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VelociBacon posted:I'm Canadian also and I think they actually write it as "checks" for some reason, zut alors. I have a checkbook and a prepaid debit card. I can deposit cash on the card for a $3 fee (up to $5000, money available immediately) or an emergency check reload up to $2500 + a 5% fee (funds available after about 15 minutes 24/7). I hate the fee, but it’s happened before that I need ~$50 or so on a Saturday night and I don’t find a % fee unmanageable for that amount. I don’t even know my bank account number or have any access to my money because my mother is my Representative Payee for my payments for the last 20-odd years and I asked her to set it up that way so I don’t give away my monthly check to homeless people anymore  At least I don’t actually go into a store an d buy milk and bread for >$5 and fill out a check in line at Kroger, though.
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Tesseraction posted:On the off chance you haven't wiped your machine or anything, one thing that might help you diagnose is running Sysinternals Procexp which can tell you what process activated firefox if you leave it closed overnight. Goddamn it, Greg! Grow up! Oh, yeah. The advice above Goddamn Greg’s prank is really good.
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VelociBacon posted:appreciate this is probably not a made up situation but that sounds a lot like one? I guess if you didn't just give entire paycheques randomly to people you'd be considered responsible enough to have a normal banking situation or something but it feels like I fell on the wrong side of an unmedicated poster a little bit. I hope things improve for you my goon! Yeah 0 problems with what you said, and I’ve never taken offense because, well, we all mostly don’t know each other! I am a paranoid schizophrenic. I’m not unmedicated, but it’s been 20 years now and getting worse every year or so because of drug tolerance issues. I actually had SA recognize me slipping unaware (at the time) into a tolerance-compromised psychosis because of differences from my normal posting. I am horrible with money when my meds are temporarily stopped or losing effectiveness and my psychiatrist admits me for a couple of weeks to months until everything seems to be working. My parents have power of attorney for me, and the big difference is only the process we’ve adopted so I can have access to money from my SSD benefits. Mainly, it keeps me from out and out wasting money while still being able to have a mostly normal lifestyle (before Covid). I can ask for any amount as long as I can itemize exactly why I think I need a certain number. I usually have $85-90 to my card a month just for buying things from Amazon or Goodreads or software with subscriptions/needed. I used to cash a check on Saturday and go to a movie or bookstore, go eat (twice; most solo trips to town are all day excursions), or even just the library for a while. Again, before Covid. Occasionally I’d go to a casino with friends, and they know I can’t be very spontaneous but I can commit if I get even a few hours lead to cash a check for cash. The only thing my checks are even used for is paying my meager bills or paying family back after like my sister gives me a bit while shopping with her on a Sunday or something. I really appreciate the good vibes, though! If you had anything to ask or just want to call me names I do have plat so PMs are fine. Edit: sorry about the double post. And how wordy this was, but I’ve thought for years that a mental illness is a disease, and I never saw a patient feel self conscious over sickle-cell or juvenile diabetes. As for posting a lot? I have always written a ton throughout childhood to medical school, and it’s a pretty useful hobby during quarantine even after everyone in the house has had both vaccinations. I ain’t ashamed or anything, but I don’t wanna derail this thread. PMs always open. DerekSmartymans fucked around with this message at 07:49 on Apr 27, 2021 |
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Last Chance posted:Continue ftfy  Seriously, though, things are going well right now. I appreciate the goo
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Internet Explorer posted:uBlock Origin, I believe You believe correctly, friend.
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I have LibraOffice on my “new” (to me) laptop and a fully-extensions-blingged Open on my desktop. The OO is better and the tools for everything are pretty good MS Office substitutes. Never ran Publisher or it’s OO/LO equivalents, but most of my writing projects can be saved/converted between every type of word processing availabile formats so maybe the Publisher-type will too? It’s just a guess, but they’re free so idk.
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I loaded up Naraka: Bladepoint last night and according to Steam I “played” for 3.5 hours. I never even finished my character creation. Not because it was a problem, it was because I was literally enjoying myself customizing my avatar because it looks amazing with my 3070 on high/ultra settings and I was having fun putting celebrities’ faces on my combatant from photos (Oprah’s face on a 90l lb white girl is hilarious!) but noped out at 3:00 am and I’m planning to actually get into the tutorial and get stomped for the next couple of months until I learn/remap the keyboard & mouse enough to play at higher than “stupid noob” level. Games are Windows software, too, right?  Edit: Are there any Win10 programs/apps/browser extensions to put everything into Dark Mode? Most stuff is easily configurable with the system settings, but some webpages in Edge and Chrome show up with a white background and something other than just plain black for the font. I do have trouble seeing things like in-game text or chat without the ability to mod the UI, which was not a problem playing WoW and Skyrim on my old rig. Some of the websites and themes occasionally work when I force them in settings (Google, MS resource pages, YouTube, etc), but there are a lot of MS Store apps and websites that I have to put my reading glasses on and lean into about 10” to read the text. It’s been ok, but my game last night had no choices I could make out or display by highlighting (mouse selection) and system font fixes don’t help. I have Display Fusion to try, but I literally cannot read any of the choices to see what I’m clicking (I’m scheduled for a 2x corneal transplant in some vague future (nonessential my rear end), because COVID canceled everything. Opera browser works fine if you select to force Dark Mode, and I don’t know if DF has that ability or if I’m stuck with readable but ugly-rear end High Contrast mode or something drastic like dropping my resolution down to 640x480 or registry editing. I can do some of those, but I hate how ugly the entire experience is visually is in High Contrast mode (like a 1998 Packard Bell) and I’m not blind yet (I just thought of changing Registry settings as I was editing now!). Dedicated software or patches or Accessibility settings or walkthrough of regedit would be amazing! DerekSmartymans fucked around with this message at 23:00 on Aug 12, 2021 |
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xzzy posted:You mean one artisanal pea in his laid out banquet will be missing. He’s like a great dragon sleeping on his hoard: He’ll look at the table and just know it’s gone. Good luck keeping your Lake Town safe then…
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Medullah posted:Yeah I'm looking for something that will magnify just a portion of the screen while leaving the rest intact. Magnifier affects the whole screen. You can configure the magnifier to a certain size then drag it where you want it? After my corneal transplant I had a week or so of blurred vision and I stuck to Kindle, Apple Books, and SA, all magnified so I could read on my iPad and PC. It has lots of options available for you to try and make it work.
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Medullah posted:Yep someone pointed that out a few posts back. Yeah, I saw it afteri posted above. Some people have pointed out that I often post 3 or 4 in a row on slower but active threads. It’s because I post in response to quotes on AwfulApp, which make copy/paste/format text difficult. If I don’t read a thread for a few days and read 50 posts I just respond as I go through them all, which can leave a few dissimilar multi-posts when I respond. In this case, it was a much better answer previous to mine. They’d the breaks, kid. I’m a rebel. 🤪
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tildes posted:Power toys works well for me, but I also don’t use visual studio so 🤷🏻♂️ Completely off topic, so will be brief: Cleaned room/closet, found over 150 software CDs, old game CDs, and a bunch of cdrw of .mp3s (from Napster). Among this, I found a VB6 non-pirated collection I used to make a BattleTech ProtoMech builder small enough to fit on a 1.44” floppy if zipped. Would it be possible to run it on a Win10 Pro/Win11 Pro without a lot of trouble? VB6 is the only language I am solid on, although I have a tiny bit of proficiency w/C & C++ for waaaaay old genetics-type scientific software. If there is an easier language (C#?) to learn for a hobby (so Free!), and dip my toes into UE4/5, any recommendations? Appreciate comments or flames 🔥 
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~Coxy posted:Self-contained WinForms apps made in VB6 should run fine in Win10/11. Thanks! I just dug out my external dvd writer so I could install, but it may be easier to just download this stuff! Thanks again for the link!
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mobby_6kl posted:Does anyone know how Pen Remoting is supposed to work? I want to use my stand-alone win10 tablet as a normal Wacom tablet attached to my desktop. I see this feature mentioned like 5 years ago but nothing since then. Is it just that it works over rdp? Which is nice but not what I need. I got Spacedesk on all of my computers, as well as my old iPad (2nd gen, iOS 10.3). I can read my Kindle/Apple Books apps on my iPad and check on network stuff or processing and statuses of anything upstairs while I’m sitting with Granny watching Little House on the Prairie without having to stop reading or get upstairs to check now. I have a bunch of Remote Desktop-type apps uninstalled because it’s compatible to iOS and Win10 flawlessly. It is harder than it sounds simply because Spacedesk work on iOS 10+ while connecting to all my updated machines. I’m still pissy that Your Phone in the Microsoft Store is useless on my phone and I have to use third-party solutions just to copy pictures of my son’s puppy from a Text directly to my HDDs for saving them long-term.
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Listerine posted:I'm ordering a new laptop for my parents and I'm wondering what the cheapest way to get Microsoft Office Home on there. I see a bunch of offers on Amazon for much less than $149 and I'm a little suspicious. Both OpenOffice (on my Win10 desktop) and LibreOffice (installed by default on my Win10 laptop) work great for me. Never built a spreadsheet in either, but I have several templates for different sheets specifically for my home that were originally Excel. Both can read and save as Word files completely compatible with MS stuff.
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Fantastic Foreskin posted:If you're a heavy excel user librecalc is not excel enough that it's annoying, but for general spreadsheeting it's perfectly sufficient. Maybe it’s just confirmation bias, but I have an easier time writing and formatting with Writer, too. Most of my daily “output” has moved from my six month year old desktop to my 10 year old laptop because of it. I don’t really have a reason for it, but it is a tangible improvement!
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Toast Museum posted:The prerelease version of PowerToys has a feature that includes global hotkeys for toggling camera, mic, or both. I have a 10+ y/o saitek USB keyboard with three buttons: volume up, volume down, & mute. No software or drivers needed. It works the same if I get an interruption while speakers or headset are being used. I do have a very small widget (SoundSwitch, maybe free in MS’s store now? Idk) to switch between the two when I press Right CTRL+NumPad 0. Keyboard’s Mute works on either.
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Arivia posted:I think tuyop is meaning muting/unmuting your microphone, media keys on keyboards are for muting your sound output not input. Oh, sorry. I was going to say I had a Packard Bell keyboard in 1997 that could run everything. Click one button for email, one for Word, one for games, etc. It was even ps/2 so it didn’t take up a USB slot (also USB wasn’t invented yet 😛). Edit It came with a separate microphone that you could toggle on/off via keyboard, too. DerekSmartymans fucked around with this message at 14:58 on Oct 25, 2021 |
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Do you have MS PowerToys? There is a small program called “Awake” that’s included and, well, it works! You can disable it, but then it would be “Asleep.”
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tuyop posted:I hate Word SO MUCH I’ve been using OpenOffice for as long as I’ve been on Win10, and I’ve had less trouble with formatting and templates and extensions than I do from my great-great uncle's 1930s era "portable" typewriter. I'd rather use NotePad++ (or just notepad.exe) than Office.
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I don’t know much about it but I put Elex on my gog/steam wishlist while watching early stuff for Elex2. It popped up 80% off yesterday ($9.99) and when I looked it seemed to have a half/half review on Steam, but its price is making me wonder if I would gain anything from buying it & playing it in prep for Elex2 (whenever its ready, nbd). I looked in Games but didn’t have much luck because I’m phone-posting via AwfulApp and don’t have search! It is Windows software, obviously, but I do much better with Goon-reviews since we all have a lot more in common than we want to admit 🤪! Is Elex worth  for a play through? Yes or no=fine, but a bit of reasoning is nice, too!Edit: Apparently I was looking at GoG; Steam now says “mostly positive” and has more than just a trailer video. I musta had a glitch out on my phone or something. Any insight is still appreciated, though. DerekSmartymans fucked around with this message at 03:35 on Nov 10, 2021 |
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MarcusSA posted:I’ve never played it but you might have better luck asking the steam thread which is kinda a general catch all games thread. That’s great! I didn’t know there wasasuch! Appreciate the link, too. Edit: Computer viking posted:Oh , and regarding Elex, I haven't played it but generally trust Rockpapershotgun - not that I always agree with them, but their reviews feel like a real person played a game and then wrote about the experience, which is rarer than you'd hope. The title kind of gives away his take, here: In its opening hour ELEX finds new ways to be terrible Thanks, man. I’ll check out RPSg, too…my internet was so bad for a decade since they stopped making physical copies to sell at stores I haven’t played a game made after 2011 (Skyrim, 11/11; I played WoW but had to haul my desktop to my sister’s house for patches & expansions). I recently have been playing lots of catchup following “Top 10 games everyone must own,” “Top 5 games for an old laptop,” etc. I spent more than I wanted (or meant) to, but it’s been a lot of fun during Covid lockdowns and downtime. DerekSmartymans fucked around with this message at 03:59 on Nov 10, 2021 |
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Computer viking posted:Oh yeah, then you have a lot of things to try - there's been some fun games this decade (like any decade since the 70's, but you get what I mean). The fun thing was that although I didn’t even have a Steam account until 2020, the first games I bought were all 80s/early 90s games that I sat “second chair” for in jr high because I didn’t have a DOS system! It’s where I found GoG looking them up, and then found a Mass Effect deal that piqued my curiosity into all the games I’d seen people raving about years later! Thanks for the suggestions, btw. I’m fat-fingering my way through Control and Rise of the Tomb Raider right now, games I got free when joining Amazon Gaming in preparation for playing New World in a couple of months when it settles down!
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Fruits of the sea posted:Your namesake's latest game Line of Defense is in closed beta, sure to release any time now! My Desktop Commander rig is ready and waiting!
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Fame Douglas posted:You could have used the clean command in the recovery environment as well That was the way I was gonna add, since it was all unreachable anyway by now! But: quote:Also, now that you've installed in UEFI mode, you can boot into the Bios menu or boot from specific drives by keeping the Shift button pressed while selecting "restart" in Windows, just a FYI. I never remember that trick! It is sooooo useful for trying new OSs and old HDDs when you don’t have a clue is on them!
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life is killing me posted:iPhone can do Bluetooth, wifi, or usb tethering My 8 gives me these choices, but AT&T tethering only worked with a direct USB->Lightning connection. I know because we had 5 iPhones and a unlimited plan for the family and it was the best internet connection my family had in about 13 years. To this day, we use a 4G LTE (5G in network testing but full-time soon!) modem/router because we don’t even have cable TV or phone lines capable of 56K dial-up in my “neighborhood” yet. My mother got her Bachelors in Nursing and we ran an eBay business on satellite internet and although I played both EQ and WoW (not simultaneously just enough to keep on/off active in guilds), I didn’t patch or download expansions at home because the data caps had to be saved for school and eBay/email. The first month tethered to my iPhone I used 15GB all by myself and felt I was like a person tapping and stealing electricity in Bombay or, um, Memphis. It was freedom! 
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life is killing me posted:I live in a large city in Texas, I mean, in the city limits. It we’ve never had high-speed internet. No fiber or cable, even though a couple miles north and south of us, they have it. No company has really seen fit to bring it to our area even though they could easily run fiber along the telephone poles. Yeah that is horrible! At least my family had the excuse of living (during that time) several miles from any neighbors and almost exactly mile long driveway from the road. It’s gotten more built up since then, and we now have 7 houses on an eight mile main road. Our main phone lines still aren’t capable of >23.2KB, though. But the new 5G-capable (not 24/7 yet, but it’s worked for days at a time during testing) is through a grove of trees less than a mile from my room, but I’ll tell you this: HughesNet satellite internet was $150/month for 2down/.25 up and we ran a business for a decade with a rolling 30-day 16GB cap. I played both EQ & WoW on 56K dial-up before my divorce, but I couldn’t even patch live without taking my tower to my sister’s house 30+ miles away because we needed every byte to live on. First world problems, and my folks knew it before they built, but it was bad even for 2006 America. I couldn’t imagine your pain, either, because at least we had peace and quiet!
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VelociBacon posted:I really wouldn't, when some idiot usb keys a ransomware program onto your network accidentally and they moved away from their dumb AV 5 years ago because you recommended it you're going to be the bad guy. Yeah, my BiL is head of IT in an international company and he usually passes me stuff that is good-but-no-longer SotA like his older hardware. He also said almost the same thing word-for-word…antivirus doesn’t really help when idiots are clicking links in email, and ransomware can encrypt your files anyway! He helps me with my firewall rules and network questions, and keeps my backups once a week on his homelab. The company pays tons for AV licenses every year, and like every computer toucher from CTO to the help desk folks know it’s a waste. It’s just a CYA from their insurance carrier, completely useless tech nobody ever acknowledges even as they update it. DerekSmartymans fucked around with this message at 02:55 on Dec 15, 2021 |
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Internet Explorer posted:I don't tell people they don't need AV these days, just that they don't need 3rd party AV. I should amend my earlier post to say this, too: it’s more inline with what I meant! WD is all you need and it’s free, integrated well, and updated often. 3rd party AV just seems to drag down a well-optimized rig for no real benefit, no matter whose 3rd party it is!
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codo27 posted:AMD for you There should be an option under fast boot/boot catagory in the BIOS. I have a three second delay in case I need to boot into the BIOS not related to a crash/outage for tweaking.
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codo27 posted:No no I wish it was that simple. The board itself, if I leave the beeping on, will beep a few times and it probably takes a solid 3 seconds or so before you even start to get the circular dots from Windows startup. Its a NVMe drive, even my secondary is m.2 SATA. I mean all told its probably still <10 seconds but I want it to be faster. Gotcha…I tried five years ago with my new ssd/970 to bypass the mobo screen altogether, but if I wanted the BIOS organically I had to spam F2 or DEL and I ended up just adding in the (slight) delay. I can’t actually say I’ve missed those three seconds of productive computer time since then  !
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Computer viking posted:Are you also a Clean Desk, Inbox 0 guy? I’m an Inbox 0 guy, but I open all emails on my iPhone anyway (to check links or headers on a non-Windows system), but I send all the websites I need to read or research further to Edge or Opera on my desktop even though I’m not always home to read immediately. Sometimes after a trip I have like 40 tabs open when I log on .
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"Chumbawumba4ever97" posted:If I was born 20 years earlier I'm pretty sure I would have been crushed to death by old newspapers and VHS tapes. lol I’ve been inpatient with other schizophrenics and obsessive-compulsives who still video tape CNN for various crazy reasons (yes, I said crazy people do crazy things). As recently as 2021 outpatient groups was the first Fox News hoarder (always, always it’s VCR tapes!) I’d ever met. He was in his early twenties.
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Arivia posted:the funny thing is that if you actually know how to look at actual archives there are tons of recordings of every major american news network already, that stuff is research gold so every archives with a video collection takes their own recordings and has been doing it for decades, let alone stuff they're sent from their local news stations or the broadcasters themselves. archivists know people will need that b-roll or the 11 o'clock news and they do keep it for specifically that reason, it's their job. Archiving for b-roll and video taping things in highest quality (fills tape every 2 hours!) because “hackers can erase memory cards with Psi-beams” are different animals. The majority of “archivists” is a different set than “hoarders,” even those who happen to hoard data. These guys (never women?) have hundreds of thousands of video tapes (all labeled and stored effectively, granted!) and like twenty VCRs in the attic for redundancy and/or backups. I know crazy, and it’s not the archivists for the local NBC affiliate strapped down and sedated  one room over!
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I had Ear Trumpet forever until the updates (apparently? IDK) fixed the Realtek drivers. I didn't even realize ET had been turned "off," because it still loaded at startup and was in the tray. I ended up uninstalling it because once Win10 does something by default it usually doesn't need ( or play well with) 3rd-party equivalent tools. Until Win10 gets a tiny-footprint setting for a hotkey sound-source-switcher (headset=>Realtek speakers & back) I'll keep using SoundSwitch, though. But Ear Trumpet is legit and I think I've used it and its predecessors since XP.
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FunOne posted:I solved this issue (shitload of tabs) by embracing multiple desktops again. Binding desktop switch left/right to the side keys on my mouse makes it all Minority Report. Plebiscite. I hear Hawking used his computer with one (1) finger! Honestly, though, what was his everyday system like? Moving my (fully functioning, non-painful) hands and arms is soooo exhausting! I could be using both hands to eat Taco Bell from GrubHub instead of this here Win10 entirely PnP ecosystem in my attic hovel!
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Saukkis posted:Alternative solution for this is Tree Style Tab. Nice feature for it is the any of the branches can be condensed or expanded separately. It's the only way to survive for us true tab hoarders. Is this available to Edge/Opera/Chrome? My "daily driver" is Edge because I'm terribly happy with its sync between my Apple products and my Win10 products, but big research papers and PDFs are sent to my desktop so I can read them easier with my bad eyes. I use Opera and Chrome for separate things specifically but this looks more awesome (and easy to follow) than Opera's vertical tabs.
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Saukkis posted:Forest looks like what you want, but I haven't used it myself. This looks promising. Away from my PC at the moment, but I emailed the link to myself to open so I wouldn't forget to try it. Thanks a bunch!
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MikusR posted:Firefox also syncs and you can send tabs between devices. Opera does, too...but I've never "lost" a tab on Edge is all. And the main thing is: I don't want 4 browsers or more! But I added an extension another goon clued me into Edge on my laptop last night and it appears to work great so far. Thanks for the inputs, folks!
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SkyeAuroline posted:Can you recommend one of these by any chance? I have large folders to clean out. I use Deduplicator once a month or so to delete duplicates from my desktop and OneDrive (my photos’ backup). It’s in the Microsoft Store and works ok for what I’m doing. Never tried it on anything other than iTunes music folder and Camera Roll in OneDrive, though (phone backs up completely to iCloud occasionally too, but nothing I have besides photos/music downloads is irreplaceable).
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