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One thing to remember is that on a SSD with overprovisioning one wipe may not clear all data. It is practically inaccessible, but it probably still exist in some cells. 50% extra wiping will probably get everything, maybe, unless the drive does something funky.
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Saukkis posted:One thing to remember is that on a SSD with overprovisioning one wipe may not clear all data. It is practically inaccessible, but it probably still exist in some cells. 50% extra wiping will probably get everything, maybe, unless the drive does something funky. Yeah that's why with an SSD, you should use the manufacturer tools that send secure erase commands to the whole drive.
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Jan 13, 2017 19:12
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Why not just encrypt the drive then instead of worry about whether or not some "tools" will work for wiping? At least this way you know any data is protected. Just mash a 50 character password or something ridiculous on it.
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Saukkis posted:50% extra wiping will probably get everything, maybe, unless the drive does something funky. i always wipe just a little extra each time just to make sure everything's clean down there
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Jan 13, 2017 23:46
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GobiasIndustries posted:I'm selling an old laptop, can I use a Windows installation usb to do a wipe of the hard drive or do I need to get a special tool? If you go to install Windows and it gives you the option of doing a full format of the disk rather than a quick one, that will overwrite the disk with zeros. You'll know it's working as it'll take hours to do. If the format finishes in 30 seconds then it didn't overwrite poo poo.
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anyone got a good, free window snapping tool? i liked aquasnap well enough, but i just added a second monitor and now i'd have to pay for it
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Abel Wingnut posted:anyone got a good, free window snapping tool? i liked aquasnap well enough, but i just added a second monitor and now i'd have to pay for it Honestly I ended up paying for aquasnap because it was the best of what I tried.
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Jan 14, 2017 18:57
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How does this compare to Divvy? I've purchased it for Mac and works well but I've never heard of TidyTab or AquaSnap.
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mindphlux posted:greenshot He means a tool to enable windows to snap to each other, the edges of the desktop, etc. Besides, when it comes to screen capture tools ShareX is king. I also prefer Aquasnap for that function, though I think I just found an old version before they split into free/paid and used that? Read fucked around with this message at 11:47 on Jan 15, 2017 |
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Jan 15, 2017 11:42
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Just changed the CPU + mobo + RAM on my computer. Need to reactivate windows. Does troubleshooting in this way require a Microsoft account? I have such an account but don't currently sign into Windows with it.
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Jan 16, 2017 04:23
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From the perspective of Windows licensing, this is effectively a new computer - and without having signed in to your Microsoft account on the old 'computer' the activation fix won't work. And yes, you'd need to sign in for that.
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crestfallen posted:Just changed the CPU + mobo + RAM on my computer. Need to reactivate windows. Does troubleshooting in this way require a Microsoft account? I have such an account but don't currently sign into Windows with it. What version of Windows are you activating, a copy of Windows 10 that was a free upgrade from 7 or 8? You'd need to have signed into a Microsoft Account with it to tie the license to your account while still on the original hardware, otherwise the license would be strictly tied to the old hardware. And you'd need to sign into that Microsoft Account to bring it over to the new hardware configuration. If you hadn't tied the license to the account, you're going to need to try to reinstall 7 or 8 on either another drive or another partition, and then try to do the free upgrade from that. This might or might not still work, but if it does work then you can go back to your current install and it should activate.
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Thank you both, very helpful.dont be mean to me posted:From the perspective of Windows licensing, this is effectively a new computer - and without having signed in to your Microsoft account on the old 'computer' the activation fix won't work. quote:What version of Windows are you activating, a copy of Windows 10 that was a free upgrade from 7 or 8? quote:you're going to need to try to reinstall 7 or 8 on either another drive or another partition, and then try to do the free upgrade from that.
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crestfallen posted:Okay. So. Install 7 again, upgrade to 10 for free from there. This is all a separate partition. How will doing this activate the current install I have? Like, how do they talk together? A digital fingerprint calculated from a list of the hardware in the system gets sent to Microsoft servers, when the other install tries to activate again, it will send an identical digital fingerprint and be allowed to activate.
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Any recommendations for screen recording software? Just whatever's free or has a trial, I need it for a one off thing.
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Jan 16, 2017 16:38
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fishmech posted:A digital fingerprint calculated from a list of the hardware in the system gets sent to Microsoft servers, when the other install tries to activate again, it will send an identical digital fingerprint and be allowed to activate.
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Ur Getting Fatter posted:Any recommendations for screen recording software? Snagit unless you're recording for hours or something.
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Ur Getting Fatter posted:Any recommendations for screen recording software? OBS or ShareX is what I would use, people also like: XSplit, Fraps, Camtasia. E: Here's an image of OBS Studio set up to record a game, for reference. For simple recordings, you just need to set a capture under "Sources" and then click record when you're ready. You can change the filetype, compression, etc under Settings -> Output. 
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What's the difference between ConEmu and Cmder? I've been using ConEmu after someone mentioned it here and it works great, except that I can't get the background color for the Monokai theme to be the proper color (on my Linux box I have a really dark gray, and in ConEmu I have a lighter gray---the same gray color that Vim (using Monokai) uses as the column/row highlight color). So I downloaded Cmder to try it out and well it looks like it's the same program?
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Boris Galerkin posted:What's the difference between ConEmu and Cmder? I've been using ConEmu after someone mentioned it here and it works great, except that I can't get the background color for the Monokai theme to be the proper color (on my Linux box I have a really dark gray, and in ConEmu I have a lighter gray---the same gray color that Vim (using Monokai) uses as the column/row highlight color). So I downloaded Cmder to try it out and well it looks like it's the same program? They're similar because Cmder is a fork of ConEmu. The github repo description suggests these are the main differences compared to ConEmu: major config overhaul monokai color scheme amazing clink (whatever that is, https://github.com/mridgers/clink) custom prompt layout portability vOv
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Read posted:He means a tool to enable windows to snap to each other, the edges of the desktop, etc. Besides, when it comes to screen capture tools ShareX is king. totally misread the context / his post! thanks for the shout on ShareX, hadn't come across that before. Looks good.
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mindphlux posted:totally misread the context / his post! ShareX is the defacto standard.
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Is there a quick and easy photo-resizer plug in/app for Windows where I can select a crapload of jpegs and resize to whatever resolution? I'm thinking of select everything, right click and resize? Seems to me I had something like that before but be darned if I can find it now. 
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slidebite posted:Is there a quick and easy photo-resizer plug in/app for Windows where I can select a crapload of jpegs and resize to whatever resolution? I'm thinking of select everything, right click and resize? Seems to me I had something like that before but be darned if I can find it now. irfanview
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I'm trying to install Windows onto a new SSD. I already had a bootable Windows 7 USB stick so I put in the new SSD and the boot stick and booted from the stick, set it to install to the new hard drive. It went through some installation steps then it restarts and goes right back to the beginning asking me if I want to install Windows. What do. Right now I have my old Windows SSD and the new empty one plugged in. What the hell is the best way to do this?
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Unplug the USB stick.
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Yeah - Windows installs start by copying everything they need to the destination disk, then they reboot from said destination disk and finish setting themselves up from there. You don't need the install media after the first automatic reboot as a result. If you're ever in a situation where you want to finish the whole install without having to unplug the USB media (say, if you're working on a machine in a remote location via KVM-over-IP) then you can use BIOS settings to put your destination disk first in the permanent boot order and use the one-time boot menu to override that to start the install.
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Thanks for the instant response. Really glad it ended up being something simple.
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slidebite posted:Is there a quick and easy photo-resizer plug in/app for Windows where I can select a crapload of jpegs and resize to whatever resolution? I'm thinking of select everything, right click and resize? Seems to me I had something like that before but be darned if I can find it now. Additionally, a 'remake' of the ancient Windows XP Image Resizer Powertoy - http://www.bricelam.net/ImageResizer/ There are probably other identical replacements but that one has worked fine for me.
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Good video editing software for someone who isn't super technically literate, but isn't an idiot either? Doesn't have to be free, but that's always nice. Something aimed at amateurs, but that has nice quality features.
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The Sony Vegas you can buy on steam is pretty competent. It's basically the same software as their pro stuff with a little more hand holding and some quirky but not too annoying restrictions (like a dumbed down export dialog forcing you to click an 'advanced' button every time you want to control settings). Though I guess it's not Sony anymore, some company named MAGIX owns it now.
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Thermopyle posted:Good video editing software for someone who isn't super technically literate, but isn't an idiot either? Isn't the MS Movie maker decent?
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Nostalgia4Dogges posted:Isn't the MS Movie maker decent? It was discontinued a couple of weeks ago. You can no longer download it.
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Microsoft still supplies a download: https://support.microsoft.com/en-ca/help/14220/windows-movie-maker-download Maybe the installer fails when it tries to fetch the files? I dunno.
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Sorry if this is one of those things that always comes up, but a couple days ago Windows 10 has started requiring a password after my screen-off idle timer. As in, it used to just go to the slideshow screen after 10 minutes and turn the monitors off and I could come back to desktop by pressing spacebar, but now I have to type in my password ever. single. time. I've tried disabling the lock screen via registry, renaming the LockApp folder in SystemApps and even disabling requiring login. Now when I boot Windows it just loads right into the desktop but still when my screen-off idle time is up I have to type in my password. I hate this. Any ideas? Thanks.
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Thermopyle posted:Good video editing software for someone who isn't super technically literate, but isn't an idiot either? OpenShot is relatively simple and GPL, and can do DVD, Blu Ray, or 4k output if necessary
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mutata posted:Sorry if this is one of those things that always comes up, but a couple days ago Windows 10 has started requiring a password after my screen-off idle timer. As in, it used to just go to the slideshow screen after 10 minutes and turn the monitors off and I could come back to desktop by pressing spacebar, but now I have to type in my password ever. single. time. I've tried disabling the lock screen via registry, renaming the LockApp folder in SystemApps and even disabling requiring login. Now when I boot Windows it just loads right into the desktop but still when my screen-off idle time is up I have to type in my password. I hate this. Any ideas?  Would be the first thing to check. Don't know how that's going to interact with the other changes you made, obviously.
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That setting has been set to "Never" the whole time, unfortunately.
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