I'm still on Windows 7 and have no plans to update it. I've never had a single problem and it meets my needs perfectly. " if it aint broke, don't try to fix it "
I only got windows 10 when my old win7 laptop died last year. I won't be upgrading to win11 for at least another year or two for exactly the reasons @Kili gave.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
I'm still on Windows 7 and have no plans to update it. I've never had a single problem and it meets my needs perfectly. " if it aint broke, don't try to fix it "
Support for Windows 7 ended on January 14, 2020 your computer is now at risk and vulnerable to all sorts of security risks as there are no security updates being pushed to your computer from Microsoft as of last year.
I once saw a single infected Windows 7 PC take down a 5000 station network. It took us a day to get the servers cleaned and the same time to rebuild the 5000 workstations.
Thankfully we had Alteris remote deployment tools so literally rebuilt every PC overnight by deploying an image. This was a network specific virus , but it demonstrates what happens when you don't keep your security updates deployed to your PC.
This happened because an employee had accessed our Windows update server and blocked a critical update from Microsoft to do some testing of a script they had written. He was out of a job the day after
Hostafan1 With the greatest of respect "it is broke, fix it" whatever you do, don't access your bank account on that PC .
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
I'm still on Windows 7 and have no plans to update it. I've never had a single problem and it meets my needs perfectly. " if it aint broke, don't try to fix it "
Support for Windows 7 ended on January 14, 2020 your computer is now at risk and vulnerable to all sorts of security risks as there are no security updates being pushed to your computer from Microsoft as of last year.
I once saw a single infected Windows 7 PC take down a 5000 station network. It took us a day to get the servers cleaned and the same time to rebuild the 5000 workstations.
Thankfully we had Alteris remote deployment tools so literally rebuilt every PC overnight by deploying an image. This was a network specific virus , but it demonstrates what happens when you don't keep your security updates deployed to your PC.
This happened because an employee had accessed our Windows update server and blocked a critical update from Microsoft to do some testing of a script they had written. He was out of a job the day after
Hostafan1 With the greatest of respect "it is broke, fix it" whatever you do, don't access your bank account on that PC .
I disabled "updates" about 7 or 8 years ago and I access my bank / Husband's bank regularly
I'm still on Windows 7 and have no plans to update it. I've never had a single problem and it meets my needs perfectly. " if it aint broke, don't try to fix it "
Support for Windows 7 ended on January 14, 2020 your computer is now at risk and vulnerable to all sorts of security risks as there are no security updates being pushed to your computer from Microsoft as of last year.
I once saw a single infected Windows 7 PC take down a 5000 station network. It took us a day to get the servers cleaned and the same time to rebuild the 5000 workstations.
Thankfully we had Alteris remote deployment tools so literally rebuilt every PC overnight by deploying an image. This was a network specific virus , but it demonstrates what happens when you don't keep your security updates deployed to your PC.
This happened because an employee had accessed our Windows update server and blocked a critical update from Microsoft to do some testing of a script they had written. He was out of a job the day after
Hostafan1 With the greatest of respect "it is broke, fix it" whatever you do, don't access your bank account on that PC .
I disabled "updates" about 7 or 8 years ago and I access my bank / Husband's bank regularly
Then you should buy lottery tickets cause your one lucky individual if you've not been compromised yet.
I hope that you stay lucky
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
I'm still on Windows 7 and have no plans to update it. I've never had a single problem and it meets my needs perfectly. " if it aint broke, don't try to fix it "
Support for Windows 7 ended on January 14, 2020 your computer is now at risk and vulnerable to all sorts of security risks as there are no security updates being pushed to your computer from Microsoft as of last year.
I once saw a single infected Windows 7 PC take down a 5000 station network. It took us a day to get the servers cleaned and the same time to rebuild the 5000 workstations.
Thankfully we had Alteris remote deployment tools so literally rebuilt every PC overnight by deploying an image. This was a network specific virus , but it demonstrates what happens when you don't keep your security updates deployed to your PC.
This happened because an employee had accessed our Windows update server and blocked a critical update from Microsoft to do some testing of a script they had written. He was out of a job the day after
Hostafan1 With the greatest of respect "it is broke, fix it" whatever you do, don't access your bank account on that PC .
I disabled "updates" about 7 or 8 years ago and I access my bank / Husband's bank regularly
Then you should buy lottery tickets cause your one lucky individual if you've not been compromised yet.
Thanks for ALL your inputs but I'm on Windows 8 that no-one mentions and the obvious diversity of opinion on the subject only serves to confuse a 78-year old even more. There are functions I used on Word 3, that aren't available in Word 13 (and that's an UPGRADE?) so I'd better suffer in silence, I think.
Which of the Word 3 functions is it that you want? I've found that a lot (but it might not be all) of the old Word functions are still there in the more recent versions, but they aren't obvious/easy to find. They can be added to the Quick Access Toolbar.
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" if it aint broke, don't try to fix it "
Support for Windows 7 ended on January 14, 2020 your computer is now at risk and vulnerable to all sorts of security risks as there are no security updates being pushed to your computer from Microsoft as of last year.
I once saw a single infected Windows 7 PC take down a 5000 station network. It took us a day to get the servers cleaned and the same time to rebuild the 5000 workstations.
Thankfully we had Alteris remote deployment tools so literally rebuilt every PC overnight by deploying an image. This was a network specific virus , but it demonstrates what happens when you don't keep your security updates deployed to your PC.
This happened because an employee had accessed our Windows update server and blocked a critical update from Microsoft to do some testing of a script they had written. He was out of a job the day after
Hostafan1
With the greatest of respect "it is broke, fix it" whatever you do, don't access your bank account on that PC .
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw'
Then you should buy lottery tickets cause your one lucky individual if you've not been compromised yet.
I hope that you stay lucky
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw'