Windows 1.0 was a total flop, and Windows 2.0 was only slightly more rigid. In fact, before Windows 3.0, most computer users were more familiar with operating systems like MS-DOS. They actually preferred flawlessly typing ornate commands onto a black screen like cyber-wizards, so they resisted the early graphical user interfaces of Windows 1.0 and 2.0.
What was different about version 3.0? It came with Solitaire. Simple, unassuming Solitaire. As a game, Solitaire has been incredibly successful. It’s long been the most-used Windows application, and fans foamed at the mouth when Microsoft took it away in 2015. How else are you supposed to waste time at work? They block all the good parts of the internet.
But Solitaire wasn’t meant as a pure procrastination tool – it was Microsoft’s low-key way of teaching people to use their new, high-tech “mouse” technology. Since everyone already understood how the game worked with physical cards, it was the perfect program to teach them how to click (to “pick up”), drag, and drop (release) cards, just as they could do with files and folders.
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just-shower-thoughts: The fact task manager is at the top of my most used programs says a lot about Windows 10.
Microsoft Auto-Scheduling Windows 10 Updates
that’s right kiddos, they’re trying to use automatic updates to force your computer to upgrade to win 10.
Which would be fine and dandy if every windows user in the world ran a standard operating environment but they fucking don’t and this will break a lot of computers.
To stop this for win 7: Go to your control panel, select Windows Updates. Click on Change Settings. Pick any option you like except ‘install updates automatically’ (Personally I use “download but let me choose” as M$ has a nasty habit of breaking things with unnecessary patches, but then again I know this shit backwards, so YMMV)
If you’re running win XP: Stop punishing yourself.
Signal boost for anyone who might have this option on.
I don’t, but I elected to upgrade my Surface to 10 and have regretted it. No way in hell I’d want it on my desktop machine.
P.S.: fuck Canon also for refusing to make drivers for slightly older printers on Win10. Win10 acts like it has all the
answersdrivers, but it doesn’t. Even if you want to upgrade, check printer compatibility before you do or you may end up with devices you can’t use with that computer anymore.Boosting. Windows 10 completely broke my machine because not all of my hardware was compatible with it. Which is a really common thing. If your hardware works with 10, it’s fukkin great. But if it doesn’t, your computer will explode.
Windows updated my WORK COMPUTER to Windows 10 while my shop was open – meaning there was a two hour period that we could not use the register, and had to hand write every receipt while it was updating. Many things are now not compatible, too. Please check your computer if you don’t want to update even if you’ve rejected it before!! (We had opted out of Windows 10 for months – even uninstalled the windows pop up for it and it still came back. Be careful, y’all)
astrolantern: background music from windows xp installation. few people actually heard it, because it was set to play before the audio drivers were configured. filepath: C:Windowssystem32oobeimagestitle.wma
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