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You can have two at the same time: right click on "home" from the menu bar above, and select "Open in New Window"
But I've pretty much abandoned Edge anyway: It is a little faster than Chrome (but not a whole lot) but it's a lot uglier and it's tabs / menu bar take up too much space.
I suspect it won't be faster than Chrome / Firefox for long anyway...
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I just tried this and it worked: Open a second tab in Edge, and drag the tab off the page - you get the red "can't drop" symbol, but ignore that and drop it on the desktop. You get a second window.
Not where you dropped it, obviously, but...
Now drag the tab back to the original Edge window and drop it on the tab bar.
Yes, that's right, you get a third window with your page in, and the previous window goes to the "new tab" page. 
Who wrote this cr@p? 
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Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
modified 16-Aug-15 2:21am.
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Can it be more complicated?
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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It's not that it's complicated, it just that it doesn't work right!
In chrome, drag a tab outside and drop, you get a new window with that page where you dropped it.
Drag the tab onto another Chrome tab bar and it slots right in.
I use this a lot for plagiarism checks, commenting on articles, writing solutions - it's really handy to be able to drag google search results to a different monitor!
It's almost as if everybody at MS is using a Surface, and don't give a fig for what happens on the desktop!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: don't give a fig for what happens on the desktop
The story of Windows 8...
OriginalGriff wrote: everybody at MS is using a Surface
Probably got one for free after MS was unable to sodl the RT version... 
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Now drag the tab back to the original Edge window and drop it on the tab bar.
Yes, that's right, you get a third window with your page in, and the previous window goes to the "new tab" page.
Well, yes, because you're dropping it on the empty bar which effectively activates the 'new window' command. You're supposed to drop it on to a tab in order to integrate it into the existing tab order.
By the same logic, if you drag a tab off the bar you don't get a drop symbol because you're not actually dropping it (in the strict drag and drop sense) only removing it from the tabs. You only have to clear the tabs to create a new window from it, in fact. It's not necessary to leave the confines of the window much less go to the desktop.
It may be a tad unconventional but it makes sense.
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Super Lloyd wrote: I don't think I have been able to have 2 Edge windows open at the same time ... snip ... Am I missing something?
Sanity ?
cheers, Bill
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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Just had an email from a friend, whose email account had evidently been compromised. I'm sure we're all familiar with the situation - email, with nothing indicating the nature of our relationship, with a link (I was sensible enough not to follow). Naturally enough, I didn't click the suspicious link, and let the sender know along with advice to change her password and let her contacts know.
However, I didn't notice the mail immediately because it was (correctly) identified as Spam. During all this it occurred to me that it would be really *freaking* useful if mail clients performed the additional step of noticing suspicious emails from contacts in my address book, and notifying me so that I can, in turn, notify them.
I've sent emails to the mail services I regularly use to suggest this as a future course of action. May I suggest this to other users to contact their email providers.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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 I like that idea. I think I'll integrate something like that into my email client (which I am slowly but surely working on)
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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That feature would require some way to verify that the message actually came from the sender, and wasn't spoofed.
Looking at the "received from" headers wouldn't be enough, because those can also be spoofed.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I requested my password for a site that I hadn't logged into for many years. I got the email and it said exactly,
Quote: You requested that your password for the members area be emailed to you.
Here is your password:
You can login at the URL below:
1) It appears that they will send your password directly via email.
2. It also appears that I may have never logged in before. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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On the bright side, they saved you from pasting that token and then getting your new password. 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Hoy!
You did not copy your password!
You did not copy the URL!
Whassa matter with you? 
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
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Hi All,
Still messing with with Win 10 (like every body!), I still have not found out if Secruity Essetnials installed, went to the Microsoft mother ship to see if there is anything about it, I can see the down loads for 7, 8 & 8.1 but not 10. I think it must be installed as default but I'm not sure. I click the Win 10 tab and it sends me to update to 10. Just paranoid thats all
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Notification Action Centre (near to clock on right) - click then -> All Settings -> Update & Security. and click
2nd item on the left menu. Windows Defender - click ... the settings are in the right pane.
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I thank you sir!
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and I thank you too.
Recently, I've noticed Windows having a few fails on discoverability. How the fudge am I supposed to guess that?
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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As stack overflow often gets mentioned here ... I assume it would be OK to mention other places where knowledge can be shared and acquired.
http://www.tenforums.com/[^] is one such place
modified 1-Aug-19 21:02pm.
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Rob Grainger wrote: How the fudge am I supposed to guess that?
Click on the search bar, type defender settings, and select the Windows Defender Settings option in the list. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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It is present in Windows 10, I have ran it like 10 mins by now. 
Search for: Windows Defender.
Tip: Don't ask Cortana, she might say, "Satya is the defender for Windows".
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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A given: Quote: Tip: Don't ask Cortana,
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I got back late last night from a customer location. It was a six hour drive home to recover from one of the worst planned software rollouts I have been a part of. The project already had a tight deadline when the customer moved up the launch by a full month.
It has been non-stop since mid-April on this project, during which we got very little feedback from the client despite having the application available for testing and approval for the last four months. Originally, we were to have 10 pilot sites for a month and phase in the remaining 50 sites on a schedule. Instead, we got 1 which did a really lousy job of actually using the application through a two-week test period providing very little feedback...not to mention there was not phase-in schedule and we went live with all 60 sites yesterday. 
I figured it might be a little hectic, and we might have a few hiccups, but I was totally unprepared for the onslaught of phone calls about problems they were having. Two people were fielding the back to back phone calls and bombarding me with questions and giving me post-it notes with issues, all reporting major problems with the software. It didn't take long to figure out that a database join in a stored proc was to blame...the day before, the client had asked for some of the options to be removed from a setup screen. Since those options were isolated to a database table and were no longer needed, a developer (who I shall not name here) thought it would be a good idea to comment out the code that created the record in the now defunct table...you know, save a transaction, and all that unnecessary processing...
By the time we caught the error and fixed it, the issue had been compounded when the users failed to see the new item in the list and assumed it didn't get created (can you say duplicates?) This of course, led to confusion when the real problem was corrected, only to now reveal the ugly consequences which now have to be cleaned up over the weekend...not to mention fixing quite a few programming/design flaws that helped lead to the chaos. 
I generally keep my composure, but by 4 PM (knowing I had a 6 hour drive home) I reached a breaking point and posed the rhetorical question to those with hearing distance 'Does anyone have a gun!!!'... thinking 'uh-ho, that was supposed to be my inner voice!...did I really just say that out loud?'
I suppose it could be worse...half of the sites were able to get through it without a problem.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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