Actually, Security Essentials has been renamed Windows Defender (because MS is in love with reusing names) and is included with Win8 right out of the box.
As far as AV software goes for pre-Win8, in my shop we have a single-file installer for MSSE and for a 90-day trial of Norton sitting on the desktop of computers for sale, and let the customer choose which to use. When asked, I always recommend MSSE, but the customer is the one who installs and activates it.
I would kinda tend to disagree with most of your points.
1) I totally agree.
2) Totally unneeded. Vendor updating slows computers needlessly. If there is a critical driver update, it gets pushed to MS and will be downloaded with Windows Update.
3) Sure, you can use it, but why? It runs as a background service, and (if it's like the Win7 version) as a systray app that hogs resources whether you ever use them or not. They do nothing for you that Windows can't do out-of-the-box. And why would you need a program to convert videos before uploading to youtube? Youtube accepts any standard video format, and if you have a camcorder, it would have come with software to do any necessary conversion. If it didn't, that's their problem, and not something a PC manufacturer should be concerned about.
4) Totally unneeded. Spotify makes money from you by playing ads. Their software is every bit as useless as an IE toolbar. Sure, some can have handy features, but that definitely does not make up for their unneeded bloat or the fact that they're only there to make money off of you. If someone wants Spotify features, they can download Spotify. Or maybe they could just use xbox music, a new service from MS that comes preloaded in Win8 that is exactly the same thing.
5) Maybe some folks like the features of this software better than the integrated application, but Windows 8 does have pre-loaded webcam software. It comes on the Microsoft install disk -- I purchased Windows 8 for my PC and installed it from scratch. I don't know what features it has, because my webcam unfortunately isn't compatible (the only hardware issue I've had with Win8), but it's there nonetheless.
The only software I consider appropriate for an OEM build would be the basic Windows components, Java (which is difficult thanks to licensing), and the basic Adobe suite of free software (which MS is trying to do away with, thanks to 'viewer' for opening PDFs, and Silverlight). Everything else should be installed later by the end user, including the free MS games. After all, Win8 has a large, obvious button for the market, where people can download anything that's available.
I would assume this isn't a license for the screen, but rather a license for the privilege of recording. I'm sure the logic was something like 'Without a mandatory license, there would be no way to prosecute people who record others through a bedroom window without their knowledge.'
Reading the comments, it seems I'm the only one here who thinks this is awesome. When it comes to weapons development, this is exactly the sort of weapon we should be cheering for. Whether you agree with the ones using it or not, this is a wonderful thing. A weapon which only works as a shield to block incoming attacks; that is what the weapons used by enlightened countries should have evolved into.
Since when do Christians, Jews or Muslims abstain from meat? Or teach that meat makes you wicked? Hindus and Buddhists don't believe in Adam & Eve. I'd really like to know who is backing this textbook.
Check the coverage maps, then get an MVNO that operates off the towers of whoever has the best coverage. Straight Talk offers phones on all 4 major networks, for significantly lower monthly costs and no contracts. Boost and Cricket have pretty good prices too. In my area, the only national carrier with decent coverage is Verizon, but I'm sure that changes for the Eastern Seaboard.
All I can find is a single company that makes roll cages for Porsche 997/996s -- so it's undoubtedly available somewhere, but I got the impression it was being custom made. Roll cage and a picture.
My cousin got one made for his sandrail, but for the life of me, I can't seem to find any reference to such an animal. This was about a decade ago, and I've since lost touch with him -- now you've gotten me seriously curious. I have a few family members that have been competing for years to have 'the best', and last I'd heard, he was winning, but since I've moved elsewhere in the country, I'm not in contact with it much. At the time, I (being poor) was more of a Jeep guy, while most of the family focused on sandrails. I'm going to have to get in touch with him and find out how that turned out & where he got it. I got the impression from talking with him (a.k.a. listening to him brag), that it was similar to a steel sandrail tube frame, except with a lot more 'lattice work'.
I'm not very familiar with Nascar, etc., but in the off-road race truck world, there's nothing more popular than a carbon fibre tube frame. Since that's my area of interest, that's what I'm familiar with; but I'm surprised other racers don't use it as well. It seems like what's good for the goose would be good for the gander.
One of the biggest problems with building a race car/truck is often the cost of the materials. The stiffer frames built from carbon fiber are insanely expensive. Imagine if we could build a frame out of this for around the cost of steel --the technology could then be used in ordinary cars, with a huge weight savings, and a safer, stronger frame. It could revolutionize the automotive design industry.
I second that recommendation. It's kinda the goooooooogle effect, but it's awesomely funny, and also practical. The best part is that nobody could claim it was just a copy of Windows or MacOS.
A clean install for ransomware isn't necessary. Boot into safe mode w/ net (safe mode with command prompt, if necessary), and scan with the latest version of Malware Bytes. If that doesn't get it, use the MS Security Essentials offline disk to boot off of and scan. Then run Malware Bytes in safe mode again. Then boot normally, uninstall everything that's even vaguely suspicious (toolbars, coupon/rebate printers, etc), and run it again. That'll take care of 95% of the scum out there, and it only takes about 2 hours, tops. That's a lot faster than reinstalling Windows, then trying to find all the drivers and applications they used.
I concur. Lexmark lasers are awsome. I would take a Lexmark laser over an equivalent HP any day. They're the low-end of industrial, and are built like it. I've gotten millions of pages out of some.
I should also point out that I repair printers, and would rather repair a Lexmark T6xx series over just about any other printer on the market. Pretty easy to work on, the parts are affordable & readily available, and they just last forever. I had one at an Office Depot copy center that had over 2 million pages and still had better registration than their $20k Xerox black copier.
Now, their inkjet on the other hand, is only useful as a doorstop. I think their inkjet & laser engineering departments are completely disconnected.
They would just respawn at 15 years old every time, probably right after their first kiss or some other major life event, and every time they'd be raving about how amazing it was. Or they'd only have one backup from right before they die of some incurable disease, just to die over and over again. Yeah, that could get old.
In my opinion, the president is simply a figurehead for the amoral American populace. Most people aren't outraged by an omnipotent president because it's exactly what they want. People wouldn't be partying in the streets if they were disgusted by his actions. Corrupt politicians are a symptom, not the disease.
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Actually, Security Essentials has been renamed Windows Defender (because MS is in love with reusing names) and is included with Win8 right out of the box.
As far as AV software goes for pre-Win8, in my shop we have a single-file installer for MSSE and for a 90-day trial of Norton sitting on the desktop of computers for sale, and let the customer choose which to use. When asked, I always recommend MSSE, but the customer is the one who installs and activates it.
I would kinda tend to disagree with most of your points.
1) I totally agree.
2) Totally unneeded. Vendor updating slows computers needlessly. If there is a critical driver update, it gets pushed to MS and will be downloaded with Windows Update.
3) Sure, you can use it, but why? It runs as a background service, and (if it's like the Win7 version) as a systray app that hogs resources whether you ever use them or not. They do nothing for you that Windows can't do out-of-the-box. And why would you need a program to convert videos before uploading to youtube? Youtube accepts any standard video format, and if you have a camcorder, it would have come with software to do any necessary conversion. If it didn't, that's their problem, and not something a PC manufacturer should be concerned about.
4) Totally unneeded. Spotify makes money from you by playing ads. Their software is every bit as useless as an IE toolbar. Sure, some can have handy features, but that definitely does not make up for their unneeded bloat or the fact that they're only there to make money off of you. If someone wants Spotify features, they can download Spotify. Or maybe they could just use xbox music, a new service from MS that comes preloaded in Win8 that is exactly the same thing.
5) Maybe some folks like the features of this software better than the integrated application, but Windows 8 does have pre-loaded webcam software. It comes on the Microsoft install disk -- I purchased Windows 8 for my PC and installed it from scratch. I don't know what features it has, because my webcam unfortunately isn't compatible (the only hardware issue I've had with Win8), but it's there nonetheless.
The only software I consider appropriate for an OEM build would be the basic Windows components, Java (which is difficult thanks to licensing), and the basic Adobe suite of free software (which MS is trying to do away with, thanks to 'viewer' for opening PDFs, and Silverlight). Everything else should be installed later by the end user, including the free MS games. After all, Win8 has a large, obvious button for the market, where people can download anything that's available.
Here's the conversion.
Methinks, perhaps, the best method for you to prepare a turkey would be with a tinfoil hat on.
I would assume this isn't a license for the screen, but rather a license for the privilege of recording. I'm sure the logic was something like 'Without a mandatory license, there would be no way to prosecute people who record others through a bedroom window without their knowledge.'
Reading the comments, it seems I'm the only one here who thinks this is awesome. When it comes to weapons development, this is exactly the sort of weapon we should be cheering for. Whether you agree with the ones using it or not, this is a wonderful thing. A weapon which only works as a shield to block incoming attacks; that is what the weapons used by enlightened countries should have evolved into.
Since when do Christians, Jews or Muslims abstain from meat? Or teach that meat makes you wicked? Hindus and Buddhists don't believe in Adam & Eve. I'd really like to know who is backing this textbook.
Check the coverage maps, then get an MVNO that operates off the towers of whoever has the best coverage. Straight Talk offers phones on all 4 major networks, for significantly lower monthly costs and no contracts. Boost and Cricket have pretty good prices too. In my area, the only national carrier with decent coverage is Verizon, but I'm sure that changes for the Eastern Seaboard.
...several hundred thousand years or so...
It was actually a million years. But who's counting.
The Windows 8 maker
...did they really need to point that out? It has no bearing on the story whatsoever.
All I can find is a single company that makes roll cages for Porsche 997/996s -- so it's undoubtedly available somewhere, but I got the impression it was being custom made. Roll cage and a picture.
My cousin got one made for his sandrail, but for the life of me, I can't seem to find any reference to such an animal. This was about a decade ago, and I've since lost touch with him -- now you've gotten me seriously curious. I have a few family members that have been competing for years to have 'the best', and last I'd heard, he was winning, but since I've moved elsewhere in the country, I'm not in contact with it much. At the time, I (being poor) was more of a Jeep guy, while most of the family focused on sandrails. I'm going to have to get in touch with him and find out how that turned out & where he got it. I got the impression from talking with him (a.k.a. listening to him brag), that it was similar to a steel sandrail tube frame, except with a lot more 'lattice work'.
I'm not very familiar with Nascar, etc., but in the off-road race truck world, there's nothing more popular than a carbon fibre tube frame. Since that's my area of interest, that's what I'm familiar with; but I'm surprised other racers don't use it as well. It seems like what's good for the goose would be good for the gander.
One of the biggest problems with building a race car/truck is often the cost of the materials. The stiffer frames built from carbon fiber are insanely expensive. Imagine if we could build a frame out of this for around the cost of steel --the technology could then be used in ordinary cars, with a huge weight savings, and a safer, stronger frame. It could revolutionize the automotive design industry.
I second that recommendation. It's kinda the goooooooogle effect, but it's awesomely funny, and also practical. The best part is that nobody could claim it was just a copy of Windows or MacOS.
chrome will be 1,376,270.0.1246.0-1349675
But it'll still be in beta.
Are you playing games because you're having fun, or because you have an unconfronted fear of failure?
Umm that's why I don't play games. Nothing says 'failure' like getting killed repeatedly in quick succession.
This. There's no need to give up all hope on the computer, just do some intensive scrubbing.
I've yet to see anything like this. I call shenanigans. I think there was an executable placed in his network share, and he ran it out of curiosity.
A clean install for ransomware isn't necessary. Boot into safe mode w/ net (safe mode with command prompt, if necessary), and scan with the latest version of Malware Bytes. If that doesn't get it, use the MS Security Essentials offline disk to boot off of and scan. Then run Malware Bytes in safe mode again. Then boot normally, uninstall everything that's even vaguely suspicious (toolbars, coupon/rebate printers, etc), and run it again. That'll take care of 95% of the scum out there, and it only takes about 2 hours, tops. That's a lot faster than reinstalling Windows, then trying to find all the drivers and applications they used.
They call that 'the Walmart Syndrome'.
I concur. Lexmark lasers are awsome. I would take a Lexmark laser over an equivalent HP any day. They're the low-end of industrial, and are built like it. I've gotten millions of pages out of some.
I should also point out that I repair printers, and would rather repair a Lexmark T6xx series over just about any other printer on the market. Pretty easy to work on, the parts are affordable & readily available, and they just last forever. I had one at an Office Depot copy center that had over 2 million pages and still had better registration than their $20k Xerox black copier.
Now, their inkjet on the other hand, is only useful as a doorstop. I think their inkjet & laser engineering departments are completely disconnected.
They would just respawn at 15 years old every time, probably right after their first kiss or some other major life event, and every time they'd be raving about how amazing it was. Or they'd only have one backup from right before they die of some incurable disease, just to die over and over again. Yeah, that could get old.
How about we put a chip in the car that automatically finds where the car is via GPS and will throttle the engine so it can't break the speed limit?
If they did that, police would lose a huge revenue stream. Not going to happen.
In my opinion, the president is simply a figurehead for the amoral American populace. Most people aren't outraged by an omnipotent president because it's exactly what they want. People wouldn't be partying in the streets if they were disgusted by his actions. Corrupt politicians are a symptom, not the disease.