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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by Curt on August 06, 2015, 05:02 PM »

Also, I am anxious to see how Cortana, the Personal Digital Assistant, will work. If it works like I fear, I will also like to know if it can be killed and buried. I am scared of Cortana!

-Curt (June 03, 2015, 11:57 AM)

Turns out I didn't need to! "Cortana is not available in the area and language you have chosen."

Shouldn't I then have been offered a rebate?  

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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

Start10, 30-Day Trial

• Adds a Windows 7-styled Start menu with Windows 10 enhancements
• Pin desktop and Modern apps to the Start menu
• Jump list support
• Unified search for apps, settings and files
• Automatically matches the color of your taskbar
• Skinnable Start button
• Choose the default behavior of the Start menu power button

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

« Last post by Curt on August 06, 2015, 08:54 AM »

I am (even more) confused by this talk about https; this post is including the "s": https://www.donation...386364;boardseen#new

modified:
oh, sorry; you said the test page

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

« Last post by Curt on August 06, 2015, 03:18 AM »

will youtube videos be back? it seems we have none at the moment

-Curt (August 05, 2015, 11:02 AM)

I persist. There is not a single YouTube video. Get me right: There are videos, but not [you>tube]YouTube[/you<tube] videos.

-Curt (August 05, 2015, 05:31 PM)

I now feel sure the culprit is the new firewall in Windows 10.

When I open one of Donationcoder's video containing pages, there are no YouTube videos to see in any of my browsers. But in the two Microsoft browsers (Edge and IE 11) a little info box will pop up and tell that only safe content is being shown, giving me the choice to click "Show all content" - and the videos are ready! I guess this is safety, so it probably is okay. The problem is that this info/question/multiple choice box does not show up in Firefox, so I cannot change anything - and Firefox 39 has very few settings to do, almost everything is already determined for you me. Furthermore, I have found no way to interact with - or even find! - Windows 10's safety programs, other than hoping it first will contact me like today to give me a choice.

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

« Last post by Curt on August 05, 2015, 05:31 PM »

will youtube videos be back? it seems we have none at the moment

-Curt (August 05, 2015, 11:02 AM)

I persist. There is not a single YouTube video. Get me right: There are videos, but not [you>tube]YouTube[/you<tube] videos.

Oh, it's not you. Well, then it's me.

32-bits Windows 10 Pro, Firefox 39, Shockwave Flash 19.0.0.124 enabled.
Why, oh why?
 

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

« Last post by Curt on August 05, 2015, 11:02 AM »

will youtube videos be back? it seems we have none at the moment

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General Software Discussion / Re: Free Online Virusscan drag and drop?

« Last post by Curt on August 04, 2015, 06:24 PM »

Jotti was updated to 5 files at a time

About Jotti's malware scan
Jotti's malware scan is a free service that lets you scan suspicious files with several anti-virus programs. You can submit up to 5 (five) files at the same time

-Jotti

click Scan with JottiQ, and upto 3 (three) files can be scanned (processed) simultaneously

-JottiQ

- but I have not tested it, so I don't know if Q can take more than 3 files in Real Life

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General Software Discussion / Re: Irfanview releases 64 bit Version

« Last post by Curt on August 04, 2015, 05:21 PM »

it seems the plugins for the new 4.40 were withdrawn; the links are empty and I can only find the 4.38 plugins

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General Software Discussion / QTTabBar 1027 for Win 10

« Last post by Curt on August 04, 2015, 10:57 AM »

Just in case anyone missed the recent update:
QTTabBar 1027
Edit: I am not runnin it and have no idea how well it works.

-MilesAhead (July 27, 2015, 05:00 PM)

QTTabBar ver 1027 (2015-8-4) ^New http://qttabbar.wikidot.com/

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

« Last post by Curt on August 03, 2015, 06:34 PM »

I found a C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\nzoysne8.default\extensions\extensionlistdumper(at)sogame.cat.xpi file, but no folder with relevant name, so I can't go any further that route than -default\extensions. So what goes for Win 10, it seems Extension List Dumper really has been dumped...

A lot of people can remember that Jesus' friend Lazarus was raised from the dead. A few people are also aware that he later on was murdered, and this time stayed dead. I tell this because on Win 10 Lazarus: Form Recovery has been murdered and is dead! Now, will Lazarus stay dead, or Recover?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

« Last post by Curt on August 03, 2015, 09:32 AM »

Patience is a virtue. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19...

[I have deleted the original post, because of too many errors - I misread a path, so I obviously was in the wrong place]

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General Software Discussion / Re: Can I safely delete all these drivers now?

« Last post by Curt on August 03, 2015, 07:01 AM »

I moved the folder to the external (D:), and rebooted. Everything went well.
Thanks a lot to both of you.  

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

« Last post by Curt on August 03, 2015, 03:48 AM »

Nightly of course has a list dumper, but it's not nearly as sofisticated as the DISABLED one we're talking about:

• Adblock Plus 2.6.10
• Add to Search Bar 2.8.1-signed
• Bulk Image Downloader 4.53.0.0
• CoLT 2.6.5.1-signed
• Context Search 0.6.3.1-signed
• Copy As Plain Text 1.0.9.1-signed
• Download Manager (S3) 3.11.1-signed
• Extension List Dumper 1.15.2.1-signed [DISABLED]
• Flagfox 5.1.1
• I don't care about cookies 2.4.2
• InFormEnter 0.765
• Lazarus: Form Recovery 3.2
• Nightly Tester Tools 3.7.1-signed
• Restart 1.2.6
• Self-Destructing Cookies 0.4.7.1-signed
• Wondershare Video Converter Ultimate 7.1.0
• YouTube High Definition 39.0

I've added the bullets myself, just to be able to watch the list without getting a headache...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

« Last post by Curt on August 03, 2015, 03:13 AM »

Extension List Dumper doesn't work with Firefox 39 on Windows 10 Pro.

-Curt (August 02, 2015, 07:54 AM)

Yes, I keep hoping the author will fix it...

-IainB (August 03, 2015, 02:21 AM)

not him, but Chris000001:

Posted June 11th, 2014, 9:44 pm
Chris000001 wrote: >>Change 'resource://gre/modules/XPIProvider.jsm' to 'resource://gre/modules/addons/XPIProvider.jsm' (and don't remark anything out.) That's from this blog: https://blog.mozilla...lity-for-firefox-30/. So, in the same file, ELDumperOutput.js, change:

code in ELDumperOutput.js

Code: Select all
 var XPIProvider = Components.utils.import("resource://gre/modules/XPIProvider.jsm")
 to:

 Code: Select all
 var XPIProvider = Components.utils.import("resource://gre/modules/addons/XPIProvider.jsm")

<<

Bless you! Gotta love a fix that requires adding one word to a parameter in a file. Extension List Dumper now works again in Nightly.
Thank you very much.
/Dennis

-Dennis, a user of Extension List Dumper

from http://forums.mozill...p=13611893#p13611893 + https://addons.mozil...tension-list-dumper/

but you don't edit a xpi just using notepad, so I don't know what to do with this instruction.

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General Software Discussion / Can I safely delete all these drivers now?

« Last post by Curt on August 02, 2015, 06:10 PM »

In (C:) in my Win 10 there is a folder named dell, and it holds 19 folders like this one:

C:\dell\drivers\R227558

Title      : Chip Set:Intel Chipset Software Installation Utility Driver
Version    : A01
OEM Name   : Intel
OEM Ver    : 9.1.1.1015

Computers  : Latitude - E6400, E6400 ATG, E6500, E4300, E4200, E5400, XT2, Z600, E5500, XFR E6400, 2100, E5400;
OptiPlex - 960, 360, 780, Optiplex 380, 760;
Precision - T7500, T5500, R5400, M6400, M4400, M2400, T3400, T7400, T5400, T3500, M6500

Oses       : Windows Vista 32-bit Business, Windows Vista 32-bit Home Basic, Windows Vista 32-bit Home Premium, Windows Vista 32-bit Starter, Windows Vista 32-bit Ultimate, Windows Vista 64-bit Business, Windows Vista 64-bit Home Basic, Windows Vista 64-bit Home Premium, Windows Vista 64-bit UltimateWindows XP Home EditionWindows XP HOME ULCPCWindows XP Media Center EditionWindows XP ProfessionalWindows XP Tablet PC EditionWindows XP x64 Professional Client

Languages  : Arabic, Bahasa Indonesia, Basque, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Chinese Hong Kong, Chinese-S, Chinese-T, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, English (UK), Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Iberian Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Norwegian, Pan-Euro, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovakian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish

Created    : Thu Dec 10 21:07:30 CST 2009

-Version

I am confused by the localisation; C:\dell\drivers... If all these drivers were Real Life today, they would be seen in _Installed Programs_ wouldn't they? They aren't.
I updated from Win 7. Windows Vista on this machine was at least 5 years ago. If the folder was almost empty, I wouldn't mind keeping it, but it takes up a full GIGAbytes! - and my old Solid State drive is only 119GB and has very little free space.

Can I safely delete this dell folder?  

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

« Last post by Curt on August 02, 2015, 05:06 PM »

I think Win 10 all over is ugly, and the least ugly part is the ugly taskbar notification area!  

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

« Last post by Curt on August 02, 2015, 03:59 PM »

I thought I would post this as a separate thread outside of the Windows 10 mega-thred so nobody missed it.

-Innuendo (August 02, 2015, 10:39 AM)

Thanks for taking the time, forewarned is foreboding.

-cranioscopical (August 02, 2015, 01:09 PM)

^+1

However, I will change.


     furthermore, I too have a Win 10 clean_install...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Privacy Concerns

« Last post by Curt on August 02, 2015, 11:21 AM »

the last thing I did before reading this thread was just that; unchecking a myriad of "ON"s! Basically, this new operating system was primarily created for smartphones, only secondarily for desktop computers. Clever thinking, Microsoft, except I don't use a smartphone... either.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

« Last post by Curt on August 02, 2015, 07:54 AM »

Extension List Dumper doesn't work with Firefox 39 on Windows 10 Pro. The addon itself has not been updated since Firefox 9, so you might say it went well for a long period of time.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

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

hm hm... http://www.unblocker...be-unblocker-firefox :

I agree to highlight matching search results on search engines (such as Google) and to replace result links with affiliate links.

-YouTube Unblocker

But with a single click you can uncheck that 'option'.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Pls recommend 32-bit software for old WinXP machine I'm giving an elderly woman

« Last post by Curt on August 01, 2015, 05:30 PM »

-and she might leave the gate open, even "to prevent problems" (we know many people who never shuts down their computer, only to avoid any associated problem)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Pls recommend 32-bit software for old WinXP machine I'm giving an elderly woman

« Last post by Curt on August 01, 2015, 05:00 PM »

I #feel# the Encarta is a really good idea, WBM. Does the world have more of such things? Is she spiritually interested? eSword?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by Curt on August 01, 2015, 12:16 PM »

I think you're right, Miles; eventually it will of course be their best operating system so far - which is why I for the first time ever was maneuvering to be first in line.

BUT the comparison in my head is the car company launching a new model, and when people ask why there are no passenger seats, or why this or that obviously is missing, the answer is something like "Oh, we will add them eventually". Setting a fixed  date for launching a new model is by itself foolish, or what the proper term may be, because it makes a date become more important than fixing errors, and therefore also puts a date above both the customer and the company's trustworthiness / credibility / reliability / integration / honour / something ...

Well, I am the poor one, and they are the ga$illionaires, so who am I to speak.

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by Curt on August 01, 2015, 06:25 AM »

Once again I was too late to notice the number. This time it was 6666 that went by:

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by Curt on August 01, 2015, 04:20 AM »

Curt, hang in there man! OS upgrades are always extra tough when the user has a lot of customizations and extra apps installed.

Can anyone who has upgraded tell if these applications work well in 10: FARR, Everything and Autohotkey scripts (e.g. any issues with UAC or anything like that?).

-Nod5 (July 31, 2015, 05:26 PM)

I have Everything and it works fine in Win 10(contrary to Steve Wright: "You can't have everything. Where would you put it?")

-Arizona Hot (July 31, 2015, 07:29 PM)

Thank you for the encouraging empathy, Nod5    However, I went for "new OS overwrite previous OS", so I had no customizations or extra apps at all. One (not this one, but another one) might say "I don't have Everything, but nothing works either (or neither)."    I know, terrible! But remember, that was the other one!

It seems to me the two main ideas in Win 10 are 1) make money on advertizing, and take the battle as close to the consumer as possible. Microsoft is angry that they were fined several billion dollars, when at the same time competitors doing almost the same deed but calling it something else, were making gazillion dollars. Now MS stops playing the nice, gentle grandpa. 2) Getting us even more used to the idea that we can do nothing without some Big Brother knowing everything about us -  first "for our own comfort", but next "for our own safety".

I am not a fan of such ideas, so frustrations may arise a little too hasty. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Question regarding Win10 upgrade

« Last post by Curt on July 31, 2015, 03:53 PM »

go to Windows Update and cancel it.