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    • in reply to: Browsing for Product Information and Reviews #1592097

      Most reviews don’t include download links and since most software is now available via downloads vs CD/DVD it pretty well excludes sales sites in my limited experience.

      Probably won’t help when looking for toasters, but might for computer related stuff.

      I did try starting with review: and it does seem to focus the search more. I also find that using Duck-Duck-Go is somewhat better than Google or Bing.

    • in reply to: Browsing for Product Information and Reviews #1591994

      By not returning items including the download keyword it pretty effectively eliminates the sales sites in my experience.

      I do quite a bit of searching using quotes and exclusions, but I’m not sure how excluding “download” would help except perhaps with shareware.

      But, I’m going to try using review: “phrase” to see how it does. The one big problem with phrases is that often the best way to find things is with a series of keywords rather than an exact phrase.

    • in reply to: Macrium Reflect #1591993

      You could also revert to the Free version as I’m sure it does all you need.

      In all honesty, the free version does everything I need. In fact I purchased a single PC copy last year for my new computer simply as a way of supporting what I consider to be a very useful free utility.

    • in reply to: Mapping/Trip Planning #1590821

      I do a lot of traveling and find Google Maps does everything I need.

      I use DeLorme Street Atlas on my Notebooks

      These things may do everything you need, but they don’t do what I am asking for.

    • in reply to: NetUse Mapped Drives Disappear with Reboot #1590701

      I am the primary user with full administrative rights. But, again, if it were a rights issue then I should be having trouble creating the drive map in the first place.

    • in reply to: NetUse Mapped Drives Disappear with Reboot #1590692

      I use a local account (the first one created, so is automatically in the Administrators group), not a Microsoft Account. Could this perhaps be different?

      I’m also using a local account and this is Win10Pro.

      Just out of curiosity, I created a logon script with the drive mappings. When I reboot and look in Windows Explorer, the drive mappings aren’t there. But if I check at the command prompt, they are there. And when I use a third party tools such as Total Commander, they show up but give an error when I first try and access them. They aren’t red X’d out but they haven’t connected completely either.

      There is something weird happening in the sequence of events. It’s not the first time I’ve run into this with Windows.

    • in reply to: NetUse Mapped Drives Disappear with Reboot #1590682

      I can’t really help further

      If I were unable to create the drive letters, then what you are suggesting would be helpful. In fact, before I knew about using the default share of \localhostc$, your suggestion is the way I used to do things.

      Perhaps it’s worth going back to that just to see what happens, but what I am doing does work. The drive mappings are in place right now and have been in place for three days because that’s the last time I rebooted. It’s just that something odd is happening when I reboot and those mappings don’t take place.

    • in reply to: NetUse Mapped Drives Disappear with Reboot #1590621

      Backup D:Backup

      I really do understand. What I’m trying to get across is that if what I was doing was a problem, it wouldn’t work at all. But that’s not the case.

      This exact same thing works just fine in XP and Win7 and Win10 – until I reboot. For some reason, it either isn’t remembering the drive mappings or there is some kind of sequencing problem at boot time. It might be similar to the problem Win10 seems to have that results in server drives initially showing up as unavailable until you access them.

      I’m considering getting rid of the persistent flag and putting these mappings in a login file just to see if that solves the problem.

    • in reply to: NetUse Mapped Drives Disappear with Reboot #1590602

      Perhaps I should have worded my reply slightly differently!

      Still not sure I follow. The drive is the local c$ which is the default share so the directories under it are shareable. Besides, if it were a sharing problem, then it wouldn’t work at all, which isn’t the case.

      This is something in Win10 that’s different than it was in Win7 since the same thing works fine there.

    • in reply to: NetUse Mapped Drives Disappear with Reboot #1590579

      Have you made the folders Hdrive and Sdrive shareable?

      This is on the local drive, not a remote drive, so they are shareable. And, as I said, the mappings do work until I reboot and then they get lost.

    • in reply to: Performance Impact of Low Drive Space #1590511

      Will this effect performance?

      To expand on what Paul said… Like many things, it depends. If that is a Windows server (with a version of Windows running on it) or if the files it contains are constantly being changed, added, deleted then you are getting to the point where the space shortage will start to have an impact.

      If it’s something like a NAS and is mainly used for long-term storage of files that are rarely touched, then no, it shouldn’t have an impact.

    • in reply to: Oh I’m sooooo Dated! #1590133

      Every new tech tends to look great, but the real test is to see where it is in 5 years. Over the years, some really inventive technology turned out to be a solution in search of a problem while others were just too far ahead of their time and it took the market maturing first.

      Anyone recall a database analysis tool named Forest and Trees? It was actually a brilliant idea but people had trouble figuring out what to do with it. I actually worked with it because it mimicked something I was already doing in databases, but with a graphical interface. It hung around for a remarkably long time but never caught on. At about the same time, I was working with a database software that worked with “n dimensional arrays”. The CIA and NSA were also looking at it and it soon disappeared into the bowls of the national intelligence community.

    • in reply to: Disable Superfetch if using an SSD as System Disk? #1589243

      Interesting question. A few years back, I put a Samsung SSD in my laptop. It came with a software program to optimize Windows according to one of three profiles that I could select. I can’t tell you if all three disable SuperFetch, but the default mode does.

      On the other hand, I’m now using a MS Surface Pro 3 but there’s nothing in it that has disabled SuperFetch, so they don’t think it’s an issue. Of course, it may be self-serving of them to leave it running.

    • in reply to: Wake up from sleep different #1588936

      Hi gsmith-plm, the screen I get is the windows screen saying start windows normally, safe mode, etc. same as if you had hit f8 at start up. Regards Peter

      Then something is happening when or during the time your computer is sleeping. It’s definitely crashing since the screen you are getting is a reboot screen.

      I suggest that you start by putting your computer to sleep then waking it after 5-10 min to see if it behaves properly. If it does not, then it’s crashing when you try and put it to sleep.

      If it does behave correctly in the above test, then put it to sleep and note the time. When you return to it in the morning, if it gives you this screen, then once it’s running again, check your event logs and see what happened between the time you put it to sleep and the time it rebooted.

      BTW, is your computer set to hibernate after it has slept for a period of time?

    • in reply to: Wake up from sleep different #1588907

      Please describe the screen you get. It sounds like it’s crashing.

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