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Deanna McElveen
AskWoody PlusApril 28, 2025 at 8:08 am in reply to: FileOptimizer — Over 90 tools working together to squish your files #2768241Kevin,
There is a setting in Options to keep the file metadata.
-Deanna
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Deanna McElveen
AskWoody PlusApril 28, 2025 at 8:06 am in reply to: FileOptimizer — Over 90 tools working together to squish your files #2768238Dave,
There is no change in the file extension. It just compresses then so they take up as little space as possible. It does not change their function.
-Deanna
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Deanna McElveen
AskWoody PlusJanuary 27, 2025 at 10:47 am in reply to: TextWorx — Writing or coding will never be the same #2742985This is not an editor. It is a way to do things to words and parts of any text in virtually any program with just a simply toolbar that you create.
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Deanna McElveen
AskWoody PlusJanuary 27, 2025 at 10:45 am in reply to: TextWorx — Writing or coding will never be the same #2742981Chris,
We sent you an email.
Spyhunter is recognized as deceptive by Malwarebytes and others. They have a reputation for creating false positives to sell their software. The file is clean. Consider not giving Spyware Hunter any more money.
https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/detections/pup-optional-spyhunter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpyHunter_(security_software) (read about lawsuits)1 user thanked author for this post.
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Deanna McElveen
AskWoody PlusThat happens if the server gets overloaded with people downloading. It seems fine now.
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Deanna McElveen
AskWoody PlusSCleaner is more of a quick cleanup. If you want a CCleaner replacement, use HDCleaner https://www.oldergeeks.com/downloads/file.php?id=1957
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Deanna McElveen
AskWoody PlusBecause he deletes massive files daily while doing updates to the website.
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Deanna McElveen
AskWoody PlusIt’s under settings to save preferences.
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Deanna McElveen
AskWoody PlusJohn,
Fares (the author) would love to hear your feedback. Here is his Linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/faresahmed/
-Deanna
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Deanna McElveen
AskWoody PlusDave,
You are running a 32bit version of Windows 10. You will have trouble running the majority of recent software. You should consider switching to Windows 10 64bit. It would require a reinstall of Windows.
Deanna
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Deanna McElveen
AskWoody PlusJuly 31, 2024 at 11:09 am in reply to: DefenderUI — Windows Defender is great, when turned on fully #2692107Yes, a fine program. We have it as well:
https://www.oldergeeks.com/downloads/file.php?id=3847
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Deanna McElveen
AskWoody PlusJuly 31, 2024 at 11:08 am in reply to: DefenderUI — Windows Defender is great, when turned on fully #2692106That is a very good question. Defender does not allow scanning of an excluded directory as far as I can tell from the test I just did. I will let you know if I find a workaround.
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Deanna McElveen
AskWoody PlusJuly 31, 2024 at 11:05 am in reply to: DefenderUI — Windows Defender is great, when turned on fully #2692105 -
Deanna McElveen
AskWoody PlusJuly 31, 2024 at 11:05 am in reply to: DefenderUI — Windows Defender is great, when turned on fully #2692104I wrote this under Figure 10:
The last entry is an attempt at humor. Clicking it will take you to VoodooSoft’s paid protection product.
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Deanna McElveen
AskWoody PlusJuly 31, 2024 at 11:02 am in reply to: DefenderUI — Windows Defender is great, when turned on fully #2692103Defender is disabled when any registered AV solution such as Malwarebytes is running. DefenderUI is intended for those wanting to use Defender as their only antivirus.
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