Damn I miss Windows XP!

Because I held on to XP for about fifteen years past its use by date and went straight to Win 10. Only threw out my XP DVDs this past week.

They removed the 'up' directory arrow in file explorer. Vista was a dog - I reloaded a few vista machines. Win 8 - that's an odd one. I bought a tiny, mini 32bit computer with 8.1. It only has to do one job - play videos on the network. It's run continuously for over ten years without missing a beat.

I love 10 and 11 but I have a folder full of registry edits that make it look and work almost exactly like XP but with the comforts of modern security.

I got it a couple years ago, and it isn't my favorite.

I had a tablet I liked that became obsolete, and bought something inexpensive to replace it. I'll bookmark this post and look at the video you sent Thank you

and tired of the constant stream of updates etc. that they were issuing day in, day out. And I haven't had any issues in not updating anything. NONE. Now of course, this is not the case for all people who need to apply updates (perhaps some particular software needs an update for some of their software to work). It's been this way for me since 2010.

If you don't apply updates, it's not a do or die thing, and of course, it depends on what you are doing w/ your software suite.

We used to be able to repair viruses, either locate the infected file and repair it, or go to registry and delete the bug. Somewhere beween 8 and 10, I lost the ability and the curiosity. lol Anyway, because I am not the operator I was, I rely on outside sources to ward the bugs, viruses, malware off.

Most platforms online do a virus check, since they don't want to get infected, pass on viruses either, and the carriers too, do virus checks too, as they don't want their users infected either, or their platforms infected.

Your biggest danger is opening something that you don't really know where it came from, or what's really in it. You're better off not touching it at all and deleting it. If it's from a trusted source that you're aware of, then the game is half won.

most mail goes to trash, I ignore unrecognized phone calls, then delete them, don't open junk mail the usps leaves. I'm in my bubble!

Thank you for mentioning the security in the platform. I don't surf a lot, to avoid malware, etc, but once in awhile, the phone, or laptop won't let me continue because they detected something.

delete is a powerful tool. Nothing is that critical that one's platform will collapse immediately if the virus-infected bug demands you immediately apply it! If anything, that would be a danger signal too, the demand. They're just plishing you, trying to get into your system by having you run something, or get into something. Don't.

And usually if you have a question about a certain email or thing out there, there's usually something already out there in Google land or your hosting platform, that alerts on such things (if they haven't deleted it yet), that is, someone has already written about the 'bad or infected emails' and warned others about it, that's a nice thing about the community, that they'll usually warn others about such things.

if I'm curious.
The Internet was so much fun for the 5 minutes before people introduced viruses.

mouse game will always continue, the viruses and anti-viruses proliferate, and it's a constant job. And the thing is, these online platforms need to be top of their game, otherwise their platforms will collapse, not work anymore. Unlike some hosting platforms that no longer do monitoring on their platforms (such as X, etc., too much overhead, they're trying to save a few bucks I guess).

Most famous Microsoft support joke ever.