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Check for bogus entries in your hosts fine and check for misconfigured DNS. (One of their games is to point your DNS to something they control.)
 
Jimmy Higgins said:
DBT said:
Switch to Linux Mint....there is no comparison to Microsoft Windows products. Miles ahead.
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Person A: I need help for my Toyota Camry. My AC isn't working well right now. At first it would work at the first setting, but I kept losing options and now it'll only blow at the highest setting.
Person B: You should get a Ford Fusion.
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The comparison is more like between the top of the range luxury German Limousine and broken down twenty year old bush hack Toyota that was used by a cattle farmer to muster his wayward stock through the rocky hills of outback Australia...
 
bilby said:
ZiprHead said:
DBT said:
Switch to Linux Mint....there is no comparison to Microsoft Windows products. Miles ahead.
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Always someone...
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He's right though.

Mint (like most Linux distros) is free, and if you want to keep Windows, you can install both at once, and choose which to use each time you boot.

Personally I use Red Hat, which is not free, but my boss pays for it. I also have an ancient PC that is running Lubuntu, which basically only gets used as a network print server.

The risk of malware is dramatically lower in Linux than in Windows. And most modern distros are as easy to use as Windows 7 (and IMO dramatically easier than any more recent version of Windows).

Mint is very comfortable for users who are familiar with Win7.
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Yes Indeed. Free to install and as a bonus not having to pay for anti-virus software, malwarebytes, etc, smooth running with little risk of recurring problems as mentioned in the OP.
 
Most of my computer time is spent on a desktop running Linux Mint. It works like any other OS. I got on to around the time Microsoft pulled the plug on Windows XP, but not because of it. Some years earlier, a laptop I bought came with Windows 7. A bit nannyish, I though. A cat killed that one. Though he was neutered he sprayed everywhere... Next laptop came with Win 8. What a fucking design failure from a usability point of view. And it was even more nannyish. 8.1 was only a marginal improvement, so I installed Linux on my desktop for a test drive. Quite good, really.

The biggest downside is connecting peripherals. This is where Microsoft, and Apple I guess, have it all over Linux: Connect device. Load and run program. Click finish. That's it. With Linux you must open a command line terminal and tell the system exactly what to do. For example, I bought a NAS device from Western Digital, plugged it into aswitch, clicked on a program, clicked "Run". Clicked "Finish". Job done. Laptop saw the device and everything I put in it. Icould do with the files whatever I wanted.

Linux saw nothing. I WD does not support Linux for this device, which is a bit weird because the NAS runs entirely on some flavour of it. So off I go into Googleland. After a few hours I found the solution. It was presented in an eight minute Youtube clip. Following it took half an hour, or so and involved writing two files using a plain text editor and issuing some arcane (to me) commands in the terminal. What took me five minutes to do with MS Windows consumed maybe five hours with Linux.

I've given up on trying to install an old video capture card in the Linux box. It obviously won't fit into the laptop, and besides, there are no driver updates for that system. So I sorted through old computer components that gathered dust in the shed, bought a new power supply, hard disk, upgraded the RAM and installed Windows XP SP3 on it. Slotted in the video capture card, ran installation program - p&p for the win. No such thing in Linux.

Oh yeah, two attempts at connecting my networked printer to the Linux box also failed. One day... On my MS computers it took five minutes for each.
 
I have had no such problems because of no need to install old video capture cards, etc, in Linux....but of course Linux may not suit all users. My problem with Linux being that I cannot use software that I need for a certain task in Linux so I use an old laptop with WinXP just for that application. But for general use, banking, sharemarket trades, email, Internet surfing, forums, etc, you can't beat Linux as an OS.
 
Spent the day copying my personal files to another computer on my network which took forever since my computer was slowing to a crawl. Reinstalled windows 7 which was actually long overdue. Running much better now so far. Still a lot of SW to reinstall. but getting there.
 
ZiprHead said:
Spent the day copying my personal files to another computer on my network which took forever since my computer was slowing to a crawl. Reinstalled windows 7 which was actually long overdue. Running much better now so far. Still a lot of SW to reinstall. but getting there.
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You may want to learn to back up the whole system. Something like Symantec Ghost Solution Suite or some such and a USB external hard disk. Save your working system, and if you need a reinstall, just copy your known working saved system over to a newly formatted system. I just spent $42.99 for a new Toshiba 2.5" 500 GB hard disk and an USB enclosure is $10.00. Back up your home directory from time to time, also. Google for Windows backup software for more info as to what is available. Since I don't run Windows, I don't know what is good and cheap. You may want to look for something free and easy to use. It will be a lot faster and easier then the old Windows reinstall waltz. And will be a great help later when you are faced with the croaked hard disk syndrome we all dread.
 
ZiprHead said:
Hermit said:
Clear your web browser's cache, cookies, and history.

In my experience this takes care of a surprising number of problems. I don't know how or why it does. It just does, and that's what matters.
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I did that a couple days ago with ccleaner but I tried it again directly from the browser and still no joy. But thanks for the tip anyway.

It's funny, a page will start to load then stop with the little circle continuously spinning. I click stop then refresh and it immediately pops up.
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If you keep your cursor in motion with the mouse does it load faster?
 
You Windows users might also want to know about this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Preinstallation_Environment

Windows Preinstallation Environment (also known as Windows PE and WinPE) is a lightweight version of Windows used for the deployment of PCs, workstations, and servers, or troubleshooting an operating system while it is offline. It is intended to replace MS-DOS boot disks and can be booted via USB flash drive, PXE, iPXE,[1] CD-ROM, or hard disk. Traditionally used by large corporations and OEMs (to preinstall Windows client operating systems on PCs during manufacturing), it is now widely available free of charge via Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK).

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Boot this from a USB flash drive to save files from a crippled or borked system.
 
Cheerful Charlie said:
ZiprHead said:
Spent the day copying my personal files to another computer on my network which took forever since my computer was slowing to a crawl. Reinstalled windows 7 which was actually long overdue. Running much better now so far. Still a lot of SW to reinstall. but getting there.
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You may want to learn to back up the whole system. Something like Symantec Ghost Solution Suite or some such and a USB external hard disk. Save your working system, and if you need a reinstall, just copy your known working saved system over to a newly formatted system. I just spent $42.99 for a new Toshiba 2.5" 500 GB hard disk and an USB enclosure is $10.00. Back up your home directory from time to time, also. Google for Windows backup software for more info as to what is available. Since I don't run Windows, I don't know what is good and cheap. You may want to look for something free and easy to use. It will be a lot faster and easier then the old Windows reinstall waltz. And will be a great help later when you are faced with the croaked hard disk syndrome we all dread.
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That's a good idea. I've got a 250 G Seagate USB drive around here somewhere. The drive in the laptop is 250 so the Seagate should be more than adequate. Still got SW to install.

Had a time trying to get it to join the network homegroup. Finally realized the original computer the homegroup was created on was no longer in the group so I had to recreate from scratch on all the computers.

As far as backup, I've got a RAID network drive with two 1 T drives but never connected it to the laptop. I got if for my wife. She's an accountant and wanted backup storage for her files. I'll have to see about doing that.
 
Fuck me. Re-installed office and just realized I forgot to save my .pst file. Fuck! :boom:
 
Val said:
Your PST should be in your user documents folder. No? Unless it's been clobbered.
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PST files are not kept in the documents folder. Microsoft Outlook PST file is located at: “C:\Users\ \AppData\Local\MicrosoftOutlook.
 
Welp, looks like I need a new router. The slow/incomplete page loads on TFT keep coming back. I've done a full reset several times. updated the firmware and the problem keeps returning on all my computers. Running directly from the cable modem works flawlessly.

I've got a service ticket in with DLink but I have little hope. They are discontinuing support for this model next month due to its age, but we shall see.
 
I've now got a nice, shiny new Netgear AC1000 router. Everything is now running smoothly.
 
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