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You don’t need anything extra to do a reinstall, W10 will do it itself.
Settings – Update and Security – Recovery – Reset this PC. You have the choice to keep your files but all the apps will go.
This is a true re-installation, exactly as if you’d done it with an ISO on a USB stick or DVD.
That makes economic sense but the prices make no sense (but who cares).
It was more the fancy TRVs I was thinking of.
I wonder if that will still work.
The article is nearly 2 years old and refers to the technical preview.
W10 has changed a lot since then, the Anniversary Edition is more like Windows 11. For instance going back to the Corporate world it changes the way you deal with roaming profiles, it’s that different.
The geek in me has been looking at all this home automation stuff, then the pragmatist asks what they will actually add to the experience never mind justify the costs.
One useful thing I have found is a wireless home alarm system we’re now doing that is cloud connected and allows you to associate IP cameras will alarm zones. So you can push pictures / live video with an alarm notification.
The company was bought by Hikvision last year and they’re doing a presentation at the up coming roadshow so I’m hoping the integration with Hikvision cameras / NVRs has been completed. That would allow it to integrate with existing analogue (Hikvision) systems. About half our work is dealing with legacy systems.
Any way back to the heating 🙂
I’d keep it simple to start with but make sure the controller is capable of integrating with a Nest / Hive type system for the future.
Then after living with it you can decide if you really do need the full Butler treatment 😉
I suspect it’s time for a Windows reset.
Update: 4 out of 4.
1 from http://tinyurl.com/hyewxvo but as they have a limit of 2 in 10 days I got the other 3 from http://tinyurl.com/hvv5q27
So since October it’s 9 out of 9 activated OK.
Do you really need all this expensive stuff?
We just have manual TRVs on the radiators and that controls the room temperatures just fine. We don’t need it to be exactly 18 degrees here and 20 there. On the rare occasion a room is a bit too cold you get off your bum and turn the TRV up. Usually just for a few minutes.
The boiler controller has a separate timer on it for heating and hot water and over ride buttons if needed, which is hardly ever.
It’s a properly insulated 4 bedroom 3 storey terraced house and last year cost £67 a month for dual fuel (this year will be £75) so I don’t think we’re doing too badly.
Unlike going to LED bulbs on the electric side, IMO the cost savings come from keeping on top of your supplier rather than micro managing the heating controls. My £67 deal has just finished and would have risen to £96 had I done nothing.
I know what you mean about logs, but if you have a look immediately after it’s happened (or know the exact time of the last one) it’s easier. Also you’re looking for anything involving a specific filename.
The thing to do is not get distracted by the red and yellow alerts which you think are show stoppers but are usually just time outs of no consequence. It’s what the scammers do to scare the sh1t out of their victims.
I’m recalling a bit more about it now. It started happening when the customer wanted the McAfee reporting paranoia level increased and these non problems (they weren’t really false positives because they did meet the criteria) started being flagged up by pop ups on the customers screen.
The pain of dealing with it was out weighed by the increased security, but I’m convinced that’s only because us out sourcers were dealing with the issue not the retained security staff (who never had to talk to an end user).
You’ll find a ton of conflicting posts on the internet, most of which revolve around virus activity, which this isn’t.
IIRC whatever is causing the error message, and it isn’t justsched, believes the security certificate (or something similar, I forget the exact term) is way out of date and starts objecting.
So scannow could well fix the issue by updating the exe file that is being objected to. It won’t fix whatever is doing the objecting.
The problem we had is that it’s quite common in the Corporate world to be unable to update even seemingly mundane apps like Adobe Reader because another bit of (usually bespoke) software needs a certain version. Adobe update Reader and change the way things work. Company Z won’t upgrade the bespoke software until someone pays them to. Result is areas of the business on different versions of software.
That’s why I’m suggesting looking at the logs, which no-one ever does, to see if the reason is actually written down rather than guessing.
It could well still be Avast.
Something is intervening and looking at these files as they execute and that’s exactly what antivirus does.
Have a look in Avast’s logs and the Windows System logs in Event Viewer.
Whatever it is will have left a trail.
Are you running McAfee antivirus?
I remember this from work a few years ago. McAfee got snippy about some apps that hadn’t been updated for a while.
This is a tale of free software still not being cheap and TANSTAFL.
I’ve always argued that in the total cost of ownership Windows and Office costs are not that significant. It’s line of business software, and especially it’s customization, where the huge costs lie. SAP, Autocad, Photoshop etc.
That’s not to say that management of your Office (and other) licences isn’t prudent, if only to make sure you’re complying with the numbers you’ve agreed with the likes of MS. The “fines” can be eye watering.
Then there’s the skills of the IT Dept. OK there’s plenty of Linux knowledge in the server dept. but the desktop really is the Wild West compared to that highly controlled area.
I’m afraid there never will be a year of the Linux desktop.
Chrome:
All PCs OK after updating bookmark.
All Androids OK after clearing the cache – Moto G4, Hudl and Fire 8.
Only seems to be affecting Steve.
I’m still on Marshmallow, perhaps it’s a Nougat thing?
Well I’ve got 4 to buy to install tomorrow.
I had that until I changed the bookmark, all OK since.
Yes the realisation it wasn’t going to work started a few years ago.
SAP is a monster and is definitely the tail that wags the dog.
I’m finding Chrome a bit of a pain with things like my UniFi cloud key.
I can’t work out how to add an exception so I don’t get nagged about it not being “private”.
Clearing the browsing data sorted my Android Chrome out.
Same problems in Bristol, which btw has the same mph average as London. Roads being dug up to put transport “improvements” in.
Except we don’t have any public transport other than buses (the new scheme is another bus). No consecutive service on the weekends and the weekdays since the year dot. You may moan when certain modes of transport are mucked about with, but at least you have them to be mucked about with.
We have just been told that the long promised electrification of the railway through Bath to Bristol isn’t going to happen on cost grounds but ohh what a surprise, it is going to Cardiff. Bristol is one of the few cities that makes a £ contribution to UK PLC, not that it seems to do us any good.
I’ve asked this question before. How come even smaller European cities can get their public transportation right and yet we Brits just can’t outside of London. And yes you rail-moaners it is sorted compared to everywhere else, so think how bad it is elsewhere :negative:
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