Root Access

Ramhound

01:03

Anyone around that has a pc where the icon has disppeared?

There is what is claimed by one of my trusted sources for information, a command that can be runned, that will force the upgrade download to start.

WHAT IN THE WORLD? Blizzard is going to annouce a new expansion BEFORE BlizzCon?

Psycogeek

@Ramhound what icon? superuser.com/search?q=windows+10+icon It dissapeared for many, and didnt mater for anyone :-) it was just a pavlov salivation inducer

Ramhound

I know..

I want to find one of those questions and indicate there might be command that can help. But want to know if it will even work.

Psycogeek

"The process of this upgrade program is GWX.exe. I suggest that you try fire it up. Open
C:\Windows\System32\GWX and run GWX.exe (try as administrator if that doesn't do the trick)." http://superuser.com/questions/946905/windows-10-icon-gone-missing?s=4|2.7432

Ramhound

...<sigh>

I don't need to know for myself

I am trying to submit an answer. I already did the upgrade, created a flash disk, and skipped the queue/phased rollout/ect.

before I did my icon also disppeared, running GWX.exe did nothing, a process didn't even start.

Psycogeek

01:18

so we need someone who does something other than talk about it :-) and actually did it .

Ramhound

did what?

Psycogeek

Ran a command that actually get the upgrade to start?

Ramhound

I am trying to find somebody who had the icon before the 29th, had it disappear on them, and who is still waiting for the upgrade to start.

I am trying to write an answer to one of those "where my get windows 10 /gwx icons go".

Psycogeek

There is this superuser.com/questions/922441/… which has a answer, and a bunch of people reporting results. People and microsoft indicating there is no one answer.

Ramhound

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Q: After Win 10 download, what happens after "agreement" page?

I clicked the "reserve" icon on July 29, thinking I was just reserving Windows 10. It immediately started to download. The download took about 45 min and then an "agreement" page came on, and I have been reluctant to agree, because I don't know if the installation will instantly start (like the...

I know I saw a question earlier that asked this question, well, at least how to stop the windows 10 upgrade part of it. I just can't find it now :$

Psycogeek

01:33

Oh yes, there is another one of those almost exactally

(unless the user pulled it)

Ramhound

I think I found it. I am just not sure what the title of the question was.

Psycogeek

"Windows 10 Shares Your Wi-Fi With Contacts" krebsonsecurity.com/2015/07/… "This brilliant new feature, which Microsoft has dubbed Wi-Fi Sense, doesn’t share your WiFi network password per se — it shares an encrypted version of that password. But it does allow anyone in your Skype or Outlook or Hotmail contacts lists to waltz onto your Wi-Fi network " OOOOhh this is your big security flaw :-) so turn it off

Ramhound

02:05

....

That article is so full of fail

Yeah you have to specifically enable the feature though

Psycogeek

OEMs of win10 pro selling for only $139 , but what if this time they really will not allow re-activation if i change my motherboard, not to mention all the times i changed enough general hardware to reach the hash limit just from adding drives, or swapping hardware for testing.

Ramhound

Furthermore, who cares if somebody has the network password, if they know you, they likely already have it.

What if pigs will fly.

Anonymous

@Ramhound Krebs knows his shit

Ramhound

The EULA specifally indicates that a stand-alone versions of Windows 10 can be migrated to machines provide the previous install is removed.

The quoted sentence you provided is full of fail, Krebs might know his shit, but that statement isn't 100% truthful.

Psycogeek

your skype callers 300 or even 3 miles away connecting to your wi-fi would be something i would like to see

Ramhound

02:10

Which is my point. So what if your WiFi password is shared. You do it anyways yourself. Android and iPhone devices share it also. This feature also has to be specifically enabled. Additionally, you can change your password at any point, you can also change the SSID with optout and it will NEVER be shared.

"If you don’t want WiFi Sense to connect people to your open WiFi network or allow people to share access to your password-protected network, you can opt your network out of it by including _optout somewhere in the WiFi network name (also called the SSID)."

Anonymous

02:37

oh god it's been a while since I last managed a VPS... I didn't even know Fedora already migrated to DNF

Anonymous

it's really faster

Journeyman Geek

@PatoSáinz: Thats somewhat outside kreb's usual topics tho

Anonymous

@JourneymanGeek yes, probably... that's a topic I expect more from Bruce Schneier

Ramhound

03:11

well I confirmed that wuauclt.exe /updatenow most defently gets the next window prompt from th GTX application :$

I just wish I knew if it worked if it WASNT running

Suppose what I can do is, reserve it, then kill the process in a VM then issue the command.

( my SP3 was pending to get the upgrade, issued the command, and I instantly got it )

Ramhound

03:43

anyone know how to start the recovery process on a SP3?

do i even have a 16GB flash drive?

crude

That Brazilian Guy

Is that answer okay? Does it need improving?

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A: Is it possible to use a non-local proxy to connect to the Internet?

Typically, a proxy server is located between you and the internet, like in the diagram below: In this case, the connection speed between your devices and your proxy server will be limited only by the local network speed (usually ethernet or wireless). The main bottleneck here will be the prox...

Psycogeek

04:02

@ThatBrazilianGuy looks good, where is the part where you say Get your head out of your ass, how can you . . . nevermind :-)

Just one problem here buddy, you have to go through your slow connection, to get TO his fast connection, now get out there and run a wire :-)

Ramhound

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Q: Looking for a Water Block for a EVGA 04G-P4-2972-KR

I been looking over and over online for a compatible water block for a EVGA 04G-P4-2972-KR. I preferably would like a water block from the following companies: EK, XSPC. Any other companies would be fine but not sure if the XSPC 670 blocks will work or not sense this card is longer then the block...

graphics-card water-cooling

Hardware shopping request :$

Psycogeek

@Ramhound Migrate it to SEcomputerHardware.com

Ramhound

How?

I mean i know how....I am not a moderator. I can't do it.

Psycogeek

There IS NO stack exchange computer hardware site .

Ramhound

n...

So why in the heck did you suggest it?

Psycogeek

04:15

And thats just wrong, and so therfore it should be covered on su.

Overlap, happens :-)

Ramhound

* slams head on desk

....

Psycogeek

Is he hurting anybody?

Ramhound

I am not having this conversation.

Psycogeek

Should we call out the internet police and have him shot down in the middle of the street

SuperControlFreakUsers.com

Journeyman Geek

meh

closed ;p

But that's what the close vote queue is for

Ramhound

04:19

technically I was just drawing attention to the question.

@Psycogeek - ....

Psycogeek

Technically it is off topic , Just saying it is wrong, and we no longer can even recognise it as so.

Just one of the many reasons there is not 350million active participants on superusers

Ramhound

If what is and is not on topic, is changed, I will be the first to help somebody with that type of question. Until that happens I am going to vote to close questions that are not on topic.

Psycogeek

the .0003% solution, laughable at best compared to even smaller forums.

meta.stackexchange.com/questions/92107/… pic from the origins that attempts to say they are all things to all people.

Ramhound

Create a meta question. Highlight how helping people pick out specific hardware for them helps somebody 3 months, 6 months, and 18 months from now. The only way something like "what waterblock should I purchase" is going to be on topic is if the answer to that question in 18-24 months will still be helpful to the community. ( Stackexchange is about the answers not the questions ).

or just complain entirely up to you.

Psycogeek

04:34

And how possibly does windows 10 upgrade icon missing help anyone in even 30 days :-) and tons of other stuff from 2009 that literally created the site and much of the rep for the best people here

In the way back machine at the start of this site, when it was in major growth, the allowable questions were by todays standards negtive downvotes, but they have like 200+ upvotes.

(and much of it has been removed based on new standards)

Ramhound

good night, this discussion is boring

Psycogeek

Place has evolved , with the only thing missing is the people

Not only is it booring, but if i put it on meta, it would get Record breaking downvotes

Journeyman Geek

@Psycogeek: Its something explicitly mentioned as the reason we don't do shopping questions.

Psycogeek

I do not dissagree with the assement that it is specificly and explicitly off topic, and would freely admit it doesnt have a chance in hell here of ever being on topic :-)

Tom Wijsman