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I have used loads of his stuff, I'm amazed at him and his knowledge - you can learn so much!

thanks to all, i sorted it by using Steve Gibson's tool over at grc.com that enforces the 'latest '6 monthly Rolll-Up' updates to install, then you switch it back to windows... its cool, he always...

well since windows 10 was supposed to be the FINAL WINDOWS (at the time) - they said major updates would come in twice a year as rollouts - I've ALWAYS been getting mine 6-12 months behind the...

thanks, I actually went to do that, but was afraid of what would end up happening, also means all my telemtry blocking would have to be re-done too yeah?

god i gotta get onto a Linux Distro lol -...

Hi

I have an old PC just for browsing.

Intel 2500K i5 @ 4Ghz - 14GB RAM 1600Mhz DDR3 - Gigabyte PA67 MB (non-UEFI bios, but has AHCI) - 1TB SSD - 4TB HDD - GTX650 - Corsair 650w PSU - 11/12...

i managed to get it working, my problem wasn't changing the DEFAULT (idiot!) :banghead:

just the odd occasion results or a website, will come up as the country I'm using my VPN in, and that's why...

no, it's working now thanks,

i went through a barrage of issues trying to 'harden' the browser as much as possible,

one was to change the longitude/latitude in ABOUT:CONFIG so that when using...

thanks

is it meant to be on TRUE (on) or FALSE (off)..?

cheers

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thanks very much bud,

Hi MaLoK,

thanks for the suggestion but a few issues

1) the extension opens it F11 style, i mean normal where you can see the taskbar still
2) Im trying to keep extensions down to a minimum as...

Hi

As per the title, I've tried 'open maximised' in the shortcut but to no avail, even the windows trick of holding down CTRL while closing an application full screen will usually re-open it full...

Hello all

I have upgraded my now 12 year old PC and want to change my sig, but it doesn't let me, even in a private browser with no addons. or normal firefox with all add-ons disabled..??

can...

Hi all,

I watch a lot of 1:1 high bandwidth 4K Dolby Vision / HDR movies on my LG 55" B8 OLED via my PC, and for such an expensive TV (£2000 new in 2018) it only has a crap 100MBit LAN - most 4K...

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on BT UK

930Mbps down / 110 Mbps up in reality, that FAST.com is weird, wonder if if got half the bandwidth from the pole, up to 32 users share 2500Mbps on FTTP you know>? I've a feeling...

i mis-read but when i sig up it throws up a long whinded code error in red

thanks buddy - ill use that, but im well confused as to why microsoft emails wont load in my system, maybe they are in the HOSTS file as i do use WPD Anti-Telemetry but is OFF for MS One Drive etc
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I have tried my damndest to get a burner email that will integrate into the thunderbird client

also the first port of call was outlook which I already have a 15-year-old email with, I did not want...

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I have been using mail app for years, a few weeks ago for some reason my internet connection icon tunred from the usuall connected PC screen to the disconnected orb - but the internet still...

My friend has an AMD 16 core system (with SMT on), 32GB RAM, Asus 570 and the high end 5950x, has a 1Tb TLC EVO NVMe SSD and a Samsung SATA SDD (2Tb) - his entire system in Gen 4 including the ram...

i fixed it with system restore in safe mode following someone else with exact same prob exce[t his CMD prompts didn't work for me, luckily somehow there was a restore point from 2 days ago even...

ok
so i was foolish and used and old D7 to set me as standard user and remove the admin account - now NOTHING open but browser - I've tried my backup disc (macrium - doesn't bloody work!!) the...

infact im gunna follow your advice on storage for corruption of stick hehe cheers :-)

yeah VENTOY is the best one to use by FAR...thanks for that - shame about USB3 issue they have no fix as far as I can see,
got my ISO's on now I'm putting my apps on...jobs a good en...
cheers :-)

i read that USB3 can be a problem if its not setup with a driver for it (which i didn't see an option) so I've put it in a USB2 port and retrying now

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yeah it was - put my...

that VENTROY didnt work and undone all my work yesterday :( (as i had only one stick)
wont boot
it creates an empty USB that I'm guessing you just drop the ISO's in as it says?
but on QEMU and on...

;) yep thats about it haha been trying for years with some success but got a bigger one for more tools :)



OK thanks, I was just curious.
So it's basically what most of us Techies already...