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I was against auto updade in the dim and distant past because i liked to have my systems “just so”.

Now that almost everything i do wants to connect to the internet though i just put up with it.

I dont have a choice though on W10 home and that bugs me because sometimes it breaks things.

The latest thing to get clobbered is anything on a Secure Rom disc so no more Doom 3 or Quake 4.

Looks like SecRom.sys has gone for good this time.

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Can’t say I have heard of your use being a problem.

The only problem I have had was a while ago and it appeared to have been caused by push mail to my samsung phone.

It seems that if you have a samsung account and you register a livemail account with them then there is a deal where MS allocates an exchange server account to your livemail address.

Exchange server forwards any incoming mail to samsung and they send you a notification.

If you use the default mail app on your phone to read mail you are actually getting it from samsung.

The problem was I was never logging in with MS directly so after 6 months they blocked my account.

Just logging in from my PC fixed the problem and it has not returned.

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Though i would share my experiance of a falkshall dealer from few years ago.

My company issued me with a Vectra and I had no choice in the matter but my grade allowed me the 2.0 16V CD trim version and despite what Jeramy Clarkson says I was really quite happy with it.

Then came time time for the first service.

I booked the service by phone with my closest dealer in London and the nice lady said I could bring the car in at 1pm the next day. She also said that a curtecy car of similar spec to mine would be avalable and my company insurance would cover it so I didnt bother booking the hire car that my company would have paid for.

When I arrived they told me the man who did the booking in (the nice lady apparently worked in the midlands) had gone to lunch and they couldnt do anything for an hour.

When the man returned he first told me he had no record of my booking but after a 20 minute search he decided he did. Next he told me the only car they had was a Ford Ka 1.0 L and that my company any car insurance did not cover me to drive it anyway. After a long chat between my insurance company and the dealers head office they decided I was insured so they told me to take the Ka and return in two days.

On my first return they told me the car would not be ready for another two days but they would throw in a free wash and valet to make up for the delay.

On my second return I dropped off the Ka and picked up my car even though it was not washed or cleaned (they had no record of saying they would do that)

Ten miles down the road the engine started to make a noise and the oil light came on so that lead to my third return.

It turns out they had drained the oil and changed filter but had not put any new oil in !

The dealer said they would now have to check the engine and do a major service (for free) but it would take a week and no they could not lend me a car as the Ka was booked to go out to another customer.

I had to book a hire car afrer all and I finally got mine back after two weeks but you would never know it had been serviced because guess what ?

There was no record of it in the log book !

 

 

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The only thing you couldnt get down there was channel 5. Even on free view !

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My grandparents lived in the Pennycross area of Plymouth until they both died 5 years ago. From the time I first got a digital mobile in 1995 i never had a signal problem when I visited them.

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Be carefull on the updates by all means D-Dan but do remember that the last ransomware attack got through on unpatched systems.

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Just for interest my 3D Mark Time Spy score is 3649

I Dont think my i7 930 is holding me back but i welcome comment.

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Here are the resaults for my 7 year old PC

Overall=4194

Essentials=6193

Product=6334

Digital=4751

PC spec as follows

Gigabyte GA-X58A-UDR3

Core i7@3.8

6GB DDR3@1600

128GB M3 SSD

Radeon RX480

Could be worse ?

 

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Good luck getting this fixed if you dont meet an engineer at your property.

A friend of mine had 3 unattended visits from open reach last year to fix a badly crackling line and each one came back no fault found.

I tested my freinds line after the first visit and advised him that the fault was most likely in the junction box at the top of his telegraph pole.

On the 4th visit my friend was in and caught the engineer outside on the phone. He was just about to clear the call NFF again but agreed to come in for a listen.

45 min later the fault at the top of the pole was fixed.

 

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Oops red herring.

Found this though.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/24742-reset-windows-update-windows-10-a.html

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The MS notes say this update is only for AMD64. Dont’t know if that helps.

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And one more thing. The originol user interface for NT was going to be OS/2 but then MS had a tiff with IBM and that subsystem got dumped

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I will post a score if and when i can get a copy of PC Mark 10. Download time is currently 1h 47min

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Please excuse the typo’s in the above post. Left it too late to edit ?

While ìm here though i will just mention that subsystem loading is session dependent so it is technically possible to load a different subsystem for every session on your PC should MS choose to support it.

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Here is a did you know moment.

Did you that windows has always supported the POSIX subsystem for windows if you installed the correct version. This was a US goverment requirement when NT was being developed.

Windows is its self is a subsystem running on top of the NT kernel and executive. To save on duplication some OS functions are only implimented in the windows subsystem (Win32k.sys)  so that always gets loaded no matter what other subsystem you load.

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Unplug everything and plug a known good phone directly into the master socket. If the line still sounds duff and you only have the master socket then the fault is with talk talk.

If you have extension sockets try unscrewing the front of the master socket to find the test socket. If you have a proper master socket then pulling the front off it disconnects any internal wiring.

If the line is still duff at the test socket then it IS a talk talk problem and they should fix it for free.

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I thought a pump on the mains would be a no no.

My mothers set up is a contentional boiler with a cold water header tank on the second floor and a hot water tank on the first floor.

The hot water tank is mildly presurised to reach the hot tap in the second floor bathroom.

The second floor shower is a 3kw flash heater connected to the incomming mains feed only.

The problem seems to be total flow capacity like the water company said

Although you will have a job to stop the water by putting your finger over the tap there is only just enough flow to run 1 garden sprinkler.

To put it in electrical terms, plenty of voltage but low current ?

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My Mother has a similar setup with a mains fed electric shower on the second floor. She has very good water presure and the shower works fine until someone on a lower floor starts using water and when this happens the shower either cuts out or tries to boil you !

The water compay say the problem is the diamiter of the pipe from the street and I can believe that since it was installed in 1926 but they have quoted £5000 to replace it.

I was wondering if a ground level pump would help or would she just get this cavitation problem ?

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Do you have a mobile contract ?

If you do and your problem is that your tablet can’t take a sim then your provider may have an app for you.

O2 provides TuGo and it lets you log in up to 10 devices to make calls and send SMS over wifi (they all ring at once, tickles me).

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Well as I said its my home town and I grew up here. I went to school here and I have watched it change out of all recognition.

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