I've done upgrades on 2 laptops recently with exactly the same problem. Windows 8 ran fine, but Windows 10 was absolutely unusable (the newer laptop took about 3 hours from a cold boot to being able to work after logging in). By far the biggest issue was the hard drive. Swapping it from from 5400 rpm disks to SSD/NVMe made a world of difference. On the newer laptop, every time I had to investigate, the problem was Windows Updates doing stuff in the background, but stuff never finished. Slightly less relevant but removing McAfee (installed from Acrobat Reader) helped every time as well.

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You should try Outlook on web. A lot of very basic functionality is still not available.

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Don't worry about it. "They" are already watching you.

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They probably only allow fan mail (at a premium). There is no stern letter option.

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Member 7989122 wrote:

I suppose that in theory, you could write a database server in javascript (but I would never apply for a job on that project!

MongoDB uses json and javascript. Let's just say that coming from a much string RDMS background switching from SQL to javascript is not fun at all.

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Just to throw my 2 cents (or whichever currency you prefer) in as well. I believe you should fix it on the scanning side, but a nice tool with bulk command line options for changing/enhancing/converting images after the fact is Irfanview: [IrfanView - Official Homepage - One of the Most Popular Viewers Worldwide](https://www.irfanview.com/)

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"Normal" versions of Outlook definitely allows this with rules, as can be seen when you accidentally set up the same rule twice.

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I believe they call it "Mexican" over there, not "Spanish". ;P

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Gary R. Wheeler wrote:

include unnecessary features

Sounds like you are saying someone could create a framework for this.

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I see your torch and pitchfork and raise you one Thoughts and Prayers.

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That is a lot of reading. Where is the 30 second YouTube video? ;P

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And the bulk of the business logic must be done in VBA, with no plugins allowed.

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It is probably possible that some UML somewhere will cater for that... Do what I mean, not what I say.

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There is nothing like "let's just quickly do something before starting the next big task" and then half an hour later be so annoyed with what was supposed to be a simple task on a simple web page that you can't even concentrate on your actual work anymore.

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No hipster, we will not be using that lingo here. ;P

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I hated the idea of the fingerprint unlock, but I have to admit that once I started using it (Huawei phone) I found it extremely convenient.

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And to make things even "better"; the IDE hasn't been updated in more than 20 years (as far as I know).

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A lot of us would be very interested in the rant...

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That is a fail of epic proportions. Maybe even worse than the lady who stuck the floppy disk backup to the office fridge with an industrial strength magnet.

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I once got offered a job as a property developer (construction) because my job title states that I'm a Software Developer. Worst of all was that the recruiter could not understand why I couldn't give her a list of the shopping malls I've built in my career (which was 2 years experience at the time).

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