Painting Windows

[Air4Life]

Nooo, not house painting.  

I've never found much use for many of the communist bundled programs that are forced upon me by the operating systems software company.  

But to give credit where credit is due, the "Paint" program that comes with windows is perfect for re-sizing the images when sharing with my favorite online friends.  It's a lightweight program that doesn't have a lot of features, therefore it's easy to learn.  

The one thing I wish they (software makers) would do is stop futzing with a good thing.  If it works, leave it alone.  By the time I get comfortable finding where they hid stuff, the next operating system (latest and greatest, of course) moves it somewhere else...

Lastly, the other program that is handy when sharing with my online friends is the "Snip" tool.  That is how I created a copy of my "paint" program to showoff here.  

Anyway, the paint program lets you resize in "pixels" or as a "percentage" of the original file size.  I almost always use "pixels". I normally don't bother to go through the extra step of right clicking to open up the original picture files "properties".  If I did, then I suppose the "percentage" feature would be slightly more useful to me.  But for practical purposes I want the picture's "width" to be somewhere near 450 pixels anyway, while keeping its "ratio" the same.  With that set I'll accept the "height" however it needs to present itself.  

Now, if only I could "resize" my body, taller that is...

[Barry]

The one thing I wish they (software makers) would do is stop futzing with a good thing.If it works, leave it alone.By the time I get comfortable finding where they hid stuff, the next operating system (latest and greatest, of course) moves it somewhere else...

They move things alright and usually add one or more extra mouse clicks into the bargain.

I work in IT and am beginning to despair of Microsoft. Having upgraded  something like 500 Pc's to Windows 7 it's probably near doubled our workload. It's so slow and I don't just mean it's slow on the same hardware that XP pro would fly on. Every new incarnation of Windows is dumbed down to another level with 2 things - automation and security making it slower to do the simple administration tasks that used to be easy.   The crisp presentation and fast response from the relative simplicity of XP is like riding and maintaining a simple and lightweight old motorcycle compared with a modern complex heavyweight.

Anyway it's not all bad. At least the latest and greatest Windows 7 version of paint allows you to re-size which the early ones didn't.

[wilcom]

I never found anything past XP that I needed.... My desk top and it's back up PC(just in case)are both XP.  I sold a decent laptop today for $100 on Craigslist just cause it had Vista on the darn thing. If that laptop asked me "do you really wanna do this" once,  it asked me 10,000 times. I was sick of it.

I guess if I was a power user instead of an old codger I would appreciate the latest and greatest.

[Air4Life]

Well, at least it keeps the economy sputtering along...

I did get real comfortable with XP and missed it immediately after I bought into this Win 7 stuff.  It is my understanding that it's still better than the Vista that came in between.

I've gotten far less proficient and more disorganized using this system simply because I'm tired of stopping to have to rethink a procedure of sorts.  It reminds me of any cohabitation situation where each of us are putting the can opener in a different place, each time.  

And I need to rethink my newspaper delivery too.  I've found that I read far less of it now that I have been using the pc.

So as to make my message seem more important than it really is I've added a file of comparisons: