I don't have that problem. Nobody out there in the cloud knows I exist!

A sensible reply to this idiot from VIctorian Premier, Dan Andrews, noted in the attached video. The Greens are fruitloops, plain and simple.

Victoria is named after Queen Victoria, who ruled the British Empire until 1901.

Under the conventions in place in Great Britain and the Commonwealths and Dominions under the control or other influence of Great Britain, Kings and Queens do not "rule" as they are above politics. They reign. There's a big difference. By granting Royal Assent to bills passed by a Parliament, they are conceding that the Parliament is the seat of government in a constitutional monarchy.

Well you guys all know how much I love the Greenies, Anybody who plays with varnish , lacquer, nitro, just loves the greens!
I'm thinking of printing some tee shirts up,

" Save the planet, Shoot the Greenies"

Nah, Pete. That will only encourage them. Remember the bumper sticker:

"Fertilise the bush. Doze in a Greenie"

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Vintage Pete, if you take proper precautions with your privacy, and your adblocker, and your hosts file, all of that google tracking & advertising can be eliminated. And if you have a smartphone turn off location tracking.


As for the greens, the Loony Left is always looking for opportunities to put forward ridiculous ideas which cost a fortune to implement and solve nothing. They are riddled with Social Justice Warriors - these people have nothing better to do than to trawl through everything looking for terms that might offend someone, somewhere - then they mount some kind of campaign for change, primarily to make themselves look good. As to whether anyone ever was offended by the term, is unknown.

This is the kind of society we live in nowdays and enforces my view that there are too many idiots in the world, idiots that we would be better off without.

Robert.
Hello Rob ,yes I will have to set it up.Its driving me crazy. I have location off though.

Pete

Well Ian I must admit I feel exactly as you do about privacy on the internet with everyone tracking and selling your info and location!
In reality there is almost no way to use the internet without being longed on a server somewhere!
To do that you would start with Linux, Tor browser and a VPN that does multiple hops as a starting point.

Ah yes the greenies! They shut down the logging industry then close off so much land and make them “park” land then what happens? A small fire starts and burns the whole joint down because nobody was allowed to do controlled burns!
Save the wildlife? Well they really screw up when they’ve all been cooked!
And what happens to all our wood? Instead of being sustainably logged in aus with replantation we have to import it from country’s like Indonesia which don’t have any regulations and certainly don’t replant the trees they chopped!

Okay, my Windows Update arrived yesterday. I am a Firefox User; Windows 10, keep everything up-to-date and simply try not to get too p%$#ed off, too often. I find that computer and phone updates 'set me off' more and more frequently these days ...

Whilst I am no computer genius, I have managed to set Firefox as my Default browser.

However, I have been using the old version of Microsoft Edge as a .pdf file reader of files already downloaded onto my PC, simply because I leave a lot of electronic articles open in it, in separate tabs for reading on a later day.

With the new version of Edge, I cannot open .pdf files, even though I have selected Edge as my default .pdf Viewer. It only wants to save an existing file, but then will not open the re-saved file either .... Searches of Microsoft Help, Community, Virtual support are all useless.

Can anyone here help??

I use Acrobat Reader DC for PDFs, and I purposely tell my browsers not to open but to save PDFs. Reader has multiple tabs and so on, but its downside is wanting to save your files on its cloud, unless you turn that off. There's a bunch a of small free PDF readers that can be used instead.

You could try opening your PDF in IE11 or Firefox - there's no need to stick with Edge if it no longer works.

Yes Acrobat Reader is free, why wouldn't you use that?

I just tried it and although I haven't set it up as the default app for pdf's it can certainly open them.
Try using explorer to list the files, select, then "open with" (right click) and select edge, that at least will tell if edge is working

Joe

Thanks .... I liked being able to find a file in File Explorer, then double click to open it. Cannot do that with the new Microsoft Edge ... that I know of.

All my .pdf files do open with Firefox, Drawboard etc .... but via "Open with ..." ... a bit clumsy.

Why persist with the new Microsoft Edge? .... partly because I am used to its format, etc and because I believe that we will have to use it sooner or later if we wish to run Microsoft Windows.

Anyway ... I have downloaded / installed etc Acrobat Reader DC ... will spend more time with it tomorrow, but doesn't look that different, functionally.

I am amused as to how close the Logo and screen Layouts etc of this new Microsoft Edge are to Firefox. My first reaction was that Firefox had been updated, stylised etc ... and probably blissfully agreed to install it .... except for Ian's initial warning.

Thanks,
Ian(tinkera123)

Edge is a web browser, not a file explorer. The former MS browser, Internet Explorer, was also just a web browser and not to be confused with Windows Explorer, which was designed to manage and search for files and folders.

One thing that grates me no end with all the non-MS browsers is that the spelling checkers in them either default to EN-US spelling or only contain that choice of dialect, rather than using the user's global Windows 10 setting. I am sick of running through hundreds of posts each year correcting this sort of thing so the site is now correcting more of it automatically.

I don't bother with PDF readers anymore as Edge reads them fine. It would be nice if it could create them too but Win2PDF is cheap enough for that sort of thing.

I still have Adobe reader, however, with a loss of quality Word will save to pdf. One normally has to do that as Word has a known habit of corrupting format even that it is sent to the same version of Word on another computer. At $120 they're perhaps printing money?

Some of the bundled stuff that they put on phones & computers is just sucking up valuable space & resources, albeit someone's making money out of it.

I have a newer & older copy of the Russian "Fine reader" and that will convert a pdf to word or scan off a document OCR. Interesting is that at one point when I bought a new scanner, it shipped with a version of "Omnipage" I think 13. It was so good that I upgraded the Russian program as it was so far ahead of it, before I upgraded it, it was not funny.

I think the Accounts program I have might be better. They guarantee a 12 year life for the fixed cost of it.

Marc

The reason I use Acrobat Reader is because the maker (Adobe) are the ones that invented the PDF format. So, their own product will be the one that supports all PDF features. (or at least you'd hope so)

And it's free, so why not?

As for creating a PDF, they normally want you to pay for a program to do that, but this computer came with a program (doPDFv7) that pretends it's a printer but in reality outputs a PDF instead of paper. I understand that kind of thing is pretty common now, most computers should have something similar.