Pestered to upgrade to Windows 10?

http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/how-to/windows/how-stay-on-windows-7-8-forever-3614204/ are you being pestered by Microsoft to upgrade to Windows 10? Here's how to stop it.
Ill upgrade when I'm ready.
Now Microsoft have made the update essential not optional.

Now here the sting Microsoft's going to charge you £130 on July 29th for you FREE Windows 10!

"User Profile Service failed the sign-in. User Profile cannot be loaded." Error Windows 8

This has buggedme on a couple of PCs this last week, and I struggled t fix it, but now I have. Share it with you.

"User Profile Service failed the sign-in. User Profile cannot be loaded." Error Windows 8
Usual fix is to look for “BAK” profiles and delete them or “orphan” profiles that have no User accounts.
In my case none of these worked and no one could logon to said computer, the Error occurred for everyone. Luckily I could log on as the Local administrator. Eventually I found this solution which WORKED!! Hoorah, last resort was going to be wipe the Pc and re-install Windows from scratch, (plus everything else – tedious).
The symptom was the same message and it occurred for all additional users I tried to add after the first one. I had to do a bit more searching and found additional solution. The gist of it is like this - user profile is created when the user first tries to log on. During this process profile data is copied from the default profile. If file permissions are messed up then this process will fail. The solution is to propagate permissions from default user folder to all its subfolders and files. See here for details - "User Profile Service failed the logon. User profile cannot be loaded."

12 Tips for Christmas - MS Outlook - had to share

Had to share these tips with you.

Merry Christmas.

12 Tips for Christmas - MS Outlook 1. Never have to write the same email twice Create your email then click on File > Save As… > Outlook template. Then, to use the template, go to New Items > More Items > Choose From… and look in your ‘User Templates in File System’ to browse for the template you saved (control and ; inserts the current date). 2. Switch between your mail, calendar and contacts Hold down the Control key and tap 1 for Mail, 2 for Calendar and 3 for Contacts. 3. Create a Post It Note when in Outlook Hold down the Control + Shift and tap the letter N to bring up a Sticky Note. 4. Reply to an email  Hold down the Control key and tap R 5. Create a new email from your clipboard Copy any text to your clipboard, say from Word and then in Outlook hold down the Control key and tap the letter V. A new email is created with the text already pasted. 6.Forward an email quickly Hold down the ALT key and tap W 7.Use Quick Parts to save yourself time Simply highlight the text in the editing window, then switch to the Insert tab, click the Quick Parts dropdown and select ‘Save selection to Quick Parts gallery’. To use it, when you start typing the phrase, you’ll see it pop up as a suggestion – press Enter to insert it. 8. Write an email to be delivered in the future Defer the delivery of an email until a specified time. Write your email, then click on the ‘Options’ tab and click ‘Delay Delivery’. This opens a requester with a ‘Do not deliver before:’ field; enter a date and time, then click Close. 9. Flag messages fast With a message or two selected, just press the INSERT key to toggle the flag on and off. 10. Make certain emails stand out with Conditional Formatting Click on the View tab and click on View Settings and choose Conditional Formatting. Using this option doesn’t move or process messages, but it displays emails matching certain criteria in a specified font and colour, so you can instantly spot them in your inbox. 11. Set up a different Time Zone Under File, Options, Calendar you’ll find the option ‘Show a second time zone’ to display a second time zone so that you can keep track of what time it is back home, or see what time it is for your colleagues overseas, to ensure you catch them during office hours and don’t contact them at an inconvenient time of day. Click Swap Time Zones to easily switch from one location to the other. 12. Mark messages ‘read’ or ‘unread’

To mark a message as ‘read’ using the keyboard hold the Control key and tap the letter Q and Control and U to mark the message as ‘unread’.

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Euro Crisis in Cyprus

Really? A country of 1,000,000 poeple needs a 10bn euro loan? How do they get into so much debt?

Anyway, small beer. Surely a company like Google or Microsoft could buy the whole Island for $10bn they've got more than this sloshing around in spare cash. Its ludicrous.

Next is Slovenia.

Fancy a holiday island?