MS-DOS 4 was a total lemon. DOS 6 had so many innovations that it was a total PITA. DOS 5 was, within the intrinsic limitations of DOS, a workhorse. I still have a Linux box that I can boot into DOS 5 for a game and another program that I like.
ObMetal: Did some clever things with Improces editing photos of forged metalwork to adjust color tone and, in one instance, to actually colorize a B&W photo to make the copper part look realisticaly like the copper that it was. With DOS 5.
-0300 typed in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:
Yep. There are still things which the command line alone makes "simpler" to do. E.G., Robocopy.exe makes doing incremental backups easier (once you've mastered the toggles and write a batch file.) I mean, can Windows copy only newer files to a target location, without requiring you to verify each and every one? If it can, the method is a deeply concealed secret.
-- pyotr filipivich "With Age comes Wisdom. Although more often, Age travels alone."
If you have 8.1 on a machine 10 makes it look like it should have in the first place. The ignorance of MS in the first out of 8 was even pointed out by Gates himself. I have a wide screen on one machine and the large array of big graphics after they use half of the screen up with their apps - went another page wide. Now it is back into a reasonable menu. No Win screen. Just like 7 with a nicer menu.
Bit painful to install printers - wireless pc and wireless printer - had to work on both after I forced the driver set onto the computer.
Their printer set is light when installing from their own cabs. Still missing a driver set. But time will tell.
I'd say - make the partitions large enough and give it a go. It will install on the working one upon download. You have ZERO control on where it goes. No cursor, no menu. Nice clock like and list control indicators.
It went on a i7 cpu with big fast disk and memory - laptop - in an hour and a half. Once it started it kept you informed and asked to be left alone. It was the best upgrade I have seen of all windows since DOS.
I even have the previous 8.1 background picture I used on the user screen.
The browser seems to be fast and a browser. I'll use Firefox for what I need and their for fast work when needed. I didn't have email functional on the laptop and it seems to be a job to get that going. Not sure what that tool will allow for domain site. e.g. gmail or only MS mail.
Mart> >> Windows update just installed win-10 on one of my computers.
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