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Let's not bypass the swear filter. On searching on Google, it is another bad sign. Nearly every time I search for something, the site decides that I must actually mean to search for something else. It is very frustrating and there doesn't seem to be a way for it not to randomly include "similar" words in place of what you actually typed in without having to resort to quotes and (the limited) boolean (support) every time.

ntlite.com is up for me.

I am not sure to understand, you are acquainted with "kids" or with "old people" (i.e. "50+" )? Both! The kids are mostly from interactions at family get togethers. They do not seem to have a good grasp on how to computer as much as one would think, since they have been raised with them.

You can probably also add my strategy to this... I disabled Windows Update.

I would not recommend doing it after the fact. If you have CSM/Legacy HDD boot options, you can install Windows to a single disk-spanning partition on a 2TB or smaller HDD using an answer file. Windows 10 on EFI "requires" the EFI and MSR partition in addition to the OS partition at a minimum. The MSR partition does not appear in Disk Management but it can be seen with Diskpart. I have not tried or researched having Windows 10 boot on a single partition on EFI either after the fact or from bare metal.

I blame this on the fact that as time goes went on, there were less people who learned to build websites from books. Books, you may recall, were the go-to learning tool for nearly all of computing up until around 2003 or so. That year also seems to be when a larger percentage of users (in the United States or users of English language websites) were moving to broadband. I remember my first actual software development job in 2004 where it was not actually required to install the 2 CD add-on for Visual Studio for documentation because Microsoft had everything on Technet or MSDN and it was updated. Web development from those book times tought two important things: 1. Do it yourself, only use what you need 2. Keep sizes and load times down because most people did not have a fast internet connection... see "56K Warning." Those getting into making websites around 2000 would often ask, why is my page so slow? It was usually due to being build with a "Generator" such as FrontPage or an online builder like what Homestead had. These WYSIWYG programs would often add code that un-needed (but you might use that someday) or not remove remarked markup or (worse) have some sort of buggy or non-standard code/plugin that would confuse browsers. So a bad thing happened. People still wanted to make webpages but did not want to do all the work from the ground up. They slowly moved away from site generators and into full on web application packages. The first of these were CMS and CMS add-ons for forums. A huge amount of stuff you would install and just fill in what text and pictures you wanted. Then came the age of adding a something into your site that provided a function that another site provided. This had existed for awhile with page counters, polls and webrings. You just copy this HTML and stick it on your page somewhere and boom! instant functionality. This now meant that in order to load up your page, you also had to load content from x other websites and HOPE they aren't having a problem. In the early days, the thought was you could take their code and host it locally. Since that code often changed or updated, people didn't want to have to keep up with everything they were adding. Now site builders stick in these includes and forget about it, until one day it screws up. It seems like nowadays that people designing a website are either not technically sound OR are not willing to tell the decision makers that their idea is not good and shouldn't be used. I've worked on a web team where the others would just accomplish any task given to them. Websites in the business world became less about functionality and more about what looks cool and design experimentation. The Paypal example from the link above is not where I thought the author would go with it. Yes there are usuability problems with Paypal in the user cpl. However, there is no reason in the world why the main index of Paypal needs to stream a video as its page background! One last thing we can blame is the web browsers we use. They used to be known for their rigidity in adhereing to web standards, and over time they have been changed to ignore them and make it so the websites render. Browsers now will ignore nested HTML tags where in the past using those would break the page, this is mostly caused by includes from other websites. All our browsers by default allow XSS. People are still using Iframes. SVG is now available for everyone but only as images. XSL/T still doesn't work in anything besides IE6. wow i typed a lot.

Yet these services may be needed for disk backup software and the same. In a normal situation, I would agree. However, Nikolas is running this in a VM.

"older generation"="50+" You have set a rather low level for "us". I tried to use age numbers based on the people I am acquainted with. It may also reflect the fact that I've been living in an urban area for over 10 years. Were I living in the country towns again maybe things would be different. And, I am speaking specifically of life in these United States, with full knowledge that other countries can and often are radically different.

Certainly there are shops that can do that for cars, but the common US everyman isn't going to fix up their own car should it become damaged. That subset of society, the motorhead (like a lot of trade skills) is primarily owned by the older generations... say 50+. In the past 15 years, people are not keeping new cars even for the length of their warranties. Instead they most often adopt to trade the car in for another new one once the payments are up. At least around here, those who fix up their own cars or keep older ones are either involved in some sort of motoring hobby. Racing (legal or not), showcase (severe minority), automotive industry workers or those who live in rural areas with less access to dealers or auto part stores. Even in this day, it is rare to hear that someone has changed the oil in their own car, as compared to just 20 years ago. Now people go to a shop and have it done for them. I wouldn't say that 36 is the "younger crowd" really. I think that trends in technology and the internet is driven by people younger than 30. Those who have spend a good 10-15 years in the real world after school years usually wisen up by the mid-30s and not want to deal with so much anymore.

Certainly no one should post their personal email on a public forum.

And also there is no way to know if the keys are deleted from your account, rather it doesn't show up when you log in. Think of it this way, when we delete a post on the forum, it doesn't go away. You can't see it, it doesn't show up in your history (except the increased post count) but it isn't deleted. Its still in there. I would be surprised if said key was actually deleted out of a database (not counting backups) rather just de-linked from your account, or hidden from your view. Here's an example of an account without any keys. I used my testing account which has been used to set up Windows 10 systems. I'm not entirely certain that Bitlocker is as automatic as they say.

I guess you are running in a VM? You have the VirtualBox service there which you obviously wouldn't want to disable. From the list given maybe just two Shadow Copy services. You can try disabling the Print Spooler, but in the past I've ran into programs that complain if it does not work even if unrelated to printing.

Have you seen any instance where re-arranging the XML does anything? By design, it shouldn't, as everything should be parsed prior to being used.

It depends on your requirements. Personally I wouldn't remove any of those.

Well, actually it is surprising (to me). The whole idea of SLIC OEM keys was to further "tighten" an install source to a given PC/laptop, but the OEM license was "perpetual" (as long as it was installed on the same given PC/laptop and not "migrated" to different hardware). jaclaz It is obvious there is some difference between what Microsoft intended or designed for and what happens in the real world. It is supposed to be that if you had to reinstall Windows on your OEM computer, that when you install it with the recovery DVD, it will read the product key from the BIOS and not prompt for one and then activate automatically. I have not seen a situation where this doesn't work that way, other than reading about it on forums.

The product key in the BIOS is not intended to be entered manually. Telephone activation being required does not suprise me.

Something similar happened with Firefox I use at work, except it deleted all my plugins! The only thing I let auto update is Chrome because it has always been seamless, except for that time Flash stopped working a couple years ago.

There should be some mention somewhere on the website regarding the behaviour of the free version.

Does your Windows 8.1 install not let you enter the product key or does it install but not activate?

http://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2014/11/17/playstation-2-can-actually-stream-netflix-users-brazil/ There are zero results for Netflix in the Sony Programming section of Assembler, so I guess no one really looked into it.

It wouldn't work. I think the purchase was partly to have something familiar to show off the Hololens but more likely it was to purchase the customers. It is a common trend these days to acquire new customers not by word of mouth or advertising, but to purchase them by aquiring another company.

You shouldn't post your real email on the forum. You can end up with getting spam that way.

Being a kid is ok. I wonder how people would react if someone's intro post was "Hi old people!"

Interesting... all my SWF files have CWS in their headers...

The files are not actually MP4 files. They have an extension of SWF but they aren't those either. Normal MP4 files have a file header that says ftyp followed by a designator as seen in this list: http://www.ftyps.com/ Two MP4 files I have on my computer for comparison have ftypisom and ftypmp42. The SWF files on the OneDrive link do not have file headers at all. This is why I believe that the files the OP uploaded are not going to be very helpful in recovery and that the original SD Card should be looked at again instead.