Windows 11...How do I hate thee?

[NOTSMC]

I love how those geeks say it's "simple", then go through all these steps that a very casual user won't understand. What would be simple is to just have the WordPad app available for separate download and installation.



This is why geeks need laypeople to keep them in the real world. Every one of these developers should have a low level user to do testing. Because when the geeks go, "It's simple! Just go to another computer, copy all these files to a thumbdrive, transfer them to a folder on your current computer, run this, run that, voila!" the user can go, "OR how about if you just make it available for download?"

Yeah that. I also used word pad to do letters and get all my correspondence and documents together to justify my son's mental disabilities to the Navy for medical purposes (it takes forever and it's a lot of pages), so many other things that I can't even remember. It did things like highlighting, underlining, bolding, spacing the way I wanted it, bullets etc etc. Notepad does basically nothing.

My son tried downloading remotely to get it back together even looked at what Kyle posted but since I didn't have any wordpad stuff as they converted it all...to media player. That makes zero sense. He's got one note on there right now and I can read them but they don't look the same at all.

I LOVE the way that companies make determination that we don't need things anymore. How bout asking me microsoft?

Rant over. Off to buy something to fix this.

 

[Bann]

The problem when one version of Windows becomes too old, is that a lot of other Apps and websites won't work right anymore. You have to upgrade at some point, or... it's like your cellphone. Technology changes so fast, you'd have to spend a lot of money to upgrade that fast! Still, you have to upgrade eventually.

I didn't WANT to get a new computer, but in my new direct sales biz, I needed to use a lot of other Apps with it, and I also needed to have 2 screens to be able to work efficiency. BUT I needed a Laptop so I could also be more mobile, if I go to visit friends and family and work from there. So I had to buy a new Laptop, which came automatically loaded with Windows 11. I loathe a lot of Tech changes at one time, because ---- well - I'm not a Tecchie and haven't really kept up with the pace of the changes, so then I get overwhelmed But, change had to happen, and ... well, I'm making out ok! Plus I discovered how easy it was to ask my new best friend Chat GPT when I have questions about things!!

 

[Bann]

Yeah that. I also used word pad to do letters and get all my correspondence and documents together to justify my son's mental disabilities to the Navy for medical purposes (it takes forever and it's a lot of pages), so many other things that I can't even remember. It did things like highlighting, underlining, bolding, spacing the way I wanted it, bullets etc etc. Notepad does basically nothing.

My son tried downloading remotely to get it back together even looked at what Kyle posted but since I didn't have any wordpad stuff as they converted it all...to media player. That makes zero sense. He's got one note on there right now and I can read them but they don't look the same at all.

I LOVE the way that companies make determination that we don't need things anymore. How bout asking me microsoft?

Rant over. Off to buy something to fix this.

Just use Word. You can do those things and more - you can even add images, etc.

 

[spr1975wshs]

Instead of Micro$loth, I use Open Office.

 

[vraiblonde]

since I didn't have any wordpad stuff as they converted it all...to media player.

If you right-click on a WordPad file and choose "Properties" you should see the file type, which should be .rtf . The only reason it's trying to open with Media Player is because there's no longer an app that supports rtf, so Windows is just guessing.

So the files aren't really converted, they just don't know how to open anymore. Once you get Word or WordPad back the docs will open in that program.

 

[stgislander]

Instead of Micro$loth, I use Open Office.

Is that still being updated? I migrated over to Libre Office about 5-6 years back.

 

[spr1975wshs]

Is that still being updated? I migrated over to Libre Office about 5-6 years back.

I'm sorry, it is Libre Office I have.
Open Office is basically moribund.