The Win7 or WIn8 to Win10 forced FREE upgrade has been discussed on here for months and months. One must turn off "automatic upgrades" and have the computer request your approval to do so, or this happens.

I also learned from Adobe tech support a month or so ago that if your Windows 10 is an upgrade that Adobe products on your computer won't likely work with it and you'll have to call for assistance and possibly reload the software that's not working BUT if you have a clean new Windows 10 that came on a new computer the Adobe products are 99.9% sure to work perfectly when you load them.

Several people on here have had problems with upgrading their Win7 or Win8 to Win10 and ultimately had to return to their original OS (although a friend of mine tried that with his Dell and it really messed up bad). Yet there are people on here who have had NO problems with upgrading. So get ready, and be prepared, to have some or all non-functioning stuff when it's over.

The PC I'm using right now is Win7 and I didn't let it auto upgrade. But I bought a newer, faster, better equipped model of the same Dell about 5 weeks ago and it has Win10 on it from the factory. It has worked virtually flawlessly since I got it. BUT... Dell keeps throwing update notices at me, one of which is a BIOS update. I don't really like to mess with BIOS, especially since the last update sat with a black screen for 26 hours and didn't reboot like it was supposed to. The update said DO NOT turn your computer off during the BIOS update because it could become completely inoperable, so what was I to do? I went ahead and turned it off and had to restart it with the power switch twice but it fortunately came back fine.

Win10 is known for updating itself regularly and it's hard to get it to stop doing that. It doesn't care if you're working on the PC at the time or not. That's a bit irritating but Win10 works quite well otherwise.

There are numerous extraction software packages. Look at PCWorld's downloads page and other major PC magazine websites to find free and cheap ones. If you use Firefox as a browser, there's a plug-in for it that extracts any PDF you come across during browsing. And as said before the new Adobe Acrobat extracts for free, you just can't edit them or create new ones with it for free.

I set mine to only use less than 1/4 of the small Photo model and barely have to move my fingers to select or brush something. I use the rest of the pad for resting my hand on. Moving from the left side tool bar to anything along the top is just a slight twist of the wrist, not a whole hand movement. It's working out well except that sometimes I'm too lazy to put the pad in front of me and reach over to get the pen. I already have my hand on the wireless mouse and just go ahead with it because it's something simple like selecting an easy rectangle or square. I guess you could say I sometimes use the pad as a second resort instead of main tool. I shouldn't do that to keep practicing and honing skills.

What's new about that? Every time a new Windows comes out, PC companies empty (translated: dump) their warehouses of the machines that have the previous Windows version on them at discount prices and all new machines with Windows become the current one. So there's nothing dumb about it. Technology moves forward despite those who don't want to follow along.

I bought an all-in-one PC with Win10 a couple months ago and it is much easier to work with than 8.1, is very stable and user friendly, fixes itself when necessary, only brings up that damned ugly Win8 desktop when you request it, and seems to possibly be smaller than previous Windows versions because the PC I bought is only 4GB memory RAM and it works quite fast (not i7 with 16GB fast but what could I expect for $329?).

Keep your eye out, Microsoft will likely stop support for Win7 and Win8 within a year too. It's been the same way forever.

The article implies that the first documented case of someone acting drunk when they had not been drinking was in 2013 but that's incorrect. This has been documented many, many, many times over the last three decades that I'm aware of.

Candida Albican is the name for a yeast overgrowth in the human body and it's been studied for a very long time. It is in us all the time but is normally controlled by intestinal bacteria. It resides mostly in the gut from excess sugar being in the body and the yeast stays mostly in the large intestine but the "overgrowth" means that it dominates your natural friendly bacteria flora and goes on the move. Candida can also move up into the small intestine, stomach, and even esophagus. That's where it can create respiratory problems and ear, nose, and throat problems. If it travels downward from the large intestine, and that's typical as well, it causes genital yeast infections not only in women but men.

The excess yeast, as the article says, causes fermentation of foods in the intestinal tract. Something as simple as wheat cereal or bread will ferment and the alcohol is absorbed into the body - creating the symptoms of inebriation. In lesser amounts, it might be slow thinking, indecision, forgetfulness, excess fatigue, etc. The worst part is that a drinker, who has had a candida overgrowth problem for a long time, has harmed their good intestinal bacteria with alcohol consumption so badly that food nutrition is not being absorbed well, the yeast ferments practically everything that is consumed, and they may have slurred speech and other signs of drunkenness all the time even when they aren't drinking. Candida overgrowth is also a reason why some alcoholics can't stay sober. The yeast is "hungry" for more sugars and an alcoholic gets all the sugar the yeast wants from the sugar-based alcohol products consumed.

Candida also makes a diabetic's blood sugar skyrocket. This is a lot of why a dramatically different diet, avoiding all sugars of any kind, avoiding all starches of any kind, certainly not drinking alcohol, and taking several bitter supplements that are meant to eliminate yeast infection - will cause dramatic weight loss and one's blood sugar plummets along with the symptoms of yeast infection. Get those sugars, and starches that turn into sugar, out of the body completely and the candida has nothing to live on so it dies off and one's natural intestinal bacteria can become dominant again to restore order.

If you keep up with the latest technology, true. If you hang with your phone for 3 or 4 years at a time, you're still good to go. My brother is still happily using an ancient Motorola flip phone with Verizon and is on his third battery because he doesn't want or need "smart" phone stuff, apps, etc. He also has a couple more brand new OEM spare batteries he got for $7 each with free shipping on eBay. If he wants stuff like smart apps he says he'll use one of his three desktop computers or the laptop that he only takes on vacations.

She had been battling bad health that kept her from performing for about three years from what I understand.

She may also be thinking, "He must have been handsome when he was young." So keep that in mind!

My now deceased mother-in-law said several times, "Sometimes I wake up and look in the mirror and think, 'Who's that old lady looking at me?' which was quite philosophical for her.

Except that 32GB in the tablet doesn't take you very far for storage. And part of the 32GB of memory available is taken by other files, apps, etc. And the PP apps I've used leave the original alone and create a new file which then doubles the amount of storage space being used. If you don't take many photos this will work but if you take a lot of high res RAW files you'll eat that 32GB in a couple days or so and be stuck without backup again for the rest of your vacation.

While it will work marginally it wouldn't be my first choice. I would have gone with a little notebook, such as an Acer or Asus, that has a 320GB or 500GB hard drive in it and a built-in card reader.

I use Dropbox a lot for transferring files to my clients with them using a Dropbox link whether they are Dropbox users themselves or not. To do so, I make COPIES of my original files and put them into various folders on Dropbox that are stored inside a folder with the client's name on it. So Dropbox does not have access to my original files which are elsewhere on my hard drive. No matter what happens inside Dropbox itself, my originals are protected elsewhere. I thought out the potential of bad scenarios in advance so what happened to you wouldn't happen to me.

As I said, you "called me out" for no other reason than to single me out among the many who stated exactly the same advice. You're the one trying to justify your way out of the fact that you are selectively picking on me.

I'm not justifying myself in any way. I don't need to. My advice was no different than most others. You're either selectively picking on my post or you're saying that virtually all of us felt "it wasn't worth our time to do the research required to provide good advice." Almost none of us gave valid advice and we're all lacking in diligence, according to your jab toward me. It must be rather lonely way up there at the top of your self-made mole hill where none of us intellectually inferior dare tread.

Third, I'm not upset about anything. It takes more than your school playground jabs, and bully techniques you think are clever, to upset me.

My thoughts exactly. It's hard to find the ones who don't think like that but they're out there.

Here's a few examples.

I don't remember a statement that "some of them might" be okay. If I don't see it come out of his mouth myself, I immediately assume it's a media exaggeration. The media is trying every possible method and using every lie they can create to bring down his candidacy and they'll rephrase what he says liberally every time toward that goal. They are failing.

Carly being unattractive isn't hate speech. It's true. If people don't want to hear the truth, then it's always categorized as hate speech. And Hillary spends her whole life in pant suits trying to look like a man and he's mentioned that too. And despite what the media says a large percentage of women support Trump. If they thought it was hate speech, they wouldn't. The media fails again.

All candidates hate reporters to a certain point and so do politicians. They all know that a liberal media can throw anything off course including the passage of laws, a decisions of the Supreme Court, the election of a President - anything.

The difference is that Trump will say he hates the press while the rest of the pack try to smooze the media and reporters. Trump knows who has been controlling government for too long - big money campaign fund donors, banks, the stock market, the press, and to be totally frank, a secret society of large old family money who guides political outcomes by any means required. The press has been enough in the past to sway elections but it's different with Trump because their previous tricks don't work on him. So Trump hating reporters is no different than me hating reporters. The public is also sick of NBC, CBS, and ABC being operated by liberals and telling one side of every story. Begging a lunatic to kill a reporter is a radical supposition on your part that I have not heard said anywhere, even in the press.

His desired ban on the in and out travel of Muslims to and from this country is also being called "hatred for Muslims" but that's another media hoax. He said nothing about hating Muslims and he has Muslim business contacts all over the world. His plan is to STOP in the travel of Muslims until a better system of filtering out Islamic terrorists is established. If Muslims want that travel ban to not happen then they need to expose Islamic terrorists in their own midst to show they're cooperative with OUR government in OUR country that they're living in and want to be part of solving the problem.

If anybody hates Muslims, it's Hillary because a million have been killed during Obama's lack of leadership in the middle east and she has already said that it won't change under her reign either and millions more will die as ISIS grows bigger and bigger. Muslim blood flows freely because of it.

Trump is crude, Trump is outspoken, Trump is straight to the point, but this is not hatred. Trump is saying what a lot of us patriotic Americans have wanted to have said and he is consistently building a larger and larger following. That following wants a Mexican wall, illegals thrown out, ISIS destroyed, Muslims filtered to get the terrorists, and virtually everything he states as his stances. Sorry but spineless Hillary with no record of any accomplishments and Mr. Climate is Our Biggest Enemy don't have a snowball's chance in hell.

And Trump hasn't even started running TV ads yet. The gutless insiders better run for their rabbit holes right now while there's still a clear path to get there.

Every poster in this thread, except a couple, were confused by the OP into thinking there was a separate SSD and that possibly he meant 80GB instead of 8GB. None of us ran directly to Lenovo's site and checked specifications before answering a simple question. Numerous posts stated exactly what I said, put software on the SSD and store files on the hard drive.

But when it come right down to it, you have no objective here but to jump ME on the subject and inflict as much humiliation as you think is possible. Typical small mindedness on your part again - as it is every time you do this. You're just quivering with excitement because you found an opportunity to play "gotcha" again concerning something so trivial.

You didn't jump anybody else for not knowing it was a hybrid drive but when you find a tiny opening to hit ME you go for it again. You're "not trying to be overly hostile"? Anybody here can see you are, so don't pretend you're not. This is sad. Just sad.

My advice to the OP was just as valid as everyone else in this thread who was under the same impression that it was a separate SSD. Even the OP thought it was separate.

Now make up your mind. Either re-direct these hostile insults of yours toward everyone here who posted exactly the same thing I did, or you have revealed once again with your pants around your ankles, that you have an agenda of abuse toward me specifically. Go ahead, call every poster here ignorant, uninformed, and say their posts are unworthy and have no credibility.

The wise move was going into commercial and industrial. You may have to contend with a fickle director of whatever project you're on but if your reputation precedes you, even that isn't too bad. You are not trying to please a retail customer every few days who may range from "oh that's perfect" to completely insanely anal retentive to the point of needing to be institutionalized.

I'm one layer removed from retail level people normally because I work with realtors in real estate photography. But sometimes even the realtor flips out.

I've got one 30 miles north of me that called on me from a past reference to shoot a home. I did an excellent job as usual, he was all praises, sold the house quickly, and started using me practically every week, sometimes twice a week - always commenting about high quality and even once said he would pay even more if need be to have my quality of work. He was selling houses left and right, sometimes the same day he listed them on MLS, being more profitable than ever in his career and telling me he knew it was the initial presentations that were bringing home buyers in droves to his listings.

He bought a brand new loaded SUV cash, went on a cruise for Thanksgiving, etc. Everything was fine but his controlling wife who is also a realtor started working with him in August. She's a pinch penny, I could tell from the get-go when I met her. I didn't hear from him for a while and I sent an email jokingly saying, "Hey buddy, what'd you do go on a cruise?" He wrote back and said they did, they had hired an assistant, she had taken a couple photography classes in college, has a nice camera, and that he's going to have her shoot homes for him from now on, except I'd be his 'go to' guy for more expensive homes. The problem is, he doesn't do "more expensive" homes. They're all Plain Jane ranch houses below $300K.

So in other words, "See ya later. We found a way to get the job done in a mediocre way which is good enough (in the wife's mind) compared to what we were spending on you. The person making this decision (the wife) is too stupid to know that the 35-50% accelerated rate at which we have been selling homes is because of the quality pictures so we're going to try it with an amateur who doesn't charge much, if anything, to do it and see what happens."

Now, in embarrassment, he doesn't even email me anymore when a house sells but emails the tour hosting service and asks them to delete the tours which they can't and won't because they're in my name. But they are nice enough to tell me about his requests and I delete them.

I have another local realtor who seems to be either bi-polar or going through menopause and she's off the wall in one direction one week or mean and off the wall in the other direction the next week. I never know what to expect from her. She brings lots of work to the table but sometimes she's almost unbearable and I have to go in another room and count to 10 to not walk out and quit her.

Rarely do I have to contend with the home owners themselves giving me grief but if they give the realtor grief the realtor asks me to help resolve issues. It's weird, for years I had no complaints and only praise from homeowners but this year within two months I've had three wackos complaining about bathroom tile color not being bright enough, there not being enough shots of the pool with a bay behind it (although the bay is blocked by brush and only the owner knows the bay is there), and another feeling the home was too pale and didn't look right because I reduced the level of yellow caused by tungsten bulbs throughout the home. Yes, if you stand in the living room it's a yellowish beige, but if you stand in the entry foyer it's a sunlit beige, so I chose to make the rooms less artificially lit and he didn't like it.

These are rare and you can't get away from retail rudeness completely but at least I've got the realtor shield for protection. As in your commercial and industrial work, if I keep realtors (at least most of them but not all apparently) totally happy I'm pretty well protected from big up and downs of the unstable retail CHEAP-mindset market of portraiture and weddings.