Pete_C
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You can set up a loop in a host file so that when the IP address is looked up , instead of using your ISP it looks there first and gives a loop back to your computer or redirects to a site you select (by entering their IP address).
https://helpdeskgeek.com/how-to/block-websites-using-hosts-file/
There are many host file editors to make this easy
https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/categories/hostsfile.html
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Personally I am opposed. IF I find out that a business is dishonest in any way; I do not trust anything about them.
Pay for advertising, not fake reviews , not fake followers, not fake promotions.
If you are good, your loyal customers will do their part.
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So many of us have passed and so few from the old days are left.
I stay in touch with Mlegg , Tjet, and Jeff and Chappy on Facebook...(maybe a couple I forget, this getting old is hell).
Dana's death was unexpected. He went to the doctor to see about some weakness and instablilty and got diagnosed with tumor in his brain.
Got radiation / surgery and was going to start chemo when he had stroke like complications and was admitted to hospital. He had a couple brief days where he managed to post and contact friends, before he rapidly declined.
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Please join us in prayer and grief for the loss of Dana Turner to cancer. He will be remembered as a kind hearted soul. Please know. He did not experience pain and went peacefully in his sleep. Party on Dana with all the loud metal rock that one.
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I have notified Jeff. Avast Antivirus blocks Access to Besttechie.com as URL:Blacklist meaning someone submitted it and they have thrown it into the blackhole.
Hopefully he can resolve this.
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Not sure how many people from the old days still stop in.
Dana Turner AKA Cherokee Chief is in the hospital with brain cancer.
His condition is deteriorating and they are moving him to a nursing home for hospice care
He will be missed. He was a good friend and fought the good fight.
Shannon posted this update
"I spoke with Dana today. His hospice ase manager used her phone. He no longer k ows how to work his phone. He was telling me about cookie monster. And that he had been playing dodgeball. I asked him if he was winning and he said no. He was very perky and sounded happy in his own way. He had some chocolate puddingBut upchucked it, he said. I said so you barfed? He said yeah, I barfed a lot! He even giggled a bit. Mom was then able to talk to him. He agreed that he does love red or orange jello too. He is not the same Dana, but we played along. And that made him happy. Our goal is for comfort and no pain.Thank you for the prayers and positive thoughts. -
So few from the old days remain; and few of us are remembered.
It was a great time. We did a lot of good. -
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Doubt you will see this any time soon. I too stop in only rarely.
Howdy Bearskin. -
Chuck , sounds like a DNS redirect infection. Spoofed site in place of real one or ransomware.
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Insufficient power supply for the graphics card you have or incompatible graphics card for the demands of the game.
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-performance/windows-10-critical-event-41-kernel-power/543373ef-ba0c-462c-b54e-39984c95c010
" This issue may occur because of any software conflict or incompatible / corrupt display or graphic driver "
So if you have not done so, download the latest driver for your card and install it.
If that does not solve it, you may need to consider replacing your video card to play that game. -
He was a master of the google search.
Now that I am old, I look back on the early days and the friends we made nostalgically. We fought the good fight and despite our differences we worked together. We learned a lot and passed it on to the new guys. Kind of like being in the Army; I look back on those days too with a bit of nostalgia. -
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Just passing through. Hi yall.
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Did you try booting to safe mode, shutting down and then booting to normal and seeing if the problem resolved?
Did you try safe mode with networking?
if the above don't work , try this
http://ccm.net/faq/6210-nvidia-nvlddmkm-sys-error-message -
Thanks, I will add cryptoprevent. Seems to be a good innoculation.
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To help protect against ransomware and zero day exploits I used the free version of HitmanPro Alert since it came out. I liked and trusted it and liked that it included Cryptoguard which prevented your drive from being encrypted.
But when I upgraded to Windows 10, it caused a crash on reboot and had to be uninstalled. Any attempt to reinstall caused a fatal stop error.
I debated trying their new version when it came out, but since it did not appear to have a try before you buy (to make sure it too did not cause a fatal stop error) I have yet to reinstall it.
I did however recently learn of Malwarebytes Anti Exploit, designed to protect against such ransom ware. It is lacking in the cryptoguard feature since that is owned by surfright) You choose the free trial download and during install uncheck the "enable free trial of anti exploit premium" and you get the free version. (I prefer this approach to the fourteen day trial of the pro).
Not really sure if it is as effective as HitmanPro Alert, but it does work well with minimal resource draw. Also it did not cause any fatal error.
http://www.surfright.nl/en/alert
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It sure has been a long time.
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Possibly related to the update they installed last night.
Several people I know reported problems with taskbar icons not showing. I had issues with left click not working on things like sound mixer and start button until I rebooted a second time.
I think that is my new standard, if there is something odd or misbehaving about 10, especially if I think there was an update; I restart twice. If that does not solve it I boot to safe mode and then to normal and hope that fixes it. If neither of these work, I go to troubleshooting.
I think I know what you are describing and I almost had it do that to me; but I realized what was up and canceled. It had to do with a mouse issue and somehow a right click context menu option got activated and it started searching for and organizing photos.
I think it may have been related to a mouse sensitivity issue. I gave up on that one and just got a new mouse. For some reason my mouse became super sensitive and a single click was registering as double click no matter what changes to settings I made. New mouse and adjusting settings solved it, for now.
Really annoying I would click a tab in a browser and it would close as if I had double clicked or selected and clicked the x. -
I remember when there were complex programs that rarely were stable and hardly functional; yet people kept installing them to get this kind of functionality.
Combining the functions of quick launch and task bar into one by adding the pin and unpin feature is actually a pretty good one. Now you don't have two icons when you are running one of your quick launch / pinned programs you have one icon that lets you launch and access.
Saves working space and makes it easier to us common tasks.
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Did you try going to Start => all apps -> Microsoft edge browser
Right click and choose "Pin to taskbar"For future reference, don't delete entries, right click and choose unpin
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Version 11.63.10586.0 update 11.0.26 Install new versions automatically.
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IN windows 10 you can still use internet explorer. Just do the start / run and type iexplore and hit enter
Should be able to locate it and put a desktop shortcut too (I did, forget how but it was simple).
Of course I was an upgrade from Win 7 not clean install.
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Gonna have to go buy a bottle of good whiskey and drink a toast to you old friend. Sad to hear you passed.
Any of the old crew still around?
in Open Chat
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Just checking in here.
It was recently Tim Jetmore's (Ejet Pecan) birthday and that made me realize that he and Dana (Cherokee Chief) passed.
I haven't heard from Mike Legget in some time and think he too is gone. (He did change his name to Mike Miller for a bit but that too is gone)
Only ones I still see on Facebook are Dave Chapman (Chappy FD) and Jeff (Beluga)..
Is Flash4 still here? I don't see any recent posts from him?
Any others? We had some good times back in the days of TechTV and G4TV forums. Sad that so few of us have survived, but old age catches up with us all eventually.