This is not sailing related, but we can all pretend that it is... Win 10 is much better than 8.1 – more stable, more configurable, better supported. And substantially better than 8.0.
You can stop (only kind of) the updates by identifying that your wireless connection is metered. This would prevent the updates to download automatically. However, this could cause you grief with some updates that you may want to do (like weekly firewall and malware protection updates). You auto-capitalisation is a user configurable feature. You can still keep it, but e.g. prevent the auto-corrections after certain characters (e.g. after btw. or etc.). This has nothing to do with Win 10, but it is a change that caught you when you upgraded from Outlook 2007 (until that point you had a choice of using the Outlook’s built in editor or Word; now this is the same editor (and it is pretty much Word)). If you want to stick with the well-proven version, stay with Win 7 (and don’t upgrade to 8 or 8.1). And you don’t need to use your Win 10 device like a smartphone. You can, but you don’t need to. With Win 10, you can use it very much the same way as with Win 7. Much more so than what you could do with Win 8.1 (or worse yet, with Win 8). Marek (should I list my computers here (instead of my sailboat)? (-;)) From: Gary Nylander via CnC-List Sent: Friday, July 29, 2016 13:11 To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com Cc: Gary Nylander Subject: Re: Stus-List [Support] Re: Question on PredictWind.com Wally, I am not a fan of win 10. It appears that Microsoft assumes that all users are gamers and/or want to join the social media world 100%. It also appears the office software assumes a dolt of a user who has no idea of how to compose a letter or much of anything else - in other words they make spelling/grammar/punctuation decisions for you whether you are interested or not. If you get into some of their games, they assume you want to play games with the world and store all your results and whatever on the cloud. I prefer to keep it simple and that does not appear to be their plan. My smarter friends tell me to stay on 7 or 8.1. But I was coming from Vista!! And that wasn't possible (note the capital on the A, that was placed there by Outlook all by itself). Gary (still living in the stone age and not liking having to come out of my cave) -----Original Message----- From: CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of Wally Bryant via CnC-List Sent: Friday, July 29, 2016 12:01 PM To: Support <supp...@predictwind.com>; cnc-list@cnc-list.com Cc: Wally Bryant <w...@wbryant.com> Subject: Re: Stus-List [Support] Re: Question on PredictWind.com Jon - Thanks for that upgrade. I'll check it out. I was going to upgrade to Win 10 after I sailed to La Paz, since I use the machine to navigate and didn't want to take any risks with software not working. But, I see the offer expires in 13 hours, so what the heck. I just did a full system backup yesterday, and if there's a problem I can quickly rebuild the current Win 8 system. Besides, I have two backup computers and an entirely different marine chartplotter and three separate GPS systems... Single handed sailors tend to be fussy about safety. Wal On 7/27/2016 6:27 PM, Support wrote: > ##- Please type your reply above this line -## > > [image: Jon Bilger] > > *Jon Bilger* (Support) > > Jul 28, 11:27 NZST > > Hi Wal, > > I understand the dilemma.... I have upgraded your account to the > Standard for free - I hope this helps! > I see you are on Windows 8.1 - I would recommend you upgrade to > Windows 10 > - it is free upgrade until the end of the month. The Offshore App > works okay on Windows 8.1, but is optimised for Windows 10 > > Kind Regards, > > Jon Bilger > > [image: Wal] > > *Wal* > > Jul 28, 05:56 NZST > > This is a follow-up to your previous request #25052 > <http://support.predictwind.com/hc/requests/25052> "Question on > PredictWind.com" > > Thanks Jon - > > Yes, that answered my question. I'm not entirely pleased, because I > will have to upgrade my account to get high resolution gribs that > would be equivalent to what I get with the web interface. i navigate > with Fugawi 4.5, which can load gribs and overlay them on the charts, > and have many sources for gribs. But I've always enjoyed the PDF files > that store the web displays, with color contours and high resolution. > I'll probably just use the snipper tool to grab screen shots and merge > them into a .jpg. > > While I've been a full time cruiser since 2009, I'm really just > cruising around Pacific Mexico, and use cellular for internet access > using the phone as a WiFi hotspot. On the mainland it's easy to get a > good cellular connection within 10 miles of shore, and the only time I > need a long term forecast is if I decide to head out a hundred miles > and tack back. However, the crossing over to Baja takes a few days, > and up into the Sea of Cortez you can go a week or more without internet access. > Thus I like to cache a good long term forecast. Oh well, I'll keep > working on it. > > Best regards, > Wal > This email is a service from Support. > <http://www.predictwind.com/> > > <http://www.predictwind.com/iphone> > <http://www.predictwind.com/android/> > <http://www.predictwind.com/mobile-forecasts/> > <http://www.predictwind.com/> [1VKYWW-LXZN] > -- s/v Stella Blue www.wbryant.com _______________________________________________ This list is supported by the generous donations of our members. If you like what we do, please help us pay for our costs by donating. All Contributions are greatly appreciated! _______________________________________________ This list is supported by the generous donations of our members. If you like what we do, please help us pay for our costs by donating. All Contributions are greatly appreciated!
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