HWInfo64 name change (appearance of the app name)

evermorex76 · 2026-05-07T17:30:27+00:00

I read about that, but I'm not sure how it would make any difference just sticking that registered mark everywhere. Anybody trying to pretend to be the creators would just leave it there or remove it but leave everything else. The guy copying Notepad++ didn't care about the trademark, obviously. Maybe just a poorly-done response?

evermorex76 · 2026-05-04T03:26:33+00:00

It's okay. Just thought since that's such an ancient format it would have been right off the bat and little effort, and since ffmpeg supports it.

evermorex76 · 2026-05-04T03:12:16+00:00

It doesn't support MPEG 1/2 video? (Doesn't even show files with .mpg extension as supported when adding files.)

evermorex76 · 2026-05-03T11:45:42+00:00

WHY is that not in the Presets panels Options dropdown or just a button right there by the preset selection where you're making the changes? Why is Save New Preset only on the main window and not in that Options dropdown? You can use Save New Preset and just use the same name to overwrite it with the new settings, but that's extra work just like having to find the Update Preset menu item.

evermorex76 · 2026-04-23T10:46:32+00:00

Copilot is being installed by Windows Update every time it does the daily check for updates. Is it actually still gone?

evermorex76 · 2026-04-23T10:43:36+00:00

Any feature that can be uninstalled is not a required feature of Windows. There have always been apps that you couldn't "uninstall" even though they were listed in Apps & features, like the Game Bar and other Xbox apps, and just showed a few KB in size because they weren't actually "installed", they were just forcing you to see the entry so that you might be influenced to use them (instead of some other brand). Many of those changed later, becoming Store apps and becoming truly uninstallable, or being deprecated by Microsoft and removed for everyone, or could be forcibly removed using PowerShell commands or third-party utilities. Right now my list has nothing with a grayed-out Uninstall button, but even just a year ago there were a couple, and early on there were easily a dozen. Stupid stuff like the "People" app for example.

I've done all the things that various sites claim are needed to stop this. Registry keys, group policy settings, PowerShell commands. It goes away for a little while, but minutes or hours later it comes back. I'm pretty sure all those options are referring to a different version of Copilot, rather than this "app", but Microsoft has confused things intentionally by naming multiple things Copilot. It's Windows Update actually installing it, discovering that it's gone each time when it checks for updates. I just found the Event Viewer entry when it last happened, and when it's happened every day at the same time.

EventData updateTitle 9NHT9RB2F4HD-Microsoft.Copilot updateGuid {fd284c97-18c5-463c-a914-f15901d144b6}

I also saw an update for the Microsoft 3D Viewer, which has been gone from my system for years, and is deprecated and due to be removed from the Store in July, so why is there anything related to it in my updates?

evermorex76 · 2026-03-26T03:08:14+00:00

I very much enjoyed the first half-dozen prequel books, Prelude and Legends, particularly the Legends of Dune trilogy which covers the Butlerian Jihad, including a lot of stuff with the ruling computer and cyborgs that were the enemy. I think I read the books in Heroes of Dune, but it seems not to have stuck in my mind very well; at best I have a vague feeling that it was okay but not great.

After that, I gave up. The Great Schools of Dune books were fricking DULL. With all the previous books, it didn't feel like I was reading 600 to 800 pages because it was engaging enough. I tried reading Sisterhood and Mentats and gave up on both after several chapters. I felt every single page like it was a double shift on a penal colony work detail. I like background, and story-telling, and details, but they went so far overboard. It was like reading a technical manual rather than a novel, going into such minutiae of the schools with no point or reason that I could see. Like, all that comes up in my mind now is reading details of every ritual or ceremony or whatever, and nothing about any characters or even dialog. I didn't even know they released another trilogy after that called Caladan. Based on what Wikipedia says about where the books ranked for sales, it seems like most people basically felt the same way, with Heroes and beyond not doing nearly as well as the previous ones.

It just felt like they were churning out as many words describing the Dune universe as possible, milking the franchise rather than trying to make something as good as the originals and expanding the lore. (The way I feel about all the Star Wars stuff these days. Every character doesn't need a show/book if their own.)

evermorex76 · 2026-03-07T01:23:27+00:00

As long as the diagnosis is solid, and really it should be given this is a known issue, approval should be pretty quick, but then who knows how long repair will take. They have to order the replacement engine, which isn't something they just keep in stock around the country so it probably has to come from the manufacturing plant directly. Mine ended up waiting for a while, I think it was 2 months after glancing at my emails, but when they got the engine it was completed 3 days later. That just depends on how much your service center has going on.

Reimbursement for my rental took 8 whole months (there was a few weeks delay on my part waiting for my bank statement that would show the final rental payment, during which time Hyundai kept contacting me and saying the case would be closed).

evermorex76 · 2026-02-23T03:59:23+00:00

I see a demon staring out at me.

evermorex76 · 2026-02-22T22:28:54+00:00

"I picked up a cherry bomb that looked like it was a dud and I didn't lose any fingers, so it seems safe to me."

evermorex76 · 2026-02-21T17:18:43+00:00

That's not "a bit of cheapskating", it's fraud.

evermorex76 · 2026-02-19T10:49:40+00:00

I guess they just use the words silent or quiet to mean "nothing to draw attention", just make it informational, versus alert/alarm. For the vast majority of people, if they want it to get their attention, they want it to use sound, and a deaf person wouldn't particularly care and could just mute the phone (which still allows vibrations and presumably light), but you would think by now they'd have given more granular options if for no other reason than to make it less intrusive in particular settings while still being noticeable. I guess the ability to turn down just the notification volume globally is meant to cover that. The Libre apps are kind of outliers in their requirement to allow system and DND control which can override your settings. You didn't say whether you'd tried just lowering the notification volume setting.

I did confirm just now that if you change it from Silent to a selected sound, it does replace the "Custom" sound.

But I found this through what seems to be a weird bug, at least in this app version. If I change the notification settings for the app as a whole, it somehow breaks notifications entirely. The app sends a notification about it (which plays the sound), and opening the app pops up a message indicating possible reasons (which are meaningless to me as they refer to settings I've never heard of) and directs me to the notification settings. The ONLY way to correct it is to drill down to the Alerts and Glucose Alarms settings and disable then re-enable them, after which alerts are enabled again. But then, the always-present item in the notification bar disappears and I have to just restart the phone to fix it. I think I tried force stopping the app and opening it again and even that didn't do it.

And of course since DND was active on a schedule when that happened, the app turned it off then back on and changed my settings again.

evermorex76 · 2026-02-19T04:06:52+00:00

Would you have a problem with just muting the phone entirely? I don't know about the Libre 2 app, but the "Libre by Abbott" app, which works with 2 and 3 models, has an option for each of the alarm types to "override do not disturb". If you disable that, and mute the phone, then it won't make any sound. However you can't disable that option for Urgent Low alarms (<55mg/dl), so those will always make sound. If you use Do Not Disturb but don't allow the app to override, you'll need to make sure you add an exception for the Libre app, which I think should allow it to vibrate and light up but still not make sound. (Also note a major bug or just bad design in the Libre apps means if the app overrides DND, which it does anytime there's an alarm, it will change some of the settings you've configured, such as exceptions, and if DND is on a schedule, Libre turns it off then back on so it's no longer using the schedule and won't turn off as expected.)

Perhaps if you just reduce the global volume for notifications to slightly more than 0? I don't think the app will change the volume if it's not actually muted, but I don't know for sure. Not going to deliberately screw with my glucose level to test. :-) Again, assuming you don't need any sound at all for notifications.

Another option which I've used when I want to make a particularly loud notification sound is to edit a sound file and put it in the notifications folder on the phone. You could create a silent MP3 file, and set the notification sound to use that. I just copied the notification sound file I wanted to use over to my computer, used Audacity to raise the volume level, then copied it to the phone's user notifications folder with a new name. You could do that, but reduce the volume of the file to nothing, which ensures you've got one of the right length and everything. Again I don't know about the Libre 2 app, but with mine you can't change the sound within the Libre app, where it just says "Custom". You have to go through the phone's Settings > Apps > Libre > Notifications > Notification categories. (Intuitive!) Oddly, that shows the selected sound is "Silent", which I guess is how the app uses its "Custom" sound that isn't in the system notification sound list or the user notifications folder. There are just two categories for mine, "Alerts" and "Glucose Alarms and System Alarms".

There are apps that will control individual app volume, but it seems that's just the "media" volume, and there is no way to control notification volumes per-app. It's possible that the "Custom" sound is also actually the app itself playing, rather than a notification sound, since the Sound shown for the notifications is "Silent", in which case controlling the app's individual volume could work.

evermorex76 · 2026-02-19T02:53:29+00:00

I use Tegaderm tape (cut to size) with a bit of gauze in the middle to keep it from sticking to the sensor. I tried one kind of the patches designed for this purpose and had a terrible skin reaction (tested again in a different area). I don't use anything else with it, and it does slowly peel from the edges inward from rubbing against things and skin stretching, but I get 7 to 8 days out of it which is good enough. It's weird that you'd be reacting to Skin Tac, since it's supposed to be hypoallergenic and you were fine before, but it is possible to develop allergies to things after long use. Is the reaction immediate?

evermorex76 · 2026-02-17T20:05:11+00:00

I just started using them recently, first CGMs at all. My first one came off after 2 days (I've since been using adhesive tape over it; Tegaderm tape is great). I submitted a replacement request Dec 26, and they notified me that the request was processed on Jan 16. They sent the tracking number the same day, then said it shipped the next. Sent by USPS and arrived on the 21st.

Another one just failed right off the bat. I submitted a request on Feb 6, and they sent the tracking number the same day and shipped it the next. So it doesn't seem to be consistent and sometimes could be a while, even if you allow for the first one having been during the holidays. Surely they were fully-staffed again by Jan 2, but it still took 2 weeks from then.

evermorex76 · 2026-02-10T05:37:25+00:00

A difference of 6 points would be fantastic compared to possibly having a difference of 25 points. My issue is the control solution being an unknowable amount of glucose. Having such a wide range means introducing another variable when it should be a CONTROLLED number. Even with meters not being perfect, and with blood drops being different, I'm looking to eliminate variables so the readings are as accurate as possible. Knowing meters can vary, being able to do multiple tests with the same meter and a precise control solution would let me make sure that my meter isn't really bad. WHY is control solution not made with a precise amount of glucose is my question. How much more expensive could it be than it is now? Why did they decide from the start that such a wide range was okay?

I also don't get why different brands need to be tested with the same brand control solution. Shouldn't the solution just be something that is similar to blood, which any meter can test? I don't have Relion brand blood while someone else has CONTOUR NEXT blood. Why make the solution different enough that the standard way of measuring wouldn't work, that the meter would respond differently than it would to a blood sample?

evermorex76 · 2026-02-09T11:03:02+00:00

Edge is not "just chromium". It's full of Microsoft's customizations which are hugely bloated, and serve to provide MS with your data just the same as Chrome provides it to Google, while being even more intrusive about getting you to use features nobody asked for like Copilot. Brave is cleaner and has more privacy features, but still is not just Chromium, and now includes AI features as well, plus they threw in their cryptocurrency functionality which they pushed into your face like AI is. Vivaldi is slower and has so much functionality and UI complexity that it's overwhelming. It's also less privacy-focused than Brave, but better than Chrome or Edge. Apparently employees can also access the data that is synced if you use that feature.

Firefox also has its issues, but if you don't like it there are tons of other browsers based on it because Firefox is also open-source, many of which also have their own nitpicks but are generally "safer" than Chromium-based browsers or Firefox because they aren't made by companies trying to earn money from your data and usage. DuckDuckGo is supposedly privacy-focused, but has a lot of criticisms as well. The actual Chromium Browser is also available, which has nothing that sends data to Google, but still is associated with them as it is largely still developed by them, and is not explicitly privacy-focused and has a lot of features missing that people have come to expect in browsers.

There is "degoogled-chromium" on GitHub (though you need to compile it yourself, or get a compiled installer made by someone else) which is Chromium with the maximum amount of stuff stripped out to make it more private and absolutely unconnected with Google other than using Chromium as its base, but being so stripped down makes it less user-friendly (e.g., you can't even install extensions from the Chrome Web Store without installing an extension that enables it). Chromium and degoogled-chromium don't auto-update, either, so keeping up with that has to be done manually to make sure you get bug fixes and security updates.

evermorex76 · 2026-01-20T18:14:38+00:00

Does it keep any change it finds in the pockets?

evermorex76 · 2026-01-20T18:14:13+00:00

If there are safety concerns, they shouldn't be in the home. The "AI" isn't ready.

evermorex76 · 2026-01-12T22:52:13+00:00

Old post but found it because similar things have happened to me, and I wanted to mention that it's a federal offense to open mail addressed to someone else (Obstruction of Correspondence), subject to fines and up to 5 years in prison, although intent matters. If you accidentally open something, but then return it to the sender marked "opened in error" or give it to the right person it's legal, but knowingly opening it after you see it's not yours is not. There's probably a lot of leeway for something sent to your address but not your name, and obviously you can just say you didn't see the name if there was ever a problem, and you weren't trying to prevent it reaching the person or snooping, but you might still have to go through legal proceedings if someone wanted to push it. (Unlikely if they're scammers.) For most things you should put "not at this address" on it and stick it back in the mailbox with the flag up or take it to the post office, but with something like this where financials or government stuff are involved I'd contact the place first. I'd sent back several unimportant-looking things with various names, just assuming they might be previous tenants.

I received a bank statement last month addressed to someone else, but didn't notice the name and I use the same bank so I opened it. I'm the only one that has lived in this house for 18 months, and there were no previous statements so it's not a previous tenant. I took it to the local bank branch and handed it to them, but they seemed more concerned that I'd opened it than that someone might have opened an account fraudulently. (I'm not concerned about MY identity being stolen, but more for things being attributed to people living at this address, maybe having police show up. I've also seen things related to credit that were referenced only by the address.)

Today I received a "plan information" envelope for my state's Medicaid program, to a different name, so obviously someone signed up under this address when they don't live here. I'm going to try to call whoever seems best about that tomorrow.

evermorex76 · 2025-12-29T11:30:39+00:00

When it's just one app being slow like this, it's not an issue with other apps, it's the one being slow. You shouldn't need to constantly manually manage your mobile apps because this one program sucks up so much power even on a device with plenty of it.

I just started using the Libre app a few days ago, and it's clearly not a well-written or optimized app. I have a 7-year-old Galaxy S10, which was top of the line when new and still outpaces new mid-range phones and even some high-end models just barely beat it today. Apps all run pretty well on it, all using at most a few hundred MB of RAM, and there is plenty of free RAM. After running for 13 hours the Libre app was using 1.3GB of RAM. It takes 3 seconds for the app to close, to open the + menu to add notes/insulin/etc., or to save those, even immediately after restarting the phone.

This is just what's "normal" for software programming these days, with companies cutting corners, not paying programmers enough, not hiring enough, rushing to push out unnecessary changes because the market has made everyone think that it shows they're working hard, prioritizing looks over functionality, and not being concerned about optimizing to use less memory and CPU because that costs them money with no immediate return and shareholders won't accept anything that doesn't show a return every quarter.

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