It’s a Good Thing not to have to do this in a crisis mode. The ‘old’ computer is working fine, and will continue to be my backup, but the new one is getting its programs. I opted to skip the ‘bargains’ like Word Office, etc…so it’s a pretty uneducated computer.<\/p>\n
I’m an old DOS user—I believe in ‘seeing’ all my files and the whole file name AND path. I like to know the True Name of things, because I don’t guarantee I won’t invoke it. Naturally I have the confidence I won’t blitz a needed file.<\/p>\n
What I didn’t expect was duplicate (locked) My Documents, My Music, My Pictures files that simply resisted being unlocked or dealt with. Jane found the answer: Win 7 (Pro) has a set of zombie data files intended to handle ‘legacy’ application that expect those files to be configured a certain way. Unfortunately they will continue to clutter up the landscape, since there is not a ‘user hide-files’ command that I can figure.<\/p>\n
And as a note, you can stop a Word Perfect Install and leave it suspended while you install Mozilla Thunderbird…didn’t know if that would work, since MT squealed about it, but it did just fine. WP wants a ‘mail program’ at a certain point in its install and will force you to abort the install if you can’t give it one. Lazy me. I just gave it to it, and it’s happy.<\/p>\n
I can’t find my Family Tree Maker 2012 copy. It’s gone walkabout.
\nI’m going to have to make a list of all my freeware installs. They don’t take MUCH time to install compared to, say, WP, which is a 3-cuppa-coffee install…but…they add up.<\/p>\n
It’ll be a while before I’m willing to attempt the Carbonite data move, in which I tell Carbonite cloud storage to dump to the new guy.<\/p>\n
The lighted keyboard is real nice, but tricksy. It comes on when you type on it, once you set it up—though you can tell it how long to stay lit, and currently it’s not letting me at those blanks. Great device for someone like me, who uses the keyboard in a dark room while watching Korean movies.<\/p>\n
I got OnePass cloned: that’s the program that creates and remembers all the passwords. And I’d forgotten I’d created an application password that had a mistake in it, so the clue didn’t work. That was hairy to reconstitute—you just hope the process works: being what they are, they don’t go shipping passwords to you… If you use that program, which I heartily recommend, you really need to be sure what you did!<\/p>\n
I got Photoshop installed. Not that I can use the thing.<\/p>\n
The ‘music’ folder is a bit of a waste: I don’t do music. Though I might, if I get my playing up to speed. Might offer some downloads of stuff I’ve written. Or, since it also has a camera, just some little quasi-podcasts if I feel like it. That would require looking good—the reason I decided the Visiphones forecast in the 50’s were just not going to fly…<\/p>\n
Anyway, it’s evening activity.<\/p>\n
It has a better screen, easier to read; but it’s also a big screen, which means the keyboard has a dedicated number pad, which means the typing keys are slightly offcentered, and on my not-so-good vision side, to boot. But I’ll learn this keyboard; it’s just awkward getting used to it. I have my beloved trackpoint mouse, so I can cope with anything else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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