bphlpt

I passed that along. We'll see what we can do. But like jaclaz said, I didn't have any problem finding images I could read within one or two refreshes. EDIT Captcha changed, can you retry? If WinCert starts getting much additional unwanted spam it will be changed back, so get in now while you can. Cheers and Regards

This works - http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/163162-hide-bing-desktop-and-other-windows-updates/. Cheers and Regards

You might be interested in following this thread over at WinCert - http://www.wincert.net/forum/topic/12103-8-juin-2015-update-list-gdr-pour-windows-7-sp1-x86x64-fr-en-de-es-it/: The thread is active and the discussion is lively, with several folks doing tests and reporting results. All are welcome, the more the merrier. Cheers and Regards

Thanks, bphlpt. I see what you mean about the filter preferences. I wasn't aware of this function, but it could be really useful. Still, though, it means having to actively remember to go in and look; see my reply to Trip above. --JorgeA Also note the filter options on the left under "Other": So if you pick "Items I participated in" or "Just items I follow" then you won't see the threads that you have no interest in. I understand you only wanting to come to the board if there have been responses to what you have posted, and then only if you are not otherwise involved with other more important things, but I view having to read emails that same way. I only want to read emails when I choose, not feel pressured to look at them just because something sends me a notification. Everyone has their own preference on how they like to do things. That's the advantage of having multiple ways of accomplishing a goal. I hope your preferred method gets fixed so it works the way you want it to work. Cheers and Regards

I also disable ALL email notifications. ( I get enough emails, thank you very much. ) Instead, I always enter the site via the "View New Content" link. You can set up your preferences to display "By time period", with several options, and threads that have new content since you last read that thread will show up in Bold, so it's really easy to quickly visually scan and see if there is new content you want to read. This works well if you want to "monitor" the whole board and not miss new posts, and I would imagine that it would be even easier if you were really only interested in making sure you kept up with a subset of the total number of threads. Cheers and Regards

And KB3068708 is also applicable to Windows 7. Cheers and Regards

Fair enough. I hereby change my previous "I do like this" to "I like the concept of a changeable UI for company wide or home personal use applications, even though this particular implementation below might not be the best example." Cheers and Regards

The other point at issue is: Unlike some other boards, I'm not aware of any benefit to be gained here via post count. That being said, I can see why some might say then that ALL posts should count since, why not? I guess, regardless of the actual benefit or lack thereof, some folks like the idea of high post counts - "This is my 1000th post!" - etc, and we really, really do not want to encourage that kind of nonsense. If you just want to get rid of your "Newbie" status, you can edit that label in your profile. Cheers and Regards

While I positively agree with this sentiment: I do like this: If only everyone, especially including MS, would take this approach, and make the GUI a distinct and separate part of the OS that can be easily changed as desired, similar to the way that Linux users can choose between GNOME, KDE and others, harkening back to the days when it was popular to change the shell from what MS provided, eg Blackbox, bbClean and others of their ilk. ( I'm sure themers would absolutely love it! ) MS could concentrate on adding and improving actual useful features while others could concentrate on providing options on the look, if folks wanted that. I would think this would also make it easier to adapt the OS to the various platforms including desktop, tablet, phone, POS and kiosks. Since the vast overwhelming push-back on the later versions of the OS have been GUI related, this might remove the impediment many folks have had to upgrading. Though I guess from MS's perspective, they might be afraid that if the user's system could be made to look and operate exactly the same, no matter which version was under the hood, people might take the approach of "Why bother upgrading?", rather than "Why wouldn't I want to upgrade if it will look and operate the same as it always did, but faster, more secure, and with extra new capabilities?" It will never happen, but I can dream. Cheers and Regards

Welcome, again, to MSFN! Cheers and Regards

No rush at all, I just thought I was missing something obvious. I'm not an active user these days, but I always want to maintain my collection of the latest and greatest for potential use, just in case. Cheers and Regards

I could be wrong, but I believe that any of the "DOS based" OS, ie up to and including Win98 ( WinME? ), should be able to be installed on DosBox, and then you should be able to install your dictionary there. It's getting a bit convoluted, but still, compared to Win7 x64, the space taken and boot times should be minimal. But then again, I could be totally wrong. Cheers and Regards

Looks good, Kel! Link? (via PM if appropriate) Cheers and Regards

Does this method also work with OS versions < 10? It's always nice to have tweaks that work on a range of OS. Cheers and Regards

This exists in Chrome as well. Cheers and Regards

Google thinks my "name" is j d - ie John Doe. At places that require address info for registration or whatever I usually something like: Last Name: Hlpt First Name: Bp Company: Blank Ind. Ltd. Street: P.O. Box City: City Country: USA I often have to use a "real" email address if they send either a software license key or website registration acknowledgement via email. When I don't want to use my regular email address I can either create a throw-away one, or I also have one that I almost never check so I don't care how much spam it gets - "myjunkforme@_____". It's just the principle of the thing. Cheers and Regards

List the script. Explain exactly where the script is placed, including permissions, and how you launch it, both manually and via the Context Menu. Then maybe someone else can try it and see if they can replicate your issue, or point out your misunderstanding of the situation. Cheers and Regards

Many Thanks! While these monthly updates are important, and very helpful for someone who is diligently keeping their system updated regularly as they should , this thread is long enough that it is getting difficult to find them all. Is there any possibility that either you, egrabrych, or some mod could please create a stickied thread where the first post contains an up to date summary of all such updates for all versions of .NET, 1.1 - 4.0 and 1.0 if there are any, since April 2014, similar to what was posted here, including mentioning the modified ones with a link to where they can be found where necessary, (I understand that a direct link to the modified updates might not be appropriate), preferably listed in chronological order from oldest to newest? This thread would be fine to use for that purpose, but since the OP was harkaz, and he is busy enough that he doesn't often post, I thought a new thread might be useful to not require a mod's involvement every time to update the post, but whatever works for everyone else is fine with me. Cheers and Regards

I noticed that xper was the one that enclosed the block of text in code tags a week or so after it was originally posted. Surely nothing he did had anything to do with this issue? Cheers and Regards

I haven't noticed any problems lately with freezing with that thread or any other on this forum, FWIW. As to that large block of text, maybe a mod could enclose that in spoiler tags and see if that makes any difference? Cheers and Regards

That's the way I feel about OS "slimming". That had its purpose and real, noticeable, and measurable benefits back in the day, but not with today's hardware. It's no longer needed and is much more likely to cause problems by removing something you might need later. That's not to say, depending on your hardware and your software requirements, that there aren't things that could be removed without impacting your day-to-day use of the system in any way and make installing and maintaining the system quicker while taking up less installed space. Tools such as nuhi's NTLite can do a good job with this task, from what I have heard. But for me, I'd just rather remove nothing, and simply disable what I don't need. I believe I am likely to have fewer potential problems that way. But, to each their own. Cheers and Regards

If I may, I do not believe that jaclaz, or anyone else in this thread, has ever argued that doing anything to the registry is usually either necessary or of "practical benefit, particularly on modern machines and recent MS OS's". Rather, I think he has objected to your absolute statements that there is no benefit and that there is substantial risk to running apps such as NTREGOPT. While it is true that there is always some small amount of risk of damage when you manipulate the registry in any way, not just by using registry tools, I think there is also some small amount of risk to the performance of your system and possible potential damage when your registry is inefficiently organized and has no longer needed information in it causing unnecessary bloat. You have very clearly stated and shown that your experience has proven to you that doing anything to your registry does not seem to be needed to maintain continued good performance of your system. You have a modern OS, including your past use of Window 7, and have multiple powerful CPUs, plenty of fast RAM, and a large and very fast RAID system of SSDs. You also do what you can to minimize unnecessary services, do not install software that you do not know and trust, and actively monitor and maintain your system. In my mind, that is equivalent to bizzybody's scenario of "If you set up a PC then never change anything, never uninstall software, never do anything that will leave orphan data in the registry ...", in that in both cases I think that everyone here will agree that "... there is no need to do anything to compact or clear out the junk." However, jacalz has given you examples where compacting the registry has proven beneficial in specific situations, has shown where MS itself has shown how to accomplish the task without using 3rd party tools because "Registry hives that are in this state can cause various performance issues and errors in the system log.", and has given anecdotal evidence that performing the task occasionally on his many different systems over many years has never caused him a single problem. I also have performed registry compacting, along with minor registry "cleaning" using tools such as CCleaner, over many years on many systems and have also never had a single problem caused by doing so. I won't begin to try to judge how your amount of experience compares to that of jaclaz. I view both of your experience to be extensive, in different areas and with different tools, which along with the experiences of the other members of the board only improves the overall knowledge of the community as a whole. So, just as jaclaz has not tried to convince you that you should be using registry tools on a regular basis, I appreciate that you have acknowledged that others use of recognized registry tools on an occasional basis should normally not cause any issues and might even do some good, even if it is often of the "feel good" type. But as you have stated, using sufficient hardware for the task at hand will always make more of a noticeable improvement to your computing experience. Cheers and Regards

And a pretty bad feature, I might add. Among other things, using Libraries can get File Explorer into a condition where it doesn't update as you change things. Nothing wrong with organizing things into folders on hard drives. I agree completely. Maybe not bad, but badly implemented? IF it worked correctly without causing errors I can see the advantage of using the libraries for data access, ie reading. So seems convenient for a system used for a home theater. The problem, as I see it, is using the libraries for data storage, ie writing, in that if your library is made up of folders from all over your system, when you try to write a file to the library, which of the various linked locations is used? Is there a pop-up asking you to choose, is there a default, or what? (Obviously, I don't use libraries. ) Anyway, as Noel said, it just seems more straight forward and less error prone to organize things yourself manually. Cheers and Regards

Though a little bit OT ... And now, a year later, how did your fears pan out? [gentle jibe - heheh] Seriously, I was glad to see you back Jody. I knew you were sincere in your beliefs, though I didn't share them. I also thought our conversations were always civil and well thought out. My only objection was the way you continuously brought up your fears. But then I guess you would say that you objected to our continuously refuting them. So in the end I guess we will just have to agree to disagree. Bottom line is that most of us here are of the opinion that, in general, as long as it meets your needs with the hardware you have and the software you want to run, you should be able to use the OS you want safely, as long as you put some thought into it, as suggested by Noel here. And at MSFN, as far as Windows OS are concerned, that includes everything from Windows 95 through Windows 10. To each their own. Cheers and Regards

Very true. Or as jaclaz suggested, always store the image in a dated folder, then no copy or move is needed at all. Cheers and Regards