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JPG wrote:

garys wrote:I use my computer multiple times every day so I never shut it down. I reboot it only when I have extended power outages here, and my power company does a great job so I don't have to do that very often.
Here is a screenshot for today. The computer has been running continuously for 245 days or about 8 months. The last power outage was last May.

Yes I try the same and since I occasionally take the laptop elsewhere I put it to sleep in transit. I really do not like booting often. Trouble is windows updates require(force) it.

Since I have a dual boot(linux installed) that defaults to linux, windows rebooting requires backing out of linux and manually forcing a windows boot.

BTW anyone have a good painless way to remove linux? I fear it ain't simple(fixed disk partitioned?)

By following this you can easily delete Linux from your computer

Start by booting into Windows. Press the Windows key, type “diskmgmt. msc“ into the Start menu search box, and then press Enter to launch the Disk Management app. In the Disk Management app, locate the Linux partitions, right-click them, and delete them.
You can identify the Linux partitions because they have no label under the “File System” column, while Windows partitions will be identified by their “NTFS” file system.

Be careful while deleting partitions here—you wouldn’t want to accidentally delete a partition with important files on it.

Next, locate the Windows partition near the newly available free space, right-click it, and select Extend Volume. Extend the partition so that it takes up all of the available free space. Any free space on your hard drive will remain unusable until you assign it to a partition.

You can also choose to create a new, separate partition instead of expanding your current Windows partition, if you like.

Linux has now been removed from your computer, but its boot loader persists. We’ll need to use a Windows installer disc to overwrite the Linux boot loader with the Windows boot loader.

If you don’t have a Windows installer disc lying around, you can create a Windows repair disc and use that instead. Follow our instructions to create a system repair disc in Windows 8 or 10 or create one in Windows 7.

I am no longer any kind of expert on computers but from everything I read you are just about crazy to use anything but Safari on Apple products and Edge on PC. Both of these warn me when I start to go to a website that is dicey, they also stop malware and other assorted threats.
No sure I understand why anyone would use anything else.

Firefox does the same thing warning you about bad sites, and without having Apple or Microsoft owning you.
I'm of a different school of thought. I don't see why anybody would use anything from Apple or Microsoft.
Linux and Firefox for me.

Ed in Tampa wrote:I am no longer any kind of expert on computers but from everything I read you are just about crazy to use anything but Safari on Apple products and Edge on PC. Both of these warn me when I start to go to a website that is dicey, they also stop malware and other assorted threats.
No sure I understand why anyone would use anything else.

I am happy thee are satisfied with edge.

I simply do not share that opinion of anything from µsoft.

JPG wrote: I miss DOS and updates by floppy only and when I decide to do it.
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DOS were the days my friend, that had to end, but DOS were the days." I learned a lot of things that still work today and few people remember. Few knew that MS used mnemonic logic for commands, eg. Ctrl P for Print, Ctrl for Copy - but what about Paste since P was already gone. Spatial logic, V is next to P. Some really smart cookies created DOS.

Addendum: couldn't edit this so Ctrl C for Copy.

db5 wrote:

JPG wrote: I miss DOS and updates by floppy only and when I decide to do it.
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DOS were the days my friend, that had to end, but DOS were the days." I learned a lot of things that still work today and few people remember. Few knew that MS used mnemonic logic for commands, eg. Ctrl P for Print, Ctrl for Copy - but what about Paste since P was already gone. Spatial logic, V is next to P. Some really smart cookies created DOS.

V is not next to P on any keyboard I have ever seen???

We are way off the topic, but I do not care(after all I created the thread in the first place).

Copy and Paste were not a DOS thingie. Word processing running under DOS perhaps.

Ctrl-V being close to P only if one removes the lower right part of the "B".

Being next to "C" makes more sense.

Those keyboard shortcuts work on Linux too.
I use ctrl-x (cut), ctrl-c (copy), and ctrl-v (paste) all the time.

My theory re. the choice of ctrl-V as the “paste” function shortcut: The letter V is identical to the good ol’ hardcopy-editing symbol for “insert”, aside from being upside down.