Hi all,
Roger, go to your desktop with Windows-key-m and hit alt-f4. You'll
find the same, old shut-down buttons.
Ann P.
Original message:
By the way, related to this matter, I can't find a shut down button for
my computer now. With Windows 7 I would press the Windows key and go to
the start menu. I would then arrow once to the right and there was the
shut down button or I could arrow twice to the right and then arrow down
four times for the restart button. Despite the fact that Windows 10 was
advertised as having an even better start menu than Windows 7 I can't
find a start menu at all. I press the windows key and all I find is a
search box and I have to type in the name of an app to find it. Arrowing
from that search box does nothing. So I have been using the power switch
to turn the computer on and off, but I understand that is bad for the
computer.
___
Carl Sagan
“Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?”
― Carl Sagan
On 12/21/2019 11:20 AM, Roger Loran Bailey (Redacted sender
rogerbailey81 for DMARC) wrote:
Yesterday I overcame my procrastination and I am now wishing that I
hadn't. I remember that when I was using Windows XP I kept putting off
upgrading because of trepidation about learning a new operating
system. Then in 2014 my computer went kaput and I had to upgrade to
Windows 7. It was not as bad as I expected and I learned my way around
Windows 7 pretty quickly. But despite that experience I have been
putting off upgrading to Windows 10 for the same reasons. Well,
Windows 7 becomes obsolete on January 14, so yesterday I prepared
myself for a hassle and downloaded Windows 10. I won't describe all
the hassle that was involved, but it was a big hassle, indeed. It also
turns out that it is a lot more different from Windows 7 than Windows
7 was different from Windows XP, so I have a lot of learning to do.
But let me concentrate on the problems I am having related to
Bookshare volunteering. When I was installing Windows 10 the dialog
informed me that there were two apps on my computer that were not
compatible with Windows 10 and I would have to uninstall them before I
could proceed. One was JAWS 15. Fine, I don't use that anymore anyway.
So I went ahead and uninstalled it. However, The other caused me a
good bit of consternation. It was Open Book 9. That is my main number
one tool for scanning books for Bookshare and also for reading my
snail mail. But I couldn't otherwise continue, so I saved the book I
am currently working on to my documents and went ahead and uninstalled
it. I was on page 207 of a 357 page book. Because of that and another
problem with JAWS that cropped up after the installation I was going
to call Freedom Scientific technical support today and ask them about
it, but I forgot that they are not available on weekends and I will
have to wait until Monday. Not only do I now not have Open Book
installed, but as far as I can tell I have also lost the book that I
saved and every other document in my documents folder. I say as far as
I can tell because I thought I had also lost all of my bookmarks, but
somehow I did manage to restore those this morning. I have a bunch of
documents that I really did not want to lose, but relating to
Bookshare I appear to have lost three books that are either being
proofread or are on the checkout list and the book I was currently
working on. As for the books I have finished, well, if a proofreader
has a problem with one then, at least as of right now, I don't have a
copy to check for them. As for the one I was currently working on, I
really hate to have done 207 pages worth of meticulous work on it only
to lose it entirely or not to be able to proceed on it. Frankly, if
Open Book is incompatible with Windows 10 I would have expected that
by now it would have been mentioned on this list, so I was not
expecting that at all. The obvious solution is to switch to Kurzweil,
but there is a reason that I have not done so already. It is really
expensive and even with the discount for having Open Book it is still
expensive. But what I am asking for now is for any comments or advice
that any of you may have. As frustrating as it can be I rather enjoy
volunteering for Bookshare and I would hate to give it up, but for
right now I am at something of an impasse.
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