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General Software Discussion / Windows 10 Clean Install Instructions

« Last post by wraith808 on August 10, 2015, 10:29 PM »

from: http://imgur.com/gallery/qCWHwCd

So ofcourse Microsoft being Microsoft they are very vague about licensing which makes the whole thing somewhat unintuïtive.
This is what i figured out myself, and it works for doing a complete fresh install of Windows 10 and activating it if you are currently running Windows 7 or 8(.1).

1: First things first, make sure you have everything backed up and saved. Also write down your current key for Windows 7 or 8.1.

2: Then download this little tool https://www.microsof...e-download/windows10 . And use it to download an ISO for your version of Windows. Got Windows 8.1 Pro? Go with Windows 10 Pro. Got Windows 7 Home Premium? Go with Windows 10 home, etc..

3: Make a bootable USB stick with this: https://rufus.akeo.ie/ . Use GPT for partition table, and file system FAT32.

4: Then put the USB stick aside and install the Windows 10 upgrade through Windows update. The reason being that your old key won't work to activate Windows 10. But during the update process you automatically get a new key, a legitimate Windows 10 key.

5: Now once it's all installed use this tool: http://www.nirsoft.n...t_cd_key_viewer.html to find your new Windows 10 key. Make sure to write this down, so you can always find it.

6: Now with your new Windows 10 key you can install Windows 10 and activate it like you're used to. Boot from the USB stick, install Windows 10, install the drivers, activate and off you go.

I hope this is helpful for someone out there, because it took me a while to figure out as well since there are 0 tutorials explaining this right now at the time of writing.

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Living Room / Re: Show us a picture of your.. CAR!!!

« Last post by wraith808 on August 10, 2015, 07:18 PM »

And gets 84mpg.  If you check the blog, you will see that they were quite open about needing $25mil more in order to get the production run up and going, and were in the stages of securing that.  And they have in prospective interest, but there's a difference between that an offering, which they are currently in the early stages.

As far as the 'driver's spirit', I think it's made more for the commuter's spirit.  I'd love to go 2 weeks between gas ups, personally.

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Living Room / Re: Show us a picture of your.. CAR!!!

« Last post by wraith808 on August 10, 2015, 03:46 PM »

I suppose it's more of a CYA thing.

The backup camera has an obvious use for convenience/help with backing up the car.

The rest seem to be to have a record of potential traffic incidents, including a view of the driver if the car is stolen or if the driver is attacked or something.

* Deozaan shrugs.

-Deozaan (August 10, 2015, 02:03 PM)

Yes, I think you have the gist of it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: PSA: Woe to Thee Who Performs a Windows 10 Clean Install

« Last post by wraith808 on August 07, 2015, 06:22 PM »

I... didn't get that screen.  I got the screen, it was just with a different title.  Was that a joke?  Or did that really happen?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Compatibility with Windows 10

« Last post by wraith808 on August 07, 2015, 01:22 PM »

it's not just windows 10... it works for me on that platform.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by wraith808 on August 06, 2015, 07:15 PM »

Stardock has launched Start10 for Windows 10. The $4.99 program is in beta, but the final version 1 is due the 12'th of August.

https://www.stardock...om/products/start10/
Features: https://www.stardock...start10/download.asp

-Curt (August 06, 2015, 05:02 PM)

I don't like how Stardock does business. They spew forth a ton of different programs and don't address bugs. The only time you see a new release is when they have a paid upgrade & it'll have its own set of bugs.

The only program I've seen them update with any frequency & with any commitment to fixing bugs is their WindowBlinds product. Do people even use that anymore?

-Innuendo (August 06, 2015, 05:26 PM)

Yes, they do, and yes, they fix bugs.  The fast track is to have the object desktop subscription.  It comes to the slow track when stable. And I never paid for an update to Multiplicity (the one I use the most) until they added the KVM features, and in the meantime got several different unpaid updates to address issues.

I've not had any problems with them in 10+ years of using their products, so I guess YMMV.

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Living Room / Re: Want to backup your music collection? Tough...It's illegal.

« Last post by wraith808 on August 06, 2015, 01:39 PM »

If the law is an ass, it's because an ass is frequently The Law.

Evey so often nine asses are gathered together to form an 'asinine' - or Supreme Court. 

(Can't remember where I first saw the above.)

-40hz (August 06, 2015, 01:29 PM)

That's really right.

I had a judge tell me that "While I was in his court, the law was what he said it was.  If I wanted to argue the law, I should have brought a lawyer."

And the lawyer that had told me not to take him to court said, that's how it works.  But if I'd brought a lawyer, just that fact would have been prejudicial.

The words, Rock and Hard Place came to mind.  And he totally agreed.

It's depressing when you think about it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Privacy Concerns

« Last post by wraith808 on August 06, 2015, 10:59 AM »

"From Mirror UK ...Microsoft has admitted it collects key information on Windows users, recording the searches they make with Bing

-bit (August 06, 2015, 02:37 AM)

Just one more reason for people to stop letting Bing be a thing.

-Stephen66515 (August 06, 2015, 10:50 AM)

Like google does any differently?

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Creating Aliases With Optional Parameters

« Last post by wraith808 on August 06, 2015, 09:03 AM »

quick response first: perhaps the easiest solution would be to create 2 aliases, one for when you have both parameters and one for if you have only one.
there are probably other solutions using regex, though i dont know off hand of a way to have a default parameter.. it's an interesting idea for a feature to add to the alias system..

-mouser (August 06, 2015, 12:11 AM)

That's what I thought the answer would be after playing with it a bit.  Thanks for the reply.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Creating Aliases With Optional Parameters

« Last post by wraith808 on August 05, 2015, 03:33 PM »

So, I've just gotten into creating aliases, and I don't know how I didn't do this before!  But I want to create an alias with optional parameters, and regex is not working for me.

The program (QuickNote for OneNote - note.exe) allows you to feed in the note text, a switch for displaying the note, and a switch for the category.  I want the switch for the category to be optional.

The RegEx

^QuickNote (.*),(.*)?

The commands:

QuickNote - $$1 | C:\Users\wraith808\My Files\Dropbox\Tools\QuickNote\Note.exe $$1 /sect $$2
QuickNote and Display - $$1 | C:\Users\wraith808\My Files\Dropbox\Tools\QuickNote\Note.exe $$1 /disp /sect $$2

It works... but you have to put a , at the end (I tried making the , optional, but that made it match the whole string, instead of splitting it).  I can live with that, even though it's suboptimal.

Is there a way to make it, however, so that if the second param is empty, it uses a default for that second parameter?  Or to check if that second parameter is set, and change behavior based on that?

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Official Announcements / Re: DonationCoder Major Upgrades - Progress Report Thread

« Last post by wraith808 on August 05, 2015, 11:45 AM »

Doesn't accessing DC using https disable YT displaying, because it's connecting with http ? (AFAIR)

-Ath (August 05, 2015, 11:43 AM)

It has to do with the link the yt is posted under, not the link you're connecting through DC with (AFAIK)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Privacy Concerns

« Last post by wraith808 on August 05, 2015, 09:41 AM »

The funny thing about the software- it includes opencandy!  I wouldn't use any software from an independent programmer that did such things unless it was open source.  I want to know *what* they changed... not just that they changed it.  And it's wonky in detecting the settings originally.

Someone's taking advantage of the FUD, it seems.

If you're going to use something like this... I'd more trust https://github.com/W...K/Debloat-Windows-10

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Living Room / Re: I need a physics/chemistry/engineering/science forum

« Last post by wraith808 on August 04, 2015, 06:36 PM »

Also installed query monitor plugin to see what it sees

the slow query is

SELECT post_id, meta_key, meta_value
FROM wp_postmeta
WHERE post_id IN

update_meta_cache() calls it, I wonder if I can prevent it from running....

-rgdot (August 04, 2015, 05:49 PM)

It's something to do with your database.  Not sure what it is, but that's in *every* installation of wordpress by default.  So, if it was a problem because of the number of posts, there would be more hue and cry about it.

Check the indices on that table, and repair them- especially if they are on post_id.  You might also try to run mysqlcheck on all of the tables, i.e.

mysqlcheck -u root -p --check --all-databases

or...

mysqlcheck -u root -p --auto-repair --check --all-databases

if you're going to trust it to check.  Or you can just run the auto-repair after the check.

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Living Room / Re: I need a physics/chemistry/engineering/science forum

« Last post by wraith808 on August 04, 2015, 03:40 PM »

I don't see anything obvious, other than the lag.

Three more troubleshooting steps I could suggest:

1. Run the posts query to see how long it's taking.  That's all that is in the edit.php- it did a query, then formatted it with the options, i.e. select * from wp_posts where post_type = "page"
2. Create a plugin script, and try to replicate what the php script is doing in creating the posts by query, i.e.
$querystr = "SELECT * FROM $wpdb->posts as wpost ORDER BY wpost.post_date DESC";
$pageposts = $wpdb->get_results($querystr, OBJECT);
3. Then in your plugin, change it so that it's getting them by using the wp_query engine, i.e.
<?php $args = array(
   'sort_order' => 'asc',
   'sort_column' => 'post_title',
   'hierarchical' => 1,
   'exclude' => '',
   'include' => '',
   'meta_key' => '',
   'meta_value' => '',
   'authors' => '',
   'child_of' => 0,
   'parent' => -1,
   'exclude_tree' => '',
   'number' => '',
   'offset' => 0,
   'post_type' => 'page',
   'post_status' => 'publish'
);
$pages = get_pages($args);
?>
4. Last, create the site from scratch, do the import, and see if you get the same problem.

I really do think it's something with database performance, and you can't check that kind of stuff from the wp admin.

Sorry I wasn't of more help.

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Living Room / Re: I need a physics/chemistry/engineering/science forum

« Last post by wraith808 on August 04, 2015, 01:06 PM »

Can I PM you login details to the site tosee how edit.php?post_type=page looks in the browser and how it looks when you view source?

-rgdot (August 03, 2015, 07:55 PM)

You can, but I still think you're looking at a red herring.  I understand where you're talking about now- it uses the query option at the end of the string to formulate the UI for the page.  I have the same code on mine on several sites- one of them has more pages than yours.  And I'm not experiencing the same problems.  It's just text- it shouldn't slow down your site, as it's not following to other requests. There's something else going on that's causing your problem.

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Living Room / Re: I need a physics/chemistry/engineering/science forum

« Last post by wraith808 on August 03, 2015, 07:38 PM »

First, I don't think the number of posts is the problem.  It's a red herring.

Try this in mysql (or let me know if you've already done it)

Code: Text [Select]

1. REPAIR TABLE wp_posts QUICK

The code that you posted is just to show the posts in the edit page so that you can hyperlink to them and edit.  I've seen sites with more posts than that not take nearly that long.

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Living Room / Re: I need a physics/chemistry/engineering/science forum

« Last post by wraith808 on August 03, 2015, 07:20 PM »

Ok, so the first thing to do is to get your question down to the minimum.  Then we can flesh it out.

If you were asking your question to someone standing in front of you who didn't have a lot of time, what would you ask?

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Living Room / Re: I need a physics/chemistry/engineering/science forum

« Last post by wraith808 on August 03, 2015, 06:45 PM »

If you don't explain yourself they pretty much chastise you but if you do then they want clarification, they take this to the extreme.

My question is

edit.php and post-new.php take a long time to load

The rest is explanation, which will be asked if I don't post them initially any way.

The 'problem', if there is any, is that the question will be lost in the crowd if not answered quickly, they know it and if they make the effort to insist on clarification they should come back to read it.

-rgdot (August 03, 2015, 06:36 PM)

If it is lost, and you don't come up with a solution, there is always the option to place a bounty on it.

And in my humble opinion, that bit that you posted as a question, isn't really one.  I can help you workshop it into a good question, if you'd like, but you have to be able to explain it to me for me to be able to do so, and I didn't really get the question from reading either.

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Living Room / Re: I need a physics/chemistry/engineering/science forum

« Last post by wraith808 on August 03, 2015, 06:27 PM »

I don't get your problem?  He was asking for clarification- which is the right thing to do if he doesn't understand the question?  And it is better to try to make your question generic for posterity's sake, i.e. unless you're asked about your specifics, just ask the question you want to ask instead of trying to 'frame' it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Privacy Concerns

« Last post by wraith808 on August 03, 2015, 02:16 PM »

Then there's this:

http://www.newsweek....rs-every-move-358952

Using Windows 10? Microsoft Is Watching

From the moment an account is created, Microsoft begins watching. The company saves customers’ basic information—name, contact details, passwords, demographic data and credit card specifics —but it also digs a bit deeper.
...

Relevant?

-Edvard (August 03, 2015, 01:48 PM)

Newsweek gives you five free articles a month.

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Screenshot Captor / Feature Request: History of Captures

« Last post by wraith808 on August 03, 2015, 11:47 AM »

In the Screenshot Captor window, you have a list of the captures that you've done by default.  What I'd like is in a menu somewhere (whether it's in the right-click menu, or in the file menu) there to be a list of all files saved by Screenshot Captor, whether to the default location or by using the Save As command- as long as a file was saved, it would be in that list.  It can be limited to the last 10 captures if necessary, or it can be somewhere else if it's not limited.  I'd just like to see where the captures were, no matter what was saved.

Thoughts?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Privacy Concerns

« Last post by wraith808 on August 03, 2015, 09:42 AM »

Each of these settings is a 'give and take' scenario. Each setting gives you something and takes away something depending on if it is turned on or off. There are no right or wrong ways to set them. It's up to each user to decide for themselves if what they gain is worth what they lose if they have a given setting turned on...or turned off.

-Innuendo (August 02, 2015, 12:42 PM)

I'll quote this again for truth.  Nothing comes free.  There are some pretty nifty features in windows 10- but to make them nifty, they have to have information.  You can cut that off pretty easily, and make your choices not to have the nifty.

It's much ado over nothing.

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General Software Discussion / Re: PSA: Woe to Thee Who Performs a Windows 10 Clean Install

« Last post by wraith808 on August 03, 2015, 09:39 AM »

One thing to keep in mind about Windows 7.  It is out of mainstream support right now, in the extended support period.

-wraith808 (August 02, 2015, 08:07 PM)

ugh i hate this about ms.

-superboyac (August 02, 2015, 11:24 PM)

I think it's unfair to expect Microsoft to support old software.

They're still releasing security updates. But they're not going to be adding new features. I don't find that unreasonable, especially since they consider Windows 7 to be two "generations" old at this point.

-Deozaan (August 03, 2015, 01:05 AM)

Agreed.  This was more of a PSA and FYI than anything else.  They have perfectly reasonable EOL procedures, IMO.  But, the more you know... and that was the only reason for this.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's living in your taskbar notification area right now?

« Last post by wraith808 on August 02, 2015, 08:08 PM »

Actually prefer the clean, monochrome, easily identifiable icons over multi-coloured, wtf is that blobs.

-4wd (August 02, 2015, 07:13 PM)

agreed.

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General Software Discussion / Re: PSA: Woe to Thee Who Performs a Windows 10 Clean Install

« Last post by wraith808 on August 02, 2015, 08:07 PM »

thanks for the info.  I have cancelled my automatic upgrade not for any reason other than i wasn't comfortable with the way it got integrated in my windows update and task tray.  Most likely, I'll wait a year or more before making any windows 10 upgrades to my machines that matter.  windows 7 and 8.1 are running smooth right now.

one of my very knowledgeable friends did the windows 10 upgrade and is very satisfied with it.  but he does the whole xbox thing and the thing he was raving about was the tight/smooth integration with windows 10 and xbox.

-superboyac (August 02, 2015, 05:29 PM)

One thing to keep in mind about Windows 7.  It is out of mainstream support right now, in the extended support period.  What does that mean?

https://support.micr.../en-us/gp/lifepolicy

or for a more to the point comparison

http://www.networkwo...xtended-support.html