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Another new Windows 10 version is no such fun for me because it means having to recreate all my images. Each and every version are whole new OSes and no update method for existing images exists. I know it, it is because they want you to use one of their deployment systems where you can just replace the OS image, but that process is not applicable to the work I do.

The actual safest is to not have a network connection, but if you want one, a whitelist only firewall approach is the best. That being whitelist in both directions, out and in, including "standard" ports that firewalls like to leave open like those for email and FTP. Most firewalls do a fine job of stopping stuff from coming in, but fail to safeguard against the biggest threat... the user.

Can you post the MGADiag report?

The SLUI command will show the appropriate phone number to call. MGADiag can be downloaded from here: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=52012 Run it as Administrator. Click Continue button. After it finishes working, and you can see information, click the Copy button. That will copy the relevant info to the clipboard. You can then paste this into a post here or into a notepad or whatever.

If you want to use the COA you need to do telephone activation. From the Run you can put slui 4 To show the phone activation screen. If you have a smart phone, use this to call the number and then when it prompts to text you, choose that option. It will sent you a link you can use to get the activation codes on a website. If you have further problems, then you will need to run MGADiag on the OS and copy/paste the output to here. I can look at it and tell you what the problem is.

Whoever owned it should have known this to be a possibility. In the future, keep your fake people in the trunk to avoid unwanted attention!

Linux isn't some miracle cure for being safe from a virus. It has viruses because it is a widely used platform, it is just that simple. The reason why Mac was able to go so long under the notion it was virus free was because MacOS had such a small piece of the market share that virus writers didn't develop for the platform. I don't have antivirus on a phone, so I can't say if they are "break-fix" products or not.

Yes, game servers for Steam games, outside of large publishers, will use VAC or PunkBuster. They make it so if you join the game, you need to have the appropriate version of that on the client side running. For example, it was a PunkBuster issue I ran into recently that wouldn't let me play COD4:MW online. I have the newest PunkBuster for another game, but it did not cross-over to COD4, so it wouldn't let me connect. This was a new install, actually parts of the COD4 installer from Steam did show an HTTP 404 error, so something was missing. So you could still play on unprotected servers, but you are more likely to run into people using bots, unless it is an actively maintained clan server. And then in that case, you may not be allowed to play if you are not known to them, which is another thing I've also seen.

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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