by Enzo » Fri May 20, 2016 1:12 am
I clicked on her for a quick peek, but it started with "setting up" and so I bailed. I get the impression it is more like an electronic concierge than a helpful assistant. Do I want it to find me tickets to a game, or book a room, or reserve a flight. Probably would buy things on Amazon for me. Bleh.
SO far, I note that my Chrome, which had performed quite well over the previous months and years, now is slower and "not responding" a lot. Also the Chrome tends to hang up opening pages, I think it is looking for like avatar images or something. The little circle sits there spinning for ages. I can hit ESC and stop it, without seeming to affect the operation of the page, though avatars will not be displayed.
I like to play solitaire now and then. The games page opens up as a large array, with big boxes for each game. It also is plugging hard for me to set up an "account" with Microsoft so I can store my game results on the cloud. AS if... Forgive me lord, but I liked to play Mah Jong, a mindless image matching game. The Windows 7 version had crisp images of the tiles, and a format I liked called "The Cat." The cat is gone from the selection, but more than that, the tile images are sort of soft rounded and pastel. I realize now what has happened is they created this mess for smart phones, as it Mah Jong looks just like things people thumb on their phones. The Solitaire moves much more slowly, and so far I have not been able to find any options menu. In setup it did let me turn off animations and sounds and hints. I don;t need suggestion while playing solitaire. Hearts appears to be gone. And they want me to buy games from their "store".
The only positive so far is when it wakes up. WIndows 7 just brought up a password page. This brings up a screen saver of a western landscape with a large time display. I like that I don;t have to log in to see what time it is. The time display looks like that on a smart phone.
It seems like within the Chrome (I have yet to try their new browser) the old stuff seems to work the same. At least while it isn't locking up.
I don;t do a lot on this, I use it for email, forum posting, and googling various information for work and idle interest. Oh, and paying bills. No gaming, streaming movies, no music, no photo collecting/manipulating/storing. I keep a lot of technical information for electronic systems on my flash drives.
In googling a moment ago I find "how to get Windows 7 games working on Windows 10.
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