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Fred: Just thought I’d mention another program to check out mysterious files in case you’ve never seen it. I’ve used it many times.

https://www.safer-networking.org: filealyz-2.0.5.57.exe

I’ve also been testing the preview for awhile. I’ve always run these in a virtual machine on my Windows 7 pro Dell XPS laptop. Now I’ve installed the RTM (10240) version on an older Compaq laptop. I’m impressed that the OS installed and actually works! BUT it’s not very snappy and still would be better with updated components. I’m surprised that you (Fred) would find the OS as fast as Windows 7 or 8. The whole graphical interface is much more basic and simplistic than version 7 pro, which I use on my other two machines. I prefer the look of 7 much more. I realize Microsoft is trying to combine computer, tablet, and phone interfaces into a similar look but it seems to me that the computer UI is a step backward, especially after all the years of advancing Windows up to the great version 7. If they really wanted to speed things up, maybe the OS and apps could be written in assembly. What do you think?

Thanks,
upnorth guy

Thought I would give it a try with my self-built WIN 7 Pro x64 which has a product key from Microsoft. I get an error message saying that my choice of language (English) is not supported. I then went to the support site — gave up waiting after 20 minutes.

I have tried to download for the last three weeks and always get the same answer. I have a retail copy and it seems to accept my product key. (my choice of language (English) is not supported)

I hope Windows 10 is better supported. But at least it should be free.

Maybe you’ve seen this but I thought I’d send it along: http://www.free-ocr.com/