Recent content by McRuff

You are right Coke. I hasn't checked the price for the business plan in a while. In NZ dollars now per year for 1 seat with TAX is $88.32. The total until 2020 would now only be $1773.24. Still a thousand dollars more than the stand alone price. Still planning to stick to 2010. But only...

When Office 2013 first came out I worked out this spreadsheet, comparing the upgrade costs to 2013. I currently have Office 2010 Pro X 1 and H&S x 3. I only use Excel and Word and need at least one commercial license because I am self employed and use it for business. I have 3 computers. My...

Yes both of the hard drives are internal. The SSD is a Samsung 840 Evo 1 TB attached to a SATA3 port. The Western Digital is attached to SATA2. The virtual box settings are not quite even though. All have 4 GB of RAM, but Mint uses only 2 processors and 128 MB of video RAM. Win 8.11 has 4...

Here is some boot times for virtual box machines. I moved them last week from a Western Digital Black to a SSD. WD 2TB Black SSD Start win 8.11 38.81 21.07 Mint 16 26.52 13.31 Mint Debian 42.92...

Don't forget that prior to the subscription model from Microsoft you could get a 3 user copy of Home and Student 2010 for about the same or less money than it now costs for the single user/device version of 2013. That increase in price for the purchased version has made the subscription appear...

Not sure what is going on with this so called backup disk from New Egg but it is now shown as discontinued. Newegg.com - Microsoft Windows 8.1 Back-up Media - (Media Only)

You are right that we are not a lap dog, we are far to small. I would put us more as a handbag dog. Especially after passing the GCSB Bill.

You do not have to reinstall, but you do have to reinstall your apps. Still the same story as when the preview came out. This is repeated in the comments section of the linked article

On my system the fonts on 7 and 8 look as good or better than Linux. Have you got ClearType turned on and are you using scaling on your video driver?

It is not a DPI issue. The blurry font is a fault in Windows 8 and a fix is supposed to be coming in 8.1. The people suffering it appear to be fairly random and I have not heard of a successful fix. A hardware change may fix it and if you have spare hardware it could be worth a try. But I...

All fixed now in free update StartIsBack + StartIsBack+ Beta 4 - Windows 8 - MSFN Forum

It is not the same player. Just looks like Media Player 6.4 in Windows 2000. It was started when Microsoft brought out XP and a lot of people did not like the new media player that came built in.

The sort of voter Politicians love. And a perfect sheeple statement. Sheeple - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

So I take it you don't follow international current affairs and haven't heard of Prism etc

What version of office 365 do you have. Office 365 can be used as Office on Demand where it is streamed to your PC as opposed to being installed. Maybe that is the version that you are using.