Wish me luck, I ordered a Windows 10 laptop

[Brad]

>cortana

Cortana is Clippy the MSWord paperclip's lovechild.   

AVG (free) is working for me and not taking up too much RAM.

[rcjordan]

>AVG

Do a search on AVG. I *vaguely* recall some sort of security or tracking problem with them a couple of years ago.

[Rupert]

I nam sure this was an RC recommendation:
https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10/update

I use it on every new win 10 computer.

[keano]

On all Win10 machines I've always put Malwarebytes on them. Works really well and the machines are still nippy running it.

[Brad]

Update:

While it was running okay on 8GB RAM, I took Mr. Mackin's advice and added more for a total of 16GB.  Slight increase in speed but you would barely notice, but everything is now somehow smoother which I like.

[rcjordan]

What browser did you end up using?  Does it support *Monkey-flavored userscripts?

[Brad]

>browser
Vivaldi for daily stuff.  But I have a bunch of others installed including FF and Seamonkey (because it still has a free version of Netscape Composer!). 

[rcjordan]

Put Greasemonkey on FF and we'll see if it'll run my filter script on NewsNow

<added>
Caution! Rabbit hole. hhh

[Brad]

Put Greasemonkey on FF and we'll see if it'll run my filter script on NewsNow

<added>
Caution! Rabbit hole. hhh

Done. Greasemonkey installed.

[rcjordan]

Jabbarnet has crept into W10, maybe earlier versions. You can now dictate into a text field.  Put cursor in field, Win key + H.  Worked on my crap laptop just now with a better-than-expected accuracy.

[Brad]

I'm not sure if this applies to dictation but when I was setting up this Win 10 laptop for the first time, Windows was prompting me to download the Windows Launcher for Android so I could seamlessly share files, calendar and Cortana more between my Android phone and my laptop. 

They didn't say that the Win Launcher would change the entire look and feel of Android, so someone with less knowledge would get a shock when they find their phone transformed.  MS is trying to backdoor it's way onto Android.

I played with the MS Launcher about a year ago.  It actually is not half bad and I might be tempted if I was a businessman.  But Cortana is limited compared to Google Assistant.

I have both turned off.

[ergophobe]

if I was a businessman.

:-)

[gm66]

MAX OUT your RAM

>>Figure out what works for email.
I'm using MailBird after many issues with Outlook

I'm so sick of Outlook, will try Mailbird, still to try pegasus and eudora which were two favourites of mine back in the 90s.

[Drastic]

>mailbird

Is this better than thunderbird?

[Brad]

>mailbird

Is this better than thunderbird?

The paid version is great, if you want to pay.  The free version only lets you have one account.