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Maels posted:Ok. I haven't had AVG actually detect anything for over 2 years now so I'll try going Windows Defender only if Avast literally does anything but shut the gently caress up and make me feel good. Neither Avast or Windows Defender are actually going to find a virus in time to stop any damage, and even then they probably won't find anything.. Just take Windows Defender for the lower system resource usage and better updating.
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Going out to get my wife a new Windows 10 device (SP3 if it matters), what's the general flow chart for setting up a freshly-bought Windows 10 to get it as bullshit-free as possible? Due to a special offer we're getting it direct from a Windows store, I don't know if that means there'll be more pre-installed BS or less.
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Feb 13, 2016 04:53
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Signature edition means a lot/most of the crap wasn't installed.
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C-Euro posted:Going out to get my wife a new Windows 10 device (SP3 if it matters), what's the general flow chart for setting up a freshly-bought Windows 10 to get it as bullshit-free as possible? Due to a special offer we're getting it direct from a Windows store, I don't know if that means there'll be more pre-installed BS or less. Under "update and recovery" in settings, there's an option to delete everything and start over with a clean copy of Windows.
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Feb 13, 2016 05:02
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Toast Museum posted:Under "update and recovery" in settings, there's an option to delete everything and start over with a clean copy of Windows. Cool, thanks. Is Ninite still the thing for mass-installing common programs on a new machine? I seem to recall using that for my current laptop but that was back in 2010. Is there a better way to set up a new machine nowadays?
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Feb 13, 2016 05:59
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C-Euro posted:Cool, thanks. Is Ninite still the thing for mass-installing common programs on a new machine? I seem to recall using that for my current laptop but that was back in 2010. Is there a better way to set up a new machine nowadays? Yes, Ninite still owns.
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Feb 13, 2016 06:11
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C-Euro posted:Going out to get my wife a new Windows 10 device (SP3 if it matters), what's the general flow chart for setting up a freshly-bought Windows 10 to get it as bullshit-free as possible? Due to a special offer we're getting it direct from a Windows store, I don't know if that means there'll be more pre-installed BS or less. They're isn't anything pre installed on the surfaces.
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Feb 13, 2016 11:16
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Is there a way to automatically play a sound in the preview pane in Windows Explorer (Win7). Or maybe a keyboard shortcut to press play? Selecting a file, then clicking play, seems a bit of a hassle.
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Feb 13, 2016 11:34
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Orcs and Ostriches posted:Neither Avast or Windows Defender are actually going to find a virus in time to stop any damage, and even then they probably won't find anything.. Just take Windows Defender for the lower system resource usage and better updating.   #6900 woohoo The cute lil message (hee hee!) doesn't show up till after you hit send.
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Feb 14, 2016 08:11
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Maels posted:
Gross. It only works with their mail module which I don't use, but this is really stupid of them. quote:From the version 2016 also if you are using a web-based client (Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, Outlook Mail, Live Mail) in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox or Internet Explorer. The only browser in which the Avast signature is not inserted is Opera.
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Feb 14, 2016 09:10
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Maels posted:
Frankly I feel safer since its against the law for a virus or bad guy to append an identical signature to their malicious emails. So much safer, that I just disable my own scanner when I get an email with that signature. It's bulletproof, right guys? Guys?
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I stopped using Avast after it made two separate Windows installs unbootable. It managed to corrupt one of its own pre-boot scanner files, and the drives were encrypted, so...yeah.
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Feb 14, 2016 12:49
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I'm looking for something that makes printing pictures easy. It needs to be able to crop images to the correct aspect ratio for common photo printing sizes as well as printing those sizes on larger paper sizes if I want. Any other functionality is not required, but I don't care if it can do other things as long as they don't get in the way of doing that. paint.net is kind of alright because it opens the old windows photo printing dialog, but AFAICT, it lacks the ability to crop to aspect ratios. Also, the windows photo printing dialog is kind of limited...like I can't select to print a wallet size and a 4x6 on one sheet of paper.
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Feb 14, 2016 18:52
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What makes Office 365 special, if anything? I'm looking to buy a Windows 10 machine soon and need Office on it. I have a spare key for Office 2013 and am hoping I won't miss out on anything if I install that instead of springing for 365.
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Feb 14, 2016 21:47
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C-Euro posted:What makes Office 365 special, if anything? I'm looking to buy a Windows 10 machine soon and need Office on it. I have a spare key for Office 2013 and am hoping I won't miss out on anything if I install that instead of springing for 365. Well the main thing is you pay your $100 each year to keep Office 365 versus buying Office 2013/2016/whatever for whatever price, and you get access to web-based versions as well. Each regular version of Office will get updated with new stuff untila few years after the next versin comes out, and gets security patches for something like 9 years from release. If you want to save money, you don't really miss out on anything with just buying a regular version of Office.
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Feb 14, 2016 21:51
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Thermopyle posted:I'm looking for something that makes printing pictures easy. Would Snagit work?
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fishmech posted:Well the main thing is you pay your $100 each year to keep Office 365 versus buying Office 2013/2016/whatever for whatever price, and you get access to web-based versions as well. Each regular version of Office will get updated with new stuff untila few years after the next versin comes out, and gets security patches for something like 9 years from release. Good to know, 2013 it is then. Thanks.
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Feb 14, 2016 21:58
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Ynglaur posted:Would Snagit work? I can't seem to find anything online about printing with Snagit, only stuff about printing to Snagit...
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Thermopyle posted:I can't seem to find anything online about printing with Snagit, only stuff about printing to Snagit... You can resize images easily enough, and then print to a printer. Check out the trial version. I do little with photographs and so probably don't understand your use cases but I use it daily for screenshots.
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Feb 14, 2016 23:00
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Thermopyle posted:I'm looking for something that makes printing pictures easy. The old Windows Live Photo Gallery would probably work, and I think Picasa will do this as well, if it's still available for download somewhere.
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Feb 15, 2016 03:13
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Does anyone know of software that can scan a bunch of video files for integrity? I copied a bunch of video files from my dying NAS to my new one this weekend, and some of them failed to copy and/or I had to restart the copy mid-file. I have some 100k files, so I'm looking for a way I can scan each to see if it is corrupted or not, and then dump that to a log ideally.
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Feb 16, 2016 15:21
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Gyshall posted:Does anyone know of software that can scan a bunch of video files for integrity? I copied a bunch of video files from my dying NAS to my new one this weekend, and some of them failed to copy and/or I had to restart the copy mid-file. I don't know the answer to your specific question, but what I'd do in that case is use rsync to copy the files again. It will only copy data that hasn't already been copied.
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Feb 16, 2016 15:53
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Another approach would be to create checksums of the files in the NAS and compare them. But that would only tell if the copied files are identical to the ones on the NAS, not if the files on the NAS have been corrupted. MD5summer is one of the better checksum programs I've found for Windows. If you have command line access to the NAS it would probably be best to create the checksums from there.
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Feb 16, 2016 16:24
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C-Euro posted:Good to know, 2013 it is then. Thanks. The other benefits are a terabyte of cloud storage, some Skype minutes, and access to the office mobile apps on larger screens (like an iPad pro or surface). It's worth it for me to get the storage but sounds like you don't need it.
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Feb 16, 2016 16:27
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DrBouvenstein posted:Anyway, quick question related to Outlook notifications (2013.) Quoting myself here. Here's a comparison of the low-res "generic contact" picture used in the notification vs the high-res one used in Outlook. Both are the exact same size on the screen, but clearly that notification is using some lower resolution source image, or maybe it's just compressing the Hell out of it for some reason?   I tried googling for an answer, but I couldn't find a single result that was describing my problem (other than a previous post I made on Reddit.)
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Does anyone have experience using Office 2013 over RDP? The host machine is running Windows 7, I'm on Windows 10. It used to be fine, but for the last week or so typing has been excruciating - like 3 second delay between hitting a key and seeing the character show up on the screen. I looked around a little and found a suggestion to disable hardware acceleration in Word, but that didn't seem to have any effect. Any other ideas?
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hooah posted:It used to be fine, but for the last week or so What changed?
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There might have been a Windows update to either or both computers in the last couple week, but that would be the only thing I can think of.
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Using Windows 10, my start menu doesn't seem to open in any reasonable amount of time after using my computer for some time (and neither does Cortana or Message Center). Restarting explorer.exe doesn't actually work all that well (in that explorer.exe never fully restarts and forces a full system restart). This has been going on for amount a week so far and I have no idea the steps to fix this. I tried messing with the page size for windows, but to no avail.
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I'm currently on windows 10 and have the OS installed on my SSD C drive and all my storage on an HDD (F). For some reason recently windows put a "windowsapps" folder on my F drive and I can't figure out a way to move it to my C drive. It apparently has some absolutely insane level of security on it because I can't change permissions on the folder at all - I can't even open the folder to see what's in it. I tried downloading a program that can delete system files but even that wasn't able to do anything. Anyone know of a way to get windows to move the folder or reduce the security level so I can delete it and redownload it somewhere else? The only solutions I found online were to format the drive and reinstall windows, which seems kind of overkill.
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I have an flv and two mp4s (cell phone videos) that I'm trying to put on a DVD to play on a DVD player. What is the least painful and free way to do this? Everything I have found and done during the past 4 hours has been nothing but a huge pain in the loving rear end.
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Feb 20, 2016 06:11
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QuarkMartial posted:I have an flv and two mp4s (cell phone videos) that I'm trying to put on a DVD to play on a DVD player.
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Feb 20, 2016 06:20
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I think Freemake might do DVD burning, along with a hell of a lot of other video tasks. http://www.freemake.com/
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Feb 20, 2016 06:26
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Vulture Culture posted:DVD Flick isn't awful Thats what I use too, but it has occasionally spat out a useless 100mb iso for me with no indication anything went wrong
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If I were to get windows 7 home premium 64 oem from ekeymarket.com or the like am I basically going to get scammed? I'm doing a new pc build and don't want to overpay for the os.
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What is a good program to scan to a PDF? Apparently the Win10 "Scan" app doesn't support scanning multiple pages to one PDF.
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tater_salad posted:If I were to get windows 7 home premium 64 oem from ekeymarket.com or the like am I basically going to get scammed? You always run the risk of getting scammed on those sites, they're often keys from MSDN accounts, with no promise if they'll stay valid, not given to other people, etc. If you don't want to worry about it pay the difference and get it from a proper source.
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37th Chamber posted:You always run the risk of getting scammed on those sites, they're often keys from MSDN accounts, with no promise if they'll stay valid, not given to other people, etc. Any clue where a good source is I just need the key, ill be setting up the system Monday evening.
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tater_salad posted:Any clue where a good source is I just need the key, ill be setting up the system Monday evening. I'd post in SA-Mart. I think I've seen them for $25-$30 there.
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What's the best password manager that supports both android (chrome) and windows (firefox) and is free or if paid, really worth the  ? There's so many and I want some goon input.
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