I still fail to see how people can get bothered about operating systems. I think I have used all of them since Windows 3.1 but can't get excited or bothered about them one way or the other. Not a fan of Windows ME, Vista or Windows 8 but apart from that they are tools that do things and things run on for me. Mostly I use a browser, Photoshop, Office and various music software. Is it difficult to navigate round Windows. No. I can't see any real difference in practical terms between 7 and 10. But there we go.

I did have THE most bizarre thing two days ago though which I have never come across. My keyboard partially stopped working. Number pad and everything right of the Insert/Delete/Arrows worked. On the top row the numbers 4 to 0 and - and + worked. Backspace didn't. No keys worked on the Q row. A couple of keys on the next row and the keys on the bottom row right of the letter V. Right shift worked everything on the left didn't.

The upshot of that was that I could get to the log on page and log on but never got to the icons on the desktop so it was unuseable.

Could get to Advanced Options from the log on page by shift restarting on the Power option but it would not System Restore or use any of the sorting options apart from Resetting the machine. I also had to splash out on a £5.95 keyboard (why do keyboards range from £6 to £150? - weird)

But the ability to restore windows without disks etc from the machine itself I think is a good thing. Reinstalling the programs I wanted was a bit of a pain but it does tell you everything that it has removed. At least half I won't bother to put back again.

Strange. But still can't get too excited about operating systems even when they go a bit (or a lot) wrong :)

My machine is about 6 or 8 years old with 8gb of RAM and I don't have any real issues apart from this latest bit of fun. I look it as an opportunity to do some spring cleaning