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Avoiding Win 11 and staying with 10

Wudang said:
Here’s an interesting one. A lot of installers for USB devices eg Steel series headphones let you gain admin on Windows. When the installer asks you to pick a location, right click the window and pick open powershell window here.
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Yeah, that's an old trick.
 
Wudang said:
A couple of replies seemed to imply that and it was an easy thing to block. Not really a windows programmer.
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Oh it can be blocked, it was a standard part of the Windows configuration when I did large deployment projects.

Back in the old days you could unlock a locked Windows PC with a suitable autorun CD, or thumb drive.
 
Jack by the hedge said:
It does open a tiny dialogue box, inviting you to start typing the person's name.

It's a test: Were you thinking about the person's name, or were you only thinking about the info you're looking for in their previous emails?

So my problem with it is I often am not particularly thinking of the person's name at all. Or at least not their full name. Or how to spell it if it's more unusual than 'Jane Smith'. I'm thinking here's a new email from the rep from that company which does that job for us - let's just have a reminder of where we left things with the previous job... <click> Oh. Gone.
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I'm confused, I just use the search bar when looking for emails from a specific person or company. I've done that for the last however many versions. I didn't even know about the "from" thing.
 
When you just want their last few emails, it's a pop down click and done.

Easier than searching. Especially now search tries to be helpful with a list of things it reckons are important looking before a simple list in date order, which I just find confusing.
 
catsmate said:
Oh it can be blocked, it was a standard part of the Windows configuration when I did large deployment projects.

Back in the old days you could unlock a locked Windows PC with a suitable autorun CD, or thumb drive.
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Back in the old days, you could key anything you liked on a 'locked' Windows PC, and it would helpfully insert those key strokes into the active window behind the lock screen.

This is how "HELP! I'm being held captive by aliens in Area 51, Woomera, South Australia" turned up in a Dept of Defence document in Canberra.

(I'm not proud of that one. But who would have thought that the document would not be proof read by anyone?)
 
I've been using Outlook since it was released - bloody hell that was in 1997 - the new Outlook is the first update that removes significant features or significantly changes features. Even the introduction of the ribbon didn't fundamentally change it.

Saying that, I'm probably being a reactionary dinosaur and simply don't want change, not surprising given I've been using it for about 27 years!
 
Darat said:
I've been using Outlook since it was released - bloody hell that was in 1997 - the new Outlook is the first update that removes significant features or significantly changes features. Even the introduction of the ribbon didn't fundamentally change it.

Saying that, I'm probably being a reactionary dinosaur and simply don't want change, not surprising given I've been using it for about 27 years!
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I started with Lotus Group Wise, then Outlook 97 which was a vast improvement. Then had the joy of Lotus Notes when I moved employers, before going back to Outlook. This new outlook has removed lots of functionality. As well as making lots of other needless changes to the UI.
 
Last week my old Dad was in a bit of a panic because he was no longer receiving email on his PC. Fortunately I was around to offer on-site support. He hadn't actively changed anything but "new" Outlook had been activated and for reasons I really didn't have the time or the expertise to diagnose his mail was misbehaving. Reverted him to classic Outlook and things were resolved in seconds.

I had an inkling that might be the problem because on an old Mac I keep in the mountains the latest Outlook steadfastly refuses to recognise my private mailserver, and sometimes gets arsey talking to gmail. Classic Outlook just does what it's told.
 
I rarely have to actively use Outlook -- I have all my stuff downloaded into Mozilla Thunderbird. Even my old Hotmail accounts (which I am weaning off of) still work, although oddly I can't seem to send OUT on those, unless I go to Outlook directly.
 
alfaniner said:
I rarely have to actively use Outlook -- I have all my stuff downloaded into Mozilla Thunderbird. Even my old Hotmail accounts (which I am weaning off of) still work, although oddly I can't seem to send OUT on those, unless I go to Outlook directly.
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I've always used Thunderbird, but in recent versions they've made it virtually impossible to select multiple recipients for a single email. Or if it's not virtually impossible it's virtually impossible to figure out how to do something that used to be dead simple.
 
jimbob said:
I started with Lotus Group Wise
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Eww. Back in Ye Olde Days I think I did eight or nine projects that replaced that crap with Outlook.

jimbob said:
, then Outlook 97 which was a vast improvement. Then had the joy of Lotus Notes
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Eww. Awful crap.
jimbob said:
when I moved employers, before going back to Outlook. This new outlook has removed lots of functionality. As well as making lots of other needless changes to the UI.
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The Lotus Notes implementation I used at IBM Hursley was great. Integrated with IBM's CATS telephony products and other stuff including project servers. Then corporate took over. The axiom "Do not attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity " took a bit of a pounding.
 
Wudang said:
The Lotus Notes implementation I used at IBM Hursley was great. Integrated with IBM's CATS telephony products and other stuff including project servers. Then corporate took over. The axiom "Do not attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity " took a bit of a pounding.
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One of my brother's friends works for IBM, and he halfheartedly tried to claim to me that Lotus Notes wasn't that bad. Because my employer was Philips, which was quite large and bureaucratically complex, there were several different implementations of the various database options that Notes used.

I would be ready to be convinced that it's a decent database management system, but shoehorning email into it was pretty bad from my point of view.
 
bruto said:
I've always used Thunderbird, but in recent versions they've made it virtually impossible to select multiple recipients for a single email. Or if it's not virtually impossible it's virtually impossible to figure out how to do something that used to be dead simple.
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It is still somewhat simple: just start typing. Of course you have to have individual addresses expand to a known address before starting on the next one. I agree this used to be a lot simpler by using semi-colons (I think)
 
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