All I have to say is Eloquence sucks along with ESPeak. If you are running WIN 8.x or 10 the on board MS One Core or SAPI 5 ones are great. Sent from Mail for Windows 10

What a coincidence that your email came through right now! I was going to download that right after checking a few emails. I will post my opinion in a day or 2. James B

I'm saying this not as a moderator, but as a list member. I really object to you giving companies disparaging nicknames and I especially object to it when the company has a much better record on

Hi Joseph, Thanks for summing this up. So, I was concerned about mostly nothing. I do think that I will stick with doing a forced removal of my USB flash drive through safely remove hardware and

Gene, It is a default Windows action, I only use Microsoft’s anti-virus and malware (mrt) tools. I tried a malware one lately, Malware Bytes, but I removed it. Glenn

You may get that message on your machine, for some reason. I have never gotten such a message on four machines. maybe an antimalware program is offering to scan it but it is not a default action in

All I can state is that I have been doing this all along, with no problems. Glenn

I have yet to have many of the problems that plagued me in windows 7 through windows 8.1. The frustration at having windows not start was beyond infuriating. Windows 10 has fixed that for me, among

It isn't a good idea to assume things regarding computers. See this article. https://www.howtogeek.com/118546/htg-explains-do-you-really-need-to-safely-remove-usb-sticks/ And note that, this

For me "trust" does mean "taking someone at their word", and if I feel I can't take them at their word, then I don't trust them. I don't really see any other definition of "trust". Antony. -- The

This is where a third party client comes in handy. Who knows how it’ll all shake out after Twitter’s new rules take place next month, but for now, and for Twitter at least, the cleanest option is

I find navigating social media websites very tiring. Is there an efficient way to access websites like facebok and twitter? at present there is no way i could just give a casual navigation to these

I have gotten the message to scan drives even if I safely remove hardware. Windows 8.1 and 10 have always been very picky about that and a scan rarely takes more than a minute or two these

I usually don't want to wait for it to scan a drive. Glenn

Hmmm you shouldn't have this issue its not all the time.

I havn't lost trust in ms as such, its just I won't take them at their word anymore. I expect for example when I start up windows on my systems that windows may choose to not start because it chooses

Degrading is not the word, different interface different use I guess.

I have had this happen on drives with say an update program, mostly these leave their stuff alone. Firstly, try to grab the drive away from the last op, ie launch a explorer window with the drive

Whenever you plug in a drive, you get the message to scan it. Once you do scan it, it is good for a time, or unless you change the drive label. That is one I escape out of all the time. Glenn

I don't know what messages you are talking about. if you use safely remove hardware, there is no canned message about scanning and removing. If the drive can safely be removed, you get a message