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From: Mark Conrad on 4 Jul 2010 01:33

VENT -
*****

Windows and everything associated with it is an
exercise in futility, in my opinion.

Have any Mac users here actually managed to
understand how to use "Windows-7" efficiently?

What is the secret? Is it possible for a
not-too-bright old guy like me to master
in a reasonable length of time?

Some of us here _have_ to use Windows, for one
reason or another, on our Macs. (Boot Camp partition)

Now I admit I am 99% senile, but for me the Mac is
easy to use. Not so for Windows.

They seem to delight in making things difficult,
with misleading terminology, obfuscation, and just
plain obscure references to all sorts of
terms that they neglect to explain.

The books that try to explain Windows-7 never seem
to address the actual hundreds of screens, with their
confusing choices, nor do the "Help" files in Windows.

What really gets my goat is the statement they use in
most all of the books:

"If you want more information,
see your system administrator"

Most of these Windows machines are "personal computers",
are they not? Do they really think we have an entire
IT department available?

There, I feel better now, I don't much care if anyone
reads this post, I was just frustrated, wasting the last
couple of days learning how to do tasks that are simple
to do, on my Mac.

Mark-
From: dorayme on 4 Jul 2010 02:27
In article <030720102233117865%aeiou(a)mostly.invalid>,
Mark Conrad <aeiou(a)mostly.invalid> wrote:

> VENT -
> *****
>
> Windows and everything associated with it is an
> exercise in futility, ...
>

> ..for an ... old guy like me


> What really gets my goat is the statement they use in
> most all of the books:
>
> "If you want more information,
> see your system administrator"
>
> Most of these Windows machines are "personal computers",
> are they not? Do they really think we have an entire
> IT department available?
>
> There, I feel better now,

I understand and sympathise, it is a world gone mad in there. And
I am young and teenagerish, incredibly smart and beautiful so
don't worry.

Try finding the version number of the app you are using in
Windows, it is not direct and simple like in Macs, you have to
mess about in the Start menu and programs for Christ's sake.

And look at the incredible number of messages that pop up, it is
like an advertising factory for its own industry.

And the dangers of using the bloody thing on line... it is safer
to walk through darlinghurst at 3am with a coat made of $100
notes...

And never mind online, try using a browser offline and the system
gets its knickers in a knot, it does not like you being offline
in browsers. Interfering bloody dictatorship I say!

--
dorayme
From: Mark Conrad on 4 Jul 2010 04:01
In article <dorayme-5E7C04.16273904072010(a)news.albasani.net>, dorayme
<dorayme(a)optusnet.com.au> wrote:

> And the dangers of using the bloody thing on line... it is safer
> to walk through darlinghurst at 3am with a coat made of $100
> notes...

heh heh, or in my case, running down into Mexico from
my ranch here in northern California, on my motorcycle,
(I still have an active license even though I am 81 years old)
- - - and forgeting to take my Mace spray along to discourage
attacking dogs in the Mexican villages I ride through.

I thought I had Windows-7 by the tail, the $1,600 medical
speech recognition app' "Dragon" was running okay for about
a month, then suddenly I could no longer open the Dragon "Help"
section.

Not to worry, I thought.

I will merely completely uninstall Dragon, then reinstall it freshly.

Well, the mere act of uninstalling Dragon, using the regular
Add/Remove feature of Windows, raised holy heck with Windows,
it went bonkers.

I suspect it was some sort of registry corruption.

Rest of my horrible "Windows experience" was convincing both
Microsoft and Nuance (Dragon) that I was not a pirate, because
neither one of them wanted to reinstate my legitimate activation
of Windows-7 and Dragon.

They finally let me activate, after I promised them my firstborn child
as collateral, if I turned out to be a pirate.

Sheesh - think from now on I will keep daily backups of the
infernal Windows registry, in case the corruption occurs again.

I do not understand why regular Windows users put up
with this nonsense, why don't they switch to Macs.

Mark-
From: dorayme on 4 Jul 2010 04:18
In article <040720100101319987%aeiou(a)mostly.invalid>,
Mark Conrad <aeiou(a)mostly.invalid> wrote:

> In article <dorayme-5E7C04.16273904072010(a)news.albasani.net>, dorayme
> <dorayme(a)optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>
> > And the dangers of using the bloody thing on line... it is safer
> > to walk through darlinghurst at 3am with a coat made of $100
> > notes...
>
> heh heh, or in my case, running down into Mexico from
> my ranch here in northern California, on my motorcycle,
> (I still have an active license even though I am 81 years old)
> - - - and forgeting to take my Mace spray along to discourage
> attacking dogs in the Mexican villages I ride through.

I had fears about packs of dogs when walking through outlying
Hong Kong villages a while back. I recall having a steel pipe
handy which I would dump before getting to the main road where I
could get a taxi or bus easily.

--
dorayme
From: VAXman- on 4 Jul 2010 12:59
In article <030720102233117865%aeiou(a)mostly.invalid>, Mark Conrad <aeiou(a)mostly.invalid> writes:
>{...snip...}
>
>Have any Mac users here actually managed to
>understand how to use "Windows-7" efficiently?

Yes!

>What is the secret?

Just say No!

--
VAXman- A Bored Certified VMS Kernel Mode Hacker VAXman(at)TMESIS(dot)ORG

All your spirit rack abuses, come to haunt you back by day.
All your Byzantine excuses, given time, given you away.
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