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What were you trying to do here, were you trying to do a "clean install" of Windows using a Windows 10 DVD? And if so were you trying to put in the Windows 7 or 8 product Key? If so Windows 10 will NOT accept a Windows 7 or Windows 8 Product Key. To do a "clean install" of Windows 10 using...

For those of you who like "old movies" then you may be interested in a TV channel called Talking Pictures. It is I believe only on Sky at the moment, on channel 343 (in the Movie section), though I believe it is due to go on to other platforms like Freeview soon. It is run by a group of...

Logging on with your email address and password started with Windows 8. In previous versions of Windows you just needed a logon "name", like Fred, and an optional password. However you can still set Windows to require only a logon userid if you wish and NOT your email address/password...

Stitching photos together is pretty amazing nowadays. Here is a panorama I produced by stitching about 9 photos together, and you cant see the joins. This is the Arena Central site (where the Central TV studios used to be) Pan3 800 by Guilbert60, on Flickr

Looks like it only affects the Home product. Most "home users" who upgrade from Windows 7 and 8.1 will upgrade to the Windows 10 Home product. Found some text on the web which says "Windows 10 Home users will have updates from Windows Update automatically available, Windows 10 Pro and...

Most of us who use Windows see it as one single program with just the one user interface, but Windows is a very complex piece of computer software which consists of millions of lines of computer code and thousands of small programs all working together and "talking" to each other. Normally an...

I believe to see the "Windows 10 is coming" options you need to be on the latest level of Windows 7 (in other words all Windows updates installed) or on Windows 8.1 with all updates installed. You WONT see the Windows 10 options if you are still on Windows 8.0 (in other words have not upgraded...

Ginger Baker has been mentioned a few times on here. For those interested there was a program about him on BBC 1 two nights ago, and is available on the BBC iPlayer for the next 27 days or so. As you may expect from Ginger, plenty of swearing, with him having a go at the interviewer a few...

Re: British Film Institute film of 1930s Birmingham Below, link to fascinating (if rather technical) film of the building of the ring road in the 1960s. Lots of views of the city from the 1960s, and it does show how this ring road almost totally wrecked the centre of the city Note you have to...

With the rise in people getting information from the internet on smartphones, tablets and computers, there is less and less need for any printed material. I think over the next few years we will see most of the daily newspapers disappearing one by one. In fact I predict in 10 or 20 years time...

I was searching on Sky today to find a certain film and I found it on a TV channel called Talking Pictures which I had never heard of. Took me a while to find it on the Sky planner but in the end found it in the Movie section, right at the end, on Chanel 343. Not sure if it is on any other TV...

That photo was part of a set of photos on "Vanished Birmingham" the Birmingham Mail published here: https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/vanished-birmingham---amazing-buildings-9450956 But if you scroll down to the bottom of that page you see two comments added pointing out two...

And 3 minutes 25 seconds in to your video you have a scene of a roundabout on a canal. You may be interested to see how it looked about 30 years ago

Sean 5 minutes in to your video you shows the reflections in the new silver border round New Street station. Well here is a photo I took just a few weeks ago of the same thing

Excellent video which captures the city centre very well. I go up Birmingham a lot taking photos of the city (mainly buildings) but you have taken many shots of the buildings around the city far better than I have ever done, you obviously have a good "eye" for angles and composition (trained in...

The Latin and ancient Roman alphabet did not have a letter U and the letter V was used in its place. Gradually U came to be used as the vowel form and V as the consonant forum. One web site I found says "For a very long time, U and V were allographs. What’s an allograph? An allograph is a...

My guess is to spread the load they will download the huge file over a number of days (or even weeks) so it is then ready on people's hard disk before they release the final "install" command. I hate to think of the chaos when thousands (or even millions) of people try to install Windows 10 at...

Fitting an SSD is not difficult. SSDs are the same physical size as hard disks that go in to laptops so on a laptop they can just go in the same slot in place of your existing laptop hard disk. This assumes you have easy access to your laptop hard disk (most can be accessed by removing a panel...

I guess 3 main reasons: 1) Most laptops and desktop PCs have a hard disk in them and when you start your computer the disk has to start spinning and then all the programs are read off this disk and loaded into memory. A spinning hard disk is a fairly slow thing (in computer terms) so Windows...

In the days before tablets and smartphones Windows could handle the "simple" stuff (browsing and emails) but could also handle the very complex stuff (writing software programs, video editing etc.) What the tablet and smartphone has done is enable people to do the "simple stuff" on a small...