Forum crash

PS_RalphW · Post by **PS_RalphW** » 03 Sep 2012, 18:05

My wife's Windows 7 laptop has just got stuck saying 'startup repair' for the last 20 minutes

JavaScriptDonkey · Post by **JavaScriptDonkey** » 03 Sep 2012, 18:49

Hold down the power button for about 10 seconds. It will shut down. Reboot it as normal and this time select the boot as normal option instead of the repair option.

Usually works.

Tarrel · Post by **Tarrel** » 03 Sep 2012, 18:49

rue_d_etropal wrote:It is this type of thing that makes me worry we are becoming too dependent on technology.
The internet is a wonderful tool, but it is sucking us all down a hole which we ill find it difficult to get out of.
Just spent a week down in France(200mile approx south of HWH) and no internet, peace and quiet and didn't really miss it. Prefer to be doing something rather than wondering what to do next.
It used to be much easier to get services set up, someone to fix something before the internet, because there was some shop or office you could physically go into and sort the problem out. just tried sorting out annual gas service and the website would not allow me to do so so I had to ring up a call centre.

Anyway good to see the forum back

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19341605

Online on holiday - expensive and risky

Getting an internet connection while on holiday in France can be an expensive and dangerous business. So far, it's cost me about £65 and left me with bruised ribs. Let me explain.

ujoni08 · Post by **ujoni08** » 03 Sep 2012, 20:22

(takes tinfoil hat off)
I thought we'd been 'taken out'...

UndercoverElephant · Post by **UndercoverElephant** » 03 Sep 2012, 20:33

It also crossed my mind.