Windows 10

Rroff · 12 Mar 2020 at 00:53

I remember someone messing about with one of the RPC exploits at college somewhere around 1999 or so and crashing someone's computer with an "hours" worth of unsaved work on it! they nearly came to blows.

darael · 12 Mar 2020 at 18:03

I still remember a trick in IRC that worked on Windows machines - I think Windows 95 and 98 from memory, which hadn't been updated with Windows Updates.

You could play a sound such as C:\prn\prn.wav to the room and watch as the chat room members dropped like flies.

LoadsaMoney · 12 Mar 2020 at 18:50

The SMB patch just came through - KB4551762

now on OS Build 18363.720

EDIT:

116 vulnerabilities (includes todays SMB one) were patched this month, the biggest so far! :eek:

Deleted member 77746 · 12 Mar 2020 at 20:10

SMB Patched Ditto version. Nightmare this stuff lol

Rroff · 12 Mar 2020 at 20:24

At least they are patching it in a timely fashion I will give them that.

wiiija · 12 Mar 2020 at 20:31

Rroff said:
At least they are patching it in a timely fashion I will give them that.

You feeling alright?

darael · 12 Mar 2020 at 22:25

wiiija said:
You feeling alright?

marc2003 · 13 Mar 2020 at 07:45

My biggest problem with 10 right now is the utterly gimped modern settings and how they're making it more and more difficult to access "classic" control panel items. It's depressing thinking how much worse this is going to get as time moves forward.

Deleted member 77746 · 13 Mar 2020 at 08:29

marc2003 said:
My biggest problem with 10 right now is the utterly gimped modern settings and how they're making it more and more difficult to access "classic" control panel items. It's depressing thinking how much worse this is going to get as time moves forward.

Control panel > View by > Large/Small Icons

or create your desktop shortcut to godmode.

ChrisLX200 · 13 Mar 2020 at 12:30

There's a way around most every Win10 irritation but you do need to know it intimately to make those changes. Coming from Win7 myself it's taken weeks to tweak Win10 into some sort of shape that I can live with but now I'm quite happy with it.

darael · 13 Mar 2020 at 17:16

marc2003 said:
My biggest problem with 10 right now is the utterly gimped modern settings and how they're making it more and more difficult to access "classic" control panel items. It's depressing thinking how much worse this is going to get as time moves forward.

mrbell1984 said:
Control panel > View by > Large/Small Icons

or create your desktop shortcut to godmode.

This is one of the main reasons I like StartIsBack - I choose to have Control Panel shown on the Start menu as it would have done in Windows 7, I simply just need to click on it. I do appreciate that you could just type Control Panel into Windows 10's Start menu, but my way is just more convenient.

Deleted member 77746 · 13 Mar 2020 at 17:28

darael said:
This is one of the main reasons I like StartIsBack - I choose to have Control Panel shown on the Start menu as it would have done in Windows 7, I simply just need to click on it. I do appreciate that you could just type Control Panel into Windows 10's Start menu, but my way is just more convenient.

Add a shortcut to control panel then or a shortcut to god mode?

Safetytrousers · 13 Mar 2020 at 17:36

darael said:
appreciate that you could just type Control Panel into Windows 10's Start menu

I always put a shortcut for Control Panel on the desktop. Also one for sound.
It's the first thing I do on a new installation.

LoadsaMoney · 14 Mar 2020 at 14:56

mrbell1984 said:
SMB Patched Ditto version. Nightmare this stuff lol

Deleted member 77746 · 14 Mar 2020 at 15:35

LoadsaMoney said:

Holy mother ****** I haven't seen that in a loooooooooonnnnngggg time! I used to watch that program without fail!

LoadsaMoney · 14 Mar 2020 at 18:44

mrbell1984 said:
Holy mother ****** I haven't seen that in a loooooooooonnnnngggg time! I used to watch that program without fail!

Yeah same, it was great

darkwildchild79 · 14 Mar 2020 at 19:54

LoadsaMoney said:

Brings back memories

LoadsaMoney · 15 Mar 2020 at 14:09

The theme tunes ace, deeee de deeeeee..............

V F · 15 Mar 2020 at 16:24

LoadsaMoney said:
The theme tunes ace, deeee de deeeeee..............

Good times tv was in the 90s. More so winter after school. Knightmare always made you feel cosy in the winter.

Digital X · 16 Mar 2020 at 08:46

Scrap that.

I fixed it, swapped out to different Powerline Adapters, and used (i think) a CAT 6 cable. Ethernet is good once again.