Jesse Screed
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Re: What's your Day Like Today?
2016/08/31 18:20:44
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Can I come over?
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Re: What's your Day Like Today?
2016/08/31 21:19:04
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craigb
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Sleep, try to fix another Windows 10 error, scream & yell, cry in frustration, go back to sleep.
So weird ... I have not had any issues with W10 at all, and the only error or two here and there were in WoW, and it had to do with buffers and caches, which resolved the issues.
[rant] Count yourself lucky. I've had bunches of Office products just "stop working" and quite a few of the new BSOD's. It keeps changing my file associations back to their crappy products instead of the ones I want, it won't even let me use some of the programs "I" want, it never installed a service that's required for Hyper-V to work (I use virtual machines), I've had it where you couldn't left or right-click on the start button, search icon or task viewer (which makes the PC useless). There are other things too, I just can't think of them off the top of my head.
Oh yeah, and it's "waiting" for some reason before letting me upgrade to the most current version (the so-called "Anniversary" version). What a PITA... I've spent more time fixing my own equipment than I have on customer's (where I can at least get paid). Very annoying! [/rant]
I've got two issues with Win10 (not application related; everything I've got runs fine). 1) Just about everyday, the "New Notifications" box tells me I've got a "Drive Error" and should restart (I generally ignore it: nothing happens). It never tells me which drive has the issue or what type of problem it is. I'm kind of convinced that this has something to do with Norton AV, but I'm not sure. 2) A stupid little cmd.exe box whizzes through my screen every once in a while, often several times a day (I'm not sure I've seen it today however.) I think this has to do with either my ancient ATI HD 5450 (ATI quit development on it not that long ago. It barely squeaked into the Win10 world, I'm afraid) or the driver monitor s/w I installed about the time I installed Win10. It's uninstalled now, but I wonder if it's left a remnant. If anyone has an idea about either/both of these, please let me know.
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Moshkito
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Re: What's your Day Like Today?
2016/09/01 16:02:00
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craigb
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[rant] Count yourself lucky. I've had bunches of Office products just "stop working" and quite a few of the new BSOD's. It keeps changing my file associations back to their crappy products instead of the ones I want, it won't even let me use some of the programs "I" want, it never installed a service that's required for Hyper-V to work (I use virtual machines), I've had it where you couldn't left or right-click on the start button, search icon or task viewer (which makes the PC useless).
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I gave up on the Microsoft Office when I read some of the stuff in their EULA. Being a writer (or an artist like you!), I'm a bit pissy about they work I do, and how I own it and take care of it. I simply felt that I would be intruded upon, and immediately took anything "Office" out of my computer, including Outlook. I only have W10 and I use Open Office.
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BobF
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Re: What's your Day Like Today?
2016/09/01 16:10:19
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<yaaaaaaaaaawn>
Is it REALLY today already?
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Mesh
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Re: What's your Day Like Today?
2016/09/01 16:12:30
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Yesterday, all my troubles seem so far away.....
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Re: What's your Day Like Today?
2016/09/01 16:16:29
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...[font="'book antiqua', palatino; color: #003366; font-size: small; line-height: 1.8"]
1) Just about everyday, the "New Notifications" box tells me I've got a "Drive Error" and should restart (I generally ignore it: nothing happens). It never tells me which drive has the issue or what type of problem it is. I'm kind of convinced that this has something to do with Norton AV, but I'm not sure.
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It takes a bit of getting used to it, but you can take a look at the Event Viewer, and these errors should be in there and which "file" was the culprit. Once you know which file is the issue, solving it might be a bit easier, if it is a software issue, as sometimes you can just uninstall it and then reinstall it. Hardware issues are tougher. For example, I'm afraid to put W10 on the machine that has that big M-Audio card (the octopus one!!!), because M-Audio has been very poor on drivers over the years. I had an issue with the W7 Pro version that was a hassle and then some, though it "mysteriously" disappeared, and I think it might have happened with a Microsoft update! The Norton thing. All of my machines, have been done by a process that is normally considered the best. Clean HD, install Windows, immediately install the Security Software, and then any of your programs. The tough part of it all, is that most of us, are simply upgrading (specially when it was free) the computer and there is stuff underneath that ends up getting stuck and locked up and this, normally is an issue. So, on each machine, before updating, I take every thing off, including the security software, so that at the "end" the only thing in the computer is Windows. For my way of seeing it, this allows the Security Software to start fresh, after the new Windows is installed, and I have found this very reliable on all my machines at this time. Only my laptop has not been done, but that one is an Acer, and I will probably by a W10 disk, and wipe that HD clean of all Acer stuff before installing W10 on it. It's a couple of years old, so I might not even bother and just drown that laptop in the Columbia River, as Craig could not even doodle 4 bars of anything on it. I only use it to type and write many of the reviews for my website. From my old days in technical support, I did not like Norton, or McAfee, as they had a nasty habit of locking up the email programs and have the customers call us at the ISP to fix "their" problem. Just not smart coding. It could mark that email off and do the others ... nooooo ... it has to lock up people's doings and make it harsh and bad for them! To this day, I do not trust both of those. I have been with F-Secure for 10 plus years, and they have been excellent, and none of my machines had issues, except one of my machines 5 years ago got one of those root things, and their support removed it and all was fine then. It was during that session that I realized that the "process" of setting up a Security Program was the main difference ... or I'm just plain lucky! Well ... poop ... I still have not won the Lottery!
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soens
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Re: What's your Day Like Today?
2016/09/02 02:53:15
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@OP Not reading this thread, THAT's fer shear! Wait, did you mean TODAY, or 2 days ago?
post edited by soens - 2016/09/02 03:14:17
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Mesh
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Re: What's your Day Like Today?
2016/09/02 08:57:32
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soens
Wait, did you mean TODAY, or 2 days ago?
To some, YES!!
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craigb
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Re: What's your Day Like Today?
2016/09/02 11:20:47
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Time for all of you to head over to Beyond My DAW!
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Re: What's your Day Like Today?
2016/09/02 11:23:13
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☄ Helpfulby craigb 2016/09/02 11:33:08
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BobF
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Re: What's your Day Like Today?
2016/09/02 11:25:33
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Wow. Today AGAIN.
I'm on Latte #3 ...
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Re: What's your Day Like Today?
2016/09/02 11:26:53
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☄ Helpfulby BobF 2016/09/02 11:27:34
BobF
Wow. Today AGAIN.
I'm on Latte slab o' becan #3 ...
fixed....
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Re: What's your Day Like Today?
2016/09/02 11:28:23
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Beagle
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Wow. Today AGAIN.
I'm on Latte slab o' becan #3 ...
fixed....
Thanks. That was a close call. When tomorrow is today I'll have more!
Bob -- Angels are crying because truth has died ...Illegitimi non carborundum --Studio One Pro / i7-6700@3.80GHZ, 32GB Win 10 Pro x64 Roland FA06, LX61+, Fishman Tripleplay, FaderPort, US-16x08 + ARC2.5/Event PS8s Waves Gold/IKM Max/Nomad Factory IS3/K11U
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Re: What's your Day Like Today?
2016/09/02 11:46:59
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BobF
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BobF
Wow. Today AGAIN.
I'm on Latte slab o' becan #3 ...
fixed....
Thanks. That was a close call.
When tomorrow is today I'll have more!
Why wait?
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craigb
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Re: What's your Day Like Today?
2016/09/02 11:54:16
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Beagle
BobF
Beagle
BobF
Wow. Today AGAIN.
I'm on Latte slab o' becan #3 ...
fixed....
Thanks. That was a close call.
When tomorrow is today I'll have more!
Why wait?
I didn't so he may find he won't have more tomorrow. 
Time for all of you to head over to Beyond My DAW!
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Re: What's your Day Like Today?
2016/09/02 11:56:57
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craigb
Beagle
BobF
Beagle
BobF
Wow. Today AGAIN.
I'm on Latte slab o' becan #3 ...
fixed....
Thanks. That was a close call.
When tomorrow is today I'll have more!
Why wait?
I didn't so he may find he won't have more tomorrow.
But when tomorrow is today I'll have more!
Bob -- Angels are crying because truth has died ...Illegitimi non carborundum --Studio One Pro / i7-6700@3.80GHZ, 32GB Win 10 Pro x64 Roland FA06, LX61+, Fishman Tripleplay, FaderPort, US-16x08 + ARC2.5/Event PS8s Waves Gold/IKM Max/Nomad Factory IS3/K11U
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Re: What's your Day Like Today?
2016/09/02 12:02:27
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☄ Helpfulby BobF 2016/09/02 13:24:08
Time for all of you to head over to Beyond My DAW!
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Re: What's your Day Like Today?
2016/09/02 13:04:09
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craigb
Exactly!!
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Re: What's your Day Like Today?
2016/09/02 16:40:44
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Moshkito
outland144k
...[font="'book antiqua', palatino; color: #003366; font-size: small; line-height: 1.8"]
1) Just about everyday, the "New Notifications" box tells me I've got a "Drive Error" and should restart (I generally ignore it: nothing happens). It never tells me which drive has the issue or what type of problem it is. I'm kind of convinced that this has something to do with Norton AV, but I'm not sure.
...
It takes a bit of getting used to it, but you can take a look at the Event Viewer, and these errors should be in there and which "file" was the culprit. Once you know which file is the issue, solving it might be a bit easier, if it is a software issue, as sometimes you can just uninstall it and then reinstall it.
Hardware issues are tougher. For example, I'm afraid to put W10 on the machine that has that big M-Audio card (the octopus one!!!), because M-Audio has been very poor on drivers over the years. I had an issue with the W7 Pro version that was a hassle and then some, though it "mysteriously" disappeared, and I think it might have happened with a Microsoft update!
The Norton thing. All of my machines, have been done by a process that is normally considered the best. Clean HD, install Windows, immediately install the Security Software, and then any of your programs. The tough part of it all, is that most of us, are simply upgrading (specially when it was free) the computer and there is stuff underneath that ends up getting stuck and locked up and this, normally is an issue. So, on each machine, before updating, I take every thing off, including the security software, so that at the "end" the only thing in the computer is Windows. For my way of seeing it, this allows the Security Software to start fresh, after the new Windows is installed, and I have found this very reliable on all my machines at this time. Only my laptop has not been done, but that one is an Acer, and I will probably by a W10 disk, and wipe that HD clean of all Acer stuff before installing W10 on it. It's a couple of years old, so I might not even bother and just drown that laptop in the Columbia River, as Craig could not even doodle 4 bars of anything on it. I only use it to type and write many of the reviews for my website.
From my old days in technical support, I did not like Norton, or McAfee, as they had a nasty habit of locking up the email programs and have the customers call us at the ISP to fix "their" problem. Just not smart coding. It could mark that email off and do the others ... nooooo ... it has to lock up people's doings and make it harsh and bad for them!
To this day, I do not trust both of those. I have been with F-Secure for 10 plus years, and they have been excellent, and none of my machines had issues, except one of my machines 5 years ago got one of those root things, and their support removed it and all was fine then. It was during that session that I realized that the "process" of setting up a Security Program was the main difference ... or I'm just plain lucky! Well ... poop ... I still have not won the Lottery!
Thanks, Mosh, for the comments. I'll take a shot at Event Viewer, hopefully that will lead me to the perpetrator of the cmd.exe box (if there is one). I find the "flying box" to be more irritating even though it has never shown itself to be harmful in any way. When I get a new machine (unfortunately, about 10 months down the road), basically I intend to do a fresh install on the program SSD drive. The samples drives I'll probably do an Acronis copy to new SSD's; they're probably my "safest" drives anyway. (At this point, I kind of hoping to eliminate any physical drives when I do finally build my new machine. Hopefully, SSD's will continue to drop in price and the build from this point will continue to drop in price as well.) Right now, my "dream machine" comes in at about $5.5K (ouch), but it looks kind of future proof at that price. And that has been my paradigm for spec'ing computers: I try to max them out now, so I don't feel like rebuilding until much later. My current computer is about 6 years old, I think. It still feels pretty quick, but I growing a bit concerned about the HDD's. It's running an i7 2600K oc'ed to 4.5 gHz, 16 GB of RAM (I've yet to max it out, even running Ivory, BFD 3 and Trillian Acoustic Bass samples at the same time), 5 TB of storage spread across 5 HDD's. So far, so good. I've never heard of F-Secure. I'll check them out. I've never had a problem with the internet with any security program I've used. I used Eset, AVG, Norton, and Malware Bytes, but they all seemed pretty stable. Norton used to take a big hit out of the computer's resources, but that was quite some time ago.
“Beer is proof God loves us and wants us to be happy” is attributed to Benjamin Franklin perhaps in error, but the thought remains a worthy sentiment nonetheless.
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