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I know... I found a collection of old MSDN Magazines... a big % of the links were broken, luckily for me, tiping the "correct" link manually still found most of them, but there are issues where no example to be found (at least all my tries were unsuccessful)

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I have only seen that happen with apps that will only run on phones, for example. What are you trying to download?

Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.

Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.

I wanted to donwload Movie Maker 2012 (included in Microsoft Essentials), but the almost 1 hour I tried to find it only came out with it was deleted and sorted out in 2017 (I lastly installed it in 2016).

Then I wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt and give a try to MovieMaker 10 (its new option). There is when I got that.

Now I say... screw you, MS

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You can use Blender to do video editing, if you want. It is free. Beginner Video Editing Tutorial Using Blender 2.8

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Looks a bit overengineered for what I want, I don't need fancy things, just want to cut and save as...

But seeing the other things I am finding... I'll give it a try. Thank you

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Shotcut[^] looks a bit complicated, but it's dead easy to use.

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Thank you for tip... I'll check it

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Nelek wrote:
just want to cut and save as...

AviDemux? Despite the name, it supports more than just .AVI files.

There's a slider control - set point A and point B, make sure Audio and Video are set to Copy (so it doesn't re-encode anything), Save. That should get you there.

It can do a lot more (add all sorts of filters, for example) but just for simple trimming purposes, I haven't found anything more straightforward.

I thought they put a watermark in the free version

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I've never seen an AviDemux watermark in the years I've been using it. Besides, that would only be possible when re-encoding video, not when making a straight copy.

Then I am surely mixing names.... I have tested one, that did the waternmark when cutting (I suppose he reencoded, because it was pretty slow)

I'll give a try. Thank you.

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Forget it... I confused again... too much testing different things.

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That's actually one of the reasons why mickeysoft can like me edgewise.

I don't want to marry them.
I don't want to join their happy family.
I don't want to join a cult.
And I also got drafted twice (the first and the last time), got an honorable discharge, so that's also done.

I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.

His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.

I have been really wanting to give them a try with Windows 10 and so on (and I don't want to start changing all PCs of the family / relatives to Linux, since I am the techie here).

But this and the force register / log in with new installations of 1909... they are really pissing me off.

I am really starting to think it will be easier to get a Linux OS for "safety needed surfing" (mail, banking and bit more) things and one or two VM with Win 7. One for offline things with "must be windows" software, and the other for the rest that get automatically deleted and new copied every few days.

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Very much what I am doing. Windows 7 will be my last Windows.

I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.

His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.

I really wanted to give them a try because of my own convenience / laziness... but they are really trying hard to piss me off and bring me to the "f*** you forever" limit.

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I'm no Linux expert, but it's reached a point where I'm comfortable enough to have set up a laptop with Kubuntu for my dad to use - he primarily sticks to a browser and printing, so the underlying OS is rather irrelevant to him. Fortunately getting my antique LaserJet 4350 to work with it turned out to be easier than on Windows.

If my dad was a more sophisticated computer user I'd hesitate (I have an easier time troubleshooting Windows than Linux, based purely on past experience), but given his needs, as long as what's currently installed stays up, we're both happy.

His only need for Windows is to reprogram remote car starter modules - he installs them on the side, and every car needs to have a module's firmware flashed for that specific make/model/year/etc, and the software to do that is Windows only...but for his ordinary uses - I'm happy to have him on Linux.

dandy72 wrote:
His only need for Windows is to reprogram remote car starter modules - he installs them on the side, and every car needs to have a module's firmware flashed for that specific make/model/year/etc, and the software to do that is Windows only...but for his ordinary uses - I'm happy to have him on Linux.

In case of my wife, is for some pic albums software.
In case of my parent-in-law is music notes software.
In case of my mother-in-law... nothing.

For that, I give them a VM for online and another one for offline... problem solved.

I just need to find time and the mood to start with (and stop procastinating, but in this I have MS's help)

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My rule of thumb for everything I obtain from the internet is that
1. if they ask me for registration, and I wouldn't want to register otherwise (for whatever reason), find an alternative
2. if they ask me for any data they have no credible reason to ask for, find an alternative
3. if they ask me to read through legalize that takes a degree and more than 5 minutes* to skim over, ... guess what Thumbs Down | :thumbsdown:

*depending on formatting/readability, vocabulary, and use of standard clauses.

GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)

I own MS account since a while, I have logged into it and still not possible... the computer is a local win7.
So no, I am not explicitelly install win10 just to install this software (they don't allow offline installer)

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Nelek wrote:
So no, I am not explicitelly install win10 just to install this software (they don't allow offline installer)

To me that's a non-starter. No offline installer, no installation.

Stefan_Lang wrote:
2. if they ask me for any data they have no credible reason to ask for, find an alternative

You must have a very short list of Android apps on your phone/tablet. Smile | :)

(seriously...flashlight apps that want your contacts list, photos, call history...?)

dandy72 wrote:
You must have a very short list of Android apps on your phone/tablet

Indeed. I've dumped half of the preinstalled ones and only added a handful of apps that I really need:
- a news app
- a timetable app for commuting
- a music player that just uses tracks in a given folder
- tor browser
- kindle reader
- 3 authenticator apps for two-factor authorizations

That's all. No social media, no games. I have good PCs at home and at work, so why bother with mobile data suckers?

GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)

I don't play games on phones/tablets, so those are out. There's a lot of crap (games, some Facebook client are the worse offenders) that came bundled with some of my tablets but can't remove unless I can root it (someone here has pointed me to some package to do that a few days ago, but I haven't had much of a chance to tinker with it yet).

But these days, even my newest tablet (Android 6), after a factory reset is flaky as hell (very slow, like there's some background process tying up the CPU), apps that stop responding, random reboots. I'd love to say I'm done with Android, but I'm no fan of that fruity company.

long ago created a fake ms account (hotmail at the time) and another fake account on mail.com to verify and link to each other. (also fartbook linked to one of these.)
never added to my email client, web access only - once done logout, clear cache, cookies, exit.

comes in handy for registering/downloading visual studio etc
.... log in, download files, updates, licence, log out
... always from VMs that I only allow internet access to on those such occasions.
... don't even bother looking at the emails or facebook unless they want a "verify" code.

these days I notice for new accounts they want a lot more information, even real info
- apparently impossible to create fartbook account without a phone #, back then an email was enough.

I find it useful to [fake] register for new things before registration gets too tight,
(linked to another junk email for any "verify" messages.) - you never know later on if useful.
I keep the info (site, name, pw) in a plain text file (- not my important ones).

some stop working (some long gone), don't care, once in a blue moon some prove useful.

after many otherwise intelligent sounding suggestions that achieved nothing the nice folks at Technet said the only solution was to low level format my hard disk then reinstall my signature. Sadly, this still didn't fix the issue!

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