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Hi all,
Working with windows 10 for some time now and I'm more than happy with it.
I can see three problems at least in my installation:
1. Cursor looks too small in office 2016 applications (Word, Excel...) in all the other places it looks normal.
2. When I press the windows key the menu opens always at the first display no matter which display I'm working at the moment... I would love having the menu open in the current display (where the mouse or focus is).
3. Edge doesn't allow me to add more "top sites".
Anyone knows how to solve any of those issues? (please without the fun part of recommending using Linux neither installing a proper browser).
Thank you all!
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Just 3 annoyances?
FanBoi. 
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I read your subject as "I am using Windows 10 and Windows 3 and there are annoyances."
Geez, what could be annoying in Windows 3?
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1) Install Libreoffice.
2) As far as I know, you can't change this. I like it doing that, it provides a consistent location to "look for".
3) is easy: install Chrome. (This isn't "install a proper browser" because I'm yet to be convinced that Edge is a browser).
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Joan M wrote: 2. When I press the windows key the menu opens always at the first display no matter which display I'm working at the moment... I would love having the menu open in the current display (where the mouse or focus is).
Regarding that one, I don't know if it's because I installed Classic Start Menu, but it doesn't occur for me - the Windows key opens on whatever monitor has the currently focused app, as well on the monitor on which I click the Windows icon.
Marc
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do math I can
Sin tack
the any key okay
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One of the clients, an automobile dealer, in his app wants a "cool" feature. The App is basically about providing information on the vehicle, owner, insurance dates , all info/documents . Anything related to the owner/vehicle.
Funny thing is they ask for a Flash light button on the main screen, so that people can use it when they open the boot or hood of the car. How insane. irrelevant. futile. funny! We are doing it.
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Have you considered integrating Google Maps into the app so you can find your way while you're driving.
A feature that shows cool events near you is also a must have so you know where to drive to.
And you definitely need a messaging function so you can let your friends know you've arrived.
And you need some web shop feature, like eBay, in case you want to sell your car and/or buy a new one!
Don't forget to integrate the camera so you can take pictures of your car within the app.
Does the app already have a name? "The One App", "The App Above All" and "GOD" (Get Off-your-ass-and Drive) come to mind
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Now, what do you guys know about getting of the ass and driving, having license plates in warning colors and always towing around your homes.
I hope not to see a single yellow black license plate when I get on the road in a few minutes and enjoy driving with the pedal to the metal.
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CDP1802 wrote: I hope not to see a single yellow black license plate when I get on the road in a few minutes
I hope so too.
I don't enjoy driving and I enjoy it even less with other people on the road 
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Hell is other people.
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May be they'd want the App to 3d print a metal Jack if they need to change the tire. Just in case.. 
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Great plan! This app is getting together
By the way, don't mention any of this to your manager or client, they will not understand the sarcasm and order you to actually build it 
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As a senior citizen, I have a nap for that too.
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zzzzzz.... What? Huh? Did I miss something...? Good! zzzzzzzz...
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Hi,
We all know those screws with no Star, Slot, Philips op Posidrive self tapping screws. Star(Torque) and Hex Drives with a pip in the centre to stop me inserting a standard tool to undo the screw. The question is 'Why' manufacturers go to this length.
I am talkin about small domestic appliances, for instance Irons and Toasters.
It has been mentioned that they try to protect a patent inside. Well, if I was after discovering an important patent, I would go to the Patents Office, and request the Patent Documentation. Moreover, if I indeed wanted to look inside to see how it works, a hacksaw and an angle grinder would in most if not all cases give me access to the innards.
Another reason that has been mentioned is 'Consumer Safety' That comes into play were voltages seriously higher than 240/380 Volt come into play. Historically, a Colour CRT had a voltage applied in the range of around 40kV. Never seen tamper proof screws used in these scenario's. Another app is the Power Supply in a Microwave Oven, which uses a Voltage Multiplier Stack to generate voltages between 4 and 16 kV. Never found any security screws there either.
A Further reason stated was: 'No User Serviceable Parts Inside', in other words, This is Our Area, Don't Go There.
That is the most annoying one. I do not rent the appliance, I Bought it, and I own it. It is for me to do with as I wish, modify it as I wish, and accepting that as soon as I open or modify it, that I am out on my own, and that factory guarantees are null and void.
All in all, I do not accept that I should be locked out of an appliance I have bought, by tamperproof screws.
Running a Laundrette for 20 years, Irons fail, mostly because of a temperature over run, and the thermal fuse failing. A Steam Generator Iron? All works on 220/240 Volt. Nothing of extreme danger there. Fit a New Thermal Fuse and the item will work again. By fitting tamper proof screws, the manufacturer makes such repair difficult, if not impossible.
We get on average a Year out of an Iron by repairing. On average each Iron needs 3 repairs in it's one year life, before it is written off and dismantled for spares. Tamperproof Screws work against the motto of 'Repair, Re-Use, Re-Cycle'
Bram van Kampen
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> Tamperproof Screws work against the motto of 'Repair, Re-Use, Re-Cycle'
You just answered your own question.
I have a deep freeze in the garage that is 30 years old. It runs like new. The new stuff you buy today is full of computers and is complete utter crap. The new versions won't run on generator, they die very early. The whole idea is to get you to BUY BUY BUY.
Speaking of irons, I remember my mom's electric iron. I think it was the same iron for as long as I can remember, decades. The new ones last 9 - 12 months. I have a complete kit of tools for opening those "security" screws, including a set for cell-phones. I use it regularly.
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Compaq got it started as far back as the 286 maybe earlier. We have in our shop what us old timers call "The compaq screwdriver" which is just a star you can just let at lowes still opening those HP towers today. largely To get at the failing western digital blue drives.
I think they thought they could discourage the techs and we'd send it in to them for service as end users wouldn't have opened up a tower in any case.
Apple likes to send you to the hardware store.
Not surprised that consumer electronics want in too.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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Alright, I have to tell this one. 2 weeks ago my wife's hybrid car threw all kinds of error messages. The traction battery was dead and had to be replaced. That's the big one. She was near a dealer so drove it right in. They said it would be $3,200 to install a new battery pack.
I said, uh, thanks, I'll fix it myself. They said ha, you can't do that.
Long story short, last weekend we took the back of the car apart, extracted the battery pack, put it on the bench, isolated the dead cell. Ordered a new cell from China. Installed it, balanced the cells, reinstalled the pack, cleared the errors, tested the car, runs like new again.
Total cost including shipping of the new cell $39.
They have all kinds of warning about you will die a horrible electric death if you touch this. Well, I touched it.
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well, you sound like a guy like myself.
I was brought up in Holland, beside a retired old farmer who had rented his yard out to a scrap dealer. A scrap dealer next door, and I pulled all sorts of things of that heap. Tried to make things work again, From clocks to Motorbikes,(always failed) but got a concept of how things worked, from the age of 6.
At least you could get acces to the battery, apparently without the need for in obtainable tools.
My issue is, that as long as public safety is not involved, i.e.: a Car Lithium Battery can cause an Explosion, a Mains Powered Iron can Not endanger public safety, the owner of the equipment should be entitled to full access, and not be restricted by restricted fasteners.
Bram van Kampen
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Yep, me too. I was given an old non-working motorcycle at age 11, simple, one piston. I got that running and ran it into the ground for years. By the time I was 16 I was rebuilding car engines. There is no better way to learn.
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Lithiun Something cells are no toys. They tend to explode and burn if they are treated the wrong way or at the end of their life, and the smoke is not exactly good for your health as well. On the other side, these cells have a limited lifetime and should therefore be easy to access and replace. It could be made as easy as plugging in the new cell and letting the electronics in the car do all checking and balancing.
The downside to your approach is that now not all cells are equally old and unbalanced voltages will happen more often as the other older cells degrade. This does not really help to prolong the life of the other cells, including the new ones you installed. Repeating this procedure all the time may also cost some nerves.
Edit: And now I'm going to take the LiPolys I have charged and go out on a field to fly a little.
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This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
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"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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your in Heaven now. You just don't know you have died. <grin>
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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Well,
You nearly make me eat my complaint, and I hope you are still alive to read this.
Say your traction battery has an action radius of say 160 miles, and, assume say a conservative gas equivalent of 20 miles per galon. The battery then stores the energy equivalent of 8 galon of gas. That constitutes a serious Molotov cocktail that you now store in your garage and drive along the road.
This would be something that should be done properly, so as to protect your own, and also public safety. The first question is, are the cells you buy from china for $39 fully up to spec, or, are they rejects that 'Still Work', but may become dangerous later in their life.
I would be very weary of doing something like that myself, before I appraised myself of all the facts in the matter, including how to quality test the cells.
This is actually a different issue. It comes down to: 'Should the Public be allowed to Create a Potential Fire Bomb'. I am unaware of legislation in the US, but would not at all be surprised if it was allowed there. Here in the UK, such things would be strictly forbidden by law.
Bram van Kampen
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