Just ask for help if you need any ALMonty!   

Thanks Tom.

So what do you use?

Chrome and IE.

In the good old days before Chrome it was Opera.

It has never been Netscape/Firefox. ...

I helped a friend setting up a new laptop with windows 10.

We call it the update box.

So I have used xp,vista, 7, 8,8.1 and 10 quite a bit.

This is how I rate the browsers.

1 Opera 2 firefox 3 google chrome

Those are my top three but I have used others.

I hate this damn iPad. I posted a response and it screwed it up.

At first I was a fan of Firefox but when it started messing up I got rid of it. Installed Chrome and haven't looked back. I tried some others but there's too many bells and whistles attached. I don't need all that stuff. And that's my story.

A secret way Microsoft could avert their extinction ha ha.

What my friend wants on his new laptop with windows 10.

An icon on the system tray that tells him windows updates

are coming in and a % complete.

If you click on the icon a window opens with information,

number of terabytes before complete. In that window

a pause button so he can check email and load a web page

in an emergency.

An intelligent transfer service that throttles back on the

up dates when he checks email and loads web pages.

could not imagine not using all the software! never gets old for me changing the look of my desktop.

Think of it this way. You're watching Pirates of the Caribbean and on your screen is Ligtstar's Black Sails wb. Cool!

Found for my friend.

throttles and activity monitor

Path as follows

Latest Windows 10

update settings

advanced options

Delivery optimization

advanced options

download settings

He will try it if necessary.

Everything, and I mean everything, is an extinction level event... it's just waiting for a time and place to happen.

The only thing to live forever is time itself.

Ticking away, the moments that make up a dull day......

And if I Could Save Time in a Bottle....

Maybe I could become a Sweet Child in Time...

And fritter away the moments in a offhand way.....  

A few thoughts:

If you are 40 years or older you probably know what a Commodore 64 is if you were into tech/gaming as a child/adolescent. If you are 35 or younger maybe not. The Amiga was state of the art in 1987. The PC could not match it for many years in the consumer space.

Skinning tech (on all platforms) became more and more advanced and peaked between 2007-2010. After 2010 skinning tech has not seen new developments. Instead we have seen regressions. If skinners and users use the same tech for a decade it gets old. Skinners will be able to come up with new designs, but without tech development it will be like painters who only have access to a limited set of colors. I think skinning will be in a limbo state for the foreseeable future. It's not going to completely die, but without new skinning tech it will be a stagnant art form. The desktop itself is a metaphor that is also stagnant. Mobile is clearly the focus for big business. I'm not blaming anyone for this situation, only saying that the desktop and skinning are past their prime. Tech development is happening elsewhere.

Mainly use productivity tools nowadays. Start10, WindowFX, Bins, Rainmeter, Multiplicity and Stardocks newest strike Groupy. And CursorFX to get a nice Big cursor on UHD. Also a tool called "QuikClick" as a RightClick substitute.

Still use IconPackager because I can't stand that ugliness Microsoft did to the Win 10 icons. Back to  Pauls Apogee II,, because that one was the most complete set  ever.

Every computer I have has Winamp on it....good old 2.9x .... probably because it goes back to the dawn of [MS] skinning.....

...and I still have Litestep on a VM somewhere...