Author Archives: Kevin

About Kevin

Just an old guy with opinions that I like to bounce off other people.

Microsoft Office 365 Sway

Posted on August 20, 2015 by Kevin
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Church Helpmate 2010 under Windows 10

Posted on August 20, 2015 by Kevin

Our church uses Church Helpmate 2010 for contribution accounting. I’m the contributions secretary, and I run a copy of the software at home to do reports. Things were working smoothly until I installed Windows 10 on my home system and Helpmate … Continue reading →

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Is Windows 10 a reprise of Windows Vista?

Posted on August 8, 2015 by Kevin

I remember Windows Vista; in fact I still have a laptop that came installed with Windows Vista. What comes to mind first about that experience is that my disk drive became corrupted multiple times and I had to re-install the … Continue reading →

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Migrating to Windows 10: a few hints

Posted on August 2, 2015 by Kevin

My recommendation is NOT to upgrade to Windows 10 at this time if you use OneDrive. There is a crippling bug where OneDrive changes permissions on your directories where you can’t use them. If you fix the permissions, they will … Continue reading →

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Hey Cortana, start control panel

Posted on July 3, 2015 by Kevin

How Windows 10 meets expectations I wrote an article about how I was looking forward to Windows 10. As I get experience with Windows 10 I plan to put in this article just how well it stands up against expectations. … Continue reading →

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Looking forward to Windows 10

Posted on June 2, 2015 by Kevin

There are 6 Windows computers in the house (not including a phone), and yesterday those little Get Windows 10 icons started appearing in the system tray (you may have to install updates for this to appear, specifically the optional KB … Continue reading →

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Why I will never buy another computer from Dell

Posted on March 30, 2015 by Kevin

I may buy another Dell computer, but not from Dell. I go way back with Dell. I can’t count the number of Dell systems I’ve had over the years. I know there are three Dell desktops in the house, two … Continue reading →

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