Personal computing discussed
anotherengineer wrote:Does anyone still use
-classic shell
-start 8
or other desktop programs with win 8.1?
Captain Ned wrote:anotherengineer wrote:Does anyone still use
-classic shell
-start 8
or other desktop programs with win 8.1?
Classic Shell here. Haven't seen the Start screen since about 10 minutes after loading 8.1.
Welch wrote:Captain Ned wrote:Classic Shell here. Haven't seen the Start screen since about 10 minutes after loading 8.1.
+1 - If it weren't for classic shell, I'd not be able to recommend Windows 8/8.1 to customers because they would be ultimately lost. I'd not be so happy either even though I'm still rocking 7.
anotherengineer wrote:Does anyone still use
-classic shell
-start 8
or other desktop programs with win 8.1?
just brew it! wrote:Welch wrote:Captain Ned wrote:Classic Shell here. Haven't seen the Start screen since about 10 minutes after loading 8.1.
+1 - If it weren't for classic shell, I'd not be able to recommend Windows 8/8.1 to customers because they would be ultimately lost. I'd not be so happy either even though I'm still rocking 7.
My Windows needs are still adequately met by Windows 7; natively at work (where I don't have a choice of Windows versions anyway), or via a VM hosted on my Linux desktop at home. I have no plans to seriously explore later versions of Windows until it becomes necessary, due to migration of the corporate IT environment to something post-7, a need for a Windows-specific 3rd party application at home that requires something newer, or another job change that results in a "need to know".
Given the above, I'd say my Windows "Must Have" program these days is VirtualBox or VMware Player. At work, it lets me run my preferred Linix distro in a VM for development; at home it allows me to run Windows when needed without needing to dual-boot.
Village wrote:f.lux (haven't gotten a linux equiv to work correctly)
anotherengineer wrote:Sorry in advance, this has been mentioned a few times but I can't find the thread(s).
Going to do a fresh 8.1pro install, user has never used anything past windows 7.
So looking for a classic gui interface
-classicshell
-start is back
-start 8
other?????
Plus if it's compatible with W10. Also no problem paying up to $20 for something that's a quality product.
just brew it! wrote:I tend to use CLI for stuff like that. Same tool works as a standalone manual checker for small numbers of files, or can be scripted for larger, more complex tasks. But I guess that's the developer in me...
anotherengineer wrote:I guess I should have specified Windows 7/8.1/10
anotherengineer wrote:Hey just wondering what people use for MD5/SHA checker??
VeraCrypt is a free disk encryption software based on TrueCrypt. It adds enhanced security to the algorithms used for system and partitions encryption making it immune to new developments in brute-force attacks.
For example, when the system partition is encrypted, TrueCrypt uses PBKDF2-RIPEMD160 with 1000 iterations whereas in VeraCrypt we use 327661. And for standard containers and other partitions, TrueCrypt uses at most 2000 iterations but VeraCrypt uses 655331 for RIPEMD160 and 500000 iterations for SHA-2 and Whirlpool.
This enhanced security adds some delay only to the opening of encrypted partitions without any performance impact to the application use phase. This is acceptable to the legitimate owner but it makes it much more harder for an attacker to gain access to the encrypted data.
VeraCrypt storage format is INCOMPATIBLE with TrueCrypt storage format.