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@pete wrote:

Guess :-

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:lol: :lol: :lol: you load of nutters :lol:

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ouch (as in having to pay for brake bulbs, tyres and tracking that I had not budgeted for and unexpected needed)

and

ouch again (for falling down the stairs whilst carrying the laundry basket and slipping in my slippers which are about 3 sizes too big)

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@tinks wrote:

Some retail therapy on saturday and lots of peace n quiet aka ‘quality me time’ watching dvd’s………munchin my way through some nice choccies………..pampering bath times………listening to some good music………….and feeling nicely chilled ……..yeah!!!

:D/

Sounds like my kind of weekend tinkerbella xxx, we have family to stay and sp are off to the caravan on saturday morning, probably via The Deep at Hull and then over the Humber Bridge to Chapel.

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Happy Birthday Rose (my likkle plucker) hope you had a fab day and got spoilt rotten. love catty xxx

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@thistlefem_43 wrote:

and im sorry will but i could not resist this one for u lol

:lol: :lol: Best April Fools joke i’ve seen all day :lol: :lol:

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@forumhostpb wrote:

@chathostuk wrote:

Hey Charles

I recovered from a hard drive failure in July so know exactly what you are going through. Mine was a mechanical hard drive failure though, and I had most data backed up on an external hard drive.

I have always used a power surge adaptor for my computer, and am surprised you didn’t! Oh well, we learn by our mistakes, eh?

Good to have you back!

Cheers Martin. Well I sure learnt by my mistake eh??? – so did my wallet !!!

I looked into the possibility of using an external hard drive for backup …. but they seemed to cost around £85-£120 depending on the size. A new HDD only cost me £46 (£92 for the pair) and I now have 500 GB of storage (2 x 250 GB) and it didn’t cost me too much.

The part of the exercise that was the most difficult was trying to remember what ‘little extras’ I had installed – you know, all those tweaks that personalise your Windows installation. I think I’ve got most of them ….. er …. umm….. I’ll let you know.

HELPFUL TIP:

For those who often install software from the internet (as opposed to installing it from a CD/DVD) it can be a total nightmare to remember where it all came from if you need to re-install it for some reason. Here’s a useful idea.

Create a new Folder on your desktop and name it “Downloads”. (Right click on the desktop and let the mouse pointer hover over “New”. On the pop out menu, go to the top and click on “Folder”. Windows will place one on the desktop, which you can then name “Downloads”)

Then, every time you download stuff from the internet – instead of clicking on “Run” …. click on “Save” and save the downloaded file in “Downloads”.

When you want to instal it, simply navigate to the saved file, click on it to open it, and away you go. If you need to re-install it at any time, you will always have a copy saved on your computer. Trust me …. it’s really useful lol.

I wish i had seen this post last week!! my computer decided to die and I got a fatal error (or something technically worded flashed on my screen before it died) and my computer would not boot up. I had no idea where the restore discs are as my computer is 7 years old. So i had to restore to factory settings and ended up with service pack 1(!) on my puter, no games or any of the software that I had downloaded in the last 7 years. I have lost all my word and excel files but some reason I still have photos stored and I am still trying to go through everything and download the programmes etc, I have nothing on cd/dvd. It has taken almost a week to download all the updates via the automatic update thing and to reinstall my norton antivirus. The grief it has caused to someone like me who doesnt know computer jargon to try and get all my settings back just how i like them is unbelievable. On the plus side my computer has loads of free space and is extremely fast now :lol:

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Getting an unexpected present yesterday and another today :shock:

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headache :(

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Another weekend is nearly here already so again… what are your plans???

I’m off to the caravan tomorrow morning with Tiggy, my sister and the two nephews and we have an agenda planned of sillyness and family fun all weekend. We are going out for an italian meal on Saturday night at my fav restaurant and then to the local family pub to celebrate my birthday and once the kids are in bed we are going to watch Saw V :lol: :lol: once we make sure that the kids are definately asleep and if my sister doesn’t get too scared :lol:

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