Recent content by idgat

Plenty of better freeware 3rd party video editing options out there, anyway.

Absolutely. Did for Win 7 ... and been doing it ever since (8/10/11) My analogy was that in earlier versions (7/8, maybe for 10 (juries still out on that one) Windows was like a puppy in the park, it loved to leave its mark on any available space (also one of the reasons for no extra drives...

Probably both false positives - those antimalware programs are probably just doing what they're supposed to do, with the use of heuristics : identifying something that is designed to access the system However, all signs of sloppily written software - antimalware not design to exclude genuine...

The "deviositiness" of Microsoft ... most users are unaware that if there is any login to a MS account, any where on the computer, Windows will permeate that logon to all another MS products, unless there is some user intervention Masters of the bluff, most users don't realise you don't have to...

Are you logged in as an Administrator? Are you sure you haven't unknowingly installed a demo/trial-type VPN bundled with some other software installed??

There is no VPN service shown to be on/working???? The advanced setting options are meaningless. Why not just turn the sliders off, anyway??

The old Solitaire from Windows 7. 2 files (sol.exe and cards.dll), no installation. EDIT OMG! This is getting embarrassing ... everytime I look, Ooh, that's another old program I still use ... ACDSee12 Polyview 4.22 A.F.5 Rename

That would suggest a flawed creation, for whatever reason. Go Rufus.

Not necessarily. Multiple 3rd party options work just as well, some as simple as Rufus, others using programming options

I'm not quite sure I can make any sense of what you're trying to do and/or describe, but .... (EDIT Apart from the fact that it may be a faulty USB or incorrectly created. Are you booting from the USB or running it from within the existing installation? EDIT) Have you tried Rufus? I do ALL my...

Every time I read some of the posts in a thread such as this, I'm frequently reminded of the old adage ... something about poor workman ... blame .. tools??

Too many users take too much notice of EV. It's an overly-sensitive little possum that records, not necessarily false positives but every little twitch, hiccup and burp in the OS. I find it amazing that, under the guise of "protecting" the user, Microsoft hides such things as file name...

Nothing new here, It probably did happen before, but only for certain icons/programs (i.e. ones you haven't bothered with previously) I've come across this with several components from Windows Tools System. My preferred solution : Pin to Taskbar > then on Taskbar icon, Pin to Start menu >...

Asked and answered ... it's OneDrive, after all

Absolutely not! Snake-oil alarms bells. If a system needs something like this to improve performance, then maybe the user should be looking elsewhere for a more permanent solution.