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2016 Round 7: York, July 31st
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    Posted: 10 August 2016 at 1:23pm
The cheque is in the post....
Should I buy some more trick bits for the Furai or just buy Optima High Baron.......
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Originally posted by AlanGoodman AlanGoodman wrote:


Machines upgraded from 7 (or 8.1) to 10 are generally not happy bunnies...
A clean install of Windows 10 is usually ok (although older stuff still won't always work with it.
 
I'm running Windows 7 here on the main PC and no plans to change any time soon!!


All four Babbage-Engines at Larrington Towers are on 10, three of them from 8.1. One decided that the "upgrade" was actually a fresh install but the other two worked fine and the aberrant one is behaving itself once we'd reached an understanding about which one of us was in charge.

The fourth actually was a fresh install on an ancient laptop running XP but that only gets used for watching films in bed so it didn't matter if it went a bit wonky
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The final results for York are at last available on the website together with the updated 2016 Championship tables.

Gus has been credited with another lap in the 20-min fast race following a stewards enquiry and the delivery of a channel-ferry-size Toblerone to Thee Keeper of Thee Chocolate.
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Machines upgraded from 7 (or 8.1) to 10 are generally not happy bunnies...
A clean install of Windows 10 is usually ok (although older stuff still won't always work with it.
 
I'm running Windows 7 here on the main PC and no plans to change any time soon!!

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Originally posted by GeoffBird GeoffBird wrote:

restoring Windows 7 is very straightforward but of course wastes another hour of your time. You don't seem to get any Windows 10 pop ups afterwards either. I found some stuff just didn't work with Windows 10. Grrr2
One bit of that stuff is the interface on the timing system laptop that connects to the tag reader, hence the no-show at Shrewsbury and my subsequent discovery that restoring back to Windows 7 is only possible for 30 days. After that the necessary restore files are swiftly and silently deleted Sick.


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Thanks Geoff. Yes I've got Win 7 installs down to a fine art now - iso image on a memory stick, always onto SSD hard drives - super fast...

I don't trust Microsoft either with free issue of Win 10 - "here 1 billion users, have a free OS, we don't need the money"...there's a catch around the corner somewhere...


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Many thanks to the organisers, whoever you were :-) Russ, restoring Windows 7 is very straightforward but of course wastes another hour of your time. You don't seem to get any Windows 10 pop ups afterwards either. I found some stuff just didn't work with Windows 10. Grrr2
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After an entire day battling a recalcitrant laptop automatically doing Windows 10 updates that I didn't ask it to, and preventing me doing any actual work, that comment made me feel much better, thanks Chris!

ps If you've got a laptop or PC that's running a stable version of Windows 7, don't even think about updating!  Grrr.....rant over

pps I'm not sure I did that much either - credit's really due to Heather...
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Gus

Don't give me too much credit for race organising (I didn't do much more than scribble down a few times & numbers at the end of the first race). Credit due to Russ for proving its possible to be a race organiser whilst also scooping up 1000 points in both part-faired and unfaired as well as managing to squeeze a Devil into the mix and winning that as well.

I would accept your thanks for being annoyingly fast, but I blame that on the No-Com that was forcing me to try and keep up.......Smile 
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Thanks Simon. I wasn't sure.

Gus
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