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    Cadet Stimpy
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    Jul 06, 2021

    Inexplicable Microsoft Anomalies

    in Feeling Chatty

    Well, that's what I call it when Windows starts acting in ways that don't make any sense. Anyway, I've been experiencing a lot of this annoying 'behavior' lately, and hence my sporadic Posts recently. I might have to rebuild my PC, which is tedious at best. That being said, I hope to be contributing again more regularly in the not too distant future. 🙂

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    Cadet Stimpy
    Jul 12, 2021
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    Actually, it only looked like that briefly. 😄 I have a boat-load of these semi-cheesy, but fun, Video Games (from BigFish), and when I rebuilt my PC, I had to reinstalled every one of them - one at a friggin' time. It, of course, makes an Icon for every one of 'em, but they're all run through a "manager", so I deleted all the Icons after the screenshot. C'mon Man (like Biden says it), you know I'm anal. 😄 My desktop would never look like that except for a "photo shoot". Remember my Surge Protector? I'm friggin' anal (& tidy!)! 😄

    Image Source: Me


    I noticed you can add words to the dictionary in here now. Nice. "It" didn't like the spelling of 'C'mon', but I added it to the dictionary, so now, no flag on the misspell.

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    Athena
    Jul 11, 2021
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    Wow, Mike! 😵

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    Cadet Stimpy
    Jul 10, 2021
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    Right outta the gate of my 'rebuild adventure' I get: "Windows can't be installed to this disk. The selected disk has an MBR partition table. On EFI systems, Windows can only be installed to GPT disks." Well, I got past that and eventually Windows was installed. Now I gotta clean-up my Desktop. A few too many icons. 😄


    Image Source: Me

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    Zerbique
    Jul 11, 2021
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    Ha ha! That's the very opposite of mine (I'm particularly annoyed that there doesn't seem a way to remove the last 'trash bin' icon from the desktop!)!

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    Derek
    Jul 11, 2021
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    "A few too many icons.... "

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    Athena
    Jul 06, 2021
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    Good luck with rebuilding, then!


    The bank says they need 2 months to look into the issue, I'll probably have to forget about it and live with the losses. 😞

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    Derek
    Jul 06, 2021
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    That's awful. I know it's "technically" no ones fault, but at the same time if banks say "we'll take care of your money for you" but in reality, they don't... it's not a very good system is it? 😥 Here's hoping something comes out of this for you. Wouldn't it be nice (even just once) for a bank to own up and actually support their customers??? Like a real business.... That'd be neat.

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    Cadet Stimpy
    Jul 07, 2021
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    Well, a good portion of the rebuild is done (and it's only 2:30am)! Woo-Hoo!


    2 months? That's outrageous! What a bunch of slugs. Well, they may come through for ya - they still have 2 months. 😐

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    Athena
    Jul 06, 2021
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    Thanks, Mike. ☺️ The bank will try to retrieve the money but it's not certain they'll succeed. The thief may have gotten away with it, and of course I won't be reimbursed.


    It appears that you need the aid of a pc technician, I'm afraid...

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    Derek
    Jul 06, 2021
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    Seeing as how you're a PC tech, I probably shouldn't say that I'm a Chromebook user more than PC?? 🤣 Although, I need my PC to use Steam. I'm a simple guy, and don't do anything fancy with computers, so for work, entertainment and sports my Chromebook works great. If my PC goes down, I have no hope in fixing it. LOL


    BUT - Chromebooks are beginning to have the capability to run Steam... woo!!


    Oh right... I shouldn't say anything. Shhhh... No worries, @Cadet Stimpy - some of my clients who work with tech and PCs give me enough trouble for those comments. LOL 🤣

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    Cadet Stimpy
    Jul 07, 2021
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    @Derek Arsenault Chromebook? Well, you're wisely avoiding many of the headaches PC's provide. 😀

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    Derek
    Jul 08, 2021
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    @Cadet Stimpy LOL Exactly. I'm a simple guy. I don't need much.

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    Athena
    Jul 06, 2021
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    I hope it gets resolved soon, Mike! I woke up today to a message from the bank notifying me that someone hacked my debit card and stole a hefty sum of money. As you can imagine, I'm very upset and sad. Hopefully we'll see better days... 😥

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    Cadet Stimpy
    Jul 06, 2021
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    Yeah, I just got this message literally 2 minutes ago: