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Reply to any idea how to hide cd/dvd drive in win10 in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

XD new machine. the old machine did the same thing.. or rather i did the same thing with the old machine. hell, the dvd drive in the old machine bites discs (it opens and then shuts immediately).. moving it to the tail end doesn't work, because it's already at the tail end (arbitarily named t:\) and the drive that i extract/move stuff to is the one right above that. i suppose i could move that drive above a different drive (away from the cd/dvd) so i won&

any idea how to hide cd/dvd drive in win10 in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

i don't mean disable it. i mean hide it or move it well away from the other drives when you use programs like 7zip and display the folder tree. when moving/extracting files, i keep misclicking the wrong drive and hitting the dvd drive instead of another hdd and causing the dvd drive tray to ram my case door. been doing it for years XD

Reply to New Point of Sale virus ModPOS…happy Black Friday. in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

it's not like you don't have to carry cards and what not with your wallet. unless your phone does it all. i think wom means they want to do away with cash. which last i read is the plan, what with the push to contactless (low or no transaction fee to merchants or something... compared to bog standard chip and pin/swipe card transactions), getting rid of certain denominations of coins (in certain places)

Reply to Another fun time with Win 10 in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

[quote who="RedneckDude" reply="5" id="3604348"] . [/quote] you are not telling me that we have to phone ms or something for that password?? (as in.. it being a ms password as opposed to user set one)

Reply to Another fun time with Win 10 in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

... private msg him? XD

Reply to MS giveth and MS taketh away in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

just use their media creation tool. or maybe give it a day just in case. .xD why the hell are they calling it the same build name.... if they fixed whatever it was..

Reply to “No email for you!”, says Yahoo to Adblock users in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

i had a quick look at some of the email services a few years back ... some of them ask for mobile phone numbers eh? i don't use mobiles.

Reply to MS giveth and MS taketh away in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

http://www.ghacks.net/2015/11/24/beware-latest-windows-10-update-may-remove-programs-automatically/ unclear to me what it means by removing program... as cpuz doesn't really need installation?

Reply to “No email for you!”, says Yahoo to Adblock users in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

sure it does. it still run most of british telecom's email. despite yahoo having had a huge data leak a few years back, bt has been bodging its migration away from that email provider.

Reply to MS giveth and MS taketh away in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

that only makes sense as a (1 month) delaying tactic XD http://www.ghacks.net/2015/11/22/microsoft-makes-windows-10-version-1511-a-windows-update-exclusive/ speculation of there being a key glitch not giving right version

Reply to MS giveth and MS taketh away in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

good thing i burnt the dvd...... and have the iso XD it's idiotic. the best thing for me with threshold 2 is that i can clean install win10 with win 7 key without messing about with upgrading 1st. afaik, trying to install win 7 on skylake requires a bit of fiddling. i guess they are trying to get people to buy win10 instead of using their old win7 retails keys when getting a new machine? whilst one can understand why recent win10 rtm installer

Reply to Windows 10 - no big deal... in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

well. i was posting a big wall of text about the new machine and somehow it didn't go through. forgot how to fix it. (allow stardock.net in noscript did the trick) suffice to say. just did a win10 clean install with win 7 key. painless, aside from choices i made, like doing it offline (just in case ms moans about having a win 7 machine connected to the net and installing a win10 machine with the same key.. just in cases installation goes wonky and i need to use the

Reply to Windows 10 - no big deal... in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

system should be arriving today, got question regarding drivers. should i let win 10 find/update drivers or go d/l them myself?

Reply to Windows 10 - no big deal... in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

yes. as mentioned before (top of this page). threshold 2 allows people to clean install with win 7/8 keys. ... i wonder how that'll go when i try to do a clean install on my new machine (whenever it arrives). might end up having to phone ms or something XD

Reply to Windows 10 - no big deal... in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

the november update (threshold 2) allows people to clean install (w/o upgrading 1st) with a win 7/8 key. or at least that's the theory... hence my comment (hey.. could have sworn i didn't see your reply there XD) ps... supposedly win10 newcomers (that is.. those who upgraded before threshold 2 came out) won't get threshold 2 until 30 days (or was it 31?) after their upgrade (as it'll wipe their restore to win 7->8 thingy).

Reply to Windows 10 - no big deal... in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

if you did it yesterday, couldn't you have just done a clean intall directly using win7/8 key with the latest win10 from this month? you don't need multiple licenses for multiboots?

Reply to Five Privacy Issues With W10 in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

it's not the hdd/ssd that was the issue with clean install. it's mostly the motherboard (maybe cpu too... no idea really)... so if you upgraded to win 10 with basically the same machine before aside from the storage, then it was already activated, hence why the clean install works. i'm assuming you are not using the insider versions, because i think some of the more recent ones allow people to clean install with win7/8 keys without going through the upgrade/activation thin

Reply to Windows 10 DVD? in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

... eh.. you don't need the product key for clean install. unless you are talking about the retail key. bit more details http://www.ghacks.net/2015/09/29/microsofts-official-windows-10-activation-guide/

Reply to Windows 10 DVD? in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/microsoft-reveals-windows-10-activation,30188.html

Reply to Who is the modern PC gamer? A look at GalCiv III players in GalCiv III Dev Journals Elemental Forums

1280x800 ftw! (that said.. i don't play galciv3)

Reply to Windows not Recognizing full 4Tb SSD/HD Hybrid Drive ( SOLVED ) in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

look at the software and manual the drive comes with.. usually something there. eg http://www.seagate.com/gb/en/support/downloads/beyond-2tb/ https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-performance/i-have-a-3-tb-drive-windows-7-ultimate-wont-format/b1cc3811-f25f-e011-8dfc-68b599b31bf5?auth=1

flash 19 in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

just downloaded and installed it. well... the npapi (firefox) version anyway... seems the activex (ie) version autoupdated itself but not npapi. weird. (saw the auto-updater/installer deemed safe in my security suite.) noticed that there's no tickbox to select/deselect the mcafee crap seen previously in the d/l page. nothing in the installation process. haven't seen any toolbars or whatever it was. don't see nothing in plugins/addons page once installation w

Reply to Five Privacy Issues With W10 in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

was going to mention this when i 1st read it a while back (only just figured out why i can't post replies here XD eff privacy badger blocked something) https://boingboing.net/2015/08/10/windows-10.html

Reply to Ubuntu installation not detecting installed Windows 10 [Solved] in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

if all fails, just install linux via virtualbox or some other virtual machine. a lot slower with older machines, less fiddly, and pretty much guaranteed not to screw up your windows. you can also mess with all the different linux flavours you want, not just *buntu obviously i'm assuming win10 will log everything you do in the vm as opposed to dualbooted... so that's a downside.

Reply to Ms's strategy for Windows flawed? in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

[quote who="WOM" reply="3" id="3580865"] Hehe, yeap and I'll stick with W7 as long as I can. [/quote] it's going to be more and more difficult to install older os on new machines... pfft.. eg skylake has no native usb 2 support whilst win 7 installation disc has no usb 3 support.. .so you need to stick the win 7 iso into a usb drive and eh... use some driver disc to load the usb via usb 3 or something to install (... eh.. basically mod the installati