alaknebs

alaknebs

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

well.. you would think in the 8 months, sys admins would have managed to set up a test machine witih the updates to make sure updating won't kill their system and update at their own pace well before that 8 months are up. surely it's better than something similar to people still using win server 2003 (or whatever it was) even though the plug has already been pulled last week?

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Reply to Adobe Flash “blocked” by default in Firefox for Flash versions lower than 18.0.0.203 in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

i don't think that's true. problem with news sites is that they don't update fast enough to keep up with current stuff XD https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/blocked/ only 203 and before are blocked..... 209 is okish till the next hole is found (no doubt soon!) --- no idea why 209 won't install for you.. maybe you should uninstall it completely and only use flash

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Reply to Adobe Flash “blocked” by default in Firefox for Flash versions lower than 18.0.0.203 in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

XD sorry. 18.0.0.209 don't forget to untick all the mcafee crap and remember to update all the versions that you need (ie - pre metro anyway, firefox) ps.. http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/ tells you which version is the latest.. and if you go to the flash player part of control panel (win) it'll tell you what version you have for which plugin.

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

i thought the whole point is to get as big a base of users as possible on win 10, then try to monetise via their store a la apple and what not (on the consumer side anyway). --- incidentally... i don't suppose anyone know if it's possible to downgrade back to 7 once you upgraded to 10 if you don't like it? that is.. would the 7 key still be valid?

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Reply to Emergency Patch for Adobe Flash in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

... 18 and 14? flash has 3 flavours.. so to speak.. the activex (ie), the npapi (firefox) and ppapi (chrome/opera)... some are bundled with the browser/os and don't need separate downloads. you might want to look at the flash module in your control panel to see which version of which flavour you have/need to update.

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Reply to free shareware Hebrew text in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

um... you can switch back and forth instantly by flipping ime (input method editor) within windows for free... so you have 2 ime.. english and hebrew (or more, depending on how many languages you want!) .. there's even a key shortcut for that (left alt + shift. can be changed to whatever combo you want.) seriously... try adding hebrew ime like i said above and see if it works ok for you.. i'm looking at the preview and it's got hebrew characters corresponding to whatever k

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Reply to If You Don't Think You Will Be Jumping to Win 10 in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

[quote who="Jafo" reply="35" id="3560306"] Because of the logic of clean installing as an ideal I'd expect 10 will allow it exactly the same as any other OS release. Too many people prefer the method...[e digicons];)[/e] [/quote] from what i read, only if you buy it retail... to get the free version, you'll need to upgrade an existing win 7/8/8.1 once.. then after, you can do clean installs on that machine... how? no idea. maybe you'll get

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Reply to free shareware Hebrew text in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

try... control panel -> region and languages -> keyboard languages -> change keyboards -> add -> hebrew see how that goes... the language packs.. i think it just makes the interface/menus display in various languages.

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Reply to If You Don't Think You Will Be Jumping to Win 10 in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

[quote who="harpo99999" reply="28" id="3559776"] and after I had removed said 'updates' AND hidden them, they were re-installed, I have since re-uninstalled and re-hidden the same 'updates' along with the 35 language packs that I had also hidden, but so far have not re -booted the computer to see if M$ is FORCING said 'updates' by any and ALL means. harpo, the ghost NON-subscriber [/quote] which windows? in win 7 nothing is automatically in

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Reply to Will W10 Updates Become Mandatory? in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

at least that's one thing sort of answered.... http://www.anandtech.com/show/9334/microsoft-confirms-you-can-clean-install-windows-10-after-upgrading http://arstechnica.co.uk/information-technology/2015/06/yes-youll-be-able-to-do-clean-installs-of-the-free-windows-10-upgrade/

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Reply to Will W10 Updates Become Mandatory? in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

[quote who="Fuzzy Logic" reply="36" id="3558617"] W10 will go subscription only, you won't be able to purchase it any other way. For your subscription you will get continuous updates, forever, and MS will have you by the short and curlies - no subscription = non functioning o/s. [/quote] nonsense. it's ~$120 for win 10 home at retail. it looks like buy once and it'll be updated for that machine until they do something else different with their mode

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Reply to If You Don't Think You Will Be Jumping to Win 10 in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

i hid one of them updates from last month (3035583) seeing as i know i won't be updating win 7 from this machine (going to use this licence in new machine.. whenever that is...) no nagware for me so far. ps .. reserving is like pre-loading. (that is.. automatically d/led when it's available) http://www.anandtech.com/show/9317/microsoft-announces-that-windows-10-will-launch-on-july-29

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Reply to The W10 ‘Unified OS’ will have more than one edition.n - Updated in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

i was under the impression the free upgrade is just what it says. free for home user and will match edition with what you have. (eg home->home, etc) i think they did say it'll be kept updated for the lifetime of the device... no idea what that means. eg.. i install win 7 on a new machine, free upgrade it... what happens if i do a fresh install on the same machine? install 7 and upgrade again (what are the chances of it asking me to cough up some money)? or is there a win10 inst

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