| 6ixStringJack: Also, you should call the "Start Page" the "Desktop". When you load up your PC and log in, and you're looking at whatever picture is your background and the Start/Windows button is on the bottom-left of the screen on that gray bar, this is referred to as the "Desktop". Some people may be confused if you call it the Start Page when asking them for help. |
| 6ixStringJack: So good. We know that you can still open the latest version of your book in Word. Please walk me through that process on your end. Tell me the EXACT steps you take to open up your book in Word. No detail is too small here. |
| 6ixStringJack: At least we still have Word and your Web Browser (Chrome) shortcuts on your Desktop still. The two that are gone are likely sitting in your "Recycle Bin". If you wanted them back you could either make them again, or you could "Restore" them by RIGHT-clicking on them in your "Recycle Bin" and then clicking on "Restore" in the box that pops up. |
| 6ixStringJack: Excel and the "other one"? I assume you probably don't use Excel at all? Did you use the "other one" at all? Those were likely just "Shortcuts" to the programs that somebody put on your desktop to make it easy to open programs you'd be most likely to use. Not sure why they'd think you used Excel in your day to day life, but when I made PCs for people I'd give them Excel too even though most people don't make use of spreadsheets.
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| Brenda: Last night I managed to delete or somehow move the icons off the start page. Not Chrome or Word. Just Excel and one other one. |
| Brenda: We are cold were I am. Also a lot of fog. |
| Brenda: I can get at a good version of my book in Word. |
| Brenda: I understand about the frustration. And if I sound frustrated with you, it is frustration with myself. Don't worry about 25years into the future. We don't know what will happen. |
| Brenda: I haven't used Outlook since I first got the internet and things were soooo much simpler back then. I wondered about doing the default thing. |
6ixStringJack: It's gotta suck when all your racism and sexism comes back to bite you in the asses, huh? The days of rules for thee, but not for me are over.  |
| 6ixStringJack: It's gotta suck when all your racism and sexism comes back to bite you in the asses, huh? The days of rules for thee, but not for me are over. |
6ixStringJack: Haha. Don Lemon is going to be charged Don Lemon under the Klu Klux Klan act for leading a bunch of left-wing white college "educated" lunatics from terrorizing a congregation inside their church yesterday. Don't blame us. We didn't break all of your toys. You and your 24/7/365 hypocrisy over the last decade+ did.  |
| 6ixStringJack: First of 3 miserable single-digit high days around these parts this week. Won't see a day above freezing now until February if the extended forecast holds. Won't see a day in the 40's until Valentine's Day. Gross. |
| 6ixStringJack: This Alexander Dugin sounds just about as smart as you are, Second. You'd both make terrible war tacticians. because you're both very stupid people. |
| 6ixStringJack: Good luck to them. They can't even handle the dipshits in Ukraine and they've done nothing in 5 years. Russia isn't going to fire any nukes. They're not suicidal Muslims. |
| second: Alexander Dugin - the ultra-hardline ideologue often labelled "Putin's brain" - argues the Kremlin must exploit Donald Trump's ambitions over Greenland as justification for carving out a vastly expanded Russian empire. The philosopher has urged Moscow to rebuild much of the former Soviet Union and to deliberately abandon global legal norms in the process. Dugin has even signalled a willingness to resort to nuclear force to achieve Russia's objectives. "Russia is obliged to do something horrible to restore her credibility," Dugin wrote on X. "It is very sad that we have to use such kind of arguments. But we have no choice. Only brutality, force, mass destruction and cruelty matter in Trumplike world." [go to link] |
| 6ixStringJack: I've been kinda bouncing around to both types, and cleared up 500GB or so just tonight, and about half of the files I deleted so far are about as large as only 2 or 3 of the files in the other half of the files I've deleted so far. If I archive the stuff in 7zip, it will never bog down a File Explorer search again, and would virtually be erased and out of my life anyhow, but there would still be the ability to go back to it if the need were ever to arise. |
| 6ixStringJack: Man... some of this is going to be really tedious to go through. As much as I'd love to go through every damn file, I think my time would be better spent just going through the 30% of the stuff that takes up 99.5% of the space that doesn't need to be taken up anymore, and then just package the rest up in archives and a nice little bow. I might very well never look at any of that ever again after doing this, but if I ever needed any of it one day it's still there and it won't require days or weeks of purging all the stuff I know I no longer would ever need just to save maybe 10GB worth of space. |
| 6ixStringJack: I don't really have much interest in coding or making programs to run things. It's fun to do some minor coding challenges to keep the mind sharp and to learn a few new things, but it's not my wheelhouse or my real interest. I'm also a fan of the aesthetic of the old tech as well. There was a certain charm to it that doesn't exist with the modern ways of doing things, and since I still have a lot the old stuff, I see no reason in blowing up the backup data for some of those older ways unless I absolutely needed that space for something else. Even if it's largely inferior now to what I've done today, it's not completely useless yet. But boy, there's so much I can get rid of now despite what I'll be saving and that feels awesome. |
| 6ixStringJack: But I can't just go willy-nilly purging everything. There are still specific instances where older (and mostly larger) data would be worth holding onto in a previous iteration because of compatibility it still has with some older tech that is still viable to me and to others, even though what I've done in the meantime largely mitigates any need for the older stuff. The newest stuff will be fairly easy to use and pretty cheap to store. Unlike the old days where you needed expensive equipment being modified to run this stuff, most of that work can now be offloaded to nearly any basic PC or Mac product, and everything I'm working on only needs large external storage. In essence, it's the library and I'm the Historian, which is what I've always wanted all along. |