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Windows 8.1 Updates

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  • RumRat
    RumRat Posts: 5,036 Forumite
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    It's pointless living in the past. Things have moved on since you were a lad. We have colour television and everything now....:D
    Drinking Rum before 10am makes you
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    Not an Alcoholic...!
  • penrhyn
    penrhyn Posts: 15,215 Forumite
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    How do I connect t my Baird Televisor to my Sky box, can't find the 32 line setting?
    That gum you like is coming back in style.
  • 50Twuncle
    50Twuncle Posts: 10,763 Forumite
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    penrhyn wrote: »
    How do I connect t my Baird Televisor to my Sky box, can't find the 32 line setting?

    What's a sky box ?
    Is that another name for a yagi array ?
  • 50Twuncle
    50Twuncle Posts: 10,763 Forumite
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    This update is taking me forever (9.8kbps MODEM) - Does MS really expect me to finish today ?
    It is stuck at 3% and has been for 2 hours !!
  • John259
    John259 Posts: 1,085 Forumite
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    RumRat wrote: »
    It's pointless living in the past.
    Agreed. But now Windows and Microsoft are fast fading into the past, hastened by the Windows 8 disaster.
    "Such an enormous country, you realize when you cross it" - Jack Kerouac
  • penrhyn
    penrhyn Posts: 15,215 Forumite
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    You think you have problems my 1200/75 baud modem ihas been downloading Where eagles dare for a week now and no sign of it finishing, and I can't use the telephone.
    That gum you like is coming back in style.
  • 50Twuncle
    50Twuncle Posts: 10,763 Forumite
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    penrhyn wrote: »
    You think you have problems my 1200/75 baud modem ihas been downloading Where eagles dare for a week now and no sign of it finishing, and I can't use the telephone.

    I was being serious though - we don't have broadband where I live - I am stuck in the middle ages !!
  • emptybox
    emptybox Posts: 442 Forumite
    John259 wrote: »
    There's a third-party utility which can do that but sorry, I don't remember the name.

    Stardock's ModernMix - https://www.stardock.com/products/modernmix/

    Not free though. Think it's about £3.99?
  • grumpycrab
    grumpycrab Posts: 5,032 Forumite
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    emptybox wrote: »
    Stardock's ModernMix - https://www.stardock.com/products/modernmix/

    Not free though. Think it's about £3.99?
    Note that the current release has a couple of issues with update1.
    The Beta works fine (but that's only available to existing modernmix license owners).
  • almillar
    almillar Posts: 8,621 Forumite
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    Can't have a modern app window open on the desktop as far as I can find.
    Window? No, but you've always been able to have them in colunms off to the side (are they called panes?) and in 8.1 the sizing of them became more flexible. Handy for me for example, on a widescreen, with a browser window, a Twitter pane and a Skype pane. Try that on a tablet!
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