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canetoad

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6. Have you heard of this?

Reply to TygrBright (Reply #4)

Fri Jan 10, 2020, 02:06 AM

Jan 2020

Classic Shell
http://classicshell.net/

Freebie. You can restore the familar start menu and customise it to hell. I have it running on Win10. Makes it just like XP

Strangely, I loathed Window 7, but with a bit of work, some tweaks and reg. edits you can get 10 to look just like the more familiar versions.

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Avoiding the Tickware economy, and working offline. [View all] TygrBright Jan 2020 OP

Bright, I hate subscription software too canetoad Jan 2020 #1

InDesign is the element of CS4 that I actually use most. TygrBright Jan 2020 #4

Have you heard of this? canetoad Jan 2020 #6

Oh, that's cool! I still miss XP, yep... but I'm used to W7 now TygrBright Jan 2020 #7

possible u can download then save office to a disc. photoshop last time on disk was msongs Jan 2020 #2

Oh, I have all my discs. Just don't know if newer OS will run them. n/t TygrBright Jan 2020 #3

if yer upgrading to 10 u can ask questions about software here... msongs Jan 2020 #5

Are you building your desktop? mr_lebowski Jan 2020 #8

I might do another build. TygrBright Jan 2020 #10

If you decide you want to do your own build and wanna bounce parts options off me mr_lebowski Jan 2020 #12

Just to clarify the software subscriptions.... ManiacJoe Jan 2020 #9

Yeah, I know. But I also object to tickware on principle. n/t TygrBright Jan 2020 #11