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Posted: 23 Minutes ago by: Ken Blake

OK, we all have different opinions and different preferences. See below for a couple of comments. I don't use the Windows task manager. Instead I use the third-party Task Manager Deluxe, which I think is much better. I don't think e

Posted: 28 Minutes ago by: Paul

Fast Startup is only supposed to preserve the kernel image. The kernel is in its own address space. Processes (your pest) run in Ring 3, the kernel runs in Ring 0. Everything in Ring 3, can only be preserved via full Hibernation. Fast Sta

Posted: 40 Minutes ago by: Paul

https://www.altaro.com/hyper-v/what-is-uac-virtualization/ "Please Welcome to the Stage: UAC Virtualization So Microsoft came up with UAC Virtualization. Because these applications expected to be able to write to a program

Posted: 1 Hour 22 Minutes ago by: Paul

The drive having "0 bytes" used on it, I found that amusing. It might be able to say "0 bytes" if it was RAW, but since the label says FAT32, then immediately the used space has to be >0 . RAW partitions say "0 for everything". And sure

alt.comp.os.windows-11

Posted: 1 Hour 41 Minutes ago by: nospam

nvram (and pram in earlier macs) is different than uefi, and it can be accessed and modified from the command line (and apps in classic mac os). at the command prompt, type nvram -p to see what's stored there. don't modify anything w

Posted: 1 Hour 56 Minutes ago by: Nil

On 27 Mar 2023, Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote in alt.comp.os.windows-10: This one isn't a Metro app. I notice that in Task Manager/Details it shows the phantom processes as in a Running state, and UAC Virtualization is Disabled. D

Posted: 1 Hour 59 Minutes ago by: FromTheRafters

But there are still "settings" stored in NVRAM. I'm not arguing about terminology here, firmware code needs access to stored, possibly user supplied, settings during the boot axis yet before disk access. Call it whatever you want, but

Re: I have Windows 10 - to move to Windows 11 - do I need to (thread)

Posted: 2 Hours 11 Minutes ago by: Nil

On 27 Mar 2023, Graham J <nobody@nowhere.co.uk> wrote in alt.comp.os.windows-10: That would be a HUGE inconvenience and a last resort. Nevertheless, I'm considering it. This computer was upgraded from Windows 7. I've almost always gone

Posted: 2 Hours 13 Minutes ago by: Paul

I think you're dead wrong. And this is why. This is what happens when reach exceeds grasp. http://al.howardknight.net/?STYPE=msgid&MSGI=%3CXnsAFD496534B6Fnilch1%40wheedledeedle.moc%3E Windows 7 would not do that, because it does not ha

Posted: 2 Hours 14 Minutes ago by: Nil

On 27 Mar 2023, Graham J <nobody@nowhere.co.uk> wrote in alt.comp.os.windows-10: Yes, I did have Fast Startup enabled. Now that I turned it off the processes go away during the reboot. So, one mystery solved, but the core questions rem

Re: Google Groups Archives for this Usenet newsgroup (thread)

Posted: 2 Hours 24 Minutes ago by: Paul

Fast Startup preserves the kernel, but not the environment running beside the kernel (so-called userspace). It would take full hibernation, to preserve kernel+userspace. Metro Apps, when you exit them, can remain in memory, in a Suspend

Re: Google Groups Archives for this Usenet newsgroup (thread)

Posted: 3 Hours 46 Minutes ago by: Andy Burnelli

It might be good for everyone to list those forums so we can test them. Meanwhile, one mistake I made in my prior post that Andy Burns pointed out is I misspelled "narkive" as "narchive" for some brain-fart reason. Sorry. Here is the

Posted: 4 Hours 12 Minutes ago by: T

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Posted: 4 Hours 30 Minutes ago by: Graham J

[snip] See: <https://www.howtogeek.com/349114/shutting-down-doesnt-fully-shut-down-windows-10-but-restarting-it-does/> You may have "Fast Startup" enabled which mixes hiberbnation and a full restart.

Posted: 4 Hours 59 Minutes ago by: Graham J

Re-install Windows 10 from scrathc?

Persistent, ukillable process

Re: HP Envy H9 cannot run Media Creation Tool for Win 10 (thread)

Posted: 5 Hours 22 Minutes ago by: Nil

I have a program, Musescore (a music notation software) that was recently updated from version 3 to 4, with many nice improvements. Unfortunately, after I close it after running, the interface goes away, but its process lingers. Every t

Posted: 6 Hours 13 Minutes ago by: Mr. Man-wai Chang

OK, the extracted product key got activated.

Posted: 6 Hours 15 Minutes ago by: nospam

only with intel macs with uefi, and there's no menu interface or bios mode. for 68k/powerpc/apple silicon, it ranges from nonexistent to very different.

Re: HP Envy H9 cannot run Media Creation Tool for Win 10 (thread)

Posted: 6 Hours 18 Minutes ago by: FromTheRafters

Equivalent function.

Posted: 7 Hours 52 Minutes ago by: Mr. Man-wai Chang

It's a Win 8 machine. I used ProduKey to retrieve its product key. Never tried this before... There is no COA sticker with this HP Envy H9. I will keep the original SSD containing the broken Win 10 upgrade and the HP recovery partit

Re: I have Windows 10 - to move to Windows 11 - do I need to establish a Microsoft Account? (thread)

Posted: 7 Hours 54 Minutes ago by: nospam

similar is not the same, and macs don't have anything close to bios mode for pcs. it also depends on which mac. as i said, 68k macs don't have anything, powerpc macs have open firmware (and one could use its command line to for those s

Posted: 7 Hours 58 Minutes ago by: Andy Burnelli

Darn. My mistake. Yes. Narkive. (I thought I had tested them, but errors crept in somehow.) I use narkive as the search engine of last resort as it's unreliable. Google groups is my first web-archives search engine for most newsgroups

Posted: 8 Hours 2 Minutes ago by: FromTheRafters

https://macpaw.com/how-to/mac-bios-mode =================BIOS mode only exists on PCs, right? Well, sort of. Although the Mac doesn’t have a bios mode, it has something similar. In this article, we’ll get into what BIOS mode is, it

Re: I have Windows 10 - to move to Windows 11 - do I need to establish a Microsoft Account? (thread)

Posted: 8 Hours 6 Minutes ago by: Apd

[...] Probably. That drama "The Undeclred War" I wrote about last year did a resonable job. That image is from my own system. Win2k server has a "Quota" tab described here: <https://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p!481&seqNum=6>

Re: I have Windows 10 - to move to Windows 11 - do I need to (thread)

Posted: 8 Hours 12 Minutes ago by: Andy Burnelli

Thanks for checking that where the "N" archives have never been reliable. I use them only when I can't use the "G" archives (mostly for Windows). The main reason for using the tinyurls is that Google DejaNews archives used hard-to-re

Posted: 8 Hours 24 Minutes ago by: Andy Burns

My main server NIN doesn't, I have a secondary account on giganews which does

Posted: 8 Hours 34 Minutes ago by: Mark Lloyd

[snip] Why do you assume this is the boot drive. Its labeled "DOCUMENTS" and the boot drive is not always C. BTW, I once had a Windows installation (I think it was w2k) that booted from E.

Re: I have Windows 10 - to move to Windows 11 - do I need to establish a Microsoft Account? (thread)

Posted: 8 Hours 48 Minutes ago by: David Brooks

PLease see if there is anything here which will help you:- https://www.google.com/search?q=there+is+*NO*+equivalent+to+BIOS+settings+on+a+Mac.+

Microsoft Issues Patch for aCropalypse Privacy Flaw in Windows Screenshot Tools

Posted: 9 Hours 9 Minutes ago by: Ken Blake

I completely disagree. In my opinion, for almost everyone, it's almost always the best choice to run on the latest version of Windows.

Re: HP Envy H9 cannot run Media Creation Tool for Win 10 (thread)

Posted: 9 Hours 11 Minutes ago by: NewsKrawler

https://thehackernews.com/2023/03/microsoft-issues-patch-for-acropalypse.html Microsoft Issues Patch for aCropalypse Privacy Flaw in Windows Screenshot Tools Microsoft has released an out-of-band update to address a privacy-defeating flaw

Re: HP Envy H9 cannot run Media Creation Tool for Win 10 (thread)

Posted: 9 Hours 26 Minutes ago by: Paul

If it really is a Win8 machine, the license key is in the ACPI MSDM table. if it is a Win7 machine, the HP Royalty OEM OS is enabled by finding that the ACPI HP SLIC table is present. In such a case, the key in the OS is "bogus" and not

Re: Google Groups Archives for this Usenet newsgroup (thread)

Posted: 9 Hours 39 Minutes ago by: Paul

The qualifying OSes for Free Upgrade Win7 SP1 Win8.1 You should still be able to run MediaCreationTool22H2-W10.exe to fetch an ISO9660 file, for making media "for another PC". This works as long as the .NET for it is installed i

Posted: 9 Hours 59 Minutes ago by: Andy Burnelli

Hi Andy, Thanks for that update, which I much appreciate, as I took have tried to get Google to archive certain newsgroups, so no practical avail. That's why I resorted to the tinyurl links, until Google finally relented on the obscure

Posted: 10 Hours 4 Minutes ago by: FromTheRafters

Then what do you mean by "equivalent to BIOS settings" if not storage in NVRAM?

Re: I have Windows 10 - to move to Windows 11 - do I need to (thread)

Posted: 10 Hours 18 Minutes ago by: FromTheRafters

Yes. Somebody in the graphics crew is having a little fun I suspect. There are many things in movies and TV shows that you are just not supposed to notice. I looked at 2003 server and IIRC it had two rows of tabs. I even looked at

Posted: 10 Hours 26 Minutes ago by: Carlos E.R.

I'll try to remember. However, my upstream doesn't have alt.comp.microsoft.windows. In fact, nothing "alt.comp.microsoft"

Re: HP Envy H9 cannot run Media Creation Tool for Win 10 (thread)

Posted: 10 Hours 52 Minutes ago by: David Brooks

No, Sir! I learnt about that within the first two years of owning my /first/ iMac! (bought 2009) Thanks anyway!

Posted: 10 Hours 57 Minutes ago by: Mr. Man-wai Chang

unfortunately, there were problems after the upgrade. At least, the Windows Defender could not be started. The error message was "“Your IT Administrator Has Limited Access”... Well... I better go the clean install route, after reco

Re: I have Windows 10 - to move to Windows 11 - do I need to (thread)

Posted: 11 Hours ago by: Apd

Definitely not. Or more like this: https://i.ibb.co/WnFJTtG/drive-w2k.png That's from Windows 2000, has the "Hardware" tab and "File System" is a separate line of text. Windows XP changed the disk icon (top left) to a 3D perspective vi

Re: I have Windows 10 - to move to Windows 11 - do I need to (thread)

Posted: 11 Hours 5 Minutes ago by: Andy Burns

I presume you mean narkive.com rather than narchive.com in all those URLs? unfortunately narkive seems to have thinned-down to under 20 groups,not including any of the above, can that be right?

Posted: 11 Hours 17 Minutes ago by: Andy Burns

neither a.c.o.w10 or a.c.o.w11 exist in google groups, but a.c.m.w does exist <https://groups.google.com/g/alt.comp.microsoft.windows>

Re: Lower case and diff two text files contents of email addresses (thread)

Posted: 12 Hours 9 Minutes ago by: 😎 Mighty Wannabe

Before OS/2, all the IBM PC "DOS", and "Win 1.x, 2.x, 3.x, 4.x" for IBM's PC line of computers were made by Microsoft. IBM's OS/2 came out together with the micro-channel. Micro-channel is the connector on the motherboard that accepts

Posted: 12 Hours 20 Minutes ago by: Herbert Kleebauer

Because I don't like unfinished tasks, here a version which should work: @echo off :: list all email addresses which are not in both :: input files (email1.txt, email2.txt) if [%1]==[sub] goto :sub sort email1.txt|find "@" >email1s.txt

Re: I have Windows 10 - to move to Windows 11 - do I need to (thread)

Posted: 12 Hours 27 Minutes ago by: nospam

it's not wrong. older pcs have bios and newer ones have uefi. they're not the same, although they do similar things. as for macs - 68k macs don't have anything powerpc macs have open firmware intel macs have uefi apple silicon macs have

Posted: 12 Hours 44 Minutes ago by: Carlos E.R.

I missed other threads. For example, from last October: Current best way to set up a local account There is also a discussion on using on MSA, then deleting it (and telling M$ to close it). And beware if the disk is encrypted.

Posted: 12 Hours 55 Minutes ago by: FromTheRafters

Do you mean CMOS? https://www.macworld.com/article/224955/how-to-reset-a-macs-nvram-pram-and-smc.html

Posted: 13 Hours 6 Minutes ago by: Commander Kinsey

They say "On older PCs" which is wrong, they all have a BIOS you can go into and change settings. They say "UEFI, or unified extensible firmware interface, is the name of the firmware in macOS that does the same job as BIOS on most Wind

Posted: 13 Hours 10 Minutes ago by: Commander Kinsey

I understood what you said but didn't believe you, since I thought OS/2 was just an operating system.

Re: I have Windows 10 - to move to Windows 11 - do I need to (thread)

Posted: 13 Hours 57 Minutes ago by: 😎 Mighty Wannabe

"IBM made the OS/2, and within it the "micro-channel" technology in the motherboard, and vowed to sue any clone maker who dared copy it." You stopped reading, so you missed "in the motherboard". Motherboard is hardware. Maybe I should

Re: I have Windows 10 - to move to Windows 11 - do I need to (thread)

Posted: 14 Hours 9 Minutes ago by: Carlos E.R.

.... Site not found. One more reason not to use tiny URLs. Albeit they work in this case. Redirects to <http://www.pcbanter.net/forumdisplay.php?fR> .... This one works.

Posted: 14 Hours 17 Minutes ago by: wasbit

No. I don't have a Microsoft account in Windows 8, 10 or 11 Therein lies the problem. There are ways of achieving what you want but not (as far as I know) a one click solution.

Posted: 14 Hours 45 Minutes ago by: David Brooks

As far as I'm aware there is *NO* equivalent to BIOS settings on a Mac. But I'm willing to learn! I found this, which you may wish to explore:- https://macpaw.com/how-to/mac-bios-mode#:~:text

Posted: 15 Hours 28 Minutes ago by: Commander Kinsey

I've never observed it, it is possible. My BIOS has protection against it, so thre must be threats out there. The first answer in Quora is correct: **** Removal is the "easier" part: You either flash back original software into the fi

Re: I have Windows 10 - to move to Windows 11 - do I need to (thread)

Posted: 15 Hours 32 Minutes ago by: Commander Kinsey

The sentence was "IBM made the OS/2, and within it the "micro-channel" technology". Since OS/2 AFAIK is a software OS, I couldn't see hardware being within it. Pity that other proprietary company doesn't go the same way - Apple. IBM

Re: HP Envy H9 cannot run Media Creation Tool for Win 10 (thread)

Posted: 15 Hours 49 Minutes ago by: Mr. Man-wai Chang

Disable all internet connections during the upgrade! You might want to turn off the wifi router connecting your PC. This way the installation process would be forced to go local account.

Posted: 15 Hours 51 Minutes ago by: Mr. Man-wai Chang

I forgot that there is a SETUP.EXE in the official ISO of all Windows. So we don't have to upgrade with the Media Creation Tool. Sorry!

Re: Google Groups Archives for this Usenet newsgroup (thread)

Posted: 16 Hours 39 Minutes ago by: David Brooks

You obviously know about computers! Thank you for your answer. 🙂 Can you answer the question which I asked previously? Message-ID: <T56RL.1060071$gGD7.255827@fx11.iad> https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-detect-and-get-rid-of-malware-whic

Re: HP Envy H9 cannot run Media Creation Tool for Win 10 (thread)

Posted: 16 Hours 52 Minutes ago by: Andy Burns

After I sent the control message for the win11 group (the original proponent seemingly having abandoned it) I tried to request that google add it, no reply. Then Grant Taylor also tried (he has some "contacts") and was told they no l

Re: HP Envy H9 cannot run Media Creation Tool for Win 10 (thread)

Posted: 16 Hours 57 Minutes ago by: Mr. Man-wai Chang

Yes, Your Honor! Um... maybe I should upgrade to 8.1 first? Ok... experiement time! :)

Re: HP Envy H9 cannot run Media Creation Tool for Win 10 (thread)

Posted: 16 Hours 59 Minutes ago by: Mr. Man-wai Chang

Not applicable to Win 8 when I executed that patch. Didn't work. Same error when executing MediaCreationTool22H2-W10.exe. I did reboot the PC after applying the registries. I know both Win 8 and Win 8.1 have reached end-of-life, and I

Re: HP Envy H9 cannot run Media Creation Tool for Win 10 (thread)

Posted: 17 Hours 2 Minutes ago by: Mr. Man-wai Chang

In-place upgrade... there are some free HP software that don't have an installers, but installed from the factory image.

Re: HP Envy H9 cannot run Media Creation Tool for Win 10 (thread)

Posted: 17 Hours 3 Minutes ago by: Mr. Man-wai Chang

Win 8 doers have TLS 1.2...

Re: HP Envy H9 cannot run Media Creation Tool for Win 10 (thread)

Posted: 17 Hours 4 Minutes ago by: Mr. Man-wai Chang

In-place upgrade... there are some free HP software that don't have an installers, but installed from the factory image.

Posted: 17 Hours 5 Minutes ago by: Mr. Man-wai Chang

It will automatically ask for Admin privilege!

Google Groups Archives for this Usenet newsgroup

Posted: 17 Hours 10 Minutes ago by: James McDougal

🙄 :rolls_eyes: Sue about copying IBM's proprietary "micro-channel" technology. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_Channel_architecture The clones did not use Micro Channel. The clones advanced from ISA to PCI. Micro Channel had

Posted: 19 Hours 19 Minutes ago by: Andy Burnelli

This was just posted on the Windows newsgroups, but it applies equally to those on these specialty newsgroups who search before they ask questions. *Google Groups Archives for this Usenet newsgroup* Paul wrote: Hi Paul, I often run a

Posted: 19 Hours 41 Minutes ago by: Commander Kinsey

What exactly did they threaten to sue about? Copying the hardware or the software? So how come everyone wasn't sued? We're all using IBM clones aren't we?

Posted: 19 Hours 42 Minutes ago by: Commander Kinsey

47% of Windows round the world is pirate now. 8 of them are mine.

Re: I have Windows 10 - to move to Windows 11 - do I need to establish a Microsoft Account? (thread)

Posted: 19 Hours 43 Minutes ago by: Commander Kinsey

Stargate SG-1, season 6, episode 5. Why would they go to all that trouble for it to be shown for about 5 seconds? It's also badly done, the boot drive is empty, yet the OS is running?

Re: I have Windows 10 - to move to Windows 11 - do I need to (thread)

Posted: 20 Hours 22 Minutes ago by: Andy Burnelli

Hi Paul, I often run a search before asking questions, and when researching issues to help answer others, so I've been involved in this for years. I think your assumption is not quite accurate, as I have been using Google Groups arch

Re: HP Envy H9 cannot run Media Creation Tool for Win 10 (thread)

Posted: 22 Hours 5 Minutes ago by: Paul

Google Groups stopped adding groups, some time ago. It has added a ton of its own private groups. Which nobody cares about. Paul

Re: I have Windows 10 - to move to Windows 11 - do I need to establish a Microsoft Account? (thread)

Posted: 22 Hours 22 Minutes ago by: Paul

He has media. He installs these OSes a lot. So this is mainly about "engine details" rather than a particular result. I'm pretty sure there are Windows 10 DVDs on his coffee table in the apartment. And he should be doing this from Windo

Posted: 22 Hours 35 Minutes ago by: Ant

Or better. Don't upgrade. :)

Re: HP Envy H9 cannot run Media Creation Tool for Win 10 (thread)

Posted: 22 Hours 37 Minutes ago by: Ant

Which TV show, season, and episode? Maybe not a real OS, but a customized one.

Re: HP Envy H9 cannot run Media Creation Tool for Win 10 (thread)

Posted: 23 Hours 13 Minutes ago by: knuttle

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Re: I have Windows 10 - to move to Windows 11 - do I need to (thread)

Posted: 23 Hours 18 Minutes ago by: knuttle

Dumb question: Windows 11 is the current version of the OS. Windows 11 will not install on older CPU. I beleive the Envy H9 comes with a third generation i7 processor, and is too old Are you sure you have the Media Creation tool for

Re: HP Envy H9 cannot run Media Creation Tool for Win 10 (thread)

Posted: 23 Hours 22 Minutes ago by: Carlos E.R.

It is not my fault that google groups is broken. And it was not me who said that alt.comp.os.windows-10 is in google groups but alt.comp.os.windows-11 is not. Of course I did not check.

Re: Lower case and diff two text files contents of email addresses (thread)

Posted: 23 Hours 29 Minutes ago by: ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ

For Win 8.1(needed to upgrade to Win10) Why not just ensure TLS 1.0/1.1 is enabled in Control Panel/Internet Options/Advanced Tab?

Posted: 1 Day 1 Hour ago by: Paul

**************************** diffemail2.awk ************************** # Assumes file1.txt and file2.txt are in the current working directory # # .\gawk.exe -f diffemail2.awk file1.txt file2.txt common-out.txt # ARGV[0]

Posted: 1 Day 1 Hour ago by: David Brooks

You are correct ..... but your 'clock' is wrong!

Re: I have Windows 10 - to move to Windows 11 - do I need to establish a Microsoft Account? (thread)

Posted: 1 Day 2 Hours ago by: 😎 Mighty Wannabe

Someone has to pay, otherwise there will not be any software for the leechers to leech. You should keep paying, so we can leech. Thank you. Human beings are inherently evil. That's why Adam and Eve sinned. I blame the Abrahamic God fo

Posted: 1 Day 2 Hours ago by: Andy Burnelli

Hi Carlos, When you say it will be "in Google Groups", did you check it first? Try these three URLs please... in what you term "google groups" please... alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.comp.microsoft.windows Specifi

Re: I have Windows 10 - to move to Windows 11 - do I need to (thread)

Posted: 1 Day 2 Hours ago by: T

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Re: I have Windows 10 - to move to Windows 11 - do I need to establish a Microsoft Account? (thread)

Posted: 1 Day 2 Hours ago by: Carlos E.R.

I have, locally, posts going back to Jan 2022 in the Windows 11 group. I see one long thread named: Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account which was also posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10, so it will be in Google Group

Posted: 1 Day 3 Hours ago by: FromTheRafters

Long ago I saw a thread asking if there was anything we can do in Windows 10 that we couldn't do in most Windows versions prior to 10. The answer came back almost nothing except maybe in some cases there are apps which have decided the

Re: I have Windows 10 - to move to Windows 11 - do I need to (thread)

Posted: 1 Day 3 Hours ago by: ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ

Can't recall either, the key word in the earlier pic was FAT32. 3x didn't support FAT32. Mac group removed, not applicable

Re: I have Windows 10 - to move to Windows 11 - do I need to (thread)

Posted: 1 Day 3 Hours ago by: ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ

+1 +

Re: I have Windows 10 - to move to Windows 11 - do I need to (thread)

Posted: 1 Day 3 Hours ago by: ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ

If you've a Win10 Local Admin account it will be retained after upgrading to Win11. You may be required to create a MSA login for Win11, but that MSA logon can be removed using the Win11 Local admin post upgrade. If your Local is not

Re: I have Windows 10 - to move to Windows 11 - do I need to (thread)

Posted: 1 Day 3 Hours ago by: Paul

Let's test. This is as far back as I can go right now, on Eternal-September. 15 May 2022 <t5rtfn$b70c$1@news.mixmin.net> http://al.howardknight.net/?STYPE=msgid&MSGI=%3Ct5rtfn%24b70c%241%40news.mixmin.net%3E This is still on

Re: I have Windows 10 - to move to Windows 11 - do I need to (thread)

Posted: 1 Day 3 Hours ago by: Carlos E.R.

No, there is no button to say "no, I do not want to create/use an MS account". The official install will insist it is impossible. You do have to use tricks that people have collected over time.

Posted: 1 Day 3 Hours ago by: Carlos E.R.

Fair point. I have my own collection.

Posted: 1 Day 4 Hours ago by: 😎 Mighty Wannabe

A computer is useless if you cannot find software for it. I remember in OS/2 days most of the users were employees in banking institutions. Banks can afford to pay through the nose for some expensive word processing software from IBM.

Posted: 1 Day 4 Hours ago by: ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ

Unless the device is dual-booting Windows 95 or 98 with Windows 3.x and using Windows 3.x version of ifshelp.sys then it can't be any version of Windows 3.x. - the dual boot condition with an operating system that uses FAT32(95, 98)

Re: I have Windows 10 - to move to Windows 11 - do I need to (thread)

Posted: 1 Day 4 Hours ago by: T

I was really fond of it too. I hated when it went away.

Re: I have Windows 10 - to move to Windows 11 - do I need to (thread)

Posted: 1 Day 4 Hours ago by: Paul

Do not use Rufus and click the four boxes. The modification that Rufus makes to the installation, puts maintenance items which are similar to Windows 10 items on the C: drive. This prevents proper maintenance of the OS later. It's OK to

Re: HP Envy H9 cannot run Media Creation Tool for Win 10 (thread)

Posted: 1 Day 4 Hours ago by: Paul

Prepare installation media. Do not use the Windows Update method. Make a backup of the disk drive, before installing. If the install process does anything you do not like, stop the process, and restore from your backup disk image. ***

Re: I have Windows 10 - to move to Windows 11 - do I need to (thread)

Posted: 1 Day 4 Hours ago by: Paul

It's some silly comms issue. https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/media-creation-tool-error-code-0x80072f8f-0x20000/4f8bbe1c-b5af-4cc9-958e-c6c8f3f0b524 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/update-to-enable-tls

Re: I have Windows 10 - to move to Windows 11 - do I need to establish a Microsoft Account? (thread)

Posted: 1 Day 4 Hours ago by: Johnny

Your answer is here: https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/install-windows-11-without-microsoft-account I don't use Windows. I think it's disgusting to just look at.

Re: I have Windows 10 - to move to Windows 11 - do I need to establish a Microsoft Account? (thread)

Posted: 1 Day 5 Hours ago by: Peter

Given many usenet nntp servers automatically expire articles quickly, and given most newsgroups are archived by Google but not this one, what web search engine do you suggest for archives of this newsgroup?

Re: HP Envy H9 cannot run Media Creation Tool for Win 10 (thread)

Posted: 1 Day 5 Hours ago by: Minoru Osaka

All I want is a yes or no if you've done it as I do not want to create an account and then delete it or to have to do any strange things at all. As long as it will let me switch from Windows 10 to 11 without creating any account and wit

Posted: 1 Day 5 Hours ago by: Frank Slootweg

Huh? If you already have a Windows 10 ISO, then why can't you just use *that* to *upgrade* - not clean install - to Windows 10? That's what I did with my wife's Windows 8.1 system. BTW, do you really have Windows *8* or is it 8.1?

Posted: 1 Day 6 Hours ago by: Snit

I am guessing Windows 98... but would have to look at screenshots of those screens from different versions to be sure.

Posted: 1 Day 6 Hours ago by: Snit

I think a newer version... skinned, of course.

Posted: 1 Day 6 Hours ago by: FromTheRafters

I don't remember them as having the 'oblique wafer' type of drive properties graphic.

Re: I have Windows 10 - to move to Windows 11 - do I need to (thread)

Posted: 1 Day 6 Hours ago by: Ken Blake

I also don't think you're missing anything terribly important. To me, the most important thing is that as new hardware and new software is released, someone with an older version of Windows may find that he wants something new that won

Re: I have Windows 10 - to move to Windows 11 - do I need to (thread)

Posted: 1 Day 6 Hours ago by: Carlos E.R.

If you search on this group (windows-11), going back a year or more, for the word "account" in the Subject line you will find a few posts.

Posted: 1 Day 6 Hours ago by: Graham J

No, Google has many links to how ...

Posted: 1 Day 7 Hours ago by: Stan Brown

In my mind, the most important thing is that it will continue getting security updates longer than Windows 10 will. Windows 10 is already no longer getting feature updates, though what I've read about the feature updates to Windows 11

I have Windows 10 - to move to Windows 11 - do I need to establish a Microsoft Account?

Posted: 1 Day 7 Hours ago by: Ken Blake

My guess is an old version of Windows. 3.0? 3.1?

Re: HP Envy H9 cannot run Media Creation Tool for Win 10 (thread)

Posted: 1 Day 7 Hours ago by: Minoru Osaka

I have Windows 10 Home & Pro - which is nagging me to move to Windows 11. I do NOT wish to establish a Microsoft Account under any circumstances. If I move to Windows 11 (on Pro or Home) - must I establish a M$ Account?

Re: HP Envy H9 cannot run Media Creation Tool for Win 10 (thread)

Posted: 1 Day 7 Hours ago by: Ken Blake

Why would you do a clean installation of Windows 10, do updates to it, then upgrade to Windows 10 rather than doing what you call a "last resort," simply doing a clean installation of 10?

HP Envy H9 cannot run Media Creation Tool for Win 10

Posted: 1 Day 7 Hours ago by: Andy Burns

running "as admin"?

Posted: 1 Day 7 Hours ago by: Mr. Man-wai Chang

It's a HP Envy H9 PC bundled with Windows 8 Home. Trying to upgrade to Win 10 by downloading and running MediaCreationTool22H2.exe, always failed with error 0x80072f8f-0x200000. Already installed all necessary Win 8 updates. Prior to thi

Posted: 1 Day 10 Hours ago by: Big Al

I won a boxed OS/2 at some computer trade show back then. Yes, it was a fight between MS and IBM and I kinda liked the OS/2. But yes, the cheap clones and pirate copies of Windows made the choice easy.

Posted: 1 Day 12 Hours ago by: FromTheRafters

Looks a lot like this: http://www.tech2u.com.au/training/tech2u/win98_1/disk.html

Posted: 1 Day 12 Hours ago by: Michael Logies

And ChromeOS or Linux MX/xfce.

Posted: 1 Day 12 Hours ago by: John K.Eason

https://guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/win31 but with non-standard fonts as the Windings font isn't available for the Windows Minimize, Restore and Close icons.

Posted: 1 Day 14 Hours ago by: Paul

8th gen Kaby Lake processor. 1.6GHz ? https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/124967/intel-core-i58250u-processor-6m-cache-up-to-3-40-ghz.html Shockingly, it is on the Windows 11 compatibility list. Being a Latitude, t

Posted: 1 Day 14 Hours ago by: 😎 Mighty Wannabe

OS/2 was created by IBM in a fight between IBM and Microsoft. In the 1980s IBM created the IBM PC line of personal computers. Microsoft was making the DOS for IBM's PC line of personal computers, namely IBM DOS and Microsoft DOS. Event

Posted: 1 Day 14 Hours ago by: David Brooks

I'm fairly sure that it is Windows 3.1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_3.1x

Posted: 1 Day 19 Hours ago by: micky

Good to know about such stores. Here'ws a nice looking laptop. https://discountelectronics.com/windows-11-ready-dell-latitude-i5-ssd-13-business-laptop It offers win11 for $30 addtional. What about 11 is better than 10? Are they

Posted: 1 Day 20 Hours ago by: Snit

I would say Windows with some sort of skin.

Anyone recognise this OS?

Posted: 1 Day 20 Hours ago by: Commander Kinsey

https://i.imgur.com/HZlXAyx.jpg It's a screengrab from a TV program. OS/2? Something fictitious?

Posted: 2 Days 2 Hours ago by: Carlos E.R.

Oh, but I have no idea of the actual route. This is a laptop shipped from China to me, and I got an URL that lists where it gets to and departs from. So, I'm just curious to see the cities in a world map and approximate distances. It i

Posted: 2 Days 2 Hours ago by: micky

Of course you don't have to go simply starting to ending place. If the highway doglegs or zigzags, you can put in as many segments as you want. I've used it a lot in town, like to see how far it was for my father when he walked to work

Posted: 2 Days 3 Hours ago by: T

Hmmmm. I just use the Xfce setting dialogs for that. Xfce is cool stuff.

Posted: 2 Days 3 Hours ago by: Johnny

I have a 500 GB ssd. It shows 2% used. Xfce. It's their default, but you can get KDE and Fluxbox. If you decide to try it, you can move the panel to the bottom using the Tool MX Tweak, if you want to. Just type tweak in the menu.

Re: Can't open shortcut (thread)

Posted: 2 Days 3 Hours ago by: Frank Slootweg

[Late response due to extended absence:] Fokke Nauta <usenet@solfon.nl> wrote: Two points adding to the many comments already made: - If possible, let him not use drag(-and-drop) at all, but other methods, such as move and copy with

Posted: 2 Days 3 Hours ago by: T

Same with Fedora. For some reason, it never works. You think it is erased, but then get told there is no free space left on the drive. GGRRRRR. I do like to dd /dev/zero to reset all my charges, so it works out anyway. Just out of cu

Posted: 2 Days 4 Hours ago by: Carlos E.R.

The map posted by Andy Burns is very good. The caveat is that it requires one to login to create one. The method posted by micky is also interesting, but I haven't got around to testing it yet. The method posted by Fritz Wuehler is ni

Posted: 2 Days 5 Hours ago by: Johnny

I"ll just forget it. During installation, MX Linux's first option is to erase and install using the whole drive.

Posted: 2 Days 5 Hours ago by: T

If it is a OEM key, no. It is meant for one machine and one machine only. And often it is stored in bios somewhere. If you have a license sticker somewhere on the computer and it is NOT OEM, then yes, but your friend will curse you tr

Posted: 2 Days 6 Hours ago by: Stan Brown

Actually, I am sensitive to low-level stimuli, such as the drag of a mouse wire. Using a wireless mouse prevents that distraction. The carpeted floor is just a plus when I clumsily knock the mouse off my standing desk.

Posted: 2 Days 7 Hours ago by: Paul

A refurbished PC has a non-Dell OS on it. And, a new key. There are no Dell Toys in the new OS. The Win10 image is as plain and ordinary, as the image I have on my machine here. These come with the Refurbisher Kit. If you are a professi

Posted: 2 Days 7 Hours ago by: Paul

Then the license key is a Refurbisher key, and tied to the machine in some way. You don't resell a Dell (apparently) like a home user would resell a machine. You go to some Microsoft web page. You enter "Old key" which came with the OEM

Posted: 2 Days 8 Hours ago by: Bill W

Do they work in countries outside the us map app hegemony?

Posted: 2 Days 9 Hours ago by: Frank Slootweg

It seems you already have a solution (the map creation method given by Andy), but if not, just switch to Walking and enable <deity> mode. [...]

Posted: 2 Days 9 Hours ago by: Ken Blake

I knew there must be *some* reason why you preferred a wireless mouse.

Posted: 2 Days 9 Hours ago by: Ken Blake

Can you? Yes. May it be used by that other person? Almost certainly not. If the computer came with Windows, it's almost certainly an OEM copy (Dell, HP, etc.) and if so the Windows license is tied to the first computer it's installed o

Posted: 2 Days 10 Hours ago by: Johnny

It's a Dell Optiplex sff 7050.

Posted: 2 Days 10 Hours ago by: Andy Burns

Depends, is it a major brand (HP, Lenovo, Dell)? If so, the licence for Windows could be tied into the BIOS of the machine.

Question about Windows 10

Posted: 2 Days 10 Hours ago by: Johnny

I have a new computer with Windows 10. The computer has not been turned on yet. Can I take the ssd out and give to someone that likes Windows 10? If not I will just install MX Linux on it

Posted: 2 Days 12 Hours ago by: Carlos E.R.

Yes, that makes sense.

Posted: 2 Days 14 Hours ago by: Minoru Osaka

My guess is marketing did a survey and people had "brand recognition" for thunderbird but not so much for k-9. I've seen that happen where a new company bought an old company and the new marketing ran surveys of which of the old brand

Posted: 2 Days 16 Hours ago by: ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ

While China companies do receive lower shipping rates(subsidized by the end destination country)...but that subsidy also depends on the end country destination. In 2021 lower global shipping fees to European countries ended, allowing

Posted: 2 Days 23 Hours ago by: Stan Brown

My home office is carpeted, luckily. :-)

Posted: 2 Days 23 Hours ago by: Brian Gregory

I think China heavily subsidises their postal and other international carrier services in order to ensure they continue towards total world domination of all manufacturing.

Posted: 3 Days ago by: micky

In google maps, right click on spot, then bottom choice is Meeasure Distance, and then consecutive spots. It makes lines and adds up distances.

Posted: 3 Days 5 Hours ago by: Jeff Layman

Updated news here: <https://blog.thunderbird.net/2023/03/thunderbird-for-android-k-9-mail-february-progress-report/> I'm not sure why they keep using the expression "Thunderbird for android K-9". From the very start the devs said that t

Posted: 3 Days 5 Hours ago by: Carlos E. R.

I use one with a tablet. This way, it doesn't occupy the single USB-micro port. This tablet must be used with a mouse, because it fell from the bed, cracked its glass, and touches do not work. The battery lasts well over a year. In f

Posted: 3 Days 6 Hours ago by: Carlos E. R.

I haven't bought refurb computers. I bought a refurb HP printer and a refurb LG monitor. At least, what the web page of the vendors said "refurb", but it actually meant that the box was opened, and repackaged very early. Maybe not even

Posted: 3 Days 6 Hours ago by: Carlos E. R.

They said it would arrive on Monday. The ability to customize a laptop bought in Europe and assembled in China, and promise a week delivery time astonishes me. Also surprising is that they can ship that far by plane and make a profit.

Re: What is the magic inherent in the F4 keyboard EXIT key? (thread)

Posted: 3 Days 6 Hours ago by: Ken Blake

Out of curiosity, I just looked on Amazon.com. They have an ONN Travel Mouse with Retractable Cord for $30. And by the way, returning to me previous point about price, I also see that Amazon has a Verbatim Wired USB Computer Mouse. It'

Posted: 3 Days 6 Hours ago by: Ken Blake

I just looked at that link. It appears to be much like Sharpkeys. Also, I've already done all the remapping I want to do (turning off Caps Lock and Insert, both of which I am liable to hit by mistake), so unless another need comes up so

Posted: 3 Days 6 Hours ago by: Ken Blake

I use Blue Mail on my Android phone and I like it. I don't use it on my Windows 11 PC; I use Thunderbird there, and I'm happy with that too..

Posted: 3 Days 7 Hours ago by: Carlos E. R.

Hey! That's just the thing :-) Creation wants one to login first, though. Will try later.

Posted: 3 Days 8 Hours ago by: ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ

Didn't Google and China have a tenuous relationship. Iirc, while Google Search is not operable within China the ability to search(which Maps uses) has limitation from search/display routes within China to some other countries. Since any

Re: Lower case and diff two text files contents of email addresses (thread)

Posted: 3 Days 8 Hours ago by: The Real Bev

Re-read that last paragraph. Something about "real computer"...

Posted: 3 Days 8 Hours ago by: Stan Brown

Reminds me of the dancing bear -- you don't judge the quality of the dancing, because the fact that it can be done at all is amazing. I often use the freeware CSDIFF from Component Software. As compared with a batch file, it has a gra

Re: Lower case and diff two text files contents of email addresses (thread)

Posted: 3 Days 8 Hours ago by: Andy Burns

You can create your own map at <https://mymaps.google.com> type a city name, it'll drop a pushpin add lines, click and drag them, it seems to turn them into great circle routes, e.g. <https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?midU18uwjnkHI

Posted: 3 Days 8 Hours ago by: Zaidy036

Paste email file into Notepad or Notepad++ and select all and right click and change to lower or upper case in one click if case compare is a problem. Then in future only use one case because email addresses do not care.

Posted: 3 Days 9 Hours ago by: Andy Burnelli

Hi Carlos, This answer isn't a direct answer - but it could directly answer it depending on the power of the web & Windows applications listed below. You apparently need a route that is for vehicles, but for you perhaps (and certainly

Posted: 3 Days 9 Hours ago by: Joerg Lorenz

K-9. Just in case. And I talked about "real computers" and not toy-like devices which are never really under control of the user.

Posted: 3 Days 9 Hours ago by: Andy Burnelli

Look up who now owns K-9 Mail... <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-9_Mail> Look up all the guesses as to what future naming may be: <https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/268499/k-9-mail-becomes-mozilla-thunderbird-android>

Posted: 3 Days 9 Hours ago by: Andy Burnelli

Thanks. I gave the link the first time I posted, as I generally go to the extra trouble to dig up the links so others always benefit from my posts. *FairEmail*, privacy aware email by Marcel Bokhorst, FairCode BV, FOSS Free, ad free,

Posted: 3 Days 10 Hours ago by: Paul

I gave it the keys to my house, and it feeds the dog when I'm away. But I don't have a dog. Paul

Re: Lower case and diff two text files contents of email addresses (thread)

Posted: 3 Days 10 Hours ago by: Carlos E. R.

Yep. It can not make a plan using different transport systems. To me, even a straight line would be good. Or a suggestion of possibilities. It doesn't really matter, this is just for enjoyment.

Posted: 3 Days 10 Hours ago by: Herbert Kleebauer

Sorry, this code doesn't work at all. Was to late yesterday, but I wanted to try the idea of reading more input files at the same time (was presented many years ago in a.m.b.nt). Better use a small C program.

Posted: 3 Days 10 Hours ago by: Andy Burns

It'll drive between the two Chinese cities, but it wants to fly from China to S.Korea

Posted: 3 Days 11 Hours ago by: Carlos E. R.

LOL. Google says that the route is out of their coverage. Chongqing → Zhengzhou → Incheon. OpenStreet map seems to only accept two points. <https://www.openstreetmap.org/directions?engine=fossgis_osrm_car&route).565%2C106.548%3B34

Posted: 3 Days 11 Hours ago by: Carlos E. R.

Ohhhh...! I didn't see that, thanks :-)

Posted: 3 Days 12 Hours ago by: Jim the Geordie

In article <tvjhlf$2gft5$2@solani.org>, hugybear@gmx.ch says... Since when can you get Thunderbird on Android?

Re: Lower case and diff two text files contents of email addresses (thread)

Posted: 3 Days 12 Hours ago by: VanguardLH

There is an "Add destination" button (has a "+" icon). If you want the way points in a different order, drag a destination using its icon at its left. That is when using a desktop web browser. When using the Google Maps app on a mob

Re: Lower case and diff two text files contents of email addresses (thread)

Posted: 3 Days 13 Hours ago by: Andy Burns

Still somewhat surprised that it works without using enabledelayedexpansion (or calling cmd.exe /v) I'd have thought after it parsed the original SET statement, it would execute it "as was" not executing the &REM from after the substi

Posted: 3 Days 13 Hours ago by: Herbert Kleebauer

Normal behavior, "/" is replaced by "&rem.", so you get: set v19&rem.2023 which is equivalent to the two lines: set v19 rem.2023

Posted: 3 Days 13 Hours ago by: Herbert Kleebauer

Try https://www.gpsvisualizer.com/

Posted: 3 Days 14 Hours ago by: Andy Burns

Carlos E. R. wrote No, it can do more than that, e.g. <https://google.com/maps/dir/london/paris/berlin/rome>

Draw a route in a map

Posted: 3 Days 14 Hours ago by: Carlos E. R.

Hi, I seek a web that, given a list of waypoints (cities) draws a route from the first to the last. I have bought something that is coming from China and they are updating where it is each day, and I'm curious to map the route they take

Re: Lower case and diff two text files contents of email addresses (thread)

Posted: 3 Days 14 Hours ago by: Chris Green

For what it's worth (not very much to all you GUI users I suspect) I use mutt, a Linux command line/text mode mail program to manage my mail. When I'm away from home I simply use ssh to connect to my home system (usually from my laptop) t

Re: Lower case and diff two text files contents of email addresses (thread)

Posted: 3 Days 15 Hours ago by: Andy Burns

It it actually using undefined CMD behaviour? I've never seen any reference to using & in a variable substitution Or that substitutions are handled like a sub-command which you could stick a REM statement in the middle of to ignore wh

Posted: 3 Days 15 Hours ago by: Herbert Kleebauer

For genius solutions, you should ask ChatGPT. From a discussion in de.comp.os.ms-windows.misc: set v9/2023 How to extract the two numbers in into variables v1 an v2 The answer from ChatGPT: set v9/2023 set v1=%v:/=&rem.% set v2=%v:\

Posted: 3 Days 16 Hours ago by: Jeff Layman

Just FYI, and anyone else who's trying to look for it, it is *FairEmail*, not "FairMail". I use it with my Android phone.

Posted: 3 Days 16 Hours ago by: Mr. Man-wai Chang

It seemed that Revo Installer (the free portable version) could also eliminate Edge, easier than using Powershell nor Command Prompt. :)

Posted: 3 Days 17 Hours ago by: Joerg Lorenz

I switched from K-9 to bluemail and then back to K-9 when bluemail ran into a privacy issue a year or two ago. I would never use it on a "real computer". There I want open source and cross platform: That means Thunderbird.

Posted: 3 Days 18 Hours ago by: Andy Burnelli

I suspect most Windows users, even if they're on Android or iOS, use Thunderbird to get their mail (even if they have a Google Account). <https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/download/> As for micky's issue with BlueMail, I don't use it a

Posted: 3 Days 18 Hours ago by: Andy Burnelli

I don't know about BlueMail micky, but I've been in touch with the developer of FairMail (also the developer of NetGuard) who went to great lengths, emotionally and programatically, to ensure we can log into Google Accounts from Android

Re: FYI "How the App Paths Registry Key Makes Windows Both Faster & Safer" (thread)

Posted: 3 Days 18 Hours ago by: The Real Bev

I started using it perhaps 5 years ago -- the gmail app seemed to insist on pushing mail and I didn't want that -- I wanted it to download mail only when I actually WANTED it, which was when I was on a trip. It behaves beautifully and

Re: Edit the manpage for a Windows /? command example (thread)

Posted: 3 Days 18 Hours ago by: Freethinker

Herbert tested the path order and found out a likely source of my confusion (the path order was different depending on how exactly you call a progname) Here's what he said so that we can keep the solutions together in 1 place. On 23.03

Re: FYI "How the App Paths Registry Key Makes Windows Both Faster & Safer" (thread)

Posted: 3 Days 19 Hours ago by: Freethinker

I appreciate the testing as it's confusing what the sequence is given the document said the App Paths was after the %path% but my specific test showed under that circumstance, the %path% was after the App Paths. Oh. Well. That might b

Posted: 3 Days 19 Hours ago by: Freethinker

I'm finally acceding to your wise advice that they're essentially equivalent in that whatever you to using a %path% method is the same number of steps as what you do in the App Paths method. Same result in the end. I went through the reg

Blue Mail for the PC and Android

Posted: 3 Days 19 Hours ago by: micky

Blue Mail for the PC. Was: alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.mobile.andrroid,alt.comp.os.windows.11 I've been using K-9 for email on my phone. it's good but it's not perfect for me. A friend uses Blue Mail, and when I looked at it, it works o

Blue Mail for the PC and Android

Re: Lower case and diff two text files contents of email addresses (thread)

Posted: 3 Days 19 Hours ago by: micky

Blue Mail for the PC. I've been using K-9 for email on my phone. it's good but it's not perfect for me. A friend uses Blue Mail, and when I looked at it, it works on the PC too! Do any of you know or like Blue Mail? So I installed it

Posted: 3 Days 20 Hours ago by: Andy Burnelli

That is just sheer genius. You should win a nobel prize for that as a diff has been the bane of Windows users for years! It's going into my batch folder immediately!

Re: Lower case and diff two text files contents of email addresses (thread)

Posted: 3 Days 20 Hours ago by: Stan Brown

Walmart actually sells a decent wireless mouse, in its Onn brand, for just under $10. (I assume it's Walmart's brand, because I've never seen an Onn for sale outside Walmart, but I could be wrong.) I had gone through a string of Amazon

Posted: 3 Days 23 Hours ago by: Herbert Kleebauer

Because you posted in alt.msdos.batch, here a batch solution: @echo off :: list all email addresses which are not in both :: input files (email1.txt, email2.txt) if [%1]==[sub] goto :sub sort email1.txt|find "@" >email1s.txt sort email

Posted: 3 Days 23 Hours ago by: Paul

It has a quad core processor, and by refurb standards (considering price), it's a pretty good deal. The previous generation of refurbs were mostly dual core ones. If you're thinking of upgrading it, the SFF doesn't have a very big power

Re: Lower case and diff two text files contents of email addresses (thread)

Posted: 4 Days 1 Hour ago by: Chris

My thoughts also. 6th gen. is old! The model may be 4 years but the cpu is a lot older.

Re: Lower case and diff two text files contents of email addresses (thread)

Posted: 4 Days 3 Hours ago by: DAN

Look at WinMerge https://winmerge.org/

Re: What is the magic inherent in the F4 keyboard EXIT key? (thread)

Posted: 4 Days 3 Hours ago by: Zaidy036

free for non-commercial ASAP Utilities has a function to mark duplicates

Posted: 4 Days 3 Hours ago by: AllanH

I use a much older program (no longer developed) for keyboard customization - KeyTweak. I don't know if it works with Windows 11, but if that doesn't matter, you may prefer it yourself. https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/keytwea

Re: Lower case and diff two text files contents of email addresses (thread)

Posted: 4 Days 4 Hours ago by: Paul

Yeah, these are just drop-ship. Walmart "only makes money" and does not contribute to the exercise. Those clever staff you see at the Walmart, did not lay a finger on that puppy :-) Many companies "vend" the same stuff, so they're all ju

Posted: 4 Days 4 Hours ago by: Paul

**************************** diffemail.awk ************************** # Assumes file1.txt and file2.txt are in the current working directory # # gawk.exe -f diffemail.awk file2.txt BEGIN { while ( (getline < "file1.txt") > 0 ) { #

Posted: 4 Days 5 Hours ago by: Ken Blake

I'm not interested in a new computer, and if I were, that wouldn't meet my needs, but for some people it looks like a great deal. Even if some refurbished component failed and had to be replaced, the total cost would still be low. It

Re: Lower case and diff two text files contents of email addresses (thread)

Posted: 4 Days 5 Hours ago by: ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ

fyi..it's not the i5, it' the generation of the processor - 6th gen i5 are available in Intel 8th and later generations(9, 10, 11, 12, 13) and Win11 capable.

Re: What is the magic inherent in the F4 keyboard EXIT key? (thread)

Posted: 4 Days 5 Hours ago by: Graham J

Are the email addersses separated in any way, with commas, spaces, tabs, or semicolons? If so, import each list into a speadsheet so that there is one email address per line. Sort the lines. Compare the two spreadsheets. Look up f

Lower case and diff two text files contents of email addresses

Posted: 4 Days 5 Hours ago by: Ken Blake

I like Autohotkey a lot and use it extensively, but not for mapping keys. For mapping keys, I use Sharpkeys, which I think is much easier to use for that purpose. https://sharpkeys.en.softonic.com/

Posted: 4 Days 5 Hours ago by: Maxmillian

I have two long lists of email addresses in Windows 10 as text files. How can I lowercase everything and then get a diff of what email addresses are in one text file but not in the other text file?

Re: Edit the manpage for a Windows /? command example (thread)

Posted: 4 Days 7 Hours ago by: Andy Burns

I doubt Walmart have ever seen, let alone refurbished that computer "Sold and shipped by Blair Technology Group"

Posted: 4 Days 7 Hours ago by: Freethinker

I'm probably as organized as you are, and maybe even more so as I don't even need to use the Windows menus as I maintain my own taskbar menus. I think I mentioned it but maybe it was in that other thread titled Subject: Random changing

Re: FYI "How the App Paths Registry Key Makes Windows Both Faster & (thread)

Posted: 4 Days 7 Hours ago by: Paul

The USB C is likely to be hooked to a USB3.0 port. The storage is a 500GB SSD and a 1TB HDD. When buying a refurb with an SSD, you don't really know what kind of mileage it has on it. And machines like that, they use the Intel graphics (

Re: What is the magic inherent in the F4 keyboard EXIT key? (thread)

Posted: 4 Days 7 Hours ago by: Herbert Kleebauer

You still don't believe, that there is no difference. You make a second entry in the registry and I make a second entry in PATH-directory: jak.bat with the content: jakarta.bat But a more elegant way (for a NTFS volume) would be: mkl

Re: FYI "How the App Paths Registry Key Makes Windows Both Faster & Safer" (thread)

Posted: 4 Days 7 Hours ago by: Bucky Breeder

They had to put something on the key between F3 and F5, so after years of collaberation, government approval processes, appropriate licensing, and numberous polls, they decided to go with F4. The people who got the Nobel Prize for tha

Re: Edit the manpage for a Windows /? command example (thread)

Posted: 4 Days 7 Hours ago by: Freethinker

I googled to find this, most of which work inside the Win+R run box. https://ss64.com/nt/syntax-variables.html On the topic of what can be done with the App Paths subkey, I was discussing this topic in the other thread with others when

Re: Random changing of C: Windows Fonts script for anti-fingerprinting purposes (thread)

Posted: 4 Days 8 Hours ago by: Heron

That's the funny thing about search which is that it's always there. You don't need a big fat advertisement for cortana just to run a search. The real problem is that you should never need to run any search on your computer because that'

Posted: 4 Days 9 Hours ago by: mike

We disagree on how to approach a problem where you want to approach is browser by browser by browser by browser by browser, and I don't. The randomizing of fonts approach works instantly for all browsers. And it doesn't require any in-d

Re: Edit the manpage for a Windows /? command example (thread)

Posted: 4 Days 9 Hours ago by: Stan Brown

With an i5 chip, I don't think it will run Windows 11. The other specs look decent. One thing is worrying, though: "This product may not have been manufacturer certified but has been professionally inspected, tested and cleaned by Wal

Re: What is the magic inherent in the F4 keyboard EXIT key? (thread)

Posted: 4 Days 9 Hours ago by: Stan Brown

I didn't know I could do that. Thank you! When I want VirtualBox, it's certainly faster to type Virt{Enter} than click on one of the alphabet letters, click again on the V in the letter matrix that appears, click _again_ on the Virtua

Posted: 4 Days 9 Hours ago by: Stan Brown

But of course. The free and well-regarded Autohotkey will do that. https://www.autohotkey.com/

Posted: 4 Days 10 Hours ago by: Big Al

For <$300 and refurbished it's got a lot of updated items. USB C, 1.5TB drive space. Won't run Win 11 I don't think.

Nice refurbished computer

Re: What is the magic inherent in the F4 keyboard EXIT key? (thread)

Posted: 4 Days 10 Hours ago by: Johnny

I ran across this while looking for another computer. I thought you Windows 10 users might be interested. It's a four year old model, and it's cheap. https://www.walmart.com/ip/Restored-Dell-OptiPlex-7050-Small-Desktop-Computer-SFF/133

Re: What is the magic inherent in the F4 keyboard EXIT key? (thread)

Posted: 4 Days 12 Hours ago by: Big Al

There are usb clip on lights that you can get for a laptop. https://www.amazon.com/i2-Gear-Dimmable-Flexible-Gooseneck/dp/B0BSG8ZTGS Just one of may diff styles. Some even change colors & dim.

Re: Edit the manpage for a Windows /? command example (thread)

Posted: 4 Days 15 Hours ago by: Herbert Kleebauer

Why not use a hardware hack: just a drop of glue on the F4 key so you can "feel" the key even in darkness.

Re: Edit the manpage for a Windows /? command example (thread)

Posted: 4 Days 15 Hours ago by: Herbert Kleebauer

I did only a quick testing (so I may be wrong) but as I see it: If you use "start progname" it use %PATH% first and then "App Path" If you use "<WIN>-r progname" it use "App Path" first and then %PATH% The first place in the above se

Re: What is the magic inherent in the F4 keyboard EXIT key? (thread)

Posted: 4 Days 16 Hours ago by: VanguardLH

I'm a bit of a neat freak. I don't like messes. That means not having 1 tier to the Start menu, but organized in folders for category of programs, and subfolders under there for each program. I've seen users scanning their eyes up and

Re: Random changing of C: Windows Fonts script for anti-fingerprinting purposes (thread)

Posted: 4 Days 18 Hours ago by: Andy Burns

Agreed, F4 is just a normal key, it's up to software to decide how it reacts when it gets pressed/released.

Re: What is the magic inherent in the F4 keyboard EXIT key? (thread)

Posted: 4 Days 19 Hours ago by: VanguardLH

You're making up what I said. I said, again, that Firefox is my primary, and Edge-Chromium is my backup. I had Chrome as the backup, but since Microsoft moved to Blink for the rendering engine and V8 for the Javascript interpreter, bot

Posted: 4 Days 19 Hours ago by: Michael

Do you think I can map the F4 key (which I don't use for anything else) to a key that I can more easily use (especially on the smaller laptops and especially at night because my small laptop has no lights in the keys)? I've tried other

Re: Windows default font (thread)

Re: What is the magic inherent in the F4 keyboard EXIT key? (thread)

Posted: 4 Days 20 Hours ago by: jason_warren@ieee.or

In article <tv2vn4$269g4$1@dont-email.me>, Bears@invalid.com says... I backed up the Registry and applied this update. It seems to have worked! Thanks :)

Re: What is the magic inherent in the F4 keyboard EXIT key? (thread)

Posted: 4 Days 20 Hours ago by: Paul

Keyboards mechanically, don't have a particular bias. Most of the keys are in a matrix. 7x17 perhaps. 24 wires. One direction are senders. The other direction are receivers. That's enough for 119 keys. In addition, the modifier keys are

What is the magic inherent in the F4 keyboard EXIT key?

Posted: 4 Days 21 Hours ago by: Stan Brown

Patient: "Doctor, Doctor, it hurts when I do this!" Doctor: "Well, don't!" There is none. It's not a standard Windows shortcut, unlike Alt+F4 and (to a lesser extent) Ctrl+F4. Maybe there's an OpenVPN forum where you can get answer

Re: Random changing of C: Windows Fonts script for anti-fingerprinting purposes (thread)

Posted: 4 Days 21 Hours ago by: Michael

I have an openvpn configuration directory containing a few config files. 100.1.2.1.ovpn 100.1.2.2.ovpn 100.1.2.3.ovpn When I doubleclick on that 100.1.2.3.ovpn text file, I get connected to the specified VPN server (here exemplified by 10

Re: FYI "How the App Paths Registry Key Makes Windows Both Faster & Safer" (thread)

Posted: 4 Days 21 Hours ago by: mike

What do they use when they want some privacy from their browser then? It's a toss up between Chrome and Firefox for who is the main browser. Seems to me less bad to use Ungoogled Chromium than it is to use Chrome. What I would th

Re: Edit the manpage for a Windows /? command example (thread)

Posted: 4 Days 22 Hours ago by: Freethinker

This is a better test which shows how Microsoft designed the order of App Paths %path% %pathext% To test which is run first by Microsoft design, run this simple test. First, "echo %pathext%" in a command window, which, for me, output

Re: Virtual Box + Windows 10, product key not needed (thread)

Posted: 4 Days 23 Hours ago by: Freethinker

Are you telling me App Paths actually lost the race to a technicality? :=) I'm confused but I think it means we have to be a wee bit careful extension order when specifically testing the %path% with the App Paths subkey because with the

Re: Edit the manpage for a Windows /? command example (thread)

Posted: 5 Days 2 Hours ago by: VanguardLH

The Enterprise trial is for 30 days. Many trials from Microsoft are for a month. In a month, you'll see if it keeps going.

Re: Random changing of C: Windows Fonts script for anti-fingerprinting purposes (thread)

Posted: 5 Days 4 Hours ago by: Herbert Kleebauer

test.exe wins against test.bat. Put a test.exe in your PATH-directory than you will know what wins, PATH or App Path. But I suppose, PATH will win: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/shell/app-registration The file is sou

Re: Random changing of C: Windows Fonts script for anti-fingerprinting purposes (thread)

Posted: 5 Days 4 Hours ago by: Ken Blake

I'm almost sure of it. Yes. As far as I'm concerned, it's clearly the worst of all the choices I've tried, and I've tried most of them. Yes, the next worst one to me. No.

Re: FYI "How the App Paths Registry Key Makes Windows Both Faster & Safer" (thread)

Posted: 5 Days 5 Hours ago by: mike

Well, that might be true, now that you mentioned it, for all the mom and pop PC owners out there who maybe don't know any better. But I feel sorry for anyone who only has Edge as their browser. Don't you? Obviously the next most used

Re: Edit the manpage for a Windows /? command example (thread)

Posted: 5 Days 5 Hours ago by: Freethinker

Thanks for saying that because, ever since WinXP days when Microsoft introduced the App Paths sub key to work around %path% issues, I've never seen a system that did NOT have the "App Paths" sub key. (By the way, I'm not sure the differen

Re: Virtual Box + Windows 10, product key not needed (thread)

Posted: 5 Days 5 Hours ago by: Freethinker

You're right! I was mistaken. It's the same number of steps either way. I just tested it by creating test.bat containing this one line. %comspec% /k echo hello I put test.bat into a directory that was in my %path%. Then I clicked t

Re: FYI "How the App Paths Registry Key Makes Windows Both Faster & Safer" (thread)

Posted: 5 Days 7 Hours ago by: Stan Brown

I downloaded Microsoft's MediaCreationTool22H2.exe and used it to download a Windows 10 ISO, both on Tuesday, 21 March. True. But the screens in the video were nearly all identical to the ones I saw, and the few that weren't differed

Re: Random changing of C: Windows Fonts script for anti-fingerprinting purposes (thread)

Posted: 5 Days 7 Hours ago by: Stan Brown

I did a direct jump to HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Path without the "s" suffix, so that explains why I thought there was nothing there. To compound my error, when looking under HKCR I started at HKCR\SOFTWARE\Mic

Re: Edit the manpage for a Windows /? command example (thread)

Posted: 5 Days 7 Hours ago by: Ken Blake

I think the great majority of Windows users have only one browser installed--the one that comes with Windows (Edge, or IE in older versions). Most of them probably don't even know that there are other browsers to choose from. My wife, f

Re: Random changing of C: Windows Fonts script for anti-fingerprinting purposes (thread)

Posted: 5 Days 7 Hours ago by: Herbert Kleebauer

I don't understand what you want to say. Didn't you say, you use You would exactly use the same command if you hadn't made the registry entry but put the above batch in the PATH-directory. There is no difference in the behavior, but

Re: Random changing of "stuff" inside a Windows directory (thread)

Posted: 5 Days 7 Hours ago by: mike

You may be the only person on Windows who has only one browser installed. That's not as easy as you seem to think it is. Each program you install can add its own fonts. That comment indicates you don't understand how font fingerprint

Re: Random changing of "stuff" inside a Windows directory (thread)

Posted: 5 Days 7 Hours ago by: mike

OK. Good. You understand that some things give you more/less entropy than others. You understood the fonts are just one of those many things. I was unique (which I had expected) using a default Firefox browser. I saved the results as

Re: Edit the manpage for a Windows /? command example (thread)

Posted: 5 Days 8 Hours ago by: mike

There is nothing wrong with approaching the problem browser by browser by browser by browser by browser, which is what most people do I'm sure. I want to approach it without caring what the browser is. There are many advantages, one of

Posted: 5 Days 8 Hours ago by: Freethinker

As I explained to VanguardLH, apparently Microsoft designed the %path% first, and then, when problems arose, they added the App Paths somewhere around the Windows XP time frame, which is when I found out about it. They both do the same t

Re: Edit the manpage for a Windows /? command example (thread)

Posted: 5 Days 8 Hours ago by: Ken Blake

Yes you can. But although there are no strange consequences *now*, none of us knows what strange consequence may result from future Windows updates. As I said before, there is no downside to keeping it installed, so it's foolhardy to ru

Posted: 5 Days 9 Hours ago by: Freethinker

On 22.03.23 10:35, VanguardLH wrote: I have to nod my head in agreement where in the case of the %path% you can put a billion executable files in one path but App Paths takes a billion entries instead (you can get fancy to cut that number

Re: Random changing of "stuff" inside a Windows directory (thread)

Posted: 5 Days 9 Hours ago by: Mr. Man-wai Chang

The more important observation is that you can actually remove Edge from Win 10 (and possibly 11) without strange consequences. And you can always reinstall Edge like other browsers (e.g. Chrome, Firefox).

Re: Virtual Box + Windows 10, product key not needed (thread)

Posted: 5 Days 12 Hours ago by: mechanic

I notice that 'Brave' browser claims some sort of randomization,maybe that helps.

Re: Virtual Box + Windows 10, product key not needed (thread)

Posted: 5 Days 13 Hours ago by: Paul

It's possible some of the Display settings are in the registry. It would still be quite a project, to find those settings though. Entechtaiwan could change things like that ("Powerstrip"), and it could change entire ModeLines for graph

Re: Edit the manpage for a Windows /? command example (thread)

Posted: 5 Days 14 Hours ago by: VanguardLH

I also saw your exclamation marks.

Re: Virtual Box + Windows 10, product key not needed (thread)

Posted: 5 Days 14 Hours ago by: Herbert Kleebauer

Family.bat in the PATH-directory with the content: start family.xls You make an entry in the registry, I make an entry in the PATH-directory. I think you see differences where no differences are. It's just a matter of preferences wher

Re: Random changing of "stuff" inside a Windows directory (thread)

Posted: 5 Days 15 Hours ago by: Bill

I don't/won't. I did not intend for you to make a big deal out of it! I think you overdid it.. Didn't you see my "emoji"? If there are

Re: Edit the manpage for a Windows /? command example (thread)

Posted: 5 Days 15 Hours ago by: Andy Burns

No, I understand that it's the pieces they put together that make you uniquely identifiable, but some factors contribute a little, others a lot, e.g. here they're coded red/amber/green ... <https://amiunique.org/fp> On this machine t

Re: Virtual Box + Windows 10, product key not needed (thread)

Posted: 5 Days 15 Hours ago by: VanguardLH

An extreme exaggeration. You don't have billions of executables on your computer. You don't specify billions of additions to PATH, one for each location of an executable even if they were in separate folders. You add to the PATH those

Re: Virtual Box + Windows 10, product key not needed (thread)

Posted: 5 Days 16 Hours ago by: VanguardLH

Then don't use the non-expiring trial installation. If there are functions missing in the non-expiring trial installation that are critical to you, and important enough to pay for them, then pay for a license. Tons of users only have t

Re: Edit the manpage for a Windows /? command example (thread)

Posted: 5 Days 17 Hours ago by: Bill

They aren't critical to You! But they are critical if you want to "magnify" the display settings! I could use the default settings in an emergency, but that's about the only way I would it. : )

Re: Random changing of C: Windows Fonts script for anti-fingerprinting purposes (thread)

Posted: 5 Days 18 Hours ago by: Freethinker

What if you maintain batch files on external drives and in multiple locations? Do you really add a billion entries to the %path% in that case? I realize what you're doing is putting everything into a single folder, but that's a limitatio

Re: Edit the manpage for a Windows /? command example (thread)

Posted: 5 Days 19 Hours ago by: VanguardLH

Unless a developer testing their web site or web app on multiple web browsers to ensure compatibility with all, what's the point of using multiple web browsers? Do you really bounce between web browsers on your own personal hosts? Fire

Re: Edit the manpage for a Windows /? command example (thread)

Posted: 5 Days 19 Hours ago by: Bugsy

It's more like a set of pliers with different shaped heads where both will do everything but each tool will do some things with fewer keystrokes.

Re: FYI "How the App Paths Registry Key Makes Windows Both Faster & Safer" (thread)

Posted: 5 Days 19 Hours ago by: Freethinker

Yes. But the App Paths works for thousands upon thousands of useful things, whereas Microsoft only built in a few hundred things that work that way. An example is Microsoft didn't build in a way to open up any desired document just by t

Re: Random changing of C: Windows Fonts script for anti-fingerprinting purposes (thread)

Posted: 5 Days 19 Hours ago by: Freethinker

I don't see how that's possible given what I've seen of the App Paths (note the spelling is plural) since Windows XP days when it was highly advertised as a solution to the %path% problem. If you copy and paste EXACTLY this path into yo

Re: Random changing of "stuff" inside a Windows directory (thread)

Posted: 5 Days 20 Hours ago by: mike

I think you understand privacy and you must understand that I do too. I never said there was only one way to approach anti fingerprinting. Each method has its pros and cons, where randomizing the fonts has a large advantage that it does

Re: Random changing of C: Windows Fonts script for anti-fingerprinting purposes (thread)

Posted: 5 Days 20 Hours ago by: mike

There is nothing wrong with approaching the problem browser by browser by browser by browser by browser, but the maintenance of that is an issue. Better to approach the problem outside the browser itself, such that it works with all bro

Re: Virtual Box + Windows 10, product key not needed (thread)

Posted: 5 Days 20 Hours ago by: mike

I have nothing against Firefox and that's a nice feature of Firefox. But what good is a solution that only works with one browser? And which likely breaks the Internet? When you can come up with a solution that works with all browsers.

Re: Edit the manpage for a Windows /? command example (thread)

Posted: 5 Days 23 Hours ago by: VanguardLH

I wasn't aware Microsoft has yet pulled the plug on the non-expiring trial version of Windows 10. As you described, install Windows 10. Then never activate it. You get a screen watermark, but there is a workaround for that. Some admin

Re: Random changing of C: Windows Fonts script for anti-fingerprinting purposes (thread)

Posted: 5 Days 23 Hours ago by: VanguardLH

I have a C:\Batch folder containing all my .bat files. For some programs, they're installed or copied under C:\Programs but in subfolders for each program. I have added the subfolders to PATH for SysInternals and Nirsoft, but the rest

Posted: 6 Days ago by: VanguardLH

Easier for me to just configure my web browser, Firefox, to resist font fingerprinting. https://support.mozilla.org/mk/questions/1375011 See jscher2000's response. In addition, there is the privacy.resistFingerprinting setting. In Fir

Posted: 6 Days 3 Hours ago by: Carlos E.R.

No, I do not see a global something for news. Each server aka account gets a separate entry on the left panel, with all the subscribed group on that server.

Posted: 6 Days 7 Hours ago by: Ken Blake

Good. You may not need it often, but I think it's good to have there just in case...

Re: FYI "How the App Paths Registry Key Makes Windows Both Faster & Safer" (thread)

Posted: 6 Days 8 Hours ago by: Mr. Man-wai Chang

Today I downloaded Edge and successfully installed it back into my Win 10. :)

Re: Virtual Box + Windows 10, product key not needed (thread)

Posted: 6 Days 8 Hours ago by: Stan Brown

I don't have any App Path in the HKLM hierarchy, and only four in the HKCR hierarchy: OneDriveFileLauncher.exe, Skype.exe, WindowsPackageManagerServer.exe, winget.exe. I didn't create any of them and don't use any of them. They must h

Posted: 6 Days 9 Hours ago by: Stan Brown

I don't have any networking in this VM. I can't think of any reason why I would want to create a Microsoft account, but in any case I was able to skip that step in setup.

Re: Virtual Box + Windows 10, product key not needed (thread)

Posted: 6 Days 9 Hours ago by: Ken Blake

Actually I didn't. Sorry to say I was simply wrong. I did a web search and must have read the results wrong. My thanks to you (and the others who said the same thing) for the correction.

Posted: 6 Days 9 Hours ago by: Stan Brown

A fair point. The video did mention there would be some cosmetic things, and I should have mentioned that in my post. I configured my particular machine without any Internet, not thinking about Windows Update but just to keep things

Re: FYI "How the App Paths Registry Key Makes Windows Both Faster & Safer" (thread)

Posted: 6 Days 10 Hours ago by: Frank Slootweg

But can't you have a 'global inbox' like you can for e-mail, so that all your articles from multiple servers are in one 'view'? (I use a global inbox for e-mail in Thunderbird, but do not use thunderbird for news.) I also use a loca

Re: FYI "How the App Paths Registry Key Makes Windows Both Faster & Safer" (thread)

Posted: 6 Days 11 Hours ago by: Philip Herlihy

In article <MPG.3e83b9178e40128f989a54@news.eternal-september.org>, Philip Herlihy wrote... Ah - it's more complicated than that in PowerShell: https://learn.microsoft.com/en- us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.core/about/about_e

Re: Random changing of C: Windows Fonts script for anti-fingerprinting purposes (thread)

Posted: 6 Days 11 Hours ago by: Philip Herlihy

In article <MPG.3e822af6a3c12ad899009e@news.individual.net>, Stan Brown wrote... Interesting thread. The easiest way to see the variables (all types) set in your session is to open a command windows and type at the prompt: SET In Powe

Re: Random changing of "stuff" inside a Windows directory (thread)

Posted: 6 Days 12 Hours ago by: Newyana2

"mike" <this@address.is.invalid> wrote | | The question being posed is not a philosophical question but a tactical one. | Exactly. Privacy is not philosophy. It's a practical matter. You may want to randomize your fonts, but others hav

Posted: 6 Days 13 Hours ago by: Andy Burns

rather than mess with the fonts themselves, can you hide most of them from websites using browser settings, e,g for firefox font.system.whitelist Are you even sure that it's fonts which making you appear unique?

Re: Virtual Box + Windows 10, product key not needed (thread)

Posted: 6 Days 14 Hours ago by: ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ

You probably meant to say Windows XP (not Windows 98) - 98 predates XP by 2.5 years - OE was included in ME the black-sheep o/s released after 98x and prior to XP - OE 4.0 was included in 98, 5.0 in 98SE, 5.5 in ME, and 6.0 in XP

Posted: 6 Days 16 Hours ago by: Marco Moock

The license only allows the use of one system, but MS doesn't seem to care anymore about it. They removed the automatic shutdown of unlicensed Windows in newer WIn 10 versions. Only Win 10 Home requires an MS account. If you disconnect

Posted: 6 Days 16 Hours ago by: Marco Moock

MS discontinued them and switched off the nntp server at MS - other servers still carried it. It was XP. news.solani.org has them, registration is free.

Random changing of "stuff" inside a Windows directory

Posted: 6 Days 17 Hours ago by: Paul

When you have two computers, a WinXP one and a Win10 one, there is a good chance the News Agent is set up differently. When I copied my profile folder from WinXP to a later OS, that tends to keep your identifiers the same. But not all to

Re: Random changing of C: Windows Fonts script for anti-fingerprinting purposes (thread)

Posted: 6 Days 17 Hours ago by: mike

What is a working method on Windows to easily randomize a set of stuff? (which happen to be fonts but which could be any collection of stuff) This is a technical question (not a philosophical question on privacy). When I ran a search, I f

Re: Virtual Box + Windows 10, product key not needed (thread)

Posted: 6 Days 17 Hours ago by: mike

I know you're trying to "educate me", but I'm not asking to be educated on the philosphy of privacy which I already know quite a bit about. What I do not know how to do is write scripts. To get back to that question, what I've done is

Re: Random changing of C: Windows Fonts script for anti-fingerprinting purposes (thread)

Posted: 6 Days 18 Hours ago by: Paul

OK, now do Windows Update some day, and see if the watermark appears in the lower right corner, indicating the product is not licensed. When a product is not licensed, the "Personalize" menu items are disabled, so you can't change a few

Re: Random changing of C: Windows Fonts script for anti-fingerprinting purposes (thread)

Posted: 6 Days 22 Hours ago by: Newyana2

"Frank Slootweg" <this@ddress.is.invalid> wrote | <https://www.kuvaton.com/kuvei/at_the_google_store.gif> :) Except no one says, "What just happened?" Most people are thrilled by the convenience. Just ask all those gmail users and Waze dr

Re: Edit the manpage for a Windows /? command example (thread)

Posted: 6 Days 22 Hours ago by: Newyana2

"mike" <this@address.is.invalid> wrote | That doesn't deal with fonts though... You don't understand. Enumerating your fonts requires enabling javascript, and it's only done by companies trying to track you. If you block those companies

Re: Edit the manpage for a Windows /? command example (thread)

Posted: 6 Days 23 Hours ago by: Herbert Kleebauer

Or you type "start fonts" in a CMD window. There is no big difference, you put all im ONE registry and I put it in ONE directory. You put 3 entries in the registry, I put 3 batch flies (f1.bat, f2.bat f3.bat) in the directory whic

Virtual Box + Windows 10, product key not needed

Posted: 6 Days 23 Hours ago by: Herbert Kleebauer

Here a more usable version. Just insert the text between the two lines; @@keyword $$keyword Press q to close the window. @echo off if [%1]==[] goto :usage findstr /b @@%1 %~f0>nul if errorlevel 1 goto :usage findstr /b $$%1 %~f0>n

Posted: 7 Days ago by: Stan Brown

I needed to install a virtual machine today, for the first time on this PC (and my first time with VirtualBox in quite a few years). I have a Windows product key, but I assume that can't be used on my real machine _and_ the virtual mac

Posted: 7 Days 1 Hour ago by: Carlos E.R.

No, Thunderbird can not. You can define several accounts and each can have one server only. So you can not have one "usenet" account will all groups. In my case I can, because I use a local proxy server, which can talk to multiple ser

Re: Random changing of C: Windows Fonts script for anti-fingerprinting purposes (thread)

Posted: 7 Days 2 Hours ago by: James Tayler

Why does it beat you? You have told us before that "Just in case there's anyone here who doesn't know this, nymshifting is a certain mark of someone's being a troll. Trolls nymshift to try to escape from killfiles. But nymshifting is use

Re: Keyboard lag software for one side only for better typing? (thread)

Posted: 7 Days 4 Hours ago by: Frank Slootweg

[...] [...] You've probably see it before, but just in case you haven't, I'm sure you'll appreciate this one: <https://www.kuvaton.com/kuvei/at_the_google_store.gif>

Re: Keyboard lag software for one side only for better typing? (thread)

Posted: 7 Days 4 Hours ago by: Commander Kinsey

I type Bedfordshire as Bedfordshite. Works with any council area.

Posted: 7 Days 4 Hours ago by: Commander Kinsey

Yes I've recently noticed some typos are the other way round. I don't understand that. Surely the part of your brain which understand spelling is handing out the letters in order, F R O M. So the left hand should receive the R before

Posted: 7 Days 4 Hours ago by: Ken Blake

Sorry, I misunderstood. Beats me.

Re: Edit the manpage for a Windows /? command example (thread)

Posted: 7 Days 4 Hours ago by: Jim the Geordie

In article <o67h1il1qbe8v3dm7p4brnni60hg7gi234@4ax.com>, Ken@invalid.news.com says... Paganini

Re: FYI "How the App Paths Registry Key Makes Windows Both Faster (thread)

Posted: 7 Days 4 Hours ago by: Freethinker

I think there is nothing wrong with using %path% but it has severe limitations which the App Paths sub key does not have (and vice versa). They are different. For example, if you want to open up the Windows font folder, you just type "W

Re: Random changing of C: Windows Fonts script for anti-fingerprinting purposes (thread)

Posted: 7 Days 5 Hours ago by: Sjouke Burry

XP PRO (2004) path: C:\01-sjouke\test>echo %path% C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Oracle\Java\javapath;C:\Pro gram Files\Windows Resource Kits\Tools\;C:\WATCOM\BINNT;C:\WATCOM\BINW;C:\gcc_eq uation32\bin;C:\gcc_equa

Re: FYI "How the App Paths Registry Key Makes Windows Both Faster & Safer" (thread)

Posted: 7 Days 5 Hours ago by: mike

That doesn't deal with fonts though... I know many of those methods too but let's try to keep this to fonts as once you turn off javascript (as you know - which is why you don't just use the hosts file alone) everything breaks. # http

Re: FYI "How the App Paths Registry Key Makes Windows Both Faster & Safer" (thread)

Posted: 7 Days 5 Hours ago by: Peter

Is there a listing of all pre-registered Windows 10/11 keywords anywhere?

Re: Random changing of C: Windows Fonts script for anti-fingerprinting purposes (thread)

Posted: 7 Days 5 Hours ago by: Freethinker

Thank you for testing that as I was colloquially using the $path to refer to the path but I should have been referring to the Windows %path% instead. One related advantage of the App Paths sub key is you can create this. HKLM\Microsoft\

Posted: 7 Days 5 Hours ago by: Newyana2

"mike" <this@address.is.invalid> wrote | Do you have a better idea than the visual basic method proposed here? | https://www.iptest.club/blog/fingerprinting/font-fingerprinting-protect/ | I use a combination of HOSTS file and NoScript. S

Posted: 7 Days 6 Hours ago by: Frank Slootweg

Not you, Mayayana. Why does he have a new nym? [...]

Re: FYI "How the App Paths Registry Key Makes Windows Both Faster & (thread)

Posted: 7 Days 6 Hours ago by: Ken Blake

Thanks.

Re: FYI "How the App Paths Registry Key Makes Windows Both Faster & Safer" (thread)

Posted: 7 Days 6 Hours ago by: Paul

Posted: 7 Days 6 Hours ago by: Freethinker

Good question. Please do ask as I want to promote this wonderful feature. (I don't have Windows 11 so I don't know if it's in that too - is it?) My mistake. I was using the $PATH term from my Linux days where it's my fault I didn't even

Posted: 7 Days 6 Hours ago by: Paul

Yes. See, new traffic. https://groups.google.com/g/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general But you can't get headers there. (It might require logging in and the function might still be disabled for all I know.) What read-only servers can

Posted: 7 Days 6 Hours ago by: Ken Blake

New nym? I've always been Ken Blake. I did and didn't find any. See the other message I sent moments ago.

Posted: 7 Days 6 Hours ago by: Ken Blake

So do I. I must have mistyped Microsoft when I did a search on it before posting. Sorry, and thanks.

Posted: 7 Days 7 Hours ago by: Andy Burns

But how many are getting new messages? If anyone can recommend a good group for MSMQ I'd welcome it.

Posted: 7 Days 7 Hours ago by: Frank Slootweg

It's also available on Windows XP, which is what Newyana2 (mainly) uses. (BTW, why the new nym?) Several such servers were mentioned in this (long) thread, but why not just look on 'your' server!? :-)

Re: FYI "How the App Paths Registry Key Makes Windows Both Faster & Safer" (thread)

Posted: 7 Days 7 Hours ago by: Bill Bradshaw

I see all kinds of the microsoft.public.??? on news.individual.net.

Posted: 7 Days 7 Hours ago by: Stan Brown

That's an interesting description of AppPath; thank you. But what is this $PATH you mentioned in passing? Are you referring to something in UNIX? In Windows it would be %PATH, right? (I'm not busting your chops here; I really want to kn

Posted: 7 Days 8 Hours ago by: Ken Blake

I think so too. In fact I think all (almost all?) newsreaders can Is he running Outlook Express? The last version of Windows to include it was Windows 98. I haven't seen a Microsoft newsgroup in years. Do you know any news server

Random changing of C: Windows Fonts script for anti-fingerprinting purposes

Posted: 7 Days 8 Hours ago by: Frank Slootweg

[Late response due to extended absence.] Newyana2 <Newyana2@invalid.nospam> wrote: I'm not sure, but I think that Outlook Express can have multiple news servers/accounts. If so, you can get the microsoft.public.* groups from some other

Posted: 7 Days 9 Hours ago by: mike

I recently was advised that browser fingerprinting can be done using (among many other metrics) your C:WindowsFonts such that, for example, you can try to use different browsers but your fonts will be exactly the same for all. https://webb

OT: Bing sux

Posted: 7 Days 10 Hours ago by: Commander Kinsey

https://www.techradar.com/news/internet/bing-is-stupid-and-rubbish-says-bing-699549 "Bing is 'stupid' and 'rubbish', says Bing" (according to itself!) "Bing is rubbish Bing is stupid Bing is useless Bing is a stupid name Bing is lame" An

Re: Edit the manpage for a Windows /? command example (thread)

Posted: 7 Days 10 Hours ago by: J. J. Lodder

I've found some sites don't accept the question mark, Jan

Posted: 7 Days 10 Hours ago by: Frank Slootweg

After our extended holiday there were some 8,000 articles waiting in 6 high volume groups. Not dead at all, I would say! :-)

Posted: 7 Days 12 Hours ago by: Mr. Man-wai Chang

Got it...

Posted: 7 Days 15 Hours ago by: Chris

Many (increasingly?) sites have ridiculously low length limits as well. A recent one was 8 characters, but often it's around 20. Your example wouldn't work there. That's why I gave up on an "internal algorithm" as I had to either have s

Posted: 7 Days 22 Hours ago by: Brian Gregory

I often seem to manage to pick the one special character that isn't allowed! Then the website doesn't tell me what's wrong, it just repeats what it already told me, something like "your password must include at least 8 characters incl

Re: Edit the manpage for a Windows /? command example (thread)

Posted: 8 Days 1 Hour ago by: David Brooks

Pure fun! 😃

Re: Keyboard lag software for one side only for better typing? (thread)

Posted: 8 Days 2 Hours ago by: Ken Blake

Certainly dying, but fortunately not yet dead.

Re: Keyboard lag software for one side only for better typing? (thread)

Posted: 8 Days 2 Hours ago by: Snit

.... Likely tied to muscle memory and what word you are typing. Or what you are doing with your hands. I like more how, say, Photoshop deals with a color picker. It has its own, BUT you can also use the system one. That gives you the be

Posted: 8 Days 2 Hours ago by: Commander Kinsey

All the groups are relevant. Don't vandalise my post.

Re: Keyboard lag software for one side only for better typing? (thread)

Posted: 8 Days 2 Hours ago by: Commander Kinsey

Fucking hell, that beats any other one I've seen.

Re: FYI "How the App Paths Registry Key Makes Windows Both Faster & Safer" (thread)

Posted: 8 Days 2 Hours ago by: Commander Kinsey

I've come to the conclusion sometimes my left hand is faster and sometimes my right. Not sure why, but it means I can't get software to compensate. Let Russia win, then we could have standards. Same thing.

Re: Edit the manpage for a Windows /? command example (thread)

Posted: 8 Days 4 Hours ago by: Freethinker

The "App Path" is different from the "$PATH" in how it works. https://micksmix.wordpress.com/2011/08/19/the-windows-app-paths-registry-key/ I've been using the App Paths sub key since Windows XP but I don't use it to run programs that al

Re: FYI "How the App Paths Registry Key Makes Windows Both Faster & (thread)

Posted: 8 Days 4 Hours ago by: VanguardLH

Yeah, realized I hadn't edited the Newsgroups header before I submitted after I hit the Send button. Got interrupted with a delivery, so I sent immediately since I didn't know when I'd be back. My fuckup. However, since you say alt.co

Re: Keyboard lag software for one side only for better typing? (thread)

Posted: 8 Days 5 Hours ago by: Big Al

Not a bad idea, but don't change from 32bit to 64bit apps. Path of /program files and /program files(x86) would/will screw this up unless there is some logic during install to correct the reg key.

FYI "How the App Paths Registry Key Makes Windows Both Faster & Safer"

Posted: 8 Days 5 Hours ago by: Joerg Lorenz

You are the decoration of my kill-file. This is the law, dear. Did you ever consider to visit a psychiatrist?

Re: Edit the manpage for a Windows /? command example (thread)

Posted: 8 Days 6 Hours ago by: Freethinker

https://helgeklein.com/blog/how-the-app-paths-registry-key-makes-windows-both-faster-and-safer/ How the App Paths Registry Key Makes Windows Both Faster and Safer Why can you start Mozilla Firefox by typing "firefox" in the Run dialog an

Re: Edit the manpage for a Windows /? command example (thread)

Posted: 8 Days 6 Hours ago by: Freethinker

Each method has pros and cons where there's nothing preventing a user from implementing both methods and copying them to every computer for years on end (where it's two easy and obvious steps on that second computer). I don't use your si

Posted: 8 Days 7 Hours ago by: Freethinker

I think Herbert meant every physical computer gets it if you copy it over. It's really two different ways to approach the same problem set where there's nothing stopping you from exporting the Windows AppPaths key on one computer and imp

Re: Edit the manpage for a Windows /? command example (thread)

Posted: 8 Days 7 Hours ago by: Ken Blake

If you're happy, fine. My point is simply that one of these days you may not be so happy. And since there is almost no real advantage to removing it completely, in my view it's a bad thing to do. As I said, I think it's much better to j

Re: Edit the manpage for a Windows /? command example (thread)

Posted: 8 Days 7 Hours ago by: Herbert Kleebauer

Because I couldn't post the message when it was cross posted to these 3 groups. news.aioe.org doesn't exist anymore so I now use news.eternal-september.org and there is no alt.comp.os.windows-11 so I replied only to the group I have subsc

Posted: 8 Days 10 Hours ago by: VanguardLH

alt.comp.os.windows-10 alt.comp.os.windows-11 alt.internet.wireless When Kleebauer replied, he stripped out the last 2 newsgroups leaving: alt.comp.os.Windows-10 Then when he replied later, he added: alt.comp.microsoft.windows which

Re: Keyboard lag software for one side only for better typing? (thread)

Posted: 8 Days 11 Hours ago by: Mr. Man-wai Chang

Agree...

Re: Keyboard lag software for one side only for better typing? (thread)

Posted: 8 Days 11 Hours ago by: Commander Kinsey

WRONG! Just found one, first one I found, not a crosspost: Newsgroups: alt.comp.freeware You need to filter by comma. Or are you one of those stupid Europeans who thinks 12,345 is 12 and a third?

Re: Keyboard lag software for one side only for better typing? (thread)

Posted: 8 Days 11 Hours ago by: Commander Kinsey

And you've just done the same you fool.

Re: Edit the manpage for a Windows /? command example (thread)

Posted: 8 Days 11 Hours ago by: Commander Kinsey

Netiquette? What are you a girl? There are no laws in here.

Re: Keyboard lag software for one side only for better typing? (thread)

Posted: 8 Days 11 Hours ago by: Carlos E.R.

Windows executables could have "resources" added to them, and these could be edited. That was before signing appeared. These resources could be of different kinds: they could be menus, icons, text strings, dialogs... I don't remember.

Re: Edit the manpage for a Windows /? command example (thread)

Posted: 8 Days 11 Hours ago by: Commander Kinsey

It's amazing how many people are offended and upset by simple logic. Fuck all this political correctness, say what you think.

Re: Win11P MS Account nag - impossible to circumvent? (thread)

Posted: 8 Days 12 Hours ago by: Commander Kinsey

Not sure if it works now, but in the 90s I edited (with a text editor!) command.com on a friend's computer for a laugh, so the error messages were amusing. I just found the strings of text and changed them, making sure the number of cha

Re: Edit the manpage for a Windows /? command example (thread)

Posted: 8 Days 12 Hours ago by: Commander Kinsey

Take your brightly coloured text more suitable for kindergarten, and your anti putin shit out of this newsgroup.

Posted: 8 Days 15 Hours ago by: Herbert Kleebauer

I think, there is a big difference. The first is "one for all" and the second "one for one". I add a single directory to the PATH variable when I set up a new PC. That's all what is needed for the current and all future utilities I use.

Re: Edit the manpage for a Windows /? command example (thread)

Posted: 8 Days 15 Hours ago by: Mr. Man-wai Chang

So far I am very happy with removing Edge completely, using Firefox as browser. Windows and Office Update continues to work (and I disabled automatic update using Group Policy). If your work couples tightly with Micro$oft, it's surely

Posted: 8 Days 17 Hours ago by: Freethinker

We're both doing the same thing but different ways. You're using the PATH for what it was designed for. I'm using the AppPaths for what it was designed for. They have pros and cons and I'm not saying your method doesn't work well. It doe

Posted: 8 Days 19 Hours ago by: Paul

For the time being, W10 and W11 have the same technical requirements. For W10 and W11, 6.3.1865 is the minimum version (will have no "error 9"). Any version 7 should be good enough for the "free" full backups. ******* If they're still

Re: Edit the manpage for a Windows /? command example (thread)

Posted: 8 Days 22 Hours ago by: Ant

Even in W11?

Posted: 9 Days 3 Hours ago by: Herbert Kleebauer

But you have to do this for every utility you use. I add one directory to the PATH variable, for historical reason this is "D:\dos622\befehle" (I used this first when transferring DOS utilities to Win98). Single exe utilities (like unzip

Posted: 9 Days 7 Hours ago by: Paul

The trouble with recipes like this, is the recipe keeps changing. Paul

Re: Edit the manpage for a Windows /? command example (thread)

Posted: 9 Days 8 Hours ago by: Johnny

People stopped using Ubuntu when they found out is was spyware. It dropped from the number one download on Distrowatch to number 8. I'm sure every distribution has problems, but none I have used have as many as Windows. I have been u

Posted: 9 Days 8 Hours ago by: Stan Brown

Just like in the command prompt. :-)

Posted: 9 Days 9 Hours ago by: Johnny

I moved to Linux when Windows 8 came out and have never used Windows again. I have tried many different distributions and have settled on MX Linux, which I think is the best and easiest to just start using without much effort. The late

Re: Edit the manpage for a Windows /? command example (thread)

Posted: 9 Days 9 Hours ago by: Ken Blake

A very bad thing to do, In my opinion. It's just looking for trouble. You may run into an occasional web page that doesn't work with your choice of browser, and you need to run Edge to get to it. Most important, some future Windows u

Posted: 9 Days 9 Hours ago by: Carlos E.R.

.... In powershell, you can mark the text and copy it, to a text file.

Posted: 9 Days 9 Hours ago by: Carlos E.R.

In fact, one of the most asked question in the support web forum of my ISP, which allows old customers to keep our emails there, is how to make room for more emails because their quota is full. So I tell them to install an IMAP client

Posted: 9 Days 14 Hours ago by: Andy Burns

As I mentioned, there is a quick and clean way to get notifications ...

Re: Edit the manpage for a Windows /? command example (thread)

Posted: 9 Days 16 Hours ago by: Mr. Man-wai Chang

You can completely remove Edge from Win 10: How to remove Microsoft Edge from Windows 10 | TechRadar <https://www.techradar.com/how-to/how-to-remove-microsoft-edge-from-windows-10>

“Microsoft_support_'cracks'_Windows_for_custo

Posted: 9 Days 17 Hours ago by: VanguardLH

^^^^^^^^^ \___ address (not interface) That would match on the "netsh interface ipv4 set address ..." command you said you were using.

Re: Edit the manpage for a Windows /? command example (thread)

Posted: 9 Days 22 Hours ago by: Lynn McGuire

“Microsoft support 'cracks' Windows for customer after activation fails” https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-support-cracks-windows-for-customer-after-activation-fails/ You have got to be kidding me. Lynn

Posted: 9 Days 23 Hours ago by: Freethinker

On 17.03.23 09:46, Herbert Kleebauer wrote: I don't know about the op but I, for one, _love_ this workaround! Thank you for this elegant idea which will last me for years and many computers because it's so elegant and easy to maintain.

Re: Windows default font (thread)

Re: Edit the manpage for a Windows /? command example (thread)

Posted: 9 Days 23 Hours ago by: Big Al

I had an issue with the fonts and found this registry file. You can use regedit to backup this data just in case. It worked for me, but I'm not saying it will. Buyer beware !!! Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\

Posted: 10 Days ago by: Michael

I tried that, using a logical sequence, and also got stuck at a different point of the tree but it didn't seem that it would ever work logically. netsh /? ... interface - Changes to the 'netsh interface' context ... netsh inte

Posted: 10 Days 1 Hour ago by: Carlos E.R.

You can use gmail with an imap client with everything (almost) stored in the cloud as well.

Posted: 10 Days 1 Hour ago by: Paul

Ubuntu - Software Updates starts 30 seconds after you boot. - Snaps shoved at you - Xorg, Wayland, XWayland, PulseAudio, Pipewire, variable print quality, some printer driver support but not all To give another

Re: Windows default font (thread)

Posted: 10 Days 1 Hour ago by: Paul

https://www.winhelponline.com/blog/taskbar-clock-colon-missing-windows-10/ "Cause This issue happens if you’ve changed the default system fonts - especially Segoe UI Symbol (TrueType) or Segoe UI (TrueType) to Segoe

Windows default font

Posted: 10 Days 2 Hours ago by: jason_warren@ieee.or

For reasons unknown, the system font turned into italics. I read articles about how to fix the default font by a Registry edit. It -almost- worked. Italics are mostly absent, but the time display on the taskbar is slightly wrong: the colon

Re: Keyboard lag software for one side only for better typing? (thread)

Posted: 10 Days 2 Hours ago by: Bill

I have Windows and Linux (sort of as a hobby). Then you have Apple's model. I think I understand many of the choices people make... I guess, as in many things, the less you *know* the more your *pay*.

Re: USB Powered devices Slightly Off topic (thread)

Posted: 10 Days 3 Hours ago by: Commander Kinsey

Get a proper killfile you fuckwit. You shouldn't be able to see replies to someone you've ignored. Doh!

Posted: 10 Days 4 Hours ago by: Frank Slootweg

This laptop probably cannot provide power to the USB port. If the laptop has the ability to provide power to the USB port, it probably will have a lightning symbol next to the USB symbol, at least that's the case for HP laptops. [..

Posted: 10 Days 4 Hours ago by: VanguardLH

Just ensuring notifications are enabled in the web browser is not sufficient to get notification from the Gmail service (provided you have logged into Gmail using your web browser, and stay logged in)? In Firefox, go to about:preference

Posted: 10 Days 4 Hours ago by: ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ

Looks like you replied to my earlier post. Your issue got side-tracked and digressed once someone asked if your initial Q was based on using GMail in the web or an email client. - thereafter the digression started once another posted

Posted: 10 Days 4 Hours ago by: Johnny

I can't understand why anyone would use Windows for their personal use. Why would anyone use an operating system they have no control over, and have to fight with and complain about constantly? With a Linux operating system you have co

Posted: 10 Days 4 Hours ago by: ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ

Just about every email acquired free or via an internet provider sets up the account on the web(their hosted server). For the latter, those ip provided email addresses take a backseat to obtaining a free account(Gmail, Outlook.com, Yaho

Posted: 10 Days 6 Hours ago by: Ken Blake

Your experience is very different from mine. In my experience, by far, is that most people these days who use Gmail in a browser do it that way because they are unaware that they have a choice. I have many times told friends and relativ

Posted: 10 Days 6 Hours ago by: Ken Blake

You are free to have an opinion different from mine. As I said, "at least in my view." Major Lan God? No, not new, but... Many people do things the way they do because they don't know what is good or convenient for them, nor that t

Posted: 10 Days 6 Hours ago by: Ken Blake

Yes. Yes. Yes, but I don't think having heard of smtp or imap is that important. Many people who use e-mail programs successfully (my wife, for example) have never heard of smtp or imap. Rather, they think that gmail is differen

Re: Edit the manpage for a Windows /? command example (thread)

Posted: 10 Days 7 Hours ago by: s|b

I asked the same question in alt.comp.freeware. Chances are you can continue to use 8.x free for a while. AFAIK 6.x and 7.x free still work as well. It's not like the software will suddenly stop working.

Re: Edit the manpage for a Windows /? command example (thread)

Posted: 10 Days 8 Hours ago by: Char Jackson

That's the GUI that I was referring to.

Posted: 10 Days 9 Hours ago by: Stan Brown

For those (like me) who got excited at the thought of a GUI version of netsh, after some googling I don't think there is one. But for the OP's specific issue, changing IP addresses, here's a helpful video showing how to do _that_ in GU

Re: Edit the manpage for a Windows /? command example (thread)

Posted: 10 Days 9 Hours ago by: MajorLanGod

Back in the day I used Thunderbird (IIRC) and don't really remember who I switched to the Gmail client ussing Firefox. I didn't mean to stir up a storm. I just don't have the time right now to do any in-depth research and hoped that ther

Re: Edit the manpage for a Windows /? command example (thread)

Posted: 10 Days 10 Hours ago by: Herbert Kleebauer

Create you own help file for things you want to know but always forget. For example, create a batch file with the name "helpme.bat" in a director which is in your %path% with a content like this: @echo off set topic=netsh dir copy set

Posted: 10 Days 11 Hours ago by: gtr

For years since you said that, those are now "my" netsh notes too! For the benefit of the lurkers, those are Andy's exact words from a few years ago, where I had copypasted them into _my_ netsh notes. netsh interface portproxy add v4t

Posted: 10 Days 14 Hours ago by: ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ

Webview2 uses Edge's rendering engine. Apps that integrate/need the internet or integrate with online MSFT services/features(like OneDrive, Photos, Cortana, Maps, maybe even the Clock app if Spotify app is configured for use with Clock,

Re: Edit the manpage for a Windows /? command example (thread)

Posted: 10 Days 15 Hours ago by: ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ

It's been a few years since I tested DI-XML(Runtime.org product) A quick check shows the the latest version was in 2016 - V2.60 They do have a free version The fee based commercial version(not sure if same version)is $100US for 5 licenses

Posted: 10 Days 17 Hours ago by: Andy Burns

It's even better when other people remember your notes for you ;-)

Posted: 10 Days 17 Hours ago by: Andy Burns

I've not used it, but AIU your mailbox even works offline, if you access it with chrome (presumably via the the evil that is worker processes and local storage?)

Posted: 10 Days 17 Hours ago by: Andy Burns

Most of us here know, that, but as you say, most of the rest of people think of gmail as a website, or a phone app, they've never heard of smtp or imap.

Posted: 10 Days 20 Hours ago by: Paul

They do make some interesting claims. For example, they could not find a "Con" for Clonezilla. Only "Pro" datapoints. And they didn't test DriveImage XML. What is this world coming to. You're supposed to test that one, because it functi

Posted: 10 Days 22 Hours ago by: Carlos E.R.

I know for a fact that people that are not very computer savvy, find using mail in a web browser much easier than with a proper email application. For instance, the browser view is the same in any computer they happen to use. No need

Posted: 10 Days 22 Hours ago by: ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ

From what I've seen. Most people these days who use GMail in a browser prefer the browser over the stand-alone client approach. Since Chrome is the most common used browser, it makes sense for most to operate in that mode, especially w

Posted: 10 Days 22 Hours ago by: James Tyler

Why is Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, AOL, and even your local ISP providing Web mail if, as you say, in your view is far and away the worst possible way to do e-mail? Surely, they can save a lot of money by not employing people to look afte

Re: Edit the manpage for a Windows /? command example (thread)

Posted: 10 Days 22 Hours ago by: ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ

:) Top 5 listed, then immediately after the Top 5, it notes the best free is 'FOG'

Posted: 10 Days 22 Hours ago by: gtr

netsh interface portproxy add v4tov4 listenport=xxx listenaddress2.168.xx.xx connectaddress2.168.yy.yy connectport=yyy Because the lanmanserver service starts early and binds to 445 on all interfaces, you may need to install a virtual

Posted: 10 Days 23 Hours ago by: ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ

As Paul noted, the v8.x free editions(even the 8.x fee based edition) will continue to run, like they do now, just no longer updated, supported not really an issue - no support for free versions). - I'm using a paid 8.0 version build 71

Posted: 10 Days 23 Hours ago by: Zaidy036

https://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/best-disk-image-software/

Posted: 11 Days ago by: Ken Blake

Most people who use gmail do it in a browser, not because they want to, but because they think that's the way it is, and they have no other alternative. They don't realize that using a browser (at least in my view) far and away the wors

Posted: 11 Days ago by: VanguardLH

Gmail is a service. WHAT client-side app/program are you using to monitor your e-mail? It should have its own notification system, or borrow the one in Windows, or both (you can select which to use). If "Gmail" means you are using a w

Posted: 11 Days 2 Hours ago by: Paul in Houston TX

Version 7 Free works just fine for me. IMO, upgrading when not necessary is a waste of time and energy.

Re: Edit the manpage for a Windows /? command example (thread)

Posted: 11 Days 3 Hours ago by: Paul

You can continue to use it. I don't have a particular plan to stop using the old versions I have here. Paul

Re: Edit the manpage for a Windows /? command example (thread)

Posted: 11 Days 3 Hours ago by: Paul

I have edited executables before. But because you have to use a disassembler to figure out where you are and so on, this is not a preferred hobby or anything. I do it only when I have to. Some executables on Windows are signed, but othe

Re: Edit the manpage for a Windows /? command example (thread)

Posted: 11 Days 4 Hours ago by: Zaidy036

take a screen pic and save it

Posted: 11 Days 4 Hours ago by: Char Jackson

I know it's not what you asked, but if you really get in a bind you can probably just use the GUI for doing all of that. No syntax to remember.

Posted: 11 Days 4 Hours ago by: Andy Burns

I assume the O/P wants to use a web browser, rather than an email client, in which case click the settings cog top-right of gmail, then see all set settings, scroll down to desktop notifications and turn new mail notifications on, you

Re: Edit the manpage for a Windows /? command example (thread)

Posted: 11 Days 5 Hours ago by: DAN

This would be a function of the email client you use to read this email account. Outlook, PopPeeper (free), etc can do this. IOS Mail on iphone can do it. Choose you device, choose your client, and then see the possibilities it offers.

Posted: 11 Days 5 Hours ago by: Bill

You're the expert on virtually all matters concerning computer hardware to me. But strictly speaking, it's not hard to write a program to edit an executable. In fact, I have written code to edit machine code sitting in RAM (because tha

GMail notification

Posted: 11 Days 5 Hours ago by: MajorLanGod

Is there a way to have Gmail ping or make some other noise when I get an email, especially if it is from a specific person/address?

Re: Edit the manpage for a Windows /? command example (thread)

Posted: 11 Days 5 Hours ago by: Bill

I began to try that software for the first time about a month ago, and I saw that notice, and so I uninstalled it. What's the next best thing (besides my current "system" of copying folders to external storage)?

Re: Edit the manpage for a Windows /? command example (thread)

Posted: 11 Days 6 Hours ago by: VanguardLH

netsh, as with many tools, gives you only top-level help if you use "<prog> /?". You have to drill down to get to a directive or even sub-directive to add /? to get help on the [sub]-directive, like: netsh /? netsh interface /? then ne

Posted: 11 Days 7 Hours ago by: Paul

If there was a way to edit an executable, Windows Update would only replace it and your notes would be lost :-) Paul

Posted: 11 Days 7 Hours ago by: Big Al

Dang, Missed that.

Re: Edit the manpage for a Windows /? command example (thread)

Posted: 11 Days 7 Hours ago by: ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ

Uh... The post was relative to Macrium Reflect ***Free*** which will be discontinued. 'Free' version of V9 won't be available. V9 will be available in the 'Home' version - trial ware or fee Trial version upon expiration is different t

Edit the manpage for a Windows /? command example

Posted: 11 Days 8 Hours ago by: Andy Burns

Not really, just use notepad to create your own, err, notes.

Posted: 11 Days 8 Hours ago by: Michael

How can I edit the manpage for the Windows netsh command. Since the beginning of wireless networking I've never been able to remember the syntax for the netsh command, and worse, it's always needed when I am off the network so I can't even

Posted: 11 Days 10 Hours ago by: Big Al

So you just upgrade to v9.

Re: [Updates]] Windows Updates - Patch Tuesday - 14th March, 2023.

Posted: 11 Days 14 Hours ago by: Paul

It is not likely a reliance on MSEdge.exe as a runtime, but a reliance on WebView2 which you see running occasionally. The identifier string here "yxz26nhyzhsrt" hints it is third party, but it did not remain third-party for long. Microso

Posted: 11 Days 15 Hours ago by: Paul

These kinds of things pop up in alt.free.newsservers occasionally, but I don't pay attention to them, as some of them are honeypots ("require registration"). Paul

Macrium Refleft Free - EOL

Re: [Updates]] Windows Updates - Patch Tuesday - 14th March, 2023.

Posted: 11 Days 15 Hours ago by: ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ

https://www.macrium.com/product-support-policy#macrium-reflect-free-product-end-of-life-eol Macrium Reflect Free v8.0 is the last version to receive feature, compatibility or bug fix updates. Will future security vulnerabilities be fixed

Re: [Updates]] Windows Updates - Patch Tuesday - 14th March, 2023.

Posted: 11 Days 20 Hours ago by: Big Al

Thanks Paul for reminding me. I keep forgetting that.

Re: [Updates]] Windows Updates - Patch Tuesday - 14th March, 2023.

Posted: 11 Days 23 Hours ago by: VanguardLH

The injection node in GG's PATH header shows his article started at news.cyber23.de. Who the hell is cyber23? I went to http://cyber23.de, and it looks to be some gamer stats site. No mention of Usenet service there. I thought "Cyber23

Re: [Updates]] Windows Updates - Patch Tuesday - 14th March, 2023.

Posted: 11 Days 23 Hours ago by: VanguardLH

Ah, that's nice of ES. However, I use individual.net, so I get afflicted by his turds each time he nymshifts until I update my filter. I'll see if I can define an HTML filter.

Posted: 11 Days 23 Hours ago by: VanguardLH

Except GG nymshifted again, so yet another nym to add to my filter for the rude boob. Paul noted ES filters out HTML-formatted articles, and you're using ES. Alas, mine (individual.net) does not. Since GG likes to nymshift while con

Posted: 12 Days 2 Hours ago by: Stan Brown

Which applications would those be, pray tell?

Posted: 12 Days 2 Hours ago by: Shinji Ikari

Hello Ken Blake <Ken@invalid.news.com> schrieb me too Something along the lines "i don't use iexplorer". But then MS did forcer it in earlier Windows versions. Just wait, until MS does force Edge (and maybe autostart of it) onto every

Posted: 12 Days 6 Hours ago by: ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ

Normal fpr the most part. One can, open Edge and disable on startup and also continue running background processes. Edge can not be uninstalled. Window includes applications that rely on Edge whether its the default browser or not.

Re: [Updates]] Windows Updates - Patch Tuesday - 14th March, 2023.

Posted: 12 Days 6 Hours ago by: ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ

Normal, Window includes applications that rely on Edge whether its the default browser or not.

Posted: 12 Days 6 Hours ago by: Ken Blake

Just in case there's anyone here who doesn't know this, nymshifting is a certain mark of someone's being a troll. Trolls nymshift to try to escape from killfiles. But nymshifting is useless. At worst, it takes only a few seconds and a f

Posted: 12 Days 6 Hours ago by: Ken Blake

I am among those who really dislike Edge...

Re: [Updates]] Windows Updates - Patch Tuesday - 14th March, 2023.

Posted: 12 Days 7 Hours ago by: Frank Slootweg

I run Macrium in Smart Image mode and Settings says that Avast Antivirus in enabled and Microsoft Defender Antivirus is disabled, but I'll keep an eye on this. When I made the Macrium Reflect Free (Full) image backup of C:, nothing

Posted: 12 Days 7 Hours ago by: DanS

Mother Of All Battles <mother-of-all-battles@gmail.com> wrote in news:tuqtga$htk$1@news.cyber23.de: But I CAN read it.... I just scroll down some, and I see the message (with some inline html tags that are easy to ignore).

Re: [Updates]] Windows Updates - Patch Tuesday - 14th March, 2023.

Posted: 12 Days 7 Hours ago by: DanS

Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote in news:tuslnv$u2vi$1@dont-email.me: I wonder how I got several of my Win10 PCs to never update automatically. Never updates, never reboots by itself. In fact, just last night, on one of them, I was i

Posted: 12 Days 8 Hours ago by: Bucky Breeder

Mother Of All Battles <mother-of-all-battles@gmail.com> posted this via news:tuqtga$htk$1@news.cyber23.de: My "unapproved news-client" filters out dumbass. Hope this helps.

Posted: 12 Days 8 Hours ago by: Paul

Everything depends on RPC. The OS cannot survive without it. Remote Procedure Calls have always been handling Local Procedure Calls, even back when we were making our own OS at work. There is no distinction between an RPC to 127.0.0.1 an

Posted: 12 Days 9 Hours ago by: Paul

There's a good list here, and it hints at the difficulties ahead of you. There is armor plate. https://woshub.com/uninstall-disable-microsoft-edge/ This command is a traditional Chrome/Chromium method. The Setup.exe accesses a 150+ mega

Re: [Updates]] Windows Updates - Patch Tuesday - 14th March, 2023.

Posted: 12 Days 9 Hours ago by: Jim the Geordie

In article <tusdu9$snaq$1@dont-email.me>, MikeS@fred.com says... A major update of Edge yesterday with lots of totally unnecessary features.

Re: [Updates]] Windows Updates - Patch Tuesday - 14th March, 2023.

Posted: 12 Days 9 Hours ago by: Andy Burns

Depends how you filter, I guess. I don't normally see Good Guy, but he must have nymshifted as I had to adjust my killfile after seeing today's message.

Posted: 12 Days 9 Hours ago by: Paul

No you don't. He gets snagged by the HTML filter on E-S, and that's why his posts disappear. It would be some other servers, that accept those posts and then, you would need a killfile of some sort. So attempts at nymshifting, would onl

Re: [Updates]] Windows Updates - Patch Tuesday - 14th March, 2023.

Posted: 12 Days 11 Hours ago by: MikeS

I use Edge all the time but it only runs when I want it. Start Edge, open Settings, turn off run at startup and in background.

Posted: 12 Days 11 Hours ago by: Big Al

I don't see his post. I think I have a filter that deletes his post all together.

Posted: 12 Days 11 Hours ago by: Big Al

Hey, I have Linux and Edge. I only use to when I see an article about some feature MS is adding. I like to see what they did.

Posted: 12 Days 11 Hours ago by: Big Al

Yes.

Posted: 12 Days 13 Hours ago by: mechanic

Yes, those who really dislike Edge (for whatever unpecified reason) always have the option of running Linux as their Operating System rather than Windows.

Re: [Updates]] Windows Updates - Patch Tuesday - 14th March, 2023.

Posted: 12 Days 14 Hours ago by: wasbit

Presume you mean - http://meldmerge.org/ - Regards wasbit

Re: Keyboard lag software for one side only for better typing? (thread)

Posted: 12 Days 21 Hours ago by: VanguardLH

Oh, goody, Good Guy is nymshifting again, and still denying his violation of netiquette (posting HTML in text-only newsgroups) and lying about the ability of NNTP clients to view his crap. <snip the rest of his turds>

Posted: 12 Days 21 Hours ago by: Mark Lloyd

[snip] The typo I used to make frequently was typing list as lust.

Posted: 12 Days 23 Hours ago by: Shinji Ikari

Hello. Heron <McKeister@ipanywhere.com> schrieb Delete the Windows OS completely or use an old windows OS pre Edge.

Kill msedge.exe once and for all

Posted: 12 Days 23 Hours ago by: Heron

When I control + alt + delete to find what's hanging I often see msedge.exe running and even though it may not be the offender, why is it running? I never use it. How can I kill it once and for all please?

Re: How do I turn a spare router into a dumb switch (thread)

Posted: 13 Days 2 Hours ago by: Stan Brown

I have the same two, marked "Stopped". Services.msc shows both of them as Microsoft Edge Update Service, and adds a third: Microsoft Edge Elevation Service. edgeupdate is marked Automatic and the other two are marked Manual, but none o

Posted: 13 Days 3 Hours ago by: nospam

correct, which is what's needed for a comparison without adding any confounding factors. it's very much real world, versus the (inflated) marketing numbers. that has nothing to do with wired versus wireless, and anyone can create a s

Posted: 13 Days 3 Hours ago by: knuttle

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Posted: 13 Days 3 Hours ago by: knuttle

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Posted: 13 Days 4 Hours ago by: ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ

Yes, the option can be disabled too, even though not directly related to the op question. - i.e. Does removing Edge from Startup options at boot(really Windows loading, the boot process is complete before startup items load) cause an

Re: How do I turn a spare router into a dumb switch (thread)

Posted: 13 Days 5 Hours ago by: Paul

Windows Defender. "Bad monkey, bad". <Strikes monkey with tiny stick in attempt to make it stop.> https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/3569-turn-off-real-time-protection-microsoft-defender-antivirus.html Things to know: 1) There will be

Posted: 13 Days 9 Hours ago by: DanS

nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote in news:130320232227338438%nospam@nospam.invalid: No sh*t? Note, those are tests of ONE router, with ONE client that is capable if WiFi6. That is just not real world. Let's see with a few other

Posted: 13 Days 9 Hours ago by: Frank Slootweg

[...] [...] No, as I mentioned, this is my wife's laptop and I don't tinker with that one. I'm only the person who is supposed to keep it working! :-) Not much special on that laptop and the failures were pointing to Microsoft compon

Re: Keyboard lag software for one side only for better typing? (thread)

Posted: 13 Days 9 Hours ago by: Frank Slootweg

As usual, you've hit the nail on the head. I thought about the NTFS incompatibility issues, but thought that Microsoft would leave the (structure of) the file system alone when doing an in-place (i.e. from 8.1 to 10) upgrade. Silly me.

Posted: 13 Days 9 Hours ago by: Anton Shepelev

The from/form typo occurs not because of the dominant hand, but because the hands function in parallel, whereas the finger on each hand -- more or less in sequence. I therefor frequently make both typos: from->form (RL), list->lsit (LR)

Re: How do I turn a spare router into a dumb switch (thread)

Posted: 13 Days 11 Hours ago by: Big Al

You might use meld. meld <folder A> <folder B> It will highlight all the files that are not in A. Also it will highlight all the files that are in both but the text in them is diff.

Posted: 13 Days 21 Hours ago by: nospam

ac (wifi 5) is old. ax (wifi 6) is the current norm, with wifi 6e available (although expensive) and soon wifi 7. other devices slow down wired connections too. legacy devices can go on 2.4ghz (or a second or even third 5ghz band

Posted: 13 Days 23 Hours ago by: Neil

Thank you for a way to diff list file names that are in B but not A. cd B for %i in (*.txt) do if not exist C:\path\to\A\%i echo %i >> new.log To which I added the copy I had been using with my manually created diff. cd B echo "No" | co

Posted: 14 Days 1 Hour ago by: Paul

Yes, but we know what your problem is. Maybe there's just not enough audience around today or something. Error 9 comes from using Macrium Version < 6.3.1865 . Microsoft made some changes to "NTFS 3.1", the "standard that does not chan

Posted: 14 Days 3 Hours ago by: knuttle

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Posted: 14 Days 3 Hours ago by: Graham J

Robocopy will do what you want. Use its logging feature, and it will report the files it copies.

Posted: 14 Days 3 Hours ago by: Zaidy036

A list of file names in a folder: DIR /B <full path folderA> > X:\FolderA.txt where X: is a full path and not required if same folder as folderA So make a batch: 1. Make FolderA.txt 2. Make FolderB.txt 3. FOR /f %%A in ('DIR /A:D /B "Fold

Posted: 14 Days 4 Hours ago by: knuttle

Could it be that geeks like you have gone into the system and made all kinds of specialized tweeks, that and inexpert is not even aware of?

Posted: 14 Days 5 Hours ago by: Frank Slootweg

Why is it that inexpert users are always lucky and for geeks like us everything always fails!? :-) Shall I tell you about Macrium Reflect Free not working [1] after the upgrade, not even after a re-install (of MRF)!? Nah, let's not!

Posted: 14 Days 6 Hours ago by: Neil

It doesn't really matter what the contents of the files are. I only brought up the contents being different because a dumb move wouldn't work because that would overwrite files of the same name in A with the new contents of another file

Posted: 14 Days 6 Hours ago by: Herbert Kleebauer

You just answered your own question (but don't use the name "list.txt" or it will also be listed as new text file): While in directory b\ enter at the command prompt (but first delete new.log if it already exists): for %i in (*.txt) do i

Oops (was - Are zips really uncrackable?) (thread)

Posted: 14 Days 8 Hours ago by: Mr. Man-wai Chang

"NOT duplicate"" = Unique? :)

Posted: 14 Days 8 Hours ago by: David Brooks

Oops!

Posted: 14 Days 9 Hours ago by: DanS

=?UTF-8?B?Li4ud8Khw7HCp8KxwqTDsSA=?= <winstonmvp@gmail.com> wrote in news:ttu62t$pa7m$1@dont-email.me: -"Continue running background extensions/apps when Edge is closed" Almost as stupid a default setting as Explorer's "Hide Extensions

Posted: 14 Days 9 Hours ago by: Neil

I should have been clear that I can easily copy (or move) the files selectively because the native Windows command has an overwrite yes/no. What I need is a separate _list_ of what was moved (or copied) over. for %i in (*.txt) do if not

Posted: 14 Days 12 Hours ago by: David Brooks

Did you tech THIS fellow? https://youtu.be/EpBWFF8i_gc

Posted: 14 Days 12 Hours ago by: Philip Herlihy

In article <tul7ug$36gq8$1@dont-email.me>, Neil wrote... Robocopy (built-in to all recent versions of Windows) can do this. It takes work to get to a basic competence with it, but it's so useful that it's well worth it. There's a guid

Posted: 14 Days 12 Hours ago by: FromTheRafters

That very well may be. I put it back in context.

Posted: 14 Days 12 Hours ago by: Philip Herlihy

In article <tukqo0.138k.1@ID-201911.user.individual.net>, Frank Slootweg wrote... Thanks, Frank - the upgrade went smoothly for my friend, and without intervention from me! :-)

Posted: 14 Days 23 Hours ago by: Commander Kinsey

They're a different species (biological fact). The hacker code perhaps.

Re: Keyboard lag software for one side only for better typing? (thread)

Posted: 14 Days 23 Hours ago by: Commander Kinsey

I thought Mr. Man-wai Chang meant people might not know the everyday phrase.

Re: Keyboard lag software for one side only for better typing? (thread)

Posted: 15 Days 3 Hours ago by: Snit

Right on both accounts. There is a global one for macOS. Some apps ignore it. The word you are looking for: consistent.

Posted: 15 Days 3 Hours ago by: Commander Kinsey

Sounds like one of those weird accessibility thins. I doubt it would delay some keys more than others. Globally? Spellchecks in Windows are per app. Ah yes, MacOS is communist, I forgot.

Re: two problems on the new pc (thread)

Posted: 15 Days 3 Hours ago by: WolfFan

That’s a group policy setting from the domain. See, for example, https://www.prajwaldesai.com/disable-or-prevent-shutdown-option-using-group- policy/ That’s group policy, too. See, direct from Deepest Microsoft, just as an example

Posted: 15 Days 4 Hours ago by: Newyana2

"Neil" <neil@myplaceofwork.com> wrote | I have two folders of text files, some of which have duplicate file names. | The _contents_ of those text files, even with the same name, are different. | But everything is dependent only on the fi

Posted: 15 Days 4 Hours ago by: Herbert Kleebauer

When in directory b use this command (double the % if used in a batch program): for %i in (*.txt) do if not exist ..\a\%i copy %i ..\a\ Maybe you want to use "move" instead of "copy" But maybe the simplest way is to use file explorer a

Posted: 15 Days 4 Hours ago by: Alan Browne

.... So, then I asked ChatGPT to be sure it accounted for the case of the same name, but different content; ChatGPT: =================================No, the script I provided only checks for new files based on their filename, so it do

Posted: 15 Days 4 Hours ago by: Alan Browne

Being lazy, I just pasted everything above into ChatGPT. It immediately output the following. Note that I'm not a Python programmer, so can't vouch for this. In particular I'm not sure if it differences files with the same name but

List of NOT duplicate files

Posted: 15 Days 5 Hours ago by: Neil

I've been doing this manually but I'm asking if there is a better way. I have two folders of text files, some of which have duplicate file names. The _contents_ of those text files, even with the same name, are different. But everything is

Re: Netgear WNDR3400v2 dual band repeater (thread)

Posted: 15 Days 7 Hours ago by: knuttle

I suspect that if your wife's computer was running Windows 8, that the computer is incompatible with Windows 11. When you apply all of the upgrades and check for your most current update, there will be a message in the update windows,

Posted: 15 Days 8 Hours ago by: rdb

There are a lot of routers that can't be upgraded to dresdren-wrt, hyperwrt, lede, tomato, freshtomato, freetz, debwrt, voxel, openwirelessrouter and similar firmware flashes for those routers. Probably when you purchase a router, you h

Re: USB Powered devices Slightly Off topic (thread)

Posted: 15 Days 9 Hours ago by: Frank Slootweg

[Very late response due to extended absence.] On December 24, Philip Herlihy <PhillipHerlihy@slashdevnull.invalid> wrote: [Just in case this is still of help after nearly three months:] I just (yesterday) upgraded my wife's Windows 8.

Re: USB Powered devices Slightly Off topic (thread)

Posted: 15 Days 20 Hours ago by: VanguardLH

Sounds like the 2nd option above. If you are using an AC charger while the notebook is on, that would be the 1st option above. Although some folks use portable computers as permanent desktop PCs, the intent is a laptop or notebook is

Re: Does Windows perform randomized SCANS when searching for Wi-Fi/Bluetooth Access Points? (thread)

Posted: 16 Days 1 Hour ago by: MajorLanGod

knuttle <keith_nuttle@yahoo.com> wrote in news:tuiudp$2mv89$1@dont-email.me: I'm sorry, but this seems to me to be Much Ado About Nothing. Unless that mouse has secondary unctions like massaging the palm of the ueer's hand, the power dr

Re: Does Windows perform randomized SCANS when searching for Wi-Fi/Bluetooth Access Points? (thread)

Posted: 16 Days 1 Hour ago by: Andy Burnelli

I get where you're coming from, which is that passive listening shouldn't be a privacy problem but there's got to be a privacy issue to be resolved (whether or not Windows resolves it) because _both_ Apple (for iOS) and Google (for An

Netgear WNDR3400v2 dual band repeater

Posted: 16 Days 1 Hour ago by: Andy Burnelli

This specific answer above is better discussed on the Android newsgroup, but the latest Android versions do _both_ (it's two separate settings). 1. By default, the MAC is randomized _per SSID_ (probably per BSSID) 2. In Developer option

Re: USB Powered devices Slightly Off topic (thread)

Posted: 16 Days 1 Hour ago by: Andy Burnelli

Where can I find out how to set up the Netgear WNDR3400v2 dual router as a wired or wireless repeater with WPA2 PSK encryption, not just WEP? It seems DD-WRT is only for version 1 & 3 and not version 2 (I tried). What I've seen so far say

Re: USB Powered devices Slightly Off topic (thread)

Posted: 16 Days 1 Hour ago by: knuttle

OP: There is another option which I have decided on after reading these discussions. That is to use the mouse as a tethered mouse while it is charging, and once charged use it as an untethered mouse. I am ahead as I will not have to f

Re: USB Powered devices Slightly Off topic (thread)

Posted: 16 Days 3 Hours ago by: VanguardLH

HP 15-ay068nr https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c05165205 1 USB3 port (left side). 2 USB2 ports (left and right side). With desktop PCs, you get lots of BIOS settings. With laptops, notebooks, and other mobile devices, you get fe

Re: How do I turn a spare router into a dumb switch (thread)

Posted: 16 Days 3 Hours ago by: Stan Brown

This depends on the computer. The answer could be all USB ports are live for charging, only particular one(s) are, or none are. This should be in your computer's owner's manual. You report getting no power in one USB port. If you don't

Re: USB Powered devices Slightly Off topic (thread)

Posted: 16 Days 6 Hours ago by: DanS

nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote in news:100320231524307943%nospam@nospam.invalid: That is true. But I was just repurposing old gear. Sure, in theory. In a real-world scenario, I'd doubt it. Beleive me, my job *is* wireless. So,

Re: USB Powered devices Slightly Off topic (thread)

Posted: 16 Days 11 Hours ago by: knuttle

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Re: USB Powered devices Slightly Off topic (thread)

Posted: 16 Days 19 Hours ago by: VanguardLH

If rechargeable, the mouse has rechargeable batteries. I sincerely doubt the mouse is consuming power at a greater rate even under constant use than can be drawn from even a USB2 port (.5 A). Your mouse is charging while you are using

Re: USB Powered devices Slightly Off topic (thread)

Posted: 16 Days 19 Hours ago by: VanguardLH

"The feature drains out the battery if a device is left connected to the laptop even after turning off the laptop." This what Paul and I warned about. For example, the USB device may not charge at all (to stop consuming power after it

Re: USB Powered devices Slightly Off topic (thread)

Posted: 16 Days 20 Hours ago by: MajorLanGod

such That same TP-Link Powered USB Hub 3.0 with 7 USB 3.0 Data Ports and 2 Smart Charging USB Ports. Compatible with Windows, Mac, Chrome & Linux OS, with Power On/Off Button, 12V/4A Power Adapter(UH720) I use this hub with my lapto

Re: USB Powered devices Slightly Off topic (thread)

Posted: 17 Days 2 Hours ago by: KenW

On my TWO laptops, only one usb port can charge when laptop is off. KenW

Re: USB Powered devices Slightly Off topic (thread)

Posted: 17 Days 2 Hours ago by: Carlos E.R.

So far, the laptops that I had the chance to examine that have keep alive usb ports, this is configurable in the BIOS/UEFI setup. In my laptop, it was active by default and I disabled it.

Re: USB Powered devices Slightly Off topic (thread)

Posted: 17 Days 3 Hours ago by: knuttle

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Re: How do I turn a spare router into a dumb switch (thread)

Posted: 17 Days 3 Hours ago by: Carlos E.R.

Well, you are wrong, because I have seen such laptops. Lenovos, in my case. The ports are named "keep alive". <https://www.intowindows.com/charge-your-phone-using-laptop-when-laptop-is-shut-down-or-hibernating/>

Re: How do I turn a spare router into a dumb switch (thread)

Posted: 17 Days 3 Hours ago by: nospam

true but in that scenario, you'd be limited to 2.4gz speeds, which are *slow*. a better option is a tri-band unit, which uses a second 5ghz band for the backhaul. there are also quad-band routers. an even better option (in most case

Re: USB Powered devices Slightly Off topic (thread)

Posted: 17 Days 6 Hours ago by: DanS

Incubus <u9536612@gmail.com> wrote in news:ttufsu$t021$1@dont-email.me: Your end analysis isn't quite on the mark. First off, a router and access point, are technically two different things. A router (in the SOHO world) is a device t

Re: USB Powered devices Slightly Off topic (thread)

Posted: 17 Days 7 Hours ago by: VanguardLH

For the OP: The 5 V standby is to provide power to the login on the motherboard for power control. The Power switch on the case goes to the mobo, it is a momentary switch, and uses the onboard logic to power on. It can be used for oth

Re: USB Powered devices Slightly Off topic (thread)

Posted: 17 Days 7 Hours ago by: VanguardLH

Vague answer to match vague question: No (usually), Yes (sometimes). No such thing as one "computer" that does everything for everyone. That's why there are a plethora of brands and models available in the past and present. Give brand

Re: USB Powered devices Slightly Off topic (thread)

Posted: 17 Days 10 Hours ago by: Paul

First, let's start with the practical side. On a desktop computer, when you shut down Windows, this is "soft off". The power supply continues to make +5VSB @ 3 amperes or so. So your first concern, is whether the machine has a mechanis

USB Powered devices Slightly Off topic

Posted: 17 Days 11 Hours ago by: Carlos E.R.

Depends. On some laptops there is one or more USB ports that remain powered when machine is off, and can be used to charge things. Usually can be disabled in BIOS.

Posted: 17 Days 11 Hours ago by: knuttle

When a computer is turned off and left plugged into AC, and a battery powers device, (mouse) left plugged in; is the USB port still hot, such that a batty operated mouse could be recharged?

Re: My recycle bin adventure! (thread)

Posted: 17 Days 14 Hours ago by: T

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Re: My recycle bin adventure! (thread)

Posted: 17 Days 17 Hours ago by: Char Jackson

I periodically clean out the orphans with Treesize Free.

Re: My recycle bin adventure! (thread)

Posted: 17 Days 18 Hours ago by: Paul

For future reference, there's a structure inside the Recycle Bin. If you use NFI.exe, you can "see" this. .\nfi c: > D:\nfi_c_out.txt # 161,794,702 bytes notepad D:\nfi_c_out.txt Then you can see the SIDs in there. Your

My recycle bin adventure!

Posted: 17 Days 19 Hours ago by: T

Hi All, W10-22H2 Home (I hate the home edition) I had a customer today with this issue: Permanently delete confirmation pops up even though disabled in Recycle Bin properties https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/perm

Posted: 18 Days ago by: Alan Browne

All that seems very weird to me as I composed the image and the doc w/o colour. (I say that ... Visio does do colour so the export may have had a colour palette in it though unused).

Re: Possibly a bit |OT: Boot pc with a diak manager from usb? (thread)

Posted: 18 Days 1 Hour ago by: Paul

Of the tools I used, one complained that the ICC profile was old. The others did not report an issue. One tool reported the image had 884 colors. Another tool reported on the order of 7500 colors. Whether these were side effects of ICC,

Posted: 18 Days 3 Hours ago by: ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ

The current trend in utility application software is to entice the user with bundled application pricing giving the impression of value which inevitably speaks to the same - extra components that no one uses or needs. In the case of the

Re: Convert Firefox places.sqlite bookmarks into a readable text file (thread)

Posted: 18 Days 4 Hours ago by: Alan Browne

I'm only on this thread because of the absurd numbers posted in the many MB pdf files that were produced. A diff between the 82KB I get and the 77KB you get might have piqued me in 1995. Today it's just interesting. But in a use sens

Re: Convert Firefox places.sqlite bookmarks into a readable text file (thread)

Posted: 18 Days 7 Hours ago by: Mr. Man-wai Chang

Try searching for "sqlite" in the add-on page... basically, it's a database dump.

Re: Convert Firefox places.sqlite bookmarks into a readable text file (thread)

Posted: 18 Days 8 Hours ago by: Paul

A classical answer would be "why, open the HTML with a browser, and save as Text". But I doubt the result visually would be all that useful :-) It needs some newlines inserted for proper formatting. This is an example of one entry, saved

Posted: 18 Days 8 Hours ago by: gtr

Is there a subsequent HTML to TEXT conversion out there?

Posted: 18 Days 8 Hours ago by: Paul

Back in your .docx, if you work on your TIFF, the resultant PDF drops to 77,291 bytes. I don't know where that TIFF came from, but it's a bit weird. Paul

Posted: 18 Days 10 Hours ago by: Alan Browne

I didn't have to do anything to get that size other than use the print to PDF option. No settings. No adjustments.

Re: Possibly a bit |OT: Boot pc with a diak manager from usb? (thread)

Posted: 18 Days 12 Hours ago by: Carlos E.R.

Hum. I didn't know the tool, I am installing it now. [...] No jpgs. cer@Telcontar:~/Download/Firefox_downloads/ppp> mutool extract .../Alan\'s-checklist\ $print$.pdf extracting image-0010.png extracting image-0012.png extracting fon

Posted: 18 Days 15 Hours ago by: Paul

I've seen a claim a Cygwin version of GParted is available, and that means a Windows user could have one of their very own. Given the state Cygwin is in now, it's going to be a lengthy process (or, impossible) to get a decent setup. I li

Re: Convert Firefox places.sqlite bookmarks into a readable text file (thread)

Posted: 18 Days 15 Hours ago by: Paul

And when you do a mutool extract Alan\'s-checklist\ $print$.pdf how many JPEG files do you get in the extraction ? The source .docx has 732x621 TIFF at 96 dpi. It will likely appear pixelated whether you select 300 or 600 DPI ou

Re: Possibly a bit |OT: Boot pc with a diak manager from usb? (thread)

Posted: 18 Days 22 Hours ago by: Zaidy036

add extension "Email Tabs" then use its option "Copy Links to Clipboard"

Re: Convert Firefox places.sqlite bookmarks into a readable text file (thread)

Posted: 18 Days 23 Hours ago by: ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ

Booting the pc implies booting an operating system. Booting a utility program via USB/CD with the ability of managing disks is not necessarily booting the pc. It sounds like you desire the latter, usb boot a utility that has the option

Posted: 19 Days ago by: Zaghadka

On Wed, 8 Mar 2023 09:47:04 -0600, in alt.comp.os.windows-10, Dean Hoffman wrote: CTRL+SHIFT+O This will open the bookmarks manager. In bookmarks manager: Import and Backup -> Export Bookmarks to HTML...

Posted: 19 Days 3 Hours ago by: Carlos E.R.

It can also include the LibreOffice file.

Re: Convert Firefox places.sqlite bookmarks into a readable text file (thread)

Posted: 19 Days 3 Hours ago by: Carlos E.R.

Ok, trying with LibreOffice in Linux. Export to PDF; using jpeg compression for images at 85%, and 300DPI. And print to PDF. cer@Telcontar:~/Download/Firefox_downloads> ls -lh Alan\'s-checklist* -rw-r--r-- 1 cer users 77K Mar 8 21:2

Re: Possibly a bit |OT: Boot pc with a diak manager from usb? (thread)

Posted: 19 Days 4 Hours ago by: RonTheGuy

What I used to do is snapshot so it's all of what you want, but done wrong. Bookmarks > Search Bookmarks > WINDOWS+PRINTSCREEN What I do now only gets half of what you want, but that half is done right. Bookmarks > Manage Bookmarks >

Posted: 19 Days 4 Hours ago by: Paul

Mayayana has one, but I think he uses it with Windows XP. I too had a boot manager at one time, BootIt or something. It was a boot manager that came with some other software, and it worked quite well. (You only respect some of these effo

Re: Convert Firefox places.sqlite bookmarks into a readable text file (thread)

Posted: 19 Days 5 Hours ago by: Paul

My best "path" for this one, would be LibreOffice save as PDF. 93.5K [Picture] https://i.postimg.cc/MTLPZy5d/alan-test-doc.gif The copy of LO Writer is on the other machine, and I'm all the time moving stuff around between sha

Re: Possibly a bit |OT: Boot pc with a diak manager from usb? (thread)

Posted: 19 Days 5 Hours ago by: Big Al

browser.bookmarks.autoExportHTML in about:config set it to true. When you close Firefox every time it will export to bookmarks.html in your profile folder. It's great if you want to import into Edge/Chrome etc.

Re: Convert Firefox places.sqlite bookmarks into a readable text file (thread)

Posted: 19 Days 5 Hours ago by: VanguardLH

With the USB optical drive plugged in, can you select it in the BIOS as the boot device? You won't get into the boot menu or get the F5 choice to go into BIOS if you have Fast Startup enabled.

Re: Convert Firefox places.sqlite bookmarks into a readable text file (thread)

Posted: 19 Days 5 Hours ago by: Molly Mockford

Of course, one only sees mistakes after posting! I should have said 'after {/"}', not 'including and after {/"}'. Sorry!

Posted: 19 Days 5 Hours ago by: Molly Mockford

What I do is Bookmarks -> Manage Bookmarks -> Import and Backup -> Export Bookmarks to HTML. OK, it isn't a straightforward text file, because it displays the page titles, with a link to the URL, and if you View Source you will see a lo

Posted: 19 Days 6 Hours ago by: Alan Browne

.... I wonder why you didn't abandon it much earlier ... Farewell ...

Posted: 19 Days 6 Hours ago by: Alan Browne

As the release date approaches they ship what "works" not what works properly.

Re: Convert Firefox places.sqlite bookmarks into a readable text file (thread)

Posted: 19 Days 6 Hours ago by: Alan Browne

Agreed. So I printed that to file from Google Chrome via the Mac PDF printer and got 174KB. Which seems nominal. https://www.dropbox.com/s/s933dlx0ep39tb7/Alan%27s-checklist.docx (Download it and print to pdf, do not print it from th

Possibly a bit |OT: Boot pc with a diak manager from usb?

Posted: 19 Days 6 Hours ago by: Paul

Firefox should have an Export Bookmarks function. This is THE easiest way to get bookmarks. ******* You can dump the raw database if you want. No selectors applied at all, means everything it has got is in here. sqlite3 places.sq

Re: Convert Firefox places.sqlite bookmarks into a readable text file (thread)

Posted: 19 Days 7 Hours ago by: scbs29

Does anyone know of a disk manager which I could install to a USB/CD etc and boot a pc from it ? Preferebly free. I have a pc where the disks appear to have got screwed. TIA

Posted: 19 Days 7 Hours ago by: Marc Auslander

What about export bookmarks as html?

Re: NTSB to investigate Norfolk Southern Railway safety practices amid accidents (thread)

Posted: 19 Days 7 Hours ago by: Paul

When someone else has a workflow, you should respect that. They may still need help with it. And you can provide that help. They don't always need a comparison to your situation. I'm not invoicing anyone, but I can understand the operat

Convert Firefox places.sqlite bookmarks into a readable text file

Posted: 19 Days 8 Hours ago by: VanguardLH

The axios article doesn't mention any computers or OSes. I suspect "safety practices" have to do with physical management of their trains. I don't see how derailments or a dump truck falling off or during loading onto a rail car could b

Posted: 19 Days 8 Hours ago by: Dean Hoffman

Sometimes when I run a search and open up a dozen or more pages, I want to use that search result in a USENET posting where I just want all the URLs. Normally I manually laboriously cut and paste into a text file. Subject title 1 [URL] Su

Re: Keyboard lag software for one side only for better typing? (thread)

Posted: 19 Days 8 Hours ago by: Ken Blake

I do none of these. Yes, I understand, and agree. Many people create pdf files for those, and other, reasons. But I was replying to Carlos's saying "Then you don't know what **you** are missing" As said " **I** almost never 'prin

Re: Keyboard lag software for one side only for better typing? (thread)

Posted: 19 Days 8 Hours ago by: David Brooks

How do you classify a "Troll", Stan Brown?

Posted: 19 Days 8 Hours ago by: Stan Brown

And every time you post a follow-up, _all_ you accomplish is encouraging him/her/it to continue. It amazes me that, almost 40 years into Usenet, otherwise intelligent people still seem to feel that there's some benefit to appealing to

Re: NTSB to investigate Norfolk Southern Railway safety practices (thread)

Posted: 19 Days 8 Hours ago by: Stan Brown

Of course it does. It's why I no longer use Microsoft Print to PDF, as I said in the thread I started about MS-PtP just a week ago. But that's a hundred years ago in Usenet time.

Re: NTSB to investigate Norfolk Southern Railway safety practices amid accidents (thread)

Posted: 19 Days 10 Hours ago by: Carlos E.R.

Maybe using Windows in the railway infra is a security malpractice :-P :-DD

Posted: 19 Days 10 Hours ago by: VanguardLH

And that has what to do with this newsgroup that discusses the Windows 10 platform? Yeah, nothing, so spam.

Posted: 19 Days 11 Hours ago by: Paul

What bothers me, is the implementation is inept. Page 1 and 2 are bitmaps. Fine. Page 4 switched back to using a real font for the title bar, and inserted sub-page sized images at the end. So the browser gave up on doing full-page bitm

Posted: 19 Days 12 Hours ago by: Carlos E.R.

I get invoices of 700K. I see one utility most recent invoice has gone from 800K to 1.3M. Another utility stays at 180K tops. I generate invoices that go from 100K to 800K, depending on the images I have to include. I insert images ca

NTSB to investigate Norfolk Southern Railway safety practices amid

Posted: 19 Days 12 Hours ago by: Carlos E.R.

Right. The thing is, if you are "printing" then it may be faster to send a bitmap to the printer at its native resolution. That PDF can be saved instead, but it is, probably, optimized for printing. Whereas saving or exporting to PDF

Posted: 19 Days 14 Hours ago by: Mike S

https://www.axios.com/2023/03/07/ntsb-investigation-norfolk-southern-safety-practices-accidents

Re: Does Windows perform randomized SCANS when searching for (thread)

Posted: 19 Days 16 Hours ago by: Paul

For a PDF document, if a TrueType font, or any font with mathematically defined (spline curve or quadratic curve) glyphs, as you zoom in, the "math" allows infinite resolution and no jaggies. Jaggies might result, if the engine doing the

Re: Does Windows perform randomized SCANS when searching for (thread)

Posted: 19 Days 17 Hours ago by: Andy Burns

Is "scanning" a listen-only activity?

Posted: 19 Days 17 Hours ago by: Andy Burns

The phone should remember per-SSID which random MAC it previously used (or whether it used its hardware MAC) are you telling it to forget the SSIDs after you use them ... some earlier firmware *did* use random every time and they stop

Posted: 19 Days 17 Hours ago by: Paul

Good benchmarks, require samples we can share. https://www.rsssf.org/tablest/tsjsl2hist.html Wordpad+PDFCreator 27 pages 119,255 bytes (different margin size) Original source (Web Page Complete) 71KB Save as PDF from LO

Re: Does Windows perform randomized SCANS when searching for Wi-Fi/Bluetooth Access Points? (thread)

Posted: 19 Days 19 Hours ago by: Alan Browne

I've been reading the thread and I'm astonished at the file sizes reported. Those I generate with the in-OS Mac print to pdf are far, far, far smaller. I gen invoices on the order of 100 - 200 kB ... max! And those I receive from utiliti

Re: Does Windows perform randomized SCANS when searching for (thread)

Posted: 19 Days 20 Hours ago by: FromTheRafters

https://armstrongonewire.com/Support/Internet/Articles/DisablingMACRandomization

Posted: 19 Days 21 Hours ago by: Brian Gregory

My Android mobile phone now defaults to some kind of MAC randomization. It's damn annoying. If I forget of disable it none of the public Wi-Fi access points I use will let me use them without re-registering every time. I don't fully unde

Posted: 19 Days 22 Hours ago by: Paul

The programs wishing to print, are part of the problem. Web browsers are using poor print engines. They started out broken. The developers finished the development of them. The browser makers decided to switch engines or have more than o

Posted: 19 Days 22 Hours ago by: Carlos E.R.

In most cases, it is best if the application has the option to export or save to pdf, whereas print to PDF doesn't generate optimal files. The difference is that when printing, you can get perfect results by just generating images at t

Posted: 19 Days 23 Hours ago by: Alan Browne

One of the most practical ways to store and send documents electronically. -It's how I invoice - and very often how I'm invoiced. -It's how I send quotations and proposals. -It's how I prep my info for the accountant at tax time (Busine

Posted: 20 Days ago by: knuttle

I previously said I had several 157 page documents and that were contained with in a 2.5 MB file. Using Adobe Reader, I zoomed to 6400%, and still had clear will formed characters with no blur. These are not images converted to PDF fil

Posted: 20 Days ago by: Ken Blake

Since I almost never "print to pdf," I know I'm missing almost nothing.

Posted: 20 Days 1 Hour ago by: Ant

How's the quality when zoomed in though?

Posted: 20 Days 2 Hours ago by: Carlos E.R.

Then you don't know what you are missing...

Does Windows perform randomized SCANS when searching for Wi-Fi/Bluetooth Access Points?

Posted: 20 Days 2 Hours ago by: Ken Blake

They look the same. That's all the checking I want to do. I was only mildly interested in seeing what the size difference was between the two "printers." Don't know and don't care.

Posted: 20 Days 3 Hours ago by: Andy Burnelli

For Bluetooth and/or Wi-Fi, does Windows have the capability for... 1. MAC randomization *when scanning* 2. MAC randomization *per access point* 3. MAC randomization *per connection* 4. Did I miss any critical timer periods? BACKGROUND:

Re: Keyboard lag software for one side only for better typing? (thread)

Posted: 20 Days 4 Hours ago by: MajorLanGod

knuttle <keith_nuttle@yahoo.com> wrote in news:tu7lsb$ev1e$1@dont-email.me: OK, I was too lzy to go back and look at the exact numbers. The file I tested dropped from 735mb to 106mb, which is still a significant amount.

Posted: 20 Days 4 Hours ago by: FromTheRafters

Nice try.

Re: Keyboard lag software for one side only for better typing? (thread)

Posted: 20 Days 5 Hours ago by: Carlos E.R.

You should check the output to verify what fonts the files are actually using and compare that list with the original text. And then, are the fonts embedded or assumed to be on the destination system.

Re: How do I turn a spare router into a dumb switch (thread)

Posted: 20 Days 6 Hours ago by: Joerg Lorenz

Because you deliberately neglect the netiquette?

Re: Keyboard lag software for one side only for better typing? (thread)

Posted: 20 Days 6 Hours ago by: Zaghadka

On Mon, 06 Mar 2023 20:32:49 -0600, in alt.comp.os.windows-10, Zaghadka wrote: Finally found it! Netgear R7000. It was very, very buried on the advanced page (LAN setup). It simply doesn't exist on the basic page.

Re: Keyboard lag software for one side only for better typing? (thread)

Posted: 20 Days 6 Hours ago by: Joerg Lorenz

That shows how brain dead you are. Newsgroups: uk.comp.sys.mac,alt.computer.workshop,alt.comp.os.windows-10 ^^^^^^^^^^ appears only in the header if more than two NGs are addressed. Filtering is beyond your capabilities. Far beyond.

Posted: 20 Days 6 Hours ago by: Joerg Lorenz

You will certainly be my test-person ... Your senile posts are a constant encounter of the worst kind, dear.

Posted: 20 Days 7 Hours ago by: Ken Blake

Out of curiosity, I just went to WordPerfect, found an old three-page letter with two proportional fonts and one B&W graphic. I "printed" it twice: Microsoft Print to PDF - 195KB PDF24 - 63KB

Posted: 20 Days 8 Hours ago by: knuttle

Even 9 MB seems high. I have a 169 letter size page, single spaced file that takes 2.5MB. There are no images just text. I have several other PDF documents with a similar number of pages and a similar file sizes. I use CutePDFwrite,

Re: How do I turn a spare router into a dumb switch (thread)

Posted: 20 Days 8 Hours ago by: Alan Browne

9MB is ridiculously bad. I'm getting complex invoices from providers, 8 pages long, with tons of detail and colour graphics all in under 300KB.

Re: Keyboard lag software for one side only for better typing? (thread)

Posted: 20 Days 8 Hours ago by: Andy Burnelli

I used to set my gateway to 10.20.30.40 because I thought, at the time, that anyone could "guess" that it's 192.168.{0,1}.1 but over time, it became a pain to constantly change all the defaults so I let it go. I used to change the route

Posted: 20 Days 9 Hours ago by: Stan Brown

However tempting it may be, please don't feed the trolls.

Re: Synchronising Google Calendar on Outlook (thread)

Posted: 20 Days 9 Hours ago by: Stan Brown

1 gigabyte? Really? Even for Microsoft Print to PDF that seems high. And reducing to a hundred megabytes? I thought I was doing badly with 9 MB for a four-page monospaced typed letter.

Re: Keyboard lag software for one side only for better typing? (thread)

Posted: 20 Days 14 Hours ago by: Jim the Geordie

Forgetting the Calendar problem for the moment. The reason I don't use Outlook on my Samsung Android is that I cannot get notifications on either of my IMAP accounts. It seems I am not alone as there are several suggestions on the web, to

Re: Keyboard lag software for one side only for better typing? (thread)

Posted: 20 Days 15 Hours ago by: Chris

People also type form when they mean to, how would the lag software work in that case? You're just inventing a (very bad) mechanical spell checker.

Re: Keyboard lag software for one side only for better typing? (thread)

Posted: 20 Days 18 Hours ago by: Commander Kinsey

Are you incapable of killfiling one person? It isn't rocket science.

Re: Keyboard lag software for one side only for better typing? (thread)

Posted: 20 Days 18 Hours ago by: Commander Kinsey

That would filter every single post by everyone you nitwit.

Re: Keyboard lag software for one side only for better typing? (thread)

Posted: 20 Days 18 Hours ago by: Commander Kinsey

Except when your fuck buddy removes them.

Re: Windows right click new text file template (thread)

Posted: 20 Days 18 Hours ago by: Commander Kinsey

It was a sensible question. You mean "defective", learn basic English. In what way do you believe it is defective? If we weren't meant to crosspost, the function wouldn't exist. Why are you interested in my newsreader and how many

Re: Keyboard lag software for one side only for better typing? (thread)

Posted: 20 Days 18 Hours ago by: Ralph Fox

See this from Microsoft: Extending the New Submenu <https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/shell/context#extending-the-new-submenu> As I read it, you can have at most one template per file extension. For your request,

Re: Keyboard lag software for one side only for better typing? (thread)

Posted: 20 Days 18 Hours ago by: Commander Kinsey

So many people type form instead of from, someone must have made one.

Re: How do I turn a spare router into a dumb switch (thread)

Posted: 20 Days 18 Hours ago by: Commander Kinsey

Fuck off teacher. I'm not doing a fucking course just to type better.

Posted: 20 Days 21 Hours ago by: Zaghadka

On Sat, 04 Mar 2023 17:08:46 -0600, in alt.comp.os.windows-10, Char Jackson wrote: My mistake then. I didn't think mine had the ability to configure a static IP for the router. You can do it for the WAN port, but that's not the same thin

Posted: 21 Days 2 Hours ago by: Paul

Well, it's actually a race. There can be big image files stuffed into the PDF that bloat it. But what surprised me, was how big and clumsy the Type42 font definitions are. They're huge. Any tool which has the capability to convert one so

Posted: 21 Days 2 Hours ago by: Alan Browne

Wow milli-bits. That is very compact. ;-) This 100 MB number is absurd. 1 GB? Wonkers Mac Word. 2 page Word doc with a complex table on 2nd page (pasted from excel). Printed to PDF using the system print (which includes print to

Re: Windows right click new text file template (thread)

Posted: 21 Days 2 Hours ago by: Big Al

https://www.pdfforge.org/pdfcreator

Posted: 21 Days 3 Hours ago by: Paul

The items that "New" offers, appear to be packaged inside shell32.dll. There's probably an entry point which does this. There's the usual CLSID (or some kind of string of numbers) to identify it. Sometimes, the shell32.dll provides a "nu

Re: Printing to PDF

Re: Windows right click new text file template (thread)

Posted: 21 Days 3 Hours ago by: MajorLanGod

I do most of my grocery shopping online, and keep a copy of my orders 'as sent' and 'as received'. I had some free time yesterday so I decided to test some of the things that had bean discussed in that thread recently. I had been using '

Re: Windows right click new text file template (thread)

Posted: 21 Days 3 Hours ago by: sticks

If you had notepad on the taskbar, you could set up the templatein notepad and give it a temporary name and close it. Then by right clicking on the notebook taskbar icon it would be in the recent documents at the top and one click wou

Re: Windows right click new text file template (thread)

Posted: 21 Days 3 Hours ago by: knuttle

I don't know what I have done different from every one else, but when I right click and select NEW, I have the option of creating 9 different templates. One is for an image using Irfanview, One is a Windows System Contact, One is for N

Re: Synchronising Google Calendar on Outlook (thread)

Posted: 21 Days 3 Hours ago by: Char Jackson

Sounds like a job for one of those hotkey automation/macro apps, like AutoHotkey or AutiIt, etc. Press a hotkey and a new text file is created, template text inserted, ready for additional text and whatever comes next.

Re: Synchronising Google Calendar on Outlook (thread)

Posted: 21 Days 4 Hours ago by: VanguardLH

I don't know what is "does not like notifications on IMAP accounts". I have the Outlook for Android app polling 3 accounts: Hotmail (EAS), Gmail (cloud to Google Mail API), and my ISP (IMAP). I get new-mail notifications on each. I on

Re: Windows right click new text file template (thread)

Posted: 21 Days 4 Hours ago by: VanguardLH

https://outlook4gmail.scand.com/features/ Calendar sync, which the OP wants, is not included in the free version. The full version costs $30 which does have calendar sync.

Re: Windows right click new text file template (thread)

Posted: 21 Days 4 Hours ago by: Nil

On 06 Mar 2023, Peter <occassionally-confused@nospam.co.uk> wrote in alt.comp.os.windows-10: Windows does not have that native ability. There is no "system template" for text files.

Re: Windows right click new text file template (thread)

Posted: 21 Days 4 Hours ago by: Peter

I should have said I know all about that. I already use a process of including the template as the first step once I open the blank text file created by Microsoft's "New > Text Document" in gvim (<escape><colon><r> c:\path\mytempate.txt

Re: Windows right click new text file template (thread)

Posted: 21 Days 5 Hours ago by: sticks

You could just create the file as you like it and save it to your desktop if you use this often. Then just click on it when you wish to use it and immediately save it as what you want. When your done, your original template will stil

Re: Windows right click new text file template (thread)

Posted: 21 Days 5 Hours ago by: Peter

It's the file created by the Windows 10 "New > Text Document" command. I don't know how Microsoft Word got into the picture. All I want is Microsoft's "New > Text Document" to create is a file that is the same format as their file but

Unkillable UEFI malware bypassing Secure Boot enabled by unpatchable Windows flaw

Posted: 21 Days 5 Hours ago by: Nil

On 06 Mar 2023, Peter <occassionally-confused@nospam.co.uk> wrote in alt.comp.os.windows-10: I don't see a native Windows way to do that for text files, and Notepad doesn't have a Templates feature, but you may be able to find another

Re: Windows right click new text file template (thread)

Posted: 21 Days 6 Hours ago by: NewsKrawler

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/03/unkillable-uefi-malware-bypassing-secure-boot-enabled-by-unpatchable-windows-flaw/ Unkillable UEFI malware bypassing Secure Boot enabled by unpatchable Windows flaw The world's first-k

Re: Synchronising Google Calendar on Outlook (thread)

Posted: 21 Days 6 Hours ago by: Graham J

Is this a text file such as you would edit with notepad.exe? If so, store your template file somewhere obvious, open it whenever you want to create a new file, then "save as" the desired file name in your desired location. If you real

Windows right click new text file template

Posted: 21 Days 8 Hours ago by: Jim the Geordie

In article <tu49b1$1l2b9$1@dont-email.me>, winstonmvp@gmail.com says... The reason I use Google and not outlook calendar is that Outlook on android does not like notifications on IMAP accounts and despite much searching I have never foun

Re: Synchronising Google Calendar on Outlook (thread)

Posted: 21 Days 8 Hours ago by: Peter

I often create new text files which I then have to import a template into as the first step. Can I skip that text file template import step? Is there a way in Windows to make a new text file which is (essentially) a template (it contai

Re: Synchronising Google Calendar on Outlook (thread)

Posted: 21 Days 10 Hours ago by: Jim Dell

I use Outlook4Gmail see https://outlook4gmail.scand.com/download/ Jim

Re: Synchronising Google Calendar on Outlook (thread)

Posted: 21 Days 15 Hours ago by: ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ

Iirc the only MSFT product that works 2-ways (Entry local or online and sync up-down) is Windows 10/11 included Mail client. - granted the Calendar is unique to the email account setup in W10/11 Mail app, but it is free, but easily swi

Re: Synchronising Google Calendar on Outlook (thread)

Posted: 21 Days 22 Hours ago by: VanguardLH

Nope. The answer to /your/ question is both yes and no. Yes, for Outlook, an add-on is needed to add CalDAV support. No, Caldav Synchronizer is not the only CalDAV add-on to Outlook. Your "(free)" means optional, not required; howe

Re: Synchronising Google Calendar on Outlook (thread)

Posted: 21 Days 23 Hours ago by: VanguardLH

Alas, that is 1-way sync: from server down to client. In Outlook, you get to /see/ the events in the Google Calendar, but you cannot create or edit them to get those changes up to the server. Microsoft noted 1-way sync in: https://sup

Re: Synchronising Google Calendar on Outlook (thread)

Posted: 22 Days ago by: Jim the Geordie

In article <tu2vba$1ee08$2@dont-email.me>, winstonmvp@gmail.com says... Not two-way.

Re: How do I turn a spare router into a dumb switch (thread)

Posted: 22 Days ago by: Jim the Geordie

In article <xelofmz9uivw$.dlg@v.nguard.lh>, V@nguard.LH says... So that's a yes to my question as I don't have an Exchange account.

Re: How do I turn a spare router into a dumb switch (thread)

Posted: 22 Days 2 Hours ago by: NY

I used an old router as a wifi access point on a different LAN segment. I was having (and I'm still occasionally having) problems accessing a certain website from my Android phone, but only over my VDSL internet connection and not over

Re: How do I turn a spare router into a dumb switch (thread)

Posted: 22 Days 2 Hours ago by: dan

On Sun, 05 Mar 2023 13:53:58 -0600, Char Jackson wrote: Thank you for all your help and advice which was instrumental in getting the Repeater Bridge working as a portable hotspot with Ethernet ports. It seems that's the main drawback

Re: Synchronising Google Calendar on Outlook (thread)

Posted: 22 Days 3 Hours ago by: dan

On Sun, 05 Mar 2023 14:15:40 -0600, Char Jackson wrote: Also for me the last time I tried a repeater experiment (which was also the first time I tried a repeater experiment) the router was the WRT54Gv5. I think at the time it wouldn't

Re: How do I turn a spare router into a dumb switch (thread)

Posted: 22 Days 3 Hours ago by: ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ

Subscribe to the Google calendar *.ics url in Outlook. Outlook/File/Account Settings/Internet Calendar/New/<Google Calender Url> - Note: Obtain the Url for the Google calendar ics format from the online Google Calender features.

Re: How do I turn a spare router into a dumb switch (thread)

Posted: 22 Days 3 Hours ago by: dan

On Sun, 5 Mar 2023 13:41:09 -0500, Alan Browne wrote: What I didn't know was how VERSATILE a router is, where, in the end, I got my five Ethernet ports after all. https://wiki.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Image:Repeater_Bridge.jpg What I

Re: How do I turn a spare router into a dumb switch (thread)

Posted: 22 Days 3 Hours ago by: Char Jackson

The last time I tried a repeater experiment, which was also the first time I tried a repeater experiment, the current WiFi protocol was 802.11g, which provides up to 54 megabits of throughput in theory. A repeater necessarily cuts that i

Re: Synchronising Google Calendar on Outlook (thread)

Posted: 22 Days 4 Hours ago by: Char Jackson

Low throughput comes to mind when dealing with repeaters. If you're ok with that, the rest is good.

Re: How do I turn a spare router into a dumb switch (thread)

Posted: 22 Days 4 Hours ago by: VanguardLH

It's been over 3 years since I last used Outlook, and back then I was not synchronizing Outlook to my Google Calendar. I was already sync'ing to my Hotmail calendar via EAS (Exchange ActiveSync). Exchange syncs on mail, tasks, calendar,

Re: How do I turn a spare router into a dumb switch (thread)

Posted: 22 Days 4 Hours ago by: dan

On Fri, 03 Mar 2023 20:41:36 -0600, Char Jackson wrote: I found out that you're right that the DD-WRT software I flashed has an option to turn the now unused WAN RJ45 port into a usable LAN RJ45 port. Repeater Bridge DD-WRT Setup > Ba

Re: How do I turn a spare router into a dumb switch (thread)

Posted: 22 Days 5 Hours ago by: dan

On Sat, 4 Mar 2023 20:41:44 +0000, Andy Burns wrote: It took many hours last night but I have earned a newly found appreciation for how WONDERFUL having a spare router can be, in that I can plug it in almost anywhere in the house, and I

Re: How do I turn a spare router into a dumb switch (thread)

Posted: 22 Days 5 Hours ago by: Alan Browne

Never apologize for asking and learning. This is one of the goals of usenet: people helping people. And it doesn't mean you get the answer you're looking for. And the discussion refreshes information, explores ideas and takes us down

Posted: 22 Days 5 Hours ago by: dan

On Sun, 5 Mar 2023 09:14:55 -0500, Newyana2 wrote: Please do not apologize. I learned a LOT from this thread, and, from that learning, I acquired a healthy APPRECIATION for how powerful routers are! Even old routers. I apologize that

Re: How do I turn a spare router into a dumb switch (thread)

Posted: 22 Days 8 Hours ago by: Fokke Nauta

No, not at all. Fokke Nauta

Re: Synchronising Google Calendar on Outlook (thread)

Posted: 22 Days 9 Hours ago by: Newyana2

"dan" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote | Who wouldn't want extended range for free without cost or waste? | And who wouldn't want to save landfills from one more piece of waste? | | My thoughts are that I hate to waste things, and buying a new "a

Synchronising Google Calendar on Outlook

Posted: 22 Days 10 Hours ago by: Philip Herlihy

In article <MPG.3e6e73d74f938f598971b@news.eternal-september.org>, Jim the Geordie wrote... I use gSyncit. Works really well, but it wasn't free.

Re: How do I turn a spare router into a dumb switch (thread)

Posted: 22 Days 14 Hours ago by: Jim the Geordie

Is Caldav Synchronizer the only (free) way to get two way synchronising with Google Calendar on Outlook?

Re: How do I turn a spare router into a dumb switch (thread)

Posted: 22 Days 20 Hours ago by: nospam

spec sheet: <https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91mZ0NQjqKL.pdf> NETGEAR ® Plus Switches meet this growing need by providing fundamental network features such as VLANs, QoS, and IGMP Snooping that will help optimize the performan

Re: How do I turn a spare router into a dumb switch (thread)

Posted: 22 Days 21 Hours ago by: Ant

https://www.amazon.com/NETGEAR-8-Port-Gigabit-Ethernet-Unmanaged/dp/B07PLFCQVK/ after clicking on its "8 Port with Enhanced Features" style: "* Plus software with easy-to-use interface offers basic managed capabilities to configure, sec

Re: How do I turn a spare router into a dumb switch (thread)

Posted: 22 Days 22 Hours ago by: dan

On Sat, 04 Mar 2023 17:18:46 -0600, Char Jackson wrote: The more I look into what to do with this spare router the greater my appreciation for how powerfully versatile these little things really are. This morning I flashed it with DD-W

Re: How do I turn a spare router into a dumb switch (thread)

Posted: 23 Days ago by: nospam

yep, it looks like the gs108 and 308 are metal and the 208 is plastic. <https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/815TTkJaVxL._AC_SL1500_.jpg> <https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51JF4LYyGVL._AC_SL1500_.jpg> <https://m.media-amazon.com/im

Re: How do I turn a spare router into a dumb switch (thread)

Posted: 23 Days ago by: Char Jackson

Well, not a set of switches, but just one switch (per router). Also, I wouldn't call this kind of switch powerful. Oh, just a reminder to check the speed of those switch ports. If it's an older router, they could be limited to 100 meg. T

Re: How do I turn a spare router into a dumb switch (thread)

Posted: 23 Days 1 Hour ago by: Char Jackson

You may not have read the thread or you'd see that it's beyond simple. Disable DHCP, configure a static LAN IP, and don't use the WAN port. Now you have an unmanaged switch, and you can do it with virtually every SOHO router, with or wi

Re: How do I turn a spare router into a dumb switch (thread)

Posted: 23 Days 1 Hour ago by: Char Jackson

You made me get up and look, but my GS208 switches definitely have white plastic cases. I prefer metal cases, so I'm not sure how I ended up with three of these. They work fine, though. Sounds likely.

Re: How do I turn a spare router into a dumb switch (thread)

Posted: 23 Days 2 Hours ago by: Alan Browne

Some routers over-log too much chaff. Don't need to configure time much unless you've set time of day filtering of some kind or other - or if logging events with accurate times is important to you. Most routers support NTP - so find a

Re: How do I turn a spare router into a dumb switch (thread)

Posted: 23 Days 3 Hours ago by: dan

On Sat, 4 Mar 2023 14:15:55 -0500, Alan Browne wrote: I just peeked at the new router that I had installed yesterday and just reading the log brings up a whole bunch of new questions I don't know the answers to. Like should I worry a

Re: How do I turn a spare router into a dumb switch (thread)

Posted: 23 Days 3 Hours ago by: Andy Burns

No, usually faster connection a server (or at home, a NAS) so that multiple PCs can get gigabit speeds at the same time). I tend to agree ...

Re: How do I turn a spare router into a dumb switch (thread)

Posted: 23 Days 3 Hours ago by: nospam

an unmanaged switch simply connects devices. it's 'dumb'. it's sufficient for small networks, such as home users. a managed switch provides for a *lot* of additional functionality that's needed for larger networks, including monitoring

Re: How do I turn a spare router into a dumb switch (thread)

Posted: 23 Days 3 Hours ago by: Ken Blake

Not an issue for me. Nobody could plug into a port here without my knowing it. I have no work computers and no play computers, just a single LAN. Faster Internet access? What I have is usually fast enough, but that might sometim

Re: How do I turn a spare router into a dumb switch (thread)

Posted: 23 Days 3 Hours ago by: Bob F

You can also use the wifi of the second router to isolate wifi devices from your network. "The reason why you’ll want to keep your IoT devices isolated is because most manufacturers care little or not at all about implementing some

Re: How do I turn a spare router into a dumb switch (thread)

Posted: 23 Days 4 Hours ago by: Andy Burns

You can disable unused ports to stop anyone simply plugging in and using them without you knowing about it. You can split your LAN into multiple virtual LANs (VLANs) e.g. to keep work computers separated from play computers/IoT device

Re: How do I turn a spare router into a dumb switch (thread)

Posted: 23 Days 4 Hours ago by: Ken Blake

I wouldn't, since I have no need for it. One more is a tiny amount more. Yes, I know that many would say, multiply that by a lot of people, and it become significant. Maybe so, but that doesn't affect my deciding to throw something a

Re: How do I turn a spare router into a dumb switch (thread)

Posted: 23 Days 4 Hours ago by: nospam

it's not at all complicated, and if someone has an old router that otherwise isn't being used, there's little reason not to repurpose it. turn off dhcp and use only the lan ports. done.

Re: How do I turn a spare router into a dumb switch (thread)

Posted: 23 Days 4 Hours ago by: Ken Blake

I see that some switches are called "managed switches." What's the difference? What's the advantage of being managed?

Re: How do I turn a spare router into a dumb switch (thread)

Posted: 23 Days 4 Hours ago by: Alan Browne

In the sense that if you re-configure your network address space on the primary, then you would need to likewise "align" your secondary for compatibility. Yes, most people "get it to work" then leave well enough alone, but it's possib

Re: How do I turn a spare router into a dumb switch (thread)

Posted: 23 Days 4 Hours ago by: Zaghadka

On Fri, 3 Mar 2023 17:27:47 -0200, in alt.comp.os.windows-10, dan wrote: Basically, you don't. You will get more complicated answers. But they will vary from "not worth it" to "you can't."

Re: How do I turn a spare router into a dumb switch (thread)

Posted: 23 Days 5 Hours ago by: nospam

i've never seen a plastic netgear switch. all of the ones i have are metal, going back to 100b-t days. for an unmanaged gigabit switch, there's no real difference between brands and probably have the same chipset inside.

Re: How do I turn a spare router into a dumb switch (thread)

Posted: 23 Days 5 Hours ago by: nospam

what enhanced software? it's an unmanaged switch. there isn't anything software can do.

Re: How do I turn a spare router into a dumb switch (thread)

Posted: 23 Days 6 Hours ago by: Char Jackson

I agree with nospam. I currently have 3 Netgear GS208 switches scattered around the house where I need extra gigabit ports and they've been working fine for the past 3 years or so. The main difference between the GS208 and the GS308 (lin

Re: How do I turn a spare router into a dumb switch (thread)

Posted: 23 Days 6 Hours ago by: Char Jackson

What enhanced software? If you mean 3rd party router firmware, yes, that's generally free, but it's not applicable to a switch.

Re: How do I turn a spare router into a dumb switch (thread)

Posted: 23 Days 6 Hours ago by: dan

On Sat, 4 Mar 2023 12:29:07 -0500, Alan Browne wrote: Like you I don't want to waste things and I only started realizing that every option that I choose adds both the access points and the switches. I don't "maintain" my routers since

Re: chrome://blank versus chrome://newtab versus chrome://settings/siteData versus chrome://settings/clearBrowserData (thread)

Posted: 23 Days 6 Hours ago by: Alan Browne

This is my first thought as well, along with benefits such as another AP for WiFi. However, it is more complicated to set up and will require maintenance at some point down the line if the configuration changes. Why a smart/unmanaged

Re: How do I turn a spare router into a dumb switch (thread)

Posted: 23 Days 6 Hours ago by: dan

On Fri, 3 Mar 2023 20:04:19 -0500, Paul wrote: I tried "about:blank" and "about:paul" as a startup page and it worked in both cases except "about:blank" brought up a blank page but "about:paul" tried to go to "chrome://paul/" so you're

Re: How do I turn a spare router into a dumb switch (thread)

Posted: 23 Days 6 Hours ago by: dan

On Sat, 4 Mar 2023 08:57:37 -0500, Newyana2 wrote: Who wouldn't want extended range for free without cost or waste? And who wouldn't want to save landfills from one more piece of waste? My thoughts are that I hate to waste things, and

Re: How do I turn a spare router into a dumb switch (thread)

Posted: 23 Days 8 Hours ago by: Ant

.... Also, is that enhanced software worth getting and using? Or can we use a free third party software?

Re: How do I turn a spare router into a dumb switch (thread)

Posted: 23 Days 8 Hours ago by: Ken Blake

OK, thanks for the info.

Re: How do I turn a spare router into a dumb switch (thread)

Posted: 23 Days 8 Hours ago by: nospam

that and similar 8 port switches are fairly generic and available from a variety of manufacturers, although i've had multiple power adapter failures with netgear. fortunately, the power adapters are even more generic (12v) and easy to re

Re: How do I turn a spare router into a dumb switch (thread)

Posted: 23 Days 9 Hours ago by: Ken Blake

My 4-ethernet-port router has one free port, so I don't expect to need more ports any time soon. But, not knowing what the future will bring, if I needed more ports some day, would this $18.99 switch be a good choice? https://www.amaz

Re: How do I turn a spare router into a dumb switch (thread)

Posted: 23 Days 10 Hours ago by: Newyana2

"dan" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote | Is a switch a good use for a spare router? | I don't really need anything in particular, so that's why I ask. | I'm just trying to make use of the router now that I have it as a spare. | I wonder if it'

Re: How do I turn a spare router into a dumb switch (thread)

Posted: 23 Days 16 Hours ago by: Lars Anders

In the advanced setup for my netgear router are four buttons for four different modes like you are describing for your netgear router too. Netgear > Advanced Setup > Router/AP/Bridge/Repeating Mode > Router Mode AP Mode Bridge Mode Rep

Re: How do I turn a spare router into a dumb switch (thread)

Posted: 23 Days 16 Hours ago by: Jeff Barnett

I have a two Netgear routers in my home network. One of them acts as a router - it talks to the cable modem, handles the wired LAN, and runs a wireless network for that LAN - it is placed adjacent to the cable modem and that is near a

Re: How do I turn a spare router into a dumb switch (thread)

Posted: 23 Days 20 Hours ago by: Incubus

Assuming we're starting off with a soho router like the op seems to be doing, then the way I look at the choice of setting it up as either a home wireless repeater or as a home wireless client bridge is the bridge is clearly the way to go

Re: How do I turn a spare router into a dumb switch (thread)

Posted: 23 Days 20 Hours ago by: gtr

He's likely to need dd-wrt but it can be installed on most recent routers. As for the bridge versus the repeater this tries to explain dd-wrt's terminology but I find them both to be almost the same in practice. https://blog.flashrouter

Posted: 23 Days 20 Hours ago by: RonTheGuy

I don't know myself but this description is as clear as mud to me. https://www.rezence.com/wireless-repeater-vs-bridge/ They both work so that your existing wireless signal can be reused and rebroadcast over a different range but they'r

Posted: 23 Days 21 Hours ago by: Commander Kinsey

I do remember them adding extra methods even back in the DOS versions. There was exploding and imploding.

Posted: 23 Days 21 Hours ago by: Commander Kinsey

Everything should be multithreaded, we've had multicore CPUs for donkey's years. Does it cost much to have a drive compressed by Windows? Every time you read and write you're using the processor. But less of the drive motor and the w

Re: How do I turn a spare router into a dumb switch (thread)

Posted: 23 Days 21 Hours ago by: Commander Kinsey

Then you disguise who you are when you send it.

Re: How do I turn a spare router into a dumb switch (thread)

Posted: 23 Days 21 Hours ago by: Char Jackson

Ethernet switches (the ones that operate on OSI layer 2, which is most of them) forward incoming packets to a single port, unless it's a broadcast or ARP or similar. No routing at layer 2. Routing happens at layer 3. Every router with

Re: How do I turn a spare router into a dumb switch (thread)

Posted: 23 Days 21 Hours ago by: Char Jackson

That one's easy. You're probably already there. I don't know what a wired repeater might be. It sounds like a regular old Access Point (AP), typically with its own unique SSID. The router's firmware would have to support that. Most O

Re: How do I turn a spare router into a dumb switch (thread)

Posted: 23 Days 22 Hours ago by: dan

On Fri, 03 Mar 2023 17:27:21 -0600, Char Jackson wrote: Thanks because I don't know what I'm doing so I appreciate the advice. I didn't realize until it was said above that I could not only get three or four extra LAN ports out of the

Re: How do I turn a spare router into a dumb switch (thread)

Posted: 23 Days 22 Hours ago by: MajorLanGod

If by switch you mean a device that takes an incoming packet and routes it to all of the other ports, I'm not sure it is possible. You might want to wander the Net and look for software to flash to the old (now surplus) router to turn

Posted: 23 Days 22 Hours ago by: dan

On Fri, 3 Mar 2023 19:57:37 +0000, Andy Burns wrote: I did the swap, which took me from when I sent that msg until now, which is a few hours because of a series of problems that I only just now overcame. The first thing I didn't know w

Posted: 23 Days 22 Hours ago by: Commander Kinsey

Posted: 23 Days 22 Hours ago by: Commander Kinsey

Our brains are pretty shit really. I can still remember the 16 digit debit card number from one I had in 1994. But I can't remember any after that. And I could never remember the 3 digit security code!

Posted: 23 Days 22 Hours ago by: Commander Kinsey

The insistance is irritating. I make a nice easy to remember password to use everywhere, then along comes a place with yet one more requirement. If you have a different password for every single thing, people have to write them down, a

Posted: 23 Days 22 Hours ago by: ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ

Edge still updates after a feature update in the background or on use. Since installers are point in time code(e.g. 22H2 upgrade or clean install is code released/signed off prior to 22H2 release last fall) - i.e. an outdated version that

Re: chrome://blank versus chrome://newtab versus (thread)

Posted: 23 Days 22 Hours ago by: ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ

No(answer to your Q) You can disable Edge on Startup. - Edge's Settings/System/ extensions/apps when Edge s closed. Ensure you set another browser as default in Win10/11's Default Apps. Don't disable the 3 Edge items in 'Services'

Re: How do I turn a spare router into a dumb switch (thread)

Posted: 23 Days 23 Hours ago by: Paul

They're claiming here, that about:blank works on all the browsers. https://www.minitool.com/news/about-blank.html I'm not sure about: is recognized on all browsers, which is why they have their own private URIs. Paul

Re: How do I turn a spare router into a dumb switch (thread)

Posted: 24 Days ago by: Char Jackson

I agree with Andy, but just wanted to add a bit of additional detail to the DHCP step. On the new router, adjust the DHCP scope to carve out the IP address that you want to use for the old router, for example 192.168.1.2. So on the new

Re: chrome://blank versus chrome://newtab versus chrome://settings/siteData versus chrome://settings/clearBrowserData (thread)

Posted: 24 Days 4 Hours ago by: Andy Burns

disabling DHCP, making sure its IP addr doesn't clash with the new router, not using the WAN port, link one of it's LAN ports to one of the new router's LAN ports just about covers it, enable or disable wifi to suit.

How do I turn a spare router into a dumb switch

Posted: 24 Days 4 Hours ago by: dan

On Thu, 2 Mar 2023 09:50:15 -0800, allen wrote: I tried these with my Epic Chromium variant & they're all different. blank brings up an ERR_INVALID_URL "This site can't be reached" but it keeps the URI in the address bar which ma

Posted: 24 Days 4 Hours ago by: dan

The current home router is currently set up as the LAN gateway on 192.168.1.1 and it's set to get the WAN Internet IP address from the modem, and it's set to hand out DHCP addresses from 192.168.1.2 to 192.168.1.254. I've just now configu

Posted: 24 Days 11 Hours ago by: Paul

https://www.onmsft.com/how-to/how-to-uninstall-microsoft-edge/ setup.exe --uninstall --system-level --verbose-logging --force-uninstall That is a standard technique for Chrome or Chromium browser. There is a setup.exe next to a 150M

Stop Edge starting on start up

Re: Warning about Microsoft Print to PDF (thread)

Posted: 24 Days 12 Hours ago by: scbs29

Hello all If I remove Microsoft Edge from starting on boot up, is this likely to cause any problems ? TIA

Re: Warning about Microsoft Print to PDF (thread)

Posted: 24 Days 14 Hours ago by: Carlos E.R.

True, but the images are bigger, occupy more file space. Depends on the situation whether you want a small file or big.

Re: chrome://blank versus chrome://newtab versus (thread)

Posted: 24 Days 14 Hours ago by: wasbit

No, I didn't. Michael Logies posted in alt.comp.os.windows-10 Very popular in germany: https://www.pdf24.org/ I replied Nice programme. I've used it for several years instead of PDF-Exchange & PDF Creator because it does so much in one

Re: Warning about Microsoft Print to PDF (thread)

Posted: 24 Days 17 Hours ago by: Paul

Why would chrome://blank go to the Internet ? The purpose of having a "blank" in the first place, was to have a page which was not distracting. It was never intended as some kind of fancy "network stealth" thing. Why not get a copy o

Re: Warning about Microsoft Print to PDF (thread)

Posted: 24 Days 17 Hours ago by: Zaghadka

On Tue, 28 Feb 2023 17:05:30 -0800, in alt.comp.os.windows-10, Stan Brown wrote: Thanks for the heads up. I never noticed what a pig it was until you brought it up because disk sizes are so huge. I went for CutePDF too, because I used t

Re: Gaining access to a PC where user has forgotten the login password (using Microsoft account rather than local account) (thread)

Posted: 24 Days 21 Hours ago by: VanguardLH

Yep. The Color button is disabled meaning you cannot click on it to select black & white.

Re: Gaining access to a PC where user has forgotten the login (thread)

Posted: 24 Days 21 Hours ago by: Char Jackson

My sister's Win 10 laptop magically showed up one morning, a few weeks ago, proudly wearing Win 11. I grilled her pretty hard but she insists that she saw nothing at all to suggest that an upgrade was going to happen.

Re: Warning about Microsoft Print to PDF (thread)

Posted: 25 Days 1 Hour ago by: Paul

Obviously, he had Windows 11 installed over Windows 10, very very recently. Golly, I wonder how that happened. Yet another mystery for the XFiles. Look in C:\Windows.old for proof. If you have a Windows.old, then the Windows has changed

Re: Warning about Microsoft Print to PDF (thread)

Posted: 25 Days 1 Hour ago by: Paul

You can place images with resolutions *higher* than the print engine in a file, and the print engine knows what to do. Setting a resolution option as part of the printing process, does not necessarily "cap" everything that comes along.

Re: Warning about Microsoft Print to PDF (thread)

Posted: 25 Days 1 Hour ago by: Paul

Check for QT4 or QT5 ? That's the first thing I look for, when there is bloat. QT makes it easy to be cross-platform, but things like internationalization tend to blow up the size. Paul

Re: OT: linux and who is using that port (thread)

Posted: 25 Days 1 Hour ago by: Paul

The best I can do on the text table, was to load the HTML link into LibreOffice Writer, then Export As PDF and that was a 98 KB PDF. It uses LiberationSerif font (plain and bold) for rendering, using its own TrueType font. So that might b

Re: Gaining access to a PC where user has forgotten the login (thread)

Posted: 25 Days 1 Hour ago by: DanS

"Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote in news:k5jkpqFsbmpU2@mid.individual.net: Probably not. Don't get me wrong, it's not _everyone_ in [pick your favorite Linux newsgroup that isn't an 'advocay' group], but enough of them.

Posted: 25 Days 1 Hour ago by: Graham J

[snip] So now you absolutely MUST create a Local Admin account with a password that only you know - and write down securely - so that at least you can get into the computer when your customer next forgets his password. Having done tha

Re: Save As - Icons vs Details (thread)

Re: Gaining access to a PC where user has forgotten the login (thread)

Posted: 25 Days 1 Hour ago by: Newyana2

"croy" <croy@spam.invalid.net> wrote | I've managed to get Windows Explorer to always show details instead of icons to represent | files, but whenever I'm working in an application, and go to Save As, huge icons appear, where | I would p

Re: Warning about Microsoft Print to PDF (thread)

Posted: 25 Days 2 Hours ago by: Carlos E.R.

.... I buy a new small notebook, where I write some details about the configuration, keys or procedures needed to enter boot or bios config, and login/passwords, then give it as a gift to the person. Don't loose it. However, it can

Re: Gaining access to a PC where user has forgotten the login (thread)

Posted: 25 Days 2 Hours ago by: Paul

Microsoft stores this inside a PDF, when the PDF is made. Notice to store this page, takes 1 megabyte of data. This file was extracted using the mutool extract command on a PDF file from a browser web page. https://i.postimg.cc/Kzw

Re: Warning about Microsoft Print to PDF (thread)

Posted: 25 Days 2 Hours ago by: NY

Good news in this saga. I broke the deadly-embrace of "forgotten password" mechanisms without needing to bypass Windows security or create a new Admin account. I managed to talk to someone from TalkTalk whom I persuaded to change the

Re: Warning about Microsoft Print to PDF (thread)

Posted: 25 Days 4 Hours ago by: Carlos E.R.

in my Linux, that page in FF, print to pdf, takes 92K. cer@Telcontar:~> pdfinfo Czechoslovakia\ -\ List\ of\ Second\ Level\ League\ Tables\ 1970-1993.pdf Creator: Mozilla Firefox Producer: cairo 1.17.4 (https://cairograph

chrome://blank versus chrome://newtab versus chrome://settings/siteData versus chrome://settings/clearBrowserData

Posted: 25 Days 4 Hours ago by: Carlos E.R.

PDF output can be a rendered photo, or not. And photos are generated thinking of the "printer" resolution. This effects file size. You can render a page of text as text with format, or as a photo. That affects size. Fonts can be embed

Re: Warning about Microsoft Print to PDF (thread)

Posted: 25 Days 6 Hours ago by: allen

I have my startup pages set to open to a new tab in addition to cleaning out the local stored data and history kind of stuff but what I'd like to know is how can I tell if any of them are going to the Internet to do it? Startup pages are

Posted: 25 Days 6 Hours ago by: Ken Blake

I had never heard of it before, but I just downloaded it and will try it for a while. So far it looks very good. It does a lot of things, so it may be a better choice than Foxit, which I've been using..

Posted: 25 Days 7 Hours ago by: Jim the Geordie

day. window I have done it but have had problems a) I did it because I prefer Outlook to Thunderbird, but uninstalling my Outlook 2010 has removed my profiles and hence my address books - are they hiding somewhere or am I stuffed? b) T

Save As - Icons vs Details

Re: Warning about Microsoft Print to PDF (thread)

Posted: 25 Days 7 Hours ago by: croy

New to Windows 10. I've managed to get Windows Explorer to always show details instead of icons to represent files, but whenever I'm working in an application, and go to Save As, huge icons appear, where I would prefer details. This didn'

Re: Warning about Microsoft Print to PDF (thread)

Posted: 25 Days 7 Hours ago by: Mr. Man-wai Chang

Because it printed to an image, which was then converted back into PDF? I think the quality setting mattered. Not sure whether CutePDF actually convert text in the input document to actually text fonts in a PDF.

Re: Warning about Microsoft Print to PDF (thread)

Posted: 25 Days 8 Hours ago by: croy

One small programme... only 288 MB.

Re: Warning about Microsoft Print to PDF (thread)

Posted: 25 Days 14 Hours ago by: wasbit

Nice programme. I've used it for several years instead of PDF-Exchange & PDF Creator because it does so much in one small programme. Both PDF24 & PDF Creator have compression options - https://www.pdf24.org/ - https://sourceforge.ne

Re: Microsoft’s_Phone_Link_app_now_lets_you_use

Posted: 25 Days 22 Hours ago by: ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ

I seldom have a need for MSFT Print to PDF but have used it. Probably never concerned about the file size. Testing today on Win 10/Win11 Pro - 4 page HTML and Text blog article printed in Edge or Chrome with MSFT Print to PDF was unde

Re: Microsoft’s_Phone_Link_app_now_lets_you_use

Posted: 26 Days 1 Hour ago by: FromTheRafters

Might be more detail in M$'s blog which was published recently. https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2023/02/28/previewing-phone-link-for-iphone-users-on-windows-11-with-windows-insiders/ M$ says "you'll be asked to grant a set of

Posted: 26 Days 1 Hour ago by: Andy Burnelli

Hi badgolferman, I text from my PC all the time so I am glad you brought up this topic. I had tested (long ago) the Microsoft phone link (they keep changing its name just like most big companies do with projects that keep failing but w

Posted: 26 Days 1 Hour ago by: Zaidy036

Really? If you think that then nobody is and since a lot of the computer hardware and code was developed by them you should not be using any of it.

Posted: 26 Days 2 Hours ago by: FromTheRafters

A cryptography 'jargon' term for an exhaustive key search.

Posted: 26 Days 2 Hours ago by: Commander Kinsey

Why make it memorable? (Not that I'd ever remember what you just chose) I just save them all in a text file, and also let the browser remember them. If someone breaks into my house the last thing I'd care about is getting into some on

Posted: 26 Days 3 Hours ago by: Commander Kinsey

I once ran a security check on my computer, which scanned from an outside website, and apparently it wa 100% tightly shielded and even broke a load of RFCs by not responding.

Re: Warning about Microsoft Print to PDF (thread)

Posted: 26 Days 3 Hours ago by: Commander Kinsey

Encryption level is irrelevant if you're trying passwords.

Posted: 26 Days 3 Hours ago by: Paul

But what is wrong with that, is it should be smaller still!!! That's still bloated and silly, for plain text. To get to 109KB, most of that is the Type42 font they put in there. It is not your text. ************* sample text to print,

Posted: 26 Days 3 Hours ago by: Commander Kinsey

Posted: 26 Days 3 Hours ago by: Commander Kinsey

Everybody knows what brute force is.

Posted: 26 Days 3 Hours ago by: Commander Kinsey

No, you listen with a stethoscope to see if you get a number right. Or if the lock is shit, you can pull it slightly further apart when one number is correct. Mind you, a combination lock doesn't encrypt the contents, so you can just u

Re: Warning about Microsoft Print to PDF (thread)

Posted: 26 Days 3 Hours ago by: Commander Kinsey

They're not human. Especially if it's a password like I use. Press the shift slowly on and off, while mashing the other hand on the letters and numbers. So you get capitals, lower case, symbols, and numbers.

Re: Warning about Microsoft Print to PDF (thread)

Posted: 26 Days 4 Hours ago by: Andy Burnelli

So that everyone benefits from every bit of new information, we should probably be cc'ing the comp.text.pdf folks, as they know a lot of this. <https://groups.google.com/g/comp.text.pdf> <https://groups.google.com/g/alt.comp.microsoft.

Re: Warning about Microsoft Print to PDF (thread)

Posted: 26 Days 7 Hours ago by: Stan Brown

By "disables the option" do you mean "forces color mode," like Microsoft Print to PDF?

Re: Warning about Microsoft Print to PDF (thread)

Posted: 26 Days 7 Hours ago by: Stan Brown

Mutools creates a new PDF composed of any selected pages from one or more existing PDFs. There are both an open source version and a commercial version; however, there are precompiled Windows binaries of the open-source version. <http

Re: Warning about Microsoft Print to PDF (thread)

Posted: 26 Days 8 Hours ago by: Ammammata

yes, I missed 'web', so I tried again using https://www.rsssf.org/ home page it's about 30kb text, plus 2 images final PDF is 709 Kb then I tried another one, text only: https://www.rsssf.org/tablest/tsjsl2hist.html it's about 70kb tex

Re: Warning about Microsoft Print to PDF (thread)

Posted: 26 Days 9 Hours ago by: VanguardLH

But a "web page", while all HTML is all text, is not a per se text file. There could be hundreds of referenced resources, all the HTML tags around the text, lots of comments, formatting, CSS for styling, and so on. I don't recall ever s

Re: Warning about Microsoft Print to PDF (thread)

Posted: 26 Days 10 Hours ago by: Ammammata

false (?) just used a 10-pages text file, printing from notepad++, the PDF is 109 kb Microsoft Print to PDF has standard settings, I never changed any of them

Re: Warning about Microsoft Print to PDF (thread)

Posted: 26 Days 11 Hours ago by: Michael Logies

https://www.pdf24.org/

Re: Warning about Microsoft Print to PDF (thread)

Posted: 26 Days 12 Hours ago by: Paul

One of the reasons to create "new and shiny software", is to put fresh brokenness in it. What I'm seeing here, in the giant files, is 1) Microsoft printing has switched to Type42 fonts. These involve huge wodges of ascii-hex. 2) Mi

Re: Warning about Microsoft Print to PDF (thread)

Posted: 26 Days 14 Hours ago by: wasbit

Thanks.

Re: Warning about Microsoft Print to PDF (thread)

Posted: 26 Days 15 Hours ago by: VanguardLH

I mentioned (in a reply to myself) the Save to PDF in web browsers about 2-1/2 hours before your reply. I only tested Firefox. I omitted testing Edge/Chrome and Chrome. In Firefox, color mode for output was disabled (as it is for the

Posted: 26 Days 15 Hours ago by: Andy Burns

For web pages, most browsers now have built-in save/print to PDF too. I like bullzip, the reason I started using it many years ago, was for the ability to merge a 'watermark' PDF with the output, the equivalent of pre-printed letterhe

Re: Warning about Microsoft Print to PDF (thread)

Posted: 26 Days 17 Hours ago by: Char Jackson

I'm easily impressed. :)

Re: Warning about Microsoft Print to PDF (thread)

Posted: 26 Days 18 Hours ago by: Bill

I have been happily using PDFCreator for a few decades. The only tinkering I have done with it: After you install it, each of your pdf files will show a big icon on the desktop which I find distracting and ugly--so I reassign a more mo

Re: Warning about Microsoft Print to PDF (thread)

Posted: 26 Days 18 Hours ago by: VanguardLH

Oh, I didn't test output .pdf file sizes using Save to PDF included in web browsers (i.e., Firefox, Edge/Chrome, Chrome). I decided to test just one: Firefox's Save to PDF. That also disables the color mode option, so I could only test

Re: Warning about Microsoft Print to PDF (thread)

Posted: 26 Days 18 Hours ago by: VanguardLH

I did a search using Startpage. I printed the web page. Results I got: - Bullzip PDF Printer (original, color): 970 KB - Bullzip PDF Printer (simplified, color): 75 KB - Bullzip PDF Printer (original, no color): 542 KB - Bullzip PDF P

Re: Warning about Microsoft Print to PDF (thread)

Posted: 26 Days 19 Hours ago by: Ant

.... https://reducepdfsize.com/ (old, but works for me)

Re: Sudoku in Excel (Re: Office on sale again $29) (thread)

Posted: 26 Days 19 Hours ago by: Andy Burnelli

Nothing wrong with CutePDF. And yes, I saw that you don't want to install a PDF shrinker. Since I already have the Adobe Acrobat Writer on Windows (because it's one of the only programs which both edits PDFs and creates a PDF of a web

Warning about Microsoft Print to PDF

Posted: 26 Days 22 Hours ago by: Stan Brown

I can see how that would work for the classic layout, nine 3×3 boxes, but it's a higher level of abstraction to set up for irregularly- shaped groups of nine. I'll ponder it some, but to be honest it's not a high priority for me.

Re: Sudoku in Excel (Re: Office on sale again $29) (thread)

Posted: 26 Days 23 Hours ago by: Stan Brown

When I got my Windows 10 computer late in 2021, I saw that Windows included Microsoft Print to PDF, so I didn't bother installing CutePDF, which I use on my Windows 8.1 laptop. But since then, I've noticed that Microsoft print to PDF cr

Re: Keyboard lag software for one side only for better typing? (thread)

Posted: 26 Days 23 Hours ago by: Char Jackson

I don't spend much time there anymore. At the time, my niece was deeply into solving the puzzles and she liked asking me if she was on the right track, so a completed puzzle was a big help to me. She has since moved to other things, so S

Re: Keyboard lag software for one side only for better typing? (thread)

Posted: 27 Days 1 Hour ago by: Snit

I know macOS has a setting where you have to hold a key down for X time before it registers. Windows might. macOS has it, and I have it on. Explains some of my typos.

Re: Keyboard lag software for one side only for better typing? (thread)

Posted: 27 Days 2 Hours ago by: Commander Kinsey

I guess if I welded two keyboards together, and got the computer to somehow delay typing from one of them.... Must be a circuit that could be placed in series on the USB cable. Or I suppose a really clever circuit that looked at the ke

Re: Keyboard lag software for one side only for better typing? (thread)

Posted: 27 Days 6 Hours ago by: Snit

Posted: 27 Days 6 Hours ago by: David Brooks

It's good to know that you appreciate my subtlety! :-D

Re: Keyboard lag software for one side only for better typing? (thread)

Posted: 27 Days 7 Hours ago by: Big Al

Yes, that's amazing. Didn't read to see if it explained HOW, but the output is great.

Re: Keyboard lag software for one side only for better typing? (thread)

Posted: 27 Days 8 Hours ago by: Snit

It is good... but hardly perfect. And you just did advise him. :)

Posted: 27 Days 8 Hours ago by: David Brooks

Perhaps you could advise him on how good speech to text is nowadays? You are certainly very quick when using Messages. Fairly accurate too. :-)

Posted: 27 Days 8 Hours ago by: Ken Blake

Incredible. To me, it's not *world class* art, but I'm greatly impressed by his ability to do this. I would have thought it was impossible.

Re: Keyboard lag software for one side only for better typing? (thread)

Posted: 27 Days 8 Hours ago by: Ken Blake

My view is based on the experience I've had with them--sometimes a lot (with OneNote, Outlook, and Word, for example), sometimes relatively little (with Excel and Powerpoint). When I've had no experience (such as with Teams), I either h

Sudoku in Excel (Re: Office on sale again $29) (thread)

Posted: 27 Days 11 Hours ago by: Big Al

I wouldn't say it that strongly, but I kind of agree. I flip letters around some times too, but I sort of think the letters as I'm typing them and I try to type like piano teachers do with a metronome in my head. Slows down the speedy

Re: OT: linux and who is using that port (thread)

Posted: 27 Days 11 Hours ago by: Stan Brown

Now you're playing my song! I spend an inordinate amount of time working sudokus. Sometimes I use this as an aid: https://sudoku-help.com/ What I like is that it _doesn't_ solve, just does the bookkeeping via row, column, and box rule

Re: Gaining access to a PC where user has forgotten the login (thread)

Posted: 27 Days 13 Hours ago by: Adrian Caspersz

I'm currently coding PowerShell on Linux for a web project that is a bit similar in inception to Jekyll without using Ruby. Light years ahead of Bash or Cmd.

Re: Keyboard lag software for one side only for better typing? (thread)

Posted: 27 Days 14 Hours ago by: wasbit

I've used the freeware Offline NT to reset a local account password before - https://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/ Major Geeks notes that their zip contains the files to run from either a DVD (& presumably CD) or USB - https://www.m

Re: Gaining access to a PC where user has forgotten the login (thread)

Posted: 27 Days 14 Hours ago by: 😎 Mighty Wannabe

You are full of shit. You should find a software to learn to type properly. Try these typing tutor software: https://portableapps.com/apps/education/typefaster_portable https://rapidtyping.com/downloads.html

Re: Keyboard lag software for one side only for better typing? (thread)

Posted: 27 Days 15 Hours ago by: ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ

A MSA(Microsoft Account) has multiple configurations for: a. Signing on b. Security Where (a) signing on by default is the MSFT Account email address and password via web site url account.microsoft.com Where (b) is the security con

Re: Keyboard lag software for one side only for better typing? (thread)

Posted: 27 Days 17 Hours ago by: Joel

OK, dude, you not only have this weird issue to begin with, but you want a software solution? Are you one of these morons who thinks there's a pill for every problem, or some shit, I'll just install some amazing new software to help me

Keyboard lag software for one side only for better typing?

Posted: 27 Days 17 Hours ago by: Snit

Not that I find with a quick search.

Re: Gaining access to a PC where user has forgotten the login password (using Micrsoft account rather than local account) (thread)

Posted: 27 Days 17 Hours ago by: Commander Kinsey

Is there any software to introduce a lag on one side of the keyboard to compensate for one hand typing faster than the other and making mistakes? Most people have a dominant hand. Mine is the right. So if I type "from", I get "form" beca

Posted: 27 Days 20 Hours ago by: VanguardLH

This user doesn't have a smartphone he uses to web browser and perhaps have e-mail apps on it to the same MS account?

Posted: 27 Days 21 Hours ago by: ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ

Yes. But since Office's activation(for many years) on stand-alone and subscription is tied to an MSA during installation(and later use) the same MSA should be used when installing/activating on the next device - Note: it would be hig

Posted: 27 Days 21 Hours ago by: Alan Browne

That's amazing. There's a math YouTuber who has shown massive spreadsheets with each cell being an image pixel.... Fun stuff.

Posted: 27 Days 22 Hours ago by: Char Jackson

I also use Excel quite a bit. In addition to things that are typically done with a spreadsheet, I use it as a text editor, I use it when I need columns or other structured formatting containing any kind of data, and I use it as a (limite

Posted: 27 Days 23 Hours ago by: Alan Browne

In the " I don't know but " department I've never had problems moving MS Office from machine to machine (in the Mac world anyway). Or, recently, moved a Win10 license from a Mac Mini VM to an iMac VM.

Re: Gaining access to a PC where user has forgotten the login (thread)

Posted: 27 Days 23 Hours ago by: Alan Browne

If you don't use them much, how can you have "a view"? Personally I use Excel a lot. Like many times per day for many different things (Work and personal). Word - often. Powerpoint - often-ish - not that much these days. Outlook - w

Posted: 1 Month ago by: Paul

Ah, yes. A password recovery spiral. For a local account, there were some hacks to cause an administrator command prompt to appear on the screen at startup. This allows a user to access the "password" command and change a lowly local acc

Re: Gaining access to a PC where user has forgotten the login password (using Micrsoft account rather than local account) (thread)

Posted: 1 Month ago by: allen

What is the limitation on use other than for $30, it's one PC at a time? If you retire that one PC, can the license be moved to another?

Re: Gaining access to a PC where user has forgotten the login password (using Micrsoft account rather than local account) (thread)

Posted: 1 Month ago by: NY

"VanguardLH" <V@nguard.LH> wrote in message news:1oomtpbw2hlgn$.dlg@v.nguard.lh... I did try that: Windows tries to use the email/phone detail that you configured when you created the user, but if offers to use a browser instead, with a

Posted: 1 Month ago by: NY

"Big Al" <Bears@invalid.com> wrote in message news:ttiibl$39kfd$2@dont-email.me... Hmmm. Yes, Firefox saves everything in nice files that you can copy from one PC to another (I did it when I got a new laptop and copied my saved-password

Re: Gaining access to a PC where user has forgotten the login (thread)

Posted: 1 Month ago by: ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ

Subsequent changes for 2016 ceased for the most part two years after intial release(Sept 2017) with only a few minor feature changes until 2019 initial release in fall 2018. With the advent of Microsoft 365(Home/Family - subscription mo

Posted: 1 Month ago by: Big Al

When access to password managers is so easy, one would think that people with thin memories would use a password manager. I use Bitwarden, and I can access it from anywhere, so I store my Windows login password there too.

Re: Gaining access to a PC where user has forgotten the login (thread)

Posted: 1 Month ago by: Ken Blake

Yes, it's a great price if you want Microsoft Office. I don't. First, I already have Microsoft Office 2016. Subsequent changes have been very minor, and I see no reason to spend *any* money for a newer version, especially since I use

Posted: 1 Month ago by: Carlos E.R.

.... I was going to suggest something like this. It should work if firefox has a local master password. If this is not set, I don't know if the login/pass data is protected or not.

Office on sale again $29

Re: Gaining access to a PC where user has forgotten the login password (using Micrsoft account rather than local account) (thread)

Posted: 1 Month ago by: sticks

I got an email today saying this price was only going to be for one day. Don't know if that's true or not. I bought this when it was $49 and am very glad I did. This $29 is a great price if you need it. <https://stacksocial.com/sales/

Re: Gaining access to a PC where user has forgotten the login (thread)

Posted: 1 Month ago by: VanguardLH

If security were easy to bypass, it wouldn't be worth a gnat's fart. Not matter which type of account you create when installing Windows, an administrator account ("Administrator") is always created. To see for yourself, in an elevated

Re: Gaining access to a PC where user has forgotten the login (thread)

Posted: 1 Month ago by: Big Al

If you want the browser passwords, I'd boot a live Linux CD, copy the browser profile folder like %APPDATA%\firefox to the /home/mint/.mozilla/firefox folder on the live cd while it's running. You could then launch firefox and see the p

Re: Gaining access to a PC where user has forgotten the login password (using Micrsoft account rather than local account) (thread)

Posted: 1 Month ago by: Big Al

I've seen this before (the site & directions), and it sounds like it should work.

Re: Gaining access to a PC where user has forgotten the login (thread)

Posted: 1 Month ago by: KenW

I believe there are password recovery programs around. Do a search for KenW

Gaining access to a PC where user has forgotten the login password (using Micrsoft account rather than local account)

Posted: 1 Month ago by: Graham J

[snip] It should be possible to create a "local administrator" account, see: <https://www.isumsoft.com/windows-10/create-administrator-account-when-cant-sign-in-windows-10.html> Google might find other ways ...

Posted: 1 Month ago by: NY

I have a customer with a Windows 10 PC which is blocking attempts to login, using (as far as he knows) the same Windows password that always worked. The PC is set to use a Microsoft account rather than a local account (I knew there was a

Re: thunderbird hanging the cpu (thread)

Posted: 1 Month ago by: Paul

I did some more work on this. The plan was to load 15GB of mails into my mail server. Well, I could use Thunderbird to "send" the messages, to get the mails into the server. That was the plan. The web page said one of the limits of Th

Re: 1.66 TB free of 1.63TB (thread)

Posted: 1 Month ago by: Char Jackson

That's called syslog, and there are free syslog servers for all of the major platforms. On Windows, I use the Kiwi syslog server from solarwinds but there are a handful of others. https://www.solarwinds.com/free-tools/kiwi-free-syslog-s

Posted: 1 Month 1 Day ago by: Dale

most of the backups I do are on multiple drives

Posted: 1 Month 1 Day ago by: Ken Blake

Of course they are. It's a poor way to do backups, but they *are* backups. And poor as that kind of backing up is, it's better than no backup at all. Yes, and that's why it's a poor way to do backups.

Posted: 1 Month 1 Day ago by: knuttle

There are two reason for a back up, archival and safety. Archival is obvious, you back up a file for long term storage, and disaster recovery. You are right these need to be in a remote location. Safety is not as obvious. Many people

Re: 1.66 TB free of 1.63TB (thread)

Posted: 1 Month 1 Day ago by: Paul

Good work :-) I hope some day we can find out why the router didn't corrupt something and what it's doing when it does stuff like that. My router has a logging feature, where you specify an IP address and it can send the log to that no

Re: 1.66 TB free of 1.63TB (thread)

Posted: 1 Month 1 Day ago by: Ed Cryer

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Posted: 1 Month 1 Day ago by: Paul

This is a desktop control, for switching ON or OFF USB storage devices. https://www.amazon.ca/Sabrent-Individual-Switches-included-HB-UMP3/dp/B00TPMEOYM You would switch ON just one port, so one USB stick is enabled. Do your copy. D

Posted: 1 Month 1 Day ago by: VanguardLH

Sym links are not copies of folders or files. They are just links. If you delete a sym link, the file it points at continues to exist. There are soft and hard links. Soft links let you have multiple pointers to the SAME file (or fold

Posted: 1 Month 1 Day ago by: nospam

copies of a file on the same drive are not backups. if the drive fails, or the computer lost or stolen, you lose *all* copies.

Posted: 1 Month 1 Day ago by: knuttle

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Posted: 1 Month 1 Day ago by: Dale

multiple backups

Posted: 1 Month 1 Day ago by: Paul

Are you protecting against accidental erasure ? Do you want to keep old copies in case you make a mistake ? Do you want a backup on an external storage device, for safety purposes ? Tell us a story about your plan and what you hope to