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Andrew:

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I prefer that the products I use do things the way I want them to, rather than them forcing me to do things their way. That’s how Microsoft has designed Word (to force me to do things their way), and so I’m glad that they at least allow me to make changes to the default and then same them in the normal template, so that they will be in effect when I first open Word.

I was sad to see Word Perfect’s demise, because Word Perfect let me do exactly what I wanted to do, and made it really easy to do so.

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mrjimphillips, I miss Word Perfect every time I try to do something in Word that is conceptually simple and I fall into a thicket, as I have done by trying to understand templates and styles. However, apparently the Word Perfect guys were not in it for the experience of user control but for the money, so they sold out to another control company and retired with the money.

mrjimphelps, thank you so much for pointing me to this tip. However, it is the need to invent Rube Goldberg devices to do simple things that makes me wonder why we put up with what software asks of us.

Lugh, your tip is gold. I don’t know what I am doing wrong, but the template I created is filed in the same folder as my documents. My documents are filed on my data drive, and I did make this change in Word’s file locations. However, File Locations says templates are in the default location. I saved the template file as .dot, expecting it to then be located as “My Template.” The computer did put a shortcut to my template in both C:usersjudyappdataroamingmicrosoftOfficeRecent and in …MicrosoftWindowsRecentItems, but when in Word I click on NewMyTemplates I do not get my template. So, I have followed your tip to make the template a right-click on the taskbar icon.

Going back to your thoughts on not interrupting a train of thought, I’m sorry, but in my experience that meta-level interruption of my train of thought for a formatting problem interfered with my train of thought about managing the content of documents that had lots going on in them. Now that I am retired I may not tackle such complex thoughts under time pressure and the pressure of outside revisions, but while I was living that life I had done a pretty good job of separating coding from data, and I found that the ability to work on each in its own mind space was very helpful to me. Maybe my mind is just more compartmentalized than some.

Thank you so much.

Thank you to all of you.

Paul T, thank you for the reminder to use a local account.

BruceR, I will check out the book you recommend.

jwitalka,thank you also.

Let me be a little more specific. If I follow the Getting Started defaults, I will install Cortana with all of its issues that have been raised by many without any of the advice they have given. I will accept the default to use the new photos, etc., without realizing that nothing will be migrated and I’ll have to puzzle this out. I will have Edge as my default browser without the popup blocker installed.

A zillion other things will happen that will be confusing to me as a user that I didn’t know about and would have done differently if I had had non-Microsoft, current advice.

I agree, Paul T, that I would be able to use it to some extent. But I’m not even sure I could connect to my wireless, much less install programs where I can find them or anything else.

Do you folks or others have anything to add?

Thanks again!

Judy Myers

In Bookmarks > Show All Bookmarks, you can drag items from the right side of the frame, to anywhere on the left side.

So if you wanted to add any folder or shortcut to the Bookmarks Menu, highlight it on the left side, and then scroll down the right side, select From Google Chrome, drag the item to the left, and drop it on Bookmarks Menu.

It took me awhile to understand that I was to open the “From Google Chrome” folder on the *right* and move the folders from there back to either the bookmark bar folder or the Bookmarks folder on the *left* (just because Chrome does not work this way), but I did figure it out, and found that it works just like the file manager and I could use shift to select lots of folders and move them. I just needed to adjust my head to it being like the OS instead of like the browser I was used to. Thank you so much.

In Bookmarks > Show All Bookmarks, you can drag items from the right side of the frame, to anywhere on the left side.

So if you wanted to add any folder or shortcut to the Bookmarks Menu, highlight it on the left side, and then scroll down the right side, select From Google Chrome, drag the item to the left, and drop it on Bookmarks Menu.

It took me awhile to understand that I was to open the “From Google Chrome” folder on the *right* and move the folders from there back to either the bookmark bar folder or the Bookmarks folder on the *left* (just because Chrome does not work this way), but I did figure it out, and found that it works just like the file manager and I could use shift to select lots of folders and move them. I just needed to adjust my head to it being like the OS instead of like the browser I was used to. Thank you so much.

Thanks again, Berton. I looked at the page source, but didn’t know how to study it.

Thank you! The comments on the post you cite like MakeMKV, and also give instructions on using handbrake. If I decide to do this I’ll probably try handbrake first, having successfully copied the .dll thanks to advice from the Lounge. However, if anyone wants to add recommendations advice about MakeMKV I’d appreciate that.

Here are links to the Library of Congress statements on ripping. The first is current. I scanned through it and was unable to find a continuation of the earlier exemption, but you are welcome to try. It does allow jailbreaking of phones, and enabling the use of a video game that one owns if the authentication server is no longer operative, among many other topics in the 81 pages:

http://copyright.gov/1201/2015/fedreg-publicinspectionFR.pdf

This one is undated and much easier to read. It does allow copies for personal use. If there is a way to find a date by inspecting the page, I have not found that:

http://www.copyright.gov/1201/docs/librarian_statement_01.html

Thank you to all of you for your help. Just a comment, the duckduckgo advice was slightly wrong. I pasted their instruction: net user administrator /active:no into my comment above, and then took the advice to change “no” to “yes.” This did not work because of the space between “administrator” and the slash. I started with machine-language programming, but it has been a long time since I dealt with even the command prompt. However, I figured that space did not belong and followed the advice to move the dll to the Handbrake folder. Thanks to all of you for helping me accomplish this.

Thanks for the link to the Apple case. I believe the Fair Use guidelines were what purchasers should be able to follow, and I agree that making a single copy for personal use is widespread even though it is illegal according to current statute and this has been raised but not resolved via the courts. I just want to be able to watch my DVDs on my desktop, and to be able travel with them. My current desktop and laptop have DVD players. I was considering buying a laptop without one, as fewer and fewer of them have one and it would decrease the weight, as long as I have an SD card slot to move the videos that I make to the laptop. (We travel and participate in a horse sport, and we find quick access to videos of our performances to be helpful for doing better. That is also why I want to use the training videos away from a DVD player. Sometimes even motel rooms don’t have a DVD player.)

So, I will make a decision about what to do about the copy protection and I have learned how to tame the Administrator account in Vista. Thank you.

Regarding DCIM: thank you to all of you who pointed out that what I want to do is is illegal. I don’t want to break the law. Before the DMCA, many people including a number of librarians (which I was, which is how I came to know so much about it) had the copyright law amended to include in the Fair Use section the right of an owner of a work in any format to make one copy to use, with the provision that the source copy would not be used at the same time as the reproduction. This allowed owners of any copyrighted item to make a copy for use, and often the reason users wanted to make a copy was to be able to view the content in another way. At that ancient time one use was to print out a microform copy onto paper so that one did not have to lug around a microform reader to read the product they owned. Producers of microfom contested this decision and lost.

At the time there were evolving formats for music and video storage (think Betamax, Laserdisc) and the provisions of this law also allowed users to convert their old formats to ones that could be used on the new devices they had purchased. Much of this was conversion from vinyl and older phonograph formats to cassette tapes to play in the Walkman and successive products.

IMHO, by the time the DMCA was passed, users of music and video had no clout, and the recording industry made this activity illegal in the U.S. As many of you have noted, U.S. provisions are more restrictive than those of many countries.

So, Berton, if I run this command: net user administrator /active:no
(advice from the duckduckgo link you pointed to) the administrator account will be disabled and I will be able to move files in and out of the Handbrake folder?

Thank you to both of you. I’m sorry to hear that the version that seems to me to be more crippled is destined to be the chosen one, but at least I know there is nothing I can do to “fix” it.

I get the same result whether I use hotmail.com or outlook.com to log in.

Is anyone else getting the (preview) version with the black header?

Do you login to both accounts on the same URL, that is, do you go to Outlook.com for both and then enter the details for the account you want?

I log in via hotmail.com. I do use this address for both accounts. When I type Hotmail.com I am taken to a page with an address that begins https://login.live.com/login.srf. I then type in my hotmail address and password and am taken to a screen that looks like one or the other of the images shown in a later email.