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My Dell 2209WA LCD monitor purchased circa 2009 has developed a dead / stuck pixel (black dot). Not bothersome now, hope it doesn't grow.

Looks like, Merc. Anyway, life goes on, I'll worry about this if I can't pull the plug on w7 when the time comes. I used Media Creation Tool on my W7-64 Ultimate to download the ISO I used to fresh-install W10 using another W7-64-Pro key. When upgrading my daughter's laptop, I'd rather do it...

Depends on where I shut down from. If the m/c was shut down from W7, the boot menu comes up. If the m/c was shut down in W10, no boot menu, straight boot into W10. If I want W7, I'll have to "re-start" W10, then the boot menu comes up. Not a big deal, fairly soon I'll be purely W10 based with...

I did; everything looks correct. Obviously it isn't :( You lost me there! I'd think if the boot loader was set up correctly, I should always see it, regardless of which OS I shut down from.

Was this addressed to me Merc? I don't use Edge at all; I've downloaded Chrome and Firefox and use those. I have already downloaded Foobar2000; it's when I try to install it that W10 warns about it not being signed. Or am I missing something in that if I turn off SmartScreen in Edge this check...

Amazing fact: My Colorvision/Datacolor Spyder2Express calibration unit with the last software version released for it in Nov. 2012 actually worked in W10-64! My Dell 2209WA LCD monitor purchased circa 2009 is now color calibrated :bglaugh:

Wow, heavy duty stuff. I just skimmed through it, most of it went right over my head. :)

Tim, my w10 installation is still a work in progress. Meanwhile I have get things done (meaning W7). As and when I have time, I am adding the sw I need on to W10. Some day soon my W10 install will be "self-sufficient" and I cn discontinue W7. I then have to figure out how to get rid of the boot...

An anomaly in the space-time continuum. Dual boot is not all hunky-dory. If I boot into W10 and shut down - power-off, the boot menu does not show up on power-on; machine goes straight into W10. If I needed W7, I have to restart W10 to see the boot menu. What could be wrong? In Easy BCD Edit...

Marinating, sir, marinating. So they'll be well done when they go into your system.

Not the current release - 1.3.9

I tried installing Foobar; W10 barfed saying it wasn't signed. Getting around this in W10 is quite a pain. I realize it's good that MS is watching out for us. I only wish more sw developers made their products W10 friendly. Irfanview 64 triggers a hyper immune response from W10 as well.

Being the Luddite that I am, I've disabled most things in W10. So thankfully haven't encountered this problem. Of course I haven't used W10 as much as you. Does application software (not hw device drivers) that works in W7-64 work in W10-64? BTW, first time ever that I'm browsing & posting...

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?