Windows 11...How do I hate thee?

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NOTSMC

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Let me count the ways. I hate thee to the depth and breadth and height that my soul can reach. I hate thee for having taken away my word pad. I hate thee for destroying my budget that I so carefully left on my desk top year after year, my Christmas lists, my Christmas decorating list, my Christmas shopping list, my recipes, my passwords list, my menu list, my food shopping list, my clothing shopping list, my outfits lists, and damn you to the 7th circle of hell for converting my coveted haircut pictures that I want to try to microsoft play or something like that.

Why oh why windows 11? Why have thou forsaken me?
 
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vraiblonde

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NOTSMC said:
Let me count the ways. I hate thee to the depth and breadth and height that my soul can reach. I hate thee for having taken away my word pad. I hate thee for destroying my budget that I so carefully left on my desk top year after year, my Christmas lists, my Christmas decorating list, my Christmas shopping list, my recipes, my passwords list, my menu list, my food shopping list, my clothing shopping list, my outfits lists, and damn you to the 7th circle of hell for converting my coveted haircut pictures that I want to try to microsoft play or something like that.

Why oh why windows 11? Why have thou forsaken me?
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What does this mean? Your computer crashed and took your stuff with it? Because mine did that and a tech friend was able to go in and get it back.
 
LightRoasted

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If I may ...
For your consideratiopn ...


NOTSMC said:
Let me count the ways. I hate thee to the depth and breadth and height that my soul can reach. I hate thee for having taken away my word pad. I hate thee for destroying my budget that I so carefully left on my desk top year after year, my Christmas lists, my Christmas decorating list, my Christmas shopping list, my recipes, my passwords list, my menu list, my food shopping list, my clothing shopping list, my outfits lists, and damn you to the 7th circle of hell for converting my coveted haircut pictures that I want to try to microsoft play or something like that.

Why oh why windows 11? Why have thou forsaken me?
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That'll teach ya not to upgrade. I'd still be using Win 98 if it hadn't been for gaming starting to code only for Win7 and above.
 
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NOTSMC said:
Let me count the ways. I hate thee to the depth and breadth and height that my soul can reach. I hate thee for having taken away my word pad. I hate thee for destroying my budget that I so carefully left on my desk top year after year, my Christmas lists, my Christmas decorating list, my Christmas shopping list, my recipes, my passwords list, my menu list, my food shopping list, my clothing shopping list, my outfits lists, and damn you to the 7th circle of hell for converting my coveted haircut pictures that I want to try to microsoft play or something like that.

Why oh why windows 11? Why have thou forsaken me?
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I still use Windows 8.1 since all of the viruses and so forth are usually targeted to the newer stuff. Of course I don't put anything critical like banking or other critical information on computers Anything can be broken in to at any tme. It is just a matter of how hard the crooks try.
 
Bann

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I have Windows 11 and I like it just fine. I have all my docs, and such that I wanted to keep. Granted, I moved it all to Cloud storage first. (I use Dropbox).
 
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NOTSMC said:
Let me count the ways. I hate thee to the depth and breadth and height that my soul can reach. I hate thee for having taken away my word pad. I hate thee for destroying my budget that I so carefully left on my desk top year after year, my Christmas lists, my Christmas decorating list, my Christmas shopping list, my recipes, my passwords list, my menu list, my food shopping list, my clothing shopping list, my outfits lists, and damn you to the 7th circle of hell for converting my coveted haircut pictures that I want to try to microsoft play or something like that.

Why oh why windows 11? Why have thou forsaken me?
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Anytime I've upgraded or gotten a new computer, I back up every file prior to the upgrade. I always remove the HDs on prior computers and make them standalone storage. I've seen alot of friends that gripe about Win11 but I don't see it as much different.
 
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NOTSMC

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vraiblonde said:
What does this mean? Your computer crashed and took your stuff with it? Because mine did that and a tech friend was able to go in and get it back.
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No, they no longer have word pad I think it was called and all my lists were in word pad. The documents are still there, there just not readable - some of them even converted into...gawd microsoft play or something whatever they're unreadable.

I don't fool with the computer much - I do emails, the internet and I make long elaborate lists.
 
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Grumpy said:
Anytime I've upgraded or gotten a new computer, I back up every file prior to the upgrade. I always remove the HDs on prior computers and make them standalone storage. I've seen alot of friends that gripe about Win11 but I don't see it as much different.
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Word pad is no longer a part of the program and that's about all I ever used. Not a big computer person.
 
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NOTSMC

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LightRoasted said:
For your consideratiopn ...





That'll teach ya not to upgrade. I'd still be using Win 98 if it hadn't been for gaming starting to code only for Win7 and above.
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Yeah not by choice. Every time it tried to automatically update I said no wait - even scheduled it months later. I woke up one morning and everything was unreadable and all my haircut pictures were messed up. All of them LR. The short and choppy, the naturally curly ones, the layered ones, the ones for women over 50, the don't wear your hair this way if you're over 50...gone...poof. I've been curating that collection since I was knee high to a grasshopper. Its a tragedy.
 
Bann

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NOTSMC said:
That might have been what I was using and not word pad. BUT that's not in windows 11 either.
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My Chat GPT said:

Since WordPad has been removed from Windows 11, you’ll need an alternative to open your old WordPad files. Here’s what you can do:

1. Use Notepad (for simple text files)​

  • If your WordPad files are .txt or .rtf with just basic text, Notepad should work.
  • Right-click the file → Select Open with > Notepad.

2. Use Microsoft Word (if installed)​

  • Right-click the file → Open with > Word.
  • Word can handle .rtf, .docx, and .txt files easily.

3. Use Word Online (Free)​

  • If you don’t have Word installed, you can upload .rtf or .docx files to Word Online via OneDrive and open them there.
 
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NOTSMC

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Ken King said:
Notepad is right below that, if it ain't there you should throw the computer away and go buy a new one.
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Roger that. It ain't there. Did however find a bunch of word type documents that I thought were missing. They merely converted to Media Player instead.
 
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