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Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum June 2nd 16, 01:54 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 39
Views: 341
Posted By Andy Burns[_5_]
DNS servers

Ed Cryer wrote:

My ISP's DNS servers seem to have got overloaded recently.
Has anybody tried public ones in the UK?

Google's 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.8.4
or Cisco's 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum May 29th 16, 11:02 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 25
Views: 93
Posted By Andy Burns[_5_]
Newsgroups

Jeff Thoele wrote:

What's a good way to access newsgroups?

What do you find lacking with Thunderbird and aioe?
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum May 23rd 16, 07:22 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 6
Views: 46
Posted By Andy Burns[_5_]
Saving NIC settings

SC Tom wrote:

Commands in this context:
show interface - Displays interfaces."

Sorry, I meant "dump" not "show", I even tested the command before
replying, then typed the wrong thing!

netsh...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum May 22nd 16, 07:04 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 6
Views: 46
Posted By Andy Burns[_5_]
Saving NIC settings

SC Tom wrote:

I'm wondering if there is any way to save to a text file the current
settings of a NIC

Within a CMD window try

netsh.exe interface show config.txt
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum May 16th 16, 11:28 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 15
Views: 76
Posted By Andy Burns[_5_]
This page can't be displayed problem.

Rene lamontagne wrote:

Why am I getting so many of this message when trying to access common
random websites?
I am on windows 10 and it occurs using three different browsers, IE11,
Pale moon...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum May 16th 16, 11:24 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 20
Views: 107
Posted By Andy Burns[_5_]
Defragless File System? (Was: Defrag an old Windows7-Windows 10laptop?)

Stef wrote:

read that MS was "working on" a replacement for NTFS, but that was
two years ago! I'll believe it when I see it.

Win8.1, Win2012, Win10 and Win2012R2 all support ReFS as well as...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum May 7th 16, 09:42 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 39
Views: 178
Posted By Andy Burns[_5_]
Splitting my system between a SSD & HDD?

pjp wrote:

250Gb SSD is min size to consider.

Depends what you use the machine for, and whether you have other machine
for other stuff.

This "small" home laptop has a 64GB SSD with Win10,...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum May 7th 16, 06:34 PM Posted to 24hoursupport.helpdesk,alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.windows7.general,alt.politics.scorched-earth
Replies: 8
Views: 984
Posted By Andy Burns[_5_]
Hundreds Of Millions Of Accounts Compromised In Major Email Hack

The New Other Guy wrote:

burfordTjustice wrote:

Experts have discovered a total of 272.3 million hacked usernames
and passwords for sale in the Russian criminal underworld.

PLEASE,...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum May 7th 16, 08:53 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 39
Views: 178
Posted By Andy Burns[_5_]
Splitting my system between a SSD & HDD?

philo wrote:

Peter Jason wrote:

I have the Win10 OS & all data on a 1TB HDD. I want to put the
Win10 OS on to a 120GB SSD and leave the rest on the HDD.

To put Win10 on the SSD you...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum May 6th 16, 09:19 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 34
Views: 192
Posted By Andy Burns[_5_]
Recovering data from failing hard drives

Char Jackson wrote:

28TB array

Presumably you just meant a total of 28TB of individual disks, rather
than any form of RAID array?
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum April 29th 16, 08:25 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 5
Views: 125
Posted By Andy Burns[_5_]
Dual boot Win10 - Win7

Moss Grimmik wrote:

Win 10 will run under legacy or UEFI bios. Win 7 will only run on
legacy.


That's not right, Win7 will run on UEFI provided (as you later said)
it's UEFI without secure...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum April 28th 16, 07:02 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 84
Views: 649
Posted By Andy Burns[_5_]
OT Thunderbird 45 flawed

Andy Burns wrote:

Nil wrote:

I was referring to Firefox 46, which just came out yesterday or so.
Thunderbird 46 should follow soon, I guess.

No TB45.1 will be equivalent to FF46esr,
...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum April 28th 16, 06:49 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 84
Views: 649
Posted By Andy Burns[_5_]
OT Thunderbird 45 flawed

Nil wrote:

I was referring to Firefox 46, which just came out yesterday or so.
Thunderbird 46 should follow soon, I guess.

No TB45.1 will be equivalent to FF46esr,
same way that TB38.7 was...
Forum: Windows 8 Help Forum April 26th 16, 02:52 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
Replies: 53
Views: 7,795
Posted By Andy Burns[_5_]
Desktop calculator bug

Pfsszxt wrote:

Newton unit?

Depending which planet you live on, the force exerted by a mass of
approx 102 grammes

Isn't "tonne" a British weight unit?

It's used here, but isn't specifically...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum April 26th 16, 05:53 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 11
Views: 1,338
Posted By Andy Burns[_5_]
Windows Easy Transfer Wizard report?

Yousuf Khan wrote:

Jason wrote:

How do you undo that? Just curious...

You just delete the link

oops, guess who read it as how do you DO rather than UNDO that?
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum April 26th 16, 05:53 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 11
Views: 104
Posted By Andy Burns[_5_]
Windows Easy Transfer Wizard report?

Yousuf Khan wrote:

Jason wrote:

How do you undo that? Just curious...

You just delete the link

oops, guess who read it as how do you DO rather than UNDO that?
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum April 25th 16, 09:40 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 84
Views: 649
Posted By Andy Burns[_5_]
OT Thunderbird 45 flawed

Andy Burns wrote:

Rene lamontagne wrote:

Tbird 38.7.1 did an auto update yesterday [...] and it installed ver
45. The min/max and close boxes are missing

Thankfully no such problem...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum April 25th 16, 08:45 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 84
Views: 649
Posted By Andy Burns[_5_]
OT Thunderbird 45 flawed

Rene lamontagne wrote:

Tbird 38.7.1 did an auto update yesterday [...] and it installed ver
45. The min/max and close boxes are missing

Thankfully no such problem here, I did have to re-apply...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum April 25th 16, 05:12 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 11
Views: 104
Posted By Andy Burns[_5_]
Windows Easy Transfer Wizard report?

Jason wrote:

Yousuf Khan wrote:

then linked it back to C:
drive with a directory junction.

How do you undo that?

MKLINK.EXE /J "C:\home\jason\" "D:\true\location\of\jasonhome"
Forum: Windows 7 Forum April 25th 16, 05:12 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 11
Views: 1,338
Posted By Andy Burns[_5_]
Windows Easy Transfer Wizard report?

Jason wrote:

Yousuf Khan wrote:

then linked it back to C:
drive with a directory junction.

How do you undo that?

MKLINK.EXE /J "C:\home\jason\" "D:\true\location\of\jasonhome"
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum April 12th 16, 05:51 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 11
Views: 104
Posted By Andy Burns[_5_]
Windows Easy Transfer Wizard report?

Yousuf Khan wrote:

Here's a Microsoft knowledgebase article about it:
Relocation of the Users directory and the ProgramData directory to a
drive other than the drive that contains the Windows...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum April 12th 16, 05:51 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 11
Views: 1,338
Posted By Andy Burns[_5_]
Windows Easy Transfer Wizard report?

Yousuf Khan wrote:

Here's a Microsoft knowledgebase article about it:
Relocation of the Users directory and the ProgramData directory to a
drive other than the drive that contains the Windows...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum April 12th 16, 09:39 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 11
Views: 1,338
Posted By Andy Burns[_5_]
Windows Easy Transfer Wizard report?

Yousuf Khan wrote:

I'm trying to upgrade to Windows 10, from 7, and it's looking like my
system is too complicated for an easy upgrade (I have moved my Users
folders to another drive, which is...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum April 12th 16, 09:39 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 11
Views: 104
Posted By Andy Burns[_5_]
Windows Easy Transfer Wizard report?

Yousuf Khan wrote:

I'm trying to upgrade to Windows 10, from 7, and it's looking like my
system is too complicated for an easy upgrade (I have moved my Users
folders to another drive, which is...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum April 11th 16, 09:55 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 4
Views: 118
Posted By Andy Burns[_5_]
"Scripts Forbidden" Msg.: What Does It Mean, Please ?

Bob wrote:

Can't get to a lot of sites now, due, apparently, to a "Scripts
Forbidden" msg

Sounds like NoScript is installed, icons looking like these by any...
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