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roseypeach

roseypeach

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BarnBuster said:
seems like some of the AV and cleaners like CCleaner and Privizer can cause the connect loss problems in 10, but i never experienced that. i also have a problem now if i try to use IE11 after the latest update with program freezing. the other browsers work ok, just IE.

i think askwoody.com had a method to stop the auto update if i can remember. might have been a registry hack
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I really liked CCleaner original version but since around two years after I first downloaded it, they started adding adware into it. Didn't want to risk getting any bugs so I don't use it anymore. I'd love to be able to find the original version from years ago, it was the shit for cleaning up fast and efficiently at the core of things.

thanks man, just pulled it up, gonna read up and see what I can do with it
Nugachino said:
Windows is shit. I mean I liked XP and 7. But that's about it. I mainly use Linux Mint 18 these days.
Sure Linux still has its support issues for some things. But, it's free! What's not to like?
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I liked that the Linux is free but I didn't like the configuration settings. I tried to personalize it a bit (following guides) but it just rubbed me wrong I guess. Thanks BG for corrupting me with windows for over twenty years. I am officially a windows junky desperately in need of rehab :wall:
Roger A. Shrubber said:
i guess i've been lucky, and am probably cursing myself by saying this, but i've never had any major issues with any version of windows i've used so far. i updated to 10 as soon as i was able and the only problem i've had so far was it didn't register itself for almost a month, everything else has been smooth sailing
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I've heard that from other people outside of RIU, your machine is probably a lot more compatible than most.
Nugachino said:
I won't touch Win10. Ever since my sister's laptop upgraded to it. She's had loop booting, bsods, system hangs. Driver support issues. And her laptop just randomly turning itself off without warning. It was initially a windows 8.1 machine.

After seeing all that bullshit. I decided. Free or not. There's no point putting that turd on my hardware. And so I found, then installed the latest version of Linux. I've had one error. My KB scroll lock flashes nonstop. That's it. Everything else self installed without even a hiccup.
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Fuckin eh man, my laptop has had some of those issues as well, down to shutting itself off. That's something I blame Dell for, fucking power supplies on those things are bitches are hard to manage and the battery life never lasted more than a few hours at a time. That's what happens I guess when you use shit China made chargers for China made batteries.

Gotta love it..o_O my next machine will be either Alienware or something of equal substance.
 
Roger A. Shrubber

Roger A. Shrubber

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i built this one with advice from a friend, got almost everything on sale, the whole machine was under 500 bucks.
went with an asus asrock z97 pro4 motherboard, a 3.5 gig core I5 chip, a pair of 8 meg memory sticks, an 80+ 500 watt evga power supply, and an nvidea gforce gtx 960.
nothing special, runs my games and the graphics software i like to play with (corel suite, poser, blender, makehuman)

but i bet at 500 bucks its as good as a 2k alienware.....
 
BarnBuster

BarnBuster

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roseypeach said:
I really liked CCleaner original version but since around two years after I first downloaded it, they started adding adware into it. .
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i've always used the free version for years and have never seen any adware as a result. if you download direct from the filehippo site (which is where Piriform directs you to for the free version), you should be ok. (note: i uncheck the box that empties the recycle bin when i run it and do it manually. at one time it used to delete restore points by leaving it checked.)

i have heard of problems if you run Win10 as an update vs. a clean install.

here's a link to older CC versions.
http://filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/history/6/
 
OldMedUser

OldMedUser

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A friend brought her Win 10 lappy over the other day so I can tune it up. Others have been using it and it's rife with malware, adware etc.

Took me an hour and going into safe mode to get Spybot Search and Destroy downloaded, updated and run a scan. Didn't find too much compared to my wife's lappy with 8.1 few months ago. Having trouble getting Malware Bytes anti-malware loaded now and that's a Micro$oft proggy.

Another pair of free proggys that are M$'s that I use to rid computers of crap are AutoRuns and Process Explore. AutoRuns allows you to turn off all the junk that loads at start-up and is constantly polling for updates online and slowing down your interweb. Often there are multiple instances of the same program set to auto update and hogging resourses. Process Explorer shows everything that is running and lets you reduce or increase each programs priority or just kill a process that keeps running after you shut it down or hangs your computer forcing a reboot.

One thing to never do is just go ahead and let a new proggy install on it's own. ALWAYS check the advanced install box and make sure it's not installing other things like Bing or who knows what else without your knowledge. Even the decent free programs like Avast anit-virus are pulling crap like that these days.

On the OS side going into computer management and turning off various Services or changing their settings to manual and shutting them off can help speed things up. So many are not needed by your average home user. Google or better yet StartPage Windows services to find lots of pages that explain each service in detail and let you know which are essential and which can be turned off altogether or reset to manual. Indexing should go as it really slows down the PC to save you a few seconds for the occasional time you need to search your hard drive for something.

:peace:
 
SamsonsRiddle

SamsonsRiddle

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ttystikk said:
That was proven to be propaganda
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From:[email protected]

To: [email protected] Date: 2015-12-09 11:09 Subject:


Robby’s memo for this afternoon

In the attachment is their General Election Transition Concept… 2 months before the primaries started. Some key findings (hold on to your butts former Bernie supporters):

Objective of Comm Plan

  • Frame the general election race for press and electorate at large: why HRC is running, contrast with GOP, what’s at stake for target voters (will take place in BG states, but national framing is the core objective).
  • Secondary objective will be communicating Democratic unity and using Sanders and others to help drive contrast and urgency.
Under Specific Goals:

Specific Goals

  • Reroll out core campaign message (fighting for us)/make the contrast with the GOP clear
  • Put the GOP immediately on the defensive and create crosspressure between general election and primary messages; force them to get firmly on the record with right wing positions
  • Protect and reinforce leads with key constituencies
  • Conduct tour in key markets to hit BG voters; focus on states that didn’t get as much time in primaries
  • Demonstrate unity through POTUS, Sanders, O’M and other endorsements. Have primary opponents help drive contrast and urgency.
THEY PLANNED THEIR ENDORSEMENTS IN DECEMBER OF 2015. ALL OF THEM.

And under the Timing section they even planned when they wanted the primaries to end:

Scenario 1: Primary ends Feb 9 Feb 15March 29: rest, fundraising March: general election messaging tour, fundraising

Scenario 2: Primary ends March 1 March 1March 15: rest, fundraising March 15April 15: general election messaging tour, fundraising

Scenario 3: Primary ends March 15 March 15March 30: rest, fundraising April 1April 15: general election messaging tour, fundraising

And under Surrogate Events… wait for it, this will upset you:

OUT OF DATE/OUT OF TOUCH TEAM

Special team of reliable GOP opposition surrogatesthis may be a good project for DWSwho birddog GOP candidates, especially likely nominee, at their events (need special staff team at HQ that does this); reinforce basic contrast message and try to push them further to the right.

  1. Women’s bus tour chasing GOP; speaking at events and challenging them to be clear on women’s health/equality issues
  2. Hispanic activist groups to protest GOP events; seek outside groups to badger GOP candidates, get them on the record
  3. AA team; POTUS legacy?
  4. Youth group? Hollywood types or digital influencers?
Bird dogging CONFIRMED.
 
Fender Super

Fender Super

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ttystikk said:
Apple maintains a death grip of control over hardware, firmware and applications. It's a closed technological society.

Would you prefer totalitarianism to monopoly?
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I prefer computers that do what I want, they way I want them to do it. Macs do that. Unix and Linux are great for programmers but not so much for creative users.
 
ttystikk

ttystikk

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Fender Super said:
I prefer computers that do what I want, they way I want them to do it. Macs do that. Unix and Linux are great for programmers but not so much for creative users.
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'Creative users' is a marketing strategy and has been ever since Apple II computers were donated to school districts in the 1980s.

There's nothing an Apple can do that Android can't.
 
whitebb2727

whitebb2727

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roseypeach said:
I bought this Dell Inspiron 5720 (17R) laptop about 3 years ago, with Windows 7 home premium installed and a recovery partition but no disk set. Short story, the hard drive crashed. I have a valid, working product key but no operating system to speak of.

II decided to upgrade to Windows 10 (free if you have a valid product key) so I called Dell, they want $20 bucks to send me these disks that I should have gotten three years ago with my purchase to get Windows 7 again to upgrade to Windows 10. So I called Microsoft, They informed me that the manufacturer had to send me recovery disks because it was preinstalled, Microsoft doesn't support it.

So basically I'm being forced to purchase the same Windows 7 just to get the free upgrade to 10.

Can anyone offer advice of what to do? Sorry to sound bitchy but after two hours of being on the phone I'm pretty upset. Thanks for any advice or information!

Peaches :)
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Even though dell has a partition you can still make back up disks. Its actually recommended. I know that doesn't help now.

Do you know someone that has a set of win 7 disk? Just use them with your product key then upgrade to 10.

I would suggest sticking to 7.

I have win 10. Take Microsoft office for instance. You cant outright buy it. You have to pay a monthly fee. I use the free king soft products.

If all else fails use a torrent. I don't recommend a torrent but as I understand the law you are allowed to download something you already own as a back up.
 
whitebb2727

whitebb2727

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roseypeach said:
The 10 is growing on me. We just got this 27 inch touchscreen and even though I'm not crazy about the layout, I like it pretty good. I love the Win7 too though :)

I may, just really hate to spend another dime on the thing. The hard drive and dvd drive both went out, even going on Ebay was still nearly a hundred bucks.
It always ran a bit slow (1 TB hd) with the maximum memory installed but the hard drive was old school so I went ahead and bumped up from 5400 rpm sata to a 7200 rpm sata drive from hitachi. It got nearly 5 stars in ratings. 83% out of all the reviews (which were in the hundreds) gave it 4, $62 bucks, shipped free.

I'm also considering going with a linux os, I just have no idea which one would be the easiest to learn, since I've never used a Linux before.
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Do you have a win 10 computer? If so just make a set of disk from it and put on the win 7 computer.
 
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