I'm a Linux/Android/Aqua Velva man.
Long Rant-Windows 10 is so broken...
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twodog max
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All this brought to you by the man who wants the world to run his way.
No thanks pardner.
No thanks pardner.
wheelgun28
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pfff, it's just a fad...
wheelgun28
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HP laptops, I had a few for work. I stopped buying them because they had SO much junk installed on them.
HP assistant, useless junk, half a hard drive of bloatware. I would spend hours removing this stuff or the machine would use most of its own power just running its own junk.
Then turn the thing on and it would take twenty mins to update all the junk you didn't want use or need.
I went to Lenovo, besides the wife loves the Track Point...
HP assistant, useless junk, half a hard drive of bloatware. I would spend hours removing this stuff or the machine would use most of its own power just running its own junk.
Then turn the thing on and it would take twenty mins to update all the junk you didn't want use or need.
I went to Lenovo, besides the wife loves the Track Point...
TheHobbyist
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@ the OP, I know this is a very frustrating situation, but have you selected: "Do not compress graphics". 
In all seriousness though, I have been in your situation and am sorry/empathize.
It is important when we have 'bad days' to laugh at the absurdity of it all...really. I had a world-class one today, in fact.
In all seriousness though, I have been in your situation and am sorry/empathize.
It is important when we have 'bad days' to laugh at the absurdity of it all...really. I had a world-class one today, in fact.
Ogandydancer
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I must agree with this. I have and old HP and it really did have a lot of junk and bloatware. I just bought a Lenovo Ideapad 3 which I am typing this on and, was utterly surprised at how little junk and bloatware was on it. It boots from shut down in about 15 seconds.. So far I am loving it.
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LVSteve, don't buy the Dell. I am a one-man IT for my museum - 4 dozen Dell laptops for public use, plus numerous large-format touchscreens of various brands. Having a lot of trouble with the Dell laptops. Dell denies they have a problem with Win10 20HT (on all), and Microsoft denies they have conflicts with anything Dell, including drivers. I hate Win10. But we are stuck with it.
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LVSteve
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@ the OP, I know this is a very frustrating situation, but have you selected: "Do not compress graphics".
Oh, you may be sure I have that selected, but some on the Web seem to think that certain network settings can ignore this setting without telling you. Ain't that special!
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LVSteve
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My wife's Toshiba that recently crashed its hard drive was like that. It's a disease with all the manufacturers.
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LVSteve
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Exactly. Recall that the EMF format is supposed to be an advanced version of "Windows Metafile" WMF. All sounds pretty joined up to me, except in practice it's not.
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LVSteve
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Your Visio fix is close to mine except I use PNG files with reduced color depth to keep the overall size of the Word document down. With the stuff I'm doing a graphic can be 1 MB in 24-bit color, so when you to Figure 36 the the Word document is getting a bit large.
My wife took the HP back and they discovered a bunch of drivers AWOL or replaced by generic Windows efforts that don't really work. Either somebody had screwed with the machine before she got it or a Win 10 update took exception to the HP drivers. My disgnosis of the machine was pretty much the same, but I wasn't about to mess with it during the "free fix period".
I am not in a position to switch over to Linux or anything else. Company policy and all that.
You lost me after "WARNING."
LOL, lemme guess - Apple guy?
Funny thing is Apple is WAY more "my way or the highway" than Microsoft ever thought about being. And by comparison they charge you twice as much for their exclusivity and incompatibility with the rest of the world.
Admittedly there are a lot less problems - because there are so many fewer choices and different sources - especially in the area of hardware - but also in terms of software too.
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hemiram
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I do tech support for end users, and when I get a Mac call, my stomach turns over. It's always a huge pain and a long call. So much easier to fix a Windows issue.
twodog max
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LOL, lemme guess - Apple guy?
Funny thing is Apple is WAY more "my way or the highway" than Microsoft ever thought about being. And by comparison they charge you twice as much for their exclusivity and incompatibility with the rest of the world.
Admittedly there are a lot less problems - because there are so many fewer choices and different sources - especially in the area of hardware - but also in terms of software too.
Actually no. I use the Windows 10 junk but I do not like it. However my computer needs are real basic and I need the thing not not to much stuff. definitely no editing or anything. On the rare occasion when I feel an urge to dive in deeper I shut it off and head out to my reloading shed.
Ogandydancer
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As an addendum it did have Amazon Alexia on it and I finally found out how to uninstall it. They won't tell you but it can be done however not through the normal windows control panel uninstall method. You have to right click on the Alexia App and when the menu window comes up click on More and you will see several options and when you scroll down a little, lo-and-behold the uninstall option pops up.
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I'm not a computer guy. I wrote my first code in 1968, so I don'y have much experience. When you said HP the flag went up. I have never had a good anything that said HP on the label.
Toshiba and Dell have been trouble-free for me. I won't own a printer unless it says Epson. Although I liked Windows XP the best, Win 10 with an original install has also been quite good.
Mac is another story. You can have it. I would take Vista before I owned a Mac, and that of course is IMHO.
Toshiba and Dell have been trouble-free for me. I won't own a printer unless it says Epson. Although I liked Windows XP the best, Win 10 with an original install has also been quite good.
Mac is another story. You can have it. I would take Vista before I owned a Mac, and that of course is IMHO.
Doug M.
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One of the problems we have encountered at work is the platforms are specified by people who don't under stand what we do, and that they are a SUPPORT service, not the drivers of the train. This is a common problem - end users are the reason for the design and purchase, and rarely consulted. We don't get enough memory to do the job; the new version of Outlook Web Access is about as user friendly as a Honey Badger so checking email at home is a vile task, and when we report problems and need them fixed get blamed for not doing stuff their way.
Some grumpy old lawyer not only says "You can't spell (guess) without IT", but some of us are considering making T shirts to that effect.
Some grumpy old lawyer not only says "You can't spell (guess) without IT", but some of us are considering making T shirts to that effect.
Geronimo Jim
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And this my friend is why this old guys favorite saying is "I hate computers........and people who like computers". 
