widows 10

2458n · Dec 3, 2015

Flip phone, 1 hour on Windows 10,after XP. Never had to ask how long is 72 months? when buying a new truck.

MossRoad · Dec 3, 2015

KubotainNH said:
I think you're right on that. It's already happening with Office 365, it costs like 40 a year to keep it. Once it times out on this tablet I'm using right now I will be switching to something like Openoffice.

BTW, seems the last patch that went on my old Thinkpad with Win 10 screwed up a video driver. It now comes up with a blank blue screen. I can eventually get it into Windows with some reboots, seems I need to load an older driver for it to work properly. Gotta love forums.

We've been using open office for about 6-7 years at home, now. Works just fine for kids in K-12 and college, too. Haven't regretted it yet.

MossRoad · Dec 3, 2015

Hey, don't know if many of you know this or not, but in W8, when that stupid Metro desktop with the tiles came out and you can't find anything, a pretty easy way to find pretty much anything is just hit the Windows key (that flag key between the CTRL and ALT keys) and start typing what you're looking for. For example:

Windows key + w-o-r-d will bring up MS Word and Wordpad links.

If you're new to computers or no one ever showed you that trick, you'll want to slap your forehead because its so fast. :duh:

k0ua · Dec 3, 2015

MossRoad said:
Hey, don't know if many of you know this or not, but in W8, when that stupid Metro desktop with the tiles came out and you can't find anything, a pretty easy way to find pretty much anything is just hit the Windows key (that flag key between the CTRL and ALT keys) and start typing what you're looking for. For example:

Windows key + w-o-r-d will bring up MS Word and Wordpad links.

If you're new to computers or no one ever showed you that trick, you'll want to slap your forehead because its so fast. :duh:

Well.. darn...I didn't know that... now I do! tnx..:duh:

MossRoad · Dec 3, 2015

k0ua said:
Well.. darn...I didn't know that... now I do! tnx..:duh:

You're welcome. :laughing:

rekees4300 · Dec 3, 2015

MossRoad said:
We've been using open office for about 6-7 years at home, now. Works just fine for kids in K-12 and college, too. Haven't regretted it yet.

According to 2015 Bossie Awards, Open Office has been superseded by LibreOffice. Based on the award and testing, I decided to switch to LibreOffice.

Bossie Awards 2015: The best open source applications | InfoWorld

The kid · Dec 5, 2015

rekees4300 said:
According to 2015 Bossie Awards, Open Office has been superseded by LibreOffice. Based on the award and testing, I decided to switch to LibreOffice. Bossie Awards 2015: The best open source applications | InfoWorld

Will it open a *.docx file?

rekees4300 · Dec 5, 2015

The kid said:
Will it open a *.docx file?

Yes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreOffice#Supported_file_formats

buckeyefarmer · Dec 5, 2015

I've noticed my touchpad is flaky with win10. gets frustrating as things get selected by mistake and moved or highlighted or something. I was typing a message on here a little bit ago, and my windows just closed down losing everything I typed.

azranger · Dec 5, 2015

buckeyefarmer said:
I've noticed my touchpad is flaky with win10. gets frustrating as things get selected by mistake and moved or highlighted or something. I was typing a message on here a little bit ago, and my windows just closed down losing everything I typed.

My touchpad resets its settings everytime the computer is restarted. I wish someone knew how to fix this.