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Don't get me started on all the stupid, unnecessary hoops MS make you jump through to achieve a clean Windows 8.1 install. That said, if you check out the MyDigitalLife forums, they have links to the MSDN/Technet Win8.1 ISOs there (or at least the leaked Wzor/WZT ISOs which are bit-for-bit...

Backlight bleed in the bottom left-hand corner seems to be a known problem with the P2414H - no doubt some are worse than others, but I ordered and returned three (from different suppliers) before I gave up on the model as a bad job.

I don't know... Windows might still be leaving data in temporary files on the system partition, and although the risk might be pretty small, if the entire drive is encrypted at least you can be sure you've got everything. I don't bother encrypting my home PC, but my laptop is encrypted with...

I'm not sure what that link to a software vendor is supposed to prove, and the fact that strong encryption available to consumers is "well-documented" doesn't make it any easier to break. If the cryptography is done correctly both with regard to the algorithms used and the way they're...

"citation needed"

To be fair, Dropbox employees can access your data if they deem they have sufficient reason to do so, and if you dare use SkyDrive to send your sister a picture of your kids playing in the bath, or a snapshot of a Botticelli nude you took at the British Museum, you risk having your entire...

My thoughts are that it's not very polite to post referral links, unless you clearly state what you're doing and give reasons beforehand.

Wuala also does client-side encryption, but if you're after a pure backup (as opposed to syncing) solution, I'd agree with the Crashplan recommendation (or maybe Backblaze as an alternative).

An 8-hour audio file in uncompressed PCM format (1411kbps) would be nearly five gigabytes in size (may or may not be a problem, depends what he wants to do with it), and lossy>lossy transcoding is never a good idea, regardless of the output setting. He *might* not be able to hear an audible...

errmmm... yes it does, and it has done since 1973. It just declined to adopt the Euro as its currency when many of the other partner nations did in 1999.

More a case of an arrogant American company thinking it can do whatever the fuck it likes anywhere in the world, with no repercussions coming its way. Even if Apple technically complied with the order in the first part of their statement, the UK judiciary correctly adjudged that the remainder...

You could also download the Windows 7 Enterprise trial, which you can use for an initial 90 days, and then you can rearm it up to 5 times, giving you 540 days in all (600 days if you also use the full 10-day grace period each time). I'm not saying you *should* do this (unless you only intend to...

Unless I've completely misunderstood, that's *not* what he's trying to do, which makes the rest of your post a waste of everyone's time. All he wants to do is find a convenient way of launching program setups without using the physical discs - he seemed to be under the impression earlier that...

It's always worked for me, although I can't say with complete certainty that it will always work in absolutely every instance for every single program - for example, maybe some particular apps require the installation CD or DVD to be physically inserted for copy protection purposes. Still, if...

If you're dead set against using ISOs (seems completely illogical to me but, hey, whatever), why not just copy the installation folders to a location on your HDD and leave them as they are, without compressing them into a single SFX? That way you could just run each setup.exe as required without...

I believe it's precisely relevant. Anyone who's ever lost a child will be able to confirm that the pain suffered by this guy's victims as a result of his actions would certainly be no less than the pain you'd suffer, if I were to break your nose purely so that I could laugh at the sight of blood...

So should I have the freedom to "offend" you by walking up to you and punching you in the face? If not, why not? This twat wasn't trying to argue some philosophical, religious or scientific point, he was deliberately and systematically setting out with the *sole purpose* of inflicting further...

Yup... I bought/returned four LP2475Ws, bought at different times from different suppliers, and they all had exactly the same problem. It's amazing the problem is apparently still there and hasn't been rectified, nearly three years later. I guess some people are just more sensitive to it than...

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Take a look at FreeFileSync - loads of features, very fast and completely reliable in my experience, which is more than can be said of MS SyncToy for example. You can create batch jobs to be run by the Windows task scheduler, and it also includes the RealtimeSync component which...

If you'd explain what exactly is ticking you off about Live Mail, people might be able to offer suggestions which would suit your preferences, rather than simply reeling off the names of email clients at random...

I don't know anything about TuneCore, but if the source material is lossy compressed MP3, what's the point of transcoding to WAV for uploading purposes? Will it be re-encoded back to MP3 or Apple AAC for downloaders, so they'll suffer second-generation lossy encoding, or will the downloaders be...

I think most people would prefer a clear notification when their PC has been compromised, hopefully it shouldn't be an everyday occurrence. To be honest I think you have more important things to worry about... no AV is 100% foolproof, and if you're constantly being alerted to the point where...

The speed of the drive is mostly irrelevant - the encryption/decryption operations are performed by the CPU. As far as the drive is concerned, it's just a series of bits to be written or read, it doesn't care whether the data is encrypted or not. With the rig in your signature, I reckon any...

Firefox uses an SQLite database for both history and bookmarks (has done since v3) - there probably won't be a "bookmarks.html" file unless you specifically created it by exporting from the bookmarks manager. The good news is that it automatically creates several generations of bookmark...

It's funny, I haven't (until now) felt any need to add any member here to my ignore list, and I didn't know how to do it. I googled for "hardforum add user ignore list", and the first hit that came up was "User CP->Edit Ignore List->Add a Member to your Ignore List... [Oled] Ok Save Changes...

I'm in the UK and I wouldn't touch one of these things with a ten-foot bargepole. Take a look into Hazro's track record of dealing with aftercare issues, as well as the complaints about their current offerings. Overseas buyers who aren't covered by local consumer protection laws would have to...

I'm a bit reluctant to jump into the TN vs IPS "debate", but this isn't the first time this issue has arisen in relation to an LG monitor - it turns out there were actually two very similar models sharing the same casing, one with a TN panel and one with IPS. W2600H-PF = TN W2600HP-BF = IPS I...

If you check out the OcUK forums, it seems the QC for the first batch of 27" monitors (finally being supplied after weeks of delay) is little short of disastrous. Personally I have zero confidence in Hazro as a company, and I wouldn't touch one of their products with a ten-foot bargepole. YMMV. :)

That's not what Microsoft suggests:

I used to have a Gyration media center remote with the built-in mouse pointer (which works very well incidentally). The "down" arrow button eventually stopped working, and I replaced it with a cheapo Emprex 3009URF, which is nowhere near as flashy but does the job just fine if you don't need the...

From what I've read at AVS Forum, it seems all current Panasonic TVs will subsample a 4:4:4 chroma signal on the HDMI inputs, so text and fine detail are unlikely to be satisfactory even if they'll do 1:1 pixel mapping without over/underscan (it also seems they won't go any higher than 1366x768...

OpenOffice doesn't actually need Java to run, unless you want/need to use the database component or some (mostly useless) functionality in the other components: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Java_and_OpenOffice.org I don't think Java is anything to be afraid of these days anyway, if...

Keepass is great for a single use PC or to carry around on a USB stick, but for use in multiple PCs across different locations LastPass is also worth checking out. They've also just taken over development of the Xmarks cross-browser/cross-platform bookmark syncing utility, so I guess at some...

I'd definitely go with Windows Live 2011, especially if he's uploading and sharing them - the integration with Mail and Skydrive should make life much easier, although there's still an unavoidable learning curve of course.

SMPlayer is in the Ubuntu repos (can't speak for the other distros, but I'd be surprised if it wasn't there)... :confused: .... in SMplayer, just go into Options > Preferences > Video and select VDPAU as the output driver, you'll get hardware acceleration. Not much use for ATI users...

Agree with the above - I can't tell you how much time I wasted looking for a TV that would perform well as a monitor (or alternatively a large monitor that would perform well as a TV). In the end I just had to accept that they're optimised for different purposes, and the very things that make a...

Did you remember to enable legacy USB support in the BIOS?

The trouble is, if there's much horizontal gamma shift (common in *VA panels), it can be visible even if you're sat perfectly still squarely in front of the monitor, because you'll always be viewing the sides of the screen at an angle relative to the center. It's not so much an issue for gaming...

Hello Mr. Hazro, :) You have a track record of abysmal customer support (check out the user forums of OcUK, your only UK distributor), and when your products have failed within their warranty period you have a well-documented history of ignoring both webnotes and emails (apparently the only...