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[Bobw1951]

And the first Kangxin Flask hits the classies.
AECC about 15 mins ago.

Did you pay any customs charges Bob?This guy reckons in his ad he had it to pay.

I ddin't but the Kangxin ones came via DHL and did not have a reduced price on the customs form so they ended up paying for it I believe the first couple that came through got away with it, but then Kangxin told the girl they were dealing with that she couldn't put a lower price on the form.

 

[Bobw1951]

Thank heavens for that, I thought you were going to say they'd stopped supporting vista

I'm completely computer illiterate, what's a reformat ?

April 2017 Vince, so you're okay for a couple of years

When you install the operating system by formatting the C:\drive completely (you should never keep data on C

 

[Bobw1951]

Think it's more to do with the Statute of Rhuddlan Bob,where areas of Wales adopted English common law.Doesn't mean they where actually in England.

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That was it, knew it was summat to do wiv England and English law

 

[Davantrac]

Yes, I totally wipe everything of the hard drive and start again from fresh. All my personal files are stored on separate drives like data, music, movies and pictures and all my program's that I install.
I reinstall windows from a USB stick then reinstall my program's as I need them. It's gives a nearly new PC for a few months till overload it or crash it depending on what I'm doing. Sometimes a get a few months sometimes a couple of years before I rebuild and start again.

 

[Pictor]

Those thinking about Windows versions should keep in mind that Windows 10 will be free of charge if you're running Windows 8. Nice!

I have Win 7 on the broken down desktop, but the Lappy is fairly new so had Win 8 (or is it Win Hate) on it.

From what I've read earlier today in a newsletter, W10 will be free for a year or more for 8 users initially, and 7 later.

I hope to if I can find a decent repair shop, I have a shop just round the corner but I wouldn't trust him to repair this one. Think it needs a new CPU, heatsink and possibly the fan (liquid cooled) replacing, so might be a couple of hundred squids. will have to go googling, it's quite a heavy monster as well, so has to be within a quick taxi ride as well

Not something you could fix yourself? If you need any unbiased help or info, go here Windows Issues :: think broadband There's plenty of knowledgeable computer people there, and they're very friendly.
If it's not something you could do yourself, there may be one or two that would know of a reliable repairer.

and if you have Win 7 as well, and the Classic Shell I installed is already compatible with the latest beta version of Win 10

The company I buy my computers from are testing it, and just a couple of weeks ago, he told me there's things to iron out, but it should be better by the time it gets released.

They have only just stopped win 98 support. They tell you they're gonna stop supporting win 7 so you will buy the new version.
I haven't bought win 7 just downloaded a copy and it works exactly as it should. If they design naked windows with no media player, games, IE, and mail program I would probably buy but I don't want their program's forced on me or left unused taken up space.
I'm the same with mobile phones. Every network forces their own program's on to it, not for me. Root them and take it all off or install new software as small as possible.

I do resent the way we're forced to stop using old O/S's - we bought them, so should be able to use them for as long as they suit our needs. Hardly things costing a few £'s, so like decent electronics items, you expect spares/service to be available for many years. In the newsletter I got today, these words struck a chord:

Microsoft wants all Windows devices to run its new cross-platform operating system, including even game consoles and its latest augmented reality headset. The recently unveiled early version of Windows 10 is its latest attempt to bridge the gap between desktop and mobile operating systems. The new platform for phones, tablets and PCs will be available free for at least a year for anyone upgrading from Windows 8.1 and later on for those using Windows 7. At the last count, less than one tenth of the world's desktops were running Windows 8.1. More than half were on Windows 7 and almost a quarter were still getting along quite happily, thanks all the same, with Windows XP.

So they do want everything running on the same system to suit their own agenda, and those statistics prove that many are reluctant to take up such as W8.

I changed away from vista only because I was ready to do a reformat which I do now and then so I get a perfectly clean system, and my brother had been using win7 for a while and recommended it. Just wish it was an operating system with no program's added.

Which programmes Dave? I don't recall there being much on mine when I got it.

 

[Davantrac]

I don't like media player or internet explorer and they are embedded into the system, but I use vlc media player, and Firefox or chrome or opera depending how I feel. For mail I use a program called mail washer from which I can read all mail or delete it or even send it back unopened even though it has been read.
Then from there it's just personal program's for my own hobbies and like media downloading and converting.

 

[trouble1000]

Could have been worse,could have been a trouser pocket 8-o

It wouldn't look out of place though on some of the bus routes I drive

Shame about the leak ...hope you enjoy the stew ...I've never eaten rabbit

I think I've got rid of the worst of it. Pre-treated it with some detergent and gave it a good scrub with a clean sponge, barely noticeable now

The rabbit was lovely. In the stew, I know everyone says this, but it did taste like chicken. But much richer and flavoursome than even free range chicken. It did have the same sort of texture though.

 

[trouble1000]

I don't like media player or internet explorer and they are embedded into the system, but I use vlc media player, and Firefox or chrome or opera depending how I feel. For mail I use a program called mail washer from which I can read all mail or delete it or even send it back unopened even though it has been read.
Then from there it's just personal program's for my own hobbies and like media downloading and converting.

I hate it when you buy a new phone and it's full of pre-installed apps that you can't just simply delete. My last phone had that many of them, by the time I'd loaded up my phonebook, a couple of games and about 10 music tracks it was full

 

[Davantrac]

I think every phone you buy now has Facebook and Twitter installed and I've never ever used twitter.

 

[terry w]

It wouldn't look out of place though on some of the bus routes I drive



I think I've got rid of the worst of it. Pre-treated it with some detergent and gave it a good scrub with a clean sponge, barely noticeable now

The rabbit was lovely. In the stew, I know everyone says this, but it did taste like chicken. But much richer and flavoursome than even free range chicken. It did have the same sort of texture though.

I`ve not had rabbit for years now ! Grandma used to make stew religiously every saturday for me and my brothers. We used to love it.

 

[trouble1000]

I think every phone you buy now has Facebook and Twitter installed and I've never ever used twitter.

Yep you're right mate. Even the cheapo basic one the Wife got has Facebook on it. I've used Twitter on the lappy in the past, but got bored of it - don't bother with either on my phone though.

 

[trouble1000]

I`ve not had rabbit for years now ! Grandma used to make stew religiously every saturday for me and my brothers. We used to love it.

It's the first time I've had it in a stew, bloody lovely mate

Just got the Venison, Ostrich etc to try now that we got from the new Iceland warehouse. I'll be having rabbit again though, really enjoyed it.

 

[terry w]

I hate it when you buy a new phone and it's full of pre-installed apps that you can't just simply delete. My last phone had that many of them, by the time I'd loaded up my phonebook, a couple of games and about 10 music tracks it was full

On the phone i have now sammy s3, i just need to go to the applications manager, and from there i can uninstall any programmes i don`t want ! Which is good cos there is stuff there which doesn`t get used.

 

[terry w]

It's the first time I've had it in a stew, bloody lovely mate

Just got the Venison, Ostrich etc to try now that we got from the new Iceland warehouse. I'll be having rabbit again though, really enjoyed it.

Yeah, it`s a very rich meat isn`t it ! Hare is very nice too Ian, a lovely dark gamey meat. Next time we do an iceland shop we are going to try a couple of the new meats out. Like the idea of the wild boar sausages, ostrich, venison. Don`t think we`ll bother with the crocodile steaks though

 

[trouble1000]

On the phone i have now sammy s3, i just need to go to the applications manager, and from there i can uninstall any programmes i don`t want ! Which is good cos there is stuff there which doesn`t get used.

There's quite a few phones where you just can't delete them though mate, unless you do as Dave says and root them. The one I've got now is like this, it's got loads of spare memory though, so it's not a problem. My last phone was tiny, both in size and memory.

 

[Davantrac]

On the phone i have now sammy s3, i just need to go to the applications manager, and from there i can uninstall any programmes i don`t want ! Which is good cos there is stuff there which doesn`t get used.

That makes a change, normally the program's are embedded and you can only un install the ones you install yourself.

I just bought the wife a new one for her birthday installed her SIM card and in the phone book on the phone it comes up "myself" and the number. It automatically does this. Sounds good but the problem is I bought her another sim for the number, got the PAC code and got the number transferred to her sim ( she now has a fancy number) but the phone his telling her that her number is the original one supplied on her sim. This cannot be changed or altered. But the phone is still littered with sonys own software that have had added to the basic android kit Kat system.

 

[trouble1000]

Yeah, it`s a very rich meat isn`t it ! Hare is very nice too Ian, a lovely dark gamey meat. Next time we do an iceland shop we are going to try a couple of the new meats out. Like the idea of the wild boar sausages, ostrich, venison. Don`t think we`ll bother with the crocodile steaks though

The Venison is the dearest out of all of them mate, think we paid about 7 quid a pack. But as a treat, if we like it, it's worth it. I'm not a fan of any fatty meat - that's why I cremate the bacon Remember seeing Venison on a programme not so long back, they said it's one of the leanest red meats available, so that's why I wanted to try it

 

[Pictor]

I don't like media player or internet explorer and they are embedded into the system, but I use vlc media player, and Firefox or chrome or opera depending how I feel. For mail I use a program called mail washer from which I can read all mail or delete it or even send it back unopened even though it has been read.
Then from there it's just personal program's for my own hobbies and like media downloading and converting.

Right - I very rarely use media player type things, but I do use IE. Still using Outlook too - although I preferred OE.

I think I've got rid of the worst of it. Pre-treated it with some detergent and gave it a good scrub with a clean sponge, barely noticeable now

The rabbit was lovely. In the stew, I know everyone says this, but it did taste like chicken. But much richer and flavoursome than even free range chicken. It did have the same sort of texture though.

I think I grew up not wanting to eat rabbit ..seeing them hanging outside butchers just made me feel sad ...then my mother in law plonked a plate in front of me, only telling me what it was as I was about to eat it - I couldn't!
I feel pretty sure that if things weren't presented ready to cook these days, I'd likely be vegetarian - don't even like fish with faces!

I hate it when you buy a new phone and it's full of pre-installed apps that you can't just simply delete. My last phone had that many of them, by the time I'd loaded up my phonebook, a couple of games and about 10 music tracks it was full

Wasn't that one of the reasons people were complaining about iPhones recently ..the stuff that was already loaded on them?

I think every phone you buy now has Facebook and Twitter installed and I've never ever used twitter.

I rarely use my mobile, but think when I got it I deleted the little tiles - no doubt still in there somewhere!

 

[terry w]

The Venison is the dearest out of all of them mate, think we paid about 7 quid a pack. But as a treat, if we like it, it's worth it. I'm not a fan of any fatty meat - that's why I cremate the bacon Remember seeing Venison on a programme not so long back, they said it's one of the leanest red meats available, so that's why I wanted to try it

WHAT !!! 7 quid a bleeding pack. Are they fillet steaks ? should be for that sort of cash !

 

[trouble1000]

I think I grew up not wanting to eat rabbit ..seeing them hanging outside butchers just made me feel sad ...then my mother in law plonked a plate in front of me, only telling me what it was as I was about to eat it - I couldn't!
I feel pretty sure that if things weren't presented ready to cook these days, I'd likely be vegetarian - don't even like fish with faces!

The stuff we got was just rabbit fillets - looks just like a piece of steak really, but not a trace of any fat at all. Chop it up and as soon as you start to brown it in a little olive oil it turns the colour chicken does when you fry it. The face bit doesn't really bother me, it's just seeing meat covered in fat that puts me off I wasn't too sure about trying the rabbit at first myself, but I'm really glad I did now

Wasn't that one of the reasons people were complaining about iPhones recently ..the stuff that was already loaded on them?

It does bug me that they pre-install a lot of stuff that you don't want or need. You should be allowed to choose what you want on your phone.