In a message on Wednesday 06-12-17 Ed Vance said to Holger Granholm:

GE Ed,

 HG> The date/time is stamped on the message when it is uploaded to your
 HG> Host

EV> I didn't know that, I thought whatever time I last edited a message
EV> stayed with the .REP packet I send to my BBS.

You saw the reply from Mark. The time stamp depends on the BBS software.

 HG> What Win10 Telemetry situation?? Never heard of such a thing.

 EV> I learned of it at www.askwoody.com .

Problem is that you read too much gossip!

 HG> There exists a setting where you can disable anything the machine would
 HG> like to send to M$, or anything M$ would like to know. Use it!

EV> I've read a comment that doing that would prevent Edge from giving
EV> any Results from a Search that was done using it.

I don't use Edge.
How much do you use Edge??

EV> Do You like using Cortana?

No, I don't use Cortana!

EV> Currently I am using FortKnox Firewall (free) and Avast! (free).

OK. AVG seems to be the most popular antivirus program. All bulletins
and messages coming here, have been scanned by AVG.

 EV> I use to "think (TM)" I may want to start using Windows 7, but not
 EV> now.

DONT!

I have an old computer magazine that shows its cover. At the bottom is a
header that says: "Hasta la Vista!! How you change back to Windows XP".

EV> I saved the older copies of WIN.INI and SYSTEM.INI by using SaveAs
EV> and changing the INI Extension to numerals, as in WIN.001 for the
EV> first time I saved it and incrementing the number each time I saved
EV> another copy of the WIN. file.

I didn't collect old WIN.INI files. When making some changes, it was
enough for me to save the previous .INI file as WININI.BAK.

EV> This computer works but I don't think it works as it should.

Neither do I.

 EV> In the years following I have read that a person ought to make a
 EV> Full Backup or a Clone HDD as the FIRST THING they do on a new
 EV> computer before they connect it to the internet.

M$ recommends, and has a menu item in Win10, to make a recovery USB
stick, right after you have installed it. Good advice to anybody.

EV> Yes, a Incremental backup takes a shorter time to do, but if ever I
EV> would have to do a Recovery I would have to Recover the First backup
EV> and EACH ONE of those Incremental backups I had made to get the
EV> computer Restored.

The last Incremental backup contains all shanges you have made since the
first backup.

EV> It is 23:20 when I saved this message.

That is the time the header shows too.


Have a good night,

73 es GN de Sam, OH0NC

aka Holger


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