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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.

      I’m not happy to do this, drive the car or with the after care experience (a sign of further stresses to come) so want a refund and to return the car asap.

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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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Don't forget, if you have the right version of Windows 7 you can get XP mode for it which is like a virtual PC version of XP running inside your Windows 7 installation (for those who don't like Mars speak)

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Getting started with Windows 7 - Help & How-to - Microsoft Windows

 

This is a nice instructional link from Microsoft

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I will be staying with vista x64 for the time being, I would like to upgrade but from a gamers perspective, being a rebuilt version of vista, windows7 does not bring anthing to the table to justify me buying a new licence.

 

I do feel slightly ripped off though, what should have been a service pack for vista turned into a whole new OS, but due to the major overhaul it's had, a service pack is not possible.

 

Ive just built a new PC for my nan, which ive put XP home 32 on, and it runs like lightning, which is good - I was looking to put win7 on it but I think she will be better off with xp for now, at least until support for xp stops.

 

I can see business running XP/server2003 for a long time to come, as Vista/win7 does more to complicate the existing IT infrastructure than it does to simplify it, due to the cost of implimentation- licencing, rollout and re-training - but that is a little different from the home user market, home users do not have the protection offered by domain servers and hardware firewalls etc. and so cannot be running 'out of date' software to the extent that business can get away with.

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Don't forget, if you have the right version of Windows 7 you can get XP mode for it which is like a virtual PC version of XP running inside your Windows 7 installation (for those who don't like Mars speak)

 

I don't know much about the xp mode, but I understand it does not run in a true sandbox mode like you would expect a VM to, as in you have to keep the xp security patches up to date etc. so I guess is runs almost like a native OS, rather than as a self contained virtual environment which utterly defeats the object from a security point of view.

 

I too thought it was an awesome feature untill I dug a little deeper.

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http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/ seems you need the hardware that supports this as well.

 

(edit: My processor doesn't, Core2Quad Q8200)

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Hi All,

Some help required please , rather than just discussion re the new win7.

I have a 64bit machine, running Vista Ultimate. About three months ago I carried out a check with Microsoft to see if I could upgrade my machine to Win7. The checker stated I could, but I had to buy the 64 bit edition of Win7 home premium. Went onto Amazon and ordered it. It arrived on thursday. Tried to load it and was told when the disc carried out another check that I would have to back-up my computer, otherwise all my programmes would be lost. So this I did , on thursday. Made a disk image to DVD's . Reloaded the Win7 last night. , then reloaded my computer back-up. and B****R me, when it re-started ; it came up as Vista. Now I realise that because I made a disk image it would and should indeed revert to Vista. My problem is - how do I just save my programmes and all my info to DVD's without saving the OS. Please help otherwise I have wasted £70. I have re-visited the Microsoft site to find out that I should have bought Win7 Ultimate, but that is not what I was told on my first visit. Ultimate will cost £199, which I dont want to spend.

 

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I've had various flavours of Windows 7 Ultimate for about 8 months now and I still think its great, certainly was a lot more compatible than Vista when that first came out. It isn't too different from Vista which I like but I guess some XP lovers may not like it.

 

I have the Beta 7100 RC version on 3 PC's and the 7600 RTM version on my Windows Media Centre PC, the best improvement over Vista is its ability to support similtanous Freeview/Cable TV, it makes one huge tv guide listing all the channels :)

 

It works fine in my home domain, run by Win 2008 server and Windows Home Server.

 

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Hi All,

Some help required please , rather than just discussion re the new win7.

I have a 64bit machine, running Vista Ultimate. About three months ago I carried out a check with Microsoft to see if I could upgrade my machine to Win7. The checker stated I could, but I had to buy the 64 bit edition of Win7 home premium. Went onto Amazon and ordered it. It arrived on thursday. Tried to load it and was told when the disc carried out another check that I would have to back-up my computer, otherwise all my programmes would be lost. So this I did , on thursday. Made a disk image to DVD's . Reloaded the Win7 last night. , then reloaded my computer back-up. and B****R me, when it re-started ; it came up as Vista. Now I realise that because I made a disk image it would and should indeed revert to Vista. My problem is - how do I just save my programmes and all my info to DVD's without saving the OS. Please help otherwise I have wasted £70. I have re-visited the Microsoft site to find out that I should have bought Win7 Ultimate, but that is not what I was told on my first visit. Ultimate will cost £199, which I dont want to spend.

 

Cheers - Scousegeezer.

 

 

It should go like this :-

 

DVD in DVD drive

power on the computer, press DEL when prompted (takes a couple of seconds after you press the power button) to enter BIOS

Set the DVD drive as the 1st boot device

Save and exit BIOS (probably f10 will do this). Now it'll come to a screen asking you to press any key to boot from DVD, press a key here

That should take you to the install menu.

 

 

Hope you enjoy windows 7. Any more problems give a shout :)

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Sorry, been out for the day :p Put the windows 7 DVD in the drive and boot off this (as per instructions above).

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Don't forget, if you have the right version of Windows 7 you can get XP mode for it which is like a virtual PC version of XP running inside your Windows 7 installation (for those who don't like Mars speak)

 

Although this is dependant on your CPU. Mine doesnt work, although its easy enough to run XP on a virtual platform like Virtual PC/Server anyway.

 

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Just a quick one, if you work for a retailer in a sales or support role, you can get a NFR (not for resale) copy of windows 7 ultimate, plus a deligate pack for £10. You just have to complete their specialist training course which takes about an hour or so on their Expertzone website, you'll need a live ID to sign in.

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Just a quick one, if you work for a retailer in a sales or support role, you can get a NFR (not for resale) copy of windows 7 ultimate, plus a deligate pack for £10. You just have to complete their specialist training course which takes about an hour or so on their Expertzone website, you'll need a live ID to sign in.

 

Can you post (or pm me) a link please?

 

 

If all else fails, kick them where it hurts and SOD'EM;)

 

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http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/ seems you need the hardware that supports this as well.

 

(edit: My processor doesn't, Core2Quad Q8200)

 

This is a bit confusing, the built in Virtual PC is hardware dependent but its possibe to install and run the older seperate version of Virtual PC (or Virtual Server) this isnt hardware dependent and you can install a 'virtual' version of XP on it.

 

I found it difficult to work out which version of virtual pc was which so I'd recommend using programs such as Sun's VirtualBox, MS Virtual Server or VMware instead.

 

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