Are you the Microsoft police?Quote:
Originally Posted by Clunk
Are you the Microsoft police?Quote:
Originally Posted by Clunk
You better believe it baby!!!!! ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by taslucas
I can hear the choppers coming over the hill!
Just get ready for the sidewinderQuote:
Originally Posted by taslucas
somthing like this?Quote:
Originally Posted by Clunk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TZOxlTwAvA
Wow that was intense!
i reckon. pretty sad and good at the same time heyQuote:
Originally Posted by taslucas
Half the cracks are useless anyway. Use a Windows loader program and you can install any version of Windows and still update it. Haven't tried it on Windows 8 yet.Quote:
Originally Posted by rusty_nail
not true. the crack i use is a clock stop which prevents windows activation clock from counting down and fools the computer into thinking its genuine. the only thing that will bring it unstuck is the "Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool" which does nothing but checks the activation clock and restarts it.Quote:
Originally Posted by mudski
using a windows loader program may be easy for you but not for someone who has no experience or interest in working those things out. also alot of those stupid updates do bugger all anyway, (i know they do fix bugs etc but i reckon at the end of the day they are microsofts way of fooling people into thinking "were supporting you and looking after you")
My boss has a plumbers crack and it's definitely useless for Windows7
I see where your coming from. TBH I haven't used stop clock cracks in a long time for the said reasons since I discovered Loader programs. They aren't hard to use at all too. Well the hardest bit is the destination drive has to be blank, no partition or drive letter assigned to it. So it needs to be totally blank like it was a brand new drive. All is done then is load on Widose, don't give a code when prompted, when you finished loading and your in Windows open up the loader program, choose what brand of PC you wish to have, HP, Asus, Dell etc and it loads and your done. You can update, the Malicious software tool doesn't see it etc etc. Its quite easy. The main reason I want the updates is I run two HTPC's on W7 Ultimate using Windows Media Centre program. They have done some good updates to this program and its quite good to use now,the UI is really nice.Quote:
Originally Posted by rusty_nail
For anyone else interested in what the loader program actually is. Its used in a similar fashion when you buy a branded laptop or desktop (e.g HP, Dell, Lenovo etc) and Windows in pre loaded. You have an OEM Version of Windows on there from the manufacturer. Basically the loader program does the same thing to your pc. I have a custom build gaming pc here and Windows thinks its an Acer PC. I could have chosen a better brand I think.
Lol! Now that I've said all that, you and I are probably the only people who would understand this jargon. Anyhow, the crack is probably the best option for Lucas but he has to be careful of not accidentally updating.
Cheers.
Yeah mate totally understand. With regards to your htpc setup, what do you use in media center? Or do you just use straight media center? I use media browser it's unreal been using it for years. Also what do you use to manage your media? I have 13tb worth of data to manage and I Like all my stuff to be named and displayed properly with artwork and metadata. Have you heard of media center master? Best program I have ever paid for (I've paid for very few to Lol)Quote:
Originally Posted by mudski
Before the reinstall I just used windows media player with a patch to help it read .mkv files. I was just going to do that again but im just wondering if there's a better program?
I don't watch a great deal off my laptop and I don't need pretty GUI's fancy functions or wanky library systems that are hell bent on making me go insane lol.
So just a simple player that can handle all file types will do me. I used to use VLC on my XP computer
yeah mate, use VLC player. it plays everything under the sun.
Yeah cool. Even my old version played heaps of file types.Quote:
Originally Posted by rusty_nail
Windows media centre came in with the new install. It looks like one of these though
Has anyone used it much?Quote:
Originally Posted by taslucas
I use the W7 Media Centre program, along with a 3rd party program called My Movies. When you open this program and you want to add a new movie, you simply type the name, language, country, type (DVD, BluRay etc etc) and it searches the IMDB for the title, covers and all the info and adds it to your Media Centre. My brother inlaw uses Media Browser. I have too but you know when you have used one thing for so long you get used to it? This is me with Media Centre. I'm used to it, the wife is, and the kids are. They all know how to navigate via a remote around the HTPC.Quote:
Originally Posted by rusty_nail
All my media mostly movies, (last count was 412 and mostly Bluray rips ranging from 6GB to mostly 13GB and some are 30GB), is on a 10TB network drive (5x 2TB and one spare which automatically kicks in and rebuild the array in one drive goes foobar) and then I have a little Dlink DNS323 dual drive NAS with 2 x 2TB green drives for my Torrents. Getting bloody full though, I have around 1.88TB of Torrents constantly online seeding 24/7, the Dlink cant take the 3TB drives so I have to start thinking about upgrading the Torrent NAS. All Windows based too. It's easy to navigate, and my whole family can use it so thats the way it will stay I reckon.
You are crazy mudski!
Sounds like I should be seeding off you!!!!! got an email the other day off my ISP saying they received notification that I have been breaching copyright and I was to stop immediately *L*Quote:
Originally Posted by mudski
Why? Anyone who does P2P would understand. Anyone who seeds as much as me put your hand up. I have an invite to the worlds largest private torrent site. Torrentleech. Just checked, since I joined i have uploaded 4.4TB and downloaded 2.07TB of content. If only I had a seed box and could upload at 100Mbit my uploads would be 100 fold.Quote:
Originally Posted by taslucas
Meh! Go with iiNet. I'm with them and have been for nearly 10 years. The owner was taken to court years back for apparently letting his customers use their ISP for P2P traffic, which he was. In a nutshell, took them to court, said prove it or eff off. They couldn't prove it. Something along the lines of that.Quote:
Originally Posted by NissanGQ4.2
Anyhow, I use around 120Gb per month just in uploading, and iiNet won't be sending any letters of that kind anytime soon.
That maybe the case but they'll be being watched very closely...... I also used to be an iiNet customer for many years from when they first started up, until they became big and started forgetting about their wa customersQuote:
Originally Posted by mudski
Funny that. iiNet are originally from Perth too...They all get big but they are still good and reliable. Much better than Hell$tra whom I was with prior. Every month the bill would come in and it was wrong, so I had to spend hours each time on the phone trying to learn a different language and I still got no where.Quote:
Originally Posted by Clunk
Time to use a peer blocker mate....Quote:
Originally Posted by NissanGQ4.2
Not sad at all. They got what they deserved...Quote:
Originally Posted by rusty_nail
sorry mate you've lost me there?Quote:
Originally Posted by NP99
Looks like an MC quoting error to meQuote:
Originally Posted by rusty_nail
yep i think so lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Clunk
Funny you should say that because I actually switched to the darkside and have had no issues at all with them. It's now been 2 years and service has actually been very good so far. iiNet's service on the other hand went from good to non existent, internet and phone kept dropping out and they just did nothing about it, had VoIP but quality was bloody awful.......... Now I have a fully working internet and phone that works, download speeds are faster because I've not had any issues, I've not had the pleasure of having to deal with their customer service teamQuote:
Originally Posted by mudski
Every time I look at a post from np99 on MC it says his post is date back in the 1970's. Only his post do it. Weird.
As skyhooks sang....,,,I'm living in the 70s :)Quote:
Originally Posted by mudski
His posts have worked for me. Dates, quotes etc all good.Quote:
Originally Posted by mudski
Bit every time I click on a pm notification it takes me to the same pm I got weeks back
OK wise gurus..... I have installed VLC and just been having a play. Just a quick question: I have the laptop sound turned up, and the VLC sound turned up but its still really quiet. Is there anything else that can be done? Is it more likely how its been downloaded?
keeping in mind that i havent put any drivers back on since the install.
My laptop is usually quieter than than others though.
I think I remember you saying your lapto was the same as mine. I use VLC and it's plenty loud enough, but if you scroll by using 2 fingers on the touch pad you can boost the volume to something like 400%
yeah its always been fairly quiet. i thought there may be some hidden setting deep down that i have missed.
i'll give the two finger stroke a go......
Yeah just a little different to what we practice last time. Don't gotta caress it so much.
Couldnt get it any louder. Using 2 fingers on the pad did nothing.
yes thats correct, thats because you havent installed the utility for the trackpad. its really important you go through and install all the important drivers and utilities. the important ones are(and i remember you downloaded a ton so look out for these):Quote:
Originally Posted by taslucas
chipset driver, audio driver, trackpad/mouse/touchpad driver, graphics driver, bluetooth driver, WIFI driver, webcam driver, cardreader driver, LAN driver, USB 3.0 driver(if your comp has USB 3.0)
windows only comes with a set of generic drivers which work OK with most devices but not good with all of them which is probably why you are getting sound but only quiet sound. so its really important you apply all those drivers to your computer.
now one thing to note, you did say you downloaded a ton of drivers, i suggest you go back and re-download the drivers i have mentioned above, keep them seperate from the other ones and install those. you need to be aware that when you are picking drivers there will probably be several versions(win XP, Win 7, Win 8, ETC) make sure you only download the version that is relevant to you.
just text me if you have any problems mate.
Yeah cool, I figured that it was working so I didnt need to install drivers but yep it makes sense that Windows comes with generic ones.
The drivers I downloaded were all from the HP site and specifically for my laptop running windows 7. So they should be right?
nope lol, cos there would have been 2 types of drivers, one for x64 and one for x86 (64 and 32 bit) sorry to be a pain. think of the windows drivers as the tigerz11 of the computer world hahahaQuote:
Originally Posted by taslucas
When I went onto the HP site I entered the product id, serial number etc of my laptop so it knew exactly what drivers were compatible to my system. (Windows version, processor, etc etc).
But it's no drama to get the drivers you suggested above so I'll just do that. Do you have a preferred site?
I keep getting confused and/or forgetting if I'm x64 or x86. Im pretty sure im x64.
How do I find out if I've got USB 3?
see pics for how to work out if x64 or x86. as for USB 3.0, the (inside) of the USB port is usually blue instead of black or white.Quote:
Originally Posted by taslucas
as for where to get the drivers, it definately has to come from the HP site, or there may be spyware contained in "aftermarket" drivers.