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      On 15/1/24 booked appointment with Big Motoring World (BMW) to view a mini on 17/1/24 at 8pm at their Enfield dealership.  

      Car was dirty and test drive was two circuits of roundabout on entry to the showroom.  Was p/x my car and rushed by sales exec and a manager into buying the mini and a 3yr warranty that night, sale all wrapped up by 10pm.  They strongly advised me taking warranty out on car that age (2017) and confirmed it was honoured at over 500 UK registered garages.

      The next day, 18/1/24 noticed amber engine warning light on dashboard , immediately phoned BMW aftercare team to ask for it to be investigated asap at nearest garage to me. After 15 mins on hold was told only their 5 service centres across the UK can deal with car issues with earliest date for inspection in March ! Said I’m not happy with that given what sales team advised or driving car. Told an amber warning light only advisory so to drive with caution and call back when light goes red.

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    • We have finally managed to obtain the transcript of this case.

      The judge's reasoning is very useful and will certainly be helpful in any other cases relating to third-party rights where the customer has contracted with the courier company by using a broker.
      This is generally speaking the problem with using PackLink who are domiciled in Spain and very conveniently out of reach of the British justice system.

      Frankly I don't think that is any accident.

      One of the points that the judge made was that the customers contract with the broker specifically refers to the courier – and it is clear that the courier knows that they are acting for a third party. There is no need to name the third party. They just have to be recognisably part of a class of person – such as a sender or a recipient of the parcel.

      Please note that a recent case against UPS failed on exactly the same issue with the judge held that the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 did not apply.

      We will be getting that transcript very soon. We will look at it and we will understand how the judge made such catastrophic mistakes. It was a very poor judgement.
      We will be recommending that people do include this adverse judgement in their bundle so that when they go to county court the judge will see both sides and see the arguments against this adverse judgement.
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      This is good ethical practice.

      It would be very nice if the parcel delivery companies – including EVRi – practised this kind of thing as well.

       

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Well, it arrived at 4pm when I was at school grabbing the kids, started installing after cooking dinner and eating at 6:30, all installed now and I have to say looking EXCELENT!!! :D

 

So, I think a lot of people will be getting troubles and wondering where xxx is 'cos it's not the same as XP.

 

1st one I've found, it comes with no mail client. Downloading Windows Live now.

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hey ive been running windows 7 now for 2months (had it on pre release) works a treat!!!

 

go for the ultimate version as this allows nearly everytning you plug in it..to be found and drivers installed instantly..

 

just make sure you have enough ram on your computer to run it..

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does the printer work

 

i went back to xp and gave up on vista

 

btw post what usb port did you plug your printer in...the reason i ask is i had the same problem...somehow vista/windows 7 are very funny and only allow certains usb ports to work printers...

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btw post what usb port did you plug your printer in...the reason i ask is i had the same problem...somehow vista/windows 7 are very funny and only allow certains usb ports to work printers...

 

You haven't installed the chip driver. This controls the usb ports.

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does the printer work

 

i went back to xp and gave up on vista

 

Not installed it yet... mine's wifi so should have no problems with USB etc...

 

hey ive been running windows 7 now for 2months (had it on pre release) works a treat!!!

 

go for the ultimate version as this allows nearly everytning you plug in it..to be found and drivers installed instantly..

 

just make sure you have enough ram on your computer to run it..

Yup, got ultimate, £70 with student discount and I'm well chuffed with it. Still installing my old software so replies will take a while for a day or 2 :p

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OK, printer installed fine, ultimate is 64 bit so can see all 4 gig of my memory fine (people with a 32 bit operating system have problems with this! I'll expand if anyone needs me to!) One little niggle I've had, Windows Live Messenger does not go into the task bar like it does on XP and Vista... Right click the icon before loading it and select compatibility mode, run it in vista service pack 2 and it runs perfectly! Thats a Microsoft product, I'd have expected that one to run better on Windows 7 than any other operating system!

 

 

Oh well... will report more niggles if and when they happen

 

 

Features that are nice, Drag something to the top of your screen it becomes full screen, drag to the left it goes half screen left, drag to the right hald screen right, Shake it and all other windows minimise LOL hours of fun :p

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Oooh, sounds interesting... What would it cost to upgrade from Vista, anyone knows?

amazon will have a good price. If you are currently a student (although they didn't even ask me for any proof) there are some websites. I got mine from pugh.co.uk

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Windows 7 certainly looks interesting enough, but it's going to have to prove itself as a solid and reliable system for at least a year or so before systems administrators - Tez included - start letting it into their domains.

 

That said, I'm tempted to acquire a copy on a test machine, as I'd like to see just how it performs, or fails as the case may be, when plugged into a corporate domain environment, instead of just a home user system.

 

Of course, ultimately, there is little point or need to 'upgrade' to a newer system simply because it's fashionable to do so. XP continues to be, especially in corporate environments, the most popular operating system for a good reason, or, rather, several dozen good reasons.

 

Until XP actually becomes obsolete, which it of course will eventually do, why change?

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I'd like to see just how it performs, or fails as the case may be, when plugged into a corporate domain environment, instead of just a home user system.

 

I have had a number of workstations running the RTM at work since it was released via MSDN - works fine.

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I have had a number of workstations running the RTM at work since it was released via MSDN - works fine.

 

Is this in a domain environment or a workgroup? If the former, I'd suspect a 2008 server, but how's its AD and GP support? And does it properly support a .NET framework?

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The DC is a Win2k3 R2 server.

 

To take full advantage of all the new admin features via AD and GPs you do need Win2k8 R2.

 

I have just set one up and will be promoting it soon and raising the domain functional level as soon as I can.

 

The Win7 workstations are manageable via the win2k3 server though.

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The DC is a Win2k3 R2 server.

 

The Win7 workstations are manageable via the win2k3 server though.

 

That interests me more and more. I run a cluster of 8 Win2k3 R2 servers powering the domain environment for the company I work for, so I'm even more tempted to try out a Windows 7 client machine as a test now.

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The question as to will it be needed / used by business over windows XP is a very good one. IMHO it will be taken up by businesses next year. (that is nothing more than a hunch on the fact that businesses normally upgrade every 2 Microsoft OS's, and Windows 7 looks good and appears very stable! :p)

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more little features that are nice (dunno if these were ever on Vista... My better half had vista on her laptop and I didn't like it or touch it!)

 

Sticky notes:- These are just like post-it notes that you can put on your screen and type little reminders.

 

Snipping tool:- this is like a drag box that creates a screen shot of whatever is inside it.

 

The Task-bar (aka Super-bar :p):- You can drag icons onto it to quick launch them, hover over the programs that are open and get a small preview, hover over the small preview and it gives you a full preview. You can windows key + number to open/maximize the corresponding program... much easier (and I know this is pretty much what apples OS X does!)

 

 

Again I'll report more as I find it!

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Here are the games that are pre-loaded if anyone is interested :p

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The question as to will it be needed / used by business over windows XP is a very good one. IMHO it will be taken up by businesses next year. (that is nothing more than a hunch on the fact that businesses normally upgrade every 2 Microsoft OS's, and Windows 7 looks good and appears very stable! :p)

 

There is of course also a very valid precedent for retaining XP, or any older technology for that matter. Unless the nature of your business absolutely requires an upgrade, the older technology is very well established, familiar and well known to both end users and technical staff alike.

With all the bugs and quirks of a system well known, and literally thousands of online discussion fora on all aspects of that system, corporate administration of those systems becomes easier, faster, and more cost effective.

 

In the case of XP, there was such a massive backlash against Micro$oft from IT professionals that they were forced to U-Turn and start allowing their partners (Dell, HP, Acer, etc.) to start selling XP machines as an alternative to the abortion that was Vista.

 

In time, of course, there will be a change over, as is natural. Old systems will die off, and new systems will handle tasks far more efficiently, but it will be interesting to see if Micro$oft attempt the same with Windows 7 that they did with Vista, that is to say forcing their aforementioned business partners to sell only that OS, thus forcing customers into taking it on. I suspect they'll have learnt the - very expensive - lessons from the Vista debacle and will continue, at least for a year, to allow dual OS options.

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