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Offline TG

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Re: Empty bar
« Reply #780 on: March 05, 2008, 07:21:53 PM »
Told you it would be fine.  whistle:
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« Reply #781 on: March 05, 2008, 07:23:50 PM »
No problemo ~ even a Beagle can do it. Who needs geeks anyway?
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Re: Empty bar
« Reply #782 on: March 05, 2008, 07:25:35 PM »
Quote from: Snoopy on March 05, 2008, 07:21:08 PM
No No .... this is the real deal matey. My Vista powered HP thingy is up and running, printer connected, internet connected and the Off Topic is the very first in my "Favourites"  cloud9:


The working class can kiss my arse ..... I've got me new PC going at last. whistle:
Of course...  noooo:
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Re: Empty bar
« Reply #783 on: March 05, 2008, 08:07:29 PM »
Quote from: Snoopy on March 05, 2008, 07:21:08 PM
No No .... this is the real deal matey. My Vista powered HP thingy is up and running,

Alright, who wants to start the 'Vista killed Snoops new PC' sweepstake...  whistle:
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Re: Empty bar
« Reply #784 on: March 05, 2008, 08:09:50 PM »
Oh you doubters. Honest it is working well (So far!!!)
Bugger to install the printer and getting the email up and runnng took time but, touch wood, all is working. I have sent and received emails, found my way here several times and swtched off and on again .... all without any major problems. No smoke coming out of it either.
The only worry is that it is so quiet that I can hear the wall clock ticking ..... and that is a very new experience.
Even with a Disk in I can't hear it running and have to keep checking that installation disks are in and going round.
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Re: Empty bar
« Reply #785 on: March 05, 2008, 08:10:40 PM »
 whistle:
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Re: Empty bar
« Reply #786 on: March 05, 2008, 08:15:40 PM »
I know ...... give it time and I'll be cursing it but so far so good.  ;D



Well I think I'll do a bt of surfing now.
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Re: Empty bar
« Reply #787 on: March 05, 2008, 08:16:41 PM »
Quote from: Snoopy on March 05, 2008, 08:15:40 PM
I know ...... give it time and I'll be cursing it but so far so good.  ;D



Well I think I'll do a bt of surfing now.
Good for you!  ;)
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Re: Empty bar
« Reply #788 on: March 05, 2008, 09:13:17 PM »
Well that seemed to work OK ..... I've annoyed a few people I 'spect.

Now tell me all about this SKYPE thingy that I now seem to have. What do I need to do?
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Re: Empty bar
« Reply #789 on: March 05, 2008, 09:19:11 PM »
 rubschin: Seem to be talking to myself .......... time for some more pills then.

CU all in the morning.

I've got a brand new working copy of Vista  whistle:
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Re: Empty bar
« Reply #790 on: March 05, 2008, 09:21:05 PM »
Quote from: Snoopy on March 05, 2008, 09:13:17 PM
Well that seemed to work OK ..... I've annoyed a few people I 'spect.

Now tell me all about this SKYPE thingy that I now seem to have. What do I need to do?
Antibiotics should sort it out for you
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Re: Empty bar
« Reply #791 on: March 05, 2008, 10:12:59 PM »
Don't worry, uncle Bill Gates is watching every letter you type and will send through updates - whether you like it or not - and it will eventually run like a crippled snail and adding any non-Microsoft approved software will fail haplesessly.

If you choose Google at any stage, you are a dead Beagle.

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Re: Empty bar
« Reply #792 on: March 06, 2008, 05:43:17 AM »
Quote from: Snoopy on March 05, 2008, 09:19:11 PM
rubschin: Seem to be talking to myself .......... time for some more pills then.

CU all in the morning.

I've got a brand new working copy of Vista  whistle:
happ096

To be honest I quite liked it at first… cloud9:

It found all my peripherals including old printers and scanners and loaded appropriate drivers for them – finding them on the Interweb where necessary.  8)

The thing is though is it very security conscious and it annoyingly asks you ‘if you are sure?’ when you want to make simple changes to the system setup that it has chosen for you.  Also, being an administrator is not enough for some tasks – you have to switch off ‘file protection’ or whatever and then it continually warns you that ‘file protection’ is switched off…  cussing:

But the thing that finished it for me was the networking – I could connect my PC to a shared drive that we backup and keep all our data on but when I restarted the PC the next morning it decided that it wasn’t safe to share the drive with somebody else and so disconnected it… every day.  Banghead

Then the updates started…  noooo:
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Re: Empty bar
« Reply #793 on: March 06, 2008, 08:45:15 AM »
As I was reading your deathless prose the screen went black and a message said xxxxxx has stopped and restarted and then the screen came back on  eeek:
I have to put xxxxxx because the message was not up long enough for me to read and make sense of what ever had stopped and restarted.
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Re: Empty bar
« Reply #794 on: March 06, 2008, 09:00:40 AM »
I begin to see what you mean ............. 47 updates have just happened all marked IMPORTANT  rubschin:

It also got very grumpy when I uninstalled the "Free 60 day trial" of Norton anti virus and installed AVG instead.
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