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Windows Vista SP1 sucks

Well the citadel of evil have struck again

We have 2 laptops at home running Vista, and as per Microsoft advice I waited till they offered Vista SP1
via Windows Update before loading it.

The first PC a Siemens crashed and went into an endless cycle of trying to boot and failing, so as per the screen suggestion, I loaded in the Vista CD rom and repaired it from there - hey presto it worked - phew.

So when the Acer promted me to install SP1 I thought well it cannot be as bad as the Siemens, well it was, bloddy well much worse. It's stuck in an endless loop and even the repair function from the Vista Disc does not fix it, occasionally it tells me it cannot fix it would I like to reprt this to microsoft - well if a Pc can report this to microsoft when it won't even boot i would be impressed. I hope I do not have to go to the system back up discs and start again - All my data is on the internet but it's just such a pain in the arse!!

GRRRRRRRRRR

Tickled me pink

This one from Hugh got the old chuckle muscles going this morning:

Especially as we are playing with MS SharePoint 3 beta at the moment

Euro Blues

Recently I've been combining two hobby's, I made a European Walnut stand for my notebook PC at home, so the keyboard sits at 45 degree and the screen can then be opened up so it is vertical. This positions the top of the screen at eye level and will help to reduce the risk of RSI at home.

To support this I bought a new USB keyboard, now this is where the trouble begins. I of course live in euro land and use the euro symbol a lot, it is AltGr 5 on most systems and so is on my IBM Notebook.

Now I did not check, but the new keyboard does not have an AlTGr button but on either side of the space bar is only  Alt buttons! The euro symbol is there as the third option on the 5 key but I cannot enable it. I've loaded the special driver that came with it (albeit I still did that even though all the features (calculate button, open email client button ..... )  all worked without the new driver, but that did not solve the problem.

Now I remember in the old days of Windows you could alter your keyboard map, does anyone have any solutions for me I've searched and searched