Yid
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Oi geeks....
I got here....
I got here....
Motspur Hotspur
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I think you're going to need to explain a boot cd/usb Sneeky!
How to create a Hiren's BootCD USB Disk.
Hiren’s BootCD (HBCD) is a bootable CD that contains a set of tools that can help users to fix their computer if their system fails to boot. More specificallywww.wintips.org
Not trying to be an arse here @Yid but I always thinks it helps to know why you are trying to do something. So a boot disc (Hard drive, floppy disc, CD, USB in a nutshell).
When you load an operating system (OS) on a computer it is normally loaded on the hard drive (HDD or SSD),turning the computer on sends a request to the OS to load, you see a Windows screen and then are good to go once it's all loaded.
You can also load an OS onto a mobile form of storage like a CD or Usb stick, then set the computer to load the OS from that. This allows you to get in to the computer and can then make changes to the hard drive such as reloading Window or fixing some setting that may gone wobbly.
Hope that helps. I realise I'm coming across as a patrnising c*nt but I've always found it helpful to know why I'm being asked to do something rather than do this do that.
Sneeky
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Was wondering if Yid was going down the usb route before confusion sets in and I pass on Dorset’s premium rate phone number..
Thread should be renamed patronising cunts tech support....
could be fun
Thread should be renamed patronising cunts tech support....
could be fun Yid
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Honestly lads appreciate the help...
This thing is someone's old work laptop thats sat unused for probably a decade... although opening it up its like new and the battery seems to be holding a charge very very well, but then I'm only trying to log in...
Basically I'd like to get it working so the littlun can do some basic homeschooling with it but I cant get past the log in page above. I'm guessing id need another device to use in order to get in past this log in screen in order to modify anything. I have a Windows desktop and a laptop but how you'd go about that type of witchcraft is a little beyond my capabilities.
I reckon this is a job for the professionals or a case of donating it to the laptops for schools people and maybe getting her another one...
Thanks for the advice but I reckon this is beyond me and my non existent tools.
This thing is someone's old work laptop thats sat unused for probably a decade... although opening it up its like new and the battery seems to be holding a charge very very well, but then I'm only trying to log in...
Basically I'd like to get it working so the littlun can do some basic homeschooling with it but I cant get past the log in page above. I'm guessing id need another device to use in order to get in past this log in screen in order to modify anything. I have a Windows desktop and a laptop but how you'd go about that type of witchcraft is a little beyond my capabilities.
I reckon this is a job for the professionals or a case of donating it to the laptops for schools people and maybe getting her another one...
Thanks for the advice but I reckon this is beyond me and my non existent tools.
Sneeky
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Rookie mistake,
power up the Lappy, when the dell logo appears hit f12
hopefully it don’t ask for a password, if it does then it’s screwdriver time...
power up the Lappy, when the dell logo appears hit f12
hopefully it don’t ask for a password, if it does then it’s screwdriver time...
Style And Glory
On My High Trojan Horse
Founding Member
Now I'm certain Sneeks is a OO agent (double O)
Yid
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Yid
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I might be able to find a USB havent got a disc burner...
Sneeky
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Might be an issue there is no option to boot from usb...
go into the bios setup option and look for anything related to usb and enable it, if poss
might be in onboard devices to enable or across the top should be a boot tab..have a nose in there to see if usb is disabled
go into the bios setup option and look for anything related to usb and enable it, if poss
might be in onboard devices to enable or across the top should be a boot tab..have a nose in there to see if usb is disabled
Sneeky
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Founding Member
Or give this a bash..
Dorset
The Voice Of Reason
Founding Member
I'm enjoying this thread. Windoze stuff is always good for a laugh.
Has anyone thought of just buying a 'doze XP disk off of Ebay? Would that be a dumb idea? Probably, I'm right out of touch with this last century computer stuff. I always used to find that reinstalling the operating system that dropped out of the hairy arse of satan was easier if you had installation media. Have you checked that the gas mantle is working correctly?
Has anyone thought of just buying a 'doze XP disk off of Ebay? Would that be a dumb idea? Probably, I'm right out of touch with this last century computer stuff. I always used to find that reinstalling the operating system that dropped out of the hairy arse of satan was easier if you had installation media. Have you checked that the gas mantle is working correctly?
Sneeky
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Need to clean this thread up after, don’t want naughty stuff left lying around..
oh and need to take it off the domain on to HOME so it don’t talk back.
oh and need to take it off the domain on to HOME so it don’t talk back.
Sneeky
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Founding Member
Checklist when in,
take off domain
clear out ip settings/dns
create nippers account, log in and test
delete old user account
connect to internet
install and run Ccleaner and malewarebytes (free)
www.ccleaner.com 
www.malwarebytes.com
get a usb mouse...
take off domain
clear out ip settings/dns
create nippers account, log in and test
delete old user account
connect to internet
install and run Ccleaner and malewarebytes (free)
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spurious
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So. I, uh, obtain most of my entertainment (movies, shows, etc.) from non-legit sources. I find that lately all the English-language stuff has subtitles in some obscure language, but any non-English stuff I try to watch doesn't have subtitles at all.
I'm sure the code is embedded in the file somewhere, but can't seem to figure out how to turn them on or off.
Anybody out there know how to do this?
I'm sure the code is embedded in the file somewhere, but can't seem to figure out how to turn them on or off.
Anybody out there know how to do this?
USspur
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bought a 3d printer for my dental office. very excited for delivery and to start playing with it
Style And Glory
On My High Trojan Horse
Founding Member
Enter the "best manager" materials & send to N17
Yid
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Founding Member
Found this yesterday... legit version brought through student scheme... do I just boot from USB...?
Sneeky
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That’s Microsoft office,
Dorset
The Voice Of Reason
Founding Member
You are tenacious innit? You are going to make that old dinosaur come back to life eh? I don't think that will work as it seems to be Microsoft Office not Windoze, but then I have wiped everything to do with Microshit from my brain as the memories are too traumatic to deal with so maybe it will.
Yid
Moderator
Founding Member
FUUUUCK....
MOURINHIO IS A CUNT....
MOURINHIO IS A CUNT....
Sneeky
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Founding Member
Bump,
google 33mail.com
it allows unlimited throw away email addresses.
The use,
you want to buy something that requires an email, you complete the purchase only to be spammed to fuk by the company AND sold on to others.
Set up a free account that forwards emails to your preferred address.
google 33mail.com
it allows unlimited throw away email addresses.
The use,
you want to buy something that requires an email, you complete the purchase only to be spammed to fuk by the company AND sold on to others.
Set up a free account that forwards emails to your preferred address.
Yid
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Founding Member
Òooooooooooooo...
Just went stark raving fucking mental and defied she who must not be named....
I brought a soundbar... a fucking huge expensive dogs bollocks of a cunting one that does amazing geeky shit and is great...
It's the Samsung Q950A and it apparently does Atmos... that is where it does sound magic and fires sounds off the ceiling to make it sound like the stuff is happening around above and behind you and things like that...
It's got loads of other DTSX and Dolbys and other things that sound a bit like things I heard at the clap clinic once upon a time... but I looked online and the audiophiles are saying its proppa... like not just good but proppa proppa. Like as good as a full set up of wired geeky shit that costs thousands more and is wayyyyyy harder to set up and shit.
Ohhhh yeah and it's wireless... so just power leads to the sub woofer (that spelling don't look right) and the rear "satelite" speakers (that also do some Atmos things).
It had numbers near the description that I think relate to the speakers it has 11.1.4...
I think that means 11 at the front doing magic (11 seems a bit much but I suppose magic is magic and needs speakers),1 for the woofer (still doesn't look right to me),and 4 for the satelites
Anyway I won't have any testosterone left by the time it gets here as the wife is 1,000,000% going to rip my testicles from my lifeless corpse as soon as she sees how much I have spunked on it.
The "but it was half price, I saved X amount of money".... did not work.
Just went stark raving fucking mental and defied she who must not be named....
I brought a soundbar... a fucking huge expensive dogs bollocks of a cunting one that does amazing geeky shit and is great...
It's the Samsung Q950A and it apparently does Atmos... that is where it does sound magic and fires sounds off the ceiling to make it sound like the stuff is happening around above and behind you and things like that...
It's got loads of other DTSX and Dolbys and other things that sound a bit like things I heard at the clap clinic once upon a time... but I looked online and the audiophiles are saying its proppa... like not just good but proppa proppa. Like as good as a full set up of wired geeky shit that costs thousands more and is wayyyyyy harder to set up and shit.
Ohhhh yeah and it's wireless... so just power leads to the sub woofer (that spelling don't look right) and the rear "satelite" speakers (that also do some Atmos things).
It had numbers near the description that I think relate to the speakers it has 11.1.4...
I think that means 11 at the front doing magic (11 seems a bit much but I suppose magic is magic and needs speakers),1 for the woofer (still doesn't look right to me),and 4 for the satelites
Anyway I won't have any testosterone left by the time it gets here as the wife is 1,000,000% going to rip my testicles from my lifeless corpse as soon as she sees how much I have spunked on it.
The "but it was half price, I saved X amount of money".... did not work.
Dorset
The Voice Of Reason
Founding Member
RIP Yid, he will be sadly missed. He has bought a proper nice soundbar, every man deserves to be able to listen to their telly eh? He did what we we all wished we had the guts to do. I have told myself so many times that a shiney new PRS CE 24 guitar is going to be ordered, but I have never had the gonads to press that 'buy now' button. I have mentioned to her how my life would be complete with that beautiful guitar, how it is half the price of the 594, but all she says is "Why do you need another guitar, you have got 4 already?" She has more than 4 pairs of shoes, yet I am condemned top a life with just 4 guitars. I also need a Telecaster and a Gibson SG for my collection, no fucking chance!
I also fancied a decent sound system for our telly, I was going for the Sony HT-A9 with a big bastard sub-woofer, but we used to have a surround sound doodah years ago and she didn't like it. OK, it can be disconcerting to hear murderers apparently in your garden or psycho killers creeping up behind you, but if the movie geezers are going to put that much time and effort into providing that soundtrack then it is just flippin' rude not to buy a decent sound system innit?
SpiderSpurs
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Just got myself a Pixel 8 Pro - nice piece of kit.
Yid
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Yep had one about a year and they're mint...