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Message 1742579 - Posted: 16 Nov 2015, 16:27:43 UTC - in response to Message 1742545.  
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Already downloaded the 10mb "upgrade" without my approval.

10mb -> 10 GB

Do you use these 2 programs?

"GWX Control Panel"
http://blog.ultimateoutsider.com/2015/08/using-gwx-stopper-to-permanently-remove.html

"Windows 10 When I Want It"
http://win10wiwi.com/
 


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Message 1742655 - Posted: 16 Nov 2015, 22:26:44 UTC

No I haven't tried either of those programs, I do use SD Cut the line, but apparently M$ has ways around it. In lieu of trying other fixes I'm going totally to Linux. I've got Ubuntu installed and I will compare it to Mint and then migrate to the system most suited to my needs.

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Message 1742769 - Posted: 17 Nov 2015, 6:52:55 UTC

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Windows 7 ultimate

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(2) AMD Radeon HD 7850/7870 series (Pitcairn) (1024MB) driver: 1.4.1848 OpenCL: 1.2

Hey I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate and I'm happy staying with what I've got
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Message 1742945 - Posted: 18 Nov 2015, 0:39:17 UTC

Earlier tonight one of our Windows 7 machines was complaining its Windows wasn't genuine. It hadn't had the 14 updates in yet that had been waiting for slightly over a week. Allowing the updates to install themselves fixed that, but it goes to show that you who want to keep your Windows 7 will need to let updates through, as else your Windows will start to complain about the same thing... and when allowed long enough not to be genuine, it'll start nagging you about getting a (new) activation code.
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Message 1743154 - Posted: 18 Nov 2015, 19:23:06 UTC

On Aug. 1st I began receiving "upgrade to windows 10" attempts in updates and all since have failed. Not certain that I'm ready to switch. DH lost a few word files after his upgrade to 10. Otherwise it seems to be working pretty well for him.
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Message 1743405 - Posted: 19 Nov 2015, 21:34:02 UTC - in response to Message 1742271.  

I'm looking at going to a Samsung Galaxy Note4 or something like that phone, when I can afford it. I have a Samsung Galaxy Ring now(a CDMA phone), a 4" screen and 3G is a pain in the ass, the Note4 has a 5.7" screen and 4G LTE, of course I'd have to switch to Sprint I think, I'm with Virgin Mobile now, Virgin uses the Sprint network.


Yep, not a phablet fan. I need to be able to put my phone in my pocket. I have guys on the job (electrical construction) who hang huge phones from their hips. I don't see how they do it. Even the Lumia 640 is a little large for my taste. I just came over from a HTC One Mini. I haven't given up on that one yet... It taunts me from the shelf it sits on...

I have a Note 4. It's a tad big for doing stuff with only one hand, but other than that I like it. I had (still have, sitting there crunching Seti) a Note 2 and only got the 4 because the 2 was in my back pocket when I fell on my butt and the screen shattered. Fixing it was going to cost half the price of a new phone, and it was starting to have issues with the USB jack too, so instead of fixing it I got a new one. It still operates just fine with the broken screen; it's just a bit hard to read and I worry a tad about cutting my finger on a glass edge. Since it just sits still, the USB usually isn't a problem either. Honestly, I think I liked the 2 a bit better than the 4. BTW, I'm on Verizon.
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Message 1743447 - Posted: 20 Nov 2015, 0:53:29 UTC - in response to Message 1743405.  

I'm looking at going to a Samsung Galaxy Note4 or something like that phone, when I can afford it. I have a Samsung Galaxy Ring now(a CDMA phone), a 4" screen and 3G is a pain in the ass, the Note4 has a 5.7" screen and 4G LTE, of course I'd have to switch to Sprint I think, I'm with Virgin Mobile now, Virgin uses the Sprint network.


Yep, not a phablet fan. I need to be able to put my phone in my pocket. I have guys on the job (electrical construction) who hang huge phones from their hips. I don't see how they do it. Even the Lumia 640 is a little large for my taste. I just came over from a HTC One Mini. I haven't given up on that one yet... It taunts me from the shelf it sits on...

I have a Note 4. It's a tad big for doing stuff with only one hand, but other than that I like it. I had (still have, sitting there crunching Seti) a Note 2 and only got the 4 because the 2 was in my back pocket when I fell on my butt and the screen shattered. Fixing it was going to cost half the price of a new phone, and it was starting to have issues with the USB jack too, so instead of fixing it I got a new one. It still operates just fine with the broken screen; it's just a bit hard to read and I worry a tad about cutting my finger on a glass edge. Since it just sits still, the USB usually isn't a problem either. Honestly, I think I liked the 2 a bit better than the 4. BTW, I'm on Verizon.


I think I've finally resigned myself to the idea that a phone needs to do three things; Make calls, text messages and e-mail. Anything else is all but useless to me. The Lumia 640 will save me some money in the end. Another Android would have done the same, I simply wanted to give Win Phone a chance. Win Phone 10 is not ready for the Lumia 640. It somehow screwed up the Bluetooth and USB connectivity, so I restored it to Win phone 8.1 and I have not been disappointed. Again, it is just a phone. Samsung is still the best bang for the Buck as far as Android goes. I am to receive a iPhone shortly through work. Kinda looking forward to the new experience.
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Message 1743713 - Posted: 21 Nov 2015, 0:30:11 UTC - in response to Message 1743639.  

Get ready to pay $40/month for that Virgin Mobile prepaid phone come January 2016. I got a Virgin message saying that they are imposing the California prepaid phone surcharge come New Year's.

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Message 1743776 - Posted: 21 Nov 2015, 4:28:02 UTC

Greetings

Well I have 1 of 3 computers successfully running 2 x NVIDIA GPU's on Linux Mint 17.2 (KDE desktop).

A big thankyou to Fawkesguy for his post on using sgfxi, I finally got it to work.

Now I have a simple joblist to do for my next computer switchover.

Unfortunately I will still have to sit one computer on Win7 due to it mainly being a family computer but I thats fine with me.

Okay happy crunching

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Message 1743783 - Posted: 21 Nov 2015, 5:50:20 UTC - in response to Message 1743776.  

tazzduke, that's great! Glad you got it worked out. :-)
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Message 1744621 - Posted: 24 Nov 2015, 23:55:19 UTC
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The first big Windows 10 update removes several applications without asking you if it should do so because it finds these are incompatible with Windows 10.

Apps included are CPUID, CPU-Z and Speccy. It will also remove versions of Steam, Origin, Adobe CS and Android Studio. It also removes the AMD Catalyst Control Center and then installs its own drivers instead. All can be reinstalled on Windows 10 without further problems, or until the next update of course and it deems these programs to be incompatible again. ;-)

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Message 1744697 - Posted: 25 Nov 2015, 8:20:04 UTC - in response to Message 1744621.  

The first big Windows 10 update removes several applications without asking you if it should do so because it finds these are incompatible with Windows 10.

Apps included are CPUID, CPU-Z and Speccy. It will also remove versions of Steam, Origin, Adobe CS and Android Studio. It also removes the AMD Catalyst Control Center and then installs its own drivers instead. All can be reinstalled on Windows 10 without further problems, or until the next update of course and it deems these programs to be incompatible again. ;-)

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ROFL, "this PC" becomes "their's PC" actually.

Next will be "Non-approved video blocked" and "News you read don't compatible with BB point of view, site blocked"
And indeed, why housewife needs to know that her glory country supports international terrorism?...
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Message 1744804 - Posted: 25 Nov 2015, 16:51:52 UTC

Yesterday Microsoft released an update that reversed something that the November Update did: When the November update was installed, a few settings preferences may have inadvertently not been retained for advertising ID, Background apps, SmartScreen Filter, and Sync with devices.

Just so you know, that they can and will change your privacy settings when they find it necessary and the users are lulled into a false sense of security.
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Message 1744814 - Posted: 25 Nov 2015, 17:21:33 UTC

I have one Window$ 8.1 rig that insists I have updates waiting to download every time I start it and when I go to Updates it tells me there are no downloads available.....Good 'ole M$, they have NO idea what they're doing........patches issued to fix patches that didn't need patches in the first place.

I just recommissioned and upgraded another old Xeon workstation with a new SSD C: Drive and I was able to reinstall the Win 7 system that was previously on the machine with no problems. Guess they haven't gone totally draconian on that O$(yet),

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Message 1744923 - Posted: 26 Nov 2015, 1:34:17 UTC

I installed the November major update. It took all night. Privacy settings were OK. I installed the latest Virtual Box release to run CERN Programs. All seems OK.
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Message 1744983 - Posted: 26 Nov 2015, 9:14:53 UTC - in response to Message 1744923.  

I would have to say nay

Far too early to be released.
I put it on my quad tablet and no camera and a lot of random locks. Way more developing needed. The major thing that got me is the spy crap they placed in.

Big Brother in action

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Message 1745000 - Posted: 26 Nov 2015, 11:03:35 UTC

The main advantage of this update is that it killed all BOINC screensavers, which were a pain when I wanted to log in. Now logging is faster.
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Message 1745849 - Posted: 30 Nov 2015, 16:03:00 UTC

Parents bought new HP Envy Desktop system on the 28th. Spent a day and a half backing up ALL their stuff from the old system; then, spent yesterday tweaking Win 10 Home on the new system, (before transferring ANYTHING over), of course being Win 10 Home, Automatic Updates kicked in... Apparently there is a NEWER version of Win 10 Home that it downloaded and installed while I watched in horror... I knew that something wasn't going to be right with it...

Sure enough, upon rebooting into the NEW and SUPPOSEDLY IMPROVED Win 10 Home, the built in Intel Wireless card was NO LONGER VISIBLE in Networking, and thus dropped the connection to the Network... FRAKKING thing took over an hour to install the NEW Win 10 Home, and took almost as long to Revert back to the original Win 10 Home. Thankfully, upon reverting, the Wireless card picked right back up and started working again...

At this point, I chose to immediately Upgrade to Win 10 Pro!!! Took 20 Min. to complete that Upgrade... (WTF???? Where is MickeySloth's head at???)

Now to my question:

I copied my OLD BOINC Data Folder from my parents' old system. (Win 7) Where in Win 10 do I deposit this copied BOINC Data Folder??? I want to make sure I keep the original ID's for SETI and SETI Beta on the new Win 10 Pro system.

(This may have been asked before; but as LOOOOONG as this Thread is, I didn't want to try digging through, and possibly miss the answer.)

Thanks in advance.


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Message 1745883 - Posted: 30 Nov 2015, 19:59:53 UTC - in response to Message 1745849.  

Exactly the same place as it was in the other OS C:\Programdata\BOINC\projects\setihome.Berkeley.edu

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Message 1745904 - Posted: 30 Nov 2015, 20:58:34 UTC - in response to Message 1745883.  
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Exactly the same place as it was in the other OS C:\Programdata\BOINC\projects\setihome.Berkeley.edu

Thank you. I got the BOINC Data Folder transferred, went to the Projects' Folder and removed the Lunatics that was installed on the old machine, got BOINC 7.4.42 installed, (I don't want 7.6.9), and now I'm installing Lunatics 0.43b.

I deactivated CPU crunching in Lunatics, and enabled the Intel graphics card to crunch. BOINC downloaded four work units, and is crunching. The Intel card is a 530. The system is an i5-6400 Quad Core at 2.7 GHz. System has 12 GB RAM. Current RAC on this system is 0.06 as gathered from the original BOINC Data transferred to the new system.

Does this system look OK??? It's on the stock Win 10 Intel Drivers; and so far seems to be running...

Computer ID: 7066606


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