Hidden Talents and Special Abilities

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You know it! I've heard about nothing but issues with Windows 10 from my friends and had my fair share of trouble with the upgrade process, but I haven't had a single issue since the upgrade went off without a hitch. I use a combo of Ccleaner and Avast to keep things tidy.

I haven't upgraded due to fears for my SSD which is old and crowded. I don't wanna lose anything and with previous upgrades I always lost stuff.

Ahh gotya, the upgrade was applied to a tower I built myself one year prior at the time, and I took the precaution of backing up before moving forward.

my cat groks puters better than I do. I basically know how to turn it on and off and little else. I expended most of my brain cells learning how to use the audio restoration suite I installed over the decades.

Oooh, that's pretty cool! Though to be truthful I ended needing to go with my dad to a computer shop and have them finish up the wiring to get it to turn on.

yeh, I've been doing some form of audio restoration since the early 90s, after first reading an article about the sonic solutions "NONOISE" system in the late 80s, took me several years before the software filtered down from the professional clouds for us amateurs to use. is your Dad also a puter expert?

My parents are very awesome in that they're able to get what they need done on a usual basis down pat, but they rely on me for more involved things like getting the pictures off our cameras and onto the desktop. I'm their IT guy in that sense, and yes I get blamed when something breaks

good training for an eventual IT career

Yeah, while I'm going into a business career once I get this degree finished off, I really love knowing a whole bunch about 'puters. Now it'll be interesting to find a business job where I can be at ease, but one step at a time eh?

business degree?

Yep, been working on an associates since 2013 at my community college thanks to the generosity of my parents. Paid a visit to the disability office last week to get the process rolling to help me succeed more when it comes to Math.

when I was your age I struggled and failed to get my AA, may your luck be much better than mine

Yeah, been fairly successful, just accounting and algebra have giving me much of an issue.

I'm fairly inumerate so I also had troubles with all manner of maths classes. but I did fairly well in symbolic logic, still scratching me head over that.

Not something I ever really used. I learned DOS and such via just the simple command prompt, and got used to it quickly. I always found it pretty easy to use, actually. Though the act of copying disk contents was always moderately annoying.

Closest thing I had to a full user interface, before Windows 3.1, was a thing called "Deskmate" which came with Radioshack's Tandy systems. Funky thing, that. It's one of those sorts of things I'll never forget though. Alot of nostalgia attached to that for whatever reason.

did deskmate have icons to click on or was it like dos shell in that the mouse let you click on colored command lines?