10-14-16 09:46 Holger Granholm wrote to Ed Vance about Re: Old mail and new!   
   Howdy! Holger,   
      
    HG> @MSGID: <58020798.14893.windowsa@capcity2.synchro.net>   
    HG> In a message on Friday 10-12-16 Ed Vance said to Holger Granholm:   
      
    HG> GE Ed,   
      
    PQ>> Ahmm... the "Great Race" is on this weekend, Holger.   
      
    HG> I do however expect a new weekly listing today, .......   
      
    EV> I am not a fan of Automobile Racing, but I hope You and Paul like   
    EV> watching the races, and the Drivers all drive across the Finish   
      
    HG> The Bathurst race is one of the hightlites on the racing calendar.   
      
    HG> I can also tell you Ed, that the form of racing in VK and ZL, is   
    HG> totally different from the oval races in the US.   
      
    HG> I really enjoy looking at the races, since the drivers are more   
    HG> disciplined, and the rules don't allow any pushing of competitors.   
      
    HG> The same goes for most international and british races.   
      
   O.K.   
      
    PQ> I gave up on Windows 8.1 after I got a pop-up from Hewlett-Packard   
    PQ> advising that the warranty had expired, and, also being bugged by   
    PQ> Avast warnings about renewing my registration.   
      
    EV> I run XP and Vista and gonna stay with them after reading comments   
    EV> on askwoody.com about Microsoft changing Win7 updates to be like   
    EV> WinTen does, "Get 'Em All In One Big File",   
    EV> No Option to choose from those that are proven to be Safe.   
      
    HG> Consequently, you both missed the boat, while an upgrade to 10 was   
    HG> free! Since XPp I have not used any intermediate version of Windows,   
    HG> until I received a Dell laptop with Win 10 as a xmas present from my   
    HG> GS.   
      
   I looked at Microsofts free WTEN offer as being like the Apple tied to a   
   string on a pole that was held over the donkeys head and just a tiny BIT   
   farther away than the donkey's tongue could touch it.   
      
   To quote: "For what the big print giveth, the small print taketh away.".   
      
      
    HG> After noting that it is a viable upgrade, I didn't waste any time to   
    HG> buy a stationary machine with Win7 and upgraded it to Win10 for free.   
      
    HG> The problems I've had, are related to moving to new programs that don't   
    HG> work as the ones I have for OS/2, for example moving from PMMail to   
    HG> Thunderbird. There I've received help from Paul, and from Jean for the   
    HG> shorthands to call up functions/programmes in Win10.   
      
   I had one big problem with Thunderbird when several thousand messages in   
   the In-Box got cleared out after I compacted TB.   
   It didn't do that the several times I compacted messages before, but it sure   
   did it that day.   
      
   I still use TB, I just move messages out of the In-Box to other Boxes I've   
   made for them.   
      
    EV> I was thinking that MS would at least still offer that Malicious   
    EV> Software Removal Tool for the XP box but my experience the other day   
    EV> taught me that they don't care to protect what they sell.   
      
    HG> There are free programs for that purpose, but of course not everything   
    HG> that glitters is gold. I did recently learn that Malware is free only   
    HG> for a limited time.   
      
   If You are speaking of MALWAREBYTES, they have a Free and a Paid version.   
   I use the Free and manually update the Definitions as I want to, the Paid   
   version does that automagically.   
      
    HG> AD-aware has gone from an anti-ad software, to a 'full-fledged' virus   
    HG> program. I was only interested in the anti-ad property, since I have   
    HG> AVG installed on both Win10 machines, as well as ZoneAlarm.   
      
   Recently I read that AVAST! owns AVG now.   
   Have You read about that too?   
      
    EV> And I'm too cheap to buy a pc with a 'Newer' OS that MS wants to   
    EV> Control from their HQ.   
      
    HG> Suit yourself, anyway you did miss the free boat, hi.   
      
   Enjoy the "Apple".   
      
   73 de Ed W9ODR         .    .   
      
      
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