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WTFBEES posted:It sounds like this is a bit too late to help, but the Win 7 start menu search will not only search for file names, but it will also search within documents. Meaning if you type up a paper about monkeys and then name it Document1, searching for "Monkey" will find your document. Holy poo poo, this is loving awesome.
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evelynevvie posted:What iTunes alternative do you guys recommend for syncing an iPod? It's a 4G nano if that matters. Sharepod. Its nice and light-weight (just stick it on the ipod itself and run it off there) i use it all the time on my downstairs computer with my big 160GB classic since i dont have a permanent PC now but still wanna put music on my ipod, and its NEVER messed it up/erased all my poo poo or anything like that 
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Any opinions on Office 365 here? Me and my brother need Office for our class, and I see that they have a student 4-year subscription for $79.99. It says we can put it on up to 5 PC's, so we would be sharing it basically.
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Aphrodite posted:It works fine. You just get full installations of Office anyway, so there's no fancy "in the cloud" stuff to break. Apparently the android app doesn't support tablets. This is a deal breaker for me. They don't even support the loving iPad supposedly either 
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Is there a way I can tell what's waking my PC up on LAN? I set it to go to sleep after an hour or so, and I leave the WOL feature on in case I want to watch something on Plex or whatever. However, it'll automatically wake itself up even when seemingly nothing on my network is going on. I'm sure it's some other PC/device pinging the desktop in question for some random reason, but is there a way I can find out what?
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Orcs and Ostriches posted:Running powercfg lastwake in a command prompt might give you more information. Thanks, but this doesen't really give me any useful information  code:
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Sri.Theo posted:If I wanted to use an iPod without interacting with iTunes in anyway is that possible? Is there some way of installing a driver then just dragging and dropping music through the file system? Sharepod is pretty great for this.
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Sir Unimaginative posted:But given how actually bloated Java-based BitTorrent clients are, and how Qbittorrent is still having trouble not losing its mind (and let's not get started on the support structure you need to add to ports from Linux), I'm not sure there's any quality BT clients left on Windows. What's wrong with qBitTorrent?
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MSE is really all you need. e: holy poo poo, that website
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Medullah posted:Look at that sexy desktop, laying on it's back flexing it's muscles. That's all I can see now.
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Karthe posted:Has anyone been able to upload songs to Google Play Music using Chrome and the Play Music extension? I tried several times to upload a 17-song album (totaling 80MB), but no matter what I do it never gets past "Uploading 0 of 17 songs". I even tried leaving it to run for 3-4 hours thinking something might just need a long loving time to do its thing, but when I came back it hadn't changed at all. Delete the extension, clear Chrome Cache, re-install extension and try again.
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Entropic posted:That makes sense. They're cutting backwards compatibility ties, so they might as well take the opportunity to rebrand. It won't.
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This is probably a weird request, but does anyone have a link/recommendation to solitaire/hearts/minesweeper? I just realized they're not included in windows 8/8.1, and I built a PC for my dad  I know MS has them on the metro store, but I don't think my dad could deal with switching back and forth between desktop environments.
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Nintendo Kid posted:Here's a 7zip of Minesweeper and Solitaire from 64 bit Windows 7: http://fishmech.net/Microsoft%20Games.7z Thanks for the link, but clicking on the games doesn't open them. Try setting compatibility to windows 7, doesn't do anything either. doctorfrog posted:There's also a good dad puzzle pack: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/ Thanks for pointing this out, I think he'll love some of this poo poo. beuges posted:If he's playing Solitaire or FreeCell or whatever, he's probably playing them maximized, so they're full-screen already, and he probably won't really notice the difference if the Solitaire shortcut launched the metro game instead of the older version maximised on the desktop. Minesweeper window is small, but if he plays it a lot, he'll probably appreciate the additional stuff in the metro version as well. Maybe show him the metro games and see if he likes them? GreenNight posted:Minesweeper and etc in Metro is pretty nice to be honest. You get daily goals and other poo poo to shoot for. He might get a kick out of the new stuff. Pretty sure you need a Microsoft account to download things from the app store, right? His PC is set up with a local account because he has no desire to have a MS account
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8-bit Miniboss posted:I just did a fresh install of Windows 8.1 since I picked up some upgrades for my machine and did some parts transplanting. What are all the cool kids using for classic looking start menu? Classic Shell.
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KingKapalone posted:Anyone use Google Play Music and the Music Manager program? It's worked great for me to get my music uploaded to the cloud, but yesterday it wouldn't upload 3 albums. It just sits at "uploading 0 out of 27 songs" with an empty progress bar. Then it goes away and says Last Upload: 0 songs. I ditched music manager and just upload them myself through the play music website now. So much better.
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Eight Is Legend posted:Bought a Windows laptop from a friend to tide me over until I get money to replace my broken MacBook. What are the best programs for cleaning up the computer, short of doing a clean install? Nintendo Kid posted:Just do a clean install, no point using a program when you don't have anything installed yet. Yup, this is the correct answer. IF you don't have a CD key (or the sticker on the laptop ripped off or something) just use a keyfinder to get it from the PC, make an ISO on a USB drive and reformat.
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coke zero mit mayo posted:There is. Copy this into a file, save it with a .reg extension and double-click the file: Roargasm posted:Awesome thanks! All set What are the default values? In case I'd want to change them back...
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-Dethstryk- posted:My biggest issue with MSE is that I frequently run into it choking systems, where it seems to want to use a ton of CPU for minutes at a time to scan an executable before letting it go anywhere. I've seen this across every version of Windows and so many desktops at this point. I've seen this, too. It's annoying, but honestly MSE is so resource-lite in every other instance I just deal with it.
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Is Sourceforge safe to download from again? Weren't they going through some poo poo before where new owners were packaging malware with installers and such? My qBittorent is bugging me to update, but the built-in auto-updater takes me to sourceforge....
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Twerk from Home posted:You could also always build qBitTorrent from source, just checkout the release you want and build it: https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent I really don't want to do that.
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Earl of Lavender posted:Perhaps you could update through Ninite? Totally forgot ninite could also update things. Thanks! I'm still curious about sourceforge, though.
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Earl of Lavender posted:Looks like it might not be a concern unless whoever owns the project opts in now. Interesting. Thanks!
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Levitate posted:I almost want to build a Windows 98 VM purely for nostalgia... I did. I played Command & Conquer Tiberian Sun on it. It owned.
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I built my PC in November 2012, and re-installed a few months ago. The only reason I did was because I got an SSD and decided gently caress it  but If I had no need to other than that.
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Torgo2727 posted:My Windows 10 is ready to download. The way i'm understanding these posts, it seems that if I upgrade and get my Windows 10 key, then in 6 months or so after buying a new computer, I won't be able to use my Windows 10 key for the new computer? I'll have to also buy another key for 10? Yes.
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k-uno posted:Quick question from someone who hasn't owned a Windows computer in a few years: how does support for high DPI screens compare between Windows 7 and 8.1? Windows 8.1 hands high DPI screens better than 7, and 10 even better than 8.1. If you're really that concerned about privacy, and are planning to stick with 8.1 just install classicshell and you'll forget that stupid tile poo poo even exists. 8.1 is better than 7 in pretty much every way.
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Munin posted:Quick random question. Any way to get Windows 10 to lock the computer when it shuts the screen off or after a set period? In the advanced power options section there's a "require password on wake" which is probably what you want.
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Jewel Repetition posted:Is Windows 10 stable yet? I've heard reports from friends that's it's a mess but that was a while ago. It's totally fine.
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Jewel Repetition posted:Are you being sarcastic? Someone on the last page was just saying if you have "windows tooltips" on or something you can save any new files. It has like 80 million installs/upgrades or something like that and the world hasn't ended yet. There hasn't been a big "outrage" about instability in 10 so yeah, I'd say it's fine. Most of the things people seem unhappy about is stuff revolving around the forced updates and privacy.
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kiwid posted:Had a computer where the motherboard died. After replacing it, it won't boot so I'm reinstalling windows. How can I extract the Windows product key from the hard drive before I wipe it? The hard drive is fully functional. Magic. Jellybean key finder can do that. Had to do that for my friends PC.
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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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Robo Reagan posted:At this point she needs help with the computer a lot more than once a month and I''m terrified that she's going to go to a gaming site and get her credit card info stolen or worse. I just want my grammie to be able to sing to karaoke videos on YouTube and play solitaire and not have to worry about stuff. Teamviewer is what I use, works pretty good.
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I must be a bad person because I just install the free Adobe Acrobat DC whenever I set up a new computer/reformat and it's been totally fine and unobtrusive.
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Just a heads up for anyone experiencing this: the latest Nvidia drivers have a bug where it fucks with the start menu and mail app in Windows 10. Start menu icons freeze while re-arranging them, and the mail app crashes when you open an email.
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dont be mean to me posted:And I can tell you exactly how it is going to go. Actually Nvidia already released new drivers today that fixed the issue lol
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I feel like the same people who dump on lastpass because of the whole "store your passwords in their ~cloud~" thing then go on to talk about setting up keepass to sync with their dropbox or google drive and it's just like uhhhhhhh I do get the idea of liking keepass better because it's open source though.
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Ynglaur posted:I agree the open source nature of KeePass is a huge plus. Lastpass has a 2FA app that I use that's pretty nice. Wish it backed up codes like Authy, but I'm sure they'll add that eventually.
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Ghostlight posted:The difference is that someone trying to compromise generic cloud services is doing so to steal celebrity photos or poo poo like that and may not even know what to do with Keepass archives - if any - that they obtain as part of the compromise. Someone trying to compromise a cloud service that does nothing but store passwords is trying to steal your passwords. This makes sense. Personally, Lastpass offers the right amount of protection and convenience for me so it's a risk I'm willing to take.
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Crotch Fruit posted:Can you elaborate on this? I know you can upload up to 50,000 songs to Google Play, but then they are managed by Google and well, I personally would prefer to have my music saved on my hard-drive/NAS (for in home streaming) or at least be able to choose another service like drop box to store my music instead of being limited to Google's servers. I like this Google Play Music feature, I just think it could be better. Plex will let you store your music on your home NAS and stream it around. Not sure about the cloud services part though.
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