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Re: Windows 11

By: Zimbler0 in GRITZ | Recommend this post (0)
Sun, 09 Nov 25 5:26 PM | 3 view(s)
Boardmark this board | Grits Breakfast of Champeens! 		Msg. 13751 of 13754
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Decomposed > I'm not a Luddite. I never have been.


Hey, De.
I do still have the notes you posted on how to turn windoze 11 into something more 'bearable'.

I think the biggest beef I have with windoze is every new version seems to be more forceful about 'Bill Gates Knows Best' . . . And less about how 'I' want to do things.

Point in case. Before retiring my job went to Win-10 . . . and OneDrive . . . and when I went to collect all 'My' files I could not find some of them . . and then found out that they were on that OneDrive. And I do NOT want all my data being stored by 'Nanny Gates'.

And I might just be a Luddite . . . I don't think I want an AI rooting around in my files either.

Zim.




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Re: Windows 11
By: De_Composed in GRITZ
Sun, 09 Nov 25 2:37 PM 		Msg. 13749 of 13754

Zimbler0:

Re: “And the only thing I do on the danged thing IS my taxes.”Do you recall what beefs you had with it?

As I said, I had to fix things. At the very start, I turned off OneDrive, buried Microsoft Edge and installed the OS shell that makes Windows 11 look and feel like Windows 7. I made right-clicking on an icon return the same choices that were given under Windows 10. I moved the "Start" button into the lower left corner. There may have been some other things I did that I've forgotten, but the system is now very similar to how it was under Windows 10 - and not wildly different from how it was under Windows 7.

With Dragon Naturally Speaking gone I had to learn how to use Voice Access and Windows Speech Recognition. I also had to write a menu driven template-to-clipboard loader. That works extremely well and runs whenever I type Ctrl-Alt-P.

Copilot - which is free and unlimited - is the best thing since sliced bread. Without it, I guess I'd have to start paying for Grok or Chat GPT, 'cuz for me there's no going back to life without AI.

I'm not a Luddite. I never have been. I like change that make sense. But I detest change that is for change's sake or is for someone else's benefit. At this point, I'd say the changes brought about by Windows 11 have been a net benefit to me. In fact, there's no question of it. The last time a comparable improvement was introduced was when internet browsers came along. But YMMV. I'm doing a lot of interesting coding nowadays. Copilot made that possible.

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