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Q: Can I restore the files of a deleted Windows user account?

12:32 AM

ugh

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I recently deleted a user from my Vista by going to Account -> Settings -> delete. I have photos under this users, can I restore them? I don't have any backup. Thanks.

1:42 AM

@JourneymanGeek Heh – say goodbye to your question :P

2:23 AM

@slhck hello

and congrates

:)

@avirk Hello there! :) Congrats for what?

@TomWijsman I've doubt! Did you not qualify for the primary vote cast or you withdrawn?

@slhck you are going to become mod

Early withdraw.

@TomWijsman why?

you should be there

Jul 13 at 20:17, by Tom Wijsman

2 days ago, by Tom Wijsman

@HackToHell: I'm grasping too high, which makes me only bump into negative comments and what not. It's not that I can't withstand and ignore them, but the lack of any positive feedback that's hurting. I don't want to be in a team where there's no support. Perhaps it's bad timing or who knows what, but I have to accept the position I'm in and will not nominate anymore in the future unless that's requested from me...

2:27 AM

@TomWijsman hard commitment

In short, last year doesn't reflect the years before that. I've not been around really much the last weeks / months compared to other nominees as well...

@TomWijsman like me

@avirk Well let's see ;)

I'm here after a whille

@TomWijsman I sure hope you're going to stick around

2:28 AM

@slhck you are there is no doubt!

only fight for 2 mods among @OliverSalzburg @DanielBeck and @KronoS

@TomWijsman btw who is that girl in your gravtar?

@avirk: I honestly think @DanielBeck is going to be there, he's been around for pretty long and his stats shine out.

@avirk Taylor Alison Swift

(And the cat is named Meredith)

@TomWijsman then there is only fight between @OliverSalzburg and @KronoS

@TomWijsman its her

you loved the cats hmmm

As for Oliver and Kronos, I think they both make the third vote so had to eventually choose for one. I mean, Oliver's fairly new and KronoS hasn't been active lately so it's really a doubt who to vote for...

@avirk Preparing for cat day or something...

@avirk I too want to be there, but not if it doesn't reflect the better part of me. I also don't want to be in that top 2 fight, Daniel and slhck have committed way more than me.

Can't tell about the third place for sure, but hey, a fresh mod every now and then is also welcome. :)

@TomWijsman next year a fight will begin between me and you for a mod lol

@avirk Maybe, bring it on...

2:35 AM

most probably according to primary there are chances for @kronoS

It could be that I skip next election, kind of depends on the nominees, my activity between now and then, etc...

@TomWijsman let see

The big Master years of University might also pose a lot more work on me, so it could be as well that I'll fade out of the heavy activity (like how I was doing before the election, but rather because I was a bit more busy in the Programmers' world).

@TomWijsman I'll be active more in next year you will see I'll active more time than before but this time I was busy somewhere about for a month.

@TomWijsman soon I'll there.

@slhck Yeah, I remember having played with the idea of leaving but I won't. It's pretty much meaningless and it doesn't change anything about what you've already contributed. I don't see any reason to leave either...

2:38 AM

talk.sonymobile.com/thread/45121

they are very slow to respond the user

@avirk Well, I'll see, might come back with a higher activity rate if things work out well.

I'm unable to use chat of SE on my mob now

:(

Trying to actively swap between different tasks on the site instead of burning out on one and the same task.

@TomWijsman also with a good attitude I think this could be a good reason for you hope you'll understand it. I'll talk on this later have to go now bye.

@avirk There's no hurry; now I can do this awesome contest, send moar flags, ... :)

2:42 AM

@TomWijsman :) thats good bye TC.

lol

Have fun, cya.

I'm 25 flags away from my marshall badge ;p

@JourneymanGeek And I'm 11 answers away from number 1,000 :P

o0

2:47 AM

And I'm some hours away from departing on vacation to Italy. :D

@TomWijsman Nice.. where to?

Eh, you probably have a better rep-answer rate than me ;p

But I won't see the election results unless I find internet. :(

@slhck: its amusing since i said the same thing last month, when for some wierd reason i thought it was 400 flags to the badge ;p

@JourneymanGeek Haha.. little disappointed eh?

2:49 AM

lol, ya

@slhck Different places, first swimming pool in Switzerland, then down to Calabria (I guess a stop somewhere along the coast line before that), then back up and a day in Rome, then up to Liguria.

It's mainly from swimming pool to sea to swimming pool to a day trip to whatever...

@TomWijsman Sounds awesome.. all by car I guess? I believe you did a trip like this a year ago, did you?

And how do you manage to stay up so late, if I may ask? :P

Delayed sleep phase disorder

@slhck Mobilhome. Yeah, good memory, we did a bit too much back then, so now we're dropping out Venetia

And instead do a day trip to Rome (we didn't do that last year for some reason)

I guess it was because we had to be back home by a certain date and adding in Rome would've not given us enough time in Liguria and make us tired as well.

Delayed sleep-phase disorder (DSPD), also known as delayed sleep-phase syndrome (DSPS) or delayed sleep-phase type (DSPT), is a circadian rhythm sleep disorder, a chronic disorder of the timing of sleep, peak period of alertness, the core body temperature rhythm, hormonal and other daily rhythms, compared to the general population and relative to societal requirements. People with DSPD generally fall asleep some hours after midnight and have difficulty waking up in the morning. Often, people with the disorder report that they cannot sleep until early morning, but fall asleep at about the ...

@TomWijsman Oh, I see

It's kind of a side effect of the thing I had an operation for.

But well, it got 1 - 2 hours further this week... >_<

2:54 AM

Oh :/

Hope I can reset that as I'll somewhat need to adjust to waking up with the family. >_>

@slhck: The problem there is that it's not about going to sleep earlier, but rather about getting to wake up earlier.

Another trick is to not sleep for one night so that you won't make the next night and basically fall asleep at somewhat the right time because of that. :P

@TomWijsman Yeah, typical day schedules..

But well, I'm too tired to even pull that off.

I'm gonna be like that on Monday when I take my red eye flight back. I hate those.

@slhck: Well, if I were to go to America I probably would have a normal sleeping schedule because it negates the delay... :P

2:58 AM

@TomWijsman Haha.. yeah, it would be interesting to see how the effects are. It's 11 PM now here

So, means I have to go sleep now, I guess... Night everyone. :)

Haha, night @TomWijsman!

Need to do some more stuff but better do that in one take tomorrow with a fresh mind.

= Earlier wake time = Not much sleep = Sleep once we're on the road

Well, see you guys in two weeks (apart from some mobile chatting, election results check-up)... :)

@TomWijsman Have a great vacation!

I hope so, it's gonna feel weird not being all day on the laptop. On the other hand, can finally take a rest from exams / usual days / ...

(Insert Super User somewhere on that list. xD)

3:30 AM

Just reinstalled my Mac OSX, and Firefox... Does anyone remember the stack app for auto-comments?

rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/CUqck2p-jN4/… Valve is plain awesome :)

Q: AutoReviewComments - Pro-forma comments for SE

3:54 AM

121

No more re-typing the same comments over and over! This script adds a little 'auto' link next to all comments boxes. When you click the link, you see a popup with 6 configurable auto-comments, which you can easily click to insert. This script was inspired by answers to this question on meta....

script

Though you probably found it by now :P

@TomWijsman o.O

I don't know if it's the low res, angle or a combination of both, but that's pretty surprising to me...

Then again, I'm horrible at recognising people :\

@Bob thanks! No, just found it from your link

4:09 AM

@tomwijsman have fun on ur vacation! I've always wanted to go to Italy.

O.O

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Q: Job Opening, Positions

! Source " Justice Lubbie Harper Jr. and Senior Associate Justice Flemming L. Norcott Jr. will retire in the next 16 months. The last time so many vacancies happened in such short order was from 1991 to1993, when Justice T. Clark Hull, Justice David Shea, and Justice Robert Glass all turned...

grammar

Currently at 27 revisions by 5 users, 49 comments and a score of -5...

4:46 AM

oh

that guy is a known troll on ELU. Apparently the edit war is to push it into CW ;p

4:58 AM

31 revisions by 6 users, 69 comments, score of -7

@JourneymanGeek How the hell is it not closed/deleted/the user banned, then?

Actually, the question looks fairly valid...

Other than the scary number of revisions/comments :|

5:17 AM

@Bob why is not locked yet?

@jokerdino 99 comments?!

At least it's finally closed

And million revisions.

@jokerdino For some reason, the question itself looks valid to me :\

it was plagiarised and he is reasking.

it's not the question; it's the person they hate

@jokerdino o.O

That seems to be the gist of the comments, but they became went off on really weird tangents... I got lost.

5:22 AM

blah, lunch

5:39 AM

Sometimes, I wish I could upvote more than once for a good answer

Sometimes this is the only thing you can do:

@Bob it's still going on. and it's hilarious.

lol

What's frustrating is that most of these people wouldn't even dare to act this way in the real world but once they get online it's like they feel like god and that anything goes.

5:45 AM

yes ofcourse

@jokerdino 138...

xD

Is that the most comments on any SE Q/A?

no.

o.O

5:47 AM

I wonder why the mods haven't locked the question and tried to quel this comment war.

@KronoS A mod replied to it at some point

Around comment #100

141 now

I noticed. I'm just wondering if there was a reason to keep it going. Personally (and this is from an outside perspective as I don'tl know everything the mods are seeing) I would've locked the question and migrated any convo to chat

@Bob probably it is.. o.O

i can't find anything that beats

Did they delete it?

Nvm. Problem with my browser :)

@KronoS With 142 comments... I wonder how many deleted ones there are?

5:53 AM

See, we are not doing anything better here. @simchona @Mahnax

@KronoS We're all waiting for that :P

Hi all

Good evening, folks.

We're the ones egging him on.

The original user (english.stackexchange.com/users/23135/nortonn-s?tab=activity) just got unbanned after a month. "Winner" is his latest sock.

He's been on a streak of at least 3 new accounts per day

Mods can't IP ban him because it always changes

At last count, he's had over 60 accounts.

5:54 AM

O_o

He's quite the issue.

Wow.

wah, it's quite fun times for the moderators.

So we decided to have some fun this evening.

One of our mods said there shuold be a new way to deal with this by Monday

5:55 AM

@simchona Oh, I must have missed that bit. I hope it works.

@Mahnax Yeah, he said we'll find out more this week

@simchona Good good.

Ah that makes more sense. I still think it should be locked though.

How did y'all track all of his accounts?

I'm free, at last! — Nortonn S 30 secs ago

5:56 AM

@jokerdino Same questions, similar comments, similar name patterns

That guy is a loser then. Can't even cover his tracks ;p

Discussion

Productivity levels dropping.

He came in!

Go there! He's here!

Y'all are welcome to join

i am there.

6:11 AM

Ok. This has got to be the most... random... quote from SE chat I've seen.

in Discussion, 1 min ago, by simchona

And so what made you want to post porn on ELU?

lol

oi. join the EL room and meta discuss

Hey, he posted smut at least 3 times

yuck

o.O

6:12 AM

whoot We're down to under a hundred questions with close votes

And an ASCII picture of a middle finger

lol. Nothing wrong with smut. IN CONTEXT.

IE, not most of stack exchange ;p

> Sexually Explicit Material. Accounts that use Stack Exchange to post sexually explicit or pornographic material, or links to it, will be suspended.

Hmm.. :P

@JourneymanGeek Not any of SE :P

At least not according to the content policy.

lol.

fine ;p

@Bob show 93 more comments WTF?

6:16 AM

english.stackexchange.com/questions/73999/explosive-orgasms

@Sathya It was 143 last I checked

Some got deleted? :P

If you happen to have 10k access

@simchona The title itself is.. O.O

And that's not the only one he wrote

Well, it's not something I want anyone glancing at my screen to see. And the title does stand out :P

Might just have to go back to viewing SE sites zoomed out

6:19 AM

tl;dr anyone? :|

@Sathya lol

@Sathya A porn-writing user was complaining about his month-long suspension for plagiarism and vote fraud, and tied that to the "DemoRats" ruling the world.

I see

3

Snagit glitched near the end :P

A 3.1MB screenshot of the comment chain

.... EPIC SCREENSHOT

6:25 AM

Hm, it appears to have glitched in the middle too

He's in that chat room above ^^ @sathya but he's really just pulling people's legs.

Note to self: "capture vertical scrolling area" has its limits

wow

Q: Kaspersky Virus Definitions Update to Another Computer

speaking of bad

-4

hai sir i want to copy kaspersky update from anoter computer, ow can i copy te update file tel me te steps? is it possible or not reply soon with regards yogish

windows-xp

6:32 AM

...

@Sathya Amazing

@Luke tell me about it..

@luke @sathya I've seen some worse but this is def bad. My fab though was the how to get rid of spiders in your computer one.

*fav

@KronoS Link or it never happened

@luke I don't have a link as it was deleted. Maybe @sathya can find it.

6:38 AM

wasn't spiders

was ants ;p

@JourneymanGeek That one got deleted?

Something about ants in a laptop

Amusingly, we were discussing if it was a dupe of the one with thunderflies.

there's thunderflies and ants too.

Ah yes that's the one.

O.O

Also

in Discussion, 5 mins ago, by simchona

If you "interrogate" then you might get suspended again

lol

6:41 AM

@Sathya W... T... F...

Q: What's the best way to get ants out of laptop keyboards?

19

What's the best way to gets ants out of a laptop?

keyboard cleaning

It's still alive! :D

yay ;p

Lol. The things we turn a blind eye to.

lol. Its historical!

and the top answer is frigging epic

Ya it is.

6:46 AM

Wait a sec, it only got protected 11 hours ago?

:S

Was it active lately, or did Synetech just come across it? :P

bumped by a new user methinks

Oh, there it is

Yup... Wow

Can we just make a tag for wtf?

O.O

meta tag!

Q: Removing dead thunderflies stuck inside an LCD monitor

6:49 AM

30

This summer my flat was "attacked" by hundreds of tiny thunderflies, some of which managed to get behind the screen of my LCD. A few of the cursed creatures went and died right in the middle of the display: And yes, this is real. Imagine my surprise when I saw one of these things crawling acr...

screen lcd cleaning dead-pixel

@Sathya The thunderflies one was completely unexpected.

Now, time to check what a thunderfly is.

lol

small bugs, fly around when it rains?

Going to bed guys... Have a good night. I posted a new OSX question if anyone's interested

o.O

The ELU Discussion chat room has become a weird argument

just like the comments! :P

@Luke Good night.

why are the interacting with that user? it's obvious he wants attention and the folks are giving him that attention :\

do not feed the trolls!

lol

7:04 AM

@Sathya No one listens when it's about birds, why should trolls be any different? :P

in Discussion, 2 mins ago, by Mahnax

room topic changed to Discussion: Productivity levels dropping. (no tags)

7:21 AM

lol

and closed ;p

VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE!!!!!

lol

OUT OF VOTES. SEND MORE CHEESE.

I meant in the election. Or perhaps you did too.

yes ;p

Was a little easier cause some of the people i wanted to vote for were out early :/

Which is unfortunate.

7:28 AM

ya

10:15 AM

@JourneymanGeek it made my lifer a little easier

Oliver Salzburg

10:29 AM

@TomWijsman That is a thing O__O

11:49 AM

@JourneymanGeek what is that weird userscript that you use for chat?

Q: SE Chat Modifications -- Keyboard navigation and commands for chat

12:02 PM

the one that lets me do /me ?

22

Screenshot Use /command shortcuts to perform common chat tasks: See message history inline: Easily preview replied-to messages: And much, much more... About Legends tell of a prolific Meta Stack Overflow chatter who despised using their mouse above all things. In an effort to keep t...

script chat

thinks this is cool.

nice!

it is, quite

Santosh

12:46 PM

haha.. never knew until now that we can play games inside Vim.

Vim is an OS ;p

12:58 PM

Where can I find Mr Bill liz?

@jokerdino should I call him in?

He is editing posts in AU and I wonder who told him AU is an edit rep mine. ;p

@Sathya I'll get to him. Calling him in doesn't feel right.

LOL

I'll be back on Ask Ubuntu from Monday

oh sure. We will always have posts to edit. :)

@Satyha - are you free to buy a few things!?

1:04 PM

No, he's playing GTA :P

I thought he was playing D3?

and... @IvoFlipse - I'm playing a game! :)

Besides not that many interesting things on sale

@WilliamHilsum w00t

hehe

i be following Ivo on Twitter from now on.

1:07 PM

@jokerdino How so? Because I spoilered the end of Batman?

1:33 PM

@jokerdino playing both, ATM playing Vice City ( and @wil you got my name wrong)

Sorry... half asleep!

2:16 PM

@KronoS - I don't suppose you are able to get anything on Steam now!?

2:37 PM

@Sathya Vice City was the best of the GTA series IMO

@Mokubai aye, I agree

Sathya - I didn't want to bother you when in game so not @'ing you... are you free to get two things quickly?

They were building up to greatness with the ones that went before VC, then San Andreas just sank down into the pits of gritty realism

@IvoFlipse I didn't know you actually did. And, that has nothing to do with me following you on Twitter. I just had a random thought of following you. Nothing much to read from it ;-)

@jokerdino Hehe, well your more than welcome obviously

2:45 PM

@Sathya Ah, I can see the real gamer in you~

@IvoFlipse Well, your cheery face is rather refreshing.

Compared to what? :P Linus Torvalds?

I only see depressing tweets most of the time in my feed.

@IvoFlipse heh he doesn't tweet. Only rants on G+.

@IvoFlipse he may be a hardcore nethack player for all you know? :/

@jokerdino Which is why I'm on G+ too

@IvoFlipse wow I didn't know his rants had so many fans.

But I actually like most of his.

2:48 PM

hey @nhinkle didn't see you were here... Are you able to buy a couple more games!?

and, did you email anyone at HP yet?

I didn't say I agreed with everything he said

@jokerdino what's the link... quite interested to see some of these rants!?

Are you trying to get people to buy things @WilliamHilsum?

He does pay back with 1 cent interest @Mokubai

@WilliamHilsum plus.google.com/102150693225130002912/posts

2:49 PM

@IvoFlipse not with 1c, I round up! usually 1c!

lol... but, in response, I am happy to do the same for others, but, only ever been asked to do it once!

@jokerdino check my Stack Exchange profile & click on linked raptr & xfire links

@Sathya You are no fun to an Internet stalker.

@WilliamHilsum So, are you buying games for people or from people?

@IvoFlipse Neither do I. But they are still fun.

@Mokubai you can see what region it is cheaper in... and, you can save quite a bit of money even with paypal fees included if someone from that region can purchase for you

2:52 PM

Trying to work out if bulletstorm is worth buying, got enough single player games atm, want so co-op fun...

Ah, fair enough

@WilliamHilsum you want me to buy?

Where do you get the price in different regions?

@Sathya If you can! (sorry... sale almost over now!!!)... Vampire The Masquerade - bloodlines - $4.99 and Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Game of the Year edition : $6.24

@Mokubai add ?cc=uk for england, us for american and fr for euro

so @WilliamHilsum are you going to use G+ too?

there is also europe region 2 for other countries, but, I don't look there... don't know anyone who could get those prices

also www.steamprices.com helps a lot...

this is my sale so far!...

so, you can see... it mounts up how much you can save by looking at different regions!

@IvoFlipse I like Facebook (feel free to add me - facebook.com/wilhil ) but, no harm in trying G+

2:56 PM

Oooh, nice spreadsheet, can has?

That's my problem, the people I'd share Facebookish things with aren't on Facebook (nor do I want them to be)

I did manage to bully my family to G+ because they all have Android phones

@Mokubai That's from Reddit I bet

you can recreate easy! I just have date, name, gbp, usd, eur, then usd * 0.66281352 for USD in UK price and EUR * 0.81612667 for Eur in UK price! this isn't a list of all games, just the ones I bought

@IvoFlipse no! These are the games I bought! Recognise Euro in yellow - they are all you! I made all this myself! I can't easily give it out @Mokubai as it has email addresses and stuff of others who have purchased... so I remember how much I paid and who to... don't want to end up owing people cash!

If it makes you feel safe, Mokubai has my email already :P

And it shows how often you make me work for you

@IvoFlipse hahaha!

:O

3:00 PM

You should add a column that checks whether you played them

@IvoFlipse well, write no at the top and drag to the bottom!

I have been playing Star Trek Online! I love that!

lol

currently playing portal 2 ;p

its finally started getting maddeningly hard

Portal 2 rocks, keep meaning to play the co-op again

Right... going out to a magic show! See you all later!

@WilliamHilsum do share.

3:02 PM

I have it now!!! we can all play later!

\o/

If you really want a copy, I will delete the contact details and put it online quick, but, I need to go out...

Nah, scrambled together a version that works. Thanks anyway

here it is anyway... apologies if I left any information in...

dropbox.com/s/p6lqsoinh416f4l/steam%202%20share.xls?m

In addition, here are other games that I am currently "monitoring"... dropbox.com/s/p3j20ml2cj45ezq/steam%20want%20list.xls

see you all later!

mods, want this question? askubuntu.com/questions/163855/…

3:17 PM

@WilliamHilsum I'm about to leave, so if you can wait until this evening (tomorrow your time? I think?) then sure, but I can't right this moment.

As for HP, I haven't had time this week, but do intend to do so.

@jokerdino crashes, how? BSOD? Error codes? Etc - none of those are available

OK. we'll dump it to our trash bin then. I know you guys wouldn't want it but I thought I would try nonetheless. Have a nice day ahead.

3:33 PM

@nhinkle No worries, sathya helped me out... I am just always asking him for help and feel bad about it so try to spread it around!!! At 6 my time, the new sale starts, so maybe later! :) Bye!

3:59 PM

@WilliamHilsum Deus Ex is in your wishlist and is on sale atm

it's definitely worth a fiver