The recreation of the account might have played more role than obvious. Like if it was bowling or throwing darts or something, maybe it was just too busy.

Thank you, you have nailed it...I assume some of my "safety code" accidentally disabled the service. Or maybe I should blame it on bad weather, or somebody else , as is customary. What was a real challenge - navigate thru all " why are you doing that?... post detail error ...post your (formatted ) code...you have asked this before...I do not know the answwr, but L like... I am really hesitant to ask questions on this forum, I always get flamed.... Anyway, thanks for you help, much appreciated.

Kent Sharkey wrote: It's The Year of Linux on Azure somewhere! Finally... :jig: :badger::jig: M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.

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Kent Sharkey wrote: A copy of Windows 3.1? The got the install disks from Southwest.

And this hear in is the very reason WHY I will not buy in to the subscription economy!! I got caught out once by Amazon AWS (Well the startup I was part of at the time did...) and Amazon happily took $19,000 of the start-up's money (That later turned out to be something that was their fault) and we had a hell of a time getting it back. I simply do not trust companies that want to have a "tap" connected to your funds before you can even trial anything, because it's all just insidious attempts to take money from you as and when they feel like it. It's quite basically, legalised robbery. "But what happens if you use more of a thing than you've paid for, how will we ever recoup our monies then?" Um, no that's really very simple. YOU OWN THE RESOURCE. when my credit runs out, you turn that resource off until I give you some more money. pretty simple concept, web hosting companies have been doing it for years. When my credit runs out on my linode server, it gets deactivated, the few things I do have turned on (Like my excessive bandwidth charge), they send me an invoice for if it goes over.... and take me to court if I don't pay it. Why should cloud services be any different? From a recent discussion I had with a plugin provider for SketchUp that I use: ME: "Hi, I'd like to upgrade to the latest version please, I have V1 and I see that V2 is released" THEM: "yea sure, what's your account login name?" ME: "Account? I don't have one, I paid for this about 4 years ago, gave you my pay-pal, you took payment and sent me the plug-in electronically" THEM: "oh I see... yea we don't do that any more, you have to have an account with us." ME: "Why? SketchUp is not an online thing, well at least not the pro desktop version I use anyway, I'd like to just buy the upgrade and then go install it on my offline laptop" THEM: "sorry, the machine you use it on has to be online!" ME: "Why?" THEM: "because that's how we do things now." ME: "that's silly, the SketchUp pro app is still desktop based, works without being online, and I like it that way because I often have to take my laptop and go out in the field to use it." THEM: "we wrote the new version so that it always checks if it's licensed when you start the app up, it won't work if your not online" ME: "ok, I guess I understand that, what if I create an account, buy my plugin, register it then close my account." THEM: "that won't work the

It doesn't work like that. There are plenty of sites where you can hire someone to do your work for you. This is not one of them. We're happy to help with specific problems in code you have written. But this is not a "do my work for me" or a "convert this code for me" type of site. "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer

And now the devil chases its own tail.

You need to use the right OS for the hardware. Some computers will forever run Windows Vista better than any OS because the drivers were designed for it. Once you start upgrading Windows you run into driver emulation issues or kernel thread scheduling issues. So either you stay on the older version of Windows or you move to Linux which doesn't have these issues at a driver level.

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Very cool. Thanks for sharing :thumbsup:

But, I was assured that open software solved security problems (that didn't exist on Linux anyway.)

"Meanwhile, Microsoft routinely makes decisions that had huge consequences for customers, and they just don't care" - agreed.

Ron Anders wrote: I've stubbornly use MBR on all my machines for concern the real reason for UEFI is so Microsoft can control from where your pc loads it's boot code C'mon, even the hardcore Linux guys have come around on that one.

That's an interesting idea. I'll have to read up on the details.