Lunarsoft Discussion & Issues

Lunarsoft A brief history on Lunarsoft: When I first started I had many friends who needed help cleaning their computers. They knew that I was interested in computers and I was frequently asked if I knew anything about why they would be having popups, errors, slowdowns and many other issues. I would ask them to send me a HijackThis log and I would detail what they were infected with and explain how to remove it. All in a text document and also a .html document. I actually still have one of these. Over time word spread about my skills with malware removal. Requests from friends to help clean their machines or their friends computers grew to a point I could no l…

Please post any suggestions for the Lunarsoft Wiki here. If you would like to see something, anything added, please let us know and provide some detail. We currently have pages discussing the HOSTS file, PC Cleanup, PC Security, Freeware, Safe Mode and a few other pages. We would like to expand the knowledge base and provide more easy to read guides for both members and visitors. All suggestions are welcome!

Welcome! If you're reading this post you may very well be interested in being a part of our staff. We're in need of both Editors and Site Developers. For our Editors, age is no issue but maturity needs to be expressed in the writing. Ideal candidates will write original articles for the frontpage and it's subsections. If you have any experience, tell us about it. If you have a sample of previous work that's an asset as well. Proper English, spelling and grammar skills are a must. Spellchecking documents is fine and even recommended if you feel unsure. Websites such as BetaNews are excellent for news. For the News:Reference the website where the news is com…

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2022-01 Added icons to each forum.

Thursday, I got 2 emails purporting to be from Lunarsoft Forums, saying my account had been locked for security reasons, due to failed login attempts from London and Finland, respectively. They had links to secure my account and change my password. I assumed these were phishing emails, came here and logged in with no problem. I need to change my Yahoo password, actually. I was a little slow dealing with this, been busy trying to migrate my dual-boot setup to an SSD, and convert from MBR to GPT in the process. Thought if I just deleted Linux Mint and installed the latest version after Windows was up and running it would be easy... wrong! Almost there now, though …

Changes so far for 2020: Lunarsoft Frontpage updated to 5.5.1 Lunarsoft Forums upgraded to 4.5 - currently on 4.5.1 Backend updates COVID-19 free tech support promotion Updated frontpage theme to match the new forum theme Retired the unused Windows 7 forums to the Read-Only Archives Changes as of 2020-09-27: Lunarsoft Wiki updated to 1.35 Added new forum, Smart Home Updated group colours on the forums

As always, I've been trying to improve the overall speed and flexibility of the website for users no matter what connection or device they use. Changes as of 2019-02-21: Updated Lunarsoft's forums to 4.4 Added support for posting images with GIPHY Updated WordPress to 5.1 Optimized some things in WordPress. Updated Lunarsoft's wiki to 1.32 Backend updates: PHP 7.3 Removed all Google+ references as the service will be gone in April. Changes as of 2019-03-02: Improving SEO for old news articles. Improving security on and across the website. Enabled two-factor authentication for the forums. Impr…

I saw a recent announcement regarding updates to allow the site to be run using an SSL certificate. Have you considered using Lets Encrypt? It's a free, open-source implementation for acquiring and renewing SSL certificates. This allows you to minimize your operating costs while providing secure browsing to your users. The only catch I can think of is that the certificate won't work for users on XP prior to SP3 (hopefully a vast minority of your users). Thoughts?

I tried including an embedded image in a post the other day but could find no way of doing it. The image button only allows links to third-party URLs (i.e. image-hosting sites) and no way of being able to embed the image in my post. I'm sure I used to be able to do this, but not now. What am I missing? Is it a permissions issue? .

I have always, so far, posted without thinking about tagging. Is there any information on how the Tagging system works and how I should use it? Also, is there an easy way of listing all the existing tags, apart from just looking at the "Popular Tags" item in the sidebar on the main page? Finally, can I now go back to an existing post or topic and add tags now? .

I've noticed recently that sometimes one or two older posts that I have already read some time ago are re-appearing as unread when I next login. Today, there are two posts showing:- Windows XP >> Need a .dll file () Gamer's Hangout >> Mass Effect 3 () However, if I select the View New Content link and then Content I have not read they do not show up. Are these posts/topics that have been (silently) edited or is it a new bug in IP.Board? .

I cant be bothered to upload a forum profile and there are no default ones to select from. I am disappointed.

I'm not sure how, or if it's possible, but a single application thread like the Sysinternals page. Since the description, most links, etc are static, and only the version number and changes would need editing, I wonder if it's possible to have a thread that multiple people could update - without changing the user's status of course? I was going to update a few apps but as I began to do it I realized I was copying the same text over again - why not have a single thread for regularly updated apps popular here at Lunarsoft? If possible, collect a few images from the app's homepage and upload them to use to make for a nice thread home here (app image, download icon et…

I wanted to search for "USB" or "USB performance" and got the highly undesirable message: "One or all of your search keywords were below 4 characters or you searched for words which are not allowed, such as 'html', 'img', etc, please increase the length of these search keywords or choose different keywords." So, this means we cannot very common IT terms less than four characters in length or which are on your forbidden list, which is an extremely bizarre restriction. Not very kosher at all, I reckon! Perhaps you've done it for site performance reasons *I can't imagine why else), but nevertheless ... TIP: To get around this absurd restriction, you can go to "old faithf…

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Only a suggestion If you click either Wiki or News from the forums the links do nothing. The links (IMO) should point to the Start pages unless the user scrolls from within the drop down to a specific page. The Wiki link should point to Main page - instead of https://forums.lunarsoft.net/# - you could remove Main page from drop down (or not). The News link should point to Site - instead of https://forums.lunarsoft.net/# - you could remove Site from drop down (or not).

when clicked took me to Messenger > My Conversations Weird :)

I have proposed a change to the wiki mainpage to begin to unify the styles of the wiki and the forum. You can see my proposed changes to the mainpage here. This came about after a chat with Tarun about making the two areas more coherent.

i thought it might be a good idea if you made wallpapers for the site and include some in anti malware download package after all ur m8 cud be at your house and see lunarsoft.net in ur background then he goes home and logs on comp and checks it out. also what about a sticker for your comp a small one like the designed for windows XP or sumhin. just a small suggestion but think about it.

I used to be able to search an IP.Board by date, irrespective of content. The current Advanced Search dialog provides handy calendar drop-boxes to specify a starting and ending date, but the search then fails because I have left the keywords blank. What I am trying to do is to search for ALL posts that have been made in the last X days - where X is a small number such as 2 or 7 (meaning all posts in the last 2 days or last 7 days). Is this still possible? If so, how do I do it?

I would like to add the forums for Programming Languages,Unattended discussion,entertainment

Where can i find my member Number? How can i get it?