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This is in response to Link. The reasons for choosing other languages is Familiarity witht the language - if you are familiar with a language, it might be faster to code in that language rather than switch to another. In some projects, the mandate is to keep everything in the same language...

The online Microfocus Cobol manual has, on the PERFORM PAGE some syntax of PERFORM USING but no explanation or example of how to use it MicroFocus Perform page The syntax is basically PERFORM USING {local-name AS type-specifier = expression } ... I'm not sure whether this is specific to...

If I am a non-admin user, whenever I try to install an msi, it takes over a minute for windows to figure out that I am not an admin user and ask for the admin password. It doesn't matter what the processor speed is - it is always about a minute from a 1.0GHz Atom to a 2GHz i7 to a 2.7GHz i3...

When I have to do a lot of document editing, I normally flip one of the screens to portrait view. The problem is some dialogs, eg advanced properties, appear in a non visible area _________________ __________ | | | | | Screen 1 | | Screen 2 |...

Sometimes, when I type, the pad of my left had goes over the touchpad and it selects some random chunk of text. The next character I type deletes the entire chunk. I don't always notice this. When I re-read my document, I find that there are random chunks missing. I know I can disable the...

I wish to insert the same footnote twice. Something like I am following instructions as per https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/refer-to-the-same-footnote-or-endnote-more-than-once-9925ad08-2593-49ac-842b-c0f55b94e137 I can insert the first footnote. That works fine - when I hover...

History This has only started happening since I installed W10 yesterday. The laptop was working fine with W7 but the disk had seen better days and was starting to play up so I swapped disks and installed W10. Problem Sometimes, when I click on a spot to type, it leaves a flashing cursor in the...

Why are video outputs on laptops almost always on the left? When you add a second monitor as an extension, it is almost always to the right of the laptop so the cable has to bend round from the left of the laptop to get to the monitor. Sometimes, it makes the arrangement quite difficult...

This may be coincidental but it only happened after my W10 desktop was updated to 1809. Whenever I start up the machine from cold, all I see is an arrow cursor and nothing else. I have to login remotely and reboot the machine. After that it boots up correctly and I can use the machine. The...

Windows 10 mail is divided into Focused and Other. Some of the messages appear in Focused, the others in Other. 1) How does the mail decide whether it is Focused or Other? 2) Other than installing another mail client, is there a way of displaying all the messages instead of having to look in...

I can use the generic collections but I can't use networks and sockets set nal = CreateObject("System.Collections.ArrayList") set sock = CreateObject("System.Net.Sockets.Socket") How do I find out which .net classes are available in vbscript. I am assuming this list is stored somewhere. I...

I have assorted power adapters kicking around my house. They have been left plugged into the mains, by whoever, unplugged and left on the side. I now have a whole mountain of them, some from devices which were binned 5 to 10 years ago. Some are for pc peripherals, some for mobile phones and...

I've installed XP on an oldish machine - won't take anything else: only 1GHz and 512Mb memory. Won't even take Ubuntu beyond 12.04. Anyway, by default, it creates a swap space of 750Mb. I normally increase this to 4096Mb. For some silly reason, even though the disk is completely blank, it...

Since the last W10 update, if I don't shutdown Chrome, Edge or Firefox before shutting down the machine, when I start up again, it automatically loads these browsers with all the pages I was last on. This gets annoying, especially if I go to a place with a slow connection - it takes forever to...

I've taken out the disk of a dead W10 laptop and tried to read it to retrieve some files using a SATA USB Dock but it couldn't read the disk at all. I then stuck it into my son's desktop, which can take up to 4 of these 2.5" disks and it was able to read it. What puzzles me is that the USB...

I thought free upgrades were gone except for the assistive technologies upgrade. I decided to put Windows 7 starter on my experimental laptop to try something out. Could have done it with a VM but VMs are way too slow for all the C# stuff. Anyway, it went through its update stuff and to my...

How do I shut down windows, just using the keyboard? On XP, it was simple:windows U U I had enough confidence to do this on a headless machine. I can't figure out what it is on W10. The best I can get is Windows tab down down down down return down return Looks like a bit of a mission - the...

I remoted on to my desktop and suddenly the connection went. Thought nothing of it until I got to my desktop. I couldn't login - it said that all the connections were in use. It was like I was on a remote session on my desktop. Rebooted - same thing. As usual, the sentence ended with see...

Just for the fun of it, I decided to use Windows 10 mail. Works OK except for one thing. Whenever I type the prime/single quote character/apostrophe, I get a series of about 20 racing across the screen. This has happened on 3 machines so I don't think it is a dodgy keyboard. All other...

Phone: Samsung Galaxy Y (pretty ancient) Normally if I use the map application, the smartphone battery only lasts about 1 hour. I discovered recently that if I switch it into flight mode and then switch on wireless, I can get about 3-4 hours: more than enough to complete my journey without...