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Those Steam servers are likely using VAC, especially for Valve games.

The use of stream ripping software is not permitted on Spotify. https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/end-user-agreement/#s8 Closing topic.

Thanks to @dencorso I found this website and they have a Bus Mouse board! http://www.recycledgoods.com/microsoft-inport-bus-mouse-controller-900-255-018-rev-e.html

Yes first idea is you just made a data disc instead of a video DVD. Has happened to many others when you go to burn an ISO and instead of having a disc image, you have a disc with a disc image on it as a file. The second is that some players may not like certain types of discs. It was for a long time that DVD-R were best to use for video and DVD+R were best for data. Some players don't care about the type of disc but some do.

Strangely, there seems to only be 1 seller that has an IDE model on all of Ebay, this one from Germany: http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/272378917991 Although, finding them on Ebay seems difficult in itself. I found this one by way of Amazon but not from searching ebay. http://www.ebay.com/itm/252384881340 Wikipedia says that SuperDisk was popular in Australia, enough that the LS-240 was released over there, but none of those can be found on Ebay either. If there is a popular classified site for Australia outside of Ebay, that would be a place to look also.

I will disagree here. The best solution is to not to the dumb thing that allowed a virus onto your computer in the first place.

I typically have it set up so that videos do not work (or I don't try to make them work) using Firefox/PM and prefer to use Chrome for watching videos. DESPITE the issue of the sound being better while watching a Flash video in PM vs Chrome for whatever that reason is. So in Chrome I use both the adblock and adblock plus extensions. They both are not 100% themselves, and one even has "Exceptions" where an advertiser can pay to have something not blocked. But both running together seem to handle anything in a video. It is very rare (it has happened, but I cannot think of which site it was) where a video would not play because the ad was blocked. I think there are some sites that will disable specific parts of their site from loading (including perhaps the video loader) if an adblocker is detected... One site I know that does that particularly is http://nexusmods.com .

There is no problem with the name. The filename is not referenced within the XML or Index at all. So any name is fine, then if you want to use it (easily) with Windows Setup, you just rename it to install.wim, or you can use an XML to instruct setup that the wim file name is different or where it is located.

NoScript doesn't help in all cases. You can still come across sites that go into loading loops and slow everything down. I see it most often on Ebay for some reason. Another issue with the modern web is I've been seeing the return of memory leaks. Spending any long period of time on Facebook or Imgur will cause your computer to lock up and open programs to crash.

Are you using the binary appropirate for your WinPE architecture? I haven't seen that message before.

I use NirSoft's DevManView to get a Device Manager on WinPE: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/device_manager_view.html

Sometimes it is not the case of actually trying to sell an item at an enlarged price on Ebay, but to increased the perceived value of an item. Even though Ebay has been around for so long, and many people use it to determine the value of things, most people still use it wrong. For determining value on an item you must still take an average of a range period of sold listings. This is done by the smart people but many still go about and look at listing prices to determine value. You can see this in click-bait articles (even from actual news sources) when they say "you won't believe how much this thing you own is worth" and show a VHS tape for $1,000 or something. Or that case of Amazon price matching algorithm gone wrong that resulted in common items with prices more than new car on them. The result of this is you end up with items that are over priced in the secondary market. And it is possible to sell on Ebay or other online sites at prices that do not follow the market because the cost of using those services are low enough that you can just let stock sit there for months. That is not something you can get away with in the primary or IRL market because if you are running a business, you can't stay in business unless you make money. So in the secondary market you end up with 3 tiers: - unknown value, low value/high demand, low perceived value/unknown demand (rare items with unknown market) - market value - overinflated value/place holder/value manipulation There are cases where the value manipulation takes over and sets a new market value, but it isn't done when one guy buys a printer at double MSRP. When using Ebay value calculations on sold items, you can eliminate these from the pool if there is only 1 or a low percentage if you want and if that one or two outrageous sales does not match the rest of the average price, because if it is included it would increase the average value where it isn't warranted. Plus there is the consideration that on completed listings that you cannot tell if the item was actually sold. You can see that Ebay or the seller marked it sold, meaning some buttons were pressed. But you cannot know if the item was paid for, or the result of the transaction, if the buyer left good feedback. If it was a legitimate purchase, or if the feedback was good but then the money refunded or item returned later, if an item was actually shipped, if there was a partial payment/refund, or any other type of outcome on a completed payment. It is all fairly complicated, but the easiest is to just stay away from things that appear to be more expensive than there is reason for it to be that way.

This is a case of Windows being dumb. It thinks those folders are in use, or protected, while booted, even though they are not the actual folders it is using. One of my computers has my old XP hard drive in it and the same thing happens. I just leave it be. Storage is cheap and I don't need to worry about the space that is being taken up on that drive. You may even still be able to open some of the programs on the old drive without reinstalling. Try it out. Some programs won't. For example, some versions of Office from another drive won't open. If you wanted to remove those folders, disconnect your SSD, then boot your computer using a WinPE drive. Then you can format the drive no problem. I would first see if your computer can boot with just the SSD connected, just to make sure your OS isn't using the old drive for anything.

I think the problem is that the commercial sites like gog.com have games designed for modern systems. They will take old games and make them playable on your Windows 10! Because of that, I do not know what is entailed with getting those games to work on a Windows 9x system. For some of them, on Steam also, I can't believe that the original game is changed in any way to allow for use on a modern system. I have heard that some have DosBox to run them in, but that will be on a case-by-case basis.

I usually resort to making it so that the OS installs the driver when it boots. Of course, this wouldn't apply to a mass-storage driver.

Hmm they had removed the developer tools at one point? Phew I'm glad I've been putting off updating then.

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Some files can be marked with the H flag and not also the S flag.

I still use Vista occasionally for refurbs and see this issue. While it seems there are specific KBs to fix this in 7, I never had heard about any similar fixes for Vista. I'm sure that a fix exists for it, but that the userbase still doing Vista installs is comparatively low.

Oh yes, thanks for reminding me. If you have set up a software mirror from within Windows using Device Manager, that can turn out even worse. In that case, you should still do a full backup before hand, with the idea that you'll be restoring data. And if it survives, you'll have less headache and at least you'll have a backup of everything.

Because of the risk of data loss. I've seen scenarios where the volume becomes corrupted, changed to RAW, doesn't appear anymore, array broken, Windows using the wrong driver in the new OS, the RAID software not working with the new OS and/or driver, etc. It is not impossible, but you can't know what the outcome is before-hand. So many variables in play. The safe way is to make a full backup of the array to another disk set. The easiest is if you are using a controller card and your OS is not on it. Then you simply remove the card from the board, then do the upgrade (or change the OS entirely). After the new OS is set, then you put the card back in and install the driver and software and it should be just fine. This is the safest example I can think of, because if you remove the card from the system (but leave the disks connected to SATA but not power) you shouldn't have any problems since no changes were done with the array at all. Even in this case, it is best to make a backup of the data, in case something happens, then you can just copy it back to a fresh array.

SVG Viewer is pretty much deprecated. If you are still using an application that uses (functional) SVGs, you might have problems in Windows 7. By now, at least Firefox can use some of the SVG functions (drawing, fill and motion) but does not support others such as gradient... which I think that functionality came directly from IE's gradient function anyways. That just covers the basics. If you are not using any advanced SVG that do things such as linking or any full SVG applications, you can get away with not using it anymore. When doing an in-place upgrade, make sure you can find the drivers you need ahead of time for the new OS. The important ones are chipset, video, audio and lan. You should download these before doing the upgrade, and also perhaps put them on a CD or USB drive. If you have a RAID array, it is advised that you do NOT do an in-place upgrade.

This is already happening. Not just with schools. Many people have reported that putting multiple Windows 10 systems on their network is saturating their available bandwidth. And like a lot of things with Windows 10, the settings to change to prevent this from happening often does not work or change the situation.

I find most of my games locally at thrift or flea markets. Online can be a problem because the shipping can really add up. If Ebay is not your thing, there are some alternatives like other classified sites. I do not know one for Denmark. I know there is Priceminister.com for France, where I go to look for things sometimes. If you are talking about download only games, I'm not sure. I don't deal with those really.

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