Subj : Re: Old mail and new! To : Holger Granholm From : Ed Vance Date : Mon Oct 17 2016 19:52:00 10-14-16 09:46 Holger Granholm wrote to Ed Vance about Re: Old mail and new! Howdy! Holger, HG> @MSGID: <58020798.14893.windowsa@capcity2.synchro.net> HG> In a message on Friday 10-12-16 Ed Vance said to Holger Granholm: HG> GE Ed, PQ>> Ahmm... the "Great Race" is on this weekend, Holger. HG> I do however expect a new weekly listing today, ....... EV> I am not a fan of Automobile Racing, but I hope You and Paul like EV> watching the races, and the Drivers all drive across the Finish HG> The Bathurst race is one of the hightlites on the racing calendar. HG> I can also tell you Ed, that the form of racing in VK and ZL, is HG> totally different from the oval races in the US. HG> I really enjoy looking at the races, since the drivers are more HG> disciplined, and the rules don't allow any pushing of competitors. HG> The same goes for most international and british races. O.K. PQ> I gave up on Windows 8.1 after I got a pop-up from Hewlett-Packard PQ> advising that the warranty had expired, and, also being bugged by PQ> Avast warnings about renewing my registration. EV> I run XP and Vista and gonna stay with them after reading comments EV> on askwoody.com about Microsoft changing Win7 updates to be like EV> WinTen does, "Get 'Em All In One Big File", EV> No Option to choose from those that are proven to be Safe. HG> Consequently, you both missed the boat, while an upgrade to 10 was HG> free! Since XPp I have not used any intermediate version of Windows, HG> until I received a Dell laptop with Win 10 as a xmas present from my HG> GS. I looked at Microsofts free WTEN offer as being like the Apple tied to a string on a pole that was held over the donkeys head and just a tiny BIT farther away than the donkey's tongue could touch it. To quote: "For what the big print giveth, the small print taketh away.". HG> After noting that it is a viable upgrade, I didn't waste any time to HG> buy a stationary machine with Win7 and upgraded it to Win10 for free. HG> The problems I've had, are related to moving to new programs that don't HG> work as the ones I have for OS/2, for example moving from PMMail to HG> Thunderbird. There I've received help from Paul, and from Jean for the HG> shorthands to call up functions/programmes in Win10. I had one big problem with Thunderbird when several thousand messages in the In-Box got cleared out after I compacted TB. It didn't do that the several times I compacted messages before, but it sure did it that day. I still use TB, I just move messages out of the In-Box to other Boxes I've made for them. EV> I was thinking that MS would at least still offer that Malicious EV> Software Removal Tool for the XP box but my experience the other day EV> taught me that they don't care to protect what they sell. HG> There are free programs for that purpose, but of course not everything HG> that glitters is gold. I did recently learn that Malware is free only HG> for a limited time. If You are speaking of MALWAREBYTES, they have a Free and a Paid version. I use the Free and manually update the Definitions as I want to, the Paid version does that automagically. HG> AD-aware has gone from an anti-ad software, to a 'full-fledged' virus HG> program. I was only interested in the anti-ad property, since I have HG> AVG installed on both Win10 machines, as well as ZoneAlarm. Recently I read that AVAST! owns AVG now. Have You read about that too? EV> And I'm too cheap to buy a pc with a 'Newer' OS that MS wants to EV> Control from their HQ. HG> Suit yourself, anyway you did miss the free boat, hi. Enjoy the "Apple". 73 de Ed W9ODR . . .... IBM: Invented By Murphy --- MultiMail/MS-DOS v0.49 --- SBBSecho 2.12-Linux * Origin: CCO BBS - capcity2.synchro.net - 1-502-875-8938 (1:2320/105.1) .