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Well that fits the current Office business model. If I don't have Office (such as at home) I only get those document viewers. The thing that is strange is that Office still sells for big bucks, even with other free alternatives on the market. My guess is that people are still paying for it.

That GIF is slightly mesmerizing. From what I can tell, it isn't the heavy graphics that is causing websites to be slower than what we'd expect. It is caused by loading contents from many different sources at once, as I show in my screenshot from CNN. See if you can find one of these dolled up websites that do NOT use embedded scripts from 10 or more other websites.

Searching for that EXE on Google only brings up this post. It appears to be part of a commercial package and no demo is available. v3.1 is older but have you considered contacting the company that makes the software? http://powerdraw.net/ If you paid $1300 for the thing, I'd expect they could tell you how to silently install the software.

At least you didn't end up with 2 C:\Users dirs...

My biggest complaint is the laziness of web development. Multiple embedded scripts, multiple hosted CSS (and sometimes in conjuction with in-page styles) and things such as having DOCTYPE and HTML tags in includes. It is like the entire period of web development from the 1.0 days (learning to do it the right way) went right out the window. Now, most websites are gigantic piles of garbage. One big offender are those ready-made blogs like Wordpress, Blogspot and others. As time goes on, more and more of the web becomes unusable to me and I then have to decide whether or not I want to sacrifice my computer's safety over watching a video of some cats. Here is an example:

I'm not so sure. I suspect there may be some health problems in a few years. I recently found out that the "Steel Cities" of the US were in much worse states than the smog we see in China. There was pollution to the point where day time looked like night. Here are some stories about Pittsburgh: http://www.popularpittsburgh.com/pittsburgh-info/pittsburgh-history/darkhistory.aspx And the photos I saw: http://www.theatlanticcities.com/arts-and-lifestyle/2012/06/what-pittsburgh-looked-when-it-decided-it-had-pollution-problem/2185/

The animated one for sure. Transformers (2007) has its moments, but there are moments that I'd rather skip than watch. So it wouldn't make this list. One such moment is when the Autobots are waiting outside Sam's house trying to hide while his parents are home. Another one I could probably replace Slapshot with.

Well there is a bootmgr.exe.mui at least... so is BOOTMGR just an .exe without a file extension or is there a separate bootmgr.exe as well?

I was doing some reading about bootloaders in modern versions of Windows and keep coming upon conflicting information. I suspect it is just a terminology confusion but wanted to know if there was any official answers available about these terms. In NT days, the bootloader was NTLDR. In Vista and newer OSes, we have Bootmgr which reads from the BCD to determine where the OS (winload.exe) is, or to display a menu to allow different boot choices. Of course the following links are from Wikipedia which certainly doesn't help. Here it says that bootmgr.exe is a Second Stage Bootloader: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booting#Second-stage_boot_loader But on Bootmgr's page it says that winload.exe is the bootloader: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BOOTMGR#winload.exe The history of NTLDR says that now bootmgr.exe is a "boot manager" and winload.exe is a system loader. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTLDR#History Of course, none of these peices of information are cited (I thought that was what Wikipedia was for) so I haven't drilled into it. So what is the bootloader now? Is it *both* bootmgr.exe and winload.exe? But since we already know you can use bootmgr.exe to boot anything (if configured properly) you can have it on a system and not have winload.exe present.

Rewatchability is a requirement for any sort of list like this. You can think some movie is the greatest ever but if you can't rewatch it maybe 50 times, then I have to wonder. So of course when i have to make a list like this, I will list the ones I've rewatched the most. 1. Transformers: The Movie 2. Ghostbusters 3. Fight Club 4. Pi 5. Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon 6. Forrest Gump 7. Star Wars: Return of the Jedi 8. Slapshot 9. Rumble In the Bronx 10. Star Trek Generations

It is very common to find these, especially if the price is cheap. Even with fake iPods and Device Jaguars, if your savings are just a few bucks then buy the real thing from somewhere else.

I've used FileZilla before. It seems to be too busy for my purposes.

The restart prompt is usually caused by the drivers. If you have been changing cards in the same PC, you may have remnant files from previous video card installations. However, Windows can be configured with these settings:

I split this out of the forum suggestions thread. I can't get wayback to work with that site and Google translate refuses as well. It certainly looks more like houses than OSes. I'll just remove the entire topic.

The Narrator is disabled by default, but can be enabled by using a key combination. I've done it accidently before.

Thanks. This one works pretty good.

Here's another one with more info, also seemingly to identify who the blogger was. http://www.infoworld.com/t/microsoft-windows/microsoft-uncovers-mole-who-leaked-windows-secrets-wzor-lives-238755

That is the software, however that wikipedia link is for download managers. I will see if there is an ftp client comparison on there somewhere. Ok I did, it is here. Also I think I need FTPS not SFTP (silly acronyms) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ftp_client

I'll just leave this right here...

Looks like it is finally time for me to update my FTP software. I've been using Leechftp for well over 10 years now but it no longer allows me to connect to my FTP site. It is because it does not support FTPS, or that I cannot find any options to enable it. So if anyone is familiar with leechftp could I get recommendations on a similarly (looking I suppose) FTP client that supports connecting to secure servers?

Is UEFI and/or Legacy (CSM) boot enabled on the system?

This is a permissions issue. If UAC is enabled and the mapping is done via an elevated cmd, you will only see the mappings in an elevated program. I've run into this problem before. The problem is due to Explorer.exe not running elevated. See Andre's response to my post here: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/144776-unable-to-open-an-elevated-windows-explorer-window/?p=1013637

Most people in the US that get those kinds of phone calls are still using a landline. Mobile phones are usually not allowed to be called by those types. http://www.fcc.gov/guides/truth-about-wireless-phones-and-national-do-not-call-list

Giant amoebas seem to be the least scary giant "thing" we have on the earth. Not like giant centipedes!

FirstLogonCommands is in the oobeSystem pass. Put all your commands into a .cmd and then have this in your XML: <FirstLogonCommands> <SynchronousCommand wcm:action="add"> <Order>1</Order> <Description>Run vbs from cmd</Description> <CommandLine>cmd /C start /wait c:\path\FirstLog.cmd</CommandLine> </SynchronousCommand> </FirstLogonCommands>I don't use VBS myself because of security messages. Example of how to put VBS into CMD: cscript c:\path\RunVBS.VBSOr use wscript if you want.