Yeah, Edge is a totally different browser built from the ground up, has nothing in common with IE. It's actually pretty fast, but Chrome/FF have that whole market now so I don't know why Microsoft even bothered.
I didn't know what, if anything, it had in common with IE. I keep getting messages on my desktop telling me how great it is.
Win 7. I never intend to get 10, or at least not for a few years till they iron out some of the bugs. They'll probably support 7 past the cutoff date of 2020, because they extended XP support 3 times. 7 is a stable, solid OS. I've made the UI look just like XP , using Classic Shell. But I made my XP look like 98. So 7 now looks like 98. Only the UI, not the innards.
It actually is pretty good. I dont use it much because even though it has apps and Tampermonkey not many people are making apps or scripts for it. But its generally a bit faster and doesnt leak so much memory. You also get bing points for surfing.
Yup, had my imac since 2010 and it's still going strong. The only issue is some weird fan noises that seem to be happening more often. I need to get a new laptop, but I'm not sure if I'm going to get a Mac or another kind. Anyone have any good laptop suggestions?
Only that they're both MS products. I've been a devoted Firefox user, and before that, Netscape, for 20 years.
I'd upload a picture of my desktop but you can probably guess after seeing my avatar and profile information here. No image, just plain blue. One icon, the recycle bin, because I couldn't figure out how to make it go away. The taskbar is set to auto-hide so I don't have to see it. When it is visible, the notification area has a clock and a volume control, nothing else.
That's not the only way MS is spying on us. They've installed their own spyware in Win 7, 8 and 10. I've had this puter only a month, but I'm researching how to turn it off.
The desktop always struck me as a curious thing. People put fancy pictures there, dozens (sometimes hundreds) of icons, sundry widgets, gadgets, and who knows what else. It makes me think everyone else uses their computer differently than me. I see the desktop for maybe 5 seconds when I first turn the computer on. At all other times it is covered by, well, windows. I can't see any of it. And it is a damn inconvenient place to put icons if you have to minimize all the windows to get to them...
Glad you brought this up, about the spying. Everyone is spying on us. There was a survey earlier about mattresses and just a few minutes ago I opened my email and saw amazon ads for mattresses. Furthermore, I am 100 percent positive I did the survey on my phone, but I checked my email and saw the ads on my pc.
That means you have to hunt around in the filing system to find things. On mine, I have the folders and programs I access most often, and I have my own collection of wallpapers, photos that I've collected. I like lots of color, so I've made most of the icons on my desktop.
You don't. In Win 7, you can access the desktop with a tiny icon on the extreme right corner of your taskbar. I don't know about 8 and 10. We didn't have that in XP, so I put my own desktop shortcut in the Start Menu. I use the desktop as a starting point for things I access often. The left side of the Start Menu is for things I access less often. The least often are the programs in the main body of Start Menu. It doesn't matter how you use the desktop. Computers are meant to be customizable to any way that suits you. That's why there are 4 diff ways of doing everything, why everything can be tweaked, and why there are customizations of the OS and all the programs. I've belonged to a computer club for 20 years, and I'm my own techie. Computing to me isn't just for doing things; it's a hobby. When I need help, there are computer forums that I go to. Usually forums.mozillazine.org for Mozilla products or www.virtualdr.com for other topics. The people who run them are often either in IT or retired from it.
Your eyes are being sold to advertisers by the websites you're on. That's why you saw mattresses after searching for them. If you set your browser to remove your cookies every time you close it, the ads will be irrelevant. Better yet, use an adblocker, and you'll never see any ads. I used AdBlocker Plus for some years, now I use Ublock Origin, on Firefox. I believe Chrome has its own built-in adblocker.
Heresy! She's a witch! Burn the... Seriously though, as time goes by things seem less and less customizable. New "features" are added which are either impossible to turn off or need some obscure registry edit, etc. Basically software companies are getting a bad case of "we're right. you're wrong. do it our way." They do irritating things to force you to upgrade from versions that allow you to do it your way to ones that force you to do it their way. I do almost everything through the start menu instead of the desktop. You know, the one Microsoft decided we didn't need anymore. And then eventually added back but in a new annoying format with tiles and bigass lists of programs and links in alphabetical order that completely ignore the nice folder structure you've set up.