Update: it's on my phone too. I have no idea what the **** is going on here. I almost never use my phone for the internet and about never for MB, yet as soon as I tap the site there is the ****ing "privacy notice". Any ideas of websites I could check to see where this is coming from? I'll run scans later when my processes are finished and then reboot, but right now I can't do very much. It's a bit, as the man says, ****ing weird.

Okay then it must be tracking my IP, because as soon as I turned on VPN, POP! away it went. I then checked another MB tab, also clear. I then switched off the VPN, and now it's not there. I've reloaded the page in case it's in cache but no. So I think I've defeated it, but where the hell it came from I don't know. How I get it off my phone (not that I care, since as I say I don't use my phone for MB) i have no idea. Bloody thing. Let you know if it comes back.

That might be a regional ISP thing. Have not seen that one.

Here's an interesting fact. Edge told me that my password for here is on a discovered list of hacked information or something, and suggested I change it. Needless to say, I ignored Microsoft, who are probably trying to manipulate me into something, but it is strange. I've had the same password for this site for the now fourteen years I've been here.

How do we know this is the real Trollheart speaking???

:shycouch:

"I'm the real Trollheart, all you other Trollhearts are just imitations
So will the real Trollheart please stand up?
Please stand up?
Please stand up?"

Same password for fourteen years? I'd say you've been hacked. And if you have Hotmail (now outlook) you definitely have been hacked. Anyone who had Hotmail a decade ago (me included) got hacked and I eventually started to get threatening messages trying to extort me by way of bitcoin.

I don't think they care about this site so much, but I would recommend changing your critical passwords (bank account, e-mail servers, etc.) at least every year or two.

I've had a hotmail account since 2002, but I haven't checked it in over a decade. It's still linked to a few accounts with no issues.

Never had hotmail. The password for this site is only used on one other, and for all others I use a different one. I doubt it's been hacked to be honest, you know what Microscum are like. I mean, really, who the **** cares if they hack into my account here? What are they going to do? Start posting YOUR ACCOUNT HAS BEEN HACKED THIS IS THE CRIMINAL FRATERNITY RANSOM YOUR COMPUTER BACK NOW FOR 200,000 oh wait it's Trollheart... you have no money, we know that from hacking your bank account. okay then, how about three fiddy?

How do I link a youtube video in my comment, so that it actually pops up and is not just a hyper link?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN1WwnEDWAM

Nevermind, I figured it out lol

Using this an an example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSOarHdpJyk

Remove everything before the video ID:
SSOarHdpJyk

Then add the YouTube tags:
[YOUTUBE]SSOarHdpJyk[/YOUTUBE]

Post it.

Edit: Even though you figured it out, I just wanted to show off my awesome use of noparse.

Do any of you guys have a Samsung phone, and if so have you updated to the new software? I have, and yet it keeps asking me to update. Three times now. I did it twice, I'm not ****ing doing it a third time. It takes ages and I can't use my phone while it's updating, plus it gets so damn hot I can't even keep it in my pocket while the update is going. Anyone any problems like this? Pop up keeps appearing telling me "update is ready" and there's no "I already have the ****ing update you **** leave me alone" button...

Thanks man. I don't know though: it's an S10 - not exactly stone age. Maybe you're right, but if so I'll just put up with it. I get my phone upgraded through my provider so until I'm eligible again I'll have to stick with what I have. More an annoyance than something really serious so I'll live with it. Thanks for the response.

Oh I could use this thread.

My desktop just hangs on the startup screen forever.

Maybe pull it down?

I think I got this but I'm not sure.

Just give it a good yank.

Nah I just keep getting rid of the nag screen. It's not a big deal; I just wonder if the update has happened in any shape or form or if I've not got any of it. Doesn't look all that different to be honest. I'm not bothered, but I would prefer if there was an option to ignore update or something.

I know the stereotype about Indians usually being computer customer support, but it seems to me that an individual is more likely to be a computer-person if they are Chinese, or even Russian, before Indian.

Does anyone know why search is such a ****ing pain on Windows 10 now? Time was, you could just type in the search bar (beside the start button) and it would search your PC. Now it goes directly to "web results", which I don't want and have not asked it to do, and which seems to be unalterable. I can type in the search bar of a specific folder, yes, but if I don't know where the file is and want to search the entire computer I have to go to the root drive and search there.

I can do that, but what then is the point of the search facility? "Type here to search"? Yeah, as long as you don't expect to find anything. Anyone else have this problem?

whats with spotify sometimes saying content not available..????

but its not just 1 songs ITS MY ENTIRE LIBARY !!!!

Blame Joe Biden.

Windows search - that's not a bug, it's a feature!

I'd rather use the command line to find what I want.

Maybe it's the way I'm reading it, but every point you make about it appears to be a negative, and then you say overall I like it? Why? Sounds like a piece of crap to me.

I don't understand half your GIFs. What's that one meant to mean? :confused:

Yeah so what? Looks more or less the same as Windows 10 search bar. The point is, does it search properly? I miss the old Windows 7 search facility. it was simple and quick, and very accurate. I don't think it even knew what the web was.

The program Everything looks good here.

https://www.makeuseof.com/windows-11...-search-tools/

A discussion on backing up data appeared in the shout box today. For those of you interested, this is a simple command you can run in windows to back up your data.

In Windows, click the start button. Type in command prompt, and select it. In the command prompt window, type this.

robocopy "d:\source folder" "g:\destination folder" *.* /PURGE /E /R:5 /W:5

This command will copy the contents of d:\source folder to my g: drive, which in this case is an external 2TB USB hard drive. If you run this command regularly, the computer will scan both folders. It will only copy files that have been changed, or don't exist. This is called a differential backup.

Very cool macro. I use SyncToy, which has been discontinued.

I remember synctoy. I guess MS decided not to put it in the new powertoys.

I do the robocopy thing manually, though it can easily be put in a batch file and run through the task scheduler.

I used to build desktop images. Robocopy made it easy to continuously update my installation media.

FreeFileSync is a free and open-source folder comparison and synchronization program available for Linux, Windows, and Mac. I swear by it for all my disk sync operations. It is advert-free, powerful, fast, light on system resources, and provides a side-by-side visual comparison of the source and destination folders. This way the user can review the changes and uncheck or define filters for files and subfolders you don't wish to sync. On my Linux system it routinely scans well over a half million files in under 5 minutes. I'm always happy to endorse quality FOSS applications.

That's a good utility. I've heard of it, but never used it.

https://www.pcmag.com/picks/the-best...iting-software

I read this magazine. They usually have good suggestions for utilities like that. Cyberlink makes some good software.

I found this one on zdnet. It's free, from what I'm reading.

https://lwks.com

This is all for windows, by the way.

On a related note, I hate this software as a service crap. Paying monthly subscriptions to use software is just wrong. Let me pay my one time license, and be done with it.

Good luck with your evaluation.

It's new PC time! Well, for my work PC anyway. Here's what I'm getting:

Processor: AMD Threadripper 3960x
Graphix: GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
RAM: 64Gb DDR4
MOBO: ASUS TRX40
HD #1: M.2 SSD 1TB NVMe Samsung 980 PRO PCI-Express
HD #2: HDD 6TB Storage Drive 128Mb Cache

I'm literally salivating right now.

It's gonna scream.

I want I want I want I want I want I want I... oh what's the word? Oh yeah. WANT!!! :D

Yeah, that makes my little laptop look like a paperweight.

Enjoy that speed!

4k porn streaming monster machine.