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General Software Discussion / Re: Where has Clipmate Support Gone?

« Last post by x16wda on June 18, 2016, 09:15 PM »

His website's there...

-i_am_jim (June 14, 2016, 05:45 PM)

I especially like the Testimonials on every page of the website... every one a junk link for some UK pharma site.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Where has Clipmate Support Gone?

« Last post by x16wda on June 18, 2016, 08:30 PM »

I've been using Ditto for a number of years (Yankee Clipper before that) and it has worked great except for an occasional fugue state (once every couple months), but I restart it and go on. Seeing this thread got me to looking around at alternatives.

The killer feature I use all the time is sending a clip to another pc. A couple of other clip managers will do something like that but not as cleanly - Clipboard Fusion syncs clips to its web site (!) to get to another machine, Clipboard Manager uses your choice of web drive, ArsClip requires all the machines to run from the same shared folder. And many seem to have (arbitrary and small) limits on how many clips they allow.

I'm open to change, but I don't want to lose functionality or add restrictions.

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General Software Discussion / Re: TeamViewer hacked?

« Last post by x16wda on June 05, 2016, 10:52 AM »

There's a couple of possible explanations, but the TeamViewer folks haven't exactly been informative so far.

The two most likely are:
1) a (really!) badly designed protocol or (more likely) programming flaws that can be exploited remotely to circumvent the password checks.
2) that TV doesn't rate-limit connection attempts, letting attackers brute-force weak passwords.

-f0dder (June 05, 2016, 08:20 AM)

#1 would be bad, but #2 would be shameful.

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General Software Discussion / Re: TeamViewer hacked?

« Last post by x16wda on June 04, 2016, 10:22 PM »

So when I use TeamViewer to connect to one of my family's pcs, I need to either know credentials for the PC, or have to get the user to say OK before I can connect. What am I missing? Is everyone's desktop unlocked, or you have a no password required setting somewhere?

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General Software Discussion / Re: svchost /k netsvcs [Problem on Win.7]

« Last post by x16wda on May 29, 2016, 07:06 PM »

As a matter of habit I always do:   sc config wuauserv type= own

That causes Windows Update to at least run in its own separate process (after a reboot).

You could also try the Windows Update Troubleshooter from the link.

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Living Room / Re: Goodbye to my father

« Last post by x16wda on May 24, 2016, 08:09 PM »

So sorry. My Dad has been gone 20 years now, but I think of him whenever I see a plant or bird that I can name, or a book that we both read. I am so grateful that his path and mine crossed (besides the obvious).

He will be missed. And now the world will only know him through his reflection in you.

Best wishes for a difficult time.

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« Last post by x16wda on May 23, 2016, 06:58 PM »

I got a score of 93% and was considered a PHD. I got a BA, the test is too easy.

-Arizona Hot (May 23, 2016, 02:17 PM)

My 87% ranked as a PhD too. I think I got half of the literature questions wrong.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Slimjet updated to 10.0.1.0

« Last post by x16wda on May 21, 2016, 03:39 PM »

10.0.1.0 is out today, but it was only a few days ago the last 9 series update came out. Slimjet is my goto browser these days too, fewer annoyances than most others. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Nice guide to using a RAM disk

« Last post by x16wda on May 06, 2016, 07:18 PM »

Links for 4wd's post:

site and download link (latest version is from Feb 2016)

Ghacks article on the software from Jan 2014

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General Software Discussion / Re: Script to edit registry setting all network profiles to private

« Last post by x16wda on April 29, 2016, 07:37 PM »

...As would that 'D' word thing you're tired of us mentioning.

-Stoic Joker (April 29, 2016, 03:34 PM)

Delete user account? 

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Living Room / Re: Be prepared against ransomware viruses..

« Last post by x16wda on April 25, 2016, 07:34 PM »

The basics of what it does is prevent things from running from strange places - like temp folders, etc - and also prevents some sensitive utilities (like vssadmin that could delete all your shadow copies) from running. The pay-for add-on is I think a signature service but I'm not completely clear on exactly what it does - it likely has known-good and known-bad lists. In an enterprise you could do a lot of this with group policy and file server management tools, but CryptoPrevent is more flexible and quick to manage if need be, and it works fine on non-domain-joined computers.

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Living Room / Re: Be prepared against ransomware viruses..

« Last post by x16wda on April 25, 2016, 05:24 AM »

I have the paid version of cryptoprevent

-holt (April 25, 2016, 12:56 AM)

Me too. Family pack, on everyone's PC.

That said I've installed the free version on a number of, shall we say, "historically proven at risk users", thinking that any help at all these types can get is good. :-)

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: AData s102 256GB USB 3.0 flash drive $94.99

« Last post by x16wda on April 19, 2016, 06:54 PM »

Quote from: 4wd on Today at 07:50:20 AM
Lexar S75 256GB USB3.0 for US$49.99 (Free shipping if USA, US$5.23 for Australia for example).

Looks like a nice deal.  But I swore I would never buy a "sliding guts" design again.  First one broke.  Second one almost broke my thumb every time I inserted it.  I like the solid body type like s102 AData.

-MilesAhead (April 19, 2016, 08:44 AM)

I don't like the sliding guts design either, although my recent Lexars of this same design (a 32g and a 64g) have worked fine. In the end, what you really have is a usb stick in a sliding case. And you can remove the case if you want. (So I ordered 2 of these because I need them anyway and the price is decent.)

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: AData s102 256GB USB 3.0 flash drive $94.99

« Last post by x16wda on April 13, 2016, 05:20 AM »

What dluby said.


Turns out Amazon accepted my order, but came back a day later and said "Sorry, we don't actually have this for you any more." Hmph.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Shellbag Analyzer and Cleaner 1.25

« Last post by x16wda on April 11, 2016, 02:54 PM »

It is an exe with no install.

-MilesAhead (April 11, 2016, 02:03 PM)

Always nice to find. Thanks.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: AData s102 256GB USB 3.0 flash drive $94.99

« Last post by x16wda on April 04, 2016, 06:18 PM »

Supposedly there is only one left. 

-MilesAhead (April 04, 2016, 03:04 PM)

So I just ordered that one... and there's still one left folks!     That calls for a round of...

Aleph null bottles of beer on the wall,
Aleph null bottles of beer!
Take one down, pass it around,
Aleph null bottles of beer on the wall!
 

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Classic Shell (shell alternative for Windows 10, 8, 7) - Mini-Review

« Last post by x16wda on March 27, 2016, 07:52 PM »

At home I have been using Win 10 (except for its file explorer), after using Start 8 on Win 8. But at work we have been putting Classic Shell on 2012 and 2012r2 boxes for our largest customer. It's not that you can't get stuff done without it, it's just a lot more efficient with it in place.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Start Menu 10 Pro "skip start screen"

« Last post by x16wda on March 27, 2016, 01:21 PM »

Are you just trying to get rid of that ridiculous extra screen where you have to press a key to get to the logon screen? If that's it, I used WinAeroTweaker to fix that when Win 8 introduced it (it's Disable Lock Screen in the Boot & Logon section). Or you could regedit over to HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Personalization and create a dword "NoLockScreen" and set it to 1.

Of course I could easily be misunderstanding what you're looking for...

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Developer's Corner / Re: MySQL database

« Last post by x16wda on March 27, 2016, 01:05 PM »

If you moved the disks from the old server to the new server, can you still see the files? Maybe you can install MySQL on the new server and reattach the database files.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's your preferred File Manager

« Last post by x16wda on March 24, 2016, 06:54 PM »

Today I received an e-mail that the release of Nomad.NET 4 is planned soon. It seems to be shaping up nicely.

-Tuxman (March 24, 2016, 09:07 AM)

Hm, I'll have to check it out. I looked at waaaay too many file managers recently to replace the Windows built-in, and I should have written down the feature or lack that took each one out of the running. Nomad.net was one of them that I tried for awhile.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Hyper Plan 50% off

« Last post by x16wda on March 13, 2016, 07:59 PM »

Win yourself a copy of this superb information manager courtesy of Gizmo today.

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General Software Discussion / Re: bookmark management tool

« Last post by x16wda on March 10, 2016, 05:40 AM »

Just fwiw I have tried Xmarks too since I use Lastpass (same company now), and it was disappointing. I have it on 3 PCs and it would continually have trouble synching and would duplicate bookmarks even after running through the procedure they say to use for Chrome. I have it turned off or uninstalled now. If there's something I want to really have available, I will set it up in Lastpass even if there's no password needed - that has been very reliable.

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Living Room / Re: Funny, Strange, and Confusing Error Messages

« Last post by x16wda on February 26, 2016, 05:24 AM »

Had this happen to me just the other day, although it's really more of a fail message than an error message... 

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Living Room / Re: In-Car Emergency Kit - Your Recommendations

« Last post by x16wda on February 17, 2016, 05:25 AM »

So after looking at all these excellent recommendations, something like this looks like a good bet too (assuming your "in" includes "on")...

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Living Room / Re: Windows Phone Narrator should be punished!

« Last post by x16wda on February 06, 2016, 08:30 AM »

Capslock + Esc will turn it off on a PC that is driving you batty... wonder if you could do that on a bluetooth keyboard? I'm not sure the on screen keyboard would cooperate.