I did get them when I first upgraded, but when I also updated the Motherboard BIOS all the BSOD crashes stopped.

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs

One thing people need to keep in mind with Windows 10 is that YMMV. 1) I don't mind the new look, except for a couple of things, the difference between active and in-active windows needs to be less subtle and the borders need to be a bit thicker as it can be a PITA to resize windows when using a trackpad. Live tiles are fine, on a tablet, I don't need them on a desktop start menu. 2) If you're on a domain it doesn't ask for a Microsoft ID it just keeps the domain account, other than that enter a dummy account then continue without a Microsoft ID. 3) My backups are fine, scheduled task calling wbAdmin. 4) Take note, when upgrading there is a section where it tries to set the default apps, don't click next, instead click the link on the bottom left where it says "Customize default apps" or something similar and you can de-select all the new default apps. As for Edge, it is rough, one issue is that importing favourites causes them to be placed in alphabetical order with any folders placed at the bottom also there doesn't seem to be an easy way to re-order them. 5) I don't like Google either so not sure what the problem is here.. :-D 6) Cortana, well it works, personally I think it makes more sense on a phone than a desktop, I just can't get used to talking to my computer. 7) Don't use Metro apps except in tablet mode so no comment. 8) Never had Windows Defender do anything that weird, not even on my old Core2 duo laptop. Personally I don't have a problem with the majority of Win 10 except for Edge which does need work.

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If you're upgrading it's not required. As far as does MS recommend using it, well yes they do, considering that all new machines must have it turned on and it is up to the manufacturer of the machine if they put the option into the BIOS to turn it off. *** Edit *** However if you turn it on after install/updating, if may or may not configure correctly.

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs

You don't need to turn on secure boot at all. The only update that needs to be installed is Service Pack 1, I had 62 updates waiting when I did the upgrade and there was no problem.

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs

Most likely it was Symbolic Optimal Assembly Program (SOAP)[^]

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs

This may be a bit late, but outside of an actual network issue such as a blocked port the connection details for live servers are; Incoming Server: pop3.live.com Outgoing Server: smtp.live.com Incoming Port (POP3): 995 Outgoing Port (SMTP): 587 Make sure that "My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication" and "This server requires an encrypted conection" is ticked. Encryption type: TLS

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs

Bernhard Hiller wrote:

That won't be anymore possible in future.

Yes it will;

Quote:

We understand that there are a great number of reasons that you may want to use MSBuild and other build tools without needing to install Visual Studio so we are making the tools available as a new standalone package called Microsoft® Build Tools. The package includes MSBuild and the VB/C# compilers.

Preview of the build tools available from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39318[^]

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It looks like it's no longer possible[^] to change the default email address, though I did change from an ISP based login to a hotmail login about a year ago, so I don't know why they changed it. :sigh: My suggestion, though it's not ideal, is to create an alias on the live account and use it as the address for all emails and treat the current ISP based sign in like a username, then change all the notification options to use the alias.

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A wild guess is that because it is so old it probably didn't check for version info before overwriting some system files with old versions, which could cause the activation/genuine check to fail.

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs

Change the colours for menus, toolbars, tabs, titlebars, the text editor, and other environment colours. Color Theme Editor[^] Registry Entry to remove All Caps from menus

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0\General\SuppressUppercaseConversion
REG_DWORD value: 1

Replace VS2012 icons with those from VS2010 but you do need VS2010 installed Icon Patcher[^]

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Have a look at ABC iView[^], they have the latest episode on there.

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs

Daniel Desormeaux wrote:

Why does Windows Update only show the update as 'important' rather than critical?

Becuase the people who have Windows Update set to notify and actually care about such things use something other than IE.

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs

If you wanted to you could try to update the Vista bootloader[^] to the Win 7 version then create the VMware VMDK image and convert this to the MS VHD format[^] then see if you can do a native boot into the VHD.

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs

I've used VMware Converter[^] in the past to convert Server 2003 installs to virtual machines, I haven't tried it with Vista yet.

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs

PHS241 wrote:

James Boag's Premium lager

It's one of the few beers that I buy and as far a price is concerned it is available from around $38AUD - $50AUD per case depending on where it is purchased.

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Nagy Vilmos wrote:

there is NO CP IN WALES

It's not just Wales, I'm having to use a proxy in the US to access CP from Australia. :sigh:

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs

I've never been to the Tortoise SVN site before, normally I just go direct to the SourceForge page[^] for it.

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs

I started my working life as an Avionics Tech and one thing that was drilled into us from day 1 was to never deviate from manufacturers specs and processes as to do so would open us up to legal charges if the component was deemed to be the cause of a crash, in 8 years I only had a manager want me to cut corners once as apparently it was very urgent but when told that they would have to sign the paperwork and take responsibility for the airworthiness of the component it wasn't that urgent.

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs

I've got a MSDN Professional subscription and what I use out of it are VS2008/2010, Windows Server & Desktop and Sql Server with SSRS and the BI tools installed, I don't yet use the free monthly access to the Azure platform though. MSDN Comparison Chart.[^]

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs

I think Gates released that grip a few years ago. :rolleyes:

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs