[Ham-Computers] Looking for a good email client
KD7JYK DM09
kd7jyk at earthlink.net
Sat Dec 10 00:25:46 EST 2016
"However, I have heard Microsoft no longer offers Outlook Express, but
obviously it still works."
Plenty of old disks out there, I have, many, many copies on CD and floppy.
Yes, what they used to offer for 3.11, 98, XP, et cetera, the for the most
part they don't any more, but there are still many millions of copies out
there for free.
"I suggest you have Malwarebytes installed on your computer"
I have it on the computer that matters.
"and also make an image file so you can recover in case you are unlucky"
I have backups of important data and if I lose a disk, I pull a new one out
of many, many computer and bankers boxes of HDs with OSs on them. The nice
thing about technology, it has advanced to where almsot everyting before now
is free for the asking, hardware and software alike.
"If you are "dragged" again, win7 is very much like XP, and win10 is
somewhat different - some things are better and some worse, but the plusses
exceed the minuses in my opinion."
That just happened in October, still trying to get used to 7 Professional.
The new browsers work with the new sites and I can watch streaming video,
with all the new office products, I can read new files, other than that, I
go back to XP when I need to do most things.
I didn't buy 10, but a friend did. It took Dell and Microsoft about three
months to get it to work as expected, "turn it on and do something you
expect". On a daily basis settings change and programs disappear. Upgrades
have taken up to three hours to install and happens at random. A few of the
newer programs work on it, nothing up to the point it was made, that is,
prior to 10 do, even in "compatibility mode" and microsoft can't make it.
There is no reference to the OS by build number, in fact, when you dig down
in the computer, it doesn't even say Windows 10, as far as we can tell, it's
a beta version from at least six months prior to them announcing it was
available. It's not mine, so I really don't care what problems she has, but
it's interesting to hear the near daily complaints and listen and watch the
computer manufacturer and microsoft fight on the phone and try and fix it
remotely, which as far as we can tell works as much as a few hours a week.
I'm just rambling at this point...
Almost forgot, check oldversion.com for older software. I get a lot of
functional stuff from there.
Kurt
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