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From: "Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr." <lfsheldon@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Windows 10 Update Destroyed My Desk-Top PC. Need Help.
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2016 18:38:05 -0500
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On 7/17/2016 15:46, Bob Eager wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Jul 2016 13:26:37 -0500, Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote:
>
>>>  Oh, I see (I think - what is a "throber"?).
>>
>> The generic term for devices like spinning clocks, syncopated trails of
>> dots in a circle, in the instant case a small circle that appears to be
>> a snake eating its tail where mouse-pointer last was.
>
> I think that's a "throbber" - hence the confusion.

Really?  Wow.  Gotta stop using THAT word!