Where did "RUN" go?

Nice. ;-)

This keyboard is a little different color than the normal Model-M. It's called silver on gray, but it's more of a white on black. I'm tempted to buy another for my wife's ThinkPad dock in the kitchen.

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I take them all off and clean all the crap that's fallen down under the keys. If the keyboard is really filthy the key bottoms can be pulled out also. Just watch the springs. They can be damaged pretty easily. Every time I take the keyboards apart there must be a full head of hair under there. Note: the space bar DOES NOT COME OFF like the others.

I've always used Windex. Soak a bunch and dry them with a paper towel.

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You should have bought her one of the hot pink ones geeks.com had on sale a few days ago. ;-)

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I lean them against a wall, sideways. then I spray a fine mist of household ammonia, or windex. I wait a few minutes and do it again, then use a spray bottle of distilled water to rinse it off. With it standing almost vertical, the water doesn't get inside the case. I've cleaned hundreds of keyboards this way. :)

Instamediate response (days late, but as if i were by your side), what recent installs, upgrades, updates, patches and such have recently occured (if you even were notified)?? Include automatic updates. Kind of hard to be sure with M$ (and M4OS) targeted products. Much of that activity is logged, but it takes a lot of poking around to be sure of finding it.

I would need a whole hell of a lot of configuration imformation, and, hell, at this point i can't even tell you what i might want. An early start would be all of the software that is subject to updates. M$Office (and version) PSpice, and many other production software items.

Yes, as user or support person confronted with that i would be very nervous.

Finally, though scary, just reboot: it is a M$ based system, some data loss may occur, protect your self as best you can.

Well, consider localization, whose "old glory" do you mean?

Yup. I use a piece of window screen and make a bag out of it with a tie wrap to hold it closed. I program the dishwasher to use air dry only as the heat might damage the keys.

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Thanks.

You can fix that with a simple RC snubber, 100R to 1K and 1 nF to 10 nF across the switch. If it is crampped i may forgo the resistor.

Yo, TT. Many of us here have sufficient command of the language to disambiguate the playful warping of the language from incapacity in the language. And because we wish to have the licence to warp 'da lang' when we will, it be not right to rag when others do it.

"Display Run" in the Start Menu was unchecked. I use "Run" so rarely it could have been that way for years :-) ...Jim Thompson

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I had a close look at switch in mouse years ago and the solder pad to trace had fractured. Switch must've sitting just a little proud of the PCB?

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Could be. I can see other explanations as well.

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Yes, for sure, bad switch contact due insufficient wetting current? The switches are usually miniature microswitches, so one would expect they have the correct make contact then wipe action.

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"We wuz so poor that we couldn't afford school books. I had to learn geography off of a ketchup label."

I wonder if they come properly folded.

My #2 daughter (the water chemist) and I were discussing pollutants in water... specifically oil in the Gulf. I opined, if it weren't salty, it'd be safe to drink. She said, yes, but I wouldn't like the taste.

I pointed out how, as a kid, I'd volunteer to walk to the country store and get a kerosene refill (for the lamps). The spout was sealed with a gumdrop, and I'd get to eat the gumdrop when I returned ;-) ...Jim Thompson

"Jim Thompson" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...

I guess you're not one of those people who figures that fluoridation of water is a socialist plot, then? :-)

I was a kid when that was first introduced. There was some concern about its safety, but socialist plots is only a recent event :-( ...Jim Thompson