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Recently got a 8Bitdo Ultimate 2C Wireless Controller just for playing those few PC games which really require a gamepad and not wanting to spend £50+ on an official one. It has a very nice feel to it and has decent tech inside (hall-effect sticks, a couple of remappable buttons). They do like their pastel colour scheme which may or not be your thing!

Possibly not for your son as it isn't fully programmable (with colours or macros), but an excellent value keyboard is the GameMax Strike for around £40. I got one recently to replace a much more expensive cherry red keyboard and it is just as good. The switches are made by Outemu rather than Cherry but if anything seem even smoother. The keys also use double-shot moulding meaning the letters won't wear off (most of the more expensive keyboards don't have these). Also don't let the amazingly gaudy multicoloured images used in all their advertising put you off, you can set them to be a more sensible colour. https://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Peripherals/Keyboards/GameMax+Strike+Outemu+Red+Mechanical+RGB+USB+Gaming+Keyboard+?productId=70971 Also I hate the fact Razer make such rubbish keyboards as I have found myself reliant on their Orbweaver model and am on the 3rd one due to failures (both replaced under warranty thankfully).

I have left my server paths in as it's just easier to read. I have the ISO mounted on z:\ and the install.wim and temp locations should be changed as needed. Dism /Mount-Image /ImageFile:"E:\DeploymentShare\Operating Systems\Windows 10 1809\sources\install.wim" /Name:"Windows 10 Education" /MountDir:e:\temp\image Dism /Image:e:\temp\image /Add-Package /PackagePath:Z:\Microsoft-Windows-LanguageFeatures-Basic-en-gb-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~.cab /PackagePath:Z:\Microsoft-Windows-LanguageFeatures-Handwriting-en-gb-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~.cab /PackagePath:Z:\Microsoft-Windows-LanguageFeatures-OCR-en-gb-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~.cab /PackagePath:Z:\Microsoft-Windows-LanguageFeatures-Speech-en-gb-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~.cab /PackagePath:Z:\Microsoft-Windows-LanguageFeatures-TextToSpeech-en-gb-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~.cab Dism /Unmount-Image /MountDir:e:\temp\image /Commit

I had this issue with MDT and couldn't get it to work during the task sequence. In the end i just added them directly to the image file, I can probably dig up the exact commands if that's useful?

If you have any interest in AMD cards then https://www.overclockers.co.uk/amd-black-friday.

Throwing my name into the hat too, my I3-2120/4gb could use a nice early retirement rather than the slow painful journey through old age it is currently experiencing!

I pretty much only play Co-op games and always end up coming back to Path of Exile. It's a lot more fun playing with other people and you can always find a new aim or challenge to keep yourself playing (on top of the new game league they do every 3-4 months).

Oh I didn't see you were the OP. Did you clone the entire drive with it or just one partition?

Very good for a free program, +1.

Ah kind of one of my rules of the game is to never play the same build twice, or at least make a variation of it with a different tree/items/class. The only exception is when I play a support build as they don't have a huge amount of wiggle room.

I see you have the same addiction as me. I was pretty much done with this league having reached my targets but they always find a way to drag you back in. Got to decide what build to play for the one month race now!

I probably know more than is healthy about it if you had any questions.

Our hall projector is getting to the point of needing to be replaced and we have been looking at laser projectors as their cost of ownership now seems decent. In particular the Dell Advanced Projector 7760. Has anyone else gone the laser projector route and can recommend this model or something similar for a medium size hall?

I am just going through doing the setup for this for the reason of just allowing Office downloads. For individual users you can disable OneDrive and Office Online apps, I am just looking for a clever way to do this for everyone.

Should have got it yesterday it was only £7.99 on there!

Just ended up getting standard projectors in the end and getting whatever electrical work that was needed done.

For Borderlands 2 it helps if you have played the first game as the storyline does carry on. You will miss a few jokes and the characters/story won't mean as much to you if you haven't. I would recommend looking at the Borderlands 1 Wiki and just look at the character biographies and story rather than actually playing it if you haven't already. Also find a friend to play it with, it's a decent game single player, it's an amazing game playing coop. If planning to buy it make sure to grab the season pass and Mechromancer and Psycho DLC (the other DLC is just costume fluff).

You can but it's a bit of a pain. Creating an iTunes Store, App Store, iBookstore, and Mac App Store account without a credit card

Anyone that has a current Pro subscription can just carry on using that, so no change for current customers unless they want it.

We use Lenovo E530 which work fine with XP. A problem you may have depending on how you do licensing is you will find it very hard to buy Laptops with Windows 7 licenses (you aren't allowed to downgrade Windows 8 to XP). Even laptops advertised as "Windows 7 laptops" will probably have a Windows 8 license.

Been playing about a month on and off with a friend leveling a couple of different characters (rerolled on the new server as playing as a new character on an established server is kind of annoying) and been enjoying it hugely. The combat system is just plain fun, and it gets even better with groups in instances. The whole blocking, dodging, healing, aggro systems are well thought out and although it is simple to grasp what you have to do, doing it sometimes is quite a challenge. It is let down somewhat by multiple problems to do with instance matchmaking, questing systems, end game content but it is hard to play something like Warcraft after playing this. You just feel so limited by what you can do with your character after feeling the freedom of the action combat style of Tera.

If you really want to get rid of them check out: Steam Community :: ID :: Dota 2 Dispenser Someone set up a bot to send spare copies too and anyone who doesn't have it can request a copy.

I would agree with the fact that the largest difference in speed will be upgrading to any SSD, those must have been some seriously fast HDDs if no difference was noticed. However my newer Crucual M4 i have at work is much faster compared to my OCZ Vertex 2 (still going strong, no complains about them from me) that i have at home. A nice new Samsung 840 Pro is on my shopping list at the moment for home.

On the plus side it actually had limiters for uploading and downloading on the P2P app so I could just leave it on without worrying about other things suffering, nice! Edit: Oh and a warning to those downloading to SSD, even the discovery client folder hit 40gb when mid way through installing (presumably had installer files and installed files at this point).

MOBA type games are really not worth playing unless you are doing it with friends as the communities are generally very very unfriendly to new players. Although compared to HoN (Heroes of Newarth) which i have played a lot more, the Dota community is quite pleasant.