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Reply to If I ever buy a Lenovo, feel free to shoot me. in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

nah. not malware i don't think. ran malwarebytes and it got rid of some pup. think it's part of the bloatware that came with the machine. because it got changed again later on (think after some bloatware update) and malwarebytes didn't find anything. not on the same scale, but essentially the same crap. oems installing all sorts of rubbish and trying their best to make sure you can't get rid of them. this one uses ms anti-theft measures to do it. <p

Reply to My PC going zombie? in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

... i don't think browser is the problem if your connection manager says there are problems. as for 2 - eh. so you have absolutely no access to the router and your machine + router do not have ethernet ports?

Reply to If I ever buy a Lenovo, feel free to shoot me. in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

heh. my uncle had an acer.. and something in there keeps changing homepages to some websearch rubbish

Reply to Any word on running SK on Win10? in Sorcerer King Elemental Forums

no idea. i would imagine it should say 12.. though....are you using nvidia hardware? it says... disable mfaa to see dx12. XD https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/860540/geforce-900-series/windows-10-dxdiag-show-directx11-3-on-gtx-970-please-help-/ http://www.tenforums.com/software-apps/9709-direct-x-11-3-overwrote-12-a.html

Reply to Any word on running SK on Win10? in Sorcerer King Elemental Forums

[quote who="a0152570" reply="1" id="3577453"] been running W10 for days now, 2 2idderent machines, no issues with SK. Dx12 - good question, thought it was automatic, but says i am running Dx 11 [/quote] games (and other programs) will only use dx whatever that they've been written for. win 10 comes with dx12, but if games are written for.... dx9 or 11, then they'll be using 9 or 11. i seriously doubt they'll do a dx12 version.

Reply to Windows 10 Windows Update Issue in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

i know what you are saying. just being paranoid because of that 30 day thing. (if you don't downgrade within 30 days, you are stuck with win 10 and your win 8 key invalidated. don't know how they define downgrade aside from using the rollback from within win 10) and like i mention earlier, the article above basically says you don't need a cdkey if you are re-installing on the same hardware because somehow ms knows... [quote]quote from that article off

Reply to Windows 10 Windows Update Issue in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

when you say it's the cd key used to upgrade to win 10... that means it's the win 8 cdkey? i have a feeling you don't need the cd key at all during the clean install.... if your machine has been activated already with win 10. it should reactivate itself again. http://www.ghacks.net/2015/07/29/how-to-do-a-clean-install-of-windows-10/ (around middle of the page) as for wiping it and installing win 8. you might encounter license p

Reply to My PC going zombie? in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

just use vlc. don't need to fiddle with codecs

Reply to My PC going zombie? in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

when you say you can't connect to the web... does it mean the connection icon thing (in sys tray) say no connection (big red cross/yellow warning sign) or does it say there's a connection but you can't actually get anywhere. (eg.. ping anything and the ip is resolved to 1.1.1.1 or some rubbish) is it that pc only? or maybe it's the router? (aside from that... no idea.. i know my router goes on the fritz from time to time giving the sympton i described...

Reply to Windows 10 Windows Update Issue in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

maybe that's why it's down XD and maybe he dodged a bullet http://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-10-cumulative-update-causes-reboot-loop-havoc-for-some-users/ === i'm thinking.. when i get around to doing a fresh win 7 install on the new machine (whenever i buy it, that is.... funny thing.. read that skylake and win 7 install.... don't go together well.. need to flip some switch in bios before it can even be done.. and can't be done via usb eit

Reply to Windows 10 Windows Update Issue in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

eh.... does that mean you have a retail win 10 copy? but used the free upgrade instead?

Reply to MS: “All your base is belong to us”. Using your bandwidth to update other PCs. in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

http://www.ghacks.net/2015/07/31/tip-how-to-resume-the-windows-10-installation-media-creation-process/ might be useful for you.

Reply to W10’s Update/upgrade schedule in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

btw... if you plan on upgrading... have a look at your antivirus/security suite for proper compatibility 1st... for example, from what i read in their forum, kaspersky 2016 is supposedly compatible but apparently has some caveats. and bugs. not to mention what steps to take (with the av/etc) to prepare for the upgrade

Reply to W10’s Update/upgrade schedule in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/07/30/windows-10-privacy-settings/ http://www.ghacks.net/2015/07/30/windows-10-and-privacy/ far more concerning than forced updates. wonder if anyone dug through and compared the eula between the beta and retail.. especially the keylogging bits.

Reply to W10’s Update/upgrade schedule in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

i seriously don't understand what the hang up is about 8 months. if a machine has been sitting on the shelf for 8 months.. then when someone buys it and turn it on.. one would imagine it'll have a load of old updates autoinstalled as soon as it connects to the net. to bring it up to speed in stages... before dumping yet another load of updates after that. sort of like you have to install sp1 before sp2, etc, except it'll be automatically done if it hasn't been manually done be

Reply to Mandatory Updating, eh? KB3074681 Shows why this is a bad idea. in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

[quote who="Daiwa" reply="16" id="3576348"] Now we have "Important" update KB2952664, described by MS as follows: This update helps Microsoft make improvements to the current operating system in order to ease the upgrade experience to the latest version of Windows. Tells me nothing, and my experience doesn't need easing, so I don't think so. [/quote] that's part of the nagging

Reply to “Mandatory Updates” for home users “relaxed” by MS in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

i don't think antivirus helps any if you don't patch holes.

Reply to MS has released a tool to hide updates or pick and choose which ones to install. in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

i thought you dont need uefi for win 10. it's only mandatory for oem building new machines, like in win8? http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-10-specifications

Reply to Mandatory Updating, eh? KB3074681 Shows why this is a bad idea. in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

why the hell was it autoupdating 3rd party stuff like drivers in the 1st place? at least there's now a hide update thing.

Reply to Using DNA to store Exabytes of data in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

your keyword is "store"... not "retrieve" in any sort of reasonable speed or "search". someone will open up the vault and find a whole load of dust thinking whatever it was has crumbled XD

Reply to Microsoft: Bait and switch. in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

you've got 1 year to get it for free. so there's no real rush.

Reply to Microsoft: Bait and switch. in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

eh.. depends on what you mean. you don't have to use windows at all. ever. but you might not be able to play a lot of games. and definitely won't be able to play dx12 only games (probably will take a while for that to happen). aside from that. there might be some programs that are windows only. no idea what they are, but they probably won't be your average day to day usage ones. obviously, when you buy a new machine, it'll probably come with win1

Reply to MS’s update policy for W10 will be…interesting. in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

[quote who="DaveRI" reply="5" id="3572914"] In the same FAQ Page, about 1/3 of the way down, there is this: ________________________________ " Can I uninstall Windows 10 if I do not like it or something goes wrong? Yes, you can see the following: How to: Rollback..... " with a link to here: <a href="https://techingiteasy.wordpress.com/2015/03/24/how-to-rollback-to-a-previous-version-of-windows

Reply to Edge: MS says it’s the fastest W10 browser? Is it? in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

yeah, that's what i mean. it might be faster because it's bare. even if you compare with other browsers without installing add-ons.

Reply to W10’s Update/upgrade schedule in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

[quote who="Wizard1956" reply="15" id="3574369"] And what happens if one buys a used PC or laptop that has Pro on it that gone beyond those 8 months due to it sitting on a shelf somewhere? No updates forever, or buy a copy of the OS to do a complete reinstall? The entire concept stinks. [e digicons]>:([/e] [/quote] what? i think it'll just auto update. also don't understand why you would have to buy a copy to do a rein