Windows 10 – Updates Failing

Background : You run the windows updates and it keeps failing or you end up rebooting and the updates shows up on the start button again.

Reasoning : The last bunch of updates ran into issues due to previous pending updates or the cache isn’t cleared of the earlier broken updates.

Fixes: I suggest the following that you clear the cache following the steps below
Note : For some of the steps below, is best you login to the safe mode, if you cannot access the following folders or service access is denied.

Step 1: STOP the Windows Update Service.

1. Open Windows Services control panel: To do that:

• Press Windows  + R keys to open the run command box.
• In the Search box, type: services.msc  & click OK.

2. In Services control panel locate the “Windows Update” service.
3. Right-click on Windows Update service and select “Stop“.

Step 2: Delete the SoftwareDistribution folder.

1. Open Windows Explorer and navigate to: C:\Windows folder.
2. Find and Delete the “SoftwareDistribution” folder (or rename it. e.g. to “SoftwareDistributionOLD”) . *

* Note: If you cannot delete or rename the folder, start Windows in Safe Mode.

Step 3: START the Windows Update Service.

1. Open Windows Services control panel.
2. Right-click on Windows Update service and select “Start“.

Step 4. Run the System File checker.

Go to Start >Type CMD, select run as administrator

Run the “SFC /Scannow” as shown below and hit enter for it to finish.

Process can take sometime to complete :

Reboot your windows 10 device on completion.
Windows Resource Protection(WRP) will give you a message for any errors found or a confirmation, it did not find any integrity violations.

Step 5. Check & Install Updates.

1. Go to Settings -> Update and Security -> and click Check for Updates.

In most cases, the above fixes all your most update issues.

BMW G650 X Bikes – Rear Wheel Size Display Swap

For the BMW G650 X Bikes(applies to all the BMW G650 Xcountry – XChallenge – XMoto) – There is always a possibility for you to swap the rear wheel diameter size between 17″ or 18″ rear wheel selection.

The computer does the calculations itself with the rotations or the speedo adjustments based on the size that is already fed into the computer. It is always a good idea to be able to have the right readings while I personally do not have an accurate measurements of how much difference do they read between each selection.


The process to swap the sizes is a little more than tricky as you need to hold the button and to adjust the battery connection at same time.
Tip: Easier if someone else can help you as well to hold the battery.

Instructions:
This is how to change wheel size:

1. Remove ignition key from lock and disconnect battery.
2. Press the Set-button and connect the battery.
3. Don’t let go of the Set-button until i’ll tell you so!
4. The software version is shown on the display.
5. Don’t let go of the Set-button until i’ll tell you so!
6. The display counts down from 15 to 0.
7. When the countdown completes the parameters of the wheels are displayed, one after another.
8. Now you can let go of the Set-button.
9. When the wheel-size you want (diameter where speed is usually and circumference below where odometer is normally found) appear on the display, press the Mode-button.
10. That’ll save the new wheel size in memory.
11. Disconnect and then reconnect battery (don’t know if it’s necessary but that’s how I do it and it works).
    
    

Swapping 18″to17″ OR 17″to 18″

I will add-in the pictures once I do the swap between the two different sets of wheels and makes life easier to do the things at the same time in above sequence.

Hope this will help you get to choose your right wheel display settings too.

G650X – Front ABS Ring – Wheels Swap – Tyres

“To get it right – you have to have it right” – With the aging and old bikes the challenge has remained for me to find the parts on this old BMW G650 XCountry.

The good part is, the parts can be found if you are able to source the matching bikes.
I swapped the original wheel sets of 19/17″ by selling the bike and getting one of the Walter Colebatch collections with 21/18″ wheels. I prefered to have the X Country than the X Challenge due to the taller height but it does make a huge difference in your leaning confidence.

Well, later to my own learnings – I found that 19/17″ serves you a better companion if you don’t have the true off-road situations and prefer to stick to originals. Over an year of wait for someone to sell me the set, I eventually found one in Belgium.

Finally, A full set

Just a missing front ABS Ring on the Front

And a full set of the rear setup

Knowing that the wheels are sorted out and the search to find the missing ABS ring on the front wasn’t a huge challenge although my search took me to the forums and the much known fb group for XCountry. Helpful peeps – It came out that the front ABS ring is same as the much known other BMW bikes as F650/F700/C650/G650 so, it was a quick hunch through the Ebay and found one in EBay DE – the seller agreed to dispatch it right away.

Ebay donated – G650X ABS Ring Front

The next set of work item was to get the right matching pair to knock off the distance and journeys with. For me it wouldnt have taken long to keep the same pair of Mitas E08, for road going bike but the options get interesting. I shelled out an extra hundred and decided this time to order the Michelin Anakee Adventures.
The front being a 19″ – the tyre size comes in at 100/90/19 and the rear of 17″ asks for 130/80/17, an original combo over my second pair that now will be a spare to store.

The interesting pattern of 80/20 on road/off-road while the ask winters shall suffice with the tread and hopefully the summer leanings will be enjoyable around the Alpine curves.

I now wait to put it all together and have the final ride ready.

Come & Go – The Transition

The so called XC, the story that shifted me in dimensions has now left and it is the time to warm up to something new for the next level.
Not that I know much about it yet but shall know in the times to come.

My beloved G650 XCountry has been dispatched to the new owner and my next lady the G650 XCountry is in the making.

It was a hard decision to part away from one to let the next one come in. Never thought this would be the case that I would let this go but due to the fact that LB07 has left the marks that needs to let me build myself all again. I hate to say but sometimes the memories haunt you that you spend so much time with your objects to create moments with them and then you have to part away. Atleast our objects are better than the most human relationships.

All is well and good, in the world as long as I keep riding. Sometimes I just ride to get rid of what was in the past, like a roadsign that you just crossed and it only deserved to be spotted once and never to be seen again.

I was after a 21″ front and that is where it all began… where it ended – well, that is an unsaid story for now but like my dearest friend Wolf says – rider of the dark cloud*, must live in the dark. So I tried to get rid of one dark cloud to enter into another one.

Transitions from one XCo to the next XCo would take me some getting used, for I have to understand a lots of unknowns, yet to make a bond and then finally get myself in the grips of it under my bum. I welcome you shortly to the next level of where this life goes, MarlenkaZ is coming or call it DarkCloud2.

How to type a GBP symbol(£) on a German keyboard

Annoying as it may well be but German keyboard doesn’t spots a GBP(£) symbol anywhere on it. Or for that matter you can do this on any keyboard not spotting your desired currency symbol. Although the most recent additions come only as in “Unicode numbers”

Smart enough ASCII characters are combinations for all these issues.

Try the alternatives as below
Hold down the left ALT key and type in 156 (from numeric keys) = Voilla £ pops up

Also, alternatively
Holding down Left ALT key and keying in 0163 gives you the GBP symbol £

Summary (In Short)

(Left)ALT156
(Left)ALT0163

More Currencies ASCII Codes

ASCII KeysCode	Currencies Symbol
ALT156 OR ALT0163	£
ALT36	$
ALT0162	¢
ALT0128	€
ALT0165	¥
ALT0131	ƒ

Currencies Shortcuts