Wham!, Bam! NZ Poste (sic) Spam! At least a dozen a day, most sent at the exact same time.

I am untangling a laptop for someone. She has run into all kinds of issues with the default Edge browser. So I replaced it with Chrome, which she knows how to use and which suits her needs perfectly. Of course I had to use Edge to do this. It actually blocked my download and then started spamming me with messages about what a great browser Edge is! I couldn't believe it. After a lot of circular hassles, which included having to update Edge, I finally managed to download and install Chrome. When I changed the setting to make it the default browser, I got another whining complaint from Windows telling me how great Edge is and why would I possibly want to replace it! How utterly pathetic is that?

Rikkitic:

 

I am untangling a laptop for someone. She has run into all kinds of issues with the default Edge browser. So I replaced it with Chrome, which she knows how to use and which suits her needs perfectly. Of course I had to use Edge to do this. It actually blocked my download and then started spamming me with messages about what a great browser Edge is! I couldn't believe it. After a lot of circular hassles, which included having to update Edge, I finally managed to download and install Chrome. When I changed the setting to make it the default browser, I got another whining complaint from Windows telling me how great Edge is and why would I possibly want to replace it! How utterly pathetic is that?

 

 

 

In my experience when someone has to keep reminding you how good they are, they usually aren't. I suspect the same applies to software.

Rikkitic:

I am untangling a laptop for someone. She has run into all kinds of issues with the default Edge browser. So I replaced it with Chrome, which she knows how to use and which suits her needs perfectly. Of course I had to use Edge to do this. It actually blocked my download and then started spamming me with messages about what a great browser Edge is! I couldn't believe it. After a lot of circular hassles, which included having to update Edge, I finally managed to download and install Chrome. When I changed the setting to make it the default browser, I got another whining complaint from Windows telling me how great Edge is and why would I possibly want to replace it! How utterly pathetic is that?

 

Handle9:

 

Just use ninite instead. It’s much easier.

My long experience with Windows is that adding more Windows stuff doesn't usually help matters.

Rikkitic:

 

Handle9:

 

Just use ninite instead. It’s much easier.

 

My long experience with Windows is that adding more Windows stuff doesn't usually help matters.

 

 

 

its not windows though...

Rikkitic:

 

I am untangling a laptop for someone. She has run into all kinds of issues with the default Edge browser. So I replaced it with Chrome, which she knows how to use and which suits her needs perfectly. Of course I had to use Edge to do this. It actually blocked my download and then started spamming me with messages about what a great browser Edge is! I couldn't believe it. After a lot of circular hassles, which included having to update Edge, I finally managed to download and install Chrome. When I changed the setting to make it the default browser, I got another whining complaint from Windows telling me how great Edge is and why would I possibly want to replace it! How utterly pathetic is that?

 

And yet, against all the comments above, I am using Edge and it performs extremely well. It's based on the same Chromium base as Google Chrome, so not sure why bother installing Chrome.

freitasm:

 

And yet, against all the comments above, I am using Edge and it performs extremely well. It's based on the same Chromium base as Google Chrome, so not sure why bother installing Chrome.

 

You are an expert in this kind of thing. The lady I am helping is just a very basic user with no technical insight. She doesn't need or understand the Edge features. She can't seem to get Gmail to work with it and it doesn't remember her web site logins. I'm sure there are simple settings to fix all this but I don't know how Edge works either and both of us are comfortable with Chrome, so why bother reinventing the wheel? 

geoffwnz:

I pay taxes too, so does that mean I'm my own boss or self employed?

The computer I am working on is a little HP laptop. It is very slow and loaded with HP branded software. Does any of this have an actual function or is it all bloatware that can be safely removed.

Most, if not all, of it will be bloatware. Uninstall it.

We're up to the 16th version of iOS, which is hardly a niche platform, and there are still companies not bothering to test their websites with it.

Behodar:We're up to the 16th version of iOS, which is hardly a niche platform, and there are still companies not bothering to test their websites with it.

/sarcasm on "Test"..... What is this thing called "Test"? If it doesn't work for you, then it's your problem isn't it? /sarcasm off

neb:

geoffwnz:

 

I pay taxes too, so does that mean I'm my own boss or self employed?

 

That depends, are you married?

No, but I have cats.  I therefore consider my question answered.  :-)

Handsomedan:

Yes - certain industries make a lot of money, or have poor reputations for specific things - like banks closing branches because they're no longer economically viable to keep open, or lawyers defending rapists and gang members who allegedly sell drugs etc. But do we have to keep rolling out the old tropes about these institutions, which are ostensibly large employers and filled with normal, honest and hard-working (often over-worked) people?