nukecad
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Searching my registry finds loads of entries for 'office'.
Most seem to be associated with 'Onenote', the 'Get Office' app, or the office 'First Run' app. all of which are on Windows 10 by default.
You can easily uninstall the last 2, but because 'Onenote' is part of the OS it has to be removed through powershell.
The problem there is that they will come back, either in the next Patch Tuesday Cumulative Update, or in the next major Win 10 upgrade.
https://www.ghacks.net/2016/08/19/windows-10-annoyance-system-apps/I won't go into why this is a big deal, but the office 2013 remnants (?) causes other issues.
I would have thought these 'other issues' would be the thing to concentrate on, and may give a better indication of just what is actually causing your problems.
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Office 2013 seems to show by default in CCleaners applications list on the applications tab, even if you have never, ever, had it installed.
I have never had Office 2013 on this laptop, but it is still shown on CCleaners applications tab.
It may be that some other Windows application is storing temporary files in a location that is normally associated with Office 2013.
(Similar to the way that a number of Windows applications use the Internet Explorer file locations for storage, even if you never use IE).
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Have you tried running a boot time defrag?
Boot-Time Defrag – defrags the system disk during the boot time, before the whole operating system is loaded. This allows Defraggler to defrag the files which are blocked after the operating system is loaded.
http://www.piriform.com/docs/defraggler/technical-information/boot-time-defrag
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I believe there was also a problem with a recent Thunderbird update that seemed to lose email accounts.
They were still there but had somehow been hidden.
I posted a link previously but can't find it from this phone.
Try googling for problems with Thunderbird updates.
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No problem,
Like any disability you learn how to live with it.
But I had wondered if you had swallowed a dictionary.
(And a Victorian one at that, I did chuckle at "unmitigated poppycock", very Dickensian).
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Well, I knew this wouldn't be the hottest topic in the lounge, but this is sure a slow weekend.
Can't even provoke a spirited riposte from friend nukecad.
> Sigh <
Sorry, I was having my own version of hibernation.
Fell asleep at about 16:00 yesterday and woke at 12 today.
Long sleeps like this are not unusual for me.
I have a medical condition called Idiopathic Hypersomnia, (sometimes called idiopathic hypersomnolence), which means that I go into a very deep sleep for extended periods and cannot be woken.
(4-1/2 days semi-comatose is my personal record).
It's a pretty rare form of narcolepsy, but is getting better recognised and diagnosed these days.
There is no recognised treatment although stimulants are sometimes used to help stop falling asleep, but do nothing to stop the long sleep duration.
As you can imagine it does impact on your life quite a bit and sufferers usually have to give up working.
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If we could cross a tardigrade with a flat worm they could take over the universe.
Imagine meeting one of those six foot tall.
I just find it fascinating that there all these unusual creatures on this planet, and that they defy our preconceived notions of what an 'animal' is.
Who knows what else we haven't found, or have just taken for granted.
Ever heard of a slime mould?
They can also dry out and revive with water.
The jury is out on whether they are animals, plants, mycelia, or need a new classification of their own.
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Well they make them as cuddly toys for kids:
http://www.strapya-world.com/products/71400.html
There's some weird stuff on that website, but to keep with the Octopode/Cephalopod theme:
http://www.strapya-world.com/categories/Deep-Sea-Creatures/8440_8450_8572_9329.html
Having said that, you can also get flatworm toys, even 2 headed ones:
https://www.etsy.com/nz/listing/239972945/blue-planarian-plush-flatworm-plush-2
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Did you see my links about Tardigrades in the June desktop thread?
They don't grow two heads in orbit, but can survive the vacuum and hard radiation of space unprotected. (And they look cuter than flatworms).
Heres another link: https://www.space.com/5817-creature-survives-naked-space.html?_ga=2.22779315.94916629.1497671551-624023145.1497671550
Although it says there that scientists are unsure how they survive such extreme conditions the latest research has shown that they change their cells to 'glass like' molecules.
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Oh, great! I've just found out CCleaner also deleted completely my Mozilla Thunderbird configuration! Not only that but ALL MY ACCOUNTS AND MAIL TOO!
Great job, Pirifom! Well done! Clap, clap, clap, you deserve it!
Another member has pointed out that, rather than CCleaner being at fault here, it is a faulty Thunderbird update (52.2.0) that is the cause of this problem.
There are by now a few accounts of this problem with Thunderbird 52.2.0.
https://www.ghacks.net/2017/06/15/thunderbird-52-2-0-update-issues-with-imap-folders/
It seems to be random with some machines affected and others not.
I'm not sure about Firefox, Pale Moon, or Ice Dragon but as these are all based on the same Mozilla engine, and have also been updated this week, then they could all be giving the same fault.
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I'm not sure that I like the idea of that cloud-based clipboard.
The way that article reads then anything you copy into the clipboard will be automatically uploaded to the cloud without you having any say in it.
There again I don't like cloud storage at all, you can have all the AV and antimalware you want on your PC, and then your files can just be stolen out of the cloud.How much personal information do your documents in the cloud contain?
From your address/phone number/email to your bank account, credit card, isurance, tax, etc., etc. details.
In fact just about anything you have ever written in a letter and saved to the cloud or synced to another device.
It may not be worth a hacker trying to get into your machine just for your files, but a server holding the files of millions of users is a more tempting target.
Big servers get hacked everyday, hell banks and governments get hacked all the time - why should a commercial server be any more secure.
I wonder how long it's going to be before we see a major cloud-storage server hacked and user files stolen?Dropbox was hacked in 2012 and Opera cloud storage was hacked last year.
They both say that only encrypted passwords were stolen, anyone believe that?
(Once the fox is in the henhouse he's not just going to stop and just eat the eggs).
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who needs monitors anymore. You can watch tv and game on tvs now.
But this is just what we used to do in the 'olden days'.
Hardly anybody bought a monitor for home use.
Your Spectrum/Commodore Amiga/Atari ST computer, (or your games console),all had a built in modulator so you could plug them straight into your TV aerial socket.
(Monitors were available for the Amiga and the ST, I had a monochrome monitor for my STFM, but you had to buy them seperately and a colour monitor often cost more than the computer itself).
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was that a typo or something?
Apparently not;
I don't fully understand 'toast' myself not being a XML programmer, but it's to do with coding those pop-up notifications/messages that are only on screen for a short time.
In Win 10 you can include interactive buttons in them.
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just as long as LG never make a talkie toaster, I'll be alright.
I prefer my toasters on the dumb-side.
Just been reading the Knowlege Base article for one of yesterdays Windows 10 updates (KB4022725), one of the notes there states -
"users will not be able to use the remote toast activation feature"
Looks like your talkie-toaster is safe from hacking for a while at least.
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Defragmenting on it's own does not create any more space on the disk, it just moves the data that is 'split-up' into one place. (or at least closer together).
The data still takes up the the same number of bytes, just all in one place instead of being spread over the disk.
To free up space you would have to delete temporary files, unwanted files, duplicate files, etc.
Use Windows Disk clean-up, CCleaner, or another 3rd party temporary/duplicate file cleaner.
The other way to more free space on a disk is to compress the files in some way.
There are plenty of file compression tools out there, how much they compress files will vary and will also depend on the type of file being compressed.
(And of course if you are sending compressed files to someone else then you have to make sure that they can decompress them).
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my MB3.1.1.1722 was showing no updates found when in fact 3.1.2.1733 is now available.
if mine wasn't showing this, thought perhaps a heads up was in order.
It seems to have got a bit confusing with MB3 now including 4 component packages. There have been a few threads about it on the Malwarebytes forum.
So there are programme updates and Component Package updates.
The main issue seem to be that updates are not being sent to everyone at once but are 'metered out', so an update may be available manually for a while before it gets sent automatically to your machine.
(A bit like Microsoft metering out the Win10 Creators Update, but hopefully not as slow, I know people who still haven't got the CU yet).
So when you use MB3 itself to check for updates it may say that you are up to date, even though there is an update you can go and manually download/install.
Then there is a question of whether the 'minor' updates (ie. the .1733 part) are released/notified automatically or whether you have to keep an eye on the site and get them manually.
There also seems to be a 24 hour timer switch on notifications for some update components.
This was posted on the Malwarebytes forum yesterday:
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the malwarebytes tray icon does't show the warning triangle to show i need to update is not a massive problem since i can just open malwarebytes and check manually
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Are you using the free or paid version? If paid, the notices will only come up if the computer has been asleep or off more than 24 hours.
https://forums.malwarebytes.com/topic/202505-no-update-warning-in-tray-icon/
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Unless you have set any exceptions then these will probably be temporary files used by your Operating System.
(Logfiles, temporary files, etc.)
They could also be files used by some other programme you have running in the background.
As soon as you clean/delete them the Operating System (or background app) immediately recreates them, usually as an empty file but it may put a bit of data in there straight away.
So if you analyze again you see them again, the computer recreates them more quickly than you can click the Ananlyze button.
Try taking a look at the size of these particular files before and after cleaning.
If it's been a while since you last cleaned you should see that they reduce in size when cleaned.
(They have been deleted and recreated anew).
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A mere technicality, everyone will still call it MBAM
I said exactly the same.
But I've noticed that since then I've used MB3.
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Hi hazelnut,
Someone elsewhere pulled me on this one the other day.
It's MBAM2, but MB3.
Yes a bit anal/pedantic, but I had to hold my hand up and admit he was correct.
Guess we just get used to using a certain abbreviation.
(Flat letting adverts still say 'no DDS' even though the DSS no longer exists, it was replaced by the DWP years ago).
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No problems, just use one of the free AVs alongside Malwarebytes and you should be fine.
Malwarebytes is designed to run alongside any AV to give 'layered' protection.
If you havn't already then upgrade to MB3 for free, your perpetual licence is still valid.
MB3 has combined Anti Exploit & Anti Ransomware included.
Most people still run it alongside a traditional AV.
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As we are having a General Election today in the UK I thought I would go with a "Take me to your leader" theme.
That's a real creature, called a Tardigrade. (Ok it's a CGI of a tardigrade).
They are fascinating things and almost indestructable.
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Where and how is this done? Windows Defender is disabled on my machine because I am using a 3rd party virus checker. Windows Defender is more complicated since the Update and does indeed do other stuff, so being disabled (as in the past) isn't what it used to be.
Well if you have a 3rd party AV installed and thus Defender disabled then I'm not sure it's much use making it an exception in Defender anyway.
But odd things can sometimes happen with Win 10, so just for info.
In Creators Update the Defender exclusions are set in the Windows Security Centre.
- Open the Security Centre, (Start menu>apps>Windows Defender Security Centre).
- Click on the shield icon to bring up the 'Virus & threat protection' screen.
- Click on 'Virus & threat protetection settings'.
- Scroll down to 'Add or remove exclusions'.
Have you tried making CC an exception in whatever AV you are using?
Why this should change how the Skip UAC works I don't know, but it does sometimes (not always) work.
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I wasn't implying that this scanning was the cause of the UAC problem.
I was just giving it as a "for instance" to show that Microsoft have changed how Windows Defender works following the Creators Update.
What else have they changed behind the Defender front end that you can't see that easily?
This is going to be an ongoing problem for third party developers with Windows 10 releasing major updates every six or 12 months.
Just when you have worked out what they did last time that has upset your programme and you manage to patch it, MS will change Win 10 yet again.
Edge has been the main culprit for this up to now, it's been constantly changing since Win 10 was released.
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I had this problem In the past with the Aniversary Update.
The solution I found then was to make the CC folder an exception in Windows Defender.
Defender has changed the way it works with the Creators Update.
For instance Defender will now still do periodic scans even if you have a 3rd party AV.
So Defender may be the problem again.
(I still have CC as an exception in Defender and have no problem with CC and the CU).
If you have a 3rd party AV then make CC an exception in that as well as Defender.
Uninstall link on Right Click menu on shortcut?
in CCleaner Suggestions
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It is already possible to do this with Windows 10, sort of.
It doesn't work on the desktop or file explorer yet, but does for the apps list in the start menu.
Just right click an app in the list and you will be offered an uninstall option.
Other than Windows 10 there are a couple of free offerings that will add 'uninstall' to your Windows context (right click) menu.
Just google it.