Valerie, I found that the O/S runs smoothly, but there were some peculiarities surrounding some of the MS default settings; they can be changed. The MS Edge browser works well and has fixed some of the CSS regressions in IE11 that originally worked in IE10. According to MS, the Windows 10 O/S is designed to be their backbone O/S for many years, and will receive upgrades over time, including the ability to run third party addons. While the Edge browser will most likely be a "work in progress", much the same as the other modern browsers. Barry ---------------- On 04/09/2015 19:27, Valerie lirakis wrote: > Barry, what is your opinion of Windows 10? Judging from your post it sounds as though there are drawbacks to it. > Valerie > > On 2 September 2015 at 03:52, barrycarlson via wrote: > >> Until a couple of days ago I was using Windows 10 - until I had a >> HD failure (again!). >> >> Ignoring a Windows Vista laptop that is gathering >> dust somewhere, I went back to a trusty 12 year old Laptop running >> Windows XP. I enabled some homegrown security and went about cleaning >> out lots of redundant files/programs etc.. in order to get a little more >> speed out of it. >> >> I kept the old IE browsers on it and decided to see >> if Opera 31 would run on the XP. Well its a pretty big file - 117MB, but >> thats because it packs all the stuff that XP is not equipped with, and >> the result is that the Opera browser responds to all the current CSS. >> >> Here's a full-screen capture of a page showing one of my more recent >> slide-shows:- >> >> http://countjustonce.com/images/xp-opr31-rs-slides.jpg [1] >> >> So, just because the operating system wont run IE8 and later, doesn't >> mean that its scrap when use is made of a multiple O/S compatible modern >> browser. >> >> Barry >> >> ------------------- >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] [2] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message Links: ------ [1] http://countjustonce.com/images/xp-opr31-rs-slides.jpg [2] mailto:[email protected] [3] mailto:[email protected]