I ticked everything to OFF except the one that only gives you options to full or Basic I ticked it to Basic. I use ABP as an add blocker and I do not use Cortana and have her gone in my lap top but with the new windows 10 upgrade she came back on my tablet. I have not bothered yet to remove her. not sure I can.

I think it is Open OFFICE you want to down load for the office program not Open Word. It is a free office program.

thx shades! yes, Open Office is it. the laptop has One note or something like that on it but it has no adjustments with it. no type size change etc. I use that a lot when something is in tiny print to enlarge it so I can read it... I think she'll use it also. but the whole office 365 (which I have now until next April or so) is way more than I'll ever use. I'll probably end up downloading Open Office for myself next spring.

next time that pop up from MS comes up I'll review what they're wanting to access and be vicious cutting them out of my computer life. They need to mind their own business.

I think Cortana will come in handy, but she doesn't need to 'get to know me' better. just answer a straight question if I ask one...

I do not want or need Cortana in my machine in any way. Old school I guess. I know how to use Google when I have a question.

I do not use One Note either. I do use sticky notes or did for hubbies doctor appointments. Or now if I need a reminder to do some thing.

You can go ahead and put open office on now. Use them both until your 365 expires. That isn't an auto renewal, is it? Better check or you'll be paying for another year. Libre office is another free one. https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download/ 

Imhappy - thx for posting the option. no, it's not auto renewal. They don't have a good card # for me.

oops. I clicked on the link in your post and it says the page isn't found.

I'll search it out and save it or i'll forget what it is by the time I decide to do a DL.

shades - I'll have to check out how sticky notes works. I have tried that yet.

Steph they are just like post it notes you buy on a pad in paper form. Only not paper but digital and you stick them to your desk top. A fairly nice feature for some one like me that needs a reminder. when you are done with the note just click the X in the right corner and it is gone. some times I make my TO DO liss on them for the day. Most times I still use a piece of paper because I forget I have the sticky notes to work with.

I forget I have the sticky notes to work with

that's probably what I'd do also. and / or forget to move my browser to look at the desk top.

and just about a month ago, I broke down and bought some paper sticky notes! I should just hang up a board on my wall and stick 'em there...

I wonder how long it'd take me to remember the board is there with notes on it... lol! the sticky notes I bought, I put in a drawer and had already forgotten that I bought them - until your post on the win 10 ones.

shades, do you ever lose your browser? mine disappears - that's MEdge. then I have a huge white square on my screen - or 2. I can click on ME (on the far left side - start list), but it doesn't pop up.

I did a DL of Chrome, but can't find it listed anywhere either.

have I ever mentioned that I hate Win 10?

why does my computer show no browsing history - after 4 months or so on it?

it says 'history' will show up after I visit some websites. Where has my computer been these past few months? on vacation? I'm in and out of sites every day!

do I need to search / open sites I normally use again in chrome so it recognizes it? it says something about it - but I can't figure it out. it has a pic of it but it's so blurry I can't tell anything from it.

I did find Chrome listed under 'start'. still don't know how to use it tho. I'll attempt to open a few tabs and save under favorites.

Steph I do not use MEdge..I have never lost my Chrome browser unless I accidentally clicked it off when I just meant to click down a tab. I pinned chrome icon to my task bar so it is always handy but they also put one on your desktop you should be ale to find. Finding Chrome under Start just needs to be clicked on. then right click the icon when it comes up in your task bar and pin it from the choices in the pop up window. I actually love windows 10. Not really having any problems with it. Other than my own operator error issues some times. you might have your history set to dump every time you close your browser. It is a setting but since I do not use Edge I can not tell you where it is. Maybe relax a little on all of it and not fight it. It might become easier for you.

click the icon when it comes up in your task bar and pin

I'll attempt to do this. I finally got it up and opened Hulu using it. haven't had the problems watching hulu since watching it on Chrome. it was always freezing up with Win 10.

I'll check out my settings for history.

I've been pretty sick since mid week after my last eye appt. I was feeling pretty good taking the meds he had me on (they evidently knocked the inflammation in my body on it's butt) - but they ran out and it's been downhill for me since then. I've ordered some herb / natural things that do the same - at least until I get into my primary doc. But, I know the meds aren't something he'll probably give me a script for. it's not something a people should be taking. can lead to even worse things - and addiction. But, I had been feeling more like the old me (pre my sick days).

today I went out to do 4 errands, before I was out the driveway, I knocked that down to 3. ended up doing 2 of them. will try to do the other 2 tomorrow. and I had to write a paper list for those 4 things or I knew I wouldn't remember them. i'm weak and shaky and my back is in pain - so i'm lying down a lot. started watching this show called Bones that I like but Hulu only had 2 seasons of it. I think it ran 12 seasons, so I need to find the first 10 of them.

i'm going to try using Chrome for some of the other things I do online - it seems very basic to me.

I knew something about the pasting things to the taskbar but it didn't click in my mind to do that. i'm going to give it a whirl so I can toggle between them if need be.

Off to paste Chrome in place and check my history setting.

to DL libreoffice, do I click on the windows option with the '64' at the end or without the '64'?

this stuff so confuses me!

If you are not seeing a list of sites visited under your history, as you said check your history settings. It might be set to delete history after exiting a site. You should have an option to select how long you want to keep your history.

zorro - thx. I finally found it. it's 'under' what I only knew as how to get to my favorites - seems there's 3 other options there and 1 is history. and there's a bunch out there.

shades - my ME browser often disappears... it usually comes back in a second or 2. those 'tiles' that come on Win 10 disappeared for a time too. I noticed today, they're back. I hope they had a nice trip, wherever they went.

last week my 'start' button didn't work, nor did the sound bar for my audio. they'd been hammering me to update and I kept putting it off. they caught me unaware one day while I napped in the afternoon and zapped it - update! and presto, the start button and audio bar both worked. hmmmm....

anyone know the difference in downloading something for Windows 86x

vs for Windows 86x_64 ?

those are my options to DL libreoffice.

libreoffice

thx nancy! I would think Win10 is 64 bit. but then, this win10 is a disaster to me. I'll go to settings and double check before I DL the wrong thing. goodness knows what a mess that could make!

you should post more. how are things going for you these days?

or are you posting on the decorating thread? I haven't checked it in a very long time. guess I should do that!