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Ok, so evidently the solid state drive in my refurbished Dell Latitude committed electronic suicide. Nice, so much for reliability. Settled on a new Dell Inspiron 5000 series with 17" screen. It's finally scheduled to get here today since it had to be built in "Asia" (I assume that means China). Ordered it 2/28....No one said it was a non-stock unit, ugh. Living with this tablet has raised my blood pressure to new levels to say the least. Ok, enough rambling, what should I study the most to learn this new OS? I'm coming from Win7 pro 64 bit, new one is Win10 pro 64. My main thing is file management and want to avoid the common Winders habit of just loading files whimsically where ever it wants. I hate digging for things. Got several dvds worth of valuable manuals and parts lists I'll have to load and organize, some of this stuff was saved from Win95 in the early pdf versions. Tons of old photos and videos as well. Is there a simplified way to force the OS to other than default settings when choosing file paths? Is the built-in tutorial worth the time? I also need to keep in mind that down the road I want to have a separate external drive for doing backups instead of having to burn a ton of disks that could get lost or damaged. I still cannot find 2 dvds that have all of our early digital photos, trying to avoid that problem ever happening again. I will not use Windows Explorer as a browser - I've hated it since day one. I use Firefox and never store passwords or cookies, hoping it will run smoothly on the new OS...? I prefer their platform and being less intrusive as a browser, not to mention the great plugins available. Any insight from anyone that uses it ? I hope my eyes clear up and start working correctly again, had testing yesterday and the drops they used still burn and cause blurring. Not really happy about that and hopefully the new prescription works. Stupid glasses were almost $750, most of that being the lenses but the grind requires a higher level of lab work than most folks wear. Not looking forward to learning a new OS, but might as well make the move now since support for Win7 will end sooner or later. Appreciate any advice on proper ways to run it for what I need, I'm sure there will be a learning curve. Sarge
