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I made the mistake of attempting a Windows Backup (which hung) and now I've got a flag in the system tray saying there's a backup in progress. I can't see any way to abort the backup, which happened like 3 months ago.
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Parachute Underwear posted:Open the Control Panel and click the address bar. Copy and paste "Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Backup and Restore" and you can change the settings there. That was the first place I tried. Nothing there says anything about an ongoing backup I can abort.
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Jun 15, 2010 01:13
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Parachute Underwear posted:The only other place I can think of where you could access an ongoing backup is through the Action Center itself. Expand the Maintenance area and it should say it's in progress or something similar. If not, then the service hosed up somehow. Yeah, it says there's a backup in progress, but clicking the link just leads me back to the control panel section where there's no way to cancel it.
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Jun 15, 2010 01:35
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Parachute Underwear posted:I don't know, then. I figured it out, I just had to start another backup and then abort it immediately before it could time out.
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Jun 15, 2010 18:05
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I've heard stories of people whose Windows Backup just broke and stopped working. What happens if you disconnect the drive it's using to back up to?
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Is there a site where I can get direct downloads of Windows 7 updates in a nice little list or something? I'm getting poo poo speeds from microsoft through every single program I've tried that says it does this, when the downloads don't time out entirely.
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Feb 10, 2011 04:31
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Mak0rz posted:EDIT 2: Great, UltraVNC triggers a false-positive from MSE It's not a commonly installed application and obviously a lot of malware would want to remotely control an infected PC.
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Dec 25, 2011 04:23
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stubblyhead posted:If memory serve Windows 7 ships with IE8, so if you're lucky enough to have physical installation media from your computer you could install that to a VM and decline to install IE9 from Windows Update. I don't think you would run afoul of licensing requirements if you don't enter a license key and don't use it beyond 30 days or however long it gives you. I could be wrong about that though so I would make sure before doing that. Yeah be really careful, Microsoft might send the license police after you. Seriously though, Microsoft doesn't really care about this stuff as long as you're adhering to the spirit of the license and not passing it around. They don't even enforce their own license terms on OEM copies of Windows.
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Mar 20, 2012 03:00
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stubblyhead posted:In Unix-based systems, there are some things that just will not work if their permissions or owners get changed from what is expected. For instance, 'chmod -R 777 /' would be a Very Bad Thing. Is Windows similar in this regard? I'm not talking about denied access type errors, more like "The ACL for this file isn't exactly the way I expect it to be, so I'm taking my ball and going home." I had something like this happen once because of a false positive from the AV I was using at the time, yes. I never did a way to fix it.
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Apr 13, 2012 05:29
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bowmore posted:Does anybody know of a music player that removes songs from the playlist after they have been played? iTunes can sort of do this with smart playlists. Just have one of the criteria be that the song hasn't been played in the last x number of hours.
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Apr 20, 2012 02:19
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Medullah posted:I'd say scrap it and just go buy a $200 junk laptop which will be better than that one. You underestimate just how poo poo today's $200 laptops are a lot of the time. My wife's $200 laptop struggles with Youtube videos and it's a Toshiba.
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Dec 26, 2016 10:52
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Serious question: what's the advantage of using KeePass over just using a text file with passwords in it? KeePass is slightly more of a PITA than a text file, and I'm thinking if someone got access to my PC I'm pretty much screwed either way since they could just install a keylogger or find some other way of getting around KeePass.
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Mar 8, 2017 22:46
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Gromit posted:Every now and again someone will post "I taught this neural network to make recipes or movie synopses" etc after teaching it from some text data source. I admit I've not Googled too much but are there freeware tools a simpleton can download that lets you point it at a source of input and play with the layers to get reasonable output or are they all custom-coded and too complex for non-programmers to play with? You'd almost certainly need to be a programmer to get anything useful out of AI libraries.
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May 14, 2018 06:03
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I use CUETools to rip CDs.
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Jul 13, 2019 02:51
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There's still tons of music released on CDs that isn't available to stream or buy on iTunes.
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Jul 13, 2019 05:51
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Klyith posted:So does Apple not let people who bought music from them re-download in whatever format they currently support? You had to pay, and eventually they removed the option to pay. Now the only way is to subscribe to iTunes Match.
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Jan 25, 2020 05:16
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Remember when everyone was all excited for the sidebar and then 95% of us ended up turning it off after a few days?
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Apr 5, 2020 19:17
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As pathetic as it is to say, it's best to unplug your network cable when you install Windows 10 so it'll let you make a normal user account.
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Feb 13, 2021 21:10
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Are you sure the drive meets the requirements to be formatted that way? Like maybe there's a maximum size?
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Mar 8, 2021 07:31
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I don't think Microsoft actually gives much of a poo poo about the Surface.
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Apr 11, 2021 06:06
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Paul MaudDib posted:hello alzheimer's thread, I vaguely remember reading about a "tiling window manager" sort of thing for windows where you'd hold modifier keys and drag where you wanted the window to go, and it divided the screen into presized "chunks" that your movements would snap to. It wasn't DisplayFusion but something along those lines in terms of the ability to do monitor splitting and so on. Windows 11 does this
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Sep 22, 2021 07:48
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Medullah posted:I know if I start a Windows 10 install from scratch with a 7 Ultimate key it will install Windows 10 Pro, but there's no way to use a 7 key to upgrade to Pro from an already installed Home, right? Got a new latpop and it only has Home. You can upgrade an existing install, that's been a feature for a while now.
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Sep 24, 2021 02:26
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Fantastic Foreskin posted:Windows (local account) Pretty sure there's some dead simple way of getting back into a normal account if you forget the password. It's not intended to be high security.
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Oct 17, 2021 23:08
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ExecuDork posted:I'm not sure where to ask this, but I need something to break me out of playing a game that's sucking up 100% of my attention. I'm running Windows 10 on my desktop at home. This sounds like a mix of hyperfocus and time blindness, maybe look into getting tested for ADHD.
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Jan 21, 2022 03:24
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ExecuDork posted:Update to my addiction-management question. It you really want to deal with the problem through technology you should probably buy something like Cold Turkey which is intended to block distractions. I don't know whether it has the specific features you're looking for though. I guess you could probably whitelist the exe for the time period where you want to play, and block it at other times.
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Jan 23, 2022 08:18
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Anyone know what the deal is here... I bought a key online for Office 2021 and it worked for about a month and a half and now I get an error after reinstalling Windows. I've found absolutely no help online and there's basically no option in Office to do anything other than buy another key or log in through a different account. It's not installed on any other PCs of mine and I haven't changed any hardware. It shows as purchased under my Microsoft account but there's not really any option to deactivate previous installations or anything like that. Whether I log into my Microsoft account or try to re-enter the CD key I get the same screen saying it's installed on another PC and no option to do anything but purchase another key or use a different account.
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Apr 29, 2022 10:04
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SEKCobra posted:Contact support to transfer your license. It is still registered to the computer from before you reinstalled it. It's the same computer, nothing changed other than reinstalling Windows. If they're tying activations to particular Windows installs they should let you deactivate it in some automated way that as far as I can tell doesn't exist. There doesn't seem to be phone activation for Office 2021 either.
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Apr 29, 2022 10:51
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nitsuga posted:Try following this troubleshooting guide: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/unlicensed-product-and-activation-errors-in-office-0d23d3c0-c19c-4b2f-9845-5344fedc4380 Thanks, none of those steps helped but I used the link at the end to contact live support and they fixed it on their end. The rep implied this problem is caused by hardware changes but there weren't any (just a normal Windows reset) so who knows...
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Apr 29, 2022 23:41
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Node posted:I mean, okay, I can do that, but I've already done that a few times. Installing the updates, drivers, and programs would take some time. I just want to know if that message I posted about early makes sense, and if the computer is operating just fine, or if the message might mean something else. If you used older install media it's probably fine.
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Jun 21, 2022 09:28
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They should probably just say Windows is free for home use. We're in this weird twilight zone where you need a license still, but a license is only $5-10 and you don't have to buy it from Microsoft.
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Jul 16, 2023 02:49
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I use foobar2000 with ColumnsUI. It's resource-light and only takes me a few minutes to set it up again from scratch if I need to.
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