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Bad luck or what. What Windows to try this time?
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Over the last few years I hav had two Windows 10 machines, and tried several others, but with little luck. The first one, a refurbished desktop kept crashing, and finally these fried its motherboard.
The second was an HP laptop, which I did not like the keyboard on and even with a full sized one plugged in kept having corruption issues where things stopped working, menus failed to read and all sorts. This was comparatively recently. It went back. So on borrowed machines the same inconsistent problems occurred, like menus not reading and needing a reboot, or cannot find network but it found it first time before. No malware found ettc. I'm now back on Windows 7 machine, and am beginning to wonder if its me? So stability wise and all of that, is it now best to find a desktop that comes with windows 11, since the cut of date for 10 is only two years away, and is there some tutorial around that gives details of getting a windows 7 user onto Windows 11, without basically ruining it as I seem to do with windows 10. Sighted people often say that apart from the cosmetics, Windows is essentially just the same. Of course there is one difference in that MY Windows 7 has no ribbons on explorer due to classic shell, but I don't see why that would be different. I guess one can still set up windows so that you can have several explorer windows open at once as I do now, but I do tend to like to remove clutter, like the voice assistants and news and other crap in the various bars. If I want those I should be able to create a shortcut to run them as and when, surely. I do not intend to use touch, and would wish to disable that on the machine, and in any case I'd most of the time have the monitor turned off and use a USB sound box through my hi fi. I've had it with hdmis that steal the audio and shove it through the plugged in device for monitor. I use the 9 way D connector and leave the audio plug out. Maybe i'm just too prescriptive, and its that which causes my unreliability issues, but there you go. I cannot run 11 on this machine, but it does run10, but I do not want to burn my bridges until I'm sure the new system can run all the software I need in accessible versions of course. OK this is probably an unanswerable query, but the problems I've gone through with various versions of Windows 10, do make me leary of getting my fingers burned again. Is Windows 11 stable if you try to do non standard things with it? Brian -- bglists@... Sent via blueyonder.(Virgin media) Please address personal E-mail to:- briang1@..., putting 'Brian Gaff' in the display name field. |
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Gene
I don't know where you have gotten all these computers but there is
nothing wrong with Windows 10 itself.
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I've been a member of a number of blindness technology lists for a long time. If there were anything generally wrong with Windows 10, it would have been discussed by a lot of users. I have seen no such discussion. Your machines could have had various hardware issues such as one machine may have had corrupted RAM from the file corruption issues you discussed. If you get a properly working machine and proper installation of Windows, you should not have problems. My Windows 10 runs as well as my Windows 7. I don't have an opinion about whether it is better to get Windows 10 or Windows 11 now. While I don't know what you want to do with Windows Explorer, aside from changing certain settings at the outset, I don't see why you should have to use ribbons at all. How the File Explorer interface differs between Windows 10 and 11, I don't know though, from comments I've seen, it is more inconvenient to change certain settings using Windows 11. Gene On 4/1/2023 6:19 AM, Brian's Mail list
account via groups.io wrote:
Over the last few years I hav had two Windows 10 machines, and tried several others, but with little luck. The first one, a refurbished desktop kept crashing, and finally these fried its motherboard. |
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On Sat, Apr 1, 2023 at 07:19 AM, Brian's Mail list account wrote:
Is Windows 11 stable if you try to do non standard things with it?- No operating system is stable if you try to do sufficiently non-standard things with it. Windows 10 and 11 both are far more stable than Windows 7 ever was. If you're acquiring a new computer then Windows 11 is what it's going to come with unless you were to special order a unit downgraded to Windows 10, which makes no sense whatsoever for the vast majority of users. -- Brian - Virginia, USA - Windows 11 Pro, 64-Bit, Version 22H2, Build 22621; Office 2016, Version 16.0.15726.20188, 32-bit; Android 12 (MIUI 13) Let me hasten to add that I *do* like cologne. I just much prefer it as a subtle hint instead of an aromachete. ~ Clay Colwell |
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Yes, I think, although it goes against logic, that there are certain people who just find they only have to walk in the room and the tech fails. I would not count myself in that list, but maybe my eternal tweaking of stuff does have the effect on reliability. No the first computer was fine, it had an AMD chip and 8 gigs of ram and did not run hot. My feeling was that it was the power supply that caused a lot of the issues. However the HP was brand new, and had a clean install of Win 10 on it.
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It was fast and had an ssd, but just did not seem to be reliable. Luckily it was on loan and did not have to be exchanged, I had decided by this time that a desktop fit my needs better in any case. So apart from legacy software which we all have to try to work around, it should not be a problem once the configuration is done to remove clutter. Brian -- bglists@... Sent via blueyonder.(Virgin media) Please address personal E-mail to:- briang1@..., putting 'Brian Gaff' in the display name field. ----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Vogel" <britechguy@...> To: <chat@nvda.groups.io> Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2023 3:02 PM Subject: Re: [NVDA Chat] Bad luck or what. What Windows to try this time? On Sat, Apr 1, 2023 at 07:19 AM, Brian's Mail list account wrote: - No operating system is stable if you try to do sufficiently non-standard things with it. Windows 10 and 11 both are far more stable than Windows 7 ever was. If you're acquiring a new computer then Windows 11 is what it's going to come with unless you were to special order a unit downgraded to Windows 10, which makes no sense whatsoever for the vast majority of users. -- Brian - Virginia, USA - Windows 11 Pro, 64-Bit, Version 22H2, Build 22621; Office 2016, Version 16.0.15726.20188, 32-bit; Android 12 (MIUI 13) Let me hasten to add that I *do* like cologne. I just much prefer it as a subtle hint instead of an aromachete. ~ Clay Colwell |
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On Sun, Apr 2, 2023 at 10:21 AM, Brian's Mail list account wrote:
maybe my eternal tweaking of stuff does have the effect on reliability.- From my observations, over time, based on your messages I'd guarantee it. I'd also say that you are, by and large, your own worst enemy. You constantly have issues that I have never encountered in all my years working on PCs and in assistive technology specifically. Leaving well enough alone is an option, and a good one. -- Brian - Virginia, USA - Windows 11 Pro, 64-Bit, Version 22H2, Build 22621; Office 2016, Version 16.0.15726.20188, 32-bit; Android 12 (MIUI 13) Let me hasten to add that I *do* like cologne. I just much prefer it as a subtle hint instead of an aromachete. ~ Clay Colwell |
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