In a message on Monday 02-15-16 Jean Parrot said to Holger Granholm:   
      
   JP> 	Holger, GM OM. Yes, it is still GM here at -28.9 ø C.  Brrr !   
      
   GM Jean OC. It's morning here too at -5øC. We have had a quite mild   
   winter so far this year. Only in week 1 we had three days with -10 to   
   -15øC. Other than that the, temperature has hovered at single figures   
   above and below freezing.   
      
   Weeks two and three brought 40 cm of snow. The sad thing is that my car   
   wasn't usable, to go to the ski center, because the AC blower ceased to   
   work, and as you know, driving a car without a blower to keep the inside   
   of the windscreen free from frost in the winter, results in having to   
   stop every few hundred meters to scrape it off.   
      
   The reason the blower fix was complicated, by the trouble to find a   
   replacement. That ended by replacing the motor only, in the old housing.   
      
   The snow we had has disappeared, and been replaced with a centimeter of   
   white fluff, that started as sleet last week.   
      
   JP>     Obtaining a 2nd hand machine always leads to problems of sorts.   
   JP> Cleaning it up of redundant files, loaded by a non educated user is   
   JP> the problem.   
      
   It has been noted :o)   
      
   JP> 	In your case, can I suggest to first make a clone of it all, then   
   JP> go to that little start window on the left of the taskbar, one click   
   JP> on it -> Settings -> Update & Recovery -> Recovery -> Reset this PC.   
      
   That would have been the best choice, but with the exception of a few   
   things. First, I didn't know the various back-up and cloning programs to   
   use. I did recall a discussion with OM Tom about a cloning program that   
   happily made a clone, but wasn't able to recover it, if not registered.   
      
   Before doing anything with the machine i made a recovery file on a a 8Gb   
   USB stick.   
      
   I had the Acronis TI9 for my XP laptop, but it refused to work in Win10.   
   On magazine CD's I had the Easeus and Macrium programs. I installed the   
   Easeus programmes and made a full backup of the HD, but didn't risk to   
   make a clone, with unknown replacement function.   
      
   Break........   
      
   Now, at 11:25 it's only -0.5øC and the sun is coming through the mist.   
      
   JP>     This will do the job in one swoop. It will reset it all to a blank   
   JP> W-10 OS machine, you might even get the choice of language, worth a   
   JP> try ! Read all the instructions as they are presented to you, there   
   JP> are many a choice to pick. Do anything to the machine, you have a   
   JP> clone ! Not ?   
      
   All this would have been good to have known, B4 installing all the   
   programs I'm going to use. They were all installed to another partition   
   than the boot prtn, except Opera that refused to install on anything   
   else than C: .   
      
   After that I made a new backup, ran Cclean, downloaded the en-UK package   
   from M$ and let it be installed as per choice, made on screen B4 dwnld.   
      
   Still, the machine does talk to me mainly in swedish, except for the   
   opening screen showing the weather and other choices in english.   
      
   But the choices offered on the left when clicking on the lower left icon   
   are still in swedish.   
      
   Next step will probably be to let M$ install the en-US package and see   
   if it would also change the "display language" to english, under the   
   "Settings/country/language/time and ..." choices. Since I removed the   
   swedish language alternative, that is still missing in the en-UK choice.   
      
   JP> 	Remember that a clone will allow you to, after the fact, move any   
   JP> file/folder back from clone to main machine. I abuse this privilege   
   JP> all the time, even from clone to another machine, not the source.   
      
   Yes, that's what I would have done if my reegistered TI9 would have   
   worked under W10.   
      
   JP>     We are having fun !  All fine wishes.   
      
   Yes, we are. Same to you.   
      
   CU AGN,   
      
   Holger   
      
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