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With this tool, I found out that, my laptop "Right Alt" button, actually sends "LControl down + RAlt down + LControl up + RAlt up", really, I really don't know why it sends the "LControl" keystroke, but, after knowing that, it really allowed me to avoid a lot of problems, for example, remapping key...

Hopefully this will be THE standard by 2020. AV1 has good chances to make it there. It's royalty-free, and performs better (i.e. can achieve either better compression ratio or quality) than anything else. It would be stupid for companies and individuals not to utilize AV1.* * (except for MPEG-LA me...

webfork wrote: ↑

Sun Sep 30, 2018 1:01 pm

Software disenchantment" - a great article on exceedingly inefficient software

Thanks, nice read.

Piriform has now written a comprehensive list of the data CCleaner sends by default. It still looks a little excessive to me (the data includes button clicks in CCleaner, the installed AV, whether or not you have Chrome installed, and if CCleaner crashes, the full list of programs that were running ...

thepiney wrote: ↑

Sun Aug 26, 2018 12:23 pm

I usually lose the rest when explaining how to update UniExtract so they can extract the setup files

Simply recommend Universal Extractor 2 instead, it's already up to date.

Mozilla notes they're strained resource-wise with maintaining a legacy XUL catalog, though given their claimed motivation that none of the latest versions of Firefox support XUL (ignoring Firefox forks like Palemoon, etc which still use them) surely in that case fewer users would be downloading the...

I think we need to nail down on how to present _both_ pinned comments and 10 most recent comments, both of which must be presented before the hidden comments. Maybe we can have this: == Top 5 voted comments == == Most recent 10 comments == == Click to show all comments (most recent first) == Any ot...

I'm opposed. Meltdown and Spectre got attention primarily because 1) as hardware flaws, fully fixing them requires new CPUs, and 2) because they affect such a broad range of software. Other than that, they aren't very severe vulnerabilities: just information leaks. I can appreciate that the Presto ...

I think auto-hide is a good idea.

PFW users: I've generally made it the policy of the site to add a security notice to some of the older browsers mentioned here on the site ( here are a few examples ) to help set expectations for visitors. People have strong feelings about Opera (Presto) so I wanted to poll site users before making...

Specular wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 31, 2018 10:34 pm

Are the portable install steps still valid, or have they been superseded by these steps on the official site for the 'standalone' install?

AFAIK, our install steps are still valid, and the main reason why we recommend extracting the installer is that doing so avoids running it.

As a long-term solution, I will look to replace the C drive (is NTFS) in my laptop with an SSD drive. I just wonder how Microsoft licenses that Windows 8 that I have. It was paid for when I purchased my laptop as part of the total price. But I wonder if it is licensed "per user" (meaning, no extra ...

The C drive on my Toshiba Satellite P875-S730 is an NTFS drive. I purchased it with the Windows 8 OS built in. After a few tweaks to make the Windows 8 user friendly, I loved it. I go with the brand as some sort of quality warranty, according to user reviews - at the time Toshiba Satellite was the ...

However, another interesting question comes up : if I were to just do a simple copy and paste, for example I copy 50 gigabytes of movies and paste them onto an external backup drive, which program would I need to tweak for I/O priority then (assuming, I am not using additional copy programs like Te...

You can launch Process Hacker, right-click a process and reduce its I/O priority.