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A further comment re the update to 21H1. I brought my off-site machine home today and when I turned it on, it was finalising an update - lo and behold it was finishing the update to 21H1 which must have been started in the background when I last ran the machine on 10th June. It certainly didn't show up on the Windows Update screen back then. The update to 21H1 does show in the update history, as do further related updates installed today. All 4 machines now on 21H1. Colin

I did a quick Google as this sort of thing really annoys me. The first result produced this:- For Apply to folders greyed out in Folder View, right click the affected folder to make sure it is not included in a Library. If so remove it to apply Folder View. This is a link to the page https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/changing-to-list-view-but-apply-to-all-folders-is/1fee229d-6335-4009-bcbb-55b3f8ca8911 I notice that your screen capture shows your sample folder as being in a library. Not sure what "being in a library" entails as it's not something I've ever knowingly used. Just an idea, hope it helps. Colin

I've occasionally run into this behaviour, and I can't honestly remember how I resolved it. Don't forget, however, that although the obvious place to look, as you have done, is at the options available under the "View" tab, there are further options under the "Tools" tab. These include an "Apply to all folders" button and a list of other options activated by check boxes. Some options may only apply to folders of the same type. Hope this helps. Apologies if you are already aware/have tried this. Colin

I followed the information on the link and downloaded the files, and installed them very quickly without any obvious problems on the 3 machines I have here. The system is reported as 21H1. In the update history however, 21H1 is not mentioned and the installation date in "System About" is shown as 22/06/2020 which is the date on which v2004 was installed. That was updated to 20H2 on 30/10/2020. This may be "normal", but seems a little odd. Thanks for the assistance, Colin

Ok, thanks for the link. I'll try that. I'm not aware of any reason why the update should have been held back on my machines - all Dell laptops, Latitudes and a Vostro of varying ages/specs. Thanks, Colin

I have checked Windows Update manually on several occasions - mostly on the machine that's used regularly, but also on 2 others. I had a push last weekend to try to get those 3 to update, but they weren't having it. They're all old machines, but are running 20H2 fine if slowly. I'll have another push in a month or so if nothing has happened via the normal updates. The 4th machine is kept on another site as backup hardware but I'll try that one shortly. Thanks, Colin

First option produces nothing. I went down the second option route but it took so long I had to leave it running overnight. I checked next morning and the machine was on 20H2 - presumably the update was aborted for some reason. I have used the media creation tool in the past and will try it if I have to. I've a few important things to do in the near future, so I'll wait until they're done before I have another try with the update assistant before moving on. I've 4 machines to update, and none have so far shown the 21H1 update.

Still waiting for the 21H1 updates to appear here.

This may help :- https://www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/72157717111668177/ Flickr has changed payment processors a couple of times now, I think, and the first change required payment details to be given to the new processor, or else the payment defaulted to a monthly basis. I think this is correct. I renewed last year for a year after giving details to the then new processor. I think at that time Flickr stated that when a renewal date was due in 60 days, a popup such as you describe would appear. Searching the Help Forum further should bring up more info. Hope this helps. Colin

RIP "Merry Talker"

I use Flickr. As stated above, a free account carries some adverts but you can post 1,000 images. You can move up to a subscription account which allows unlimited use. I like the interface, and have nearly 6,000 images on there. Colin

I usually report/forward all scam email, provided that the relevant reporting address does not involve too much wading through an unhelpful website. Remember also, that you can often similarly report scam text messages. Colin

All this reminded me that tax rates used to be expressed as so many shilinngs and pence in the £, not as percentages. You could therefore have a basic rate of 7s 9d in the £. So, you'd divide the number of pounds by 4(5s), add half of that(2s 6d), and then add 1/10th of the figure added at stage 2(3d), in order to work out the tax. All good fun, added to which you had an "Earned Income Relief" which, if my memory is correct, reduced earned income(i.e. not investment income) by 2/9ths. Like most things you become familiar with, it didn't seem difficult at the time.

I seem to recall that part of the logic of the 10 shillings = 1 (New) £ was that many of the existing coins would have nicely fitted in to the system. The half-crown (2/6d) would have become 25 new pence - similarly the shilling = 10p, sixpenny piece = 5p. The mention of the threepenny piece further up the thread reminded me that one day in school, a friend said "if you can guess the date on this threepenny bit, you can have it". Now he didn't know that I helped in my parent's shop by counting the cash in the till each evening. I used to note the dates, mainly if a very old coin appeared. I had noticed however that many of the threepenny bits had been minted during WWII, and in 1943 in particular. In answer to my friend's question I said "1943". He was somewhat stunned that when he looked he had a few of them!! I wasn't paid out.

I remember that the price of 45 rpm records stayed at 6s 8d for a long time as you got exactly 3 records for £1. Once that link was broken the price rose a lot. My parents ran a newsagent shop at the time of "Decimal Day". It was the only morning I remember my father ever making the breakfast. He was in the shop but couldn't cope with the new money, so mum went down and served whilst my dad did the cooking. I was training as an accountant at the time and I remember every time we had any sort of difference for the next year it was described as a "decimal difference" - until it was properly sorted, of course.

My son was due to travel some distance about 12 months or so ago, checked his tyres and realised 2 required replacement. He went to a Nat Tyre branch and whilst the tyres were being changed he was told that there was a blow on the exhaust. The cost was considerable. Because of his imminent journey he said for them to go ahead. A sensor was also replaced. His car went into the main agent a few months later for an MOT and service. It passed the MOT with no quereies/warnings. A couple of months later he had to get a roof part replaced and asked the dealer to fit it. On entering the workshop they noticed that the exhaust was noisy and my son was advised that the car would fail its next MOT because the sensor that had been fitted by Nat Tyre was not correct and it had too long a cable which had been "tied" to the exhaust pipe. They suggested he go back to Nat Tyre, which he did in the form of an email to customer services. It was pointed out to the main agent that they had, in fact, given an MOT certificate on the car during the intervening period. They effectively just shrugged their shoulders. The MOT was done in "normal" times, the later work was done towards the end of "lockdown". To cut a long story short, my son was contacted by the area manager of Nat Tyre and was given the choice of going back to the same, or another, branch of the company. He chose the latter. Upon examination the mechanic agreed that the parts and the method of fitting were inappropriate, and the job was corrected free of charge, so I suppose that side ended reasonably. The story does however leave you sceptical of anything you are told. I have had my own issues with the same main dealer basically about inconsistencies in reporting wear on brake pads/discs and likely replacement periods. I had brake pads that, despite not being replaced, became substantially less worn on a later MOT. The upshot is that I have decided to switch to a "back street garage" that has for 30 years specialised in the make of car, and who appear to have done a sound job on the pad/disc replacement.

I was ordering something for my wife on the Argos website a few weeks ago. We had a problem when paying via a credit card in that the website did not correctly deal with the expiry date "spinners". Wouldn't work, so we switched to Chrome which worked perfectly. I have found Firefox to be not entirely stable of late, with some peculiar behaviours on Flickr and Facebook. Can't figure a pattern to them, though. Colin

Thought I'd just check the update page on one of my machines which is on Win 10 2004. Noted a couple of things - 1) I had the settings header Melmerby has mentioned(not previously noticed) and 2) some apparently very old optional updates. A web search produced a link to this page/explanation :- https://borncity.com/win/2020/09/27/windows-10-bietet-alte-unpassende-intel-treiber-updates-an-sept-2020/ Colin

I presume you have checked on forums to see if anyone having the same graphics card has succeeded in installing it successfully on v2004 with either the existing or later driver. I suppose I'm wondering if it is just the upgrade that is blocked for some reason, but that once in 2004 one of the drivers will work. That would be analogious to my having to uninstall Diskcryptor so that the upgrade runs, but once done the software will install and run successfully even though MS might suggest it wouldn't. That it does so, I discovered on forums. Apologies if I'm suggesting something you've already done. I agree, tech companies are far too focussed on walking away from, rather than providing, customer service, and often their websites are very unhelpful. I mentioned nVidia drivers because that seemed to be the only problem that MS listed for the upgrade that I could possibly relate to my machine. It's a Dell laptop, by the way, dating from 2013.

I wouldn't advise anyone to do this, but I might try it on my own machine if I got into what I interpret as your situation and it wouldn't cause me to lose the ability to control the machine - judging by your comments on here in the past, you have more knowledge than I. Would it work to uninstall the hardware, remove the current drivers from the pc, and then run the update. Once in 2004, re-install within 2004 forcing Windows to find the best driver for the hardware and you could have downloaded those drivers to be available. Just a thought based on my need to remove and re-install some software either side of the feature updates. Apologies if it is a daft suggestion.

I think the update on my machine might have been held up by an issue with Nvidia drivers, but I'm not certain. Bizarrely, this is the youngest machine of all, but they are all old machines now. The update appeared within the normal Windows update screen so I just let it run. There was one false start when a restart screen appeared when I think it probably shouldn't have - I restarted the machine and subsequently so did the update, from the beginning! Win10 update is much better than it was but it still seems to have issues from time to time. Colin

I updated my last Win10 laptop to version 2004(64 bit) a couple of days ago - the update had been held back by MS. As usual for feature updates I uninstalled Diskcryptor, and an old free version of PGP desktop. After the otherwise successfull update, I re-installed Diskcryptor, but the reinstall of PGP Desktop(Version 10.1.1) stops early in the process. I gather it will still work if it installs and it has done on my other updates to Win10 2004. All I use is the file encryption/decryption facility. On running the installation (exe) file the install starts, asks to confirm the language, and then stops at a "Windows installer" screen displaying command line options for msiexec.exe. I'm guessing that the install cannot find the msiexec file or a parameter is missing. I did a search on the laptop and there are multiple copies of versions of that file, but those in the "Old Windows" folders are in differently named folders even though from a cursory check the files themselves seem the same. This is not a critical matter as I've already sorted out an alternative, but it would be nice to continue with PGP Desktop across all machines. Thoughts to get around this anyone?

There does appear to be a glut of scam emails at the moment. A "scatter gun" approach which makes some stupidly off-target and easy to spot. e.g. How does someone who never has owned or rented a property get a Council Tax refund? Definitely worth forwarding to banks/Paypal/HMRC, etc., although finding an email address to forward it to might not be so simple - tried tonight with one and gave up. Colin

I've received Win10 2004 on three machines. This goes against other comments, but I found it the slowest feature update for a while. One other machine(the most recent) is "not ready" for the update. In the three updated machines I had to go back to uninstalling and re-installing two encryption programs. Machines are 5-10 years old. Colin

I still run one machine with Win 7. It has received recent updates, all for Office programs - in my case Office 2010 which loses support later this year.