But I’ve listened to Boston public radio ever since Robert J. Lurtsema did “Morning Pro Musica”.
(Or was it “Musings Pro Morningca with Robert J. Lurtsema”?)
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A search on Radio stream URL search engine reveals that the URL for WCRB 99.5 Classical Radio Boston | NPR’s streaming radio URL is https://streams.audio.wgbh.org/BostonEarlyMusic-8112
I upgraded to Windows 11. Don’t ask me why, I don’t want to talk about it.
I was surprised at how quick and easy it was to update. I was really worried I was going to have to treat it like a new OS install but it behaves just like a normal Windows update, everything is right where I left it and everything works just as it was. Except, of course, for the things that Windows11 just doesn’t do, or does differently.
On that note, I use primarily Firefox and I have several windows open. When Firefox starts, it opens the windows in a random order and it drives me crazy. Does anyone know how I can reorder these windows? On Win10 I was using 7+ Taskbar Tweaker, but it doesn’t work with Win11.
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We created groups in the menu area with certain links within each group.
We set FireFox to open in a blank page.
Then we right click the group of links we want open and select open all.
It will ask if you want to open them all so you select yes.
The order you have them in will be the order the tabs open.
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Too late to edit, I found an app that lets me reorder the windows.
If anyone is interested, I’m using Windhawk. It has a number of other taskbar customizing options as well.
This orders your tabs or your windows? I’m not really sure what you are suggesting.
Each window has between 5 and 50 tabs, and many of them are temporary (only need them for a few hours to a few days).
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Opens the bookmarks into individual tabs set in the order the bookmarks are saved inside the group.
If we want a second window, we would have to open a second window and then could select a different group of bookmarks to open into tabs in that window.
Our main group has 17 bookmarks that open in the order of the group (top to bottom). These would be our Amazon selling account, website back end, USPS tracking, etc … sites that support the business workflow.
We don’t use a second window but do open a window of Chrome browser which we also have groups of bookmarks that we can open in order in Chrome (since we use gmail … this is how we open our different email accounts along with our personal Amazon account and Facebook).
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The order of my tabs is not an issue. Firefox doesn’t reorder the tabs within the windows, and they can easily be reordered. Some tabs can be bookmarked, but many of them I don’t want to. For example, one window is just youtube videos of music I want to listen to. There are about 80 tabs open right now, and most of them I will listen to once and then close. I’m not interested in bookmarking all of them, grouping them, then unbookmarking them as I go. I just want to be able to reorder the windows on the taskbar. The app I found works well enough, though, so I’m good for now… I just don’t understand why such a simple thing isn’t native to Windows already.
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Only control on task bar within windows 11 is
Settings / Personalization / Taskbar
You can control some behavior.
The task bar order can be reordered by left clicking mouse and dragging the item to the position you want. However, if you have multiple windows open of any one program (Excel, Word, Firefox etc), the order that the windows are opened is the order in which you opened the windows (example - in the image the open excel items are in the order of being opened).
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Everything you say is true. The issue is that when restoring a session in FF with multiple windows, the windows open in random order not the order they were opened, and then they cannot be reordered which bothers me.
Cause I’m like that.
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Exactly this, for so many things. Are they incompetent, are they evil, or are they so distracted by big shiny things that they forget the little routine things? These are the only options.
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All of the above. There’s a reason we have no windoze desktops in our place. After 30 years as a systems engineer I have learned a few things. 
-Ana
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Windows was never meant for people like you. It’s meant for people like me who just want it to turn on and run my games word processor and easily connect to a printer and for all the taskbar icons to be the same size.
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OK. you got me on gaming, but that is changing since Steam was ported to Linux. My TV box is a Linux box, and everything else is Mac, because it “just works” and because I can easily get under the hood if I want right to the command line. MacOS is based on Unix so it easily integrates with stuff I have. That being said, you don’t have to be technical at all to run a Mac, but your gaming choices would be limited. Other than that, everything else “just works”, like printing labels, browsing, etc. and there isn’t much software that doesn’t have a Mac version now. Funny thing is we all run Android phones here as I don’t like iPhones at all. Other operating systems have come a long way in recent years. Several years ago I built a Linux box for my elderly parents, and they had zero issues using it for all the normal stuff, basically browsing, email, printing stuff, etc.
The big problem with Windoze is there are millions of lines of code in the OS that no one knows anything about anymore since they have never removed stuff from back to Windows 3.1. The developers have to work over top of that old code base and hope nothing breaks. We won’t even talk about “testing in production” - think service packs.
BTW, sounds like you are as anal as I am about your desktop - nothing wrong with that at all.
-Ana
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If I say “raspberry pi” does that mean something to you @Best_Handmade_Soaps? 
Ah, yes, the wonderful World of Patching.
The bane of Enterprise Domain sysadmins the world over - AND the model for Amazon’s laughingly-cobbled gobbledygook.
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Ha! I was going to bring up the similarities between the two, only Micro$oft has been doing it waaaay longer than Amazon, which would explain why there are so many issues. As usual, another “nail meets hammer” point made!
-Ana
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1Soft To Rule Them All.
1Soft To Find Them.
1Soft To Bring Them ALL -
And In The BRIGHTNESS, Bind Them.
Amazon has had many corporate mottoes over its time in flowing The River.
µSoft has only that.
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A few more tips & tricks that I recently implemented upon upgrading to a new laptop:
For those who like to keep their Windows Explorer lean
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One last trick: the new Prt Sc multiple options (instead of just capturing the whole screen) was making me waste plenty of time. Some people might like the new way better, but for those who preferred the quick full screen capture, here’s how to change it:
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I use lightshot, once I turned off the option to have prntscrn default to the Windows snipper tool it mapped back to lightshot and I was happy again.
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