My regular one is like this for the most part. It's just my mom's that's been having a rough transition.
I do too. I liked it. Closest to it was 7.
Windows 10....one year later....disscussion, thoughts.
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Word. Speaking of which... their updates got postponed due to a flaw.
https://arstechnica.com/information...tch-tuesday-as-world-awaits-fix-for-smb-flaw/
http://www.pcworld.com/article/3169...ft-shelves-all-february-security-updates.html
https://www.onmsft.com/news/microsoft-delays-february-patch-tuesday-update
*insert sad trombone sounds*
Not.
Glad that this update was postponed.
I like that new UI, but then again, I love the UI for 10 and other than a couple of miner issues at the beginning, I've not had any problems with 10. My work PC was running on 7 when I started and I promptly updated it to 10 after a few weeks because I am so used to that now and prefer it.
As a Mac guy, I really like Windows 10. I've had no real issues jumping back and forth between the two. Win10 runs really well on my iMac, I've had no performance or systems issues since loading it.
Yea. I'm not looking forward to it. And I hope it's not too big of an update. I only have so much space to work with. Thankfully my laptop hasn't run into too many hiccups. My mom's on the other hand, has. It's been a pain in the butt.Its getting worse and worse so it seems..I mean, come on, in the past it took M$ about a year and a service pack to iron out most flaws in its OS's and now they only seem to pile up problem after problem...
I think I found the cause of my computer's sluggishness. It's not Windows 10, thank goodness. Somehow a piece of "potentially unwanted software" got installed, but it went undetected by two different anti-virus programs and two different anti-malware programs, and I had to uninstall it manually. 
Kor
Kor
Dang that's frustrating. Where was it trying to hide?I think I found the cause of my computer's sluggishness. It's not Windows 10, thank goodness. Somehow a piece of "potentially unwanted software" got installed, but it went undetected by two different anti-virus programs and two different anti-malware programs, and I had to uninstall it manually.
Kor
I hate itunes right now. The annoying beep sound is back. The one I thought was taken care of when I uninstalled and reinstalled you. Ugh. Nothing more than a temp band-aid I guess. It’s the only program where I run into this problem while listening to music.
It got to the point before where it made me pc freeze. It was pretty random too. Not just certain songs. And it was a 'bzzzzt' like sound.
Anyone else out there who’s dealt with this issue via Windows 10 and itunes?
With what? My router?
I just had my pc checked out and everything was ok on it. Apart from my hard drive which was replaced for being defective.
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Each device (even the ones built onto the motherboard) uses an interrupt channel to communicate. If two of the devices, say the soundcard and the video card, somehow get assigned the same interrupt it can cause conflicts. The two places you need to check out are in CMOS and device manager to see if anything is sharing the same interrupt and change it if possible.
It's pretty rare these days, Usually Windows is smart enough to sort it out, but it's still possible.
It's pretty rare these days, Usually Windows is smart enough to sort it out, but it's still possible.
Where is the CMOS located?
I came across something a bit interesting in the device manager.
I have an AMD High Definition Audio device (which I disabled, keeping the speakers going -- as the former doesn't seem to be installed).
And this came up about the AMD audio device, location wise: Location 0 (Internal High Definition Audio Bus)
The latter: on High Definition Audio Device (okkkay, doesn't give me much to go off of); scratch that -- just found out it is the SAME location. Location 0.
I came across something a bit interesting in the device manager.
I have an AMD High Definition Audio device (which I disabled, keeping the speakers going -- as the former doesn't seem to be installed).
And this came up about the AMD audio device, location wise: Location 0 (Internal High Definition Audio Bus)
The latter: on High Definition Audio Device (okkkay, doesn't give me much to go off of); scratch that -- just found out it is the SAME location. Location 0.
The audio bus is just that it's a data bus for the audio device you are using, which is usually the onboard audio controller on your motherboard.
I think I found the cause of my computer's sluggishness. It's not Windows 10, thank goodness. Somehow a piece of "potentially unwanted software" got installed, but it went undetected by two different anti-virus programs and two different anti-malware programs, and I had to uninstall it manually.
Kor
That's the frustrating thing I can't seem to get through a friend of mine's head. He seems to think one running anti-virus program will keep his computer clean. That even if it finds something, it'll clean it up completely. And that the program will also keep any possible instrusions out from real-time checking. Or that he can just install multiple programs and that would be that.
I was completely unable to get him to understand basic stuff, no matter how many times I tried to tell him. He couldn't get that a program only finds what it knows to look for and that any guesses, are jsut that -- guesses, which can be wrong or just false positives. Or that one program will not find everything or even find anything at all and that it can give false positives, so you run multiple scans from different kidns of programs. And it took me having to try and install another anti-virus program on the computer and having it fail because there was already one on there, to get him to understand that doesn't really work. Some dipshit from where he got his computer, knew that, but sold him the seperate disc with another program anyway. And then I tried to tell him there are not only different kinds of programs for different kinds of threats but that one key thing you also need to do is run them in Safe Mode, so they programs cant' get access to the internet and potentially re-sintall themselves or something else. Nope, didn't register with him.
His program was going to sites he shouldn't have been going to, to the point he got infected multiple times and at one point called a phone number that came up on one of the pop-up scam sites, for help getting his comptuer uninfected, and broguht the phone to me. Get ready for this shit -- this is mind boggling:
* He called the number.
* He let the guy talk him into letting the scammer into his computer over the web (who knows what this guy did to it).
* The scammer, some Indian dude, then convinced him his other computer was infected, too, the one I was on at the moment he handed me the phone, and that the Indian guy needed to get into it, too, to help clear up the mess.
* And that to clear up the mess, my friend needed to buy a yearly subscription to some program that costed several hundred dollars. And he was going to do it.
I sniffed this loser scammer out and pretended to play dumb and get his number and call him back. LOL, no way.
I worked on the computer, cleaned it up the best I could without expert help, then told me friend the absolute idiocy of what happened: he honestly thought that HP was monitoring what he was doing online in real time, saw that he got infected, poppped up a window with some number to call an HP representative. Good God. Even then, I could not get him to understand it doesn't matter what the scammer says, the scammer is lying; he can say he works for any company. He couldn't get (he's fallen for somethign similar before). And he still thought getting the scam program that costs hundreds of dollars was needed, but I had to tell him again this was some scammer trying to bilk him out of hundreds and hundreds of dollars.
Anyway, the comptuer ended up being screwed up enough, we found out later, that he had to get a new computer. He finally found some tech guy who told him what he wanted to hear: that he needed this certain progam and he'd be okay, so he said the tech guy told him what I had used was shit (which it wasn't, plus I never said it was for real-time protection anyway). He ignored me, thought this one program was a cure-all, ignored my warnigns about the stupid sites and practices he was doing online, and in short order promptly got his computer so screwed up, that he re-installed windows without asking me for help. I don't know if he picked that up from the tech guy or if he got it elsewhere, but I found out that happened.
I tried to help keep his computer clean, but anytime something didn't work right or he didn't have some button on Yahoo or Gmail that was wholly unecessary and only for stupidly lazy people who can't tape into the address bar, he blamed the scans. I eventually stopped working on his computer. I washed my hands of it. I'm sure it's infected now or any time it gets messed up he does what he thinks will be a cure-all and re-install Windows again. The day will come some keylogger of hack will get personal information or that he'll get some vicious piece of malware that doesn't go away even when re-installing Windows, and he'll learn a hard lesson. Eh, probably not.
By the way, Kor, make sure you run the programs in Safe Mode as well. And as an added bonus for a program you don't have to install if you dont' want (though a definitions library is temporarily downloaded), you can try the deep one-time free scanner was ESET online.
^ Oh shit that was bad.
Just on installs can't you just reformat the hard disk and clean install or do some viruses, malware hide inside the boot sector?
Just on installs can't you just reformat the hard disk and clean install or do some viruses, malware hide inside the boot sector?
I remember the days when you had to muck around with the IRQ and DMA settings if you had too many cards in your pc. Fun times (along with altering the memory for specific software)
I remember when you had to set them using tweezers to move jumpers on the motherboard.
I'd forgotten about that. Fortunately, I don't think I had to do that more than once.
Ah. So maybe it's just an annoying itunes bug. I'll just not use it while I'm surfing the web. It works ok when I'm just using it on its own.
So far i'm inclined to call Win10 the best OS Microsoft has ever produced.
Not a single glitch, runs smooth and well and once i got used to it i started to even like the new features like the tiles. Only major drawback i had at the beginning was trying to access external drives from my old Windows machine, somehow the access rights got screwed up and it took me a while to sort it out.
Not a single glitch, runs smooth and well and once i got used to it i started to even like the new features like the tiles. Only major drawback i had at the beginning was trying to access external drives from my old Windows machine, somehow the access rights got screwed up and it took me a while to sort it out.
