Oddly enough, fullscreen still works on my parents´ puter and they have almost the same stuff as me. I now have the same youtube player as them except for fullscreen. Some update must have taken place and screwed that up.


Cookies are deleted every time I exit the browser.

That can usually happen. I wish I can help further but I'm not that familiar with IE.

Yes, thank the Nine for them !!!!

So, been having a slight issue from time to time with my wifi lately. Nothing major, just the occasional difficulty connecting, I figure something's just being awkward. Until I noticed that there was an extra device connected to my wifi. So I changed my password, but whatever it was was still connecting. Went poking around and found no info on it apart from a MAC address, which I've blocked.

Can't help wondering if the two were connected. If not, there must be something up with my wifi.

Update: Found a site where I could look up MAC addresses, and it seems it was someone's Sky box that was connecting. Though that doesn't answer the question of how it reconnected only a few minutes after I changed my password...

This post has been edited by Callidus Thorn: Jan 22 2017, 12:24 AM

I had to do a factory restore on my computer. This is the second time under Windows 10 I had to do this, so now I get to enjoy Windows 7 again, which doesn't bother me I hardly had any issues with it.

Yay for Win7!


Glad to have you back on the team, Reaper! Too bad you had to do a factory restart though. Again

Thanks---I don't know what happen with Win 10 but all my programs and files became corrupted and unusable.

This one is very pleased with Win7.

This one remains perfectly happy with Win 7. I dread the day when I feel myself forced to make the jump. In my favor, I have a SSD devoted solely to my Operating System. As far as is humanly possible I try to keep all else off that drive. (My primary machine contains three SSDs (one a low capacity first gen relic) and two hard drives.) Should my OS go bonkers, only info on its SSD will be trashed. That's my hope at least. Course stuff like my Oblivion saves might be lost, but those tend to be backed up DVD. At worst I'm apt to lose a few months of play. Which reminds me I now have enough Oblivion save files to fill another DVD. Gonna have to get on that.

I have to say, Win10 (professional) has been solid for me. Been running it since early November with zero issues. Pleasantly surprised.

Yes, my current puter was built last summer - with Win10. No problems.

Win 10 is definitely better than Win 8, but I still prefer Win 7 over either. The Pro versions are likewise preferred to the "home" or whatever they're calling the lesser ones.

My laptop, ordered with Win 7 Pro, arrived win with Win 8 home, and was almost useless that way. Win 10 at least lets it play Morrowind, but I still hate the general interface, and having to spend so much time turning off the "helpful" features that aren't.

Geez, if Microsoft would send me free games, I'd be happy about it,


(just kidding)






This post has been edited by mALX: Feb 26 2017, 12:26 AM

I'm sure all here know of this, but just in case....

WannaCry Ransomware

Is apparently making the rounds big-time.

My primary PC should be safe, assuming folk are correct that having all Windows Updates installed patches the vulnerability. Gonna power down soon as I'm done posting this (it can spread to all machines on a network) and check my Win10 secondary computer.

Better safe than sorry I reckon.

Welp.


I guess my outmost important files are backed up; game saves. I also have photos on two computers but I still need to get an external harddrive!

As cheap as external hard drives are, there is really no excuse not to have one. I have two "Passports," the smallest is 400 gig - bought that one almost a decade ago. Since then the price of them has dropped by more than half and the size of hard drive memory they hold has increased exponentially. Get one, you will never be sorry.

Now, how do you configure your firewall to block any incoming access/code?

Looks like I'll be updating like crazy when I get home!

Best thing I could do now was copy the most important stuff to my two flashdrives, mostly pictures. In order to do that though I had to delete many backup saves from Oblivion, Morrowind and Fallout 3. But I kept the very first saves as well as the most recent ones. The ones in the middle really don't matter much to me, it's the very first ones and most recent I really care about.

I also copied some texts, mods etc because I had space left over but other than that I don't have much that needs being backed up.