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Make sure recycle bin is empty. Also, do not make a generic "I got an error" type post like this. Post the actual text of the error message, as well as a screenshot if possible. Also include some other details such as the size of the disk you are using.

This is just for direct sales from Microsoft on their site. System Builder and OEM COA will still be available in those channels. I do not know the EOL dates at this time.

Just a short review for each. Swisscows is just a Bing front-end like DDG. Frogfind does partial searching on terms but does support quotes. Seems to be a good site for getting results on an older computer but the issue then is that it is delivering results that would not work for said older computers. Private.sh has the country sort that (like other sites that have it) does not work as you'd expect. It doesn't just search sites in that country which is something I'm really interested in but have yet to find. For example, if you search in Japanese and select the French Canada option, it will still show English language sites from the US in the results. Missing some countries like China, Taiwan, Philippenes, Ukraine, etc but since the country search doesn't actually filter by country it isn't that important I guess. Norton search has too many includes being used. Searching on there opens in a new tab and is using Ask (previously Ask Jeeves) and requires filtering many domains to let the site work. Too much effort. Metasearx has a file search but tries to connect to piratebay apparently. It times out and gives an error. The other non-web options are the same, on Images it hooks into Bing and Google. It is not searching full terms either, under Music, News and Science it is returning incorrect results for the term entered while General search had correct results. Search term used for testing: ぴーぶいせん (chosen because this does not yield proper results on Mercari or Yahoo Auctions Japan)

I recently heard (again) from someone IRL talking about finding a post of mine. I guess we really did end up helping a lot of people over the years and never really know about it because there are tons of people who never make accounts or post.

I've not seen any forum that has an actual block option the way most people seem to be thinking about it. The best member-relation options I have ever seen were actually on old battle.net where your options were mute (don't see their posts) and squelch (they don't see your posts). Forum ignore basically will "hide" a post from a user that is on your list, but you should still see that they have posted. Some forum ignore can prevent a person from sending you a PM, or writing on your profile, if such a thing exists. Unfortunately, forum staff can't really test the ignore function outside of impersonation, since we aren't allowed to block anyone and no one is allowed to block us but I think that is automatically handled by the forum.

I've made my share of silly and useless posts across many forums over the past 20 years. I hadn't really gotten to the point of *mostly* being careful or thoughtful about what I wrote until maybe fifteen years ago. Fortunately, a lot of my internet history has escaped into the bitbucket. Never believe it when they say if it is on the internet, it is forever. That certainly is not the case by a long shot.

HBD! (just in case)

Ask me in another 5 years.

LAN booting, however that option isn't ideal for one-off installations.

Ok this is enough of this thread. See Rule 10. Get a Twitter account.

Despite that "edition" being uploaded to Archive.org, it is still warez and should not be named.

W3C's validator has this on it as well. I had seen this type on another site ( https://steamdb.info/ ) but it also has some other domain that is side-loading as well: hcaptcha.com. And I suspect hcaptcha is trying to side-load another domain further down the line that I can't see (to allow), so I can't get through to either of these sites unless I use stock Chrome. https://validator.w3.org/

Direct Link is the name of the text on the share options list, but maybe Imgur has different locale text. This is the text that is seen if you look at an image in your library.

Users have the ability to report a PM.

I am astounded that Lotus Notes still exists.

Rumble is a video platform like Youtube.

Tihiy's StartIsBack https://msfn.org/board/topic/174021-startisback-29/

However you manage a firewall I suppose it doesn't matter where it resides. But having it on the network edge is better since you can manage it for all interfaces and not just one computer.

Hardware firewall has been my best performing option. Also makes it so I don't have to tool around in the OS changing a bunch of things.

Best to use the Direct Link option instead of BBCode. The forum does not fully support BBCode anymore unfortunately, the editor will parse it but it gets stripped from posts after submit. Future IPB updates may remove it entirely.

It is random.org not .com Anyways, sites with Cloudflare DDOS protection have has a pre-loader message for a few years now. It is only recently that 1) random.org has had it (it appeared shortly after that large cookie notice that takes up the top 1/4 of the page) and 2) the Cloudflare message changed the text to checking if secure. It is also possible that websites that are using the Cloudflare service are not aware that some browsers can't pass this message. But I also wonder if these same browsers were able to pass the old pre-loader message that Cloudflare used to use.

Random.org does it.

I've been seeing the "Checking if site is secure" message on a few sites, I think it is not actually doing what it is saying. I haven't seen any that got stuck in a loop but I have seen 1 (somewhere) that never went past the message. It was a one-off site visit and I didn't care enough to get past the message. For me it happened with Palemoon 28 (Firefox 60).

This is not true across the board, but may well be true for versions available under Retail or Enterprise subscriptions. There exist versions that use online activation, the same as a Retail Windows OS.

Back when those OS were current, Flash wasn't the only game in town. IMO the best video quality of embedded media players was Quicktime and with RealPlayer often being the worst. Apparently there is a plug-in for Windows Media Player but for some reason I have no memories of that one. https://websitehelpers.com/video/formats.html