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Post# 1100434 , Reply# 3   12/13/2020 at 11:47 (1,223 days old) by Rolls_rapide (.)   |   | |
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It appears that by installing Avira, it has automatically installed Opera browser without my explicit consent. As far as I can see, I wasn't asked whether I wanted it or not. |
Post# 1100505 , Reply# 4   12/14/2020 at 00:08 (1,223 days old) by robbinsandmyers (Conn)   |   | |
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Post# 1100511 , Reply# 5   12/14/2020 at 06:42 (1,222 days old) by Rolls_rapide (.)   |   | |
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I think Firefox runs a bit quicker than Chrome. One thing I do notice, is the fonts aren't quite as 'clean' in Firefox. They're a little less clearly defined - at least to my eyes. |
Post# 1100527 , Reply# 6   12/14/2020 at 08:54 (1,222 days old) by vacerator (Macomb, Michigan)   |   | |
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no longer supported. Dump this O.S. and install 10. |
Post# 1100544 , Reply# 7   12/14/2020 at 09:22 (1,222 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.)   |   | |
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Successive recent updates on Firefox claim performance/speed improvements to the rendering engine. Seems legitimate to me. One bottleneck that happens for me is ... I often open several YouTube videos in tabs in preparation for watching them, and occasionally leave them open for a while if I get interrupted. FF may cache some of the streams (to a point) ahead of playback. My hard drive may thrash for several minutes upon closing the session, and/or when reopening FF later, presumably while it clears temporary/cached data. A factor may be that my computer is 32-bit and 4GB RAM (some of which it uses for video RAM). |
Post# 1105743 , Reply# 9   1/24/2021 at 16:48 (1,181 days old) by WhiteWhiskers (Silicon Valley, California)   |   | |
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I suspect your hard drive is going bad. Now would be an excellent time to make a backup of all your data files. Then do a clean upgrade to Windows 10. It's free if you are using a legit install of Windows 7. Maybe even upgrade to a Solid State Drive (SSD) if your current drive is a spinning disk. The speed increase with an SSD is awesome.
My 2014 Dell laptop came with a 1TB spinning Seagate and was totally slow and a major bottleneck. I replaced it was a 240GB Samsung, the difference is like night and day. |
Post# 1105755 , Reply# 10   1/24/2021 at 21:01 (1,181 days old) by SudsMaster (SF Bay Area, California)   |   | |
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Windows 10 comes with a fairly decent antivirus feature in "Windows Security".
I've noticed my Dell desktop system running the latest W10 will occasionally slow. 9 times out of 10 it's because some program is attempting to update; sometimes it's Window itself. Often I find that just rebooting the system tends to speed up the updating process, or to install updates that are waiting and in waiting slowing the system down. I also bought Malware Defender and can recommend it. The latest Firefox is pretty good too. I also don't care much for Chrome. This post was last edited 01/24/2021 at 21:24 |
Post# 1105770 , Reply# 12   1/25/2021 at 07:29 (1,180 days old) by vacerator (Macomb, Michigan)   |   | |
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I liked XP a lot, but moved on. |
Post# 1105791 , Reply# 13   1/25/2021 at 11:54 (1,180 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.)   |   | |
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Post# 1105798 , Reply# 15   1/25/2021 at 12:49 (1,180 days old) by MattL (Flushing, MI)   |   | |
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Widows 10 has the option to run in compatibility mode, XP, 7 and so on. |
Post# 1105809 , Reply# 16   1/25/2021 at 13:35 (1,180 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.)   |   | |
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RJ has a situation at work involving industry-specific software for reading data and calculating a billing factor. It's installed on an XP system. The software went off support some years ago, and can't be moved or installed to a new system for an issue related to licensing. What's the potential luck on updating XP to Win10? He's retiring in May so these issues wil be somebody else's problem (his outfit is finding out a lot of things about what all he does and is scrambling to reassign the various duties, LOL). |
Post# 1105860 , Reply# 17   1/26/2021 at 00:20 (1,180 days old) by LowEfficiency (Iowa)   |   | |
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>> It's installed on an XP system. The software went off support some years ago, and can't be moved or installed to a new system for an issue related to licensing.
If the software can't be transferred or reinstalled, then you by definition have no solution for a hardware failure. That's a pretty significant problem! There are still companies running XP (or older operating systems) in specific situations where software capabilities truly can't be replaced, but where it is practical to isolate the machines to mitigate the security concerns. Sawmills, factory machinery, etc. But for anything critical, you have to be able to replace the hardware if need be, or you're just one power surge or component failure (remember the capacitor plague?) away from having nothing at all. For companies with a reliance on outdated tech, hardware backups are just as important as software backups. |
Post# 1105894 , Reply# 19   1/26/2021 at 12:00 (1,179 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.)   |   | |
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There's a squabble currently happening about who is going to handle one of the tasks. Only RJ and his dept head understand the details ... and the uppity head surely won't do it. RJ said "such-and-such can probably learn." Head snapped "such-and-such won't have time for that." About which RJ said (to me) I handled that plus everything else I did but such-and-such can't. I spent 44 years making sure it was kept in order, now it's going to be a big mess. I said yup, that's what happens, don't let it be your problem. |
Post# 1105897 , Reply# 20   1/26/2021 at 12:38 (1,179 days old) by robbinsandmyers (Conn)   |   | |
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I have an older HP Pavillion G7 laptop running Windows 7 that has diagnostic software installed for new Stihl products thats really slowed down. I'm also going to be downloading Husqvarna diagnostic software now as well. I've been weary about converting this to Windows 10 for fear it wont handle it and cause all sorts of trouble. Maybe I should just buy a new laptop lol.
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Post# 1105902 , Reply# 21   1/26/2021 at 13:26 (1,179 days old) by MattL (Flushing, MI)   |   | |
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Most newer OS's will strain older equipment, so if a new laptop is an option it might be the best move. Linux will run great on older equipment but with some proprietary software that is not an option. |
Post# 1105915 , Reply# 23   1/26/2021 at 16:59 (1,179 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.)   |   | |
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I use both Spybot and Malwarebytes (free versions). I don't recall that they've ever found anything of concern on my systems. Firefox 85.0 was released today. No longer supports Adobe Flash (I uninstalled Flash a couple months ago), although the Frigidaire unimatic animation on the front page still works so apparently FF includes code to interpret Flash (or Robert has already revised it). Also has added defense against "supercookie" trackers which are said to persist even after otherwise manually clearing cookies. |
Post# 1105983 , Reply# 27   1/27/2021 at 10:53 (1,178 days old) by vacerator (Macomb, Michigan)   |   | |
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it out! |
Post# 1106353 , Reply# 28   1/31/2021 at 11:40 (1,174 days old) by twintubdexter (Palm Springs)   |   | |
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If you download the the "Reason" program in this post you will be billed $27.95. This charge appeared on my PayPal account although I never entered any PayPal information or authorized it. Very strange since my PayPal password is very complex. Ii's not worth the trouble to dispute this since PayPal only offers assistance on eBay transactions, however I did close the account. The "Reason" program found nothing that my Norton protection didn't already take care of. Dumb me... |
Post# 1106378 , Reply# 30   1/31/2021 at 13:51 (1,174 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands)   |   | |
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Post# 1106389 , Reply# 31   1/31/2021 at 16:42 (1,174 days old) by warmsecondrinse (Fort Lee, NJ)   |   | |
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#32 Done! |
Post# 1106546 , Reply# 32   2/2/2021 at 18:15 (1,172 days old) by twintubdexter (Palm Springs)   |   | |
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