Mundane News

[GM]

Tea in bed at the weekend is the best about winter. Might be tempted to go for a walk over the heath this morning.

 

[mybike]

Not much wind this morning.

 

[summerdays]

It's lightly overcast here, but still cold so there is frost in the shady bits of the garden but the bits that had sun yesterday are still green.

 

[mybike]

All the new tech that I have installed over the last few years has been a doddle, I am about to install my latest toy, this one however involves Microsoft, so expect a couple of hours of expletives.

Just setting up wife's new laptop - insurance paid up after cup of tea incident. What's taking a while is restoring her old files, 4 hours to go. There's a lot of them but all safe with Carbonite. Switched off most of the Win10 garbage and refused their kind offer of a Micro$oft email address to log in with.

Microsoft Security Essentials may not like it.

Why use anything else?

Anyway, after an hour we are about 50% through loading the critical updates. Each of our tablets were up and running in less than 5 minutes. MS still don't get it.

I'm sure the wife's didn't take that long.

 

[Levo-Lon]

The good lady has just put in an appearance! !!

 

[Levo-Lon]

Just setting up wife's new laptop - insurance paid up after cup of tea incident. What's taking a while is restoring her old files, 4 hours to go. There's a lot of them but all safe with Carbonite. Switched off most of the Win10 garbage and refused their kind offer of a Micro$oft email address to log in with.



Why use anything else?



I'm sure the wife's didn't take that long.

i restored my tablet to Factory default...what a palaver. .

 

[mybike]

Guess where I've been? View attachment 334322

Too rural for Bekonscot I think

 

[Fab Foodie]

We is going for a pre-brunch walk. :-)

 

[mybike]

I've got a Roku stick on the TV, works well. I wanted the Hub on the tablet for when my Good Lady was watching TV and I wanted to watch catch up, I've already got the Hub on the main computer. In the end I did a full factory reset and installed everything from scratch, I'd tried all the fixes and nothing had worked.

Same here, Roku, powered off one of the TV's USB sockets. Also an old Apple TV but that doesn't do ITV.

 

[GM]

And Mrs R and I will be moving house.........we are leaving Finchley after 28 years

Where are you going?......... Just catching up on old posts, 12 pages to go.

 

[EltonFrog]

I'm going to work. Bah! And I think I'll add for good measure Beau Larques.

 

[TVC]

Wish me luck, I am off to battle Microsoft for control of my computer.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

In a dream this morning I was frying lots of bacon and generally concocting a rather indulgent breakfast. When I woke I was disappointed to find that I wasn't hungry.

 

[TVC]

So I have BT antivirus and web protect which is actually McAfee and comes from the McAfee website, but I can't install it because the pre-installed antivirus blocks it. Guess what the pre-installed antivirus is

 

[marknotgeorge]

I've woken up rather confused. I was dreaming when I was half-asleep (I was aware of the 'rents getting up) and forced my self fully awake. No, I didn't forget my meds. I checked.

In other news, I'm going to my sister's for tea. The girls are all squee about meeting new puppy Murphy, some sort of spaniel. Apparently he likes toes.

Right, time to get up...