- And in circumstances like this, it's really, really helpful to have "the full picture" about what make and model the device is being connected to. I can't remember now whether this has already been

- A second on that! I love the advanced find on those occasions where I need to very carefully circumscribe what will come back in the results, but for simple keyword searches I use the same method yo

- You young whippersnapper! What about 5.25" floppy diskettes? What about 8" floppy diskettes! [By the way, you still can get internal drives that are uninitiaized. But that's a different kettle of fi

- Randy, that matters not one bit. If you buy a drive that is supposed to be ready, out of the box, if it isn't you return it. You will argue with anything I say, even when it agrees with what you've

- Which is the far more likely scenario. I have not seen an external USB backup drive that does not come formatted and ready to go at plug-in for longer than I can remember now. I'd be returning it fo

James & Alan, I'm curious to hear some specific examples from you. I absolutely will not deny the seemingly endless stream of new bells and whistles from Microsoft and others, but with the sole except

- And who, exactly, has done this? No one I've read, including myself. Only some webmail clients are good, and a few are very good. And if you happen to be someone who has access to one of those, and

- About which you will get zero, and I mean zero, argument from me. Developing safe interaction habits with cyberspace is the very, very best thing anyone can do to keep themselves safe. This is an op

Alan, I no longer remember how or whether Windows 7 archives the updates that are applied, but Windows 10 keeps track of virtually any update applied to any Microsoft supplied program on the machine.

Alan, The amount of "exposure" is really pretty much dependent on how much you directly interact with cyberspace with any of these programs. It's entirely possible to almost entirely avoid interacting

- One can, but if you're under the impression that this means you don't get updates, you're mistaken. Office has been "self-updating" at least since Office 2016, possibly Office 2013. And, as an IT pr

- If you have not uninstalled WLM you should be able to export your contacts from WLM, preferably to a comma separated values (CSV) file, then use the import function in Thunderbird to get 'em all bac

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- If you honestly believe your opinions are going to change my participation here, or elsewhere, you will be sorely disappointed. I am not here to please you, nor any individual in particular. I offer

I am not gone, nor do I intend to be.

- No, I do not. And I do not treat individuals who happen to be blind any differently that I do those who happen to be able to see. If the Group Owner wishes to remove me from this list, then so be it

- Frankly, my dear . . .

- Randy, please stop your incessant preaching at me. I have been around screen readers and screen reader users for well over a decade now. I cannot help it if someone does not bother to vet the actual

- Sorry, Mr. Barnett, but how it's presented generally carries some formatting weight that screen readers also pick up on. It's the first freaking thing on the page. If MS malformed it, that is unfort