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It seems a lot of mice recently are just not built the same way as they used to. Sure there was always the possibility to wear down mouse buttons naturally, especially if you play a game a lot. Personally I've found that Microsoft Intellimouse branded and Basic Optical Mouse 1.0A seem to last the longest. Any that have the separate buttons, so not the Basic Optical Mouse 2.0. I want to add I only use optical USB mice and no ball mice (although I'm sure they are still fine) or any cordless or laser mouse variaties. A lot of the mice I see at stores like Logitech seem very flimsy. Another thing I notice about looking at mice in stores is that while there are multiple brands to pick from, they are all actually just made by Logitech.

People would rather post news into the forum and we never had any success in getting people to submit stories for the front page.

It hasn't been a real requirement from MS to use a System Partition, at least not to the end user. It has been in every instance of installation guidance since Vista for MBR and is a requirement for GPT disks. But note that while it is "System Reserved" on MBR, it may not be called that on GPT. Are you using MBR with 1 partition? Post a list of paritions on your disk, perhaps you do have one but is instead, full.

How does the CPU appear in Device Manager for Home vs Pro?

I'm sure I have a ton of older programs on my current systems but a lot of them end up being a use once and forget it type thing. One that is a daily use for me is Macromedia Fireworks MX 2004.

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In the pre-2010 days, I remember that you would get updates for other Office products if you had anything relating to them. So if you had any of the document viewers installed, this would generate a match on Windows Update. For example if you just had Excel installed but had Word Document Viewer installed, you would get Word updates. You can post some of the KBs you have been offered and we can know whether these are actually new or what.

0x7b is storage driver. If you get this while booting off the USB, you'll need to add the USB drivers to the installation.

There is some versioning with AutoIT, but the developers do not really break the features down to my liking. Their responses are usually just "upgrade to the newest version" when some weird situation crops up. I think that you can still use older version of their kit, I just don't know if they keep archives of that on their site. I wish more companies used the Minecraft approach when it came to versioning.

I do not answer the phone anymore unless it is a call from someone in my address book. For years now I get at least 2 calls a day from random "local" phone numbers that are scammers of some sort. None ever leave a message. Any time I answer it is a recording in another language. I don't want to say it is Chinese but I could guess it is that, but I do not know the sounds of the other SEA languages to know if it is. It is not a European language, Japanese, Hebrew, Arabic or Urdu, that I can tell you.

The authors would point out that AutoIT is a scripting language and not a programming language. I'm sure there must be some reason for the difference... And I think it is because it requires something, such as how ActionScript is also a scripting language and not a programming language because it requires Flash to execute. Kix was another old scripting language that could be used for XP, but it is not as fully featured as AutoIT was even back then. It was the reason why I even used AutoIT because Kix couldn't do something I needed.

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I had purchased a computer game on Ebay and didn't really pay attention to what it was. I got it in the mail and it is a UK release. This isn't the first time owning an EU PC game, but I also haven't tried to use any of the others. The box has a disclaimer and I am wondering if it is legit, or just there for legal reasons, it says: "Not for sale in North America or Canada - this game will not install on North American or Canadian systems." The system requirements only have Windows 95/98 listed. So is it possible that this particular game will not install onto a US version of Windows 95/98 and required an EU version, or at least an EU LIP? Or is this text just here to make sure that retailers or distributors of the time did not try to import this version to North America?

Well now you'll never get that username change. I recommend you do not try to register more accounts, otherwise we will report you to the spam service.

Current user, or the one logged in, but it should have the settings for all users and contexts.

I cannot find any information relating to Minecraft changing requirements to Windows 10 only.

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I cannot be hacked because I RAM Overlay.

It depends on the drivers and how they are installed. Some drivers that require installation from a program may have OS checks in the program itself. The drivers themselves may have a compatibillity check in them, which would normally cause a setup to work but for Windows to reject the install. That would be found in the .inf file. But even if the INF does allow installation on Windows 8.1, the binaries may require Windows 10 versions of some files to work. The first step would be to post the hardware IDs of the devices you want to find drivers for. You may be able to find some in the MS Update Catalog, but know that they do not always have the correct OS information on that site. Meaning: They may show a driver for Windows 8 but it only works in Windows 10. You won't know until you try it.

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Every Lite-On DVD drive I've used has the same issue as in the op. I just either use a paper clip or when I get fed up will replace the drive.

Third name in 30 days? This isn't a username changing simulator.

In my recent uses of Linux, it just works. But that is presuming I am using it as-is. My current install, everything worked without me having to do anything. That includes LAN, WLAN, mullti-mon, etc. What I wasn't aware of was how to install new programs. I had wanted to install Zoom onto it, and there is a Linux download, but it was some file that wasn't associated with any other program and I had no idea what to do with it.