From: G6JPG@255soft.uk   
      
   For a desktop, it doesn't.   
      
   On 2026/1/13 12:53:20, VanguardLH wrote:   
      
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   > to use Windows location services.  This is on a desktop PC.  No cellular   
   > radio to connect to a tower.  No GPS radio.  Just how is Windows   
   > location going to determine my location?  Doesn't seem it has anything   
   > with which to determine my location other than by IP geolocation.   
      
   []   
   I've occasionally had it deduce my location from, I presume, my ISP -   
   which has sometimes been tens of miles from where I am, more commonly   
   hundreds.   
      
   I've once or twice had something come reasonably close, which is   
   startling; I guess that was based on a recent search or similar. But   
   that's rare.   
      
   Hang on, I'll just put "where am I" into Google. It says Laceby,   
   Grimsby. Grimsby is near Hull on the north-ish east coast of England;   
   I'm in mid-Kent, some hundreds of miles to the south.   
      
   --   
   J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()ALIS-Ch++(p)Ar++T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf   
      
   The makers may make   
   and the users may use,   
   but the fixers must fix   
   with but minimal clues   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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