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<blockquote data-quote="gorblimey" data-source="post: 1070722" data-attributes="member: 65556">Hi Dan, long time no see.Just a couple of points - the main one being the app-base development.&nbsp; I&#039;m one of the multitude who see no reason to move down to W10+++ (and very many of those are corporate!) from the heights* of Win7 which is not familiar with &quot;apps&quot;.&nbsp; Desktop PCs don&#039;t seem to tolerate &quot;apps&quot;, at least from what I&#039;ve seen on my daughter&#039;s W10 lappy which -- really!!! -- has TWO Outlooks, one an actual program in Program Files and also a well-concealed app which I had to hunt down like I was in WinBadXP to get VS to see it!* There was Win2K which was perfection incarnate, then the crazies in MS seized power, before the counter-revolution which granted us Win7 (nearly perfect).The other point is one you mentioned about fixing the light mode display.&nbsp; I have just upgraded to 7.63, and the light mode is catastrophic in the true MS fashion, blinding white backgrounds and black wording.&nbsp; It would be worth replacing the text backgrounds with maybe 243,254,211 (light parchment) and 0,51,0 (easy-on-the-eye font colour) just as a start.&nbsp; Actually, all the black bits could be replaced with 0,51,0 or similar, it is just easier on the eyes.&nbsp; I use the Windows Classic desktop so this is easy for me if the program allows it, but it doesn&#039;t, so...... Aaaand, the alert bar <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite111" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" />&nbsp; It took me a while to get past the Dark Mode and see the options, NOT helped by sitting just above my task-bar AND merging with the Dark Mode of the CL display.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="gorblimey, post: 1070722, member: 65556"] Hi Dan, long time no see. Just a couple of points - the main one being the app-base development. I'm one of the multitude who see no reason to move down to W10+++ (and very many of those are corporate!) from the heights* of Win7 which is not familiar with "apps". Desktop PCs don't seem to tolerate "apps", at least from what I've seen on my daughter's W10 lappy which -- really!!! -- has TWO Outlooks, one an actual program in Program Files and also a well-concealed app which I had to hunt down like I was in WinBadXP to get VS to see it! * There was Win2K which was perfection incarnate, then the crazies in MS seized power, before the counter-revolution which granted us Win7 (nearly perfect). The other point is one you mentioned about fixing the light mode display. I have just upgraded to 7.63, and the light mode is catastrophic in the true MS fashion, blinding white backgrounds and black wording. It would be worth replacing the text backgrounds with maybe 243,254,211 (light parchment) and 0,51,0 (easy-on-the-eye font colour) just as a start. Actually, all the black bits could be replaced with 0,51,0 or similar, it is just easier on the eyes. I use the Windows Classic desktop so this is easy for me if the program allows it, but it doesn't, so... ... Aaaand, the alert bar :( It took me a while to get past the Dark Mode and see the options, NOT helped by sitting just above my task-bar AND merging with the Dark Mode of the CL display. [/QUOTE]

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