Why I Started Ordinary Windows User

Welcome to Ordinary Windows User!

I'll confess that when I was putting together my syndicate of Technology and Information Technology blogs... "Ordinary Windows" wasn't among my list of subjects that "needed explaining" from the perspective of an "Ordinary User".

But then again... Microsoft Windows has gotten complex... horribly complex.

Consider the job that the Operating System of a computer is supposed to do... it's supposed to support the Applications. Handle the disk input/output; the file system; interaction between the video and other peripherals. But along the way, the OS, at least Windows, became an application unto itself, and one that has gotten steadily more complex. You don't have an option but to deal with Windows in your use of a computer.

Not just complex to use... but, increasingly, complex to keep running! That's the really irritating part; you practically have to have medium-grade Information Technology skills to keep a Windows system running.

What I plan to discuss here in Ordinary Windows User is the mundane, basic stuff to keep Windows up and running as a user, not as an advanced IT geek.

I hope you'll find it interesting reading. Please feel free to send me email.

By Steve Stroh

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