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[Guest]

Ha ha, no! Went in one once in Mumbai, scared the bejayzus out of me! I'd use one as target practice, however...

[Guest]

My point being it had hardly undergone any major upgrades to the nitty gritty - just as windows is just 3.1 with loads of bloat stuck onto it, the outcome is rather similar

[Guest]

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Thanks Steve (where have you been ? )


Laurie

Learning how to drive this, very new to me, Windows 7 comoputer, and transferring 300,000 MB of documents, movies, pictures and music from the iMac. A very time-consuming task.

[Guest]

Learning how to drive this, very new to me, Windows 7 comoputer, and transferring 300,000 MB of documents, movies, pictures and music from the iMac. A very time-consuming task.

Yes Steve I was driven to 7 as a lot of new stuff such as navigational maps. All I got was not supported now for XP.


Why are you going to PC from Apple as a matter of interest ?


Laurie

[Guest]

A Windows help item please. My daughters say that attachments I send them from this new computer appear already opened and at the bottom of the text, which they don't like. One is on XP and the other on a company system based on Windows 7.


--How do email attachments appear on your computers please?


--And what operating system do you have?


The normal, I think, is as an icon at the very top of the text.


Thanks.

[Guest]

Just sent an email Steve to myself.


One with insert photo and another attach file which also was a photo. This is using MS7


Email received. Insert photo came up as a large photo. Attach file came up as a thumbnail.


As it left me. Photo large. Attach file just the file name.


Laurie

[Guest]

Yes Steve I was driven to 7 as a lot of new stuff such as navigational maps. All I got was not supported now for XP.
Why are you going to PC from Apple as a matter of interest ?


Laurie

Well, I could go on for days! In a word or two, repeated glitches several times a day since I bought the iMac 4 years ago. Where do I start? The most annoying was the pointer of the multi-function "Magic Mouse" (wireless) disappearing, at times 5 times a day, during all the last 3 1/2 of the 4 years I have owned the iMac (bought new). To get it back I had to go to Preferences > Mouse and see a dialogue box saying "Looking for mouse", then after 5 seconds "Found Mouse". I then had to press Continue and after another couple of seconds I got "Mouse Found" and back it came. You might wonder how I managed to do all that without a mouse pointer. I had a track pad, like the ones on laptops but bigger and (of course) having more features. Many Mac owners don't have a track pad in which case they had to restart the whole computer. And that in my case would have had to be done 5 times a day!


Then the mouse pointer, when it was visible, would skitter across the screen to one side 10 times a week, scrolling the widow contents if it was a big one (as in InDesign) so that I lost my place on the screen. Also, when using Safari (Apple's excellent browser) or Firefox or Opera, when dragging Google maps around, the map would go crazy and zoom in and out and move sideways, making Streetview unusable. I took it to Apple's Genius Bar (!) in Solihull 3 times but they could not fix it. There are thousands of messages in the Apple Discussion Forum over the years but no solution found except in a few cases


My TomTom Satnav would not connect to TomTom's site to download maps (for which I had already paid) and TomTom, after some effort, could not find a problem despite it being Mac-ready. Emails sometimes arrived at peoples' computers with attachments unopenable. Windows which opened and listed files would sometimes appear without their disclosure triangles, so preventing viewing their sub-folders without opening them. The machine would hang (no response) about 3 times a month, requiring the mains plug to be removed, wait for 30 sec. than restart. Printer refused to respond about once a month, requiring its plug being removed, wait, re-plug and start again. A year and a half ago Apple produced another of its annual new op. systems which mostly cause a little difficulty each time. However, they had removed the behaviour whereby Firewire (a fast type of Apple/Sony designed) external hard drives refuse to sleep when the computer slept, requiring them to be switched off. This caused a very great many complaints from commercial graphic artists.


Six months ago there was another annual new Op. System and the fault remained. Get this: at no time has Apple acknowledged the problem let alone fix it. And after the last new Op. System last November, there was another type of change which did not affect me but greatly upset commercial users and which remains unfixed. Apple's excellent (if it worked) "Time Machine" automatic backup facility stopped working for some users, including me, after last November's Op. System change. At no time have I used dodgy software.


My Imac was made in 2011 and the then current Op. System (Snow Leopard) is regarded as the last stable one. Steve Job died that year and since then there has been increasing talk about whether Apple have become complacent and rather arrogant. I have heard this from even non-Apple users, unprompted by me. They are now the biggest corporation in the world. The last straw was the complete collapse of my (Apple-made) email program. The excellent Apple Discussions Forum (populated by expert users but not from Apple) could not find a solution and nor could Apple.


Since Steve Jobs rescued Apple in about 1998 Apple have had a successful run for 17 byears, a long time in high technology. Perhaps they are going the same way as Tesco. Even French Cuisine in France is difficult to find! A pity, if so, because I admired the elegance and (normally) ease of use of their machines. But the elegance must work. As Jobs said when comparing Mac and Microsoft: "It just works". Not for me at least. My new machine is a huge relief after all these years of frustration.


(I expect you now regret asking!)

[Guest]

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Steve. And I moan about MS7.

(I expect you now regret asking!)

Any more Steve or is that it.


I used Autocad on a PC MS 97 for all my architectural work from 1997 . I upgraded the one and only time in 1998. Since then on every MS upgrade up to and including MSxp the programme has worked perfectly. During that time it only crashed three times and once was because of my stupidity. I became so casual that I would not bother saving anything, rather stupid, until the end of the day it was that reliable.


Sorry to hear of your apple Escapade Steve.


Laurie

[Guest]

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Any more Steve or is that it


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Laurie

That's it (the abridged version!) I think it is right that when an organisation etc. which has had a very high reputation for a long time shows signs of falling off its pedestal and being high-handed with its customers, those feeling hard done by need not stay silent. Tesco is a similar case, and the banks. (That's enough about computers and Apple, at least from me.)

[Guest]

I dumped my apple mouse within weeks, I just connected a logi tech and it all worked fine. And I agree about what happened when Steve Jobs died, everything went belly up and continues to do so. I must admit though, your troubles sound worse than most, but I'd imagine it stung after paying out all that money!

[Guest]

If you want an old fashioned "show desk top" as XP I have tried this and it works. So it will for others believe me !
http://www.askvg.com/how-to-get-the-good-old-quick-launch-toolbar-back-in-windows-7/


Laurie

Found if you install this secondary tool bar that your favourite and used folders can be dragged onto the bar. Many will know I am sure but there will probably be a few who do not. Makes it so much easier than delving into the hard drive to look at real pictures of Jackals as a reference by just clicking on the folder on the toolbar.


Laurie

[dave]

My TomTom Satnav would not connect to TomTom's site to download maps (for which I had already paid) and TomTom, after some effort, could not find a problem despite it being Mac-ready. .

I can sympathise with you on this one, I had a similar problem but PC Based, bought and downloaded a new map set, backed up and took the old maps off as instructed and then tried to install the new maps, no go. Tried to reinstall the old maps no go. TomToms help line was as much use as a chocolate fireguard. Told me to try everything in the manual I had already tried then told me it was broken and as it was out of warranty I would need to buy a new one. Now in the bin and a Garmin in the car.

[Guest]

Had a similar problem. Bought a Garmin. Then tried to update as it indicated in the instructions. After starting the programme and waiting a few minutes as it did all the things they do. This programme does not support windows XP as the MS no longer support. So that is how I got to windows 7. Then lost a lot of my cherished programmes as said before.


But Son in Law up dated my Garmin in double quick time. No idea about Tom Tom but the Garmin works a treat. Driving in London it worked perfectly and when I made an error in double quick time it devised a route to resume the journey. The side displays when approaching a difficult junction are very clever and very clear.


We live in jersey and the majority of streets, roads and parishes are in French. To get used to the Garmin I used it in Jersey and the "voice" trying to pronounce the French names was very amusing.


Laurie