Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14951 for Mobile and PC (Fast Ring Insiders)

21 posted on 10/25/2016 6:42:06 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper

Stencils !

I have been waiting 30 years for that!!!!

Yeah, right.

When Windows changed from productivity to glitz and glitter, I quit updating. That was AT Windows 7. Beyond that, I have been checking out Linux Mint. It it way behind, but more 'classic' than the later Windows.

As long as my Win7 laptop and desktop keep working, I have no intention to retry Win10 ever again. I did try it for a few days and found it AWFUL.

22 posted on 10/25/2016 7:30:53 AM PDT by TomGuy

Could you pass this on dayglored - it helps people identify all devices feeding on their wireless network.. (download link at bottom of reply)

http://www.komando.com/downloads/2251/see-who-is-stealing-your-internet/2

“This free download provides you with a list of every device connected to your wireless network.”

“Wireless Network Watcher scans your network and shows you the IP address, MAC address, name and manufacturer of the computers, tablets and smartphones it detects on your network.”

Note: Each computer has a unique IP address, or Internet Protocol Address. Some computer hardware have addresses, too. They’re known as MACs, or Media Access Control.

As soon as you boot up Wireless Network Watcher, you’ll see all the detected devices come up on the list. You should be able to recognize all the devices on it. If you don’t, you know somebody is connected without your permission.
Download instructions

Click on the blue link below. Scroll down the page until you see in purple, “Download Wireless Network Watcher with full install/uninstall support (wnetwatcher_setup.exe). Wireless Network Watcher will automatically download. Open the executable file and follow the step-by-step installation instructions.

Download:

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/wireless_network_watcher.html

Description
Wireless Network Watcher is a small utility that scans your wireless network and displays the list of all computers and devices that are currently connected to your network.

23 posted on 10/25/2016 7:38:31 AM PDT by GOPJ ( "An honest public servant can't become rich in politics" - - President Harry S. Truman)

To: deoetdoctrinae

24 posted on 10/25/2016 7:46:43 AM PDT by folkquest (I plan on being cranky for the next 4 years. Hope to crack a political smile at the midterms! :-()

Thanks for the update dayglored.

I looked at your list, went to the article and waded through theirs and could find nothing in the slightest to convince me to move from Win 7.

Keep trying MSFT.

25 posted on 10/25/2016 7:49:24 AM PDT by upchuck (Trump to the White House!! Hillary to the Big House!! h/t Jim Robinson)

> Could you pass this on dayglored - it helps people identify all devices feeding on their wireless network.. (download link at bottom of reply) http://www.komando.com/downloads/2251/see-who-is-stealing-your-internet/2 “This free download provides you with a list of every device connected to your wireless network.”

I'll take a look tonight and maybe post a thread on it. Thanks!!

26 posted on 10/25/2016 8:59:34 AM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")

> I looked at your list, went to the article and waded through theirs and could find nothing in the slightest to convince me to move from Win 7.

Lotta people agree with you, I among them. I use Win10 when I have to, at work, and only because I have to. I have it in a VM at home to support late-night work activities. I've gotten used to it enough that I can get work done in it, but it's a constant struggle against doing things "naturally" which is easy in Win7 and often impossible in Win10.

27 posted on 10/25/2016 9:06:23 AM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")

Thanks dayglored...

Here’s a comment from an earlier thread:

‘Smart’ home devices used as weapons in website attack
10/22/2016 2:50:28 PM PDT · 27 of 38
McGruff to GOPJ

Good tip. I tried it out. A couple of things on my network I can’t identify at the moment. I can vouch for Nirsoft utilities. I’ve used some of them. Amazing tiny programs.

Download site:
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/wireless_network_watcher.html

28 posted on 10/25/2016 9:40:34 AM PDT by GOPJ ( "An honest public servant can't become rich in politics" - - President Harry S. Truman)

Yep, saved you (and likely some others) from having to write, "What the heck do I need to know this for???" :-)

Or worse: "What d'fark did I just read?"

29 posted on 10/25/2016 10:35:05 AM PDT by Tanniker Smith (Rome didn't fall in a day, either.)

...patched your Linux box(es) within the last couple days, right?...

As they say, "Rust never sleeps". ;-D

30 posted on 10/25/2016 1:28:27 PM PDT by GingisK

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