[dba-Tech] The likes of which I've never seen before

[John Colby]

Not to hijack the thread but I purchased a new All-In-One which came with
Windows 8.1.  That offered an upgrade immediately and I did so, which went
smoothly.  So I am now on Windows 10 on one of my computers.  Other than
the start menu, which still will not show me the folders of apps that 7.1
showed, it is similar enough that I can get my work done.

Where this lack of folders matters is that in the olden days, a program
would install and create a group for itself.  It would place all of its
programs in that group and add that group to the start menu.  Look in the
start menu and select that folder and you could SEE all of the items
related to the newly installed program.

The new system does I know not what, but AFAICT it scatters them
willy-nilly (in alpha order) according to their name.  Well... if I have
just installed this thing with a half dozen parts, how am I supposed to
know what the names of all the parts are?

Take office just as an example.  It would have an office folder, including
an Office97, Office 2003, Office7 etc.  Inside of each folder would be
Office, Excel, Power Point etc.

Nice and neat, I could just select the folder I wanted, then the item in
the folder and go.

Now, not so much.

But I am told by those who simply don't care that I liked that system, that
I shouldn't like that system so I will submit to their superior(?) wisdom
(since I have no choice anyway).

Which does leave me wondering how I am suppose to do those kinds of things
in the new system.



On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 9:10 AM, Gustav Brock <gustav at cactus.dk> wrote:

> Hi Arthur
>
> Yes, our tablets can do this. But they revert to normal display when
> turned upside up.
>
> But go to Screen Settings and check the flip mode of the screen display.
> It can be set for upside-down (for special purposes).
>
> /gustav
>
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> Arthur Fuller
> Sendt: 5. oktober 2015 15:05
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> Emne: [dba-Tech] The likes of which I've never seen before
>
> This morning I turned my laptop on and although the initial boot looked
> ok, by the time Windows 10 loaded the image was upside down -- the whole
> image, even including the mouse cursor. I rebooted again and the same thing
> happened. Fortunately, I'm a touch-typist so I could at least enter my
> password, but the problem persists. I have another computer so at least I
> can check my email and send new messages. But I'm totally flummoxed by this
> behaviour. Has anyone else ever seen this?
>
> --
> Arthur
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John W. Colby
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