Recent content by jigglywiggly

so I was downloading the updates to windows 8.1, but it wasn't going anywhere so I rebooted. Then on reboot, I try again and it's not showing up on the store. I hit the back button a few times and saw the link again, but it says it's already installed. Now I am pretty sure it didn't get...

Gothca, that's kind of anoyying to remove a usb drive nonstop. Still, if I just left the usb drive plugged in all the time, would I be protected if you tried to load up windows on another drive? Like would it ask for my bitlocker recovery key, or just straight read it from the usb drive w/o...

But how does a usb key differ from the tpm module? I mean, you can't remove the tpm module. Unless it's a combo of tpm module + bios password, does the usb key have hardware recognition for the motherboard or something?

So I use bitlocker on my laptop. It works fine, but it doesn't have a tpm module, so I just leave a mini usb in one of the usb ports. It works fine, but I am confused about the security. So, I understand that if someone installs windows on another drive on the laptop(say usb), and then they...

Thx, I may use it as a last resort though. I mean I just went back to windows 7 because of UAC for now. But on my laptops I have win8 on them.

I haven't gotten a virus in several years. On any OS. I don't think I've gotten a virus since I was 12. With or without AV. People who get viruses probably shouldn't even be using a computer in the first place. I realize there are unavoidable circumstances if a case where a website gets...

?? Steam doesn't care about Windows. They are on every platform, and it's up to the game designers how they want to implement their configurable files. About Linux I never said I logged in as root I said I just elevate my current account as root and leave it there till I log out. Who wants to...

Yeah except the first thing I do is login to the root account from my current user and leave it that way. E.g steam games, I want to play with my ini files constantly. Or when I install programs like openvpn, like I have to right click the application and hit run as administrator or I have to...

How do you guys even manage to live with UAC though? Like if you have a mapped network drive say Z:\ And if you try to copy a file from Z:\ to C:\ anywhere in it, it won't let you. If you want to make a new text document in your program files quickly, you can't w/o copying to your desktop...

Yeah but, I don't really want to use total commander that much. I mean in windows 7 when you disable UAC completely, everything works perfectly. I also hate having to right click some programs and having to elevate their permisisons. This is almost as anoyying as typing sudo for everything I...

That's kind of a hack though, like avoiding the problem. Is there a pure fix?

Is there a way to do this easily without disabling uac completely in the registry since that breaks metro apps? Basically I want to edit files freely in program files and anywhere. I can't just right click it and hit properties -> security -> users and change them, it's locked any ideas?

Wow, thanks for that. Will try it now :3 EDIT: Aw, that can't work for me, because hamachi is not my primary interface. And if I did that, I'd get disconnected from the machine. I am actually not sure if the hamachi interface being public is the problem. Though the windows 7 machine next to...

So I have a computer that I remote desktoped through neorouter(private) I cannot remote desktop to it through the hamachi interface. It's set to public, but I can ping the machine and even browse the files. However, it does not accept incoming connections. I want to set it to private, except...

yeah this is driving me insayan What were they thinking? You have to move files out of your program files folder to edit them. Then if you just want to edit files directly, well guess what? You can't unless you right click and hit open with administrator. But what if it is a text file? That's...