More on Windows 10 (I still hate it)

Despite my best efforts I've been forced to use windows 10 for real. This is the second attempt to get to like it. It didn't work.

I rebuilt my old laptop (first Gen i5 80gig SSD, 4gig ram) as a boat laptop for Ambon, OpenCPN, Charts Grib Files etc. Did a good job of it. E.G. you can't turn off updates on windows 10, well not by the GUI, I did it with group policy. Unlike win8 or the 10 preview I'd run previously pretty much everything worked. Even the 3g card. Now that 3g card was an absolute git to get working in 7, impossible with out stealing a rival manufacturers horrible app in 8 and ten preview.

Some old win 7 drivers and the OS did the APN and on off from the new systray icon. Win!

Bugger me its fast. I mean LIGHTNING fast. That laptop running 10 out performs my main machine with 8gig, and much better SSD and 3rd Gen i5. It absolutely flies along. That's the nice stuff out of the way.

I know I said how ugly windows 7 was when it came out. I know I've ranted about the design of win 10 before. But its awful I hate it, I've used the preview at  work for a couple of months and then been on the laptop for a few more weeks. I still hate it. The idea of looking at its sole destroying dullness makes me miserable. Even when I'm so drunk its all wobberly I still hate it. Beer goggles doesn't help.

Also for some reason mid outback it decided to switch back to having 2 logins, both appeared identical but one appears to be a online M$ login I swear I never created. This is why you do NOT want your login in the cloud. Fortunately M$s security is so bad that you can reset passwords with a free iso off the net (yes this works with server 2012 still - I tried).

I put classic shell on it. Which gave me a usable start menu again, but I am here and happy with my windows 7 laptop.

I will, next time be forced to use it. Paint Shop Pro 9 (the last usable version) still works on it. But I have finally tried to convert to Potato Shop, like the rest of the universe. The Image right is the result. The old dog can learn new tricks!

Anyway despite the postie throwing the new motherboard for this laptop over the fence in Darwin, and it getting rained on - in the middle of a drought - in the oil drum postbox outside the farm in NSW it works. No more windows 10.

More about farming later.