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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by 4wd on December 23, 2015, 12:12 AM »

Just upgraded a Win7HP x86 system to Win10 x86 using 10586.0 ISO then let it update and it shows v1511 b10586.36 - so go figure 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by 4wd on December 22, 2015, 03:07 AM »

This reminded me to check my netbook. It is still on Build 10240, but Windows update says it has an update available for 1511 10586. It's currently downloading. I'll find out what version number it ends up at when it's done and report back.

-Deozaan (December 22, 2015, 12:09 AM)

I upgraded it using the 10586.0 ISO and then let it update.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by 4wd on December 21, 2015, 08:59 PM »

With no pending updates, wouldn't have thought there'd be that much difference between Home & Pro.

-4wd (December 20, 2015, 04:04 AM)

I'm on Pro and have the latest version.

Did you defer updates?

-Deozaan (December 21, 2015, 07:55 PM)

On the desktop x64 they are but I've just upgraded the netbook x86 (it doesn't have deferred updates) and it's now sitting at 10586.14 with no pending updates, same as the desktop.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by 4wd on December 21, 2015, 04:56 PM »

You probably didn't know there is a 32-bit Win10.

-Arizona Hot (December 21, 2015, 11:47 AM)

I have a netbook with Win10 Pro x86 on it ... and it's stuck at v10.0 Build 10240 with no pending updates.  Think I'll have to reinstall that.

Should I tell Microsoft or ImgBurn about this or both?

ImgBurn author hasn't updated the program since 2013 when Win8 was the latest version, so all the program knows is that the OS is at least Win8.

BTW, 2.5.8.0 is the latest version of ImgBurn.

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Living Room / Re: Movies you've seen lately

« Last post by 4wd on December 20, 2015, 11:27 PM »

And thus an ode to electricity

...

-Renegade (December 16, 2015, 11:52 AM)

"In charge" and "shock" ???  I have to cast my volt against that. 

-MilesAhead (December 19, 2015, 07:16 AM)

Meh. To each their own. Some people get really amped up about it.

-Renegade (December 19, 2015, 10:03 PM)

But we all know resistance is futile. 

-MilesAhead (December 20, 2015, 04:35 PM)

But capacitance has potential!

-Edvard (December 20, 2015, 06:49 PM)

I just hope the discussion doesn't get too polarized.  Mouser will ban us to the basement.

-MilesAhead (December 20, 2015, 07:43 PM)

An ode will then be required.

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General Software Discussion / Re: restart switch

« Last post by 4wd on December 20, 2015, 11:11 PM »

... but that will be hard to do when they are plugged into a battery backup.

-techidave (December 20, 2015, 10:13 PM)

Plug the timer into the UPS, then the switch into the timer.

skwire means that some switches allow you to use SSH (Secure Shell^w) to access the switch interface, (a lot of routers also allow this).  It normally just needs to be enabled from within the web interface, (if it isn't already), then you can connect using Putty, (I prefer Kitty), and use a command line interface to perform functions.

Using Putty/Kitty/etc (Kitty allows automated scripting) should allow some scripting to cause a restart.

Otherwise, I can try to automate using Powershell but I'd probably need the web interface source for the login page and the relevant menu pages to trigger a restart.

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General Software Discussion / Re: restart switch

« Last post by 4wd on December 20, 2015, 03:30 PM »

You could probably automate using Powershell ... or there's the low tech method of turning them off/on via a timer switch.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by 4wd on December 20, 2015, 04:04 AM »

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The latest v.1511 update.

-Arizona Hot (December 18, 2015, 06:00 PM)

Hmm, mine is stuck at:


With no pending updates, wouldn't have thought there'd be that much difference between Home & Pro.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Request: right-click on file to rename it to add current date

« Last post by 4wd on December 17, 2015, 03:57 AM »

Fancy that, mouser not using the search function

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Living Room / Re: help with data matching

« Last post by 4wd on December 17, 2015, 12:55 AM »

See what you mean, the postcode is about the only thing that matches reasonably consistently and even that fails in two of the examples you've got.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Request: right-click on file to rename it to add current date

« Last post by 4wd on December 16, 2015, 09:10 PM »

UPDATE: There was a problem calling the script on file names with spaces occasionally, changed the reg entry to call PoSh directly and replaced quotes around file arg which seems to have fixed it.

Let me know if there is still a problem.

Archive up there

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Living Room / Re: help with data matching

« Last post by 4wd on December 16, 2015, 05:39 PM »

And I think that's exactly what 4wd said above, but I'm going to post this anyway because maybe I'm wrong. 

-wraith808 (December 16, 2015, 07:28 AM)

Not wrong 

I think some pseudo-examples would help with us working out possible RegEx.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Request: right-click on file to rename it to add current date

« Last post by 4wd on December 16, 2015, 03:46 PM »

Thanks mouser!

You can put the execution policy bypass in the command used to call the Powershell script.

Registry entries updated in archive above.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Request: right-click on file to rename it to add current date

« Last post by 4wd on December 16, 2015, 12:12 AM »

There's reg files in the archive to install/remove from the context menu.

It's assumed that AddDate.ps1 lives in C:\Scripts - edit the reg files if it doesn't.

AddDate.ps1

Code: PowerShell [Select]

1. param (
2.   [string]$file = $(throw "AddDate.ps1 <file>")
3. )
4.  
5. $sDate =  ("{0:MM}" -f (Get-Date)) + ("{0:dd}" -f (Get-Date)) + ("{0:yy}" -f (Get-Date))
6.  
7. $sNewName = (Get-Item $file).BaseName + ' ' + $sDate + (Get-Item $file).Extension
8. Rename-Item $file $sNewName

Limited testing here but it worked, eg.  AddDate.ps1 renamed to AddDate 121615.ps1

If you don't like the CLI window that opens you could use cmdow with the /HID switch.

EDIT: Added -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -NoProfile to reg entry so there's no need to modify Powershell ExecutionPolicy globally.

AddDate_Install.reg

Code: Text [Select]

1. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
2.  
3. [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\Add Date to Filename]
4. @=""
5.  
6. [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\Add Date to Filename\command]
7. @="C:\\Windows\\system32\\WindowsPowerShell\\v1.0\\powershell.exe -sta -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -NoProfile -Window Hidden C:\\\\Scripts\\\\AddDate.ps1 --% '%1'"

AddDate_Remove.reg

Code: Text [Select]

1. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
2.  
3. [-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\Add Date to Filename]

UPDATE: There was a problem calling the script on file names with spaces occasionally, changed the reg entry to call PoSh directly and replaced quotes around file arg which seems to have fixed it.

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Living Room / Re: help with data matching

« Last post by 4wd on December 15, 2015, 11:46 PM »

You could possibly make it a little quicker, depends on how localised the addresses are, by doing a RegEx match for postcode.  Put all addresses of the same postcode into separate smaller files.

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Living Room / Re: Kickstarter Highlight: Onion Omega

« Last post by 4wd on December 15, 2015, 11:32 PM »

I'm still at a standstill.  Got a needle, but I can't get the power on.  Might order a dock... but they're backordered.

-wraith808 (December 15, 2015, 11:09 PM)

I guess I should be glad I forgot to order the dock then, given the problems that have been had with the power switch.

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Living Room / Re: Kickstarter Highlight: Onion Omega

« Last post by 4wd on December 15, 2015, 11:02 PM »

It's a lot cleaner when displaying text, (a better quality image would probably help too), you can choose what to display, (and scroll), through the web console.

Would have had it going a month ago but I forgot to order the dock so I could actually plug the display in 

Pretty simple to put something on the display:

Are you taking requests? I'd like to see a kangaroo taco~! NOM NOM NOM~!

-Renegade (December 15, 2015, 10:42 PM)

Not going to work too well on a monochrome screen

Don't tell me you're missing skippy?

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Living Room / Re: Kickstarter Highlight: Onion Omega

« Last post by 4wd on December 15, 2015, 07:41 PM »

It lives!

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Living Room / Re: Gadget WEEKENDS

« Last post by 4wd on December 14, 2015, 06:40 PM »

Vibease smart remote control vibrator

I am still waiting for my someone to get it for me though. 

-ginnydecruz (December 13, 2015, 03:01 AM)

I think the OhMiBod blueMotion NEX/1 has a much better design 

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is Runtime Broker, and Why is it working so pathetically bad?

« Last post by 4wd on December 12, 2015, 07:36 PM »

Since I don't use any Windows apps, (only a local account), I disabled the Time Broker service which kills Runtime Broker.

-4wd (December 11, 2015, 06:44 PM)

^ I didn't respond to this, because I have not yet been able to find this Time Broker service.
Probably because names on services are translated into local language.

-Curt (December 12, 2015, 04:42 AM)

From tenforums:

Runtime Broker kept thrashing my system, usually using 40% of my CPU although memory use wasn't much, according to the Task Manager. I'm currently using Windows 10 Pro x64 version 10240.

Runtime Broker is a service called Time Broker, which can be disabled through editing the registry.
Right-click on the Start Menu Icon. Go to RUN and type regedit.exe and select OK.

Find the following entry:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\TimeBroker] "Start"=dword:00000003

Change the 3 to a 4.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\TimeBroker] "Start"=dword:00000004

4 is Disabled, 3 is Manual and 2 is Automatic startup.

Before editing, the original value was 3. Set to 4 to disable. Just change the 3 to a 4 through the MODIFY menu selection, exit regedit and reboot your system.

After this edit, Runtime Broker no longer runs and the CPU at idle is now only 0 to 1 or 2 percent.

No adverse affects after disabling Runtime Broker on my system. (ADDITIONAL NOTE: Disabling Runtime Broker will prevent apps from the Microsoft Store from running.)

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is Runtime Broker, and Why is it working so pathetically bad?

« Last post by 4wd on December 11, 2015, 06:44 PM »

Since I don't use any Windows apps, (only a local account), I disabled the Time Broker service which kills Runtime Broker.

I have Windows 10 32-bit installed on my Netbook. It runs like molasses, but so did/does Windows XP/7 and pretty much every Linux distro I've tried on it.

-Deozaan (December 11, 2015, 05:59 PM)

Same here, except the stripped version of XP I was using ran quite well.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Privacy Concerns

« Last post by 4wd on December 09, 2015, 06:26 PM »

Spent some time wondering where Hide-WUUpdate was only to discover that this was added in the Windows Update Powershell Module in version 1.4.6 as mentioned here:

  https://www.powershe...ges/PSWindowsUpdate/

Had inadvertently tried the 3 attachment links on the Module page and those happened to be for 1.3.4, 1.4.3, and 1.4.5...doh!

-ewemoa (December 08, 2015, 08:06 PM)

I use this link:

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« Last post by 4wd on December 08, 2015, 01:30 AM »

But now we're on the 12th incarnation, is the series hitting "franchise fatigue" like Star Trek did and need a rest, or should they make an "explosion of exposition" and find a way to just add more? How will the core fans deal with the break in mythos?

-TaoPhoenix (December 07, 2015, 05:45 PM)

Technically, a total of 12 regenerations which give a total of 13 different Doctors.

One could argue that the current Doctor is the 13th because John Hurt played the "War Doctor", (from the Time Wars), his manifestation being before Christopher Eccleston in the timeline but the story only coming to light in the "The Day of The Doctor" episodes.

So: Hartnell, Troughton, Pertwee, Baker (Tom), Davison, Baker (Colin), McCoy, McGann, Hurt, Eccleston, Tennant, Smith, Capaldi

And you also have Peter Cushing from the movies:
Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965)
Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. (1966)

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Coding Snacks / Re: backup(restore) files in a printed paper

« Last post by 4wd on December 06, 2015, 06:53 PM »

I remember watching an item on BBC's Tomorrow's World where they used something similar to QR codes to do the same thing - I think that was back in the '80s.

How much data are you talking about?

There are already QR code generators/readers available for Android that will let you encode/decode text.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Archive each file to separate file in its own folder

« Last post by 4wd on December 06, 2015, 06:43 PM »

4) Can AHK be used to fill a multipage online form on one server by taking values from an external file or from another web page?

-menych (December 06, 2015, 11:31 AM)

You might find that easier to do using Powershell, there's a lot of info available on IE automation using it.