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On the topic of crapware from SourceForge, here is an article that will make you groan and not want to install any free software.
http://www.howtogeek.com/198622/here...Speed=noscript |
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The answer is of course not to install pointless programs (because most crapware on download.com is in fact the original program itself, granted though that they bundle additional crapware with the original crapware) and for the programs you actually want (rather than the pretty, shiny, awesomely-titled programs with the shiny names and stuff) you should download them from the original website.
And see if the program you want is available in the https://ninite.com installer |
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I find free software at: http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/ and I've gotten a few good pieces of software (like Aiseesoft PDF to Word converter and Amersoft DRM media converter, both of which are offered every few months)), though lately not much that interests me. They also offer reviews which can be helpful.
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I don't use Windows often so I don't know if you can edit your existing task to do that, but you should be able to create a new one with the wakeup and then add your FreeFileSync script as the command to run. Try doing that at a different time of day than the original task and once you are sure it works you can get rid of the version without wakeup. |
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Thanks radius, though due to my working patterns I don't tend to leave my PC in sleep mode, very often, it's usually switched off altogether.
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