So I fired up a mothballed computer, WinXP, AMD Athlon II X3 440, 2GB RAM.

Fire up my browser, SeaMonkey 2.49.5, & it opens, 12 separate windows, untold number of tabs. From the dates of the pages that opened (from "history"), seems the computer was last used in 2018 ;-).

Anyhow, in these tabs are my old & current haunts.
And (unlike most other pages these days) PCQ&A is plain 'ol http:, so no certificate issues on this ancient contraption, so here I am.

:-)

What a pleasure.


Now, contrast that to this Win10 PC I'd been farting around with, TRYING, to get networking working - unsuccessfully. That installs updates... who knows when. That installed updates, the other day. That installed more updates, this morning - seemingly. That when I went to turn it off, said something yet again about updates. And I'm like - what the... So I'm like... Update & turn off... Nothing. Update & restart... Nothing. Shut down... Nothing. All of the options under "Power" did... you guessed it - Nothing!

Did a hard shutdown & plugged this XP computer in in its' place.

And it boots & it runs :-).

So, in that regard, I say 2026 is off to a good start, heh.


Anyhow, Happy New Year, all.



(And wasn't the world a better place when we were all here.)

Windows 10 and 11 are both a PITA to network, with 11 being the worse. I wish there was a switch to shut off the security features I don't need. All I want is to share files between PCs, but MS says "Not So Fast".

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Anyhow, Happy New Year, all.



(And wasn't the world a better place when we were all here.)

Happy belated New Year!

Quite the contrast between the days when we were struggling to get Windows 95 to NOT go BSOD on us four or five times a day. I've had a lot of fun learning about all this stuff. I even turned what I learned - often in this forum, or its predecessors - into a job that helped me build a viable retirement for my family.

Life's been good to me, so far. Looking forward to next New Year. :]

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;~* ... Scotterpops