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So is The Revenant not worth seeing?

Do all brands of M.2 SSDs get hot because of the intrinsic nature of the beast, or are you both talking the same brand?

I have my e-sig. The certificate is on a protected / special type of USB flash pen drive. The good news: While the e-sig can be used for a variety of purposes, at present my only need is to comply with Ministry of Company Affairs requirements. All hail the Gods, the MCA website supports the...

A big fat Havana cigar for Merc! Thanks buddy, problem fixed! I first tried (before Merc posted) to boot from the W10 DVD, but oddly, it would not boot, and kept booting from W7 on the SSD. Then I tried EasyBCD, but couldn't make sense of it. Also the website only kept talking about XP, Vista...

Where did I say I expected things to still be hunky dory? :drinka:

I had W7 & W10 dual booting peacefully. Yesterday, I had to restore the W7 image that was made shortly before installing W10. As I expected, now there's no dual-boot menu, system boots straight into W7 :( I set the W10 partition active and tried to boot from it, fails with NTLDR not found. Any...

Congrats, SD!

Considering the drives are Samsung, and Magician is created by Samsung, I'd trust their sw more than third party sw.

Well, my motherboard does have UEFI, and there was a 128 MB reserved partition at the beginning of the disk (I think this was to make the partitions "aligned" - done by either W7 or Minitool Partition Wizard, can't remember) followed by 200 GB of free space. At this time it will have to remain...

I thought Slysoft operated in one of those areas where they couldn't be touched? Did they close down because they didn't make enough money or from legal action?

Thanks Handy. In the past I have booted multiple OSes from different drives; it's not so difficult. It's GPT that's the spanner in the works here. And if a partition is already created at the beginning of a drive for the OS to live in, having data in other partitions on the same drive is...

Why are screen icons so blown up in W10? They're compact, small and neat in W7, just the opposite in W10. Are W7 icons not compatible natively with W10? The visuals in W10 suck. W7 is so compact, tight, neat, W10 is majorly disappointing on the UI. I guess a lot of tweaking will have to be done.

Man, those inverter batteries weigh a ton. IIRC, ~ 65-70 pounds each. The ones I had previously (before I moved to my current location a few years ago) came with think rope handles to carry / transport them. Two grown men strained to lift one battery, and I had two!

Handy, that's an awesome find, it'll certainly help me. Will do that tomorrow. It's been a long day. All major programs I need have been installed in W10 today!

Handy, what Howell said. The Ministry of Company Affairs will accept a Digital Signature only when the corresponding certificate is issued by a list curated by it. It's not frightfully expensive, but - a) the obsolete hw/sw they list on the website and b) the cumbersome process of providing...

Hit my first gotcha. W10 says Ethernet connections cannot be set to metered, only Wi-Fi can. That screws me royally till I figure out how to deal with it.

I used the MCT to download the W10 ISO on Feb 22. Just finished installing & activating it. It's build 1511. It took my unused Technet W7-Pro key just fine. The whole process was slam-dunk easy. I've turned off most of the privacy leaks, but still need to install Spybot Anti-Beacon etc. and of...

I shrank the W7 partition, created a new primary next to it and installed W10 on the SSD. Now I'll never know how to make it boot from a GPT disk :(

Dave, I've had OS and data on the same drives since forever. But, all non-OS stuff has lived in separate partitions, plus all data is backed up almost real-time to a second drive with no OS, so it's never been a problem. I could shrink the current W7 partition on the SSD and make another for...

Thanks Handy. Lunar, I think not, I can only use a locally approved Certificate Authority. Howell, I think I'll be constrained to implement it the way the CA dictates. I'll post back once everything happens; probably a few more business days.

My goal is to install W10 in a dual-boot config with my existing W7, migrate all apps to W10 over a period of time, have it stable, then discontinue W7. My motherboard is an Asus P8Z77-V with UEFI Bios. I'm on the last released version of the BIOS (2013-09). Many full moons ago I moved my W7...

What's mmc? You lost me there. No replies from any of the CAs to my queries. This is really frustrating.

Thanks, SD.

SD< I didn't understand what you said. Please clarify. I already downloaded Win-10 ISO about 12 hours ago from MS just in case.

I believe so. It has to be gormint approved. Waiting to hear back, hopefully today. Some of them insist on a USB hardware token - an encrypted flash drive. Nobody talks of what will happen if it fails (fortunately I've never had a flash drive fail on me so far, but my usage is very low). I am...

Yes please Merc, if you can. Thank you very much.

Thanks Merc; that W7 key would be dedicated to W10. It would be different than the key used for my production machine. So you're saying I can do a clean install using a previously unused key?

For some new stuff I want to do, I need to sign documents electronically. That means I have to get a DSC - I guess this stands for Digital Signature Certificate. There are a handful of CAs providing them here (empowered / empaneled by the gormint). The weird thing is they all talk about Internet...

So, if one has a spare W7 key, can one download W10 and do a clean/fresh install with said key? Due to various reasons I've decided to go with W10, but not cold turkey. My goal is to install it on a separate drive from W7; keep W7 as the production machine for now and gradually switch over...

Isn't the D80 a really old model?

All these are new to me. I use VLC for my video / audio needs; I guess these are way better since you're using them. Care to enlighten the ignorant? :)

I thought Android was 64-bit enabled from 4.2 or thereabouts??

Mysterious spike in WordPress hacks silently delivers ransomware to visitors Article also talks about The Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit from MS; anybody using it, comments please?

1,500 Windows 3.1 shareware apps are now free, immortalized on your browser

Amen. When there was all that brouhaha about the end of the world with the end of the Mayan calendar (2012 December), I was hoping there'd be multiple events - earthquakes, tsunamis, polar shift, what not, which would wipe out 65 - 80% of earth's population so we could start over. I absolutely...

Yes, that article is quite credible. But it'll be sad if it does happen. The auto industry is severely jaded, and needs someone like Musk to re-invigorate it. Hope he straightens things out by focusing on the day to day nut-and-bolts of the business. It's great to have vision, but a business...

Do you use an engine warming blanket?

Nice an snappy today!

If you have web based email, you get to keep it. If your email ID is provided by your ISP, then you get to keep it if your ISP operates in your new location, else not. Even if you won't have a home phone, you can still be reached on your cell phone, so what's the worry? EDIT: Sorry, didn't see...

When I had to re-install Windows 8 (from the recovery partition on the HDD) and then upgrade to 8.1, and then get all the updates for 8.1, this is what I did; selected updates that totaled about 100 MB at a time, let it update, rebooted, then selected the next batch. Tremendously tedious, boring...

The mystery deepens!!!

I think apart from your hosting provider, there are network issues. Many foreign sites were slow to dead for me yesterday - like ARS Techinca, for example. There's something screwy going on. Maybe a major DOS attack somewhere, or a network outage.

Thanks Handy. Slow right now.

You're the guinea pig, SD. Let me know how it goes. I will follow intrepid SD. I have a spare Win 7 key from Technet that I hope to be able to use.

Site is reasonably fast now. This afternoon and morning (about 4 and 8 hours ago), it was unusable - didn't load at all. Last few days it's been dog slow. Just FYI.

Is the Routerboard 411 only b + g ?

I get a 3 too, which is correct for my system.

Thanks jtr. LED bulbs (at least here) are 2x - 3.5x the cost of CFLs, and the only reasons to get them is the lower power consumption and longer life. But if they fail partially or completely much sooner then expected, they're not worthwhile.

Cryptic as usual.

If it's under voltage, why do some flicker and not others? Because these flickering ones are more sensitive? Over here, Osram has a phenomenal reputation in CFLs and all mine are Osram and nary a problem. But for LEDs, they are rated very poorly, for early death, dimming, and flickering. None...