Outlook: I had no idea. Outlook only
shows ONE mailbox at a time. I had become completely accustomed to
reading all of my email from five different addresses in one list in
Apple’s “Mail”. I assumed that other email clients would do the
same, but . . . . . nooooooooooo.
Got Thunderbird, but . . . . . . same
as Outlook, won’t show all mail in one list. I think I’m just
going to have to put up with that one.
Web Browsing
Another example of something I thought
sooo bleeding obvious that I had forgotten - when I click on a link
in Firefox, the browser opens a new tab and goes to it. There
is a setting for this too: but MS Edge won’t do that. NO. you must
manually click on the new tab.
Oh yes, when I tried to make Google my
home page it refuses, insisting on giving me a “news” page full
of the crap I never want to see. Save the new default address and it
just ignores it.
Bye bye Edge.
Back to Firefox, thankyou FF for the
Sync feature that lets me get all my bookmarks and extensions back
(almost) instantly.
Still haven’t got anything to tell me
when my downloads are still in progress or done but I’ll find some
addon to do that. It just seems so . . . . well, obvious.
However great you think your net connection is, you can still wait
for downloads and the bigger the longer it takes. Why is this no
longer a standard fitting?
Macifying software – or at least, software that can make Windows 10 more usable for a Machead
maComfort (includes Quicklook !)
- for 15 Euros you get a whole bundle of stuff that makes win 10
mac-ish. Having just got it, I am still trying it out, but so far I
does look very good.
Among other things it has customisable
hotkeys and a very flexible special character assignment system. You
can also use a spaces-type thingo but then Win 10 has its own – the
difference is one of controls. With maComfort, you only need CTRL-
Arrow wheras Windows requires CTRL ALT -Arrow, and maComfort also
lets you change that at will.
“Quicklook” is not exactly the same
as a Mac since it gives you a smallish preview- but there is an extra
button to zoom the image to fullscreen from there if you really want
that.
There is also a plugin that seems to be
preview-like too, will report back on that if I get to work.
File Management
One Commander v.2: This is a
complete directory manager system for Windows. For something free
it’s pretty impressive and one of the three optional layouts of it resembles the
column view in a Mac, but there are all sorts of extra thingies too- and it has a “dark” mode as shown in my screenshot here. (click for fullsize view)
Oh yes, - you can change the font and
text size in the Commander window. There is a setting in the Windows
“settings” that will expand ALL text and all windows but that is
not the same.
This alone is soo much better than the default Windows manager that I recommend it to anyone.
Multiple Desktops and pinning programs to desktops –
In Mac OS you can “pin” a program to a specific desktop so that next time you start your computer the same layout of programs and windows appears.
This is actually three different
features:
- Multiple desktops
- Pinning programs to specific desktops
- Saving all windows and programs from shutdown and reloading them on restart.
Feature (1) is now in Windows 10 but I
have yet to find feature (2) anywhere else.
Feature (3) does not exist inWindows –
you can get programs to restart at boot time but that is not the same
as restoring to the same layout and state as at shutdown.
Feature (2) is so useful I am
surprised that it isn’t already in Windows.
Security
Windows 10 comes with its own AV system
and according to some sites it is good but apparently you also need
protection from malwares so they suggest Malwarebytes at $40US per
year.
I’m not going to say what I got but
it always makes me wonder: Antivirus software is the perfect spyware
platform since it gets to look at every file you upload or download,
and it must regularly talk to head office for virus/malware
definition updates – but what choice do you have?
Image editing
There was only one choice for now,
GIMP. I will say more later once I have spent some time using
it.
The Macro Question
This has been sorted partly by
maComfort (see above) but I am still unsure about such relatively
simple matters (on a Mac) as shutdown and restart key commands.
Other discoveries:
HFS Explorer is a Windows ware
that can read HFS volumes. I haven’t tried it because I took
another route, but there it is, folks.
Transferring files
I have about 700 GB of DAZ files to
transfer from one computer to another. First, I got a large external
USB drive and then formatted it as exFAT (exFAT is like FAT32 but it
can handle drives bigger than 2 GB which is not very big nowadays).
Then I began copying files to it. The largest folder is 247 GB and
according to my calculations copying this to the external drive will
take 8 hours.
Of course, after all of this I must
then copy it all to the new computer – and that’s not all of the
files to be transferred either, so since I must be home to check on
the process I will leave it until the weekend. Oh yes. This does
not mean that the transferred files will be readable by the
Windows version of DAZ either – it remain to be seen.
The Case
I ordered a new case without a window. It should
arrive in about a month. Apparently cases without windows (and I don't mean the software) in them are
so unpopular that I needed to import one specially from a US
supplier.
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