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Orcs and Ostriches posted:If I understand the question, you can run or make a shortcut to ncpa.cpl Yeah, right after I made the post I thought about just making a script of some sort. Thanks for making it easy for me, though 
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Inspector_71 posted:Yeah, right after I made the post I thought about just making a script of some sort. Thanks for making it easy for me, though You don't even need a script...just right click, drag to desktop, create shortcut
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Oct 12, 2013 04:41
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Medullah posted:You don't even need a script...just right click, drag to desktop, create shortcut I am ridiculously OCD about not having desktop shortcuts. This should probably be an exception. I guess I was just massively overthinking it. Inspector_666 fucked around with this message at 04:47 on Oct 12, 2013 |
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Oct 12, 2013 04:43
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There anything like BGinfo that will always show the status of select services? I want to be able to show on the wallpaper the hostname and the status of some system services, can't find anything like BGinfo that supports services 
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Oct 12, 2013 05:38
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Inspector_71 posted:I am ridiculously OCD about not having desktop shortcuts. This should probably be an exception. Me too! But there are always those desktop icons that have to be there...install Fences though and making your desktop "look" empty is just a click or two away!
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Oct 12, 2013 05:40
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We have these computers at work, Lenovo boxes running XP, and they badly need a reinstall. Problem is, we've changed ownership and the guy who had whatever discs may have come with them is long gone. Is there any way around the OEM key lock nonsense with XP keys? I would hate to pull the product key, flatten the drive, and get halfway through installing XP only to find out the key I pulled wouldn't work. We had that problem with some old Dells, but luckily we still had the original discs. The product key labels on them will be no help at all, since they're for Vista and they were downgraded to XP.
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Oct 12, 2013 06:52
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I now have Windows 8.1 set up on my new Dell E6540 (installed a SSD). Now obviously all the Dell power config things are gone, for better or worse. What is the best power profile setting for Windows 8? Just the defaults? What is with Intel Rapidstart or whatever that is? I would like to have the thing where I close the lid to conserve power but it being back without restart right after I open it again.
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Oct 12, 2013 09:18
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Medullah posted:But there are always those desktop icons that have to be there.. I've been running all my machines, work and home, with desktop icons hidden for years. I guess I don't really see the point in it. If I have to get to my desktop to do something, then I've wasted time shifting an application out of the way to see it. Plus, it's ugly.
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Oct 12, 2013 10:37
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Boner Slam posted:I now have Windows 8.1 set up on my new Dell E6540 (installed a SSD). Now obviously all the Dell power config things are gone, for better or worse. I'm pretty sure those are the defaults, on the few machines I've put 8 on I've been pretty happy with how the power management has worked. I never shut them down, only reboot for security updates. http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/what-is-intel-rapid-start-technology
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Oct 12, 2013 18:20
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Is there a legitimate site where I can just buy a Windows 7 Product key? I kind of can't wait for shipping for a physical box and apparently no stores sell it anymore. All Windows 8 
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Oct 13, 2013 00:34
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First, let's figure out why Windows 8 is a nonstarter for you. Most people with issues cite the Start screen. Something like ClassicShell or StartIsBack handles that pretty okay on 8.0, and 8.1 lets you generally default to the desktop rather than the Start screen. 8.0 and 8.1 also benefit from cleaning out a lot of crap and putting system monitoring closer to the user - a lot of stuff once stuck in Resource Monitor is now in the regular Task Manager as well. One of the side effects is that they really did improve the backend - any computer that is qualified to run Windows 8.1* will probably run it better than it did 7. *Windows 8.1 64-bit demands several CPU instructions that only showed up about five years ago. 32-bit OSes are generally counseled against, regardless of RAM, unless the tools of your trade straight-up don't work in 64-bit. dont be mean to me fucked around with this message at 08:11 on Oct 13, 2013 |
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Oct 13, 2013 07:48
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Sab669 posted:Is there a legitimate site where I can just buy a Windows 7 Product key? I kind of can't wait for shipping for a physical box and apparently no stores sell it anymore. All Windows 8 You have to buy a Windows 8 license and specifically request downgrade rights (you don't just get it even though I'm p sure it's the same price, our helpdesk guy is having a hassle with this on some licenses we already had). We get our licenses from Microsoft directly.
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Oct 13, 2013 07:51
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Windows 8.1 + classic start = modern PC bliss. You're getting the modern WS2012 kernel with all the modern supported stuff, plus better support going forward, W7 is 4 years old at this point. I was nervous about Win8 support after the whole Vista driver problems, but Vista/7/8 all share the same driver model, even Nvidia's 8.1 preview drivers work great. I have been using Win 8.1 for about a month now with zero issues, classic start gives you the win7 start menu, which honestly is better than the start screen if you don't have a touchscreen device.
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Oct 13, 2013 08:11
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Recently reformatted my PC, incorrectly jotted down my product key and re-installed with an invalid key. Have since moved 400+ miles from my old apartment and have no way of getting the actual key. So, don't want to upgrade to 8.
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Oct 13, 2013 12:44
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I'm looking for a program that does a good job at making bootable USB keys from an iso, etc. Any recommendations?
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Oct 13, 2013 16:17
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IT Guy posted:I'm looking for a program that does a good job at making bootable USB keys from an iso, etc. Any recommendations? Try http://rufus.akeo.ie/ or http://www.sarducd.it/
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Oct 13, 2013 16:20
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IT Guy posted:I'm looking for a program that does a good job at making bootable USB keys from an iso, etc. Any recommendations? I have a working usb-drive that i usually add new isos to and i'm not always successful. Wincontig takes forever to run..
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Oct 13, 2013 16:46
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IT Guy posted:I'm looking for a program that does a good job at making bootable USB keys from an iso, etc. Any recommendations? Is YUMI no longer the tool of choice? http://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/
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Sab669 posted:Recently reformatted my PC, incorrectly jotted down my product key and re-installed with an invalid key. Have since moved 400+ miles from my old apartment and have no way of getting the actual key. So, don't want to upgrade to 8. http://www.softwareking.com/MS-Windows-7-professional.html legit afaik Seems silly to spend money on though
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Sab669 posted:Recently reformatted my PC, incorrectly jotted down my product key and re-installed with an invalid key. Have since moved 400+ miles from my old apartment and have no way of getting the actual key. So, don't want to upgrade to 8. When 8.1 comes out next week, there will be no more upgrade licenses. 8.1 is fully licensed.
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What's the best way to sync Outlook 2013 contacts/calendars/etc. between my desktop (Win7) and laptop (Win8)? I'd like to keep my work contacts from getting mixed up with my personal contacts, these are both gmail accounts. My calendar is also a google calendar. Extra mega bonus points if that auto-complete list (when you've replied to an address it's suggested as you start typing in the "To:" field, even if it's not in your address book) can also be synced between Outlooks. So far I'm using gSyncit to sync the desktop with gmail. My previous laptop was Ubuntu and I was using some Thunderbird plugin. Now I have this new laptop and I'm wondering if gSyncit is the best or if syncing between Outlook is better than syncing through Google. I see Sync2 and Outlook Sync but would appreciate any other suggestions.
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I had a 2 TB WD Green drive on a Windows 7 system start to fail last night. The computer started really slowing down and partially locking up when I attempted to write a file to the drive. I shutdown as quick as I could and connected a spare drive to make an image ASAP. During the imaging process it encountered bad sectors which I had the imaging program skip. I let it image overnight using O&O DiskImage as it was pretty slow (Estimated ~6.5 hours) and woke in the morning to find that it had started to validate the image (I was hoping to avoid extra stress on the failing drive by validating the image) but it was half done and I wanted some kind of indication off how good the image was. Four defective sectors were reported compared to the image. I have the bad sector numbers that it reported. 1) Is there anyway to figure out from the bad sector numbers determine which files are missing or corrupted? The image itself is substantially smaller than the disk space occupied on the original drive. The original 2 TB drive was almost full and the image is about 200 GB smaller in size. While I turned on the only image used space option and compressor I am surprised that the image is that much smaller give that almost all of the files are media which is already heavily compressed. 2) Does this likely mean that large numbers of files are in reality missing? I didn't see anything obvious missing when I mounted the image but there are thousands of files. Any explanation for this behavior? 3) Is it worth trying to re-image the dying drive using a Linux live CD and dd_rescue? What about trying to force a read of the bad sectors? Has anyone had any success with that?
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http://lifehacker.com/soundvolumeview-manages-audio-profiles-mutes-devices-a-1446313650 I feel like I've seen the request/question of "is there anything better than Windows volume control to fine tune volume controls for applications?" pop up before in this thread; this program seems to do a good job of that.
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Oct 16, 2013 18:23
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How the hell can I set up a NFS share on a Windows 7 client to be accessible via UNC path?
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cycleback posted:
There are various tools that will do this on Windows. A Google search will give you some techniques, but I don't think there's any way of doing it without downloading something. A search sent me here but I didn't try it to see if the methods work or not.
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Does anyone know of a good window docking program? I think I'd like to have something with similar functionality to Visual Studio's pane positioning and docking, but for all running applications. All I can find by googling is 1) bullshit Mac OS 'dock' apps for windows and 2) a few frameworks which provide a WPF implementation of what I'm describing (eg Avalon Dock) but I'm not interested in implementing this myself.
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titaniumone posted:Does anyone know of a good window docking program? I think I'd like to have something with similar functionality to Visual Studio's pane positioning and docking, but for all running applications. Haven't used Visual Studio, but when you say "pane positioning," I think of this: http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Skrommel/index.html#ZoneSize
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I have two questions: 1) If I upgrade to Windows 8.1 from 7, is there a way to preserve the installation of programs at all, or will they all just get stuck in Windows.old if they're on the primary drive? What about programs that are installed on a secondary drive? 2) I already use DupDectector to deal with duplicate images. Is there something recommended for videos?
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Has anyone tried Mailbird? I want to start using an email client and have the tried and true Thunderbird and Outlook clients on standby for when I actually give it a go. But after watching their website's video, I'm kinda liking Mailbird's OSX look and behavior. I'm just wondering if it's worth my time and if there are any lack of features or bugs that were deal breakers for anyone who has tried it.
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hooah posted:I have two questions: 1. It will advise you of which programs are not compatible. It will ask you to uninstall those. After 8.1 installation, programs are in their normal spots. Software on other drives is not affected. (or at least, it wasn't for me)
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So I've got a question about Windows Updates. Does the updater service not register on Task Manager's network throughput graph? I just did a brand new Win8 install, fired up the Task Manager and loaded up Windows Update. It sat at 0% for forever and didn't show any network activity. I got tired of waiting so I just told it to restart and install changes. Lo and behold it sat there for 30 seconds and the reboot screen now says "Installing update X of 42..." So quite frankly I'm not sure when it actually downloaded these updates. This is just a standalone laptop, not part of any domain with a WU server or anything.
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Martytoof posted:So I've got a question about Windows Updates. Exact same thing happened with my new laptop. Just gotta be patient and restart a bunch of times. Mine was 10 days ago and I think there were 78 updates just to give you a ballpark.
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crestfallen posted:1. It will advise you of which programs are not compatible. It will ask you to uninstall those. After 8.1 installation, programs are in their normal spots. Software on other drives is not affected. (or at least, it wasn't for me) Sure, but no registry entries will be carried over, correct? How much of an impact will that have? Would I be better off removing and reinstalling stuff?
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hooah posted:Sure, but no registry entries will be carried over, correct? How much of an impact will that have? Would I be better off removing and reinstalling stuff?
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I use my work laptop out on site regularly at various random locations around the country and have been thinking about starting a regime of blowing it away after I get back so I can be sure no user data or viruses or whatever might have been carried back to the office. Is their a recommended free for government tool to create an image that will also let me create diff files later so I can roll in Windows and software updates without having to create a whole new image? I'd probably do one from scratch every few months or something, but I'd like to save that time if I could just make "changes only" updates to the disk image. Or is this just asking for trouble and I might as well make a new image once I've done a full update?
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When I boot up my PC, I am getting an error about MFC110.DLL missing something like that. I did a Google on it. Some sites have it as a download and to replace it, but I read that is a big no-no and either a system restore or clean install is best solution. So far, I haven't really ran into any major problems other than my AVG virus not starting up on boot and it won't let me load it. When I try loading AVG I get the same missing MFC110.DLL error. This just started happening yesterday and I have not done anything crazy or unusual to warrant this. Updated Windows and Foxit. But can't seem the issues there? I am also having some issues with my uTorrent. Anyone have any ideas? System restore is out of question as I don't have a restore point old enough to go back. A Clean install sounds good and I have been debating one for a few weeks now, but re-downloading and configuring everything is just is BLEH!
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Butt Savage posted:Has anyone tried Mailbird? I want to start using an email client and have the tried and true Thunderbird and Outlook clients on standby for when I actually give it a go. But after watching their website's video, I'm kinda liking Mailbird's OSX look and behavior. I'm just wondering if it's worth my time and if there are any lack of features or bugs that were deal breakers for anyone who has tried it. I use eM Client for email. I like it a lot.
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ConfusedNudeMan posted:When I boot up my PC, I am getting an error about MFC110.DLL missing something like that. I did a Google on it. Some sites have it as a download and to replace it, but I read that is a big no-no and either a system restore or clean install is best solution. So far, I haven't really ran into any major problems other than my AVG virus not starting up on boot and it won't let me load it. When I try loading AVG I get the same missing MFC110.DLL error. This just started happening yesterday and I have not done anything crazy or unusual to warrant this. Updated Windows and Foxit. But can't seem the issues there? I am also having some issues with my uTorrent. Anyone have any ideas? System restore is out of question as I don't have a restore point old enough to go back. A Clean install sounds good and I have been debating one for a few weeks now, but re-downloading and configuring everything is just is BLEH! Go to the Haus of Tech Support sub forum you'll probably get a quick response there. 
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So I've got a couple of issues with Win7 SP1 and I am not sure whether they are interconnected. Laptop is a Lenovo W530 (32GB RAM, Quadro K2000, dual (or triple) SSDs). I am having troubles with the Windows Event Viewer. Every time I try to launch it, it throws: code:Simultaneously (but probably not correlated) I installed a new Samsung 840 Pro SSD in my Lenovo's Ultrabay drive and got 2-3 BSODs while resuming from sleep. Am I totally borked w.r.t. issue #1 above and have to reinstall windows? Or is there some fix that I am missing? And I kinda need to fix issue #1 to debug the BSODs that I am getting. Help me goons!
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doctorfrog posted:Haven't used Visual Studio, but when you say "pane positioning," I think of this: http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Skrommel/index.html#ZoneSize No, definitely not similar. This is what I'm talking about : 
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