,27779.html

Some info in the above link. I am undecided if I will 'upgrade' my Win 7HE


Wh would you want to? Are you missing any features that you'd like to
have, that are present i Windows 9?

--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com
Shikata ga nai...

On Fri, 03 Oct 2014 18:17:17 -0700, David E. Ross wrote:
I thought there is NO Windows 9. The progression is from 8.1 to 10.
Per the article at
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/14/10/03/2259240/possible-reason-behind-version-hop-to-windows-10-compatibility,
Windows would have trouble distinguishing between Windows 9 and Windows
95 or Windows 98.


That just makes you feel all warm and cuddly with confidence in
Microsoft's programming, doesn't it.

--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com
Shikata ga nai...

On 10/4/2014 5:23 AM, Bob Henson wrote:
On 04/10/2014 1:39 AM, Troll wrote:





"Bob Henson" wrote in message ...


- and that was the main use of the start
button. I know there is a menu of the pretty pictures on one side, but I
won't be using any of the cut-down versions :-)

People are still fixated to the start button. Just grow up boy. Time to
move on to newer technology whether it is good or bad. Just learn it like
any good boys would do.



No. I will stay at Windows 7 and move to Linux if all else fails. "New"
is not always good, and there is no need whatever to change for change's
sake. There is absolutely nothing in the new Windows versions that is
not in Windows 7 - for the desktop user anyway.


There is a certain level of "iPhone syndrome" in many things new these
days. Sort of the "hat backwards" effect where you just have to do it
for some reason to be in style or the fear of missing something that the
rest of the heard has. I'm not a cow myself but rather bull.

On 04/10/2014 12:13 PM, Al Drake wrote:
On 10/4/2014 5:23 AM, Bob Henson wrote:
On 04/10/2014 1:39 AM, Troll wrote:





"Bob Henson" wrote in message ...


- and that was the main use of the start
button. I know there is a menu of the pretty pictures on one side, but I
won't be using any of the cut-down versions :-)

People are still fixated to the start button. Just grow up boy. Time to
move on to newer technology whether it is good or bad. Just learn it like
any good boys would do.



No. I will stay at Windows 7 and move to Linux if all else fails. "New"
is not always good, and there is no need whatever to change for change's
sake. There is absolutely nothing in the new Windows versions that is
not in Windows 7 - for the desktop user anyway.


There is a certain level of "iPhone syndrome" in many things new these
days. Sort of the "hat backwards" effect where you just have to do it
for some reason to be in style or the fear of missing something that the
rest of the heard has. I'm not a cow myself but rather bull.



Absolutely. Apple would have got nowhere when I was a kid - we would
have wanted to know why someone would be daft enough to pay over the
odds for something not as good. It's definitely a sign of the times we
live in - in the days of my youth we did anything to be a bit different.
Now the lemmings compete to be first over the cliff.

--
Bob Tetbury, Gloucestershire, UK

Capitalism - the survival of the fattest.

On 10/4/2014 7:52 AM, Bob Henson wrote:
On 04/10/2014 12:13 PM, Al Drake wrote:
On 10/4/2014 5:23 AM, Bob Henson wrote:
On 04/10/2014 1:39 AM, Troll wrote:





"Bob Henson" wrote in message ...


- and that was the main use of the start
button. I know there is a menu of the pretty pictures on one side, but I
won't be using any of the cut-down versions :-)

People are still fixated to the start button. Just grow up boy. Time to
move on to newer technology whether it is good or bad. Just learn it like
any good boys would do.



No. I will stay at Windows 7 and move to Linux if all else fails. "New"
is not always good, and there is no need whatever to change for change's
sake. There is absolutely nothing in the new Windows versions that is
not in Windows 7 - for the desktop user anyway.


There is a certain level of "iPhone syndrome" in many things new these
days. Sort of the "hat backwards" effect where you just have to do it
for some reason to be in style or the fear of missing something that the
rest of the heard has. I'm not a cow myself but rather bull.



Absolutely. Apple would have got nowhere when I was a kid - we would
have wanted to know why someone would be daft enough to pay over the
odds for something not as good. It's definitely a sign of the times we
live in - in the days of my youth we did anything to be a bit different.
Now the lemmings compete to be first over the cliff.

Very true. I, myself, am from a long lost era having gone through my
teens then into the military in the early '60s. There is also the danger
of getting locked down to one time in your life where you just don't go
any further. Like listening to the "oldies". Pick a time.

"The future just isn't what it used to be."
Anonymous

http://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/12...ture-not-used/

On Sat, 04 Oct 2014 12:52:53 +0100, Bob Henson wrote:

Absolutely. Apple would have got nowhere when I was a kid - we would
have wanted to know why someone would be daft enough to pay over the
odds for something not as good. It's definitely a sign of the times we
live in - in the days of my youth we did anything to be a bit different.
Now the lemmings compete to be first over the cliff.

I think it's part of the insidious fear that we may be missing
something, which drives the compulsion to check cell phones and
Twitbook and its cousins every two seconds. Young people are more
susceptible, but we older folks are not immune.

OTOH, I still have only a flip phone -- and it took me till 2008 to
get that!

--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com
Shikata ga nai...

On 10/4/2014 12:31 PM, Stan Brown wrote:
On Sat, 04 Oct 2014 12:52:53 +0100, Bob Henson wrote:

Absolutely. Apple would have got nowhere when I was a kid - we would
have wanted to know why someone would be daft enough to pay over the
odds for something not as good. It's definitely a sign of the times we
live in - in the days of my youth we did anything to be a bit different.
Now the lemmings compete to be first over the cliff.

I think it's part of the insidious fear that we may be missing
something, which drives the compulsion to check cell phones and
Twitbook and its cousins every two seconds. Young people are more
susceptible, but we older folks are not immune.

OTOH, I still have only a flip phone -- and it took me till 2008 to
get that!

I see a similarity with the cell phone addiction and cigarettes. I am
slowed down at the exit of walmart by the ones making calls. I see as
many drivers on the way home from work making calls as I do lighting a
butt. I saw this lady at the deli counter clutching her cell like it
would escape otherwise. I used to see people at break outside making
calls and smoking at the same time until they were forced off company
property to do one of them. It's all about the habit of doing something
that gives no reward. I got my first cell phone last year and still
found no use for it other than the app that lets me watch the
surveillance cameras live at home or maybe checking my email for no real
reason. I have to figure out how to read win7 usenet groups(keeping this
one topic). Must be an app for that.

Stan Brown wrote:
On Sat, 04 Oct 2014 12:52:53 +0100, Bob Henson wrote:

Absolutely. Apple would have got nowhere when I was a kid - we would
have wanted to know why someone would be daft enough to pay over the
odds for something not as good. It's definitely a sign of the times we
live in - in the days of my youth we did anything to be a bit different.
Now the lemmings compete to be first over the cliff.

I think it's part of the insidious fear that we may be missing
something, which drives the compulsion to check cell phones and
Twitbook and its cousins every two seconds. Young people are more
susceptible, but we older folks are not immune.

OTOH, I still have only a flip phone -- and it took me till 2008 to
get that!


I'm still amazed at the octogenarians a few decades older than I using
smart phones for mail, Twitter, Facebook, sharing photos(with friends,
family, grandchildren, etc) and listening to music..so I don't buy the
older folks as being immune (or incapable) of change....in fact said
change may actually prove beneficial from a health standpoint by
exercising those memory banks.

--
....winston
msft mvp consumer apps

On 10/4/2014 3:42 PM, "...winston‫" wrote:
Stan Brown wrote:
On Sat, 04 Oct 2014 12:52:53 +0100, Bob Henson wrote:

Absolutely. Apple would have got nowhere when I was a kid - we would
have wanted to know why someone would be daft enough to pay over the
odds for something not as good. It's definitely a sign of the times we
live in - in the days of my youth we did anything to be a bit different.
Now the lemmings compete to be first over the cliff.

I think it's part of the insidious fear that we may be missing
something, which drives the compulsion to check cell phones and
Twitbook and its cousins every two seconds. Young people are more
susceptible, but we older folks are not immune.

OTOH, I still have only a flip phone -- and it took me till 2008 to
get that!


I'm still amazed at the octogenarians a few decades older than I using
smart phones for mail, Twitter, Facebook, sharing photos(with friends,
family, grandchildren, etc) and listening to music..so I don't buy the
older folks as being immune (or incapable) of change....in fact said
change may actually prove beneficial from a health standpoint by
exercising those memory banks.

I agree. I am 70 and use email, cell phones, etc. I don't twitter, or
facebook; not that I can not, but I won't. I don't need to be that
connected to anybody.

Just remember when talking about who uses computers and modern
technology; the older generation was buying computers, setting up local
area networks, and working with word processors, and databases, when
some of you were in diapers.

I was amused last fall when we had the driveway poured. The boss was
little old man obviously from a southern farm background by his looks
and accent in the most rural area of Johnston CO NC. He arrived to do
the job, and it was not the most pleasant looking day. I asked him if
he thought he had time to do the job. He whips out is iphone, brings up
the weather and radar and answers my question.

philo* écrivait :

On 10/03/2014 01:27 PM, Buffalo wrote:
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/mic...tfrom-upgrade-
threshold,27779.html


Some info in the above link. I am undecided if I will 'upgrade' my Win
7HE 64bit or not.
Anyone have any ideas about the 'upgrade'?
Buffalo
PS: Sounds like going from 8 to 9 is a free upgrade.



MS is apparently not going to have a Window 9


I am currently evaluating Windows 10

and it has brought back the start button


If you are now using Win8 and hate it...
a free fix is to simply install Classic Shell

I have a Start menu on my 8.1 machine without any third party app. Right
click on the taskbar, select "Toolbar" then "New toolbar", in the dialog
box that opens, select the Start menu folder inside your user profile
folder. That's it, you get an old style Start menu at the right of the
taskbar.

Dominique wrote on 10/8/2014 5:21 PM:
philo écrivait :

On 10/03/2014 01:27 PM, Buffalo wrote:
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/mic...old,27779.html


Some info in the above link. I am undecided if I will 'upgrade' my Win
7HE 64bit or not.
Anyone have any ideas about the 'upgrade'?
Buffalo
PS: Sounds like going from 8 to 9 is a free upgrade.



MS is apparently not going to have a Window 9


I am currently evaluating Windows 10

and it has brought back the start button


If you are now using Win8 and hate it...
a free fix is to simply install Classic Shell

I have a Start menu on my 8.1 machine without any third party app. Right
click on the taskbar, select "Toolbar" then "New toolbar", in the dialog
box that opens, select the Start menu folder inside your user profile
folder. That's it, you get an old style Start menu at the right of the
taskbar.


You do know that only restores 1/2 the start menu, it leaves the 'all users' part off.
If you follow this example http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials...8-taskbar.html
this will build the full menu on the toolbar.

But I still like a 3rd party, classic shell, startisback, start8 etc.

On Fri, 02 Jan 2015 10:12:33 -0500, Big_Al wrote:

Dominique wrote on 10/8/2014 5:21 PM:
philo écrivait :

On 10/03/2014 01:27 PM, Buffalo wrote:
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/mic...old,27779.html


Some info in the above link. I am undecided if I will 'upgrade' my Win
7HE 64bit or not.
Anyone have any ideas about the 'upgrade'?
Buffalo
PS: Sounds like going from 8 to 9 is a free upgrade.



MS is apparently not going to have a Window 9


I am currently evaluating Windows 10

and it has brought back the start button


If you are now using Win8 and hate it...
a free fix is to simply install Classic Shell

I have a Start menu on my 8.1 machine without any third party app. Right
click on the taskbar, select "Toolbar" then "New toolbar", in the dialog
box that opens, select the Start menu folder inside your user profile
folder. That's it, you get an old style Start menu at the right of the
taskbar.


You do know that only restores 1/2 the start menu, it leaves the 'all users' part off.
If you follow this example http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials...8-taskbar.html
this will build the full menu on the toolbar.

But I still like a 3rd party, classic shell, startisback, start8 etc.

Nice tutorial. Like you, I'm going to stay with my 3rd party tool, Classic
Start Menu.

I wonder if the author of the tutorial is from North Dakota. The second step
says, "Save the new Start Menu folder to where you want to keep it stored
at", which reminds me of the way they speak there.

Where's my beer at?
Where did I park the car at?
Where are the kids at?

--

Char Jackson

"G. Morgan" wrote in message
...

Buffalo wrote:

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/mic...old,27779.html

Some info in the above link. I am undecided if I will 'upgrade' my Win 7HE
64bit or not.
Anyone have any ideas about the 'upgrade'?
Buffalo
PS: Sounds like going from 8 to 9 is a free upgrade.


There is no Win 9. They skipped to 10.


That was pointed out earlier. I am surprised that article was on
TomsHardware.com.
I find most of their stuff to be very accurate. That article was dated
September 29, 2014 12:55 PM.
I was hoping it was true so I could cheaply upgrade my Win7 HP 64bit OS.
Have a fun and exciting New Year.
--
Buffalo

On Fri, 02 Jan 2015 11:36:43 -0600, Char Jackson wrote:

On Fri, 02 Jan 2015 10:12:33 -0500, Big_Al wrote:

Dominique wrote on 10/8/2014 5:21 PM:
philo écrivait :

On 10/03/2014 01:27 PM, Buffalo wrote:
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/mic...old,27779.html


Some info in the above link. I am undecided if I will 'upgrade' my Win
7HE 64bit or not.
Anyone have any ideas about the 'upgrade'?
Buffalo
PS: Sounds like going from 8 to 9 is a free upgrade.



MS is apparently not going to have a Window 9


I am currently evaluating Windows 10

and it has brought back the start button


If you are now using Win8 and hate it...
a free fix is to simply install Classic Shell

I have a Start menu on my 8.1 machine without any third party app. Right
click on the taskbar, select "Toolbar" then "New toolbar", in the dialog
box that opens, select the Start menu folder inside your user profile
folder. That's it, you get an old style Start menu at the right of the
taskbar.


You do know that only restores 1/2 the start menu, it leaves the 'all users' part off.
If you follow this example http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials...8-taskbar.html
this will build the full menu on the toolbar.

But I still like a 3rd party, classic shell, startisback, start8 etc.

Nice tutorial. Like you, I'm going to stay with my 3rd party tool, Classic
Start Menu.

I wonder if the author of the tutorial is from North Dakota. The second step
says, "Save the new Start Menu folder to where you want to keep it stored
at", which reminds me of the way they speak there.

Where's my beer at?
Where did I park the car at?
Where are the kids at?

Only the first of those questions *really* matters, if you ask me.

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)