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On another note:  My semi-resident computer guru (eldest son), has been running the beta as a tester for Microsoft for awhile now.  He's pretty much of the opinion that 10 is not that big an improvement over 8.1 at this stage.  "Ive been running it in a virtual machine because it is not stable enough to trust as a sole OS on any piece of hardware I depend on.". So that begs the question of "will it be ready by the July 29th scheduled release?"  To which I get a maybe...... "give them a few months to get everything patched & we'll see".

Now I must add, that I have been a dedicated Windows user since 3.1.... the only reason I don't have it on anything other than a recently purchased notebook, is that when my mainboard died.... Windows would not validate my 7 Pro on the new rebuild.  I already ran Linux on my laptop because the lower overhead increased battery run-time, and frankly does everything I was using my lapotp for as well or better than the Vista it shipped with.
There were some applications that I used on my desktop that only run in a Windows environment (at that time) and 7 Pro was a good stable horse to saddle with those kind of chores.  Now I'm retired, and that nag is out to pasture (pretty much same as me)..... my "workload" has changed and I don't feel the need to hang in there with Windows running the circus.  Not really comfy with the "cloud based" Office suite (365), don't really like the "subscription" business model, with little or no control over what gets put into my hardware and when (without full disclosure about what it's doing in there and why I need it in the first place).  If you open your Windows Task Manager and scroll through the list of running applications and services, it's scary what all is going on in there!  Then check the Commit load on your resources and ask yourself why "with 4 cores and 8 Gigs of Ram, a fifth of a terabyte of swap file space..... you can still toast marshmallows on the CPU cooler!?!"  While ONLY reading the forum on Chordie.

I'm not bashing Windows here, just saying that for the things I do..... Linux just works!

Not me Dino.... but then I run linux on most of my PCs.  Will have to check the portables though, they are 8.1 and arre eligible for the upgrade. That is once I charge the batteries..... not used as often I suppose.  The downside of being retired and staying close to home where smaller and lighter is not a requirement.

I did hear that it was coming very soon though!

New keyboard didn't fix it, so I would check the default keyboard layout in Windows.  Qwerty is most common, but you could have changed it to Colpak, Dvorak, or some alternate that is still based on the English Language..... or not.  The software allows you to assign anykey combination you like (even if it is not commonly recognized) so it's worth a look.

There may be an ending for your frustration here in this thread from earlier this year,  http://www.chordie.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=26857

Another thing you might try is to hold [Shift] and click the "reload" icon on your browser.  That will usually clean the ads from the page so they don't display over content.

Let us know how it works for you.

Doug

Hi Bob and a Chordie Welcome to you (see you've been around for a little over a month).  Anyway I checked as well, and ..... no joy.  That tune is hosted at roughstock.com, and because Chordie doesn't store any music on it's servers, we are dependent on other sites not changing stuff in order for us to get songs for you.

Don't know what's going on over there, but a quick look-see shows that they don't host tabs or chords.... but do list the lyrics (with some chords).  I'm wondering if they had issues with some persons of the "legal" variety, and changed something that has rendered our link to this tune invalid.

The URL of the hosting site is displayed in your browser frame when you click on a tune in our index, so it is easy to go directly to them and see if it is still in place on that end.  Our index is constantly being checked and that must be one that slipped through, or hasn't been verified recently.

Thanks for Posting the issue and again Welcome Aboard!!

Have a couple of smaller shops here and both are run by genuine Luthiers.....  anyway I happened by Greg's on Friday and he had just taken delivery of his new Breedlove.  Now you have to know that he ordered this one from the Factory just over the mountain from us here, and 9 months ago he personally selected the wood for his new guitar.  Proud he was and the tone was as close to perfect as could be, to my ear anyway, and a absolutely gorgeous instrument in all respects from the "submerged cedar" top to the matched figured Indian Rosewood back and sides. 

First thing, on the bench for a setup, and the brand new EXPs into the trash!  Everybody is using those strings because they get them for about a buck a set, and they are not as good as others out there.... but last a long time!  I guess the point is, new instruments settle in a little after that first setup and really should get another tweaking after awhile.  Most shops don't bother, and as a result you can be disappointed with what you hear/feel on first impression.  Find yourself a smaller shop with a really "picky" technician in the back-room.... THEN do a comparison.

You know Joe, I've been through there a few times in the last five years or so and always meant to touch bases with you in passing.... but always just "blowing through town" on the way to Phoenix or back home.  So I'm gonna tenatively say I'll be there! 

Personal preference is in the Fall (that part of the world gets BLAZING Hot in the summer!) and it takes awhile to adapt to the climate without "wilting"  (especially us Northwest Rainforest varieties).  It's ONLY about an 18 hour drive..... So I might look into flying.... or not.  Gotta talk it over with the "better half" but she's a good girl who was "up" for camping in the desert for 5 months straight, winter before last. So we might make it a "family outing".

Welcome to Chordie Steve!  (Hoping I got your name right? correct as you prefer)

Index not working?  Try learning your "open" chord shapes using the 2 3 4 fingers and let the 1 (index) have a little vacation.  I'm assuming that it is fairly straight and missing the "bendy bit".  Most of us had to learn how to do that later in our learning when getting into barre chords anyway, and it will make that transition easier when you explore barres as well.  Major, minor, and the 7th chords are all do-able index delete..... as well as the dim chord shapes. 

Bring that stiff index into play as your barre, and the whole fretboard opens up into usable "real-estate"!

Many of us are "older" and struggle with joints not working as well as we'd like, so you are sure to get lots of support from the Chordie Crowd as you go along.

Thanks for posting and introducing yourself to the Community.... Welcome Aboard! 

Congrats Roger!!  Does this mean you have to get another "wall hanger bracket" too?   

3767.... Open the page with the song you are wanting to play/learn/??  and over on the right side of the page you should see an icon (with the transpose, print options), labled "auto-scroll" click on the icon and it should change to a series of numbers that control the speed of the scroll.  Then again if you are using Windows and have a "three-button mouse", a center click should change your cursor to a dot and double arrow...... moving your mouse up or down will increase or decrease the scroll speed, and another center mouse click will restore your cursor and normal function of the mouse.

I should add that the auto scroll function on Chordie has been a bit "glitchy" recently so I would use the one native to Windows if possible.

I see you also posted in About Chordie as well on this or a similar topic, so I will answer your question up there.