I needed to buy a new PC and it came with Windows 10, which I abhorred. So I asked my pet professional to install Windows 7 on it. I don't know about Windows 10, but in the older setup one simply goes into "Gadgets", selects the clock and clicks to install:
He also mentions that I used to display a clock by my blog's header and it has disappeared. I had not noticed! But Blogger has done some curious stuff recently and I shall need to go back and consult the HMTL of my older blogs to see what's up.
Meanwhile has anyone any ideas why this should have happened?
7 comments:
Some of the Blogger gadgets need Flash Player to work and this may not be added to your browser. I use Google Chrome and in order to get the Blog gadgets to work I had to add Flash as an extension to Chrome. Hope this helps.
Thanks, Dave. I will investigate.
I truly abhorred Window 8 and both VR and I have stuck with Windows 7 for more than a decade. However, hag-ridden by the possibility of a collapsing hard drive on my elderly desktop PC, I am acquiring a new PC, spec'd by Ian, my grandson, who was staying with us. I had resisted Windows 10 because there were apparent similarities with the dreaded Windows 8 but Ian supported a view held by a number of my acquaintances - without exception - that Window 10 was in fact OK. More than that, it was still possible to replace Windows 7 with Windows 10 for free.
Since my new PC will come with Windows 10 I decided to try out 10 on my old PC. I freely confess there have been problems with 10, not least in its defective version of email which Microsoft has steadfastly refused to correct despite huge choruses of moans in various forums. Ian subverted this by reinstalling LiveMail from Windows 7. Obviously there are significant differences with 10 and some irritating omissions (no Gadgets for instance). But I decided to persist and gradually the benefits of 10 are accruing.
But the fact is the IT world has changed since I last bought a computer and/or any major software. The pernicious system of "subscription" software has arrived. That and/or a reduction in the availability of free ad-free packages might just explain why the clock disappeared from Avus's blog.
Thanks for your response, Dave. I found out I have Flash and it is working. Google Chrome is, however, problematic. I have installed and uninstalled it half a dozen times in Windows 7 despite its vaunted advantages. The problem - inexplicable to all - is that it seems to interact unfavourably with Blogspot, another Google product! And I have blogged since 2008. I may try it yet again with Windows 10.
I did manage to find an ad-free analog clock-face (digital clocks are two a penny) and managed to install it with Screensaver. There it enjoys a fluttering impermanent life, useless to me. Today I may have another go at lodging it permanently on desktop.
Avus: Sorry about creating this triangular dialogue in your comments column. I turned to you because I knew you are (it turns out were) a user of digital clock-faces. And now, like snow upon the desert's dusty face...
RR:
So, (as all the political TV commentators seem to prefix their answers) you are another victim of Microsoft's continued and unnecessary upgrades. I found my printer and scanner would not work with 10 and their "solution" was to buy a new one! Hence one reason for going back to 7.
Bill Gates has the world in his hands and still refuses to pay proper UK taxes on his stuff.
Sounds as if you've caught the acerbity I am said to suffer from.
Windows 10 was far from being an unnecessary upgrade, without it MS would have gone bust. Windows 8, which attempted to make PCs look like smart-phones, was one of the greatest disasters in MS's history. And I can personally testify why. VR bought a laptop with 8 loaded. I tried to make sense of it but what can you say about an OS that didn't appear to let the user keep two (or more) windows open simultaneously? Wasn't that simultaneity the whole point of inventing Windows in the first place? I quickly had Windows 8 removed from VR's laptop, and replaced with 7. I had been using 7 myself and continued to do for several years.
But I'm buying a new PC, with faster this and that. Mainly because I worry about the durability of my present processor and hard drive, both of which have been used intensively for a long time. Neither could be realistically replaced since I'd also need a new motherboard. Over the years I've heard good things about 10 from geeks I trust. It makes sense to have an up-to-date OS with an up-to-date PC simply because computer technology evolves and there's likely to be a better fit. So I tried Windows 10 on my old PC. It cost me nothing, the exchange download is free. And gradually I'm learning 10's virtues. Since that previous comment I've discovered that 10 does have Gadgets; however, 10's Search facility takes a lot of getting used to
I question hanging on to an old printer/scanner. A new one would cost peanuts and could - in any case - be given away free. Printer economics is based solely on the cost of the cartridges and that's a real scandal.
I'm amused about your choice of "victim", suggesting I'm a passive follower of big brands. I might ask why you were driven towards that Mercedes (big brand; high cost) and which proved to be such a disappointment. Did you ever consider replacing the driver's seat by the way, since that seemed to be the source of much of the grief?
RR:
Yes, I did look into replacing the driver's seat on that Merc. of bitter memory. However the cost was, to me, astronomical. By then I was heartily sick of it and got rid of the thing. Back to my comfortable and reliable SAABs.
I think I've found out why the clock-face disappeared from your blog. Such giveaways were found to be vulnerable to hackers, providing a "back door" to the secret workings of your computer and exposing such things as passwords. They were abruptly withdrawn. What surprises me is that digital clocks (not half as "immediate" to me as the analogue variety) are still available.
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