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This W10 new desktop facility is really getting on my tits,
almost more so than the Amazon fiasco (qv). I almost don't dare to touch the mouse pad lest the display all disappears up into the top left corner with icons for each open program. This is * B L O O D Y * annoying. Surely there must be some way of disabling this unwanted and unnecessary facility?????????????????????? |
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gareth evans wrote:
Surely there must be some way of disabling this unwanted and unnecessary facility? I've never experienced any such "facility". |
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No but I've apparently turned the screen upside down or sideways before, but
as I cannot see it its only seen by an unblind person. grin. Brian -- This newsgroup posting comes to you directly from... The Sofa of Brian Gaff... Blind user, so no pictures please Note this Signature is meaningless.! "Andy Burns" wrote in message ... gareth evans wrote: Surely there must be some way of disabling this unwanted and unnecessary facility? I've never experienced any such "facility". |
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On Wed, 28 Apr 2021 22:32:04 +0100, "Brian Gaff \(Sofa\)"
wrote: No but I've apparently turned the screen upside down or sideways before, but as I cannot see it its only seen by an unblind person. grin. Hehe. Cheers, T i m |
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On 28/04/2021 12:45, gareth evans wrote:
This W10 new desktop facility is really getting on my tits, almost more so than the Amazon fiasco (qv). I almost don't dare to touch the mouse pad lest the display all disappears up into the top left corner with icons for each open program. This is * B L O O D Y *Â* annoying. Surely there must be some way of disabling this unwanted and unnecessary facility?????????????????????? How do you get the the open programs disappearing into icons in the top left corner? I normally use Alt-Tab to cycle through the open applications. |
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On 28/04/2021 13:18, SH wrote:
On 28/04/2021 12:45, gareth evans wrote: This W10 new desktop facility is really getting on my tits, almost more so than the Amazon fiasco (qv). I almost don't dare to touch the mouse pad lest the display all disappears up into the top left corner with icons for each open program. This is * B L O O D Y * annoying. Surely there must be some way of disabling this unwanted and unnecessary facility?????????????????????? How do you get the the open programs disappearing into icons in the top left corner? Windows Key + Tab is the official way, but there's also some mouse stroking that does it, and I don't know what because whenever I try to do it deliberately to try to work out what I'm doing and so to stop doing it, I can never get it to happen!!!!!!!! |
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gareth evans wrote:
Windows Key + Tab is the official way, but there's also some mouse stroking that does it A 3hree or four finger upward swipe, you can turn them off in settings/touchpad |
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On 28/04/2021 14:59, Andy Burns wrote:
gareth evans wrote: Windows Key + Tab is the official way, but there's also some mouse stroking that does it A 3hree or four finger upward swipe, you can turn them off in settings/touchpad I'd been referred to that before, but no such selections in my settings / touchpad. .... and I never do a 3 or 4 fingered swipe so it's not that! |
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On 28/04/2021 14:25, gareth evans wrote:
On 28/04/2021 13:18, SH wrote: On 28/04/2021 12:45, gareth evans wrote: This W10 new desktop facility is really getting on my tits, almost more so than the Amazon fiasco (qv). I almost don't dare to touch the mouse pad lest the display all disappears up into the top left corner with icons for each open program. This is * B L O O D Y *Â* annoying. Surely there must be some way of disabling this unwanted and unnecessary facility?????????????????????? How do you get the the open programs disappearing into icons in the top left corner? Windows Key + Tab is the official way, but there's also some mouse stroking that does it, and I don't know what because whenever I try to do it deliberately to try to work out what I'm doing and so to stop doing it, I can never get it to happen!!!!!!!! that sounds like you need to take a look at your mouse settings & hot mouse strokes? |
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On Wed, 28 Apr 2021 12:45:57 +0100, gareth evans wrote:
This W10 new desktop facility is really getting on my tits, almost more so than the Amazon fiasco (qv). I almost don't dare to touch the mouse pad lest the display all disappears up into the top left corner with icons for each open program. This is * B L O O D Y * annoying. Surely there must be some way of disabling this unwanted and unnecessary facility?????????????????????? What version of win10 are you using.. |
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On 28/04/2021 13:52, jon wrote:
On Wed, 28 Apr 2021 12:45:57 +0100, gareth evans wrote: This W10 new desktop facility is really getting on my tits, almost more so than the Amazon fiasco (qv). I almost don't dare to touch the mouse pad lest the display all disappears up into the top left corner with icons for each open program. This is * B L O O D Y * annoying. Surely there must be some way of disabling this unwanted and unnecessary facility?????????????????????? What version of win10 are you using.. Whatever is foisted onto me by the unstoppable Windows updates. |
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On 28/04/2021 14:25, gareth evans wrote:
On 28/04/2021 13:52, jon wrote: On Wed, 28 Apr 2021 12:45:57 +0100, gareth evans wrote: This W10 new desktop facility is really getting on my tits, almost more so than the Amazon fiasco (qv). I almost don't dare to touch the mouse pad lest the display all disappears up into the top left corner with icons for each open program. This is * B L O O D Y *Â* annoying. Surely there must be some way of disabling this unwanted and unnecessary facility?????????????????????? What version of win10 are you using.. Whatever is foisted onto me by the unstoppable Windows updates. Hold the windows key, hit R, type winver in the edit box, then click ok -- Cheers, John. /================================================== ===============\ | Internode Ltd - http://www.internode.co.uk | |-----------------------------------------------------------------| | John Rumm - john(at)internode(dot)co(dot)uk | \================================================= ================/ |
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On 28/04/2021 15:08, John Rumm wrote:
On 28/04/2021 14:25, gareth evans wrote: On 28/04/2021 13:52, jon wrote: On Wed, 28 Apr 2021 12:45:57 +0100, gareth evans wrote: This W10 new desktop facility is really getting on my tits, almost more so than the Amazon fiasco (qv). I almost don't dare to touch the mouse pad lest the display all disappears up into the top left corner with icons for each open program. This is * B L O O D Y * annoying. Surely there must be some way of disabling this unwanted and unnecessary facility?????????????????????? What version of win10 are you using.. Whatever is foisted onto me by the unstoppable Windows updates. Hold the windows key, hit R, type winver in the edit box, then click ok Version 2004 Build 19041.928 |
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gareth evans wrote:
On 28/04/2021 15:08, John Rumm wrote: On 28/04/2021 14:25, gareth evans wrote: On 28/04/2021 13:52, jon wrote: On Wed, 28 Apr 2021 12:45:57 +0100, gareth evans wrote: This W10 new desktop facility is really getting on my tits, almost more so than the Amazon fiasco (qv). I almost don't dare to touch the mouse pad lest the display all disappears up into the top left corner with icons for each open program. This is * B L O O D Y * annoying. Surely there must be some way of disabling this unwanted and unnecessary facility?????????????????????? What version of win10 are you using.. Whatever is foisted onto me by the unstoppable Windows updates. Hold the windows key, hit R, type winver in the edit box, then click ok Version 2004 Build 19041.928 Some of the visual settings can be seen here. https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/...dows-10-a.html And here is a picture of some of the panels. https://i.postimg.cc/fyvQR2q7/win10-sticky-stuff.gif Paul |
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On 28/04/2021 12:45, gareth evans wrote:
This W10 new desktop facility is really getting on my tits, almost more so than the Amazon fiasco (qv). I almost don't dare to touch the mouse pad lest the display all disappears up into the top left corner with icons for each open program. This is * B L O O D Y *Â* annoying. Surely there must be some way of disabling this unwanted and unnecessary facility?????????????????????? If you mean Task View, might you have the Task View button on the taskbar and be clicking that accidentally? If so you can get rid of it by right clicking the icon and unticking Task View in the menu. https://appuals.com/how-to-disable-t...on-windows-10/ -- Robin reply-to address is (intended to be) valid |
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On 28/04/2021 16:18, Robin wrote:
On 28/04/2021 12:45, gareth evans wrote: This W10 new desktop facility is really getting on my tits, almost more so than the Amazon fiasco (qv). I almost don't dare to touch the mouse pad lest the display all disappears up into the top left corner with icons for each open program. This is * B L O O D Y * annoying. Surely there must be some way of disabling this unwanted and unnecessary facility?????????????????????? If you mean Task View, might you have the Task View button on the taskbar and be clicking that accidentally? If so you can get rid of it by right clicking the icon and unticking Task View in the menu. https://appuals.com/how-to-disable-t...on-windows-10/ No. I know all about that and the Windows+tab to get it. I've tried 3 and 4 finger swiping, left, right, up, down and diagonally and can't trigger it, so what triggers it leaves me mystified. Perhaps it's something to do with a 7, nearly 8, year old laptop? |
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On 28/04/2021 17:54, gareth evans wrote:
On 28/04/2021 16:18, Robin wrote: On 28/04/2021 12:45, gareth evans wrote: This W10 new desktop facility is really getting on my tits, almost more so than the Amazon fiasco (qv). I almost don't dare to touch the mouse pad lest the display all disappears up into the top left corner with icons for each open program. This is * B L O O D Y *Â* annoying. Surely there must be some way of disabling this unwanted and unnecessary facility?????????????????????? If you mean Task View, might you have the Task View button on the taskbar and be clicking that accidentally? If so you can get rid of it by right clicking the icon and unticking Task View in the menu. https://appuals.com/how-to-disable-t...on-windows-10/ No. I know all about that and the Windows+tab to get it. I've tried 3 and 4 finger swiping, left, right, up, down and diagonally and can't trigger it, so what triggers it leaves me mystified. Perhaps it's something to do with a 7, nearly 8, year old laptop? Sorry, I can't help further. But - with apologies if I'm the only one who is unclear - is it Task View you are triggering or is it something else? -- Robin reply-to address is (intended to be) valid |
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On 28/04/2021 18:30, Robin wrote:
Sorry, I can't help further. But - with apologies if I'm the only one who is unclear - is it Task View you are triggering or is it something else? I didn't know that it was called Task View, but yes, that is what comes up. I've been a Wondows user since 3.11 (and was then a programmer in VB6) and I do not appreciate new unwanted and unexplained facilities being foisted on me. |
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![]() "gareth evans" wrote in message ... On 28/04/2021 16:18, Robin wrote: On 28/04/2021 12:45, gareth evans wrote: This W10 new desktop facility is really getting on my tits, almost more so than the Amazon fiasco (qv). I almost don't dare to touch the mouse pad lest the display all disappears up into the top left corner with icons for each open program. This is * B L O O D Y * annoying. Surely there must be some way of disabling this unwanted and unnecessary facility?????????????????????? If you mean Task View, might you have the Task View button on the taskbar and be clicking that accidentally? If so you can get rid of it by right clicking the icon and unticking Task View in the menu. https://appuals.com/how-to-disable-t...on-windows-10/ No. I know all about that and the Windows+tab to get it. I've tried 3 and 4 finger swiping, left, right, up, down and diagonally and can't trigger it, so what triggers it leaves me mystified. Perhaps it's something to do with a 7, nearly 8, year old laptop? Quite likely. Most likely the touchpad cant do fancy stuff like 3/4 finger swipes. |
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On Thu, 29 Apr 2021 05:20:16 +1000, cantankerous trolling geezer Rodent
Speed, the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again: FLUSH the trolling senile cretin's latest troll**** unread -- Archibald Tarquin Blenkinsopp addressing Rodent Speed: "You really are a clueless pillock." MID: |
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On 28/04/2021 12:45, gareth evans wrote:
This W10 new desktop facility is really getting on my tits, almost more so than the Amazon fiasco (qv). I almost don't dare to touch the mouse pad lest the display all disappears up into the top left corner with icons for each open program. This is * B L O O D Y *Â* annoying. Surely there must be some way of disabling this unwanted and unnecessary facility?????????????????????? ok, reading between the lines a bit here, I would guess you are ending up in "task view". (it shows a map of smaller versions of every window on a particular screen, plus a timeline of documents opened recently - also serves as a place to create extra virtual desktops to allow groups of windows to be swapped in and out quickly - quite handy on small laptop screens). You can get to it on recent versions of Win 10 by clicking the "stacked boxes" icon close to the search gadget on the task bar. Now, there are a couple of different systems for doing stuff with a trackpad. The "modern" one is with "gestures" - however these are generally only suited to multi-touch trackpads, and not all laptops have these. If yours is supported, then Settings-Devices-Mouse & Touchpad, will let you configure these. For systems that lack muti-touch capability there are also "edge swipes" or "edge gestures". A swipe on the left edge of the pad will go into task view on a recentish version of Win 10 Edge swipes can be enabled and disabled, but windows leaves this to the vendor of the trackpad if they have supplied their own version. Some vendor's drivers allow these to be disabled, however some don't. For those that don't, you can just opt to uninstall the vendors driver and windows will revert to its default Human Interface Device driver for most touch pads. That will normally disable them, or at least provide a configuration option. -- Cheers, John. /================================================== ===============\ | Internode Ltd - http://www.internode.co.uk | |-----------------------------------------------------------------| | John Rumm - john(at)internode(dot)co(dot)uk | \================================================= ================/ |
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gareth evans wrote:
This W10 new desktop facility is really getting on my tits, [...] Surely there must be some way of disabling this unwanted and unnecessary facility?????????????????????? Install linux? :-) .... well, somebody had to suggest it... #Paul |
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On 28/04/2021 16:02, #Paul wrote:
gareth evans wrote: This W10 new desktop facility is really getting on my tits, [...] Surely there must be some way of disabling this unwanted and unnecessary facility?????????????????????? Install linux? :-) ... well, somebody had to suggest it... I'd already said in another life that I'm getting more and more ****ed-off with Microsoft that the next PC I go for will be Linuxy |
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On Wed, 28 Apr 2021 21:00:44 +0100, gareth evans
wrote: On 28/04/2021 16:02, #Paul wrote: gareth evans wrote: This W10 new desktop facility is really getting on my tits, [...] Surely there must be some way of disabling this unwanted and unnecessary facility?????????????????????? Install linux? :-) ... well, somebody had to suggest it... I'd already said in another life that I'm getting more and more ****ed-off with Microsoft that the next PC I go for will be Linuxy Before you commit in any way you can run Linux on your existing PC from a DVD or USB drive and start to get a feel for it? Whilst I have a few Linux only machines, I also have it dual boot (with Windows) on some and on a couple on external / USB drive. If you stick it on a 64G SSD in a USB3 external enclosure and in a USB3 port on a PC / laptop it runs pretty quickly. Once finished you unplug it, reboot and your PC is back as it was. ;-) It is a good idea to have such a solution handy in any case, Linux Mint is pretty good and user friendly. https://linuxmint.com/ Cheers, T i m |
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On 28/04/2021 21:25, T i m wrote:
On Wed, 28 Apr 2021 21:00:44 +0100, gareth evans wrote: On 28/04/2021 16:02, #Paul wrote: gareth evans wrote: This W10 new desktop facility is really getting on my tits, [...] Surely there must be some way of disabling this unwanted and unnecessary facility?????????????????????? Install linux? :-) ... well, somebody had to suggest it... I'd already said in another life that I'm getting more and more ****ed-off with Microsoft that the next PC I go for will be Linuxy Before you commit in any way you can run Linux on your existing PC from a DVD or USB drive and start to get a feel for it? Whilst I have a few Linux only machines, I also have it dual boot (with Windows) on some and on a couple on external / USB drive. If you stick it on a 64G SSD in a USB3 external enclosure and in a USB3 port on a PC / laptop it runs pretty quickly. Once finished you unplug it, reboot and your PC is back as it was. ;-) It is a good idea to have such a solution handy in any case, Linux Mint is pretty good and user friendly. https://linuxmint.com/ Cheers, T i m Or you could download the linux ISOs and load them into Hyper V (as local installation source) which is part of Windows so you can try Linux from within the Windows 10 desktop? You do have to turn off Secure Boot setting or Linux won't load within Hyper-V You can then delete the VM if you don't like that flavour of Linux or if you do, ytou can thengo the whole hog and install linux on your disk of choice and boot off that. Another way is to download & create a LiveDVD/CD and boot off that but it then is in Read only mode and does not write anything to your physical disks |
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On Wed, 28 Apr 2021 21:34:22 +0100, SH wrote:
On 28/04/2021 21:25, T i m wrote: On Wed, 28 Apr 2021 21:00:44 +0100, gareth evans wrote: On 28/04/2021 16:02, #Paul wrote: gareth evans wrote: This W10 new desktop facility is really getting on my tits, [...] Surely there must be some way of disabling this unwanted and unnecessary facility?????????????????????? Install linux? :-) ... well, somebody had to suggest it... I'd already said in another life that I'm getting more and more ****ed-off with Microsoft that the next PC I go for will be Linuxy Before you commit in any way you can run Linux on your existing PC from a DVD or USB drive and start to get a feel for it? Whilst I have a few Linux only machines, I also have it dual boot (with Windows) on some and on a couple on external / USB drive. If you stick it on a 64G SSD in a USB3 external enclosure and in a USB3 port on a PC / laptop it runs pretty quickly. Once finished you unplug it, reboot and your PC is back as it was. ;-) It is a good idea to have such a solution handy in any case, Linux Mint is pretty good and user friendly. https://linuxmint.com/ Or you could download the linux ISOs and load them into Hyper V (as local installation source) which is part of Windows so you can try Linux from within the Windows 10 desktop? Whilst I've run Linux in a VB VM and container, it all adds to the complexity and more of a risk of trashing the host OS by mistake than running say a live DVD/USB or even running it on a USB attached drive (once installed etc). You do have to turn off Secure Boot setting or Linux won't load within Hyper-V And that can then cause an issue for Windows. ;-( You can then delete the VM if you don't like that flavour of Linux or if you do, Yes, it is easier running it on a VM for that. ytou can thengo the whole hog and install linux on your disk of choice and boot off that. That's what I do here on a couple of PC's. I have removable SATA drives and can mix n match easily with no risk to the 'other' OS's. Another way is to download & create a LiveDVD/CD and boot off that but it then is in Read only mode and does not write anything to your physical disks Yeah, I suggested that above and is something I have often left with others (LiveDVD) both for them and me either to play with on their machines or to use as an emergency repair tool. I can generally get people to boot a LiveDVD (remotely, by phone etc), get online (if Wireless), download, 'install' and run Teamviewer (that is actually the Windows version running in WINE) and then get access to their machine, in one instance, actually installing Linux for them remotely. ;-) Cheers, T i m |
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On 28/04/2021 21:34, SH wrote:
On 28/04/2021 21:25, T i m wrote: On Wed, 28 Apr 2021 21:00:44 +0100, gareth evans wrote: On 28/04/2021 16:02, #Paul wrote: gareth evans wrote: This W10 new desktop facility is really getting on my tits, [...] Surely there must be some way of disabling this unwanted and unnecessary facility?????????????????????? Install linux? :-) ... well, somebody had to suggest it... I'd already said in another life that I'm getting more and more ****ed-off with Microsoft that the next PC I go for will be Linuxy Before you commit in any way you can run Linux on your existing PC from a DVD or USB drive and start to get a feel for it? Whilst I have a few Linux only machines, I also have it dual boot (with Windows) on some and on a couple on external / USB drive. If you stick it on a 64G SSD in a USB3 external enclosure and in a USB3 port on a PC / laptop it runs pretty quickly. Once finished you unplug it, reboot and your PC is back as it was. ;-) It is a good idea to have such a solution handy in any case, Linux Mint is pretty good and user friendly. https://linuxmint.com/ Cheers, T i m Or you could download the linux ISOs and load them into Hyper V (as local installation source) which is part of Windows so you can try Linux from within the Windows 10 desktop? You do have to turn off Secure Boot setting or Linux won't load within Hyper-V You can then delete the VM if you don't like that flavour of Linux or if you do, ytou can thengo the whole hog and install linux on your disk of choice and boot off that. Another way is to download & create a LiveDVD/CD and boot off that but it then is in Read only mode and does not write anything to your physical disks I've historically used VirtualBox. the Windows Sandbox doesn't provide access to USB devices so that's a no-no for me. Is Hyper V a good alternative to VirtualBox? For Tim, VirtualBox does have some 'pre-installed' OSes. |
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On 28/04/2021 21:25, T i m wrote:
On Wed, 28 Apr 2021 21:00:44 +0100, gareth evans wrote: On 28/04/2021 16:02, #Paul wrote: gareth evans wrote: This W10 new desktop facility is really getting on my tits, [...] Surely there must be some way of disabling this unwanted and unnecessary facility?????????????????????? Install linux? :-) ... well, somebody had to suggest it... I'd already said in another life that I'm getting more and more ****ed-off with Microsoft that the next PC I go for will be Linuxy Before you commit in any way you can run Linux on your existing PC from a DVD or USB drive and start to get a feel for it? Whilst I have a few Linux only machines, I also have it dual boot (with Windows) on some and on a couple on external / USB drive. If you stick it on a 64G SSD in a USB3 external enclosure and in a USB3 port on a PC / laptop it runs pretty quickly. Once finished you unplug it, reboot and your PC is back as it was. ;-) It is a good idea to have such a solution handy in any case, Linux Mint is pretty good and user friendly. https://linuxmint.com/ I already have dual-boot with linux on a windows xp machine, but it's only a single processor so slow by modern comparison so don't really use it at all except for powering up once a week to keep the battery charged. Have used linux in a number of contracts. |
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On Wed, 28 Apr 2021 21:51:43 +0100, gareth evans
wrote: On 28/04/2021 21:25, T i m wrote: On Wed, 28 Apr 2021 21:00:44 +0100, gareth evans wrote: On 28/04/2021 16:02, #Paul wrote: gareth evans wrote: This W10 new desktop facility is really getting on my tits, [...] Surely there must be some way of disabling this unwanted and unnecessary facility?????????????????????? Install linux? :-) ... well, somebody had to suggest it... I'd already said in another life that I'm getting more and more ****ed-off with Microsoft that the next PC I go for will be Linuxy Before you commit in any way you can run Linux on your existing PC from a DVD or USB drive and start to get a feel for it? Whilst I have a few Linux only machines, I also have it dual boot (with Windows) on some and on a couple on external / USB drive. If you stick it on a 64G SSD in a USB3 external enclosure and in a USB3 port on a PC / laptop it runs pretty quickly. Once finished you unplug it, reboot and your PC is back as it was. ;-) It is a good idea to have such a solution handy in any case, Linux Mint is pretty good and user friendly. https://linuxmint.com/ I already have dual-boot with linux on a windows xp machine, but it's only a single processor so slow by modern comparison so don't really use it at all except for powering up once a week to keep the battery charged. So you mean 'powering it up' rather than 'booting it up' as isn't MoBo partially powered (and so the BIOS / CMOS battery), assuming it's an ATX machine? Have used linux in a number of contracts. Ah, cool, but nothing like actually trying to use it as your own daily desktop to see if it will work for you or not. ;-) Cheers, T i m |
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On 28 Apr 2021 20:37:25 GMT, Tim Streater
wrote: On 28 Apr 2021 at 16:02:43 BST, #Paul #Paul wrote: gareth evans wrote: This W10 new desktop facility is really getting on my tits, [...] Surely there must be some way of disabling this unwanted and unnecessary facility?????????????????????? Install linux? :-) ... well, somebody had to suggest it... So how, in Linux (specifically Mint 20.1 Cinnamon) do I pin an app to the taskbar or whatever it's called? Don't you right click on the app in the menu and do it from there (from memory)? I thought you got the choice of taskbar (or whatever it's called) or desktop? a) MacOS - simple, just drop it on the Dock where you want it. Use drag/drop to reorganise your Dock icons It's funny, one of the things that ****ed me off about MacOS (at the time possibly) was the inability to create a simple text file on the desktop. It was also as easy as it always has been on Windows on Mint until I think recently, where they seem to have dropping such things off. You can generally add them back on again with come CLI CopyPaste wizardry. (Like being able to open a folder as Admin from the GUI / File Manager (Nemo?), you have to add that back manually). b) Win7 - Simple, just drop it on the taskbar where you want it. Harder to reorganise. c) Win10 - Similar to Win7 d) Mint 20.1 - blowed if I could find a way to do it. e) RPi - even worse. That's hardware though, all the rest were OS's? Cheers, T i m |
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