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Originally posted by darloboy07:



Hello .

Mike was waiting for you to answer his question last night but you didn't answer it. I told him to be patient and you would answer it eventually

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Originally posted by fairy_suzie:

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Originally posted by darloboy07:



Hello .

Mike was waiting for you to answer his question last night but you didn't answer it. I told him to be patient and you would answer it eventually

Oh right , i'll have to answer it the next time he's on .

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Originally posted by darloboy07:



Oh right , i'll have to answer it the next time he's on .

I'm sure he'll appreciate that

Hope you're having a good day so far

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Originally posted by fairy_suzie:

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Originally posted by darloboy07:



Oh right , i'll have to answer it the next time he's on .

I'm sure he'll appreciate that

Hope you're having a good day so far

What did he want to know Rofl? . I am thanks .

Hi guys.

Been kind of absorbed last couple of days.
I installed Windows 7 (RC) on to my computer alongside XP.
It's free to download and use for a year or so. Then it stops working, and you've got to pay for a retail copy if you want to continue.
You get the Ultimate edition, so it's got all the bells and whistles.

Must say it's very impressive, and much smoother than XP on the same hardware.
It looks very similar to Vista, but seems to work a lot better.
The only thing I can't get to work is printing over the network to the printer on my other XP machine.

Also I've been reading Ash's book.....oh! And getting a little work done as well.

Sunshine and showers here today. I was all set to go out to do some work when we got a heavy downpour, so grass cutting was scratched for the day.

Anyway, enjoy your weekends.

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Originally posted by darloboy07:



What did he want to know Rofl? . I am thanks .

The last question to you that I could find was this one
darloboy07

Will we see you on the next Apprentice matey ...??

I wouldnt employ those lot in brass washers tbh ...

although would keep that Debra there just for her huge Boobs an Massive Frightening Ego...lol

sorry for being sexist Im not PC folks Wink


Do you remember answering it?

Glad to hear you're having a good day

Hiya Emptybox

Sounds like you've been very busy today
It's been glorious sunshine down here today so have spent quite a bit of time just wandering around Plymouth city centre
Hope you're having fun

No I don't .

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Originally posted by darloboy07:
No I don't .

Oh right okay. No worries Mollie and I did tell him you were a busy person

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Originally posted by fairy_suzie:

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Originally posted by darloboy07:
No I don't .

Oh right okay. No worries Mollie and I did tell him you were a busy person

, he seemed pissed from some of the posts I seen from him yesterday like a few too many .

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Originally posted by fairy_suzie:
Hiya Emptybox

Sounds like you've been very busy today
It's been glorious sunshine down here today so have spent quite a bit of time just wandering around Plymouth city centre
Hope you're having fun

Hi Suzie.
Yes I'm having fun (I suppose).

Debra is very impressive on Apprentice, isn't she?
I also like Yasmina.

Well I got a lot more done on my veg plot, glad the weather cleared up a bit.

Will wait till next weekend to plant the toms out I think, in case of frost.

Never heard of Windows 7 Emptybox, I think they are all as bad as the other, too many bad points and no good ones as far as I can see.
Can't even see how Vista is better than XP.
So what can a new one do that the existing can't?

BGT on in 20 minutes, wonder what great singer will appear tonight then.They must only show us 1% of all the acts that go on stage, no wonder we don't know what's going on.

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Originally posted by darloboy07:

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Originally posted by fairy_suzie:

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Originally posted by darloboy07:
No I don't .

Oh right okay. No worries Mollie and I did tell him you were a busy person

, he seemed pissed from some of the posts I seen from him yesterday like a few too many .

Oh right it seems his alccy club as he calls it isn't doing him any favours

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Originally posted by emptybox:


Hi Suzie.
Yes I'm having fun (I suppose).

Debra is very impressive on Apprentice, isn't she?
I also like Yasmina.

Unfortunately I haven't had the opportunity to watch this series as OH hates it and he does love his TV watching
That's why I spend alot of time on my PC or my nose in a book

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Originally posted by fairy_suzie:

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Originally posted by darloboy07:

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Originally posted by fairy_suzie:

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Originally posted by darloboy07:
No I don't .

Oh right okay. No worries Mollie and I did tell him you were a busy person

, he seemed pissed from some of the posts I seen from him yesterday like a few too many .

Oh right it seems his alccy club as he calls it isn't doing him any favours

. He's a laugh though lol.

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Originally posted by darloboy07:


. He's a laugh though lol.

He is at that and a really charming man, Will love getting to know him

Seriously mike is a great man.
Better than I'll ever be and been through more than anyone I know.
PM him and you'll find out, he's incoherant when he's had a few too many but when he's sober he's worth his weight in gold.

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Originally posted by King Kev:
Seriously mike is a great man.
Better than I'll ever be and been through more than anyone I know.
PM him and you'll find out, he's incoherant when he's had a few too many but when he's sober he's worth his weight in gold.

Oh he is a wonderful man but really lacks self worth but we'll have to change that won't we

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Originally posted by King Kev:
Seriously mike is a great man.
Better than I'll ever be and been through more than anyone I know.
PM him and you'll find out, he's incoherant when he's had a few too many but when he's sober he's worth his weight in gold.

I know he is , plus I already have . I've posted with him on the main forum a couple of times too.

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Originally posted by Hicky:
Well I got a lot more done on my veg plot, glad the weather cleared up a bit.

Will wait till next weekend to plant the toms out I think, in case of frost.

Never heard of Windows 7 Emptybox, I think they are all as bad as the other, too many bad points and no good ones as far as I can see.
Can't even see how Vista is better than XP.
So what can a new one do that the existing can't?

BGT on in 20 minutes, wonder what great singer will appear tonight then.They must only show us 1% of all the acts that go on stage, no wonder we don't know what's going on.

You sound a bit disillusioned with Windows Hicky? I thought you were a fan?

Windows 7 will be on public release at the end of this year or begining of next, but they've released it free for evaluation first.

I think my printer problem is because the printer is so old there are no Vista drivers available for it, let alone Win 7 ones.
It seems to install the XP driver OK, but it doesn't even put anything in the print queue.

The stupid thing is, it indicates that everything is OK. No error messages, and the troubleshooting doesn't find any problems, so i haven't much to go on.

It's only a minor point anyway, because the printer is connected to the XP box downstairs, and I have to go down to turn the printer on and put the correct paper in, so it's no more trouble to print using the XP machine, and file sharing works fine, so I can print over the network that way.
Just a nuisance.

oooeeerrr just tried to PM Mike as King Kev suggested and I can't send him one Is anyone else having that problem

Hi Emptybox.
It's not that i'm a fan or not of Windows, there's not a lot of options really.

Still can't see what Vista has got that XP doesn't except even more problems.

So what is Windows 7 supposed to do that's better than any other?.

How can Win7 put the drivers in for your printer if there isn't any?

And if an OS won't print it is a massive problem really.

Microsoft had to sign every driver for all the hardware for XP & Vista, how big a job is that?
And if they have to do it all over again for Win7, can't believe that.

Hello Hicky .

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Originally posted by Hicky:
Hi Emptybox.
It's not that i'm a fan or not of Windows, there's not a lot of options really.

Still can't see what Vista has got that XP doesn't except even more problems.

So what is Windows 7 supposed to do that's better than any other?.

How can Win7 put the drivers in for your printer if there isn't any?

And if an OS won't print it is a massive problem really.

Microsoft had to sign every driver for all the hardware for XP & Vista, how big a job is that?
And if they have to do it all over again for Win7, can't believe that.

Well, I'm sure you'll be pleased to learn that I've eventually got it to work with a lot of googling, and a driver supplied by Windows Update. Required a bit of jiggery-pokery to fool the Win 7 that it was a local printer I was using, rather than a network one.

Ironically, file and printer sharing is one of the things that Win 7 is supposed to have improved on, but i think that's only if all your computers are running it.

The main improvement of Win7 over Vista is that it runs faster and smoother on lower spec equipment.
It runs better than XP on this 3½ year old box.
Also IE8 runs smoothly, whereas on XP I've found it very buggy.

But there's no dramatic improvement.
Unfortunately it's no more 'intelligent' than any other OS.

What we really need is an OS that can diagnose and fix it's own problems, or at least give the user proper feedback on how to fix them, rather than giving obscure error messages or blue screen crashes. Probably a while off yet.

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Originally posted by darloboy07:
Hello Hicky .

Hello Darloboy.

That's me done for today

Will wish you Night Night Sweet Dreams

See you tomorrow I hope

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Originally posted by emptybox:

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Originally posted by Hicky:
Hi Emptybox.
It's not that i'm a fan or not of Windows, there's not a lot of options really.

Still can't see what Vista has got that XP doesn't except even more problems.

So what is Windows 7 supposed to do that's better than any other?.

How can Win7 put the drivers in for your printer if there isn't any?

And if an OS won't print it is a massive problem really.

Microsoft had to sign every driver for all the hardware for XP & Vista, how big a job is that?
And if they have to do it all over again for Win7, can't believe that.

Well, I'm sure you'll be pleased to learn that I've eventually got it to work with a lot of googling, and a driver supplied by Windows Update. Required a bit of jiggery-pokery to fool the Win 7 that it was a local printer.

Ironically, file and printer sharing is one of the things that Win 7 is supposed to have improved on, but i think that's only if all your computers are running it.

The main improvement of Win7 over Vista is that it runs faster and smoother on lower spec equipment.
It runs better than XP on this 3½ year old box.
Also IE8 runs smoothly, whereas on XP I've found it very buggy.

But there's no dramatic improvement.
Unfortunately it's no more 'intelligent' than any other OS.

What we really need is an OS that can diagnose and fix it's own problems, or at least give the user proper feedback on how to fix them, rather than giving obscure error messages or blue screen crashes. Probably a while off yet.

Glad to hear you got your printer to work anyway.
I had to do a similar thing at work the other day, I couldn't connect to the A0 sheet printer, it just wouldn't print, it's on the network, I had to pretend it was a local printer to set up the IP address on a port, then tell it it was a network printer, something like that.

I've had no problem with IE since I removed Adobe Flash, if I need Flash I have it on Firefox so I just transfer the page to that to run a Flash video.

I wrote to Microsoft on one of their pages one day when it said how well did we do in helping solve a problem, I told them they didn't help at all, they have a pretty stupid OS that can have programs crash them and they don't even know what program it was and I said that if you don't know and you wrote the OS then how I am I supposed to know?
(I didn't get a reply)

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Originally posted by fairy_suzie:
That's me done for today

Will wish you Night Night Sweet Dreams

See you tomorrow I hope

Nighty Night Suzie.

Sleep Tight, have a good day tomorrow.

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Originally posted by Hicky:


I wrote to Microsoft on one of their pages one day when it said how well did we do in helping solve a problem, I told them they didn't help at all, they have a pretty stupid OS that can have programs crash them and they don't even know what program it was and I said that if you don't know and you wrote the OS then how I am I supposed to know?
(I didn't get a reply)

I see you're thinking along the same lines as me.

I think Win7 is generally better with drivers than Vista. It can use most Vista drivers, and quite a few XP drivers.
I got my sound card, USB wireless network adaptor and my TV card working using the XP drivers supplied, but the printer was more tricky.

Night fairy-suzie.

Also the thing that really impressed me, was that I didn't need to install my graphics card driver, it found it for itself.

XP would never have done that.

Hope you have the bright sunshine that I have

Have a great day

Mine's not started too well so I'm hoping it can only get better but somehow I don't think so

Well I hope your day gets better as it goes along.

Hi Emptybox.
A more intelligent Windows eh, that will be a first, I wonder if it will tell you what the problem is when it goes packs up.

Morning Hicky

Just playing a waiting game now

I hope it's nice for you where you are. weren't you saying your going to plant your tomatoes today?

Good afternoon peeps

Finally managed to PM Mike so one thing happened today

I hope all of you are having a happy sunday

Im going pictures in a bit to see this new Star Trek ....

Im single a bit mental in my 40s ...Yeah I think I tick the right boxs to see that film ..lol

Evening everyone,
Plenty to catch up as I haven't been able to use the computer. My daughter's doing coursework. Busy times in the boldjohn household as seems to be the case with everyone else. It's been fun though. I watched my daughter's fashion show and watched her run the Race For Life. I've also been reading a good book, which emptybox will know about. I hope everyone is well and still enjoying the forum. At leasst the thread's lasted well so far.

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Originally posted by Mike Strutter:
Im going pictures in a bit to see this new Star Trek ....

Im single a bit mental in my 40s ...Yeah I think I tick the right boxs to see that film ..lol

Ooo I was going to see that with some of my old colleagues ( old as in we worked together this time last year not the wrinkly kind ) but they want to go on thursday and I can't go because I'm skint.

Hope you enjoy it though

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Originally posted by boldjohn:
Evening everyone,
Plenty to catch up as I haven't been able to use the computer. My daughter's doing coursework. Busy times in the boldjohn household as seems to be the case with everyone else. It's been fun though. I watched my daughter's fashion show and watched her run the Race For Life. I've also been reading a good book, which emptybox will know about. I hope everyone is well and still enjoying the forum. At leasst the thread's lasted well so far.

Hiya Boldjohn

I don't believe we've met pleased to meet you.

fairy_suzie


I would take you .....and you would get a hotdog mate

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Originally posted by boldjohn:
Evening everyone,
Plenty to catch up as I haven't been able to use the computer. My daughter's doing coursework. Busy times in the boldjohn household as seems to be the case with everyone else. It's been fun though. I watched my daughter's fashion show and watched her run the Race For Life. I've also been reading a good book, which emptybox will know about. I hope everyone is well and still enjoying the forum. At leasst the thread's lasted well so far.

Hello Boldjohn , aah thats so good .