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Any software out there that can make a button have "autofire" by holding it down? Playing Star Wars there's times where I have to repeatedly hit 1 and it gets painful. I know about autohotkey but that seems to only have the option to toggle looping of 1 repeating on and off, which is okay I guess, but I'd really like to just be able to hold it down.
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I've been less an less impressed with malwarebytes lately so I wouldn't go with it as an antivirus. I think Kaspersky is usually pretty high up on the various anti-virus charts. A Linux porn VM is probably the best fix for a 15 year old boy though.
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May 24, 2012 17:47
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I need to be able to control my father's laptop from another country. How do I do that? He knows next to nothing about laptops (in fact, I need to control it so I can clean it up every now and then from the myriad of toolbars that he will install), and I've never done anything like this before. I'm hoping it's a pretty simple process. Can anyone point me in the right direction? vvvvv Absolutely perfect. Thank you. Rekkit fucked around with this message at 18:51 on May 24, 2012 |
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May 24, 2012 18:39
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Rekkit posted:I need to be able to control my father's laptop from another country. How do I do that? TeamViewer You both run a copy on your respective computers. You enter the access number he gives you and hit connect. Dead simple.
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Rekkit posted:I need to be able to control my father's laptop from another country. How do I do that? It's been asked many times, but the best answer is TeamViewer. Install the full version yourself, send him the link to here and just get him to read out the ID and 4 digit code to you.. HalloKitty fucked around with this message at 18:52 on May 24, 2012 |
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May 24, 2012 18:44
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Toast Museum posted:TeamViewer Seconding this. TeamViewer finally saved my mom's computer from total destruction after I got sick of fixing it for the last time. She's given me full access to the computer so we just have a setup where I log into TeamViewer and her computer shows up on the list. No keycodes required and she doesn't have to do anything other than turn/keep the computer on (her TV service starts up on boot).
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May 24, 2012 19:15
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Okay so I have a backup harddrive that has a restore point on it but no system image (because apparently doing a system image takes more space than is available on the friggin drive and I made a 75gb partition for a 64gb ssd that was only about 50gb full UGH) The drive failed me before and I had to reformat to get windows to play nice, and I would rather not reformat at all, especially not at midnight. It's throwing 0xc00000e9 at me when I try to start it, and in recovery the OS doesn't even show up. is it possible to wipe and resize the backup harddrive I'm using, then copy over my whole SSD to it, then run windows repair on that harddrive to get a bootsector on it? That would be the most painless thing I can think of, because while in windows recovery I can still search through the drive.
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May 25, 2012 05:05
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Outlook question (I didn't see a better thread for this): Is there a way to assign a checklist of tasks to a specific item (e.g. email) in Outlook? For example, if I regularly receive emails that need to be dealt with in 3 particular steps (e.g. file electronic copy, forward to coworker, update records), is there a way to set up some sort of checklist or workflow to the email? i.e. Email comes in, I assign it to "Process 1" and then in that process I can check off the items as I complete them (whether it's in a particular order or not is irrelevant). TIA
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May 25, 2012 14:44
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Does anyone know of a good program/website to enter income/expenses for a small business? I don't need anything fancy, and I don't want to enter my bank account. Just track income and expenses.
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May 25, 2012 23:37
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scanlonman posted:Does anyone know of a good program/website to enter income/expenses for a small business? I don't need anything fancy, and I don't want to enter my bank account. Just track income and expenses. Excel?
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May 25, 2012 23:42
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Digital_Jesus posted:Standard formats under windows will simply mark the entire drive as deleted but not actually zero out. The command I linked above will zero the disk. If you want multiple passes or DoD level drive wiping you'll need something like Killdisk. Wrong. And if you want multiple passes then either you have to do it to meet some specification being forced upon you, or you are a lunatic. Well, to be fair you're probably just ignorant of the research in the field. akadajet posted:I didn't know that Microsoft changed it. I was still under the impression that all a full format did was check for bad sectors. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941961 "The format command behavior has changed in Windows Vista. By default in Windows Vista, the format command writes zeros to the whole disk when a full format is performed. In Windows XP and in earlier versions of the Windows operating system, the format command does not write zeros to the whole disk when a full format is performed." I tested this and the same is true for 7 as it is for Vista. Gromit fucked around with this message at 07:21 on May 26, 2012 |
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May 26, 2012 00:48
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Gromit posted:Wrong. Anyway.
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May 26, 2012 00:54
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anyone know how to send a message to a computer on a wifi network you are connected to? I have windows 7, I assume they do too.
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May 26, 2012 05:25
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Flipperwaldt posted:True, with the catch that quick format seems to be checked by default in the format dialog, which does do exactly what he describes. A difference listed in my original post on the subject. 
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May 26, 2012 07:22
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Gromit posted:A difference listed in my original post on the subject. Must have lost track of that with the discussion flowing over into a new page.
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May 26, 2012 10:19
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Is there any software that truly restricts your cursor to just one monitor? I tried MultiMon but it doesn't restrict your cursor so much as immediately moves it back. So if I move my cursor to the top right of my screen to close, when I click it might not actually close the window because it was in the process of being moved back onto monitor 1. Very annoying.
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May 27, 2012 00:25
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Benjamin Black posted:Is there any software that truly restricts your cursor to just one monitor? I tried MultiMon but it doesn't restrict your cursor so much as immediately moves it back. So if I move my cursor to the top right of my screen to close, when I click it might not actually close the window because it was in the process of being moved back onto monitor 1.
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May 27, 2012 00:53
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Flipperwaldt posted:I don't know if it's any better, but it's an alternative: Dual Display Mouse Manager Actually, this works perfectly! Many thanks.
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May 27, 2012 00:58
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Is there a way to make Windows play a sound when it finishes copying files? I regularly copy files to a flash drive that needs to be delivered ASAP when it's done, but I like to watch videos or play full-screen games while it copies, so I can't see the visual indication on the taskbar when it finishes.
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May 27, 2012 04:08
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Flipperwaldt posted:I don't know if it's any better, but it's an alternative: Dual Display Mouse Manager I use Actual Multiple Monitors which has its quirks and is not freeware but is quite good. Unfortunately, the screen-locking functionality is not one of the free features.
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May 27, 2012 04:51
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is there a image-backup solution that works as a portable app for W7 64? we´ve used acronis true image 9 for years but it´s not working under W7... any image application that can backup the drive with a user logged in thats portable as a single exe file.
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May 27, 2012 15:35
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Driveimage XML is portable - http://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=496 - although not as a single .exe file, you need to move the whole folder.
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May 27, 2012 16:03
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Asked this before - Does anyone who uses Autohotkey have a nice easy script that will auto-loop the #1 button, preferably when it's held down, and stop when it's released?
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Medullah posted:Asked this before - Does anyone who uses Autohotkey have a nice easy script that will auto-loop the #1 button, preferably when it's held down, and stop when it's released?
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May 27, 2012 20:31
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What sorts of programs, if any, allow me to see what the hell is causing my hard drive to thrash so much? My 'main' HD is a older/slow one, so I know that's the cause, but I'd love to know more concretely what's causing it. The disk tab in Resource Monitor has all the understandability of... well, something not very understandable. All I can glean from RM is that it's said older/slow drive going nuts. The newer HD I have isn't doing a thing. MisterBibs fucked around with this message at 18:20 on May 29, 2012 |
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May 29, 2012 18:18
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MisterBibs posted:What sorts of programs, if any, allow me to see what the hell is causing my hard drive to thrash so much? Process Explorer might help you figure out what's causing the slowdown. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx You'll have to add the specific columns relating to disk activity. TwoKnives fucked around with this message at 18:27 on May 29, 2012 |
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May 29, 2012 18:24
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^^ or Process Explorer's brother DiskMon http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896646
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What's a good program to figure out what drivers you need? I put Windows 7 on a box and can't for the life of me figure out what NIC drivers it wants.
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GreenNight posted:What's a good program to figure out what drivers you need? I put Windows 7 on a box and can't for the life of me figure out what NIC drivers it wants. I don't know about a program, but I use PCI Database. You can search by device number or vendor number, both of which are listed in properties -> details -> Hardware IDs in the device manager. Edit: example  Vendor 1969, device 1063 Toast Museum fucked around with this message at 20:29 on May 30, 2012 |
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May 30, 2012 20:24
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GreenNight posted:What's a good program to figure out what drivers you need? I put Windows 7 on a box and can't for the life of me figure out what NIC drivers it wants. Unknown Device Identifier should give you enough information to hunt down a driver.
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If you're feeling bored you could boot an Ubuntu live CD and run 'lspci' at the command line, that should tell you what the hardware is.
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-Dethstryk- posted:Unknown Device Identifier should give you enough information to hunt down a driver. Actually this worked perfectly. Intel LOM driver. Sigh.
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I have a related question: is there any decent software for scanning drivers to determine which are out of date? I can go to the hardware manufacturers' sites to get the drivers once I know what needs to be updated, and I could obviously go device by device in the Device Manager to check the drivers one by one, but having a single application to sweep all of them at once would be helpful.
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Can anyone recommend a simple program to burn DVD's for playback on a DVD player which takes advantage of modern PC capabilities? I've tried DVD Flick and AVStoDVD and they are both buggy and slow as molasses. I don't want to go anywhere Nero if it is still as bloated as it used to be.
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Folderol posted:I have a related question: is there any decent software for scanning drivers to determine which are out of date? I can go to the hardware manufacturers' sites to get the drivers once I know what needs to be updated, and I could obviously go device by device in the Device Manager to check the drivers one by one, but having a single application to sweep all of them at once would be helpful. Is there a security concern I'm not aware of or something? It's the only thing I can possibly think of that would justify that.
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WorkingStiff posted:Can anyone recommend a simple program to burn DVD's for playback on a DVD player which takes advantage of modern PC capabilities? I've tried DVD Flick and AVStoDVD and they are both buggy and slow as molasses. I don't want to go anywhere Nero if it is still as bloated as it used to be. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_DVD_Maker Though you do have to raise the priority as stated.
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Flipperwaldt posted:I don't mean this adversarial, but what's the rationale here? I don't update drivers unless I encounter a problem. Once I've got a set of them that works together nicely, what's the motivation to constantly have the latest versions? Well, in the past I've had to address driver related problems from time to time that I was able to address by updating, and I guess the thought would be to avoid those sorts of issues instead of waiting until they've occurred, as well as to get any performance benefits that might come along with a more updated version (also, I haven't yet experienced issues from the update process itself). If I'm reading your post properly, though, it sounds like there are downsides to updating as a result of which I should hesitate unless there's a real need. Is that right? What should I be keeping in mind as potential pitfalls? Not challenging you, quite the contrary, just would be grateful to have a fuller sense of the problems I might run into.
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Moving stuff from my computer to an external drive and my network drive can be really tedious. Trying to do too much at once tends to bog everything down and lead to mistakes. Is there a program that lets you plan out where you want to send everything, and then goes about putting it there in a logical manner?
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