Recent content by shmu

turns out that this is not exactly true. I tried out utorrent again, but this time with a more active torrent. It seeds at speeds of over 200kb, but when I run the "tests", it still says that a port is closed. I think they just want to sell me their very expensive software that will "fix" the...

"There is a possibility that Farbar's Mini Toolbox may fix the issue. " it did. thanks!!

it just sort of occurred to me as an afterthought, as I don't care so much about utorrent. I am okay with Tixati. but I would like my PCs to talk nicely to each other...

right, I tried leaving on both PCs, it just made matters worse. I don't know if this is related or not, but utorrent has a problem with finding an open port. It can leech but not seed. however, Tixati (another torrent client) can do both.

I got a new router-modem from my ISP. I used to have netgear, now I have D-link 2 PCs on homegroup. both are 8.1 pro, 64 bit. the laptop can access the desktop, but the desktop only sees the laptop, it can't access it. then I left homegroup from both PCs. Now I can't join homegroup at all, no...

right you are. but it is all greyed out:

see lower right corner

the option is greyed out and it says it was turned off in group policy. how to turn it back on?

I created some virtual machines with VMWare Workstation 11 but they play only on a host with Workstation installed, i.e., they won't play if only the free Player is installed on host. Even though it is a current version of Player. Can I convert these machines so they will play on a host that...

yes, things have changed a lot since windows 8 was in the preview edition. microsoft israel got a lot of complaints, and eventually had to give people back what they were used to.

I gave permissions to a certain web app to access my onedrive. how do I revoke permission? FOUND IT: https://account.live.com/consent/Manage

thanks. so what's all this business about shrinking partitions? It turns out you don't really have to do that, after all?

thanks. that was kind of easy!

If I make a shortcut, or drag a file to desktop, it doesn't display. but I can see it in the desktop folder. what's up with that?

Is the following correct? EaseUS Customer Service Department 3:41 AM (10 hours ago) Reply to me Hi Shmu, Thanks for contacting us. For your issue, if the data on this partition less than 120GB, you can copy it to 120GB disk without any issue, and you don't need...