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If your bike shuts off the headlight when you hit the starter button (like a Wing does) to give full power to the starter then this can bugger up the HID ballast. What I did with my Wing was put t time-delay relay into the wiring of the HID so that it wouldn't come on at all for maybe 10 seconds ... enough to turn on the key and hit the starter button. Also, flicking your high beam (assuming it's also HID) can do the same to the ballast. (as I understand it that is....) I ran HID on my Wing as well as my Victory but I've since converted to LED. both are much much better than factory headlight. I know of no downside to LED (but then again, I don't know everything either ... but almost lol)

ya, that's the thing about a blond .. they get noticed more ...

http://globalnews.ca/news/2753666/gordie-howe-dead-at-88/

@cowpuc ... I'm not quite ready to give up riding completely ... want to have something around for those occasional "bar hops" so to speak. Camping can be a chore setting up and taking down but once you get set up, it's relax, reelax, relax ... and I've been a lover of kayaking for many years. Riding has always pushed that aside but we finally broke down and bought a couple kayaks and getting ready for some camping and lake cruisin, 'n fishin.

That just reminded me... not long before I met Nina, a lady I was "seeing" decided to take a horse over me!! Her loss, my gain ... LOL

Nope... just folks stopping in for brekky at a fav diner. The place is called the Roundup Cafe. http://www.vancouverneon.com/page_q/roundup.htm This should be a place for an episode of Diners, Driveins, and Dives First time I ate there was in 1970. Nina and I go there at least a couple times a month on average for brekky.

Nope, ... 2 kayaks and a camper LOL

Not a chance of that ... too many friends here to stay in touch with.

ya... one might mistake me for a woman the way I change my mind LOL! Well, the Vic is an awesome bike and I'd like to keep it but selling it can bring in a lot of cash that we can use in other ways. We still have the Roady although I have it for sale also but there's been only one person show any interest since March when I first advertised it. There's a lot of that style of bike for sale around here so it might not sell, which is fine with me because I still want something to ride now and then. Just tired of always riding and especially taking longer trips.

It was... once. But now after almost 50 years of it and knocking at the door of 70 for both of us it's getting to be more of a chore than a pleasure.

Nina and I have decided to semi-retire from riding in favour of a more relaxing pastime. We'll probably keep the Roady if it doesn't sell for those few times when we "get the urge". Our Victory will be Available for purchase as of July 11th (right after Kruisn Kootenays). I will post an ad at the beginning of July. If anyone is interested, contact me via PM.

Looky what parked beside us this morning as we stopped for brekky...

oh ... and y'all should know that BC is short for Bring Cash! LOL

Well, now you know ... check this out... http://www.bcrobyn.com/2012/12/how-big-is-british-columbia/

A bit "off topic" but I have to chuckle when I see words like "Serious inquires / offers only" ... do they think if they don't put that there then they're open to and willing to take non-serious ones? oh nevermind, I just have nothing better to do .... LOL

I just spent the last 20 minutes trying to find it again with no luck. It's a link in a post pointing to another post on a different thread (that appears to be missing). I'm pretty sure it was from back around 2009 or 2010 Trying to find things with the search is sometimes a PITA.

There was a thread with a pic in it but when I clicked the link to it (which is in another thread), it didn't work coz the thread was missing. I believe @Freebird has a pic somewhere.

@aharbi and anyone else interested... See post #5 & #6 in this thread... http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?119987-Windows-10-Upgrade-Review-Tips-Tricks-and-Traps Win10 for me at home has been, up until yesterday, rock solid and easy to use. That said, yesterday, right in the middle of watching a youtube vid, it crashed displaying a blue screen saying "your computer just encountered an error ... please stand by while we fix the problem and report the issue to Microsoft" (something along those lines). It eventually rebooted and everything was fine. As for good/bad versions of Windows, I grew up in the IT biz with it from day one, have done tons and tons of installs for so many businesses I can't even remember, not to mention all the trouble shooting and fixes for those customers over the years. The least problematic versions that I've worked with are Windows for Workgroups 3.1, Windows NT 4, Win95 2nd edition, WinXP Pro SP3, and Win7 Pro SP1. Every other version has been nothing but headaches. I can't put Win10 in either category at this time as even after almost a year using it at home, I haven't rolled it out into a business environment yet and it doesn't look like I will be any time soon based on the issues it has with domain profiles in a Win Server 2012 or earlier environment. I wish Microsoft would quit with their "I'm going to rule the world" mentality.

I just installed LED also ... http://www.ebay.ca/itm/371631297851?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&rmvSB=true

What program were your contacts in before?

Windows 10 wants everyone to be "on-line" with various apps. gmail is part of Google and really should not be affected unless, during Win10 setup, it tries to sync or download stuff from other programs into one of it's own. I turned off all those Win10 features. Even though I have gmail and outlook mail (formerly hotmail), I rarely use them. I do everything associated with MS Outlook which is a part of MS Office. A good alternative if you don't want MS Office and/or just can't see spending the bucks is Thunderbird mail ... it's FREE. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/features/ Also, as a great alternative to MS Office and also free is Apache Open Office https://www.openoffice.org/

OMG Eck!! too funny but I can sure relate!! haha

Got it already but thanks. FWIW (in case you weren't aware), I'm 30 years in the IT biz ... thanks to Microsoft LOL and I'm still learning every day.

so.... back to the drawing board. Following my own advise, I imaged the computer before I upgraded to Win 10. I've re-installed that image and will look at what my options will be for the next attempt. The boss wants to roll out Win10 to our workstations if possible while we can still get it for free. I have a feeling she's going to be disappointed.

Now the big challenge ... connecting the computer to a domain and logging in as a Domain Admin... Connecting to the Domain was seamless and the process is no different than in previous versions of Windows. However, upon attempting to log in, I was presented with an error message... The User Profile Service failed the sign-in. User profile cannot be loaded. WHAAAAT??? So I googled that and what I discovered is that during the upgrade, the "Default" profile somehow becomes corrupted. Even trying to create a local user and logging in to the local computer under that new local user's account returned the same error. The fix for this is to rename the Default user folder to Default_OLD, create a new folder with the name "Default" and ... create following empty folders such that their location became: C:\Users\Default\AppData C:\Users\Default\AppData\Local C:\Users\Default\AppData\Roaming C:\Users\Default\Desktop C:\Users\Default\Documents C:\Users\Default\Downloads C:\Users\Default\Favorites C:\Users\Default\Links C:\Users\Default\Pictures C:\Users\Default\Save Games C:\Users\Default\Videos Then copy the NTUSER.DAT file from either the Administrator folder or the initial user you created during setting up the computer for the first time. I was then able to log in and the OS created a new user folder for me although there were still some issues as the start menu was missing some things it should have had, I couldn't find Internet Explorer, and so on so .... there are definitely some major issues associated to this upgrade which I hadn't uncovered previously.