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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows Updates has hosed my system... Help!

« Last post by techidave on August 11, 2012, 10:11 AM »

Well things are looking up.  After a good ol' fashion shutdown and turn back on, things are finally working. 

Guess I panicked too soon.

thanks for the help!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows Updates has hosed my system... Help!

« Last post by techidave on August 11, 2012, 08:19 AM »

system restore is turned off.  I have not tried safe mode yet.  I just wondered what my options were.

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General Software Discussion / Windows Updates has hosed my system... Help!

« Last post by techidave on August 11, 2012, 08:07 AM »

Yesterday my Win 7 Pro desktop was stuck in a "Installing 1 of 14 updates" for hours... like 8 hours.  I (grudgingly) powered it down thinking it was stuck.  And now when powering up it is stuck at "loading desktop".

Is there a fix without reloading windows?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Win7 user is admin but cannot install programs

« Last post by techidave on July 20, 2012, 07:35 AM »

Thanks for the heads up, SJ.  I will create a seperate GPO that does just what you suggested.

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General Software Discussion / Win7 user is admin but cannot install programs

« Last post by techidave on July 20, 2012, 05:43 AM »

Now that I am deploying Win7 Pro 32 bit at my school, I have noticed that my staff cannot install any software or anything else that requires admin privileges.  The are set as an admin on their machine.  UAC is turned off.  I have tried "run as administrator".  If I log in as the administrator on the local machine, I can install it.

I ending up getting an error like "invalid short file name username.user".   It seems that most of the problems come when the machine is on a domain... which we are.  The fixes all talk about changing a registry key from a domain/profiles to %userprofiles%username.

My question is why does this happen (if anyone knows)?  And is there anything that I can do to keep it from happening during the setup of the machine?  They are clean installs, no upgrades.

thanks in advance,

Dave

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Living Room / Re: New iPad owner. Please suggest Apps.

« Last post by techidave on May 18, 2012, 05:55 AM »

I use:

CloudOn (free MS Office)
Dropbox
Intellicast HD (weather)
TED
TV Guide
PocketSword (free Bible program)
OmniCalc (Calculator)
Remoter VNC
Intel (has quite a few apps and they are free)
GasCubby
MPG
NASA (free apps pertaining to space)
Mactracker
Newegg
Fing

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: 1-action Unzip

« Last post by techidave on April 25, 2012, 04:25 AM »

I too like TaoPhoenix have struggled with this very problem.  Not sure why it has to be so difficult.  Extract Now looks interesting, can it put the zip file in the extracted folder?  I cannot tell from their screenshots.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Test: Does latency reduction via RAM upgrade lift software performance?

« Last post by techidave on April 14, 2012, 05:23 AM »

Is the Windows Experience Index an accurate tool to measure with?  Its interesting to note that the base score didn't improve much if any.  So I wonder, what kind of upgrade can one do to increase the base score?

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Living Room / Re: Cool Video: News report from 1981 about the Internet.

« Last post by techidave on April 08, 2012, 09:11 PM »

If that much.  Its also difficult to think that people would want to tie up their phone lines for an hour or two just to read the paper.   

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Living Room / Re: Cool Video: News report from 1981 about the Internet.

« Last post by techidave on April 08, 2012, 06:12 AM »

Its hard to believe back in 81, there were that many people willing to spend the money on computers, dial up access just to read the paper!  $5 per hour for access, compared to today it would be like $20 per hour.

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General Software Discussion / Re: In search of ... a Gateway cure ...

« Last post by techidave on April 05, 2012, 02:58 AM »

This suggestion might be a bit off the wall but here goes.  Have you tried running a memory tester?  Although it seems unlikely that a new machine would have a bad stick, but anything is possible.

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Living Room / Re: the home PC network enigma

« Last post by techidave on April 03, 2012, 06:13 PM »

I am with you Steven.  Its harder than it needs to be.     I have tried it a few years ago... ok... probably 4 or 5 years.  I had trouble getting it setup then, so I haven't really tried it since then but I need to.  I have 2 W7 pro, 3 XP pro, Mac 10.6, and a couple of iPads (which i know cannot network to them).

I would appreciate some down to earth, easy to read and do instructions.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Whats your preferred web browser?

« Last post by techidave on March 25, 2012, 06:18 AM »

I have been a long time user of Firefox, but am getting tired of all its updates and broken extensions.  I do like the fact that it is customizable.  I like the speed of Chrome and am now using SwIron instead.  However, I miss some of the toolbars that IE and Firefox have.  IE 9 on my W7 machine is the best IE yet, IMHO.

Some years ago, I used K-Meleon and liked its speed but it wasnt updated very often (and still isn't). 

What is the difference between Chromium and SwIron?

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Official Announcements / Re: So we gave up the March Ad Experiment Idea - What about a 7day mini fundraiser?

« Last post by techidave on March 21, 2012, 05:55 AM »

I was so looking forward to the ads! 

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Living Room / Re: Which decade was the most fun for you personally?

« Last post by techidave on March 20, 2012, 06:30 AM »

It's hard for me to pick just one decade being better than any others.  They all have their ups and downs.  I don't remember much of the fifties but man in the sixties, we were in heaven.  With Elvis Presley and the beach party movies, it was wonderful seeing all those stars in their bikinis!   

the seventies brought college, marriage and Dave pushing a baby carriage.  They were good too.  But the rest have their fun moments too.  In the last five years, came the grandkids, and they are a lot of fun too.

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General Software Discussion / Re: How to remove Windows.old?

« Last post by techidave on March 05, 2012, 01:17 PM »

Um... Not exactly. The Branded OEMs are customized as to what they will (brand) hardware they will activate on ... But they will install on anything. I've got a set of Dell (because they are the cleanest) install disks that range from XPSP3 to Win7,

-Stoic Joker (March 05, 2012, 11:34 AM)

SJ, what do you mean by cleanest?

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Living Room / Re: @mouser, I have a small quibble about your donation system ...

« Last post by techidave on February 28, 2012, 04:48 AM »

So something along the lines of Outlook's (optional) delivery and/or read receipts?

-Stoic Joker (February 27, 2012, 10:49 PM)

SJ, you took the words right out of my mouth!   

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General Software Discussion / Re: I seek calendar software to suit a specific requirement.

« Last post by techidave on February 27, 2012, 04:42 AM »

Vueminder looks really good.  They offer 40% discount for non-profits, 30% for education and its free for churches!  And they even offer churches up to 10 licenses!  how cool is that!   

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General Software Discussion / Re: I seek calendar software to suit a specific requirement.

« Last post by techidave on February 26, 2012, 01:18 PM »

I have looked at Word and Excel before but no satisfaction. Now that I think about it, the old Lotus Ami Pro 3.0 used to make an awesome calendar.  It was a great word processor... loved that program.

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General Software Discussion / Re: I seek calendar software to suit a specific requirement.

« Last post by techidave on February 26, 2012, 01:17 PM »

I shall look at it too.  I think re-occuring things on there like a monthly appointment would be good too.

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General Software Discussion / Re: I seek calendar software to suit a specific requirement.

« Last post by techidave on February 26, 2012, 08:44 AM »

I too, have been looking for this very thing.  Without any luck.  Why is it so hard to find or make?  Everybody keeps telling me to try Google Calendar.  Nope!  Not what I want.  I want to see all the words on a given day not just 4 words.   

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General Software Discussion / Re: ReImage: online Windows repair!

« Last post by techidave on February 20, 2012, 04:59 AM »

Curt,  I am currently running W7 Pro on an older 32 bit machine.  I started out with 2 gig of RAM but since one stick failed me, I am running on 1 gig now and it is working fairly well.  No lockups or anything like that. 

It is a Dual Core machine at 1.6 ghz. 

As I recall 32 bit machine won't see all of the 4 gig of memory but that doesn't affect it in anyway. 


Scroll down this page a bit and you will see the Windows 7 specs for maximum memory.

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Living Room / Re: Cool Site - Kind of like info graphics... About Debt

« Last post by techidave on February 12, 2012, 10:22 AM »

the piles are not depressing... its what they represent that is. 

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Living Room / Re: Cool Site - Kind of like info graphics... About Debt

« Last post by techidave on February 12, 2012, 06:58 AM »

How depressing 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Finding Outlook Express password

« Last post by techidave on February 11, 2012, 06:18 AM »

OutlookPasswordDecryptor - http://securityxplod...ookpassworddecryptor

-PhilB66 (February 10, 2012, 07:53 PM)

Don't you have to have a working system to use that? Also it only seems to support Outlook account not Outlook Express (which isn't a version of Outlook at all) - though the comment that Outlook and OE store their passwords in similar registry locations may mean that it will do that.

-Carol Haynes (February 11, 2012, 04:24 AM)

Well Carol, it looks like maybe it can fetch OE passwords. But I am not sure whether it can do it from a dead system.

It can recover passwords from all versions starting with Outlook Express to latest version, Outlook 2010 and works on wide range of platforms starting from Windows 2000 to Windows 7.