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Thermopyle posted:I've got an old laptop with Win7 on it that I'm setting up as a print server and some minor other server tasks. Rainmeter has a ton of popular giant-character skins that look nice (example). Find something with weather and an RSS reader.
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NihilCredo posted:Rainmeter has a ton of popular giant-character skins that look nice (example). Find something with weather and an RSS reader. Oh yeah, I didn't even think of Rainmeter. Thanks!
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Having a boot issue I bought a new internal HD a few days ago, installed it and formatted the drive. Everything was working just great. Today, I started copying some files over from my external HD to my new internal so I can use the external as a windows backup. I was able to copy a few hundred GB worth of media, and then during one of the transfers with just a few seconds left I got a BSOD and windows shut down. I restarted without issue, and resumed transferring files. I got about another hundred GB in and it shut down again, this time with a new issue. I am unable to run windows for more than a few minutes. Even on the login screen, it will shut down after approximately 3-5 mins. If I log in I can click on the taskbar, even play video files from some of the internal drives. However, it seems trying to interact with anything windows-related (start button, c:/, etc) Windows will immediately freeze and the computer will reboot. I checked the Core Temp application I installed when I first built this PC and the temperatures were running high. I noticed one of my case fans wasn't running so I fiddled around with that a bit and now all the fans are going and the temp is reading much lower, however the computer is still restarting randomly. Is this a virus, or do I need to leave my PC alone for a few hours to cool? Thanks in advance, hope I can get some quick help. e: Windows 7 if it makes a difference, 64-bit. Running antiviruses and anti-malware programs in safe mode right now, with no issue. Doesn't seem to need to restart constantly in safe mode. Robawesome fucked around with this message at 00:38 on Jul 12, 2012 |
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Jul 12, 2012 00:23
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Robawesome posted:Having a boot issue Sounds like you should really be posting in Haus of Tech Support
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Jul 12, 2012 13:27
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I recently lost all the notes I scribble in Notepad because Windows 7 auto-installed updates and rebooted without permission. The rebooting without permission part really pisses me off. Anyway, I'm wondering if there's a Notepad that simply autosaves? I played with Notepad+++ a few years ago but am wondering if there's anything better now.
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Jul 12, 2012 16:09
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Vegetable posted:I recently lost all the notes I scribble in Notepad because Windows 7 auto-installed updates and rebooted without permission. The rebooting without permission part really pisses me off. Anyway, I'm wondering if there's a Notepad that simply autosaves? I played with Notepad+++ a few years ago but am wondering if there's anything better now. How about sticky notes?
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Jul 12, 2012 16:11
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Vegetable posted:I recently lost all the notes I scribble in Notepad because Windows 7 auto-installed updates and rebooted without permission. The rebooting without permission part really pisses me off. Anyway, I'm wondering if there's a Notepad that simply autosaves? I played with Notepad+++ a few years ago but am wondering if there's anything better now. Not related to notes, but you can disable automatic restarts: http://www.howtogeek.com/?post_type=post&p=858 I do that on my machine so I can fully control the reboot.
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Jul 12, 2012 16:21
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Vegetable posted:I recently lost all the notes I scribble in Notepad because Windows 7 auto-installed updates and rebooted without permission. The rebooting without permission part really pisses me off. Anyway, I'm wondering if there's a Notepad that simply autosaves? I played with Notepad+++ a few years ago but am wondering if there's anything better now. Get evernote.
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Medullah posted:Not related to notes, but you can disable automatic restarts: If you have a non-home (I think?) version of Windows you can just click a thing. I mean I guess we can have a debate about the UI or whatever but here it is. I mean there's even a few paragraphs spelling out what will happen. It's not rocket science. 
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Is there any sort of dedicated Netflix app available for Windows? My htpc is set up in the front room and 3 different people use it, and not only is using the netflix website a somewhat inelegant way to watch movies, I also don't want to entrust the other two with my password should cookies ever be deleted on the browser. I tried setting it up with xbmc but I couldn't for the life of me get the drat thing to work.
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Porkchop Express posted:Is there any sort of dedicated Netflix app available for Windows? My htpc is set up in the front room and 3 different people use it, and not only is using the netflix website a somewhat inelegant way to watch movies, I also don't want to entrust the other two with my password should cookies ever be deleted on the browser. If you have Windows 7 (and live in the United States) Windows Media Center has a Netflix app. I wasn't able to make it work with my local Netflix account but it should work in the USA.
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Jul 12, 2012 19:12
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Vegetable posted:I recently lost all the notes I scribble in Notepad because Windows 7 auto-installed updates and rebooted without permission. The rebooting without permission part really pisses me off. Anyway, I'm wondering if there's a Notepad that simply autosaves? I played with Notepad+++ a few years ago but am wondering if there's anything better now. Sublime Text 2 doesn't auto save but if you close and reopen the program everything comes back as it was. I would also suggest Evernote as that does autosave. You could also use Google Docs
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Hi, I was wondering if any of you fine people know what the best free transcription software is for Windows 7? I don't need a high level of accuracy, but this is a one-time favor for a friend so I can't afford to buy any software. I want to try to avoid malware if at all possible.
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Toothy posted:Hi, I was wondering if any of you fine people know what the best free transcription software is for Windows 7? I don't need a high level of accuracy, but this is a one-time favor for a friend so I can't afford to buy any software. I want to try to avoid malware if at all possible. It isn't windows software but if you happen to have an android tablet for smartphone that is new I have to have teeth google voice keyboard then you might be able to use it voice recognition to do short bits of transcribing work it seems to be limited to only 1 or 2 minutes of recording but that might fit the bill for you if he out of equality is sufficient. I recorded this post and I'm going to post it unedited but with our notes so you can figure out whether it does a good enough job. translation: It isn't windows software but if you happen to have an android tablet or smartphone that is new enough to have google voice keyboard than you might be able to use its voice recognition to do short bits of transcribing work. It seems to be limited to only 1 or 2 minutes of recording but that might fit the bill for you if the output quality is sufficient. I recorded this post and I'm going to post it unedited but with notes so you can figure out whether it does a good enough job. Edit: Just noticed there is also a dictation feature built into windows Vista and Seven. You can find it in the control panel under ease of access. Sample: Apparently Windows Vista and seven also have dictation features built in. I am currently using it it to author this portion of the post if you speak like a robot it seems to work much better. If I see normally however as if I'm having a conversation like grass if you are courting something they doesn't work through Naffer fucked around with this message at 01:51 on Jul 14, 2012 |
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LeftistMuslimObama posted:What's the best copying software out there? I'm trying to get my files off of a dying hard drive, and some of them are only reading sometimes. The files are complete, and if you try enough times they'll copy fully, but it's annoying to do them one at a time over and over with windows' default lovely copying function. I want an app that will just keep trying to move the file until it works. I use SuperCopier, it's UI is kinda ugly but it works very well, and runs multiple copy threads so it's quicker (at least, it *looks* quicker). There's also Teracopy, nicer UI, does pretty much the same thing as SuperCopier.
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Is there a way to change where Firefox stores it's temp files? For example, if you tell it to open instead of save a file, it goes somewhere on the C:. I'm running an SSD so I don't want that crap on my C: and my normal downloads would go to D:. Also is there a way I can change where it goes? I think Windows has similar behavior for self extracting zips/exe, and I'd like to change it's temp as well. Is that possible?
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I have some VMs running on a Windows 7 computer, and I want to set it to suspend VMs on host shutdown/user logoff. I've written the actual scripts to handle suspend and resume, but it looks like logoff scripts only runs AFTER programs are terminated. Obviously running the suspend VM script after VMware has been terminated doesn't work. I added the script to the user Group Policy and did a gpupdate /force How can I run a script before programs are given the termination/shutdown signal on logoff? Also, will I run into issues with the logoff script taking long to execute, what's the default timeout there?
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I've got a laptop on WiFi whose shares the other computers on my network can only browse intermittently. However, during the times other computers can't connect (which is most of the time), it can browse the shares on those other computers. Advice? edit: Forgot to add that these are all Win7 machines. Thermopyle fucked around with this message at 20:12 on Jul 15, 2012 |
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Thermopyle posted:I've got a laptop on WiFi whose shares the other computers on my network can only browse intermittently. However, during the times other computers can't connect (which is most of the time), it can browse the shares on those other computers. Are you using Homegroup?
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Is there any way for me to copy a group of files from one folder to another, and to only have them overwrite old, existing files and not adding anything new to folder? Basically an "overwrite only" function?
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Ddraig posted:Is there any way for me to copy a group of files from one folder to another, and to only have them overwrite old, existing files and not adding anything new to folder? Basically an "overwrite only" function? Synctoy from Microsoft has options to copy contents from folder A to folder B, overwriting B, or syncing A and B (deletes on both sides mirrored). I use it to back up my music collection.
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stubblyhead posted:Are you using Homegroup? Nope.
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Thermopyle posted:Nope. If this is a home network (you don't specify in your post), I would consider doing so. It's really easy to set up, and takes a lot of the headaches out of this sort of stuff. If that's not an option for whatever reason, then I'd check name resolution. Can you connect via IP address instead of hostname? (\\192.168.0.100\share instead of \\servername\share)
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stubblyhead posted:If this is a home network (you don't specify in your post), I would consider doing so. It's really easy to set up, and takes a lot of the headaches out of this sort of stuff. If that's not an option for whatever reason, then I'd check name resolution. Can you connect via IP address instead of hostname? (\\192.168.0.100\share instead of \\servername\share) Yeah, it's a home network. I can't get any of the machines to not function properly right now, so I'm not sure about name resolution. I'll definitely check that out next time I have issues.
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How does MSE 4.0 compare to AVG 2012 (free)?
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Robolizard! posted:How does MSE 4.0 compare to AVG 2012 (free)? I read a big comparison between a bunch of different AV programs but in the end it really depends on how stupid you are/general usage. If you're not downloading porn from WAREZ4free217.org then MSE is going to be fine. I've been really enjoy it -- it doesn't throw popups in my face or ask me to upgrade or anything.
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Is there a PDF viewer for Windows that will remember my last read page in a document? Is there a way to get Adobe Reader to remember? I've been reading a few books in PDF format lately and it's a pain in the rear end to remember where I left off. Edit: Oh hey, once again Google has an answer. You can enable "last read page" in Adobe Reader by checking the "Restore last view settings when reopening documents" box in Edit > Preferences > Documents. Unfortunately the last-read page seems to be saved client-side so it won't follow a PDF document around. IAmKale fucked around with this message at 21:47 on Jul 16, 2012 |
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Karthe posted:Is there a PDF viewer for Windows that will remember my last read page in a document? Is there a way to get Adobe Reader to remember? I've been reading a few books in PDF format lately and it's a pain in the rear end to remember where I left off. I'd try this: http://www.foxitsoftware.com/Secure_PDF_Reader/ and bookmark the page you last read.
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Karthe posted:Is there a PDF viewer for Windows that will remember my last read page in a document? PDF X-Change Viewer does this natively. I use the free version and it's way better than Adobe or Foxit could hope to ever be. http://www.tracker-software.com/product/downloads
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I'm hoping someone will have an answer to this puzzler that has consumed over half an hour already  .I have a label printer on a Win7 Pro computer. I need to set the paper size to be 2-3/7" x 4". See here:  I know, it's hosed, the width includes the length, even though there's a clear length field below. If you regularly hate printers, label printers are even shittier! Anyway, I want to make this setting stick for ALL users. However, each user apparently has their own setting, so if I change it for me, and someone else logs in, they have to change it themselves. Obviously, people don't know their rear end from their elbow, so that's asking for too much. I'd like to be able to make a default paper size, so that everyone gets it when they use the printer. My closest shot was finding the registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Printers\Brother QL-500\DsDriver\printMediaReady which had a 2-3/7" in there. I changed it to: 2-3/7" x 4" but that unfortunately did not do the trick. Any hot tips?
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Not even sure how to best phrase this Q on Google: I want to be able wear earphones connected to the laptop while only streaming the picture on to the TV with an HDMI cable? I want this because my earphones wont reach the jack on the TV from the couch but the HDMI cable will. How do I go about this on Win7?
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Didion posted:Not even sure how to best phrase this Q on Google: I want to be able wear earphones connected to the laptop while only streaming the picture on to the TV with an HDMI cable? I want this because my earphones wont reach the jack on the TV from the couch but the HDMI cable will. How do I go about this on Win7? Like right clicking on the little speaker in the system tray > Playback Devices > select output device > Set Default Possibly something like that? EDIT: Also check monoprice for a decent cheap cable that makes your earphones reach your tv. Flipperwaldt fucked around with this message at 01:04 on Jul 17, 2012 |
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Is there any benefit to having a 64-bit web browser over a 32-bit one? I was running the latest version of Minefield and noticed it is 64-bit.
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Cheers man, playback devices did the trick:)
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Couldn't find an outlook 2010 related thread. We have emails that come to our "support" email that will go to around 4 people's emails. If one of us replies we have been BCC'ing the other 3 people so that they know it's taken care of. This won't work as we grow which we plan to do here soon. How can make it so we know any email has been replied to without another email coming in our inbox. We're at that point where things are getting a little overwhelming with all the emails we get. We are willing to switch software if necessary. Using sharepoint 2007 as well..
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fredor posted:Couldn't find an outlook 2010 related thread. Holy poo poo get a ticketing system.
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fredor posted:We are willing to switch software if necessary.
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What software can get me the highest-quality screen captures from HD video (720/1080)? VLC will take the caps fine, but the color is all washed out. Media Player Classic will work too, but the picture loses some of the sharpness. MPC:  VLC (saving as PNG):  VLC (saving as JPG): 
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Aatrek posted:What software can get me the highest-quality screen captures from HD video (720/1080)? VLC will take the caps fine, but the color is all washed out. Media Player Classic will work too, but the picture loses some of the sharpness. Load the file with VirtualDub(Mod) and export the frame.
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Grawl posted:Load the file with VirtualDub(Mod) and export the frame. VirtualDub doesn't support MKV/M4V files.
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