Daily Archives: June 2, 2016
Doing Our Part . . .
For those of you trying to avoid having Windows 10 crammed down your throat . . . er computer, there;s a new scam going around from Microsoft. And unless you know how to respond, you’ll get Windows 10 no matter what you do.
I even saw this Tuesday night when I was cleaning out Barbara’s laptop. After running CCleaner and rebooting, I got a MS pop-up telling me I could install Win10 right now or put it off until tonight. No option to turn it down. Just the two choices, now or later.
Of course, there is that little ‘X’ in the upper right corner. That’ll kill it, right?
Well, No!
Clicking the ‘X’ does make the window go away, or course, but it also does the same thing as clicking the “Install Later” button. So if you leave your computer on tonight, tomorrow morning when you wake up, you’ll be running Win10 whether you want to or not.
After you see the pop-up, you only have two options, both of which I’ve mentioned before.
First, you can let it install and then click “I Don’t Agree” at the Terms & Conditions prompt. This will cause Windows 10 to uninstall itself back to Win7, 8, or 8.1, where ever you started from. Then download and run Never10 so it won’t happen again. Because if you don’t, it will.
Or second, you can tell the pop-up to install Win10 later tonight, and then immediately run Never10.
I again spent the morning and afternoon working on client website stuff, actually on two different sites at the same time. But hey, it keeps me off the streets and out of trouble.
Well, maybe just off the streets.
About 4:30 Jan and I drove into Columbus to have dinner at Whataburger, our first visit since we were here at Lake Conroe the last time. And that’s way too long.
And even better, they got the order exactly right. Regular readers will remember my trials and tribulations with the Whataburger in Carthage, TX while we were gate guarding last year. But this time I got the young lady to start with a plain #6 with cheese, and then had her add the things we wanted.
What they normally try to do is to subtract mentally what you don’t want from their standard condiments, and then add back the other stuff you do want. So you just know something’s going to go wrong. And it usually does.
But tonight it was perfect. And delicious.
Before heading home, we drove across the street to pick up a few things at the HEB, and then made a fuel stop on our way back to the rig.
Wrapping for the night, I came across an article recently that talk about what seniors regretted the most in their life. Turns out to be not traveling enough.
All I can say is that Jan and I are doing our part. How about you?
Thought for the Day:
When I’m bored, I send a text to a random number saying, “I hid the body. Now what?”
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