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The drummer we are looking for this is not ... along move, along move ...
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Reinstalling win 10 in a Laptop from the scratch due to problems with the last update (it was long time offline without net).
Grafic card driver installation. Original file is a big exe, that unpacks and executes on its own.
But as I already had the unpacked folder, I wanted to install it directly:
- If you call the setup yourself, you get the message "it can not be called from this location"
- If you call the exe and give an existent folder, you get the message "it could not create the folder" and it deletes the previously generated folder 
- If you try to unpack the things on your own, you can't "because admin privileges are needed" (needles to say that I am admin) [EDIT: just for nitpicky users... I was using the "exe as admin" too)
Only way to install the driver... delete the folder again, let the installer create it, unpack everything and call the setup.exe on its own. Then... it works.
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Chances are it called the setup with parameters which tell it what to do and where - it you don't supply them, it can't do its job.
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I suppose you are right. But i find it a bit intrincate. Nevermind... I just wanted to rant a bit about it.
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Nelek wrote: you can't "because admin privileges are needed" (needles to say that I am admin)
Why do people still make that mistake to this day?
Just because you're part of the admin group doesn't mean you're currently running a process with admin privileges.
Right-click on the EXE, select Run as Admin.
This is a good thing.
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And how do you think I am doing it?
If it worked, I would not rant on it.
EDIT:
Ok, I have to recognize that I didn't do it the first time, but I did afterwards (before posting). And yes, I should have told it explicitelly, since it isn't something obvious.
By the way...
12 different drivers doing exactly the same, don't complain.
this driver being executed by the unpacker has no problem at all with the right levels.
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Nelek wrote: you can't "because admin privileges are needed" (needles to say that I am admin)
Why does windows have this issue to this day?
Any proper operating system would know you have the privileges already and just get it done.
Just download and install a real OS.
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Because Windows will not automatically promote an application above its starting privilege level - and for good reasons. If it did, there would be no point at all in having the layer of security, because any app that wanted it could just have itself promoted.
When / if your "real OS" gets as widespread as Windows, you'll probably learn why it's a Good Idea - at the moment there isn't the mass market, so there are far fewer attacks. If one changes, so will the other ...
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:cough: PrimeOS :cough:
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Lopatir wrote: Why does windows have this issue to this day?
Any proper operating system would know you have the privileges already and just get it done.
"Why doesn't Linux run every command I enter with 'su', since it knows I'm part of the sudoers list, I have the privileges already."
Always running with admin just because you're part of that group as you're suggesting is the equivalent of logging into Linux as root. And that's how pre-Vista versions of Windows used to be. And Microsoft realized they couldn't keep doing things that way.
At least as an admin, you don't have to type in your password every time to grant yourself the admin privilege.
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Remember when computers used to be easy to use?
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I remember my spectrum 128 and my first pentium 75 MHz. It was not easy to use them, but it often was less frustrant than nowadays.
I do recognise that one can do tons of stuff more than before, but IMO things are somehow losing "quality".
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David Crow wrote: Remember when computers used to be easy to use?
Yeah, but they would've been trivial to pwn (yeah, I used that word). OTOH, they weren't connected to the internet back then. Well, not the majority of them. It's been a battle between convenience and security ever since.
Also...it depends how far back you're thinking when you say "easy to use". Some would argue, were they ever? 
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Here's something I can't find the right keywords for googling:
A PC with a six-core processor would be called Hexacore. With an eight-core processor it would be called Octacore.
What would it be called with 32 cores?
I found what the basic multiples of 10 are: hecto, kilo, mega and so forth but I don't know how to put them together to make 32.
Can anyone help with this?
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Duotrigesimacore: Base-32 Conversion Tool[^]
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Brilliant! Thank you.
I might have to come up with a different naming scheme for my PC's however, because that one might be a little long for a network name.
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It's a bit of a mouthful, isn't it? 
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In the soapbox I might have had a witty reply to that one.
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And XXX II Core is going to give entirely the wrong impression!
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Ha! Good one.
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: I might have to come up with a different naming scheme for my PC's however,
32 cores, eh? How about BFG 9000 ?
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God in Heaven! What do you plan to do with that beast?
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Nah, the question is what won't I be able to do with it! I plan to find out....
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