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Tripredacus

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  1. Seeing my own profile (the template image is set as my cover) on different resolutions, it looks like you can't have just 1 image work properly for everything. The hover template portion seems to work fine, but being able to create a single perfect image that works in all views isn't possible with this software.
  2. Switches (or options/parameters) are used in CMD.
  3. I knew the focus stealing habits of Windows 10 was going to be a problem for people playing games. I have problems with it just using Explorer!
  4. Deactivating a product key is not a thing. If you go to install and Windows does not activate once it has internet access, then you need to phone in the activation. Product Keys for XP do depend on SP, but there may be some difference for Retail. All I remember from those times was that RTM-SP1 and SP2-SP3 used different product keys for OEM editions. There was even a time when I had to write the COA part number on the hologram discs used for installs so that the wrong one wouldn't be installed and the end-user couldn't activate.
  5. I build all file servers with the same format: - OS on RAID1 onboard - DATA on RAID5 or 10 on RAID card (with hot spares) Having the OS on the same array/controller as the data gives you a single point of failure. The OS can be easily replaced, the data cannot. If the motherboard were to fail, you could transfer the data disks with the card to different hardware. If no RAID card is used, this can't be done. You can virtualize WSUS and AD no problem, but I don't see a reason to virtualize the file server's OS. AD for that small amount of clients could run on 4GB RAM on a dual core CPU.. aka very cheaply. You could get any old box and a Hypervisor with 2 VMs on it and have your AD and WSUS.
  6. The most of my interactions on Facebook is I change my picture once a week and interact in a couple of group pages. I can get a sense of what is happening in my local community with the events portion. I don't go about and read much of what other people put on their pages. There are very few people who make good posts that are on the friend list and there is not so much "crazy talk" like I hear many people complain about. Nearly everyone on Facebook seems to be a "filthy internet casual" as can be evidenced by the rampant duplication of shares/posts, clickbait and out-right fake image macros and re-re-re-re-reposted memes. The notion of having to prune the friend list doesn't make sense to me. Being removed from someone's list doesn't mean anything. And don't fall for Facebook's guilt-trip attempt to get you to post Happy Birthday on everyone's page.
  7. Have you tried to see if the shutdown command will work for you? shutdown -s -t 3 shuts down after 3 seconds. or use this to see what options you have. shutdown /?
  8. The preview is nothing new, but it often doesn't seem to help. The only 2 forums that I've seen it used on was here and AutoIT. They never have enough info in the preview to help much with anything, especially if the linked topic has some code or a bunch of technical info. I don't understand what is meant to be achieved by showing a line or two of the linked topic when posted into a thread. Anyways, it seems to me that links are not making previews anymore?
  9. What video card and driver version are you using?
  10. It should be noted the "Microsoft said it would do this" comment doesn't work because 99.99999% of the people who use their product are not reading industry related news, which was where this had shown up. Also, previously, MS said that this would not happen on domain joined PCs, but clearly that wasn't the case either. With such large adoption that the world has on MS products, an announcement relating to this new future of how your OS will update to Windows 10 should not be sent out to industry websites and magazines, or simply posted on social media (which is opt-in to begin with). No they should be putting out to the mass media and having news stories on TV and on radio.
  11. Also seems odd that one of those images Photobucket uploaded to the wrong location.
  12. It was something in the last version (after post liking was added) but it had only shown on your own Profile. Now you can see it on your post and your profile.
  13. That notification thing, is part of the new builds of Firefox at least. More and more sites that support that option will be making this notification. I suspect the sound that is made when I visit the forum is saved in a browser setting as well. And annoyingly enough, even though I had disabled that setting when Firefox updated to whatever version that was (It told me about that feature when I opened the browser the first time) every site that supports it still prompts me about it. Its too bad I let my Firefox update on this computer, my other one (Palemoon) with updates disabled doesn't support or ask about this silly "feature."
  14. I noticed your avatar disappeared, are you not able to upload it again? We don't delete accounts, especially ones with as many posts as you have here.
  15. Dibya, edit your previous post if you need to reply and you are the last to reply within 24 hours. See forum rules for details.
  16. That process of letting it install and declining the EULA is not a good idea. I see many people have problems where the install does not even work and even going back does something to damage their OS in a way where neither Windows 10 nor their previous version is workable.
  17. Here is the "known issue" on technet: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/d52d01d3-d1db-42d1-9bf3-fe936739720f/windows-10-taskbar-issues-build-rs1release-14271-enterprise?forum=win10itprogeneral If you set to display all notification icons and more than 4 tray icons, it breaks the UI.
  18. Having read somewhere, a response from IPS regarding the removal of BBCode in the original 4.0 that came out last year. Their reckoning was that BBCode was needed in days before WYSIWYG editors, but now that WYSIWYG editors are here then they do not need to rely on them so much. They seem to forget that people learn to type a certain way, like those who learned to type on T9 on a phone. It isn't simply "just click this button instead" for people like us. I've been typing in bbcode on forums for over 15 years now. To type in img or url or whatever, I type it in manually. Maybe they had expected people were clicking buttons on toolbars that automatically did the bbcode for them? Either way, it is silly to change to a new system that doesn't build upon the previous (bbcode) system.
  19. All (active) moderators should have the appropriate permissions in their forums now.
  20. I will look into getting your permissions restored. And yes, for now do not edit old posts that have quote or code tags in it (I posted this as a status update) because it will bork your post. We can wait for now and see about making it so the forum doesn't destroy a post when doing this.
  21. First post seems important, how to view content? The unread content button up top is really the place to change your stream settings now, because by default it probably shows you more than you want to see. Above that on the main menu bar is an Activity button. That is where you get to see your custom content views. Here are a couple pics:
  22. The profile now has a cover photo option like there are on social media sites like Twitter or Facebook. After playing around, I was able to build a template for my screen resolution which is 1680x1050 on this computer. I do not know how it will look on other resolutions yet, so this might not be of any use. The forum uses a single image to show in 2 sizes. The profile page looks to use 1300x265 while the hover profile uses 436x85. I have made a template to show the used areas for both views. One problem with designing a cover is that you likely do not want to use text. Here is the regular template image that I have as my forum cover photo. http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k63/Tripredacus/news_icons/msfn_cover_zps3rxjmntu.jpg Here is a transparent one that can be used as an overlay for testing out cover photos. http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k63/Tripredacus/news_icons/msfn_cover_transparent_zpsfbgrsrgm.png
  23. In situations like that, if the price is right, you buy for the hardware.
  24. BCDEdit by itself will act upon the store of the booted OS, if it exists.* So if you boot into WinRE and run BCDEdit, you will see the BCD as it applies to WinRE. To read the BCD for the OS, point to the location of the system partition. Do this using the /Store switch. Regarding your partition question, I believe that it is a standard practice to put boot files on the first visible partition on a disk. In situations where the System Partition is not Part1 (such as in some Win8/10 deployments) the actual first partition is marked as hidden. We are talking about multi-boot scenarios. Say for example a critical part of the OS or boot file on the OS Partition were deleted or corrupted. In a single boot scenario, you would then be required to boot off something else like CD or USB to fix it. But if your boot files are kept on a separate partition, your OS can go south and you can still boot into WinRE or whatever else. And technically you could delete you OS volume, boot to WinRE and then use Setup to install Windows back to that location again.
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