Recent content by PickyBiker

AutoHaotKey requires learning how to write scripts to program keys. I found something called HotkeyP and figured out how to set it up in about 45 seconds. It is working well for me.

I'll give that a try, thanks!

I am truly tired of typing my email address in forms online. I would like to be able to assign my email address to one of the keyboard function keys. How can that be done?

Thank you. At least it's not something bad. I will just detect this and strip them out in my program before I do anything with json files. Don't know how they suddenly started occurring in json files, but I suspect it was because I was creating them with notepad.

Something is corrupting files on my computer by putting 3 unprintable bytes at the beginning of some files. The characters are unprintable and the hex values are always the same, EF, BB, and BF There are over two hundred files like this on my system. Most of the affected files have the...

Success! downloaded the win 10 install and put it on a USB drive. I deleted the HD partition and did a clean install of win 10 pro using the Win 7 Pro key. Works great. Thanks for all the help@

Frustrated to the max. I have tried most everything listed above except for 2 items: 1. I have not tried a clean direct install of Win 10... That is today's task. 2. I never could find a "compatibility test" download to test the compatibility. Pointer anyone?

That is great information bigbearjedi, thans! Already ran the mem test and the 1TB hard drive is only about 6-months old, but I'll run a good disk test too. I'm going to run the compatibility test right now..

It is an HP Compaql elite 8000 small form factor 32bit system. 4GB Mem, 1TB Hard disk. I have not been able to enter safe mode once it starts the boot - lock up cycle. Yes, good idea, I will make a set of recovery media so I don't have to wade through all the updates again.

Thanks, I have done everything you mentioned except for disabling the AV. This next try is a clean win 7, no extra disks, all standard locs for folders, it will take all day to install the 200 or so updates and I won't even install the AV this time.

I have twice started with a clean install of win 7 and all drivers and MS updates. Then I upgraded to win 10 and the whole download and install appears to work without error. When it finally comes up and asks for the user to login, it accepts the password and when I finally press enter, it just...