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About diana Stone

Diana Stone is a performing composer and musician playing Piano Violin & Guitar. She currently plays with Orchard and The Sonic Boomers. Previously with Rock/Roots band Elephant Shelf and also the Delta Ladies who mixed roots acoustic music and electronica until the death of Vicky Martin who formed the band which was active for 17 years. Diana composes in a variety of styles from pop to rock to Jazz and and classical music. Diana is also expert in multi-media recording and music production.

Win 10 what have you done?

I have a win 10 laptop which is part of my recording setup. I have managed to disable windows update in services and will keep it disabled until i have finished my current projects  and done some serious back-ups.  I have finally it seems got my desktop win 10 pc back to health, though it involved finding licences and stuff in very odd places and I could have done without all that. Hopefully MS will knock some of the bugs out in the next month or so.

A note of advice. If you have 2 partitions on your drive, say C and D the stuff on the D partition will stay safe even post update apocalypse. Of course external back-ups are better if you have a lot of stuff.

You might want to read this for starters.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/22/windows_10_update_woes_redux/
And if you google there is quite a bit of good advice.
And remember back-up…..

 

 

 

Just doing boring stuff around the flat, including the dreaded DIY as a few little teething problems need sorting out. A quick google and youtube look up and the required info was found which will hopefully solve one issue at least.  I have been slightly beset by anxiety recently, which was not helped by windows 10 updating and causing major problems that took a day and a half to sort out.

On the wildlife front there are so many spiders and spiderwebs about the place. External I hasten to add.  This does of course mean not many flies.  I also watched some of the manchester bombing memorial service on the box. Time has really flown by this year.