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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

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Originally posted by Brenda:
I am working on using the right terms for computer stuff. I've had to correct myself when I say "memory stick" and it is now called an USB stick. *sigh*

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I don't want to contradict myself here, but there probably is certain things that are interchangable and can get tricky with locality. I don't regularly call them a USB stick. I would know what somebody meant if they called it either a memory stick or a USB stick. I probably tend to call them a thumb stick or thumb drive or flash drive, but I don't even know.

*I did just ask Google AI and they said in the US the most common are "Thumb Drive" and "Flash Drive". But in the UK and Ireland "Memory Stick" and "USB Stick" are the most common. It would appear that at least in your part of Canada they prefer the UK vernacular and you're using entirely different terms for it than I regularly do.



Don't get frustrated about that. Call it what you want. Most people you'd ever talk to about it are going to know what you're talking about no matter what name you use. If somebody was correcting you, that's pretty lame.

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No, I have never done a restart like I did on the 4th. I didn't know that I needed to do that.

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Okay Brenda...

IMPORTANT: Please answer this question. I want to know if you have ever done a Restart command from any place before. I don't know how you did it last night, but you have the option to press the Start Button and then the Power Icon Button and select "Restart" from the list, and you also have the CTRL+ALT+DEL Menu where you would go to the lower right hand corner and press the Power Icon Button and select Restart from the menu.

You are saying that you've never done either of these methods before, correct?


You're not in trouble. I just need to know this right now, because it is important to the conversation.

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Okay. Like I said I don't use Adobe or very little. So I am not going to worry about it.

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Yeah. Forget about it.

If you ever needed Adobe for anything we can get it for you. I can't see why you'd ever need it other than opening and editing a PDF file which you probably don't need to do because you do all of your banking and bills in real life and not online.

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Like I said up. No I've never done a restart. The person I got it from just said play and go and that is basically what I did. Just hooked it up but then with the new router it had to be rehooked up.

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Okay. I don't mean to keep asking you, but I just want to make sure that you've never actually done what we did on the 4th before via any way that you can actually press "Restart".


Don't worry that nobody told you about it. I didn't tell anybody when I put together computers for them either. For decades on the earlier versions I didn't have to. It was just kind of known that things get crappy over time and if the computer is acting up you just power it down and reboot it and usually the problems go away.

I'm kind of annoyed that Microsoft made these changes because with all the dumbing down they've done over the years, I think it's incredibly unintuitive the way they handle it now. I didn't even know everything I'm telling you now until several years after I had installed Windows 10, and I've been using Windows operating systems since 1993.



So this is important to know.

I don't put myself on a timeline for doing restarts. Compared to how you use your computer, I literally drive mine into the ground. I have to do restarts probably every 3 months maximum, but sometimes when I'm doing really heavy work like I was on my project, it wouldn't be uncommon for me to restart it up to twice per week because it was messing up on me pretty bad.

But with how you use it, the only time it ever gets a proper Restart is when you let it do its updates. Every time Windows does an update, it does at least one full Restart process without you pressing the button, so it's not like you've gone for years now without one.

I'd say it would be good practice for you to try to remember to Restart your computer every Solstice and Equinox.



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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Oh...

I could think of one reason you'd need Adobe.

When you sell that book, they're probably going to want to send you a PDF document to print out and sign and mail back to them.

We'll get you hooked up then.



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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
BRENDA, bc of the way Windows works, we would have to restart our data acquisition computers at least once a week.

We usually did what we called "the three fingered salute": holding down CNTRL+ALT+DEL simultaneously.


Windows is like that. It brings up something from the hard drive into memory and when it's done with that bit it doesn't completely free up all the memory that was occupied. So after a while the memory gets all clogged with leftover bits and pieces and the computer gets confused. The only way to clear the memory is to restart.

That's how I understand it anyway.

Also, thumb drive, memory stick, USB stick... I'd know what you were talking about no matter which term you used. It's all good.

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Thanks for the Cliff's Notes, Sigs.

That's probably all Brenda ever needs to know about it. I tend to lay out way more detail, probably a bit more than I should. But they're there if she wants to have a deeper understanding of what's going on.


I'm curious if Brenda only noticed it now because she's using Windows 10 and they ended service on it.

I rarely seem to have to restart the computer these days for updates, so I figure they've probably hijacked even more of our privacy and our own machinery so they can inject a lot more of their code whenever they want to without alerting us with all those pesky restarts.

I don't think Windows 10 is getting many restarts if at all these days. I think I did have one forced on me after the days-long power outage which made that take even longer to boot up than it usually does, but that's the only one in recent memory on that computer.

Maybe since M$ isn't restting it all the time, Brenda is starting to notice things that never would have creeped up otherwise.

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