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NeverJustHere wrote: And they try to get you to log in with a web account, rather than a local
account - again.
And what's wrong with that? It works rather nicely, lets you sync settings across devices, give you seamless access to SkyDrive, etc.
I updated my Surface RT and my desktop PC yesterday. Other than the fact that it took quite a while to do (which isn't really surprising, I suppose), I didn't have any problems. I really liked Win 8 & RT, but the 8.1/8.1 RT changes really rock!
NeverJustHere wrote: New colours in Metro are even worse - the orange is just awful.
So change them. That's not difficult.
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Quote: And what's wrong with that?
How about all those local resources that are protected from the seething mass of excrement that is the interweb? With a web account I can't get to them but oh yes, there's my SkyDrive! That's like taking the wheels off my car so I can listen to the radio more easily!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Um... not quite sure I get what you're saying. With a Microsoft Account, I believe you can configure SkyDrive to get you access to those local resources (at least you could with the SkyDrive desktop application on Win7 and Win8 before 8.1).
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I don't want to configure SkyDrive to have access to anything? I have normal everyday network shares to my various file servers, etc. that are all handled by a local (network) login, not by a web account - I don't want my private information accessed via web anything.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Ok, so now I really don't understand your original issue. It's not like you have to use SkyDrive. It's there if you want it.
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I only had to reboot once. The install took about 30 min to complete, and I had already been using my Windows Live account for login (I like the settings synchronization from my main computer to my VMs), so I just had to enter my password.
I don't see much orange on the start screen or desktop.
I don't store anything that I consider private on my computer (I use an encrypted external drive for that), so I don't really care about the SkyDrive thing (it is useful for school-related documents, though. Removes the need for a flash drive).
Keep Clam And Proofread
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√(-1) 23 ∑ π...
And it was delicious.
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I upgraded my Window 8 a few weeks ago by formatting the partition and reinstalling good old Windows 7. Now that was an upgrade!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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In reply to your signature of: I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
See if you can't use the equivalent of Reflection, POKE, PEEK, or other such tools. 
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I'm still running Windows XP.
Will go to Win7 inside the next 6 months, at least from what I can deduce from what limited info is availed to me.
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I had very little problem and switched from XP to W7 very easily. I currently run a mixture of XP, Vista and W7 at home with no issues except I connect an older inkjet and a scanner to the XP machine as W7 doesn't have the drivers - although Vista did for the printer, which is weird. I have a newer printer and scanner that work fine with W764 though so it's just laziness waiting t upgrade the XP to W7 I suppose.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I was only complaining that I *still* have to use WinXP for up to the next 6 months...
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When asked how I rate my Excel Skills I always say I am =A1
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Hmm.
We get a lot of zero-based statements in here.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Not a lot, but certainly SUM
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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I've always wondered: do road-rage drivers autofit?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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You know what is the worst feature of Excel?
The formulas are localized. That means, if you get a spreadsheet written by someone using the Excel in English you can't use it when you use the German Office version... 
(Yeah, I know you can switch the language which MS Office should use, but it's still a PITA)
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The simple answer is to only use English.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Dalek Dave wrote: The simple answer is to only use English.
And you sig is latin, there is a word for that somewhere 
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Mea Culpa, English is the de facto lingua franca, a splendissimo performance par excellence of how a bijou isle has adopted and subsumed all other tongues into the maelstrom of the vox populi demoticism for which there is a ex gratia regard by the hoi polloi for the gestalt that is English.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Reading that, makes me want to vomit 
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Quote: "Kyrie,
It is Zeus' anathema on our epoch and the heresy of our economic method and policies that we should agonize the Skylla of nomismatic plethora and the Charybdis of economic anaemia.
It is not my idiosyncracy to be ironic or sarcastic but my diagnosis would be that politicians are rather cryptoplethorists. Although they emphatically stigmatize nomismatic plethora, they energize it through their tactics and practices. Our policies should be based more on economic and less on political criteria. Our gnomon has to be a metron between economic strategic and philanthropic scopes.
In an epoch characterized by monopolies, oligopolies, monopolistic antagonism and polymorphous inelasticities, our policies have to be more orthological, but this should not be metamorphosed into plethorophobia, which is endemic among academic economists.
Nomismatic symmetry should not antagonize economic acme. A greater harmonization between the practices of the economic and nomismatic archons is basic.
Parallel to this we have to synchronize and harmonize more and more our economic and nomismatic policies panethnically. These scopes are more practicable now, when the prognostics of the political end economic barometer are halcyonic.
The history of our didimus organization on this sphere has been didactic and their gnostic practices will always be a tonic to the polyonymous and idiomorphous ethnical economies. The genesis of the programmed organization will dynamize these policies.
Therefore, I sympathize, although not without criticism one or two themes with the apostles and the hierarchy of our organs in their zeal to program orthodox economic and nomismatic policies.
I apologize for having tyrannized you with my Hellenic phraseology. In my epilogue I emphasize my eulogy to the philoxenous aytochtons of this cosmopolitan metropolis and my encomium to you Kyrie, the stenographers."
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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Dalek Dave wrote: I am =A1
Fail else you give the Range
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Surely you mean =$A$1
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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Semantics!
I would use a named range.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Dalek Dave wrote: I would use a named range.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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