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Old 20-03-2018, 08:31 PM
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I'm bu-----d if I know, I just worked my way down the offered list of DSS downloads after using the official site first. The only specific site I recall
is CNET. What beats me is that my recently involuntarily updated W8 to W10
laptop is now displaying one of the two issues with DSS that my new laptop does, but not both yet, which makes me think there must be a connection to W10.
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Old 20-03-2018, 10:44 PM
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Malcolm, I installed and ran CCleaner, and now on my frequently used sites, such as this one, the comp won't remember my user name and password, so I have to go through the rigmarole every time, and, even more annoying,
every few minutes I get a 75mmx60mm blinking window telling me CC has cleaned up x amount from Google Chrome, and the icon on the task bar
blinks whenever it is monitoring. Thank goodness I only tried the
trial, so can get rid of it without it costing me anything; I bet my password situation doesn't go back to normal though. Thank goodness I'm not on my new comp.
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Old 20-03-2018, 11:13 PM
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Malcolm, I installed and ran CCleaner, and now on my frequently used sites, such as this one, the comp won't remember my user name and password, so I have to go through the rigmarole every time, and, even more annoying,
every few minutes I get a 75mmx60mm blinking window telling me CC has cleaned up x amount from Google Chrome, and the icon on the task bar
blinks whenever it is monitoring. Thank goodness I only tried the
trial, so can get rid of it without it costing me anything; I bet my password situation doesn't go back to normal though. Thank goodness I'm not on my new comp.
raymo
I though the use of remember passwords is not very secure. You can un check the clean passwords option but that is only the cleaner section. There is another tab for the registry, very different cleaning system to the registry issues cleaner.

I use a password manager (Dashlane paid version) as I can sync it to different devices.
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Old 21-03-2018, 12:06 AM
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I only use "remember me" on sites that I don't care if someone else accesses
them. I have very convoluted passwords for the only two sites that I like to keep private; and yipee, having deleted CC, my comp now "remembers me"
again, for ---knows what reason.
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Old 21-03-2018, 04:45 PM
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I dug a little deeper, I believe you are confused by 32bit application vs handling 64bit tiff files.
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Old 21-03-2018, 05:52 PM
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Maybe Phil, my poor old octogenarian's brain struggles to get its head
around this stuff.
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Old 31-03-2018, 10:39 AM
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Haven't posted on here for a while but recently found a good alternative to DSS called Sequator. Sorry if it has been mentioned before.

https://sites.google.com/site/sequatorglobal/home

Stacks images very quickly, can put flats and and darks in and it also removes hot pixels. But the feature I like is that you can mask out land if you're dong wide field shots with a landscape.

Pretty good tutorials on youtube such as this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql4bEnJc4hE

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Old 03-04-2018, 11:41 AM
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Just noticed your post Jason; thanks very much, I'll give it a go.
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Old 03-04-2018, 12:14 PM
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A new updated version of DSS that has just been released. There is a thread about it on Cloudy Nights forum.
I use, and like, DSS. No complaints at all.
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Old 03-04-2018, 12:40 PM
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A new updated version of DSS that has just been released. There is a thread about it on Cloudy Nights forum.
I use, and like, DSS. No complaints at all.
Great find Glen
It is even open source now.

(You should post a separate thread about it, some people may not be following this thread.)
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Old 03-04-2018, 12:48 PM
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This is very interesting Glen. I have three laptops, an old very slow one with
W7; DSS has always and still does, work properly, albeit a bit slowly;
a newer one had W8.1 and DSS worked fine until it recently spent an
hour doing what I thought were updates, but emerged with W10.[ This was
done by Microsoft, I didn't initiate anything],DSS still worked for a very short while[a day or two] and then started to develop weird problems, until after a week or two it became unusable.
My new one[W10] had all the weird problems with DSS from the word go.
I reinstalled W10, but it didn't help. Go figure, as the youngsters would say.
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