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Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum November 22nd 18, 03:41 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 5
Views: 362
Posted By Louis Fabron
Name of running programs

I want to bring up "things" in Windows without having to search.
I want to bring them up from the command prompt.

The question is how to find the name of something running once it's already
running...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum November 7th 18, 02:18 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general
Replies: 4
Views: 1,145
Posted By Louis Fabron
update search engines

Browsers have an option that is usually on to "update search engines".
Why would a search engine need updating?
Isn't it just a URL?
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum October 18th 18, 12:08 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 23
Views: 766
Posted By Louis Fabron
Latest Windows 10 Update vs. Notepad

VanguardLH wrote:

See how well your attitude has engendered helpful replies from others?
You act indignant that you got back the attitude you gave. A child's
reaction.

Seems to me his...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum September 24th 18, 09:35 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 14
Views: 639
Posted By Louis Fabron
Office 2007 license

Bob_S wrote:

This may be of some help in getting it activated. Use the phone method you
provide a long installation ID code that you get to when trying to activate
and MS gives you a long...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum September 24th 18, 09:33 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 42
Views: 676
Posted By Louis Fabron
Microsoft Office 2016 for free with just a command!

Mandy Liefbowitz wrote:

It's just a random thought but do you still have access to any of the
old machines? Does one still work? If so, you could try de-activating
Messy Office on one or...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum September 22nd 18, 09:28 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 14
Views: 639
Posted By Louis Fabron
Office 2007 license

I have a perfectly valid Office 2007 license which I've moved from computer
to computer since XP days, and which won't activate over the Internet on a
recently reimaged Windows 2010 desktop.

The...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum September 22nd 18, 09:06 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 42
Views: 676
Posted By Louis Fabron
Microsoft Office 2016 for free with just a command!

Big Al wrote:

And you might be doing something illegal by posting publicly a license
code for a paid program. Just my 2 cents, and probably worth that much.

Even worse, if someone is...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum September 22nd 18, 09:02 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 42
Views: 676
Posted By Louis Fabron
Microsoft Office 2016 for free with just a command!

Johnson wrote:

No, sorry. Office 2007 did not use kms activation. there are serial
numbers everywhere for office 2007. If I have time I will post a
working serial. Not as easy as it sounds...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum September 22nd 18, 08:23 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 42
Views: 676
Posted By Louis Fabron
Microsoft Office 2016 for free with just a command!

Big Al wrote:

This is a link to the 1click command that will activate office for 6
months. You will have to run the command again in 6 months to activate
it again. You can check out the...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum August 27th 18, 05:36 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.comp.freeware
Replies: 25
Views: 823
Posted By Louis Fabron
Best free malware scanners for Windows 10?

Bob_S wrote:

And the results of looking at the Task Manager are...?

Thank you for that idea on the task manager whose numbers looked good.
https://image.ibb.co/k1awnp/taskman.jpg

I tried the...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum August 26th 18, 11:12 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.comp.freeware
Replies: 25
Views: 823
Posted By Louis Fabron
Best free malware scanners for Windows 10?

Louis Fabron wrote:

Can you give me advice on some of the best free Windows 10 malware checkers
to try next that don't have so many false flag reports?

These seem to be the best, so far, all of...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum August 26th 18, 10:34 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.comp.freeware
Replies: 25
Views: 823
Posted By Louis Fabron
Best free malware scanners for Windows 10?

Louis Fabron wrote:

The only one that found anything that I don't know yet is the Microsoft
msrt which is running on hours so I have to wait to find what it found.

After more than 25 hours it...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum August 26th 18, 02:17 PM Posted to alt.comp.freeware,alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 29
Views: 595
Posted By Louis Fabron
WTF? Setting up new Win10 - where is the standard calculator?

Paul wrote:

Whereas Calculator^2 was made by a private developer.

Thank you for solving that question of the calculator^2.

I'm not a fan of these giant calculators. When I'm in
the mood to...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum August 26th 18, 01:51 AM Posted to alt.comp.freeware,alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 29
Views: 595
Posted By Louis Fabron
WTF? Setting up new Win10 - where is the standard calculator?

Rene Lamontagne wrote:

Yep, bad guess on my part, just looked in the store and that is its full
title, calculator2, there is also a calculator one and a bunch more.

Thank you for that lookup....
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum August 26th 18, 01:38 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.comp.freeware
Replies: 25
Views: 823
Posted By Louis Fabron
Best free malware scanners for Windows 10?

Bob_S wrote:

1. Do you know if the system is slow because of malware or has it run Win10
faster in the past?
2. MalwareBytes may be giving a false positive so I would make sure you are
...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum August 26th 18, 01:13 AM Posted to alt.comp.freeware,alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 29
Views: 595
Posted By Louis Fabron
WTF? Setting up new Win10 - where is the standard calculator?

Rene Lamontagne wrote:

I am going to venture a guess, That little 2 seems to indicate that that
is the second copy, one copy is already installed.

Thank you for that guess.
I searched but it...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum August 26th 18, 12:51 AM Posted to alt.comp.freeware,alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 29
Views: 595
Posted By Louis Fabron
WTF? Setting up new Win10 - where is the standard calculator?

VanguardLH wrote:

So you need to install a handler for the protocol. That means having to
get one from the MS Store. Or ...

...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum August 26th 18, 12:32 AM Posted to alt.comp.freeware,alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 29
Views: 595
Posted By Louis Fabron
WTF? Setting up new Win10 - where is the standard calculator?

Keith Nuttle wrote:

The Windows 10 Calculator is multi function. Open the Calculator that
you found above and click on the three bars at the top under the word
Calculator.

In Windows 10...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum August 26th 18, 12:07 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.comp.freeware
Replies: 29
Views: 595
Posted By Louis Fabron
WTF? Setting up new Win10 - where is the standard calculator?

Ralph Fox wrote:

In Windows 10 the standard calculator (Calculator.exe) is an "app", and is
in the folder C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.WindowsCalculator_*
(where the * represents a...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum August 25th 18, 11:42 PM Posted to alt.comp.freeware,alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 29
Views: 595
Posted By Louis Fabron
WTF? Setting up new Win10 - where is the standard calculator?

Nil wrote:

Do I have to ADD a calculator to Windows 10?

Mine came with the Calculator app already installed by default.

Thank you for this information.

I think you all forgot tht you...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum August 25th 18, 11:22 PM Posted to alt.comp.freeware,alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 29
Views: 595
Posted By Louis Fabron
WTF? Setting up new Win10 - where is the standard calculator?

Monty wrote:

You'll need a new app to open this calculator

Maybe you need a later version of calc.exe.

Thank you for this information.
I think all of you forgot that you had to install it...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum August 25th 18, 10:48 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 25
Views: 823
Posted By Louis Fabron
Best free malware scanners for Windows 10?

Rene Lamontagne wrote:

Typo. Adwcleaner not cleater


Rene

And Malwarebytes :)
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum August 25th 18, 10:39 PM Posted to alt.comp.freeware,alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 29
Views: 595
Posted By Louis Fabron
WTF? Setting up new Win10 - where is the standard calculator?

WTF?
https://image.ibb.co/cCJ9oU/Clipboard01.jpg

C:\Windows\System32\calc.exe
You'll need a new app to open this calculator

Do I have to ADD a calculator to Windows 10?

If I have to add a...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum August 25th 18, 09:03 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.comp.freeware
Replies: 25
Views: 823
Posted By Louis Fabron
Best free malware scanners for Windows 10?

I have a slow desktop where I may just reinstall Windows 10 which is
probably the best way to fix it.

But if I can't easily reinstall Windows 10 I'll run some malware scans but
they make me crazy...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum August 25th 18, 06:38 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 5
Views: 395
Posted By Louis Fabron
Easy way to reinstall Win10 without screwing up the programs?

Is there an easy way to reinstall Win10 without screwing up the programs?

My desktop is getting slow but I can't find out why.
It's only about six months old but its noticeably slower.

For example,...
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