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Jody Thornton

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  1. Jody Thornton
    Haaaaaaaaaa! That's Great!
  2. Jody Thornton
    That hack was just in pre-release builds.
  3. Jody Thornton
    I can't believe I'm going to say this, but I have a hard time believing that the user base remaining is that low.
  4. Jody Thornton
    Well, if you're just using the desktop - and you're not planning to use the Metro apps or the touch environment at all, Windows 8 does provide some benefits over Windows 8.1 that are as follows: There are no known telemetry updates in Windows 8 that plague both Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 Windows 8 does not have any known CPU blocks (which affected update support). Then again, Windows 8 went out of support in January 2016, so any updates you get will be manually applied from Server 2012 anyway (you can get these from the Microsoft Catalog) No GWX Nags! So you have a Windows version that's fairly modern, and that Microsoft leaves pretty much alone. You can't run IE 11 (but that hardly matters). Windows Defender still protects the system with updated definitions.
  5. Jody Thornton
    Well I'm not here to start an argument at all. So all I was saying is that it's terrific for XP users that they have some options. Let's leave it at that :)
  6. Jody Thornton
    I have to concede that was quite a kind gesture. For all I say against you, I'm VERY impressed. Yet oddly enough, I'm more of the same mindset as you are towards continued XP use. Nonetheless, it was a very kind gesture you made towards this crew. Cheers and Merry Christmas!
  7. Jody Thornton
    I checked the GitHub page. Where are you seeing this?
  8. Jody Thornton
    I've installed the November Security-Only updates (including IE10). The December ones are downloaded but I'll install when I shut down the system next week. Only one more IE10 update after this month. I feel really poorly that IE11 blocked Windows 8 from accepting installation.
  9. Jody Thornton
    What sites are you having difficulty with @UCyborg?
  10. Jody Thornton
    The convenience rollup - gotcha. But that's not SP2. Fair enough. :)
  11. Jody Thornton
    There's an SP2 for Windows 7? Do you mean Vista, by chance?
  12. Jody Thornton
    Wow! I never knew that. I know we needed the LAV filters for New Moon and Basilisk on Vista and XP, but I thought Seamonkey worked out of the box. Good to know.
  13. Jody Thornton
    SeaMonkey doesn't contain HTML5 playback code? Really?
  14. Jody Thornton
    Wow! I was 10 when that came out. I had to look it up.
  15. Jody Thornton
    My first PC I bought second hand from my sister in the early 1990s. It was a clone 80286 12 MHz CPU, a 40 MB IDE drive, 1 MB of RAM and a Trident 256 KB ISA video adapter. She originally had MS-DOS 4.01 on it, but I replaced it with MS-DOS 5.00 and used DOS Shell on it. Now my second PC was an 80486 DX/2 66 MHz machine with 8 MB of 72 pin RAM, a 540 MB SCSI drive and an Adaptec ISA adapter. I eventually added a 2 GB SCSI disk to it. I had a Trident VESA 512 KB adapter, and a VESA controller. I also added a Mitsumi 2x CD-ROM drive, and a 14.4 modem. I never added a sound card to that machine, until I switched the motherboard. On one primary partition i had MS-DOS 6.2 and Windows 3.1 installed. On the second primary partition, I had OS/2 Warp 3.0, which was my primary OS for three years. I did add a Vibra 16 sound card after I switched the motherboard to a PCI capable one with a Cyrix 5x86/100 MHz and a Cirrus Logic 1 MB PCI video adapter. I also went with 16 MB of RAM.
  16. Jody Thornton
    I recommend when it comes to experience on this topic, that one should take a "page" from your book :p (thank you, thank you! I'm here all week)
  17. Jody Thornton
    OK - so BESIDES the Metro interface and the Start Screen and the lack of the Start Menu - because Classic Shell takes care of ALL OF THAT, Windows 7 and Windows 8 are nearly identical; they really are. Moreso, I can put on an Aero-like Visual Style, that makes it sooooo Windows 7-like. I just wish people would realize that :)
  18. Jody Thornton
    I was going to go post a "stay online" plea as well, but the site is down for me too. :(
  19. Jody Thornton
    I've gotten a second hand iPhone 6s since @tailswave but that is good to know. I take it that the metro-style interface of Windows Phone 7 is a lot like Windows 8 Metro?
  20. Jody Thornton
    I also want my OS to stay current until October 2023 0 that's why I run Windows 8 ....lol
  21. Jody Thornton
    Well, I have migrated to Pale Moon. I never thought I'd do it again, but Pale Moon 28.7.2 works with all of the sites I visit. I could never get Firefox fixed, so I've moved my setting into Pale Moon, and uninstalled ESR 68. Oh well, so sad :(
  22. Jody Thornton
    I just noticed - however most of the time, my statement still stands. :)
  23. Jody Thornton
    Just venting .... no effort seems to be applied to engaging Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 users to visit the forum at eightforums.com. Today the announcement of the release date of Chromium-based Edge was made (which runs on Windows 7 and 8) was made at gHacks and on the DM Ten Froums, but nothing was mentioned about it on the Eight Forums. The only threads that seem to survive there are the age old threads about integrating Windows Mail from Vista on Windows, or the games. Unbelievable. It's a Windows 8 Forum. Either shut it down, or provide some relevant information. There that's better!
  24. Jody Thornton
    @jumper I read that article before I came here and even followed the instructions on another one from Eight Forums that's very similar. Thanks for helping out though. In the meantime, just as a contingency plan, I've been trying out Pale Moon's latest build, and it seems I have no issues browsing the sites that I need to. So I may just return to that. I figured that after ESR 68 goes EOL next year, I'd want to switch out to something else. I pretty much got ESR 68 working just like ESR 60, however I think it might be time to abandon Quantum.
  25. Jody Thornton
    Well I can meet you halfway :). I tried running Waterfox Current, which is based on a new Firefox. It also exhibits the exact same symptoms. I really prefer to stay with the ESR for Firefox for a number of reasons.
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