The trick to MS 10 updates is to tell the PC to do them and restart. If you tell it to shutdown and update it waits till you turn it on again. Frustrating.  If and when I buy a new PC for me it will not have Windows. Got very p*ssed off with early probs with 10 and absolutely no support, nor apologies, from Microsoft.
We appear to have plenty of rain in the night and it is cold and gery now but the main rain seems to have slid off to the east so is probably drenching @Busy-Lizzie.
Indoors day for me anyway as I have some admin and lots of sewing to do to keep me busy. Bit late now but have a lovely day out @Dovefromabove. Hope you get to grips with your new toy @Chicky.  Not tempted @Fairygirl? What's your excuse?
Is your ground any better after your rain @Obelixx? I should have gone to the nursery a few weeks ago to be honest. Nothing took my fancy. I'd earmarked a few that they stock as being good options, but some weren't available, and most were looking a bit sad. They're undercover of course, and all looked like they needed some tlc. Just the time of year really. I'll maybe wait until spring.Â
The sun is even trying to appear here now, and I'm going to shift my lazy **** and go for a walk and then get on outdoors. Snow Patrol live on Ken just now, so I'll plug myelf into the phone and go. Catch you all later. Â
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
...I sat there with Windows 10 update - I have it on manual. I downloaded, updated and rebooted. Then checked for more updates - and lo and behold more were available....four times that occurred. No time lag in between waiting for reboots and 12 hours elapsed time....madness. But now I have the new shiny Windows 10. Whoooppppeeeee.
As for the tarmac joke - you can repeat it with different types of cough sweets and Hall's then being menthol... a bit of variety eh?
A bear walks into a bar and the barman asks '...what can I get you?...'.
The bear says '...a pint of your finest bitter.............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................and a packet of cheese and onion crisps please my good man...'
The barman asks '...why the big pause?.......'
Right, I'm off to do the ironing. Aaaaaaarrrrgggghhhhh. What has my life become?
If you do a lot of photo resizing - then a tool like imagemagick (https://imagemagick.org/) may help you. It's a batch type tool that takes the drudge out of common tasks like that. I automatically resize any new photos down each day as I log off.
TBH @steveTu, PCs are like cars to me. I don't care what's under the bonnet or how it works as long as it's efficient, doesn't give me cr*p and can do what I need which for cars, is carry me and my passengers plus occasional clematis and other treasures and bags of compost etc. For a PC I just want to send emails, play on this forum, google about for info, manage documents and spreadhseets for the patchwork club and store my photos. Not going anywhere near the cloud so external disks and USB keys for those and my store of music.
The trick to MS 10 updates is to tell the PC to do them and restart. If you tell it to shutdown and update it waits till you turn it on again. Frustrating.  If and when I buy a new PC for me it will not have Windows. Got very p*ssed off with early probs with 10 and absolutely no support, nor apologies, from Microsoft.
We appear to have plenty of rain in the night and it is cold and gery now but the main rain seems to have slid off to the east so is probably drenching @Busy-Lizzie.
Yes, tipping down here, howling gale too. I'm planning a quiet day indoors.
I came back from Daughter 1 last night and got up very late this morning. She has lent me a book by Lisa Jewell that I can't put down, "Then She was Gone". It's a psychological thriller, but I haven't got to a scary bit yet.
The Haflinger pony is sweet, but comes from a horse rescue place who will remain the owners. They don't want her to be ridden as they don't know the past history, maybe she has never been ridden so they don't want accidents. The pony, and others, were taken away from the owner who had neglected and mistreated them. My 14 yr old grandson loves horses and has riding lessons, but he lacks confidence as a rider. He loves looking after them, cleaning mucking out, tack cleaning etc.
I'm going to daughter 2 tomorrow for a night. She needs a babysitter tomorrow afternoon.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Same as me. The computer is just a tool to do all the things you said. I just tend to use Linux rather than MS to do it...! No blue screen of death or spinning wheel of doom. No 12 hours doing a system upgrade. Linux Forums where you can actually get good advice and help......like here..!
I use LibreOffice for documents-spreadsheets-presentations, Evince for PDF viewing, Shotwell for photos, Gimp (no sniggering - it stands for GNU Image Processing) for image processing, Evolution for mail - contacts - tasks, Rhythmbox for radio and music, Firefox to browse the web, Grip to rip music....blah. Good tools.
Oh well, by the time that people catch onto Linux and realise there was an option to Windows - Google Quantum will be the thing and we'll all be wearing headsets and living in a virtual world - if we're not already that is!
No headsets for me. I like to see things as they are to my own eyes. Having worked in a software house that hired out Unix experts to Microsoft in Seattle in the days when Windows was first a gleam in their eye and there were neither Windows, nor Word nor Excel etc, I assume it's all written in Unix. We also sent people to IBM in Austin in the late 80s but that all seems to have died.
We have the slowest internet imaginable - still on old phone lines - it certainly doesn't take 12 hours to load an update.
@Busy-Lizzie - I can be like that with a good book. Need to know what happens next. Happen confidence will come with experience for your grandson as well as familiarity with the horses at home and their ways. Enjoy tomorrow.
My daughter wears a headset, but she has to filter out unwanted noise a lot of the time, so it helps. Interestingly - re books/films/dramas, she likes to know what is going to happen before it does, so finds out the ending. Then she's happy to continue watching/reading. It's all part of the 'condition', but she copes very well. We were watching Unforgotten [again for me] recently, and she looked it up online to see whodunnit, cos I wouldn't tell her. Then she watched it with me and enjoyed it thoroughly. @steveTu - I downloaded a different photo editor when the W'dows one disappeared for a while randomly. It was ok, but I can't always be bothered faffing around. I'm a lazy mare by instinct - and I have an older daughter who can sort stuff for me if I need it. Why have a dog, as they say If all else fails - I shout at it...
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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The trick to MS 10 updates is to tell the PC to do them and restart. If you tell it to shutdown and update it waits till you turn it on again. Frustrating.  If and when I buy a new PC for me it will not have Windows. Got very p*ssed off with early probs with 10 and absolutely no support, nor apologies, from Microsoft.
We appear to have plenty of rain in the night and it is cold and gery now but the main rain seems to have slid off to the east so is probably drenching @Busy-Lizzie.
Indoors day for me anyway as I have some admin and lots of sewing to do to keep me busy. Bit late now but have a lovely day out @Dovefromabove. Hope you get to grips with your new toy @Chicky.  Not tempted @Fairygirl? What's your excuse?
I should have gone to the nursery a few weeks ago to be honest. Nothing took my fancy. I'd earmarked a few that they stock as being good options, but some weren't available, and most were looking a bit sad. They're undercover of course, and all looked like they needed some tlc. Just the time of year really. I'll maybe wait until spring.Â
The sun is even trying to appear here now, and I'm going to shift my lazy **** and go for a walk and then get on outdoors.Â
Snow Patrol live on Ken just now, so I'll plug myelf into the phone and go. Catch you all later.Â
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I came back from Daughter 1 last night and got up very late this morning. She has lent me a book by Lisa Jewell that I can't put down, "Then She was Gone". It's a psychological thriller, but I haven't got to a scary bit yet.
The Haflinger pony is sweet, but comes from a horse rescue place who will remain the owners. They don't want her to be ridden as they don't know the past history, maybe she has never been ridden so they don't want accidents. The pony, and others, were taken away from the owner who had neglected and mistreated them. My 14 yr old grandson loves horses and has riding lessons, but he lacks confidence as a rider. He loves looking after them, cleaning mucking out, tack cleaning etc.
I'm going to daughter 2 tomorrow for a night. She needs a babysitter tomorrow afternoon.
I have Windows 10 but hardly notice the updates. I usually shut the Laptop down when I go to bed.
We have the slowest internet imaginable - still on old phone lines - it certainly doesn't take 12 hours to load an update.
@Busy-Lizzie - I can be like that with a good book. Need to know what happens next. Happen confidence will come with experience for your grandson as well as familiarity with the horses at home and their ways. Enjoy tomorrow.
@steveTu - I downloaded a different photo editor when the W'dows one disappeared for a while randomly. It was ok, but I can't always be bothered faffing around. I'm a lazy mare by instinct - and I have an older daughter who can sort stuff for me if I need it. Why have a dog, as they sayÂ
If all else fails - I shout at it...
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Polytunnel filling up nicely