Microsoft is apparently planning to remove the option to have local accounts in Windows 10. This means that a user can only have a Microsoft account and Hotmail address linked to your Windows login. This on top of the many problems with Windows 10 and it is pretty clear that Windows is going to be … Read more
The Free Software Foundation have mailed a blank hard disk drive to Microsoft and is asking for the Windows 7 source code to be put on it and mailed back to them. Will this even work? The Free Software Foundation is urging Redmond WA to release the source code of Windows 7 so that it … Read more
Microsoft is putting anti-Firefox ads on the start menu. This could be construed as anti-competitive practice. They want everyone to use Microsoft Edge instead of Firefox. I bet they hate Google Chrome as well. But their operating system is plagued by buggy horrible updates that always break key components like Windows Search and Explorer. So … Read more
The latest Windows Update KB4532695 is causing the Internet connections of Windows 10 users to drop out. This is embarrassing for Microsoft. They are so useless they cannot even put out a simple update without the Internet breaking or audio failing. They are useless. That is why Linux should become more popular. Windows 10 users … Read more
Windows 8.1 at the moment is giving me a lot of problems. There is constant disk activity at 0.1 megabytes per second. This is very annoying, there are Windows services doing this, but it only recently started. T think it is better to use Linux instead, which does not have that problem. But why do … Read more
Support for Windows 7 is ending in 2020. it will show a full-screen dialog explaining the risks of continued use after this time. This is the risk of running Windows, but it is also a problem if a user had an older version of Linux installed and did not install any updates. But Windows 7 … Read more
The desktop environments of old were very fast and sleek. The operating systems as a whole, with the old INIT systems, would load very fast indeed. What has gone wrong with Linux? The introduction of Systemd has slowed systems down. That is a shame. they used to load quite a lot faster. And the possibility … Read more
The new Windows 10 update KB4520062 Could Break Defender ATP, Microsoft Warns. This is yet another embarrassment for the software giant, they cannot even release a simple update without it breaking a key Windows feature. They should really create a whole new codebase and then use that to create an entirely new version of Windows. … Read more
I had problems installing .NET 3.51 on Windows 8.1, the downloaded installed kept saying that it could not access the Internet to download and install the files, which is retarded. So I put in the Windows DVD and used the command below in an Administrator Powershell session. PS C:\Windows\system32> Dism /online /enable-feature /featurename:NetFx3 /All /Source:I:\sources\sxs … Read more
Windows 8 is very fragile when it comes to getting malware, it is very easy to get a malicious program on it that can prevent it from running properly. And Windows 10 has compatibility issues with older applications and games. So there is not much choice when it comes to running a Windows operating system … Read more
Many computers in the National Health service in the UK are still running Windows 7. This is not too shocking really, but why are some people making such a fuss over the decision to not update to Windows 10? Some software does not work very well on Windows 10 and the many updates to the … Read more
The thumbs.db file in Windows is used to cache thumbnails for picture files in the file explorer, but this is a pain when the user wants to delete a folder and the thumbs.db prevents this. But there is a way to fix this, without needing to reboot. Open the Group Policy Editor by running gpedit.msc, … Read more
Windows has quite a few useful utilities for searching text. The findstr utility allows searching through a folder full of text files for a certain string. Here is an example. >findstr /S /R "money_quest_update" *.*>findstr /S /R "money_quest_update" *.* And this is how to search for text strings in a folder. E:\shadowofchernobyl\gamedata>findstr /S /R "money_quest_update" … Read more
Linux and Windows are continually in a state of competition, but the problem with Windows 10 is the update methods that create many and varied problems that should never even happen in the first place. The Linux and Macintosh operating systems do not have that many problems when upgrading. I have updated Macintosh OS to … Read more
According to Bill Gates the traditional personal computer is dying and the mobile revolution is signalling a change to tablets and Metro applications instead of the traditional applications that all computer users are enjoying at the present time. But I believe that the standard computer form factor with a tower case, large screen and keyboard/mouse … Read more
This is a Windows 10 computer with a virus infestation, this person was asking if this was a serious problem or not. I mean really? Of course it is. As long as I had Windows 10 installed, I shouldn’t have had anything at all to worry about. The problem is that I was getting messages … Read more
A useful VBScript sample to get user information. This is just basic information about the user. ‘ Logoninformation.vbs ‘ VBScript Logon script. ‘ This program demonstrates how to get information about the logged in user. ‘ This script tested on a Windows 7 machine and works perfectly too. ‘ ———————————————————————- ‘ Copyright (c) 2012 John … Read more
The forced restarts in Windows 10 are very annoying when you are working on something and then your machine restarts in the middle of your work. There is a way to turn this off. To do this go to this folder. %windir%\System32\Tasks\Microsoft\Windows\UpdateOrchestrator%windir%\System32\Tasks\Microsoft\Windows\UpdateOrchestrator Rename the “Restart” file and create a folder called “Restart” so that Windows … Read more
Linux is better than Windows for the following reasons. You can install updates in one go, and then they are installed, the user is not disturbed by an update prompt in the middle of whatever they were doing. That is what Windows 10 does, it updates and reboots without warning, as the developers are morons … Read more
There is a new desktop application for us Linux users, an Electron image of the Windows `95 operating system. This is fun to play with, but I am not sure how to get networking running in the sense that you would on Windows 7. I cannot seem to get a LAN connection running, only a … Read more