@wirestyle22 said in Windows 10 Installation Induced Boredom Day:

@StrongBad said in Windows 10 Installation Induced Boredom Day:

@wirestyle22 said in Windows 10 Installation Induced Boredom Day:

@StrongBad said in Windows 10 Installation Induced Boredom Day:

@wirestyle22 said in Windows 10 Installation Induced Boredom Day:

@StrongBad said in Windows 10 Installation Induced Boredom Day:

@wirestyle22 said in Windows 10 Installation Induced Boredom Day:

I'm not upgrading :X I had no prep time

You can still make it. Just grab a USB stick (I think 8GB is needed), use the Windows 10 download tool and it takes care of everything for you. Very easy.

No I mean I literally can't. They have stuff running that requires XP. It's insanity.

Can XP be virtualized on top of Windows 10?

Can I use smoke signals instead of the internet or a cell phone? Sure, but why?

Get Windows 10 for the every day tasks. Get ready for the future. Limit XP to XP-only tasks. What's the game plan with staying behind on XP? It's not indefinitely supportable. You are already heading down a path of disaster. Sure, it is a long path, but there is no more support, no security updates, things will only get more and more dangerous and precarious and when something goes wrong, it's going to go really, really wrong.

I've got 3 neurons firing boys. Please don't take anything I say seriously. Of course there is a reason to do that. I'd run it in virtualbox and call it a day. There is so much to fix here I don't even know where to begin.

Well Windows 10 would be a priority to fix today. Easy one to put at the top of the list. Are the XP machines originally purchased with Windows 7?

@scottalanmiller Thanks. I got it. I overthink everything. 🙂

@travisdh1 said in Getting Windows 10 License Upgrade on Linux Mint Laptop:

@scottalanmiller said in Getting Windows 10 License Upgrade on Linux Mint Laptop:

I'm about to do a full bare metal install 😞

Did you say goodbye to the rest of the family for the night?

The wife is off on a three day sorority bender... I mean retreat, for the weekend already.

The Linux system gets the use 99% of the time and needs priority as to performance and what not. The Windows install is just for gaming and is not even my main gaming machine. Just a secondary one. And I've lived with zero Windows access for most of a year, not a big deal.

@aaron said in Ubuntu Unity Desktop Now Available on Windows 10:

Windows was quite a bit better than Mac,

I dunno, really? Overall I want to run what my colleagues asking me for help are running.

That makes sense. Running Mac OSX helps you be familiar with what the most people need help with. That makes sense. When I ran OSX, I was definitely experiencing the same issues as lots of other people. If you are supporting people, matching your problems to theirs when possible is certainly sensible.

Although, when possible, I'd push to fix their problems rather than just replicating them 🙂

@Dashrender said in Windows 10 tool - Refresh Windows:

@Brains said in Windows 10 tool - Refresh Windows

@Dashrender I wonder why we look different? Did you fresh install or upgrade?

That is a fresh install.

hrmm mine are all upgrades

@Dashrender said

I'll be checking a vocal user's machine this afternoon.

Those are the worst.

Nice find! I'm jumping back into a VDI project again. Thanks for the heads up!

@brianlittlejohn said in Solving poorly programmed app that requires local admin rights:

@aaronstuder You would have to give everyone admin rights on the Terminal Server.

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@Dashrender said in Windows 10 disable sleep/hibernation:

damn.. missed that, thanks!

I keep forgetting about Preferences. Awesome advancements in GPO there!

@Dashrender said in Windows 10 Build 14342:

@BBigford said in Windows 10 Build 14342:

I use a variety of boot tools to check hardware (mostly all found on HBCD). Definitely not going to sign them on every incoming PC. I usually just disable SB. 🙂

This is a personal choice - how secure do you want your environment to be? Hiren could definitely sign his CDs and make them compliant with Secure Boot, I'm guessing he just doesn't have people requesting it, and doesn't see the value to cost as worthwhile.

Just start here.

Then read about how pointless it really is.

I mean, it can't be that bad, right? You can't need a different signing key for every kernel and kernel module! Try again.

Yeah, with the latest Asus no-more-boot thanks to a windows update bug, not even Microsoft can stay compliant with their own system.

I could go on and on with reference pages.

@scottalanmiller said in Windows 10 Replacement for Movie Maker:

@brianlittlejohn said in Windows 10 Replacement for Movie Maker:

@gjacobse said in Windows 10 Replacement for Movie Maker:

What I have called Firewire, they call i.Link.

You can thank Apple for that... Apple trademarked "FireWire" so everyone else had to come up with their own name for IEEE1394

Well, you can thank people using Apple's term for IEEE1394. The real name is just IEEE1394. Calling it FireWire or i.Link is the issue. Just call it by its real name and it gets much clearer 🙂

True!

@DustinB3403 said:

@Jason said:

@Dashrender said:

But users are idiots..

That's a horrible attitude. No wonder you don't train your users. No we aren't a tech company.

It's actually an honest answer. People in general are about as smart as a bag of doorknobs.

In a Jeopardy style contest between a sack of users and a sack of doorknobs.... my money is on the doorknobs, all day long. Users are simply "average" people. The "average" person is stupider than f@ck (that's a fact), ergo users are idiots.

@LAH3385 said in Windows Desktop PC's: preferred suppliers?:

@scottalanmiller said in Windows Desktop PC's: preferred suppliers?:

@FATeknollogee said in Windows Desktop PC's: preferred suppliers?:

Anyone know of a Softmart equivalent on the West Coast? I'd like to eliminate the 1 week shipping time from the East Coast.

They don't ship from Philly. Their warehouses are all over the country. I used to do local pickup in Dallas all of the time. No delay to the west coast.

Do they charge for pickup? And where in DFW are they located at? Just curious

They don't charge us at least. And in Carrollton where the tracks cross Josie just north of Trinity Station.

It seems odd that the calculator would be part of that system.

@Dashrender said in Fresh Win 10 install - doesn't include crapware:

Now that's really weird.

is that 1703? What is the last cumulative update you have installed?

That one is current. Image was put on last week and then updates ran.

Double post: http://mangolassi.it/topic/8668/the-bash-shell-is-coming-to-windows

Well, I didn't find anything convincing in the way of holding off.
It's away!

I ended up ordering an ASUS: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B015ZG9D74/ref=ox_sc_act_title_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER.