Re: The Windows 10 New World Order
Maintenance for me meant everything from virus and malware scanning to registry cleaning and regular disc checkups, meticulous review of the event log, strategic oversight of the task manager for unwanted and undesirable services and processes that might have tried to sneak their way into my machine without my knowledge, extensive registry backups in case of a corrupted system which made for something better than the craptastic thing MS calls windows restore, and of course, always, always temp and prefetch data cleanups. Some of this became easier with tools like CCleaner, but even that thing had a great chance, just as many automated tools do, of messing up. One day I got myself into a mess with it as it deleted associations with known filetype extensions from my PC; that was a nightmare and a half.
Beyond that, configure my messaging client, configure my email client, configure my media player, configure my internet settings regardless of what program I'm u
sing, and if my updates are set to automatic which is recommended, maybe my system restarts while I'm doing something else, where as if I'm not, then I have to check up on it or wait on its cute little notifications for me. With windows xp, that usually wasn't too big of an issue, but once 7 rolled around I could never be sure if or when I would get the notifications to update my pc.
And then? Screen readers. JAWS for this webpage, NVDA for that one. Sometimes it meant unloading one and waiting for the other one to load, its load time slowed by the fact that I had a webpage open. Once again, with XP, not much of an issue, but once Vista and, more particularly 7 became commonplace it all changed. The final nail in the coffin was the realization that even a sighted person could be fooled by MS, as was the case with my mother-in-law. One day, she was using windows 7; the next she woke up with no idea how to use her computer
whatsoever, and all because she closed a window she had no idea would trigger an action upon closing. Call it whatever you like; I call it disrespect.
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