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Re: Life after Windows 7

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On 2019-05-21, Dirk T. Verbeek <dverbeek@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> Op 21-05-19 om 12:14 schreef Huge:
>> On 2019-05-21, Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> wrote:
>>> I knew the day was coming, and it seems there's now only eight months
>>> left before Windows 7 support ceases.
>>>
>>> I could probably switch to Linux, and run Windows 7 stuff in a VM for
>>> any programs that aren't supported under Linux. I already have several
>>> systems running Linux anyway (Fedora, for historical reasons).
>>>
>>> Alas, I don't think that's an option for my family members, and I see
>>> Windows 10 in their futures, which probably means that I'll end up
>>> dealing with the issues
>> 
>> I want to know who is going to help migrate my Mother from W7
>> to W10 (as well as probably buy her a new computer to run it on),
>> bearing in mind that she's 86 and lives 3500 miles away.
>
> This calls for Teamviewer or similar.

I already have it. Can't install a new O/S that way. And, TBH, I'm
not that familiar with W10 anyway. We're a non-Windows shop. I'd
move my Mum to a Mac, but I know she wouldn't be able to cope, which
worries me about changing to Win10.

> Although Linux offers ways for remote support Teamviewer is compatible 
> with Windows and Linux and dead easy to use, even for your mother.

Yep, I know, we use it already. Supporting her would be impossible
without it.

> All providing the computer will boot...

Yeah. Been there, done that, when the CMOS battery in her machine died. I
talked her through booting it up and then she didn't switch it off until
I next visited.



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Life after Windows 7 Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> - 2019-05-21 13:07 +1000
  Re: Life after Windows 7 Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> - 2019-05-21 07:27 +0000
    Re: Life after Windows 7 Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> - 2019-05-21 19:17 +1000
  Re: Life after Windows 7 Bruce Horrocks <07.013@scorecrow.com> - 2019-05-21 11:09 +0100
    Re: Life after Windows 7 mm0fmf <none@invalid.com> - 2019-05-29 18:19 +0100
      Re: Life after Windows 7 ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2019-05-29 21:19 -0500
        Re: Life after Windows 7 mm0fmf <none@invalid.com> - 2019-05-30 17:24 +0100
          Re: Life after Windows 7 mm0fmf <none@invalid.com> - 2019-06-02 19:11 +0100
  Re: Life after Windows 7 Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-05-21 10:14 +0000
    Re: Life after Windows 7 "Dirk T. Verbeek" <dverbeek@xs4all.nl> - 2019-05-21 12:54 +0200
      Re: Life after Windows 7 Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-05-21 10:58 +0000
      Re: Life after Windows 7 kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2019-05-21 12:28 -0400
        Re: Life after Windows 7 Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-05-21 19:49 +0000
        Re: Life after Windows 7 RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-05-22 22:30 -0400
        Re: Life after Windows 7 Stephen Hall <s__hall@gmail.com> - 2019-06-07 20:54 +0000
          Re: Life after Windows 7 RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-06-07 23:07 -0400
            Re: Life after Windows 7 Ryan Kavanagh <rkavanagh@cs.cmu.edu> - 2019-06-08 12:30 -0400
          Re: Life after Windows 7 kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2019-06-08 10:11 -0400
            Re: Life after Windows 7 Stephen Hall <s__hall@gmail.com> - 2019-06-08 19:31 +0000
  Re: Life after Windows 7 Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2019-05-21 10:47 +0000
  Re: Life after Windows 7 Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-05-21 11:28 +0000
  Re: Life after Windows 7 Nyssa <Nyssa@LogicalInsight.net> - 2019-05-21 08:43 -0400
  Re: Life after Windows 7 mm0fmf <none@invalid.com> - 2019-05-29 18:16 +0100
  Re: Life after Windows 7 Steve555 <Steve555@reallybogus.nodomain.nowhere.invalid> - 2019-06-16 23:00 +0000
    Re: Life after Windows 7 Steve555 <Steve555@reallybogus.nodomain.nowhere.invalid> - 2019-06-16 23:18 +0000
      Re: Life after Windows 7 Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-06-17 08:40 +0000
    Re: Life after Windows 7 Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-06-17 08:35 +0000

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