Napoleonic Wargame Club (NWC)

Thanks for the positive input. This also helps Bill Gates sell more copies!

If I get a new computer or decide to repair my older system I will go with Win 10.1. Win 8 sounded like the Win vers. between Windows 98 and 95. Forget the name but it was a real wasted purchase for many. (Was it Windows ME?)

I guess the upgrade to Win10 is free for the first year .. after that folks will have to buy an upgrade disk.

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Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Prinz Peters von Dennewitz

3. Husaren-Regiment, Reserve-Kavallerie, Preußischen Armee-Korps

Honarary CO of Garde-Ulanen Regiment, Garde-Grenadier Kavallerie

NWC Founding Member

For Club Games: I prefer the Single Phase mode of play. I prefer to play with the following options OFF:

MDF, VP4LC, NRO, MTD, CMR, PR, MIM, NDM, OMR (ver 4.07)

As long as you have Windows 7 or 8 you can upgrade to Windows 10 within 1 year for free... After that yes the upgrade will cost money.

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Général David Guegan

3ème Régiment de Grenadiers - Bataillon d'élite du 3ème Légère
2ème Brigade
Grenadiers de la Réserve
Réserve
La Grande Armée
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"From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step."
Napoléon Bonaparte

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
Groucho Marx

Mssrs.,

I decided to take the plunge and upgrade to W 10. It was painless and everything seems to be working fine, other than the fact that MS' new browser, Edge, doesn't want to let you use Google as its search engine.

Regards,

Paco

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Maréchal M. Francisco Palomo
Prince d'Essling et Duc d'Abrantes
Commandant en Chef du 1er Corps d'Armée

You can fix that Paco. It is under the advanced settings.

Bing is a waste.

Honestly, although the new browser is a step up from Internet Explorer, I don't know why anyone would use it over Chrome at this point.

Though Bing is no Google, it's market share continues to grow.....but as an insider what's the best market share indicator site to watch Mike??

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Generalfeldmarschall Scott Kronprinz "Vorwärts" Ludwig von Preußen
Kommandeur des Königlich-Preußischen Armee-Korps
Chief of Staff (CoS) of the Allied Coalition
Allied Coalition Webmaster & Club Website Support

Mike,

My, even simpler, solution is to just use Chrome.

Paco

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Maréchal M. Francisco Palomo
Prince d'Essling et Duc d'Abrantes
Commandant en Chef du 1er Corps d'Armée

Scott - you wouldnt want Mike to give you a Martha Stewart type tip that would land you in jail!!!

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Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Prinz Peters von Dennewitz

3. Husaren-Regiment, Reserve-Kavallerie, Preußischen Armee-Korps

Honarary CO of Garde-Ulanen Regiment, Garde-Grenadier Kavallerie

NWC Founding Member

For Club Games: I prefer the Single Phase mode of play. I prefer to play with the following options OFF:

MDF, VP4LC, NRO, MTD, CMR, PR, MIM, NDM, OMR (ver 4.07)

Excellent point and well played.

I'm not quite that on the inside. Search engine optimization is my career. The tricky thing about it is search engines won't tell us any of the good stuff.

In all honesty, I don't really pay much attention to most of the exact numbers in any of those reports. They are like political polls. They take a small sample and extrapolate it. I pay more attention to the trends than the particular numbers reported.

The only reason Bing has grown in market share over the last few years at all is because of people who buy a new computer with Windows on it, do not know anything else other than Internet Explorer, and do not know how to change their default browser. Heck, you would be surprised how many people do not even know that Bing exists and just think every search engine is Google.

Bing is so far behind Google in just about everything they do. There is a reason they have never turned a profit.

I kind of already work in a jail of sorts.....

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Generalfeldmarschall Scott Kronprinz "Vorwärts" Ludwig von Preußen
Kommandeur des Königlich-Preußischen Armee-Korps
Chief of Staff (CoS) of the Allied Coalition
Allied Coalition Webmaster & Club Website Support

I figured as much when it came to the polls etc. Also makes sense that when someone gets a PC, if they don't know much about it, that'll be what they use.

Bing for us does show a better list of search terms of how folks looked for us & I often check them myself. But Google still accounts for 85% of all traffic sent to us from a search engine, for the last 60 days.

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Generalfeldmarschall Scott Kronprinz "Vorwärts" Ludwig von Preußen
Kommandeur des Königlich-Preußischen Armee-Korps
Chief of Staff (CoS) of the Allied Coalition
Allied Coalition Webmaster & Club Website Support

Guys,

I did run into a major problem. The next time I booted my PC I was prompted to create a password and PIN as a security measure. The moment I activated the PIN, I was locked out of my email program (Outlook 2010)!! Happily, an MS support tech was able to fix the problem.

Paco

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Maréchal M. Francisco Palomo
Prince d'Essling et Duc d'Abrantes
Commandant en Chef du 1er Corps d'Armée

In todays world one is likely forced to use Windows but anything else by MS should be replaced by other programs.
Outlook? Go for Thunderbird.
Internet Explorer? Go for Firefox.
MS Office? Go for LibreOffic.
Usually you're not only dodging problems by doing that but you also enhance your possibilities, an example is the plug-in you could use in Firefox.

My approach to W10 is that I won't upgrade unless at least the first Service Pack is out, haste makes waste.

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Being handcuffed to the bed by your wife isn't exactly jail you know.

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