For some reason yet not discovered, clicking the Start button or Search Icon button results in nothing happening. Click it a second time and it works. I have noticed that after
any new window is opened, clicking the mouse on START or SEARCH Icon results in
nothing. A second click must be done to either to get them working again. After
that they work as long as you click within 4 seconds of closing the Start menu.
Otherwise, it is back to not working. Bypass is to RESTART. However, one time
it just started working correctly again! This problem is just a nuance and not worth my time, at least at the moment, to debug further. It happens rarely and RESTART clears it.
Tuesday, August 18, 2015
Monday, August 17, 2015
719. The War of Currencies
Once again we witnesses the Chinese devaluing the Yuan. Remember what happened last time? Well, if I recall, Australia, Japan, South Korea, America, and several other key countries lowered their rates to drive their currency strength down to compete with the Export advantage the Chinese gained. Will we break the trend and really raise rates in September? I would say NO if I would believe the Fed really wants to compete in the currency wars. However, a political YES has high probability simply because of all the hoopla the Fed has led us on the entire year. Will the stubbornness of the Fed who kept promising a rise stick with it to buck the trend?
Let's say YES. What are the repercussions? Well, the Dollar gains strength. Not good for our exports, meaning not good for our a whole lot of important, large, businesses. Could be the time to look at the NASDAQ's small companies who focus only in the American marketplace. But, a small raise in rates with rhetoric that we shouldn't expect another for at least a year could be the catalyst, after a slight down market, to show the world that our businesses can endure regardless of the currency wars the others have begun to SAVE their economies.
If you followed my predictions, or the crystal ball my dog Sam left me, 2015 turns out to be a ho-hummer, slightly positive year for the markets. Thus, negative volatility will again be upon us, as will a recovery. Only question is will the recovery be quick enough to end 2015 positive? The question you should be asking though is where will we be 2-3 years out and start INVESTING rather than gambling short term.
Like our recovery after the financial crisis, the rest of the world is still digging themselves out. They have to continue QE and other means to get their individual economies positive. Emerging Markets still suck as commodity prices continue to drop because demand is pathetic. However, what happens when a countries GDP doesn't increase from already to low lows? The Government has to spend! China has been injecting Yuans into their businesses not only to keep them afloat, but to give the impression that the GDP isn't as bad as reality. They have tried to get consumers to spend more, but little help arrived. Of the Emerging Markets, only India is growing. And its because of India I am holding my DEO stock, betting with Diagio that their investment in India's distiller will spark a buying binge in a country that has shown no real market due to a lot of reasons. I see India continuing to grow the spending habits of its population.
In summary, Currency Wars are really no more than a war to see who can take down another countries economy by driving its export revenues up and gaining market increases. I think America can withstand any of those wars even when raising rates. The strength of the dollar is exactly what we need to curtail China;s push to make the Yuan a global resource for trade. See #696 for a insight on how Energy rules the world and our Dollar is the Petro Dollar. We can't let this slip away.
Entry #668 introduced a great book to read about Currency Wars: Currency Wars by James Rickards - Excellent book ties together the way nations manipulate their currencies to get an edge on other nations. Both history and current events. A+
Entry #696 presented another key book re petro dollar importance: "The Colder War, How the Global Energy Trade Slipped from America's Grasp" by Marin Katusa.
Let's say YES. What are the repercussions? Well, the Dollar gains strength. Not good for our exports, meaning not good for our a whole lot of important, large, businesses. Could be the time to look at the NASDAQ's small companies who focus only in the American marketplace. But, a small raise in rates with rhetoric that we shouldn't expect another for at least a year could be the catalyst, after a slight down market, to show the world that our businesses can endure regardless of the currency wars the others have begun to SAVE their economies.
If you followed my predictions, or the crystal ball my dog Sam left me, 2015 turns out to be a ho-hummer, slightly positive year for the markets. Thus, negative volatility will again be upon us, as will a recovery. Only question is will the recovery be quick enough to end 2015 positive? The question you should be asking though is where will we be 2-3 years out and start INVESTING rather than gambling short term.
Like our recovery after the financial crisis, the rest of the world is still digging themselves out. They have to continue QE and other means to get their individual economies positive. Emerging Markets still suck as commodity prices continue to drop because demand is pathetic. However, what happens when a countries GDP doesn't increase from already to low lows? The Government has to spend! China has been injecting Yuans into their businesses not only to keep them afloat, but to give the impression that the GDP isn't as bad as reality. They have tried to get consumers to spend more, but little help arrived. Of the Emerging Markets, only India is growing. And its because of India I am holding my DEO stock, betting with Diagio that their investment in India's distiller will spark a buying binge in a country that has shown no real market due to a lot of reasons. I see India continuing to grow the spending habits of its population.
In summary, Currency Wars are really no more than a war to see who can take down another countries economy by driving its export revenues up and gaining market increases. I think America can withstand any of those wars even when raising rates. The strength of the dollar is exactly what we need to curtail China;s push to make the Yuan a global resource for trade. See #696 for a insight on how Energy rules the world and our Dollar is the Petro Dollar. We can't let this slip away.
Entry #668 introduced a great book to read about Currency Wars: Currency Wars by James Rickards - Excellent book ties together the way nations manipulate their currencies to get an edge on other nations. Both history and current events. A+
Entry #696 presented another key book re petro dollar importance: "The Colder War, How the Global Energy Trade Slipped from America's Grasp" by Marin Katusa.
Sunday, August 16, 2015
718. Windows 10: Add SLEEP to Power Off options
If you hadn't already noticed, SLEEP is not one of the options when you go to Power Off your Windows 10 machine from Start->Power. I found This Page useful to create the Power Options I desired.
Friday, August 14, 2015
717. Hillary gets indicted!
Well, not yet. But after having a "low" security clearance and understanding the "highest" security standards and requirements, I am amazed that Hillary isn't already before the judge. Why? It is standard practice that a high security organization have both CLASSIFIED and UNCLASSIFIED processors to completely separate all correspondence and work between the two categories.
Hillary claims she never TRANSMITTED any classified documents! Well Hillary, you seem to forget that you signed a TOP SECRET clearance that specifically outlines that NO classified document shall reside on a unclassified processor! I've seen people get canned for taking a PC home that contained a classified document. You, Hillary, had an entire server with classified documents on it.
Of course the latest buzz is that one of her associates removed the classification text from the top of every page, along with the cover page before sending it to her server. This is in itself a felony and subject to prosecution. Regardless, if you read a document that is ONLY available to Top Secret clearances and for some reason assume they decided to put just the ones on your machine out as unclassifieds, you've got to be stupid or just corrupt!
I take the security of this country seriously. At least Edward Snowden, who worked for NSA, knew what he took was illegal. Do you think Hillary didn't know? I hope the FBI crawls through her machin and not only uncovers all the classified documents she had on it, but also question Bill who also had access to it and NO LONGER has a Top Secret clearance! The FBI needs also evaluate her server facilities to determine the potential exposure of all her correspondence as Secretary of the State, a key, important position with Foreign Country implications.
In summary, Hillary should have wet pants because:
1. Her server probably never complied with National Security requirements to hold ANY classified documents, not just Top Secret, e.g., encryption, backup, duplication, secure applications, secure transmission software AND hardware, etc.
2. She cannot make an excuse that she did not know the documents were classified that high regardless of how she claims they were marked.
3. She already exposed the machine to Bill who has NO clearance any more
4. Who knows how many of the documents she printed on a NONSecure printer and has lying around in some file -- FBI needs to raid her offices.
5. Who on her staff had such a high clearance to manage her server files?
This is just ONE really STUPID, UNTRUSTWORTHY lady. What a team she and O'Blunder made! And will we ever hear from O'Blunder!
I just saw This Article. Makes me want to smack her in the head. It's time to end her political career!
Hillary claims she never TRANSMITTED any classified documents! Well Hillary, you seem to forget that you signed a TOP SECRET clearance that specifically outlines that NO classified document shall reside on a unclassified processor! I've seen people get canned for taking a PC home that contained a classified document. You, Hillary, had an entire server with classified documents on it.
Of course the latest buzz is that one of her associates removed the classification text from the top of every page, along with the cover page before sending it to her server. This is in itself a felony and subject to prosecution. Regardless, if you read a document that is ONLY available to Top Secret clearances and for some reason assume they decided to put just the ones on your machine out as unclassifieds, you've got to be stupid or just corrupt!
I take the security of this country seriously. At least Edward Snowden, who worked for NSA, knew what he took was illegal. Do you think Hillary didn't know? I hope the FBI crawls through her machin and not only uncovers all the classified documents she had on it, but also question Bill who also had access to it and NO LONGER has a Top Secret clearance! The FBI needs also evaluate her server facilities to determine the potential exposure of all her correspondence as Secretary of the State, a key, important position with Foreign Country implications.
In summary, Hillary should have wet pants because:
1. Her server probably never complied with National Security requirements to hold ANY classified documents, not just Top Secret, e.g., encryption, backup, duplication, secure applications, secure transmission software AND hardware, etc.
2. She cannot make an excuse that she did not know the documents were classified that high regardless of how she claims they were marked.
3. She already exposed the machine to Bill who has NO clearance any more
4. Who knows how many of the documents she printed on a NONSecure printer and has lying around in some file -- FBI needs to raid her offices.
5. Who on her staff had such a high clearance to manage her server files?
This is just ONE really STUPID, UNTRUSTWORTHY lady. What a team she and O'Blunder made! And will we ever hear from O'Blunder!
I just saw This Article. Makes me want to smack her in the head. It's time to end her political career!
716. Latest Book Ratings
Out of a 5 meaning great, I have rated the following fiction books:
++++ Stephen King. "Finders Keepers" . Certainly not like his older horror novels this is a sequel to "Mr. Mercedes". Neither was super appealing -- just a well written story and predictable. I was hard pressed to give it more than a 3, but his style won a 4.
++++ Greg Iles. "Bone Tree" is also a sequel to other bone stories. Well written and entertaining
+++++ Scott MacKay. "Cold Comfort" has remarkable low ratings from others. It is what I call a comfortable mystery. Nothing over your head, no sin/sex to bother your sole, just simply a great story.
++++ Bill Durham. "Amarillo" was a must read since I live in this city. My bias was of course strengthen by use of local geography and business names. A good read.
- Clive Cussler. "The Assassin". Guess you have to be a Clive Cussler fan to get past the first 50 pages! I found his analogies and metaphors a bit STUPID to the point that I couldn't go on. Just about every fifth sentence had unnecessary and unrelated writer prose that made it difficult to enjoy since it was so STUPID. Sorry, I hated it and returned it unfinished.
++++ Stephen King. "Finders Keepers" . Certainly not like his older horror novels this is a sequel to "Mr. Mercedes". Neither was super appealing -- just a well written story and predictable. I was hard pressed to give it more than a 3, but his style won a 4.
++++ Greg Iles. "Bone Tree" is also a sequel to other bone stories. Well written and entertaining
+++++ Scott MacKay. "Cold Comfort" has remarkable low ratings from others. It is what I call a comfortable mystery. Nothing over your head, no sin/sex to bother your sole, just simply a great story.
++++ Bill Durham. "Amarillo" was a must read since I live in this city. My bias was of course strengthen by use of local geography and business names. A good read.
- Clive Cussler. "The Assassin". Guess you have to be a Clive Cussler fan to get past the first 50 pages! I found his analogies and metaphors a bit STUPID to the point that I couldn't go on. Just about every fifth sentence had unnecessary and unrelated writer prose that made it difficult to enjoy since it was so STUPID. Sorry, I hated it and returned it unfinished.
Sunday, August 9, 2015
715. Kindle HDX Zinio for Libraries isn't downloading mags correctly
6/1/2018 Update: Zinio for Libraries was replaced by a direct RBDigital App that is available at its site RBDigital.com.
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Since Amazon upgraded their OS to 4.5.5 a few days ago [around 8/5/15], the Zinio APP on my Kindle HDX randomly fails to download magazines. The version that fails is 1.0.2.20150415 and is the one downloaded from the Zinio RBDigital site. Intead of this version, get the Google Play Store version as follows: On the Kindle in Silk find the Google Play App Download Tool and specify the Google Play Store URL for the Zinio for Libraries reader APP and it will download Zinio 2.7.7028 as a ….crx file. Open it with ES and it will install. You should be back in business. Note, the Google version is about 5x smaller! Hmm, what has Zinio done to the Kindle version they are downloading?
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Since Amazon upgraded their OS to 4.5.5 a few days ago [around 8/5/15], the Zinio APP on my Kindle HDX randomly fails to download magazines. The version that fails is 1.0.2.20150415 and is the one downloaded from the Zinio RBDigital site. Intead of this version, get the Google Play Store version as follows: On the Kindle in Silk find the Google Play App Download Tool and specify the Google Play Store URL for the Zinio for Libraries reader APP and it will download Zinio 2.7.7028 as a ….crx file. Open it with ES and it will install. You should be back in business. Note, the Google version is about 5x smaller! Hmm, what has Zinio done to the Kindle version they are downloading?
714. Windows 10 doesn’t Sleep
Initial tests
indicated that when Chrome is left open and displayed, Windows won’t Sleep. Further testing
revealed that this appears to be linked to Yahoo Stock page being open (it is constantly updating data). When it’s tab is
closed, Sleep works. I haven’t thoroughly tested though. Could be that when
just multiple tabs are open it won’t sleep. I plan to close Chrome each time before walking away. I'll report back here should a different cause become known.
Chrome isn't the only cause of this. With Chrome closed it still did not sleep as explained here: the SLEEP trigger (set at 1 minute for testing) did indeed kick off and the screen went blank leaving just the power switch illuminated as it should (on Dell Inspiron). However, when I moved mouse attached to USB (wireless Logitech), up came my screen where I left off. I did NOT get the security login screen as I should after a sleep. Also, it was instantaneous leading me to assume that it never went to sleep, but just turned off the screen. Further debugging led me to disable things one-by-one. When I got to the USBs I had only the mouse in one of the three USB ports. As soon as I pulled the USB mouse unit from the USB and waited the 1 minute, the PC DID go to SLEEP! Hence, I stuck it in each of the other USB ports and tested. SLEEP DID work in each of the other two. After doing this again several times between the ports, only the ONE USB failed every time, whereas the other two worked every time. HURRY! USB port problem.
Now that that was resolved, I again explored the first problem with CHROME open. It FAILED! Thus, the problems are multiple: USB PORT OR CHROME OPEN. btw, I did NOT have Yahoo Stock page open when it failed this time, but I did have a home screen that updated email availability. Further research of Internet articles suggested causes may be pages that get updated, adobe flash running in one, multiple tabs open, Chrome changing a timer resolution limit and not resetting it, etc.
Too much to debug Microsoft's problem. I'll run with the new USB port and always close Chrome and see if I have at least conquered a bypass. Of course I'll update this should I see yet another occurrence of the SLEEP not working.
Chrome isn't the only cause of this. With Chrome closed it still did not sleep as explained here: the SLEEP trigger (set at 1 minute for testing) did indeed kick off and the screen went blank leaving just the power switch illuminated as it should (on Dell Inspiron). However, when I moved mouse attached to USB (wireless Logitech), up came my screen where I left off. I did NOT get the security login screen as I should after a sleep. Also, it was instantaneous leading me to assume that it never went to sleep, but just turned off the screen. Further debugging led me to disable things one-by-one. When I got to the USBs I had only the mouse in one of the three USB ports. As soon as I pulled the USB mouse unit from the USB and waited the 1 minute, the PC DID go to SLEEP! Hence, I stuck it in each of the other USB ports and tested. SLEEP DID work in each of the other two. After doing this again several times between the ports, only the ONE USB failed every time, whereas the other two worked every time. HURRY! USB port problem.
Now that that was resolved, I again explored the first problem with CHROME open. It FAILED! Thus, the problems are multiple: USB PORT OR CHROME OPEN. btw, I did NOT have Yahoo Stock page open when it failed this time, but I did have a home screen that updated email availability. Further research of Internet articles suggested causes may be pages that get updated, adobe flash running in one, multiple tabs open, Chrome changing a timer resolution limit and not resetting it, etc.
Too much to debug Microsoft's problem. I'll run with the new USB port and always close Chrome and see if I have at least conquered a bypass. Of course I'll update this should I see yet another occurrence of the SLEEP not working.
713. Can’t access Microsoft Community any more?
Can’t access Microsoft Community any
more? Get a message telling you to Try
Later…[can’t sign in]. Try deleting all Chrome Browsing data (history, cookies,
etc.) and bringing it back up. This error disappeared.
Tuesday, August 4, 2015
712. Disable Caps Lock
Tired of accidentally hitting the Caps Lock instead of Shift key and start shouting at you screen until you delete all the CAPS YOUR TYPED! Well, disable the Caps Lock -- do you really need to type strings of Caps anyway? Do a registry edit (REGEDIT) and add a key under the location specified manually, or copy/paste ALL the following into a xxx.reg file and double click the resulting file:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout]
"Scancode Map"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,00,00,3a,00,00,00,00,00
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout]
"Scancode Map"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,00,00,3a,00,00,00,00,00
711. Steps to Install Windows 10
There will be different steps than mine, but I thought I would post my steps as a guideline. The upgrade install took 1.5 hours to sign in time. After that was customization time for my particular system. I would advise anyone installing review all steps and denote important elements in the install/testing/planning FIRST. For example, if you have data encryption and a password manager, you would definitely want those to come over CLEANLY.
Windows 10 Install:
1. Backup
all critical data (My Documents via SyncToy) to Transcend USB Drive
2. Run
CCleaner and remove all temp and unnecessary files
3. Create
System Image of W7 system onto Toshiba Portable HD
4. Run
Upgrade (8.1) Assistant to see what will not be compatible – Office 2003
(turned out to transfer and work), Microsoft games, MSE (now called Windows
Defender and part of W10), Secure Boot won’t work on my system, Need a DVD
Player (MSFT installed Windows Media Player as separate update). If you did any Registry changes or code Zaps or installed without Windows Installer any applications, make sure you get ready to reapply those.
5. See
27. START Menu
6. Download
Media Creation Tool64.exe from Microsoft and Install/Run. Took about 1.5
hours, all automatic without intervention, to install.
------- At this point W10 is installed effortlessly and without intervention -----------
7. Login
to W10 (Rich)
8. Review
User Accounts. Both me and wife
there, but new pictures were needed for ICONS.
9. AntiVirus:
Windows Defender. Running but ICON not in System Tray. Internet search has
resolution. Also, system is NOT setup to allow scanning of an individual
folder/file. I had to do add Keys to Registry to get the option to scan
individual folder/file.
10. Encryption
software (AxCrypt): and access to files using same key. OK.
11. Password
Manager (AnyPassword):All OK and correct.
12. Install Office 2003. Didn’t have to. Upgrade did it automatically and in Program
Files as Office 11. Both Word and Excel do work fine. All my critical data in
My Documents in tact.
13. Check out new
browser EDGE. Was easy to use, but when you view a PDF file you can view
it, but printing and filing took some learning. When you file, the default name
(from Fidelity) did not get filled in! The floating control box with Save and
Print are not there because ADOBE is not being used! Thus, this browser is
out-of-here!
14. Chrome
and Internet Explorer. Both came over in tact and work as before.
15. Network:
All automatic and OK. Network Genie came over and fine too.
16. EMAIL:
Thunderbird came over correctly as was. All emails and email in tact.
17. System
Details (Speccy): Had to copy this from old system (in Window.old\Program
Files). NOTE: Need to check other programs that did NOT install via Windows
Installer. If they were installed in system folder, like Program Files, then
they will be in Windows.old somewhere. Same if installed under My Documents.
18. Print to
PDF (convert Internet file to PDF) via CutePDF: OK, but didn’t work out of
EDGE. Another minus for EDGE.
19.
ERROR:
I tried copying Windows.old to my Toshiba HD. After about an hour it made
it to 99%, but stayed there. I had done a copy/paste to do it from File
Explorer. It said it had 30 seconds to go, but was still running 20 minutes
later. I displayed copy details and it showed files still being copied. I
waited another 10 minutes before stopping the runaway task that actually copied
only about 50% of it!
20.
ERROR:
During the 99% time above, I wanted to do something on the context menu of File
Explorer file (right-click file). The context menu had blank entries except for
the designator that an additional dropdown menu was available for some. I then
went to START and did right-click on several thing and same thing, with
additional problem that the context menu had no width – only length was
correct. This was reported on the Microsoft Community Forum, so I added my two
sense there also. A system RESTART clears this problem. I suspect the previous
error caused memory overlays and wiped out the pointers to context menus or
registry entries.
---- NOTE: see my blog entries 701-705 for details of this problem in Microsoft COPY code relating to #19 & 20 above ----------
21. Power
Options: Hibernate disappeared as a default option. I found fix via Internet
search to turn it on (powercfg –h on), set it via power icon, AND put it on
Start menu when getting off. However, I am not too sure it is working yet. System
always comes up as it had been in only Sleep mode. Will debug later.
22. Desktop
Background: My theme disappeared. Had to reload one AND set colors via
Start->Settings->Personalize.
23. Window
Colors: Was not happy that individual window colors bare if all distinguished
window edges from screen colors or other open windows. Found a nice theme for
Chrome. But overall, all windows other than Chrome now have white edges.
Changing Personalization color put a color border, but it is so thin it is
unnoticeable.
24. SPYBot:
Did NOT transfer. Free SpyBot 2.4 is claimed to be compatible and needs to be
downloaded. However, 2.5 was announced to be available shorty with new W10
features. I’ll wait.
25. MalwareBytes:
Transferred OK and runs.
26. Swapfile
Size: Already set as in W7 to 1.5xmemory.
27. START
Menu: This did NOT populate with W7 settings! Had to locate .exe files and
Pin to START many of old ones. Also rearranged and deleted nonsense. There were
additional setting to allow/disallow other things.
28. SWITCH
Users: On W7 the user had the choice when getting off to SWITCH users. This
no longer exists in the power off options. To SWITCH, hit START and go to upper
left and click your user ICON. You will see other users – click any of them and
you will be off. SWITCH should be the same as SLEEP, i.e., keeps your
environment in memory so you quickly get back to it at login.
710. No way to scan single file/folder with Windows Defender.
95. No way to scan single file/folder with
Defender. Created Registry
change to add Scan with Defender to context menus. Here it is:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\WindowsDefender]
"Icon"="%ProgramFiles%\\\\Windows
Defender\\\\EppManifest.dll"
"MUIVerb"="Scan
With Windows Defender"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\WindowsDefender\Command]
@=""C:\\Program
Files\\Windows Defender\\MpCmdRun.exe" -scan -scantype 3 -SignatureUpdate
-file "%1"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\shell\WindowsDefender]
"Icon"="%ProgramFiles%\\\\Windows
Defender\\\\EppManifest.dll"
"MUIVerb"="Scan
With Windows Defender"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\shell\WindowsDefender\Command]
@=""C:\\Program
Files\\Windows Defender\\MpCmdRun.exe" -scan -scantype 3 -SignatureUpdate
-file "%1"
708. Windows 10 Title Bars on windows are terrible WHITE
Title bars on windows are WHITE. Change by creating new theme that allows
Personalizing change color to choice. See http://www.howtogeek.com/222831/how-to-get-colored-window-title-bars-on-windows-10-instead-of-white/.
This works for the first 2 themes in selection, but any of the others.
STOP: Update 11/20/15: When you get to the 1511 version of Windows 10 via automatic updates, you will find in the settings for Desktop, Personalize a new option "Show color on Start, ..., Titlebars" you can set ON and select a color.
STOP: Update 11/20/15: When you get to the 1511 version of Windows 10 via automatic updates, you will find in the settings for Desktop, Personalize a new option "Show color on Start, ..., Titlebars" you can set ON and select a color.
707. Make Thunderbird your default email app
When clicking an email hypertext from Chrome, it
does NOT go to my Thunderbird email application client. The system's Default App for Email is NOT
Thunderbird and Thunderbird is not even a choice. Several changes required:
1. In Thunderbird, go to Options and put a check mark for "Always check to see if Thunderbird is the default mail client on startup". This apparently only tells Thunderbird it is allowed to be a default.
2. Now, go to Control Panel->Default Programs-> Set program access and computer defaults-> Custom. Note: If you find the rdio button already checked, click there anyway so you get the expanded message where it allows you to select Thunderbird as the default e-mail program. Fine, this only allows an entry to populate in the following step.
3.Go to START-> Personalize, Default Programs and click the current email default program. Now, select Thunderbird as the Email Default.
1. In Thunderbird, go to Options and put a check mark for "Always check to see if Thunderbird is the default mail client on startup". This apparently only tells Thunderbird it is allowed to be a default.
2. Now, go to Control Panel->Default Programs-> Set program access and computer defaults-> Custom. Note: If you find the rdio button already checked, click there anyway so you get the expanded message where it allows you to select Thunderbird as the default e-mail program. Fine, this only allows an entry to populate in the following step.
3.Go to START-> Personalize, Default Programs and click the current email default program. Now, select Thunderbird as the Email Default.
706. Windows 10 Using OLD Windows GAMES
9/29/16 Windows 10 Anniversary Update 1607: The solution for Windows 10 Anniversary Update is to go to : https://forums.mydigitallife.info/threads/56428-Windows-7-Games-for-Windows-8-8-1-Multilanguage
If you aren't already registered for this forum, you will have to and then signin. Then download, scan with your Antivirus program and spyware program, unzip, execute setup to install games you desire, enjoy. Thank you Eldiabl0 at https://forums.mydigitallife.info/.
If you aren't already registered for this forum, you will have to and then signin. Then download, scan with your Antivirus program and spyware program, unzip, execute setup to install games you desire, enjoy. Thank you Eldiabl0 at https://forums.mydigitallife.info/.
705. Windows 10 Problems Part 5
UPDATE: This problem has been accepted by Microsoft and fix is due in future updates.
19. NEW PROBLEM. Note the toolbar on the E: Windows Explorer window (Left and above) (CORRUPTED) vs. a fresh Explorer window (right and below). System is trashing itself!
19. NEW PROBLEM. Note the toolbar on the E: Windows Explorer window (Left and above) (CORRUPTED) vs. a fresh Explorer window (right and below). System is trashing itself!
20. WAIT CHAIN Analysis shows DEADLOCK between 2
Explorer threads. Your multi-processing could be flawed! Too many Explore
threads running at same time?
21. 10:42. I have had enough. Canceling COPY and will do
ROBOCOPY. This document should have enough to confirm AND REPRODUCE several
ERRORS:
a) Right-click Context Menus corrupted or just displayed
wrong out of Explorer, START, TaskBar, System Tray Expansion. This problem only
existed by the COPY job was running. The menus were fine after canceling the
COPY task.
b) Performance problem with at last COPY
c) I would also look into Windows Defender being in the way.
Should have an option on COPY to BYPASS Windows Defender when copying huge
files
d) Explore toolbar gets corrupted also
e) Defender ICON does not always appear in System Tray.
Also, what happened to the nice option to change what appears in System Tray
(always, notification, etc.) as in W7?
f) AFTER I canceled the COPY, ALL Context menus came back
correctly, but my Desktop was cluttered with ICONS that turned out be prompts
for programs to use for files????? That is, if you open a file that has no file
association, you get a propt to select one. However, these did NOT come up on
screen until I ended the COPY job by canceling the task.
g) Lost all the Quick Access folders in Explorer that I
Pinned earlier.
10 54: Restart time to see what gets cleared!
h) Displaying Properties of a large file takes a long, long
time to populate SIZE. This never happened on W7.
i) COPY job showed 42,957 items to copy at start. When I started
deleted E:\windows.old it counted 89,319 items for the 23.4 GB that got there!
Another COPY error! The DELETE of E:\windows.old (permanently, not recycle
folder) started at 11:15 and finally ended at xxxxx. Why? Just delete the
index! At least the Contect Menus didn’t corrupt while it was deleting this long!
Of the above errors a-g, the following get cleared by a
RESTART: a,d,f,g
The COPY job made it to 23.4GB of 35 GB before I canceled
it. 2 HOURS!
------------------------------- 8/4/2015 Update -----------------
I am presently (72% complete) running TeraCopy 2.3 to do the windows.old copy to test. NO context problems running this (START, Task Bar, Explorer, System Tray all perfect and never corrupted). It has been running exactly 2 hours now, equivalent to the time when I canceled the COPY job at 23.4 GB. TeraCopy is up to 25.19 GB. So, a little faster, BUT NO PROBLEMS or CORRUPTION. I plan to run SuperCopier after this test to determine it's speed and stability on Windows 10. Will update this entry then.
Test Summary: CPU Util with TeraCopy job is between 5-12%, whereas with COPY it was 50-87%. Disk Util is hammered with TeraCopy meaning it is totally efficient compared to COPY's off and on utilization. My conclusion, since high resource use is not affecting START or Task Bar (outside Explorer) AND not affecting Explorer either, is that COPY is the culprit and it is corrupting something in cache that is common between Explorer, Task Bar, and START where Context Menus are built to display when we ask for them. The display, i.e. writing of the menu works, just the content is empty or incomplete. COPY application programmers should be hanging their heads (as the exit MSFT)! Stay tuned for more testing progress.
-------------------- 8/4/2015 Update 2 ------------------
TeraCopy finished in 3 Hr 50 Min. There were Files+Folders it couldn't copy (538 or 138019) for a total of 34.8GB or original 35.01 GB.
More importantly, the errors COPY had were NOT present with TeraCopy copy.Microsoft has a problem in COPY it needs to address.
------------------------------- 8/4/2015 Update -----------------
I am presently (72% complete) running TeraCopy 2.3 to do the windows.old copy to test. NO context problems running this (START, Task Bar, Explorer, System Tray all perfect and never corrupted). It has been running exactly 2 hours now, equivalent to the time when I canceled the COPY job at 23.4 GB. TeraCopy is up to 25.19 GB. So, a little faster, BUT NO PROBLEMS or CORRUPTION. I plan to run SuperCopier after this test to determine it's speed and stability on Windows 10. Will update this entry then.
Test Summary: CPU Util with TeraCopy job is between 5-12%, whereas with COPY it was 50-87%. Disk Util is hammered with TeraCopy meaning it is totally efficient compared to COPY's off and on utilization. My conclusion, since high resource use is not affecting START or Task Bar (outside Explorer) AND not affecting Explorer either, is that COPY is the culprit and it is corrupting something in cache that is common between Explorer, Task Bar, and START where Context Menus are built to display when we ask for them. The display, i.e. writing of the menu works, just the content is empty or incomplete. COPY application programmers should be hanging their heads (as the exit MSFT)! Stay tuned for more testing progress.
-------------------- 8/4/2015 Update 2 ------------------
TeraCopy finished in 3 Hr 50 Min. There were Files+Folders it couldn't copy (538 or 138019) for a total of 34.8GB or original 35.01 GB.
More importantly, the errors COPY had were NOT present with TeraCopy copy.Microsoft has a problem in COPY it needs to address.
704. Windows 10 Problems Part 4
UPDATE: This problem has been accepted by Microsoft and fix is due in future updates.
17. Copy still running at 10:12. Note ICON for Defender remained in Tray again. The MISSING ICON WAS A PROBLEM! Note that Defender Disk is not gone. Let’s see if the copy can finish faster. However, context menus still being corrupted. AT 10:13, Sixe of E:\Windows.old is 13.5 GB (c: was 35GB…so, much to go dispite COPY saying it is finished looking at it but keeps flashing files).
18. 10:20 Still Copying. I can download 35GB
from Internet faster than this! E: is now at 17.1 GB for windows.old. I shall
call it a COPY PERFORMANCE PROBLEM AND A
WINDOWS DEFENDER PERFORMANCE PROBLEM! Note that Defender is even OFF at
this time for last 12 minutes. At 10:24 Disk transfer rate on E: is less than 7
MB/S while utilizing 98-100% utilization! Btw. My Toshiba is on a USB 2.0 port
– it is designed for 3.0 port but still supports 2.0 USB which I have. Maybe
I’ll do this again with ROBOCOPY.
17. Copy still running at 10:12. Note ICON for Defender remained in Tray again. The MISSING ICON WAS A PROBLEM! Note that Defender Disk is not gone. Let’s see if the copy can finish faster. However, context menus still being corrupted. AT 10:13, Sixe of E:\Windows.old is 13.5 GB (c: was 35GB…so, much to go dispite COPY saying it is finished looking at it but keeps flashing files).
703. Windows 10 Problems Part 3
UPDATE: This problem has been accepted by Microsoft and fix is due in future updates.
15. 10:01 Shows change in E:\Windows.old. Copy job has long ago reported 0 items left and o byes left!!! Thus COPY PROBLEM EXISTS. Also fyi, When I displayed the Properties of the Windows.old I did RC and received an empty Context Menu, but clicked at bottom of it where Prperties would be and got the resulting Properties. Therefore, the entries are just BLANK.
15. 10:01 Shows change in E:\Windows.old. Copy job has long ago reported 0 items left and o byes left!!! Thus COPY PROBLEM EXISTS. Also fyi, When I displayed the Properties of the Windows.old I did RC and received an empty Context Menu, but clicked at bottom of it where Prperties would be and got the resulting Properties. Therefore, the entries are just BLANK.
16. 10:08. Copy continues. Turned off Windows Defender! Note
ICON back in System Tray while Windows Defender I open.
702. Windows 10 Problems Part 2
UPDATE: This problem has been accepted by Microsoft and fix is due in future updates.
---See #701 for Part 1
---See #701 for Part 1
13. Copy continues at 9:53. Note menu result of RC on task
bar. Also Copy changed to 0 items remaining, but still at 99%.
14. C:\Windows.old is 35 GB. E:\Windows.old is at 10.7GB at
9:58
701. Windows 10 Problems Part 1
UPDATE: This problem has been accepted by Microsoft and fix is due in future updates.
DO A RIGHT-CLICK ON AN IMAGE AND OPEN IN ANOTHER TAB/WINDOW TO ENLARGE IT.
Copy job running to copy Windows.old from C:\ to Toshiba Portable HD on E:. Context menus all screwed up and change size and/or content. I see nothing unusual from Performance Monitors except that Speccy reports CPU above 60 degree C limit occasionally. NOTE: Context menus within Microsoft Word are fine and allow me to PASTE images.
DO A RIGHT-CLICK ON AN IMAGE AND OPEN IN ANOTHER TAB/WINDOW TO ENLARGE IT.
Copy job running to copy Windows.old from C:\ to Toshiba Portable HD on E:. Context menus all screwed up and change size and/or content. I see nothing unusual from Performance Monitors except that Speccy reports CPU above 60 degree C limit occasionally. NOTE: Context menus within Microsoft Word are fine and allow me to PASTE images.
2. Show Processes Running
3. Right Click START (sometimes the box looks like in 1
above, other times it is as below with varying number of entries)
4. Right-click a file again to show variation of content
5. Copy job at 99% at 9:15 P.M. Still have
context Menu problem
6. Copy Job stuck at 99% and 23 items remaining but still
copy files like crazy.
It is now 9:22 and COPY still shows only 23 items remaining,
but still flashing files being copied even when copy progress graph stopped and
showing 0 bytes/s. Does it go through everything again to verify copies? Note
CPU hot again (see other Answer Forum items about Overheating). I am thinking
eith COPY function OR Toshiba has cache on PC and copy has already written
there and now is showing cache->Toshiba copying and not
Windows.old->cache copying. Ideas? It is now 9:30 and no changes to items
remaining and 99%.
7. 9:32 BUT WOW…Context Menus came back for
Windows Explorer!!!!!! Akso for START Context Menu (not shown)
8. Here’s a change. Notice that E: has 0 activity and C: is
at 74% while 23 items still continue to remain and files flashing by.
9. Copy still active. Note Windows Defender
action too! Maybe it is the problem.
10. Still COPY runs. Note Windows Defender I/O.
11. Context Menus corrupted again! At 9:43. Copy
still running
12. Still running COPY. Note Windows Defender threads (?) .
There looks to be over 600 of these entries. Also not Corrupted Menu again.
Another problem is that Windows Defender ICO to Protected is again missing from
System Tray. I fixed this once. Don’t know when it disappeared again.
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