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SoMad wrote: You could just have disabled Cortana
I just disabled the entire OS.
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I find Cortana really useful for launching apps, but only because I can't for the life of me work out how to use the start menu.
Other than that, as I hate Bing and Edge it's a waste of time.
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Wastedtalent wrote: work out how to use the start menu.
Right click it and you get the old windows start menu.
And thats all it is. The entire change from windows 7, the utter disaster of no start menu, and finding replacement shells in windows 8, and on to windows 10.
They couldnt of course just put it back, that would be admitting defeat, so they changed a left click to a right click... what a joke.
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You mean 'how can Microsoft break something that worked OK'?
Look what happened to XP when they made it into Vista, then win7. (And why does the windows 8.1 device manager behave just like XPs? How much other XP code did they revert to.....?)
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Recommended for your mental sanity: the glacial ring (I've just upgraded from XP to 7)
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Thats a mistake. If the software you need today to use the internet could run on XP I would still use it.
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I really wish they would revert to the XP functionality for searching for files on your computer using Windows Explorer. Even with indexing on and tweaked, there are times where you just cannot find the files you are looking for even though that worked in Windows XP.
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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SoMad wrote: I really wish they would revert to the XP functionality for searching for files on your computer using Windows Explorer
Yep, they broke that completely, replacing it with that crappy 'content:' argument, which never f***ing works anyway.
Not to mention the sh*tty networking on windows 7, private, home and network! The number of times when I reboot and lose my network I have to jiggle around with this crap to get it to work! And then the 'opening a folder in explorer and it takes 20 seconds to find a few files'. Just WTF did they screw up there?
And the footprint of the OS compared to XP. 90 MB compared to over a gig. Not to mention junk like defender, smartfetch and the other 'we know better than you do' crap they load it with.
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Munchies_Matt wrote: we know better than you do
Windows is a Mum and Dad consumer OS. In most cases, the OS does no better.
It's tiring dealing with a relative's PC that's infected with everything because they click "yes".
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Unfortunately all the changes MSFT made didnt stop mum and dad clicking yes....
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Chris Maunder wrote: In most cases, the OS does no better.
Does no better than what? 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I wrote my own search program and disabled the indexing service. To musch overhead.
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yeah, makes sense.
I also replace the win7 calculator with the XP one, its better.
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I have seen so many views and opinions that I just can't make up my mind or form an opinion on them.
Although, wondering if the curved ones will go the same way as 3DTV and slowly die away.
I've got my eye on a new one, and get the feeling that curved are still being pushed hard by the manufacturers, but when I look at them in the flesh, not convinced that for any normal setup, ie. where you have living room chairs at multiple viewing angles it makes any sense. yes, if you are sitting straight on at the right viewing distance then I can see some potential viewing benefit, but on the whole, it just doesn't appear to look right if you are sitting off to the side even slightly.
I have tried in the shops picturing where the various chairs in the living room are relative to where the tv would be located, and flat just feels the right choice. I'm also having to take into account, if I get kicked out of Qatar next year, where is the telly likely to go in any future abode, or back home in the UK house!
Has anyone here bought a curved, and then wish they hadn't after real world use?
Other than that...discuss....
For info, I'm only considering Samsung, as they are my brand of choice at the moment*, and the models I've been exploring are;
88KS9800 78KS9500 78KS9000 all SUHD, HDR, QDot, Curved and 75KS8000 which is the flat equivalent of this range. And from the previous range, 78JU7500 (curved) 85/75JU7000 (Flat) both UHD 4K 3D and the 75JU6400 Flat UHD 4K.
In the uk I have a 63 Flat LED Sammy (can't remember the model number) and over here in Qatar have 2 x 46" Sammy's and happy with the smart hubs play nicely with the vpn link, and the remotes are interchangeable when the kids lose them!
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I have a beamer, which gives me circa 8ft by 4ft widescreen, and taller if not widescreen.
I would not consider remodelling my walls to be curved, not even for a moment, and I can't imagine a screen size (from the above to 6" portable) where a curve would be of any value at all.
In fact, it's possible that it would screw up your eyesight, as your brain learned to compensate for the distortion when you move your head.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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We have a flat TV, and that's bad enough unless you are relatively "straight on" to it. One of the living room chairs is about 30o from "normal", and there is noticeable (and irritating) horizontal distortion, as if you were watching a 16:9 movie at 4:3 (circles aren't round, faces are thin, that kind of thing).
I could only imagine that this would be even worse with a curved screen.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Most of the extra res seems to go to the width - everything becomes [even more] short & fat...
Arnie would look like he really is Devoto's twin brother. (Worse still, Ellen could roll right in as their kid sister.)
Sin tack ear lol
Pressing the "Any" key may be continuate
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I don't have one, but some friends got them (probably because they're "hot"), and I don't see the appeal. They look weird, you can get used to that, but then you move to an other chair and you have to get used to it all over again. That happens with flat screens too, but not as much, I think, maybe it's some sort of bias on my part to justify not getting a curved screen.
flat is justice
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Samsung makes a great TV. I have 2 (one 240hz and one 120hz) - but they are flat.
I'm looking forward to hearing which one you end up getting and your opinion once you've given it a good run.
One thing about these TVs - it is HIGHLY recommended that you plug into a UPS w/ line conditioning in order to avoid any dirty power or spikes as they can be sensitive to power spikes et al.
Good luck.
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3D movies make me sick. Literally - my eyesight is not balanced, so unless someone makes 3D glasses with different lenses, I get a horrible headache after watching them
No idea about curved screens, I guess they're good for wide monitors where you sit in the same location all the time. My gut feeling is that 3D TVs won't really catch on (or it may have been what I ate for lunch  )
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Concur on your thoughts about curved TVs - doesn't seem to make much sense. I suppose if you had a specific room where most of the viewing location was directly in front of the TV, it might be okay. My living room is divided by a fireplace, so the seating is on either side of the TV. Curved just would not work at all.
Oddly, they seem to be really pushing them.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I bought a new TV a couple of months ago and I looked into curved TVs before I chose. The opinion of the various consumer sites I looked at was fairly unanimous that they have no viewing advantages at all and cost a lot more money. That was also the impression I got when I was looking at them in shops and showrooms. So I went for a flat screen and haven't regretted it.
Couldn't see much difference between the major brands but I got a good deal on a Panasonic in a local shop.
Peter
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The pickup in the camera is not curved, therefore making the viewing screen curved can only introduce distortion into the image.
I have never seen a believable justification for curved screens.
We're philosophical about power outages here. A.C. come, A.C. go.
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I have a Samsung 78JS9500 and I absolutely love it. This was the TV I wanted from a specs perspective and it only comes curved, so that's what I got. We have it set up so that the sofa is directly in front of it, and the oversized chair (where I normally plop down) is at approximately a 45-degree angle to it. There is no distortion or picture degradation whatsoever at that angle. Once you start watching it, after a few days you don't even realize there's a curve. This TV is simply amazing.
One thing to keep in mind about the JS-series (2015 models) vs the KS-series (2016 models)... the KS9500 is NOT the equivalent of the JS9500. The JS9500 is a fully backlit TV where the KS9500 is only edge backlit. You have to step up to the KS9800 to get a full backlight in the 2016 model. That's why I stuck with the JS9500 versus the KS series. Plus when I bought mine, the JS9500 was $6300 and the KS9800 was almost $10K.
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Thanks,
I also note from the specs that the J/K appear to be the model year? and the S/U is SUHD and UHD.
I will have to have a more detailed look at the specs, but the Samsung SUHDs I have seen in the shops look absolutely stunning picture colour/depth/sharpness.
I haven't seen the price over here yet in Qatar for the xxKS9800, but the 78KS9500 is 40,000QR (~11KUSD), the 85JU7000 is the same price and the 78JU7500 is 23,000 (~6KUSD)
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