Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-6433273-20151126190829/@comment-82.9.128.237-20151215233210

Angel Emfrbl wrote: I don't understand my computer... The first time it took 4 hours and it just reverted back because of that aforementioned issue. Yesturday I tried it several times and left it running over night. It did naught and a anti-virus update instead restarted the computer, cancelling out the update.

This morning, after all that, it *seems* to be going through.

I had to download windows to a install disk to get it to run, it wouldn't do a direct download from their site. It hated it.

I like XP myself, but my last computer cam with 7. Preferred 7 over 8, but honestly... Without the clean install option for Windows 7 (since the disk is back in Essex and I live in Norfolk now, I live in England for those who don't know) and has been out of my hands for over 4 years... I'm not in much options. :-/

Speaking of where I live. You know there is a place in America called "norfolk", I heard someone mention it in NCIS a few months back (this may be no news to those from Amercia or live there/nearby). The way the America pronounce their Norfolk is "nor" as in "normal" while we pronounce ours as "nor" as in "north", we go to say the "th" sound but it doesn't come out basically. (Its name also basically comes from something like "the northern folk" or something like that, honestly I can't remember the full story behind it, maybe its because we're in the northern part of Anglia). "Folk" is pronounce almost like "for" in "fork", because there is less emphasis on the "lk" part of the word, while we say "folk" like we would say "ock" as in "clock".

I guess it sounds like "Nor-For-urk" almost, while the America one sound like "Nor-for" with an almost silent k. I'm not very good at describing phonetic sounds. Saying that... I've had fun with people trying to guess where I'm from. I had the wrong accent for Essex, so got accused of being from elsewhere in the country (even from Canada, even tough aside from 3 days so in France I've never been abroad). My landlady sometimes speaks with a local folk accent and her Norfolk roots leak out (her Norfolk accent is 90% worn way from living abroad for years in Europe and mostly in Amercia when she was married to her scumbag husband).

Edit: Windows 10 on the "I only work well when the planets are in a certain alignment" computer is installed. About your computer coming with Windows 7, whenever I get a new computer I always keep whatever Windows version I have already installed for gaming or other Windows-only activites and then use Linux as my general machine (duel boot). You may want to try that out if you ever do want to try Linux instead of diving straight in. As I said earlier, I hate to sound so pushy but this website may show you a little bit about Linux and explain why I think it's a good OS in general.