Valerie, Barry said it was a hard drive failure so that shouldn't have anything to do with Windows 10. Barry, Interesting to know that! I am always very appreciative of the informatiion you share with us. Thank you! Linda On Sep 4, 2015 12:29 AM, "Valerie lirakis via" <[email protected]> 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 < > [email protected]> > 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 > > > > > > 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] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >