Sequestor

Check out 'Ghostery'.

Cheers exec , thought so 7 trackers whacked.

Microsoft stops selling Windows 7
Friday marked the end of sales of PCs with consumer versions of Windows 7 pre-installed
Windows 7 was released in 2009
From: Telegraph.co.uk
By Sophie Curtis12:42PM GMT 03 Nov 2014

Microsoft has discontinued sales of computers running consumer versions of Windows 7, effectively pushing people onto the less-popular Windows 8 operating system.

As of 31 October 2014, Microsoft will no longer provide licences for Windows 7 Home Basic, Windows 7 Home Premium, and Windows 7 Ultimate to PC makers – like Dell, Lenovo and HP.

This means it will only be possible to buy a PC with Windows 7 pre-installed until existing stock runs out. All new Windows PC models will run either Windows 8 or Windows 8.1.

The only exception will be business computers running Windows 7 Professional, which will continue being sold for at least another year.

Microsoft will continue to offer mainstream support for Windows 7 until 13 January 2015. Extended support is also guaranteed until 14 January 2020, according to the company's Windows lifecycle fact sheet.

Microsoft has also stopped selling boxed retail copies of Windows 8, which launched in 2012. However, the operating system will still be sold pre-installed on some Windows PCs.

Windows 7 currently accounts for 53 per cent of the desktop operating system market, up from 47 per cent this time last year, according to the latest figures from Net Applications.

Windows XP now accounts for 17 per cent (compared to 31 per cent last year), while Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 together account for 17 per cent (compared to 9 per cent last year).

Windows as a whole accounts for over 90 per cent of the desktop operating system market, compared to around 7 per cent for Apple's Mac OS X operating system, and around 1.5 per cent for Linux.

The next version of Windows, called Windows 10, is due to be released in the middle of next year.

Oh great! So the 8.1 I have just bought is going to be out of date before the ink is dry on the receipt???

Hartry - from the BBC link

The current version of Windows, 8.1, will be the default version offered on PCs.

Hartry - from the BBC Link

The current version of Windows, 8.1, will be the default version offered on PCs.

I have installed AVG-free version do I need to turn off Win8 defender or not?

TIA

S

Who is your ISP? This is possibly relevant.

It would seem win defender will auto shut off if avg or other anti virus is used.

See here from microsoft.

These days I only use defender - it seems pretty secure (FLWs!)

Yes it has turned it off skinny,AVG seems to be working ok too

ta to both of you

Can you re post that link re. AVG/Defender, it was microsoft I think, I can`t pick up earlier posts for some reason, the button has vanished

cheers

This one from earlier today?

link

yep , `perfick`

thanks

Has anyone else had problems with FireFox this last few days ??? i only ever use this and its never missed a beat in all the years that i have used it.No recent updates that i can see nor have i altered any settings or added any software ie firewall or anti-virus software.

But since yesterday i have been getting the blue screen of death and it shuts down the computer,running WinXP albeit it its old but upto date but i can run Google Chrome and open many windows and also IE.

So basically it has something to do with FireFox,any suggestions on what the crash problem could be with FF,has anyone else had recent issues,can still use the computer and can have many many sites open on Chrome and this is the 1st time of using it really and must admit i am well pleased with it.

Trouble is i have alot of sites Bookmarked on FF and also many passwords,which could take some time to transfer over to Chrome,of course i would still prefer to use FF but if i cannot use it then its not a major problem as such its just the fact that i dont want to loose all my site and passwords that are stored.

Any suggestions ??? it appears to be a blue screen of depth related to memory dump issues or related problems,when i log onto FF you can hear the cooling fan increase in speed and also the harddrive starting to work overdrive.

Thanks

MB

Check out: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/products/firefox/fix-problems

You can normally import favourites from one browsers to another. Maybe reinstalling Firefox might work

Also I would strongly recommend that you store your passwords on an external medium (Floppy, USB stick, flash drive etc) and not on the hard drive of your PC. There is lots of malware / spyware software out there which can seek out stored passwords and XP is not now the most secure platform.
Blue screen on old machines can be related to a RAM fault and the increase in fan speed / hard drive activity is the PC trying to find space on the hard drive to use as memory. Might be worth running the diagnostic software on the CRUCIAL website (I think Microsoft also have this software) to find out if you have a RAM fault.

new computer will be here friday,so wont be off line,once i have added all the bookmarks to the new computer then i plan on installing linux as a backup machine and for testing purposes.

Once again many thanks for all your suggestions

'XP' - spend some money you tight wad!

You might need to replace some of these as well! :-))