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AskWoody LoungerIs it possible switching to another dictionary (US to UK) and then back again would correct it?
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AskWoody LoungerOff of the top of my head, within the Uninstall section of Control Panel/Programs, has Vista the ‘Show Windows Updates’ or ‘Installed Windows Features’? Could it be there?
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AskWoody LoungerI have recent found that Chrome at work is incredibly slow connecting to Google+, Gmail, Gmaps, etc (despite setting Google as DNS server), so I have started to use the much faster Vivaldi, which is at the moment quite basic, but is being developed by the same team that worked on the original Opera browser (which I continue to use in the non-Chromium version 12.17).
Like others, it is possible to use ad blockers on Chrome and configure it, but I also don’t want my work searches to be used in marketing to me personally. -
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AskWoody LoungerMicrosoft are no longer able to connect to Facebook using the People app due to a change in Facebook’s API. Your connections would need to give individual permission to be linked. You have to log in to your Microsoft account online and remove the connection to Facebook to stop the error message.
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