I still do not understand why you use dial-up. Most people stopped using that
about 20 years ago. I think the last time I had to use dial-up (or, more
accurately, ISDN) was in Brussels in the second half of the 1990s.
Cheers,
Nathan
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> On 06 Feb 2017, at 17:37, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Actually, the situation here has become far more serious. In an act of
> desparation I decided to go to eBay to find an affordable installation disk
> for Win7. Much to my surprise and disgust, I quickly discovered that eBay
> completely changed its search pages overnight. So, I'm here at the coffee
> shop, having spent over an hour updating everything on one of the laptops.
> Now I find that they have disabled the search functions, so even if I was
> serious about retreading that Win7 hard drive, I can't. If you mouse over
> the SEARCH buttons, there it nothing there.
>
> I know I have a Linux hard drive somewhere, but when I went to look for
> it weeks ago it was nowhere to be found. It's in a pink static-free pouch.
> I guess the Gremlins got it.
>
> I simply cannot afford to buy an entirely new laptop, and even if I could
> I would not be able to justify the purchase just to have a functional SEARCH
> button on a single solitary website that could be rendered inoperable in a
> moment's time.
>
> eBay is the one and only website where these problems persist.
>
> Between this and the unsolvable background downloading proble with
> dialup, I wonder if it would be best to do nothing more than collect pieces
> of string.
>
> Chris
>
>>
>> At this point, go straight to Win10.
>>
>> Throughout the years, there have been certain versions of Windows
>> which really were solid systems. Others which were trash. Win98SE,
>> WinXP, WIn7 and Win10 are among that list of solid ones.
>>
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