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AskWoody LoungerI guess I’m the other user of Roboform. Got a few problems, but seems to satisfy most objections. I use long, complex passwords which work on most sires, but websites themselves seem to be hostile to automated password managers in many cases.
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Mikey
AskWoody LoungerI should have mentioned, I also run wired and wireless connections. In the past, I have often found that while I could ping between all pairs OK, I couldn’t establish connections at higher layers. For example, I used to use a cellphone app to connect to a PC to download/upload pictures. The cellphone always used a wireless link, and if the PC was wired, the app wouldn’t connect, although they could ping each other. If I switched the PC to a wireless connection, it worked OK. Right now, 2 W10 PCs are wireless, one is wired; the only one that’s discovered is the wired one, and it’s only discovered on itself. The wireless PCs don’t show any network devices other than those mapped.
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AskWoody LoungerI tried that SMBv1 fix to no avail. My Linux machine uses v2 anyway, but the only way I can connect to it is by mapping — it never appears in the list of Network Devices, nor do the other 2 W10 machines. I can map individual folders on them all.
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AskWoody LoungerI wonder if I could ask my FreeNAS server (a Linux machine) to be the master browser…
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Mikey
AskWoody LoungerI’ve had the same problem for a few years. When Homegroup worked, everything worked fine, but as Homegroup faded away, things started to fail. Right now, I’ve got printers, a Linux machine, lots of Things, and 3 Windows 10/Pro/1809 machines. They all talk together well enough to get along, but…
1) Some W10 machines can see some of the other ones, but not all. No filesharing works as I think it should.
2) Auto-discovery works one-way only for a couple of the W10s.
3) I can map a drive manually to almost everything I need to, but some W10 machines just can’t be found.
Sorry for all the vagueness – I’m making do, with little time to figure out exactly what’s broke on which machines, just wanted to add my $.02 (or less) to support the OP.
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AskWoody LoungerMarch 11, 2019 at 5:00 pm in reply to: MS-DEFCON 2: Make sure your machine’s set to block automatic updates #340285I usually use a non-administrative account, elevating to an administrative account only when needed. I just found that I can’t elevate Settings by right-clicking and selecting “Run as Administrator” as I can with almost any other app (the only option for right-click is “Open”); deferring an update isn’t available to peons. Wazzup?
Running Win 10 Pro 64-bit, 17763.348
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AskWoody LoungerI have used Roboform for years, and am generally happy with it, although it does have one really annoying “feature” they don’t seem to be interested in fixing. One question for the group — does anyone know of an easy way to produce a listing of site name/username/password in clear text, so that I could use Excel to sort and analyze my 573 passwords? Roboform does provide a tool to generate an XML backup file, but all I know about XML is how to spell it.
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AskWoody LoungerI agree that using different passwords for different sites is a way to go. Unfortunately Fred did not attempt to address the issue of reinstalling or moving the saved username/password pair between 1 computer and another one. How could I get my IE/FF/RoboForm data across is the reason why I don’t password manager.
That function is built in to Roboform. It synchronizes changes across all devices, and when a new device is added, the initial install of Roboform grabs all the data stored and brings the new device on line, synchronized with all others.
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Mikey
AskWoody LoungerJuly 11, 2013 at 6:02 am in reply to: Two mice and a keyboard go at once: USB hub to blame? #1400484As you’ve found, matching the plug and socket does not ensure matching the power supplied with the power required. Every small power supply I’ve ever seen is marked in some way with the voltage, type (AC or DC), and current it supplies. Similarly, most devices using a “wall wart” or in-line type of supply are marked with the voltage they require. These markings are often hard to find and/or read, but it’s worth looking for them. It’s also worth using a cheap label-making machine to make labels identifying the voltage and device for all such power supplies as soon as you take them out of the box.
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AskWoody LoungerI (no encryption or database expert) wonder if some of the Bitcoin magic might be used to create a gun registration system that would allow registration and tracking of guns, while guaranteeing the anonymity of gun owners. To satisfy criminal investigation needs, a specific gun’s ownership history might be acessible only in response to a conventional search warrant.
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AskWoody LoungerApril 4, 2013 at 7:10 am in reply to: Synchronising laptop, phone, and desktop for multiple mail accounts #1384899Ought to be a way to keep a single mail store in the cloud somewhere, but synchronizing multiple devices’ simultaneous actions on it would require some cloud-based gatekeeper and conflict resolution mechanism.
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AskWoody LoungerWhen I installed Windows 7 HE (using the same media for each of 3 installs), Microsoft allocated a 55MB “OEM” partition in front of the C: partition on one machine, a 100 MB “System Reserved” partition on a 2nd, and a 251MB “OEM” partition on the 3rd. I rarely use theological arguments, but on these machines, I went by “that which God has given, let not man take away.” On my Pro machine, there was no such partition allocated. Go figure.
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AskWoody LoungerNo problems so far running TT12 on 3 machines running Win 7 HE and Pro.
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AskWoody Lounger“ Consider rebuilding your existing systems with a relatively small, SSD C: boot drive and a larger spinning-platter drive for data.”
I’ve been considering that for years. My real use for that is to switch between my desktop machine and a laptop for travel — I want the identical experience on both machines. I’m almost there, with all real data on cloned E: drives, but haven’t found a way to clone Windows and application settings, histories, etc., which are (I guess) mostly in my Profile. I’ve seen several suggestions re moving your Profile to a non-C: drive, but most of them are followed by comments that that particular method doesn’t work. One suggestion was to put the Profile on another drive during Windows installation[/SIZE][/SIZE][/SIZE][/SIZE][/SIZE][/SIZE][/SIZE] (I SO want to say “sysgen”), but you apparently have to do a scripted install of some kind. I would love to be able to do it after the fact. But — even if I were able to move the profile to my E: drive (on both machines), could I simply copy that Profile back and forth from the desktop to the laptop[/SIZE], along with all my other data? I suspect not.[/SIZE]
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AskWoody LoungerI’ve been using Thunderbird forever and love it. I don’t care if they don’t enhance it for now, but who knows what the future might bring?
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