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Hi All,
With all the bad press some retailers get here abouts, I feel I ought to give a high five to Stone Group computers, I bought a Windows 7 PC to possibly replace a Windows 8 beast my parents bought when the old faithful Win XP died. The PC was not used as I was expecting it to be as the Parental unit did use it that much at the time, it has since upgraded to Win 10 (!) so it is at last more use. The Win 7 box I used for many things, lately it has been used to stream videos(!) as a part of an experimental set up. It died, suffice to say I try all the means to boot the thing to extent of looking for the Windows DVD to reinstall (Which I couldn't hence Mondays post). I end up calling the Stone Group with all the Serial numbers and Keys I could find to beg for an ISO download. They said they could give an ISO but because the machine was still in warranty ('til the end of the week) they could arrange a courier to pick up the base unit and they would dispatch another to replace it. So great just got a phone call from the parental unit it has arrived and is 'nice and shiny!'(bless!). So ICT Solutions for Education & the Public Sector | Stone Group[^] are a good company to buy from they recycle old machines and sell at not too bad prices, I got this from Amazon so was not expecting a full warranty But Hey
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Where I currently work buy all their machines from Stone.
No idea what they are like to deal with as I don't do that, but the machine I have hasn't caught fire yet, so that is nice.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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I can see why, I bought mine for sub £100 from Amazon! 
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chriselst wrote: the machine I have hasn't caught fire yet
So, you didn't get a Dell.
veni bibi saltavi
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Dells are not that bad I keep my feet warm on mine when the heating goes off!
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Not bad service!
A company worth remembering, thank you.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I just could believe the service I paid less £100 from Amazon and was expecting to have to do the rebuild myself, but no I get a shiny new one and a Saturday morning(!)
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What kind of spec is it? I looked at the website, but they don't seem to list any prices. And Amazon is it's usual lack of help... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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glennPattonNotInThePUB wrote: I end up calling the Stone Group with all the Serial numbers and Keys I could find to beg for an ISO download
For future reference:
As long as you have a key, anyone can get the ISOs for Windows 7[^] directly from Microsoft these days. The 8.1/10 links at the top bring up pages to download those versions.
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Point, but when I tried to download the ISO, I was told to contact re-seller. Good thing I did! always be wary of upgrade licenses. But thanks anyway 
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Upgrade licenses?
I've used those ISOs to do clean installs and they work and activate just fine.
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Ahh, I will give it a go again, before it becomes neccessary !
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The wife designed her own Access database and wanted my help connecting a many to many relationship. Bonus points to her for remembering what I taught her. She didn't have any columns/tables with special characters in the name (this time), again a win.
I spent the next 90 minutes cussing in my head (kids around) trying to make it work. I finally hung my head in shame giving up. She spent the rest of the night watching Youtube videos till she figured it out.
I'm not sure if I'm a failure for not figuring it out, or a genius for quitting so she won't want my help with the next part of this project.
Hogan
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Say "chasm trap" in an authoritative manner, look concerned, then back away slowly... that'd be the recommended approach.
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You think you're a genius. She knows that she has something else to add to her list of things to remind you of when next you step out of line, or the vacuum cleaner gets clogged, or it's a Tuesday!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Good thing I don't vacuum!
Hogan
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Quote: Good thing I don't vacuum!
It's a useful skill that I am sure she is willing to teach you!
I last used Access more than a decade ago. [bleah!] Since then I learnt to do any databases I need, writing a C# app that configures, controls and manipulates SQL (Express) databases.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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snorkie wrote: genius for quitting so she won't want my help with the next part of this project.
This one! Now you know the easy way out! Unfortunately, it has cost you some points, but she has solved her own problem so both of you have succeeded!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Where you went wrong is that you should have used Excel.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Congrats ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif)
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I hope that's a rootbeer. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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...Herself has just sent her second ever SMS...and it took her about 20 minutes, copious swearing, and several "technical support" screams of frustration: "Where's it gone?!?!" (Screen timeout), "How do I send a comma?" (that key there, the one with the comma on it, yes), "Why did you capitalise that?" (because it's after a full stop), and the best "Send the elephanting thing you elephanting elephant!" (tap the "send" button - that one, looks like a split arrow head; yes, that one. No, tap it. It doesn't work with evil stares.)
At this rate, she should be proficient in about, oooo, six years... 
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