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Ditching Dropbox

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I’ve used Dropbox for some time here at TweakHound.com. A few months ago, Dropbox banned links from this site. I corrected the issue they had even though it was in fact bogus. No matter how hard I tried Dropbox would not rectify this situation. Truly poor, almost non-existent customer service. So I have dropped them for both this site and my paid, separate, personal account.
I am now going with MediaFire. They have a free account but I am going with the “Pro” version. It is currently half off at $3.75 per month (U.S.) billed annually or $5 month-to-month. With this I get:
– PC and mobile device access (app)
– Unlimited sharing
– Direct links to files
– 1TB (1000GB) of space
– and 20GB per file among other things.
I will be updating links here as I have time.

Non-USA Readers

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My security program (firewall) for this site is able to filter access to this site or parts of it by country. I want to be sure folks that do not live in the USA are not getting blocked.
If you are not from the USA please leave a comment to let me know you are seeing this site.

Wow! That was fast. Obviously not having issues.

THANK YOU!

New Webhost

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This site never ran like it should with my last 2 Web Hosts. Slow, laggy, plugins not working correctly. Web host blaming the plugins. Plugin support repeatedly blaming the web host server configuration.
You all deserve better as do I.
Fortunately my old friend that hosted this site for many, many years (from it’s inception) is getting back into the web hosting business. He knows what he is doing and is willing to provide personal support and not buck-passing.
I have volunteered to be the first client and sort of guinea pig. I have given him carte blanche to tweak what he wants to. I will provide the details when he is ready to go full time.
This site is now running wicked fast!
Please let me know if you run in to any issues.

Win10 CU – Get Your Control Panel Icons Back

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With the Windows 10 Creators Update some genius at Microsoft thought it would be fun to remove your Control Panel icons. I have seen several articles showing unnecessarily complicated steps to get them back. Use this program, edit the registry, etc.
It is very easy to get these icons back:
[Read more…] about Win10 CU – Get Your Control Panel Icons Back

Please Help Me Find A Whitepaper

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In researching for the Game Only tweak guide I’ve come across several Microsoft articles referencing a whitepaper called:
Windows 10 Processor Power Management – Algorithms and Static Configuration
I’m usually pretty good at hunting down stuff but this one eludes me.
If you can find it please let me know.