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Started by Dave, January 27, 2017, 10:33:19 PM

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Dave

How's about you pay your next visit to old sneezy wearing a surgical mask and gloves, FB?

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Icarus

Today when I accessed the HAF forum, the first thing I got was a full screen popup that is a survey or opinion poll about HAF. It offered me a chance to win $50.  I closed that screen and later shut off the computer. Now that I have later restarted the computer, dialed HAF, the same polling screen popped up.

Q: is that something the HAF is doing or is it some kind of scam that preys on poor old slobs like me?  I suspect the latter.

Arturo

Quote from: Icarus on April 17, 2017, 01:29:36 AM
Today when I accessed the HAF forum, the first thing I got was a full screen popup that is a survey or opinion poll about HAF. It offered me a chance to win $50.  I closed that screen and later shut off the computer. Now that I have later restarted the computer, dialed HAF, the same polling screen popped up.

Q: is that something the HAF is doing or is it some kind of scam that preys on poor old slobs like me?  I suspect the latter.

It hasn't done it for me so I suspect scam
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Quote from: Icarus on April 17, 2017, 01:29:36 AM
Today when I accessed the HAF forum, the first thing I got was a full screen popup that is a survey or opinion poll about HAF. It offered me a chance to win $50.  I closed that screen and later shut off the computer. Now that I have later restarted the computer, dialed HAF, the same polling screen popped up.

Q: is that something the HAF is doing or is it some kind of scam that preys on poor old slobs like me?  I suspect the latter.
Scam. Nothing to do with HAF. If HAF organised something like this we'd tell people it is happening before we did it.
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Icarus

Than you. I suspected some scheme that would try to sell me a bible, a penis enlarging scheme. or stock in a wildcat oil drilling venture.

Dave

Quote from: Icarus on April 17, 2017, 06:46:30 PM
Than you. I suspected some scheme that would try to sell me a bible, a penis enlarging scheme. or stock in a wildcat oil drilling venture.

Whereabouts do they drill for wild cats then!  :notsure:
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OldGit

No, Glos - they drill things using wildcat oil as a lubricant.  It is said to work well.

Dave

Quote from: OldGit on April 18, 2017, 08:05:27 PM
No, Glos - they drill things using wildcat oil as a lubricant.  It is said to work well.

Ah, they drill the oil out of the wildcats?
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Icarus

Tech guys...Help!!!
At some time in the past my windows 8 system was seized by the evil Microsoft villains. They installed Widows 10 on my PC without my permission, blessing, or method of stopping the uninvited invasion.

In fact I got along well enough with 10. It has some features that are useful or at least useful if I knew how to use them.  Never mind that part. ....It comes to pass that a standard Win 8 built in  program could and did transfer photos from the cameras HDSC card to the PC. That facility has been corrupted by the change from 8 to 10. An unintended flaw in the 10 system.When I explore that malady I find that it is a common flaw.

I have looked all over the place to find a program (app) that I could install to fix the transfer problem. All the apps that I find, promise to transfer I-phone photos to the PC but not from the camera or the card to the PC. I used to use Picasa but that is now considered obsolete and no longer supported by Google or whoever the proprietor is/was.

Is there any hope for my poor ignorant self?  Must I buy a new PC, abandon my former ability to transfer photos and subsequently post them, or take to heavier drinking?

Dave

This is a weird one, Icarus, but the sort of thing that increases my hatred of Microshit.

I seem to remember that my new laptop would not recognise SD cards for a while but cannot remember the fix unfortunately.

However, related to this. Later I found it was not recognising a new archive drive either. In fact it would not recognise the old drive that had worked perfectly with the old W10 laptop. After a bit if investigation I found that my Avira security software was blocking them. It was generating a dialogue box - but it was hidden behind any open windows, including "File manager"! Once I found that I ticked the "always connect" type box and it worked OK thereafter.

Check in you security level settings to see if W10 has set them at max as a default. Check for "hidden" dialogue boxes from your security software as well if you can.

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hermes2015

Icarus, I would like to help, but I have no experience with the iphone. I have come across this site: https://www.imore.com/how-transfer-your-iphone-and-ipad-photos-windows-10

It may help.

I would also check the security settings.
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hermes2015

"Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se."
― Charles Eames

Icarus

Thank you gentlemen. 

I am suspicious of the anti virus app that I am using. AVAST has been particularly picky about what it would allow to enter the PC. I will work on the process of persuading Avast to allow photo loading.

Dave

Anybody having problems posting Imgur links? I can get a link OK but the image does not appear in preview or on posting.

No error messages.
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Dave



Ah! Think I have found the problem, for some reason the file extendion .jpg is not being attached to the link.
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