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Old 19-05-18, 07:52 PM   #5771
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Old 19-05-18, 08:16 PM   #5772
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...and Homegroup has been done away with and my keyboard keeps reverting to US layout so my " becomes an @
You can cure that bit by pressing "ENG" bottom right & selecting English (UK) + UK Keyboard ( I hope )
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Old 21-05-18, 06:58 AM   #5773
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You can cure that bit by pressing "ENG" bottom right & selecting English (UK) + UK Keyboard ( I hope )
Yes it will, but it will revert to a US keyboard layout next time you boot it. (At least my work lappy does) I usually get reminded when my password fails.
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Old 21-05-18, 07:40 AM   #5774
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Van MOT in 20 mins. It has done 800 miles since the last one. Isn't it about time they moved MOTs to 2 year renewal. Having said that I have seen some heaps and wonder how they ever pass!
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Old 21-05-18, 07:42 AM   #5775
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The GSXR only did 240 last year between tickets. Managed that on it with 6 months to go this year!
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Old 21-05-18, 07:46 AM   #5776
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Yep, I discovered that too. If you go into settings and change it there instead of on the taskbar it stays set.
Ah yes thanks, found how to set UK English as default. Thanks!

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Old 21-05-18, 10:02 AM   #5777
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Lady Poppy called this morning to say there is an eight inch crack on the passenger side of her car's windscreen... Blast it. The thing is coming up 3 years old in three weeks and I had the MoT booked for tomorrow but a crack like that is almost certainly a failure. Luckily the garage said bring it in anyway and we'll do the service - if the screen is fubar we'll not do the MoT bit for now. Autoglass cannot come out to replace it on the insurance for 9 days!!! WTF??? 9 days?!?!?! What if it was badly smashed and totally undrivable? Unbelievable.
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Old 21-05-18, 10:56 PM   #5778
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Bloody joggers. I was in the empty right hand lane approaching a roundabout to go straight ahead and there was a queue of cars in the left hand lane waiting to go left. Just as I drew level with front car, 3 joggers suddenly appeared from my left and one ended up draped over the bonnet of the car as I hit the brakes. They had seen the stopped car to my left and had just run straight across the front of it. Fortunately, no damage to the car or the idiots.
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Bloody joggers. I was in the empty right hand lane approaching a roundabout to go straight ahead and there was a queue of cars in the left hand lane waiting to go left. Just as I drew level with front car, 3 joggers suddenly appeared from my left and one ended up draped over the bonnet of the car as I hit the brakes. They had seen the stopped car to my left and had just run straight across the front of it. Fortunately, no damage to the car or the idiots.
I get this a lot - not just joggers but "normal" pedestrians too - often at traffic light controlled crossings (but equally often just "near" them) with queuing traffic, with headphones on, or staring at phone, or both, or even neither but in their own world anyway.

Too impatient to wait for the green man, too stupid to look out for non-car traffic, too self-righteous to apologise, and have the cheek to look completely shocked when they get beeped/revved/shouted at.

Bring back the Green Cross Code.

Now this gripe is gonna go on a bit, lol.

We had walkmans in my youth. I had one, but my Dad advised that he didn't want me walking around with headphones in on my own in public, because it makes you dangerously unaware. Could get mugged, run over, anything. I was a bit annoyed, other people did it (it was the 80s) but on reflection I thought he was probably right so I followed his advice.

I pass on the same sage wisdom to my kid now. Get completely ignored.
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The latest window update has broken Photoshop elements on my PC. Initially it complained of lack of ram, which is nonsense. I reset the pse preferences which fixed the ram message but it won't load past the welcome screen. The windows event log reports the error but gives no real clues. A reinstall didn't help either. I've now uninstalled every Adobe app and any residue in the registry and unplugged the PC. I've had enough for now.
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