Slightly embarrassing!
Turned out to be a defective Keyboard!
Thanks to all.
Max.

I'm trying to visualize the look on your face if you had gone nuclear on your computer, like Joey suggested, and found afterwards that the problem persisted anyways!

 

I'm trying to visualize the look on your face if you had gone nuclear on your computer, like Joey suggested, and found afterwards that the problem persisted anyways! View attachment 138973

Tell me about it!!
Max.

 

...if you had gone nuclear on your computer, like Joey suggested...

It would have been a substantial improvement, regardless.

Kinda like Little Boy and Fat Man ending a war and saving hundreds of thousands of Allied lives.

 

I don't intend to install win10 on this PC, I have it on my Lap-top and definitely am not a fan.
This PC has served me well with XP since inception (2001), apart from a MB upgrade I have no quarrels whatsoever.
I am easily pleased I guess.
Max.

 

A small correction to your statement:

... and saving hundreds of thousands of Allied lives bytes.

 

A small correction to your statement:

The whole analogy bytes

 

The whole analogy bytes

Aren't you punny.

 

I don't intend to install win10 on this PC, I have it on my Lap-top and definitely am not a fan.
This PC has served me well with XP since inception (2001), apart from a MB upgrade I have no quarrels whatsoever.
I am easily pleased I guess.
Max.

I don't like win 10's interface one bit either. But I have to admit that it feels like it does make better use of resources, and it's faster and more efficient than any other previous versions.

 

But I have to admit that it feels like it does make better use of resources, and it's faster and more efficient than any other previous versions.

Maybe but I find some things a step back, it is like the old saying, 'If its right, we can always fix it'!
Max.

 

As someone who has been on the software side of things for a long time, my advice is retire the XP system and move to something more modern, at least Windows 7, preferably Windows 10, for security reasons. The Windows XP design is so old that there is no way to make it reasonably safe against modern threats, except to unplug it from the internet entirely.

I love XP. Still running it on an old PC. And it is never on-line. I drive an iMac and couldn't be happier. The only reason why I have XP is because I have a computer based oscilloscope. Can't run it on the iMac.

And I hate Windows 7 and up. And the computer is so old that if I put 7 on it the computer would probably crash.

 

I'm like Max I got a laptop that runs 10 and a tower( offline) that runs XP.

 

I've got two PC's running on Win7 64, one PC running on Win7 32 and one laptop running on Win10 64 ... Win7 64 is the one I like best.

 

I've got two PC's running on Win7 64, one PC running on Win7 32 and one laptop running on Win10 64 ... Win7 64 is the one I like best.

Hey, I still run CP/M under DOSEMU and TRS-80 under xtrs.

 

Hey, I still run CP/M under DOSEMU and TRS-80 under xtrs.

And I still have to run DOS in Win7 64 using DOSBox every once in a while... so that I can still use the 16-bit program 8051 Macro Assembler, dating back from 1985

 

...dating back from 1985...

What a great year!

 

Thanks for reminding me that over 90% of college rock was worse than I remembered. Thankfully I was already an adult when it came to be a thing.

However here is a song that I still like today. In my old age

Here is something to cleanse the spirit.

 

My ex-wife has a Comodore 64. Used to be mine. I wonder if she still has it. Probably not.

 

And I still have to run DOS in Win7 64 using DOSBox every once in a while... so that I can still use the 16-bit program 8051 Macro Assembler, dating back from 1985

I have retro-fitted a few CNC using my DOS based systems, Mills and Lathe, This is a simple Press Brake example.
Max.

 

This is a simple Press Brake example.

Kind of looks a bit like a Unix system.

 

Kind of looks a bit like a Unix system.

DOS 7.1!
Max.