This does not really seem to be the kind of solution I'm actually looking for. The person says they have enabled Windows Update and the feature has installed successfully and I don't want that - I'd...

Hi. Thanks for the reply. No, actually on the privacy setting stage of installation I declined all of the functions, just like it's shown in the tutorial.
Also, I look in Settings and there the...

I installed Windows 4 days ago and when I connected to the internet it started downloading and installing speech recognition for English, among other optional functions. I'm not OK with having that...

When I click 'Scan now' it restarts my computer and then instead of launching Win RE to perform scanning as it's said to be supposed to work, I'm back with my normal desktop and nothing more happens....

OK, I did it. Initially it still showed up the same flawed way, but when I went to Security and privacy settings this time there was anti-fingerprinting option available and when disabled it now...

Sure, I can do that, I just wonder what the cause might be. It's not just the Avast browser, the case with Skype is strange too.

So - the instances I've noticed are the following:

1) Skype status changed to Italian:

https://i.postimg.cc/SNTzz34R/skp.png

I don't speak Italian and have never had it installed on my...

So guys, I'm planning to use this thing for the first time. I've downloaded some shady indie game distributed for free that could well possibly contain malware so I'd rather play it in Sandbox.
Now...

Where is this screenshot from? I googled... ahem, well, binged it before making up my mind on it, and got no results in English.

You are absolutely right, I feel like a total idiot.

Why do you suggest LInux to be put on the USB instead on the hard/solid drive though, won't it overwrite potential files to be rescued?

Hi again. Meanwhile before your last replies came I dared to try this tool, that someone suggested on some local forum: Downloads - USB File Resc - ToolsLib
It looks shady as hell, moreover the...

Alright, I've misread the small 'f' for a command, my bad. I did as instructed (copy-pasted chkdsk f: in cmd as admin - without /V) and it just finished scanning. Well, it's still a long long list....

OK, just to doublecheck, could you have actually meant rather the 'v' command instead of 'f'. I just looked them up here, it's 'v' that's listed as, well, file-listing command?

Hi. Thank you, I did as instructed and only two files are listed. I can actually see them myself after opting to show hidden files in File Explorer:
364845

The drive did contain hundreds, if not...

Please, help me guys, this is urgent. Tomorrow I have an important exam and out of sudden all my files are nowhere to be seen!!!
So I have a Kingston pen drive that I use for storage of all my files...

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I'd like to get rid of it so it doesn't get in my face whenever I hover frantically the cursor over it by accident.
I have Windows 10 Edu, group policy editor available.
How...

But there is a foundation behind it that cashes in donations, doesn't it? Just like Libre Office.

OK then, I'm interested to learn more about this lifestyle. You must have plenty of free time. What do you do for a living then?

You mean Pedo Browser, huh? :chuckle:

Right, it's easier to just go with it, the question is where's the boundary between healthy trust and digging one's head into the sand...

Exactly! And if we take 7zip in particular, there isn't even a tip jar or pay pal address and the guy keeps releasing updates and pay for domain and hosting. I can't even imagine what long hours it...

Interesting. How do you keep track of such huge amount of time? That's some 3 years worth of full work days, huh? How much time a day does this typically take for you?

That's quite good insight into additional monetizing practices. And if a piece of software doesn't involve any of them either, it can well look even shadier. So in such case I can only keep my...

Right, a lowest-effort lazy one-word reply can compare to coding encrypto-compressing or graphic editing software. It totally makes sense.

I read this through and the key take is that Mozilla's revenue is being paid by Google for putting Google search as default search engine. Alright, this makes sense - at least they don't need to...