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If you already have a working install, I use DriverGrabber to pull the existing drivers -- Google for "majorgeeks drivergrabber" (MajorGeeks is far FAR too large of a hosting site for me to know if they host questionable content, therefore I cannot post a direct link) I no longer use nLite though I have used it in the past. nLite did not support Win10 during the era that I used it but it did support Win7 and it did incorporate a section to add your own drivers. NTLite is what you will need for Win10. I have personally not used NTLite. For my Win10 disk image customization, I use WinReducer EX-100 and it does incorporate a section to add your own drivers -- Google for "majorgeeks winreducerex100"

I do. But I generally distance them from real life and generally make no comparisons to real life. I only watch recorded movies or streaming services that I can fast-forward. I do not, under ANY circumstance!, listen to or watch an actor/actress CRY! Period! It's one of my biggest Pet Peeves. I fast forward through the scene and puzzle the plot together WITHOUT the d@mn CRYING! It's also why I hate hate hate "awards" for actors/actresses. They are generally given "awards" for acting out "emotions" and to a movie director, that means CRYING! Hate it! Hate it! Hate it! I also do not, under ANY circumstance!, watch hospital "pregnancy" scenes. FAKE crying and FAKE pain DISGUSTS me at ALL levels!

One of the funniest jokes here at work is when new hires tell others that they can't keep up with me or understand my verbal communications. A coworker once told one of these folks, "It's because he doesn't use the words IT or THE when he talks, so his 20-word sentence became 15 words, you won't fall behind if you teach your ears to fill in the words IT and THE."

What I have learned is to use an "HR term". For work, I often have to shuffle from one small group to another as one project closes and another opens. I openly inform any new members to the current project group, "I apologize in advance if I ever come across as antisocial or uninterested or short on attention, I am task-oriented and this often comes across as antisocial to those that are people-oriented." It actually works quite well. Even when somebody in a department unfamiliar with my work habits "misreads" my personality because I didn't say hello or goodbye, I asked the task-oriented question and NOTHING more, I'm here to get a TASK performed, not to "make friends", so they talk to my small group members behind my back and my small group does the "people stuff" FOR ME, informing them, "Oh no! You have him misread. He is TASK-ORIENTED and just saying hello or goodbye is viewed as a 'waste of time' for him. He's one of the best guys I've ever had the priveledge to work with."

Agreed. Horizontal for me also. The only justification I see for vertical is because the tab width shrinks when you have too many tabs open or you think you are better off "never" closing tabs. I call this "tab hoarding" and it is surprisingly a browser-habit on-the-rise. It's a practice that has been linked to Attention Defecit/Hyperactivity Disorder. To each their own, of course.

Noted. I've *never* seen vertical tabs until Cocodile's post above. A new "tab hoarder" function.

If you defnine OCD as a mental disorder (I do not!), then I got my start when I started doing this at my own house during the days when I traveled quite extensively and spent roughly 60% of my time always in ritzy hotels on the company dime.

I wonder if the space between the "do" and the "?" is taught in your school system? I have seen other members also place spaces before punctuation so I can't help but be curious. I know I too do this if the last set of words in a sentence is a URL and it's nice to not accidentally highlight and copy the punctuation mark when trying to only copy the URL. That aside, regarding your enquiry, you can get a nice start by calling up any phone number in the book and asking to speak with Seymore Butz or Harry Baals or Tiney Kox or Mike Hunt or Hugh Mungus or Hugh Janus. A genuine Indian name is Dikshit, but I prefer the first and last name approach.

What do you mean by "horizontal tabs"? I thought *ALL* browsers placed their tabs horizontally? "Brand new" browsers probably no longer place them horizontally - but MyPal v68 is not "brand new", it's based on Firefox 68 [July 2019] and incorporates many javascript functions up through Firefox v78 [June 2020]. So I would not expect it to contain functions only present in "brand new" browser versions.

Great job indeed, we3fan. AstroSkipper, for what it is worth, a clean install is almost always better than a lot of fixing and cleaning.

I think this is an XP versus non-XP issue. 360Chrome v13.5 (which should behave the same as the referenced 360EE_13.0.2310.0) does NOT disable the screensaver be it full-screen mode or not when on XP. But the same EXACT profile of 360Chrome v13.5 ran on Win10 does disable the screensaver. Can you run Official Chrome v49 (last official for XP) and see if it disables the screensaver or not? I will later this evening if nobody else beats me to it.

It would be helpful to let us know just what that "other browser" is.

Agreed! Pay attention to your daily conversations and just how often you remain "on-topic" during a 15-minute conversation where a strict "topic" was the very reason that conversation came about in the first place. Did you go off-topic 5 minutes in, 10 minutes in, or remain "strictly" on-topic the entire 15 minutes? Policemen or firemen on the scene obviously won't be discussing what they watched on television the night before or how their favorite sports team is doing. But MSFN is not here to "put out fires" or "disarm an active shooter", we are here as a COMMUNITY and "discussions" should 'flow naturally'. Nobody likes to be "micromanaged" and there comes a point where too much focus on just what is acceptable OT and what amount of OT went over the line is very much just MICROMANAGING the conversation. It is a fine line. Because nor do we want all threads to be 100 pages long with only 20 pages being on-topic.

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lol. My dentist keeps telling me to stop drinking sugary soft drinks. I tell him that I will as soon as his three assistants don't have one at their desk.

Perhaps one of these -- https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/no-sleep/bomdbfmieohagcjbfckpihndjdeeabgo https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/caffeine-keep-awake/fcblbbbkcneogddmpmfdchnocbpfpmag https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/strong-caffeine/pmmnhaaoadicdfmemocgoplcgdmnpmji

I'd say all is good but the quote of the original would have to edit his post to remove the quoted portion. But yeah, a Mod would need to remove the whole post.

You two are FAST. I was getting ready to post the same.

Ah yes, right you are. The messenger is fine, the Mods should be able to track that down.

Yeah, I reported it within an hour or so of all of that profanity being posted. The Mods usually react must faster.

My sister's house!

Regarding Firefox 113 -- it dawns on me that I have not met (in real life) a Firefox-user in over three years (at least). I wonder how many MSFN Members use Firefox? Not forks of Firefox, but the real Firefox.

That should be NO surprise to ANYONE. Only "wishful thinking" would have ever thought otherwise. Google has been the primary search engine in Mozilla Firefox since 2017 and about 88% of Mozilla revenue comes direclty from Google. Source: https://fourweekmba.com/how-does-mozilla-make-money/ I'm open for a more current revenue report, but I doubt it would change much. Without Google as the default search engine, Mozilla would essentially be bankrupt. That is from 2020 and I do admit that I have not installed any newer versions of Firefox, but I have to assume that Google is still the default search engine. What probably should surprise us is that Mozilla still allows the user to "unset" Google as the default search engine because that cuts their revenue stream immensely. If one truly "supports" Mozilla, don't you have to use the default Google search so that Mozilla gets a paycheck?

I don't.

I would suggest "Don't bite the hand that feeds you". I don't know your actual city, but do know that "socio-economics" can be very tricky. Proximity to a great school system can greatly effect regional cost of living. Regional climate can greatly effect cost of living. Crime rates greatly effect cost of living. Pollution greatly effects cost of living. Think of your city as a checking account where all of the people that LIVE THERE earn their income (checking account deposit) FROM that city and pay for goods and services (checking account withdrawals) TO that city. The city's "checking account" is self-sufficient in that its OWN deposits fund its OWN withdrawals. Now add in these tourists - they earned their income half way across the globe but that handed it over to your city. Generally speaking, having a great tourism industry BOOSTS the economy of that tourist attraction - money is brought in from ELSEWHERE and added to the city to redistribute through tourism industry wages and costs of goods and services. I guess you could secretly pray to Mother Nature, the Crime Gods, and the Pollution Gods for an increase in bad weather, an increase in crime, and an increase in pollution, you'd have far fewer of these tourists.