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[MikeLyno]

Hate to break it to Richard Hay but I’ve bought many legit Windows 10 keys on ebay and they all worked. Article is misleading. Just go on youtube and see countless video of people’s experiences buying cheap legit Windows 10 keys that do indeed work. The worse thing that could happen is a key didn’t activate, and then all that is needed is to call Microsoft and you will be given a code to activate. Microsoft is way too busy to get involved dealing with keys that may or may not activate. They are not even going to question you about it, it’s way easier and cheaper for them to just activate it. That article to me was a scare tactic and it wasn’t accurate. Sorry author but I’ve activated enough Windows systems to know what’s up.

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My biggest gripe of Windows 10 (by a long shot) is the forcing of driver updates. I can live with the other OS updates being forced but IMO Microsoft has no business deciding which hardware drivers a user wants or needs. I’ve already had issues with a driver Microsoft installed that I did not want (especially video card drivers). For example when installing Nvidia vid card drivers manually, you can select which parts of the driver you want to have installed depending what you need for your system. When Microsoft installs the video driver, it auto installs the whole package. I then have to go back each time, un-install it and then download driver from nvidia, manually install it again to have what I want. Pain in the butt each time Nvidia updates their drivers and Microsoft update then installs it. This should be a user decision, not Microsoft.

My experience. UAC is for protecting dummies from hurting themselves. I have had UAC turned completely off since Windows XP and on my current Windows 7 x64. I have not had ANY ill effects whatsoever and I use my computer every day. Simply put I know what I’m doing on my computer, no one touches my computer but me on penalty of dealth, and I have both antivirus, Malwarebytes, and Spywareblaster installed. I’m know what I’m downloading and I’m good to go. My computer stays robust and safe just by me paying attention to it and doing the right things (UAC not being one of them). Nuff said. UAC can go straight to …………………

I’m using Easeus Todo 5.8 Free. I read that it’s supposed to make a winpe if WAIK was installed. I have it installed but it still doesn’t provide an option for winpe. I’m having a hard time with the tutorials to make a winpe with WAIK. I must be following directions that are no longer valid (old info) cause I’m getting errors when using the WAIK commands with the directions. So far I’ve found that making a winpe is not easy or I’ve not seen instructions that were easy and worked. I’ve about given up on it.

How do you use Easeus Todo free version to make a winpe iso when WAIK is installed? I ran the make recovery disk in Easeus Todo but the only option still is the linux version, no mention of a winpe version. What do I do?

UniBlue is a complete scam as well as SpeedUpMyPC and all the other simliar names that keep popping up on TV with the guise of making a computer run faster. They all install fake software that displays phoney malware etc and then want you to pay them to get rid of it (when it was never there to begin with). If I was you dude, I’d find a way fast to get rid of that crap.

I can’t even state how much I disagree with the pagefile size recommendations. The more ram, the less the pagefile needs to be, not more. I have 12 gigs of ram on my Windows 7 x64 system. All the stuff I do doesn’t put a dent in it, let alone use any pagefile. I’d like to see this proven by some sort of monitoring program for systems with large amount of ram to see what pagefile usage there actually is.

If you have a question about options please post it in the IE forum. That way more people will benefit from the exchange.

Joe

I don’t have any questions about options. I was simply commenting on the “it’s time” reference and why it’s wasn’t time for me.

Well this article’s reference to “it’s time” doesn’t factor in the most important thing. What if the user hates IE9? I tried it and I didn’t like it at all. I didn’t like all the changes that were made and more importantly didn’t like not having more options to set it like I wanted it to look and function. IE8 was ok with me but IE9 is a big dud as far as I’m concerned. These comments are not meant to cause a flame war with the ones who love IE9. You love it, great. I just don’t. Firefox has got it down right and knows the user likes options. Microsoft seems to be moving towards a one size fits all approach and a “we know better than you what you want” mentality. Just my two cents.

This really depends on what cable service provider you have. I have Comcast. Comcast requires a set top box or DTA for every TV period (and I suspect all cable providers will eventually go this route as it gives them much more control). So you will be changing channels through the Comcast STB/DTA. This being the case, a true TV tuner is not needed as it’s not used. Myself, I want HD on my computer 1080p monitor so I use the Hauppage HD-PVR. It’s the only Hauppage product that can do HD. If you’re not on Comcast and don’t have/need a STB/DTA, then there are many choices of TV tuners out there depending on what your needs are and what you want. Search Newegg, they got a bunch.

I don’t like Windows Live, the less I can have Microsoft programs poking around in my computer, the better I like it. I just strictly use gmail. I have no need to install another program on my computer just to read and send email. I have enough programs already, plus I don’t like the idea of downloading emails to my computer to read them. Gmail is very good at moving other email accounts to it (I have a Comcast email account and have everything that does there moved to Gmail). Web based email is the way to go IMO, it does everything an installed program will do without having to sit on the hard drive.