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On 12/09/15 11:23, Eion MacDonald wrote:
1. I know the feeling. Our housename is 'Cap Coch', Welsh for 'red hat'. The number of people who say 'I know coch is red but what is cap?' is amusing. My reply is usually 'You've done the hard part.. cap is hat'. The misspellings we get are legion, usually from English spellcheckers I think. Most common are 'Cap Coach and 'Cap Cock'. One reason why I really should pay more attention to spelling names :)On 11/09/2015 23:57, Julian Hall wrote:On 11/09/15 23:28, Julian Hall wrote:On 11/09/15 21:03, Eion MacDonald wrote:On 11/09/2015 13:46, Eion MacDonald wrote:On 10/09/2015 22:51, Jay Bennie wrote:On 10 Sep 2015, at 22:27, Simon Avery <digdilem@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:digdilem@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:You know, this makes me quite uncomfortable, and not just because it's causing problems with people who have capped data. http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2425381/microsoft-is-downloading-windows-10-to-your-machine-just-in-caseDownload. I have unticked every time the update to Win 10 on three Win 7 Pro boxes and rejected the 'update' pop up, but I never tried to find the hidden download. My machines are not set to automatically download monthly or other MS Updates, all updates need tick before downloading. If they are bypassing this, UMM! I have noticed many many 'failure' against update to Win 10 in Windows update history. Thanks for this thread.I confirm two Microsoft hidden files, one the afore-named $Windows.~BT size 5.63GB and a file $Windows.~WS of 62KB on a Windows 7 Pro Machine where no permission for Windows 10 upgrade was ever given.Hi Eoin, What is their location please? Just to save me searching the entire partition. Kind regards, JulianBeg pardon that should be Eion :) Julian1. Name no problem. See below I am very used to good grammar Gaelic folk misspelling it. 2 Location is root of C drive as a hidden file. In Windows Explorer, Computer US(C:); C: $Windows.~BT 3. Name, The clerics who tried to write down names on Skye, got it wrong compared to all other Gaels in West Scotland, Usual Scots Gaelic for "John" is "Eoin". Lowland Scots English spelling "Ian" (is corruption of "Eoin" sound) Local Skye misspelling is "Eion", 15th century about, still of course now perpetuated! It caused much merriment and sorting of accounts in a Middle east country when two persons had exactly the same set of misspelt names including middle ones; one leading a delegation of 10 folk on a government mission with very big hotel bills and me on a single visit at same time and for same booked in period. It took a while sorting out the bills. Hilarity is not a good name for the ensuing chaos of trying to get a UK Minister's bar bill off my personal account. "Eion" works as a tracker that folk have a Skye ancestor.
2. Thanks. I don't seem to have either file, yet. I do have the icon on the taskbar to download it but I have not done so.
3. That sounds similar to the Welsh Ieuan (pron: Y-eye-un), one syllable different - I'm not sure if the English is John or Ian, it could be Ieuan - Johann - John which sound similar. That situation sounds like a total nightmare. I remember once in university a lecturer suggested we all Google our names. All I foudn was a judge who was prosecuted for flashing on a train.. wonderful. I guess you don't have that problem? :)
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