Computer Advice Please

I do actually think that they are a massive distraction to productivity - but can help too. It's a balance and discipline issue.
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Err without them production could not take place given that they drive it.
Most businesses I come across including ours, couldn’t function without them FACT.
We have PC' on every desk top (hundreds), IPads for every salesman and everything is driven by numbers and stored on huge servers, whether it be financial, Sales, Production you name it, every fact, figure, full stop and capital letter is analysed by someone on a PC, if we don't then our competitors will and we will fail....end of matter.
(Awaits the "well how did we manage before them" ********)
Well the world has changed and it doesn’t matter whether it’s for the better or worse, we do things differently today and you cannot compare it with 10 years ago never mind 20.

I know quite a few old people who fight the little beige box and get scared pressing delete.

Like it or not, we are a computer driven culture.

As for a distraction…well that’s because managers aren’t managing their staff effectively, they should nip any “distraction” in the bud.

Anyway this isn’t about the legitimacy of the PC in our modern world so I digress
 
Steve, I can use a PC for the basic things like internet searching, ebay, emails. I can load and remove application sofware and have done so to speed this PC up after advice from others on what to use.

So it's ok now but attachments which used to open with a click don't anymore, that was my query. I'll look in the 'Chrome' menus and see if I need to 'set' something.


Anyway can anybody answer this:

When I get an email attachment I click on it and it gives me a blank screen, if I drag the window to the very top of the screen I can see a filename in the very bottom left and if I click on it something like 'Downloader' appears and then I get asked what I want to open it with.

Now surely that should be automatic on a modern PC?


Footnote: yes I know industry relies on computers and they are fantastic tools. However we have got to the stage where the vast majority of people spend their working lives looking at a screen all day. I find that a bit sad and it was one reason why I took the opportunity to retire when I did.
 
Is this in Outlook or some web based email?

If the download window that comes up is the usual Windows one you can choose the program you want to use for that filetype and check the 'Always use selected program' box, so that type of file will be opened automatically next time.
 
I don't know whether this is related to your problem Rob but i've had to uninstall Chrome because of printing problems ( lots of complaints and info on Google searches)
 
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