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Hello everyone, I have a question. I removed onedrive from windows 11 but when I open an explorer window and I click documents it says it can't find the location. It's because Windows 10 and 11 want to force you to save by default to onedrive. So how do I fix that when I click the documents shortcut it points to the correct location like: C:\Users\username\documents.
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I see, I didn't know it was stand alone. I've seen before some other products that just depend on the Windows firewall and just offer more easier to find interface for it. So you mention the free and paid versions. You mean it can still be bought ? -
I'm not a security expert but wasn't XP firewall not very good ? I mean if you use sphinx you can get prompts for applications yes. But is it easily bypassed since it's just using XP firewall ?
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I have a question. Can we list software that may be discontinued but still work ? I was thinking like for example Outpost Firewall free. I think it's still better than XP's own firewall plus many free antiviruses don't include a firewall anyway.
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Do you know if malware hunter works on XP 64 ?
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I never left XP really. I have XP 64, Win 7 and Linux but my main OS is XP. I never really like going past XP. There are 2 reasons. One is Stability. Second, since Windows Vista, Microsoft f*cked audio. On XP you could have audio acceleration and EAX. Also I have a very good Auzentech card with 4 speakers plugged in. For some reason since Vista and onward the sound is heard on all 4 speakers only when using Windows Media Player. But on everything else, 2 speakers are silent. On XP that doesn't happen sound is heard on all speakers no matter what software is it. Even youtube videos are heard through all 4 speakers.
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I'm a real XP user But of the 64bit version. I never tried the POSReady updates since I think they are meant for the 32 bit version.
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Doesn't many software require at least SP2 to run anyway ?
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Maybe there's a way to spoof the Windows version so you can also install it. But I have a question. Why not use SP2 ? Back when it was first released I noticed that my computer was faster with SP2 than without it.
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I don't know why people get afraid to use antivirus from other countries. After cloud scanning was invented all you do is chose which country you want to give your data to. Do you trust your government ? Antivirus Cloud scanning was resumed by ESET 5 help file I quote: That was back when there were still honest companies that admitted that cloud scanning really doesn't boost your security. It's like the issue with Tiktok. The reason US government fears users leave Facebook and other US based Social media is because they want your data. Please don't give it to China. Give it to us instead. https://www.howtogeek.com/540658/is-your-antivirus-really-spying-on-you/
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Wow malware hunter looks almost exactly like 360 total security. I also wanted to say that as Astroskipper have said Avast have issues. Here are 2 problems I have seen with Avast. Back when I was using Avast 5 I noticed that Avast didn't have any cleaning capabilities. I installed it on an infected system. It detected IE as infected. But all it did was delete IE and all associated files. So I had to install IE again. Another thing that I noticed more recently around 2019 was that if you remove Avast it can make other programs stop working. One time I removed Avast and after I did Firefox and Office stopped working for some reason. I wouldn't be surprised since they always recommend Chrome. Many times I found computers with Chrome that got installed by Avast.
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https://www.techspot.com/downloads/4579-microsoft-office-suite-2007-sp3.html
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I use an older version of DoPDF. Version 7. It's a PDF printer that doesn't need ghostscript or service to use.
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Windows XP Compatibility With Steam And Other Modern Programs?
tekkaman replied to a topic in Windows XP
In that same video if you see the recent comments, many people report that either they can't connect or that they have to download games from another computer. I hate steam with a passion. -
Windows XP Pro x64 can be very finicky
tekkaman replied to ssybesma's topic in Windows XP 64 Bit Edition
I don't understand. I use XP 64 as my main OS and I never notice compatibility issues with software. Most software that run on XP 32 work fine in XP 64. If your motherboard is from 2014 or so the drivers work fine too. I play older games here like the first 3 Arkham, Tomb Raider Underworld etc. and run fine in XP 64. Even games that say it's not supported run fine. Like Last Remnant. Emulators like PPsspp work great even though when you go to system info it says unknown OS. -
Then it should work I guess. I don't know what's wrong. Sorry. Do you have all the Visual C Redistributables that are compatible with XP ? I ask because for example Office 2016 requires visual C 2015-2019 installed to work.
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How does the delay of the start of program work ? I mean I think that starting with Vista you could delay services from starting but I haven't heard for other programs. Does it use task scheduler to do it ?
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Windows XP Compatibility With Steam And Other Modern Programs?
tekkaman replied to a topic in Windows XP
This is why I don't support steam at all. Let's say you have a game you like that only runs on XP, or 7 ? Then you can't play it because you can't run steam. DRM all it does is an annoyance for the people that do buy games. -
It's a shame that the last officially supported version of Office is 2010. Because that version introduced a bug that was never fixed and that it was not present in Office 2007. I'm talking about inserting videos to Powerpoint presentation. For reasons I could never understand videos would not play properly on Powerpoint 2010 unless you used WMV format. Office 2007 could play avi and mp4. It's weird though that in your screenshot Powerpoint and Excel claim there's not enough memory. How much ram do you have ?
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I had an old toshiba laptop that was ddr3 but the ram ran at 800mhz from factory and it only wanted specific timings for ram. Check if your ram has standard timings and not xmp stuff or something. I once bought Gskill ram for that laptop that had very low timings and it would not boot at all.
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Hello, I use an old version of autoruns to manage my startup applications. It's version 12.03 from 2014. It works great from Windows XP to Windows 10. Occasionally it crashes on start. But all you have to do is try again and it works. It's a very powerful tool as it lets you delete services as well if you want to get extreme. Just run it as administrator. https://www.filehorse.com/download-autoruns/17787/ You can check if your issue happens with autoruns as well. I didn't test because I use XP 64 so it's different. I never set up post 2009 thing since I don't think it's compatible.
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USB 3.0 Compatibility on Windows 8.1 32-bit?
tekkaman replied to FantasyAcquiesce's topic in Windows 8
I use Linux as well and one time I formatted a usb drive on Linux and for some reason it wouldn't work on a windows system even though it was ntfs. To fix it I had format it again. You can use HP USB format tool. It's very useful. https://hp-usb-disk-storage-format-tool.en.softonic.com/download -
No default templates in Office 2013 Professional Plus
tekkaman replied to bookie32's topic in Microsoft Office
I think maybe it could be Microsoft's fault. For example Office 2007 can't download anything. No templates online. Maybe Microsoft has something that checks office version and if it's too old by their opinion then you're not allowed to download. -
It seems it requires Service Pack 2 to run. You can read the requirements here: https://kb.iu.edu/d/aupn I don't think you can bypass it. There were many changes between SP1 and SP2. Maybe you should try office 2003 instead and install the compatibility pack so you can at least read and edit .docx files in 2003.
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There's a tutorial that allegedly lets you run 16-bit apps on 64- bit. I don't know if it works but there are some comments below that say it does.