Re: [MBZ] Interesting observation on Windoze situation

2019-06-18 Thread Craig via Mercedes
On Wed, 19 Jun 2019 04:43:51 + Rick Knoble via Mercedes
 wrote:

> Yeah. I boot into windows twice a year. Once for all the accumulated
> updates, and once for TurboTax. 
> 
> I hate windows. 

That's why I am now typing on a Linux system.


Craig

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Re: [MBZ] Interesting observation on Windoze situation

2019-06-18 Thread Rick Knoble via Mercedes
Yeah. I boot into windows twice a year. Once for all the accumulated updates, 
and once for TurboTax. 

I hate windows. 

Rick



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Subject: [MBZ] Interesting observation on Windoze situation


I asked for help 8 days ago about a problem which developed after I ran
Avast's boot scan, that of the desktop gadgets stopped working.

Yesterday, I noticed when I shut down the laptop there was the darkened
screen which stated Windows was waiting for programs to close. Normally
this window shows the name of the program on which it is waiting. This
time, however, that area of the window was blank.

So I clicked "force quit". I found the next time I booted the computer,
the desktop gadgets were working properly.

The next time I rebooted the computer, I did the same "force quit" thing
and upon startup, again found the desktop gadgets were working properly.

H ...


Craig

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[MBZ] Interesting observation on Windoze situation

2019-06-18 Thread Craig via Mercedes
I asked for help 8 days ago about a problem which developed after I ran
Avast's boot scan, that of the desktop gadgets stopped working.

Yesterday, I noticed when I shut down the laptop there was the darkened
screen which stated Windows was waiting for programs to close. Normally
this window shows the name of the program on which it is waiting. This
time, however, that area of the window was blank.

So I clicked "force quit". I found the next time I booted the computer,
the desktop gadgets were working properly.

The next time I rebooted the computer, I did the same "force quit" thing
and upon startup, again found the desktop gadgets were working properly.

H ...


Craig

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