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February 15th 18, 01:17 PM
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Build 17083
I am no longer running my insider preview. I lost my hard drive and of
course the copy. I just got an insider email from MS explaining some of the new features in 17083 build. I'm interested in one particular item they touched on. "A new Font Settings page + and fonts in the Microsoft Store. Preview more font capabilities such as color and variable fonts and grab even more fonts directly from the Microsoft Store." This seems to imply, at least to me, that they are bring back the granular control of font sizes. Am I reading between the lines too much? Are they really listening to us?? Obviously this is aimed at someone running the latest insider preview copy. 
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February 15th 18, 01:37 PM
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Build 17083
On 15/02/2018 13:17, Big Al wrote:
I lost my hard drive and of course the copy. How do people lose a hard drive? what are they doing on their machines? I have NOT changed a HD for more than 12 years and my machine is still running fine. The machine is Dell Optiplex 760. -- With over 600 million devices now running Windows 10, customer satisfaction is higher than any previous version of windows.
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February 15th 18, 01:42 PM
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Build 17083
On 15/2/2018 21:17, Big Al wrote:
"A new Font Settings page + and fonts in the Microsoft Store. Preview more font capabilities such as color and variable fonts and grab even more fonts directly from the Microsoft Store." How could I change fonts used by the desktop (e.g. icon font)? The whole settings page was gone starting with 1709 if not earlier! -- @~@ Remain silent! Drink, Blink, Stretch! Live long and prosper!! / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! /( _ )\ May the Force and farces be with you! ^ ^ (x86_64 Ubuntu 9.10) Linux 2.6.39.3 不借貸! 不詐騙! 不援交! 不打交! 不打劫! 不自殺! 請考慮綜援 (CSSA): http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_...sub_addressesa
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February 15th 18, 01:52 PM
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Build 17083
On 2/15/2018 8:42 AM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
On 15/2/2018 21:17, Big Al wrote: "A new Font Settings page + and fonts in the Microsoft Store. Preview more font capabilities such as color and variable fonts and grab even more fonts directly from the Microsoft Store." How could I change fonts used by the desktop (e.g. icon font)? The whole settings page was gone starting with 1709 if not earlier! Hey, I'm just quoting the Microsoft Insider email. Not having the insider preview any more means I can't verify their statement. I'd sure like to see that font adjustment feature back, but you know MS and their lack of control given to the user.
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February 15th 18, 01:54 PM
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Build 17083
On 2/15/2018 8:37 AM, Good Guy wrote:
On 15/02/2018 13:17, Big Al wrote: *I lost my hard drive and of course the copy. How do people lose a hard drive?* what are they doing on their machines?* I have NOT changed a HD for more than 12 years and my machine is still running fine.* The machine is Dell Optiplex 760. **** happens Good Guy! **** happens. Actually I have an image and luckily it was loaded in a VM so there would be no license issue but I just haven't had time to reload VMware to set it up again. I've got more pressing issues.
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February 15th 18, 02:11 PM
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Build 17083
Big Al wrote:
On 2/15/2018 8:37 AM, Good Guy wrote: On 15/02/2018 13:17, Big Al wrote: *I lost my hard drive and of course the copy. How do people lose a hard drive?* what are they doing on their machines?* I have NOT changed a HD for more than 12 years and my machine is still running fine.* The machine is Dell Optiplex 760. **** happens Good Guy!** **** happens. Actually I have an image and luckily it was loaded in a VM so there would be no license issue but I just haven't had time to reload VMware to set it up again.** I've got more pressing issues. Also new drives have incredible capacities on the cheap but at the expense of reliability. Had a large number of 1T drives bite the big one. Still have some ancient 1G drives that are still error free... -- Take care, Jonathan ------------------- LITTLE WORKS STUDIO http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com
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February 15th 18, 04:02 PM
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Build 17083
On 15-Feb-2018 08:42, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
On 15/2/2018 21:17, Big Al wrote: "A new Font Settings page + and fonts in the Microsoft Store. Preview more font capabilities such as color and variable fonts and grab even more fonts directly from the Microsoft Store." How could I change fonts used by the desktop (e.g. icon font)? The whole settings page was gone starting with 1709 if not earlier! https://www.wintools.info/index.php/...m-font-changer
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February 15th 18, 04:20 PM
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On 16/2/2018 00:02, Elvira wrote:
How could I change fonts used by the desktop (e.g. icon font)? The whole settings page was gone starting with 1709 if not earlier! https://www.wintools.info/index.php/...m-font-changer If Micro$oft didn't remove that settings page, we would not have needed an extra virgin freeware to do it.  -- @~@ Remain silent! Drink, Blink, Stretch! Live long and prosper!! / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! /( _ )\ May the Force and farces be with you! ^ ^ (x86_64 Ubuntu 9.10) Linux 2.6.39.3 不借貸! 不詐騙! 不援交! 不打交! 不打劫! 不自殺! 請考慮綜援 (CSSA): http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_...sub_addressesa
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February 15th 18, 04:47 PM
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Build 17083
On 2/15/2018 11:02 AM, Elvira wrote:
On 15-Feb-2018 08:42, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote: On 15/2/2018 21:17, Big Al wrote: "A new Font Settings page + and fonts in the Microsoft Store. Preview more font capabilities such as color and variable fonts and grab even more fonts directly from the Microsoft Store." How could I change fonts used by the desktop (e.g. icon font)? The whole settings page was gone starting with 1709 if not earlier! https://www.wintools.info/index.php/...m-font-changer another also. https://www.wintools.info/index.php/...m-font-changer
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February 15th 18, 04:48 PM
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Build 17083
On 2/15/2018 11:47 AM, Big Al wrote:
On 2/15/2018 11:02 AM, Elvira wrote: On 15-Feb-2018 08:42, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote: On 15/2/2018 21:17, Big Al wrote: "A new Font Settings page + and fonts in the Microsoft Store. Preview more font capabilities such as color and variable fonts and grab even more fonts directly from the Microsoft Store." How could I change fonts used by the desktop (e.g. icon font)? The whole settings page was gone starting with 1709 if not earlier! https://www.wintools.info/index.php/...m-font-changer another also. https://www.wintools.info/index.php/...m-font-changer OOps sorry. Same link.
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February 15th 18, 05:01 PM
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Build 17083
Big Al wrote:
On 2/15/2018 8:42 AM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote: On 15/2/2018 21:17, Big Al wrote: "A new Font Settings page + and fonts in the Microsoft Store. Preview more font capabilities such as color and variable fonts and grab even more fonts directly from the Microsoft Store." How could I change fonts used by the desktop (e.g. icon font)? The whole settings page was gone starting with 1709 if not earlier! Hey, I'm just quoting the Microsoft Insider email. Not having the insider preview any more means I can't verify their statement. I'd sure like to see that font adjustment feature back, but you know MS and their lack of control given to the user. Here's a picture of a Font Setting. https://s14.postimg.org/lupxjrk41/fonts1.gif The interface: 1) Doesn't show the current font selection. Is it Segoe ? Dunno. No font was currently highlighted when I scrolled down, and there was no summary at the top. 2) There are no size adjustments on that page. But the emojis are "purdy". And that's important when I'm licking the screen of my SmartPhone. I don't know what a desktop looks like with that font enabled. I happened to click the Themes item just above the Font menu item... and the Settings screen just "disappeared". I took this as an omen and shut down :-) That machine is currently disconnected from the 'net, as I was comparing 093 to 101 just to see if the Disk Defragmenter was busted on both OSes, and it appears to be. The Defragmenter won't run. And I got my sound back on 093, by reinstalling a RealTek driver sitting in my downloads folder. Loss of sound only started happening recently. You can tell a release is coming, because the quality is dropping... fast. I don't really think they ship the stuff they show us, and a parallel stream (all fixed up), is baking in the wings. That's my guess. Their test strategy doesn't appear to be linear. I don't think showing me a broken OS is "A/B testing". Paul
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February 15th 18, 05:13 PM
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On 15-2-2018 17:47, Big Al wrote:
On 2/15/2018 11:02 AM, Elvira wrote: On 15-Feb-2018 08:42, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote: On 15/2/2018 21:17, Big Al wrote: "A new Font Settings page + and fonts in the Microsoft Store. Preview more font capabilities such as color and variable fonts and grab even more fonts directly from the Microsoft Store." How could I change fonts used by the desktop (e.g. icon font)? The whole settings page was gone starting with 1709 if not earlier! https://www.wintools.info/index.php/...m-font-changer another also. https://www.wintools.info/index.php/...m-font-changer Nice site. Downloaded a handful of utilitys.
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February 15th 18, 10:57 PM
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Build 17083
On Thu, 15 Feb 2018 08:17:10 -0500, Big Al wrote:
I am no longer running my insider preview. I lost my hard drive and of course the copy. I just got an insider email from MS explaining some of the new features in 17083 build. I'm interested in one particular item they touched on. "A new Font Settings page + and fonts in the Microsoft Store. Preview more font capabilities such as color and variable fonts and grab even more fonts directly from the Microsoft Store." This seems to imply, at least to me, that they are bring back the granular control of font sizes. Am I reading between the lines too much? Are they really listening to us?? Obviously this is aimed at someone running the latest insider preview copy. 17083 was replaced by 17101 yesterday. I don't know what you mean by 'granular control of font sizes' but so far as I can tell the control displays all the installed fonts, with examples, tells how many 'font faces' each one has, permits an a sample to be displayed in sizes from 8 to 72pt, shows its metadata and provides an uninstall button. Installed fonts can be searched and displayed according to a long list of languages. I don't think it's something that I will ever need to use.
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February 15th 18, 11:10 PM
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Build 17083
Way back in the late 80's I had an IBM Model 50. Lost the hard drive on
that. That's the last time I had a drive go kaput! I think it's pretty hard to lose a hard drive today though. "Big Al" wrote in message news 
On 2/15/2018 8:37 AM, Good Guy wrote: On 15/02/2018 13:17, Big Al wrote: I lost my hard drive and of course the copy. How do people lose a hard drive? what are they doing on their machines? I have NOT changed a HD for more than 12 years and my machine is still running fine. The machine is Dell Optiplex 760. **** happens Good Guy! **** happens. Actually I have an image and luckily it was loaded in a VM so there would be no license issue but I just haven't had time to reload VMware to set it up again. I've got more pressing issues.
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February 15th 18, 11:28 PM
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"jimrx4" wrote in news
Way back in the late 80's I had an IBM Model 50. Lost the hard drive on that. That's the last time I had a drive go kaput! I think it's pretty hard to lose a hard drive today though. "Big Al" wrote in message news
On 2/15/2018 8:37 AM, Good Guy wrote: On 15/02/2018 13:17, Big Al wrote: I lost my hard drive and of course the copy. How do people lose a hard drive? what are they doing on their machines? I have NOT changed a HD for more than 12 years and my machine is still running fine. The machine is Dell Optiplex 760. **** happens Good Guy! **** happens. Actually I have an image and luckily it was loaded in a VM so there would be no license issue but I just haven't had time to reload VMware to set it up again. I've got more pressing issues. I've been running PCs since the first IBM PCs, and provided office support at work up to the first Pentium Fives, as well as my own at home. The first drive I lost was last fall, and two so far this year. To be honest, one of those two was probably about five years old, and run continuously all during that time, as I don't shut down my system any more. Today's drives run to tolerances the earlier drives could only dream of. That means greater capacity and speed, but it also lessens the available margin of error before something goes bad. One of my bosses from the early 80s told stories of using emery cloth to smooth the disk (drum actually) surface after a head crash. We've come a long ways baby. The other thing to remember is that there are more people using PCs, with a greater percentage reporting their problems in forums like this, then ever before. It used to be you fixed it yourself, got a friend to help, or took it to a repair shop. Now you can bitch on the internet before fixing it yourself, getting a friend to help, or taking it to the repair shop. Perception is a powerful thing.
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