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Joe Woodbury5-Jan-15 7:53

Joe Woodbury

5-Jan-15 7:53

I'm thinking about getting one, but am not sure I have install discs for all the junk on my computer. I might just dual boot for a while until I'm sure or just wait until Windows 10.

I need a new, better ventilated, case too, so....

TheGreatAndPowerfulOz5-Jan-15 8:04

5-Jan-15 8:04

Windows 8.1 and 10 (64 bit) require more CPU features than Windows 8 and below. See here[^] to get the Windows Upgrade Assistant. Also use Sysinternal's coreinfo to see if your processor has the capabilities necessary...

It turns out that I need a different processor to do my upgrade since I also wanted to upgrade to 64 bit Windows 8.1.

Now, I've got an excuse... Big Grin | :-D

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Joe Woodbury5-Jan-15 8:23

Joe Woodbury

5-Jan-15 8:23

CPU-Wise, I am two steps back from bleeding edge (Ivy Bridge i7 vs. Haswell and Broadwell.) I'm tempted to splurge and build a brand new "well" system this summer as in Broadwell and Maxwell. Crucial needs to rename their drive Speedwell and I'm sold!

TheGreatAndPowerfulOz5-Jan-15 8:57

5-Jan-15 8:57

Flynn Arrowstarr / Regular Schmoe

Flynn Arrowstarr / Regular Schmoe6-Jan-15 12:36

6-Jan-15 12:36

Nice. I have one in my laptop and it works wonderfully. Smile | :)

Flynn

If we can't corrupt the youth of today,
the adults of tomorrow will be no fun...

TFS On-Line UI

Kevin Marois5-Jan-15 4:46

Kevin Marois

5-Jan-15 4:46

Is it just me, or is the TFS on line UI really complicated and not at all user-friendly?

If it's not broken, fix it until it is

Re: TFS On-Line UI

KarstenK5-Jan-15 6:01

KarstenK

5-Jan-15 6:01

Isnt it from Microsoft? (In German often prononced "Meikro-Schrott" what means "small waste") Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany

Re: TFS On-Line UI

Joe Woodbury5-Jan-15 8:00

Joe Woodbury

5-Jan-15 8:00

You have to ask?

I wonder if the designers pass things by normal people. If said people can figure it out quickly the designers scream in anguish and run back to their offices.

Has Chrome got a flaw I don't know of...

glennPattonWork35-Jan-15 4:42

glennPattonWork3

5-Jan-15 4:42

Hi All,
Just got off the phone with a scammer with an Indian accent (not being racial) call Dave(?) from Wimdows Security of Microsoft! I was a bit bored and played along got me to open the event viewer and looked in horror at all exclamation marks and red crosses. I then was a little surprised when read the script and asked me to open Google Chrome (!) as because this was a free call he could not give me the code to allow me to use Internet Explorer (?).
Sadly at this point my mobile rang me with details of a contract role so had to ring off, was wondering if anyone has had a similar experience...

TheGreatAndPowerfulOz5-Jan-15 4:51

5-Jan-15 4:51

I've been getting this calls regularly for a while. I always scream at them and tell them they are scammers and that they should get real job. I then block the number.

Quirkafleeg5-Jan-15 5:12

Quirkafleeg

5-Jan-15 5:12

You should bait them instead... You could say "That's funny, because I don't have a computer", then listen to them stammer before ending the call (a work colleague's trick).
But it is also fun to say "Oh dear... I have 10 computers. Can you tell me which one has the problems?". Then proceed to waste their time - "you mean this Amiga 500? What about this Tandy 1000? What about this Casio FX-83 (calculator)?"

TheGreatAndPowerfulOz5-Jan-15 5:16

5-Jan-15 5:16

That could be fun.

Matt U.5-Jan-15 4:59

5-Jan-15 4:59

I can only wish they would call me regularly. Kinda makes me sad that they don't. Frown | :(

I love toying with those people. I will drag them on for hours.

djj55: Nice but may have a permission problem
Pete O'Hanlon: He has my permission to run it.

P0mpeyBoy5-Jan-15 5:19

P0mpeyBoy

5-Jan-15 5:19

Matt U. wrote:
I can only wish they would call me regularly. Kinda makes me sad that they don't.

You know there are chat lines for lonely people like you?

OriginalGriff5-Jan-15 5:22

OriginalGriff

5-Jan-15 5:22

I understand they charge you per minute... Wink | ;)

Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

Matt U.5-Jan-15 5:24

5-Jan-15 5:24

I didn't realize I was lonely? D'Oh! | :doh:

djj55: Nice but may have a permission problem
Pete O'Hanlon: He has my permission to run it.

Mark_Wallace5-Jan-15 7:57

Mark_Wallace

5-Jan-15 7:57

Then you've learned something today. Be happy about that.

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

Matt U.5-Jan-15 8:07

5-Jan-15 8:07

Far from it.

djj55: Nice but may have a permission problem
Pete O'Hanlon: He has my permission to run it.

Mark_Wallace5-Jan-15 8:12

Mark_Wallace

5-Jan-15 8:12

Hmm.

Look, if the CP Lounge decides that you're lonely, you don't get to debate the point.

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

Matt U.5-Jan-15 8:16

5-Jan-15 8:16

I have no need to debate what is true. Big Grin | :-D

djj55: Nice but may have a permission problem
Pete O'Hanlon: He has my permission to run it.

Trajan McGill5-Jan-15 5:12

Trajan McGill

5-Jan-15 5:12

I had these people in a quite extended conversation one time, out of curiosity following all their instructions ("10,000 items in the event viewer?! Oh no! Those are all viruses that have infected your system!") until they got to the point where I was to download an executable from their web site and run it, at which point I refused to go any further and then engaged the caller and two of his supervisors in an extended discussion about the ethics of what they were doing and offering the question whether they might personally prefer doing something better with their lives than preying on people who don't know anything about their computers. They were by that point denying that they had started the call by claiming to be Microsoft, and I was actually quite surprised at how long they were willing to talk with me once it became clear I actually knew what I was looking at and that I wasn't going to do whatever it was they wanted (which seemed to me most likely to be "purchase a useless 'security' product from them," although maybe it was something more malicious). I could only imagine that they were willing to talk so long because they wanted to avoid me reporting them to someone, but I'm not really sure, maybe the employees there are so clueless that they actually don't know they are being employed to scam people.

Chrome didn't come up on that call, though. Maybe they've now moved beyond a simple exe file to a Chrome extension or something, since that might set off alarm bells for fewer people.

Kschuler5-Jan-15 5:25

Kschuler

5-Jan-15 5:25

A friend of a friend got a call like that. Ended up doing what they said, downloaded some nasty thing, and they held all of his data ransom. Not sure if he paid or just lost all of his data, but it was bad.

Forogar 5-Jan-15 6:34

Forogar

5-Jan-15 6:34

I have had a couple of calls that starts with something like "Hello this is your tech support, there is a problem with your computer." At this point I say "Oh really? Which one?" ...and they hang up!

[edit] I think one of the callers actually said they were Microsoft.

- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.

MT_5-Jan-15 7:23

MT_

5-Jan-15 7:23

Microsoft actually sued few companies (including one Indian company) for exact this thing. Sad to see how few rogue elements are giving bad impression of the country..

Thanks,
Milind