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You'll have two Windows 10 computers, not two Windows 10 keys. 
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HalloKitty posted:If you install Media Player Classic Home Cinema and madVR, in madVR's settings, you can do this easily. Mpc does it without madvr too. It's somewhere in the settings!
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Jul 2, 2016 08:06
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Ghostlight posted:You'll have two Windows 10 computers, not two Windows 10 keys. I'm really hoping that come August, we get a formal, purchasable Win 10 upgrade. If the 'digital entitlement' knocks out the transferrability of my retail 8.1, that's lovely. I'll happily pay to do so, but a full retail purchase of 10 to get a transferrable key would leave me with 2 full licences on my hands.
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Jul 2, 2016 09:24
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Ihmemies posted:Mpc does it without madvr too. It's somewhere in the settings! Ah, OK, I guess I never looked closely enough. But if you care enough about changing the refresh to match the video so you don't use pulldown, then you're probably the kind of person that would want madVR anyway.
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Jul 2, 2016 12:43
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The latest piece in a string of "important" updates M$ is trying to push: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3173040 Yet another fullscreen ad for their new product. Windows can't die fast enough as a platform.
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Jul 2, 2016 13:59
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Kerbtree posted:I'm really hoping that come August, we get a formal, purchasable Win 10 upgrade. If the 'digital entitlement' knocks out the transferrability of my retail 8.1, that's lovely. Anyway the digital entitlement only really takes away transferability of your key in business environments, since if your place of business got audited they'd be fined for say, using the 8.1 key on another computer and for the Windows 10 upgrade. But the 8.1 key itself remains valid, so if you're just using it at home they don't care.
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Jul 2, 2016 14:19
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Charliegrs posted:Cool thanks. I guess I should use my Windows 7 key on my other PC and upgrade it to 10 before July 29th as well? That way I can have 2 Windows 10 keys Two Windows 10 Digital Entitlements. 
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Jul 2, 2016 14:54
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Kerbtree posted:I'm really hoping that come August, we get a formal, purchasable Win 10 upgrade. If the 'digital entitlement' knocks out the transferrability of my retail 8.1, that's lovely. There are places online that sell OEM keys for like $30.
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Jul 2, 2016 14:55
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Ihmemies posted:The latest piece in a string of "important" updates M$ is trying to push: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3173040 Yeah this is nothing at all like the modal dialogs that pop up while watching a fullscreen video on my iPad saying I have to upgrade to iOS vNext. Guess what happens if you hit cancel? It comes back every day.
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Jul 2, 2016 17:03
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Inverness posted:I was about to run my regular image backup using the "Create a system image" option in the control panel.
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Jul 2, 2016 18:42
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Factor Mystic posted:Yeah this is nothing at all like the modal dialogs that pop up while watching a fullscreen video on my iPad saying I have to upgrade to iOS vNext. Guess what happens if you hit cancel? It comes back every day. I'm pretty sure the OS X Updates notification comes back every day, too. The personal problem I have with 10's default update behavior is that it'll install at 2AM, even if there is high utilization or user (keyboard/mouse) utilization. They need to make it a bit smarter.
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Jul 2, 2016 18:49
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"But OSX..." is the "but Amerikkka!" of IT discussions; it's a bad idea no matter who's doing it. I'm actually perfectly fine with having it remind or install automatically by default but there really has to be a way to configure this behavior when it's not desirable for whatever reason.
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Jul 2, 2016 19:54
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mobby_6kl posted:"But OSX..." is the "but Amerikkka!" of IT discussions; it's a bad idea no matter who's doing it. I'm actually perfectly fine with having it remind or install automatically by default but there really has to be a way to configure this behavior when it's not desirable for whatever reason. There is. Go set it to ask you to set an installation time instead of automagically install updates. (And I did it as a response to the iPad update reminders. I could have gone "But Leenucks!"  )
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Jul 2, 2016 20:02
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Yeah sorry, didn't mean this as a direct response to your post. Ios and Android updates are also extremely annoying. For the iphone, I need to wait until IT checks it for compatibility with our apps and what not, and my Android phone couldn't complete the update because of insufficient space. It'd bug me about it, then eventually start downloading and installing it, only to fail every single time. One of my Win7 machines just got a Win10 popup - has the July 29 deadline and "Upgrade now" and "Decline free offer" options. Does "decline" tell it to gently caress off forever? Would it be still possible to start the upgrade manually, if necessary?
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Jul 2, 2016 20:11
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mobby_6kl posted:Yeah sorry, didn't mean this as a direct response to your post. Ios and Android updates are also extremely annoying. For the iphone, I need to wait until IT checks it for compatibility with our apps and what not, and my Android phone couldn't complete the update because of insufficient space. It'd bug me about it, then eventually start downloading and installing it, only to fail every single time. You can start the upgrade manually by downloading the executable from here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10/
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Jul 2, 2016 20:24
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mobby_6kl posted:Yeah sorry, didn't mean this as a direct response to your post. Ios and Android updates are also extremely annoying. For the iphone, I need to wait until IT checks it for compatibility with our apps and what not, and my Android phone couldn't complete the update because of insufficient space. It'd bug me about it, then eventually start downloading and installing it, only to fail every single time. You can do the manual upgrade at any time until July 29th. efb: fishmech 
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Jul 2, 2016 20:25
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So is microsoft going to stop pushing "Update to 10!" updates on windows 7 after July or are they changing them to "Buy 10 now!" instead? Or is this not known?
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Jul 2, 2016 20:35
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So here's a dumb question: which media player do people generally use in Windows these days? VLC has been artifacting on video playback on three different computers for me and I'm a bit tired of it. I noticed Media Player Classic being mentioned in the last couple of pages, is that the general favourite? I'm not really a power user so I don't need a billion features, but VLC has som QoL stuff I'd like to have in whatever replaces it - mainly not having to worry about downloading different codecs like it's the early 2000s, decent handling of subtitles and the in-app subtitle search engine (although I can live without that one). Sorry if there's a readily available answer for this, I scoured the OP and the last few pages but found nothing and Googling just gets me recommendations for VLC.
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Jul 2, 2016 20:43
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Woebin posted:So here's a dumb question: which media player do people generally use in Windows these days? VLC has been artifacting on video playback on three different computers for me and I'm a bit tired of it. I noticed Media Player Classic being mentioned in the last couple of pages, is that the general favourite? Yeah MPC-HC is the way to go. You would only need codec downloads for it if you suddenly needed to play some strange 90s/early 2000s video formats, everything mainstream is already included in it or in Windows proper.
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Jul 2, 2016 20:47
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Plek posted:So is microsoft going to stop pushing "Update to 10!" updates on windows 7 after July or are they changing them to "Buy 10 now!" instead? Or is this not known? I bet they start selling win10 to you instead. They have a working ad platform in place, why stop using it until you succumb and update?
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Jul 2, 2016 20:52
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Plek posted:So is microsoft going to stop pushing "Update to 10!" updates on windows 7 after July or are they changing them to "Buy 10 now!" instead? Or is this not known?
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Jul 2, 2016 21:08
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Plek posted:So is microsoft going to stop pushing "Update to 10!" updates on windows 7 after July or are they changing them to "Buy 10 now!" instead? Or is this not known? After a year they've probably gotten all of the people they wanted to upgrade anyway (non-business customers that aren't going to buy a computer for the next few years). Everyone else is either enterprise customers who pay them lots of money to keep old stuff working, or people who will be forced to switch in the next few years out of attrition. Also keep in mind that worldwide market share is very misleading. Microsoft doesn't care about the large parts of the world that use XP, for example, because they're not the regions that actually pay money for all of these services. In the US, adoption of newer technologies (and W10 in particular in this case) is much faster.
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Jul 2, 2016 21:21
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fishmech posted:Yeah MPC-HC is the way to go. You would only need codec downloads for it if you suddenly needed to play some strange 90s/early 2000s video formats, everything mainstream is already included in it or in Windows proper.
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Jul 2, 2016 21:52
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mobby_6kl posted:"But OSX..." is the "but Amerikkka!" of IT discussions; it's a bad idea no matter who's doing it. I'm actually perfectly fine with having it remind or install automatically by default but there really has to be a way to configure this behavior when it's not desirable for whatever reason. If there's a way to get iOS to not prompt about OS upgrades while watching fullscreen video let me know
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Jul 2, 2016 21:58
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Flipperwaldt posted:http://www.winbeta.org/news/get-windows-10-app-will-removed-windows-78-1-july-29th-free-offer-ends Awesome, so a solid 'maybe.' Although they mentioned removing the previous updates so I guess I will assume they will not start pushing a purchase.
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Jul 2, 2016 22:01
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Woebin posted:This is looking pretty good, thanks.
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Jul 2, 2016 22:06
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Factor Mystic posted:If there's a way to get iOS to not prompt about OS upgrades while watching fullscreen video let me know Upgrade your OS.
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Jul 3, 2016 04:12
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I guess this is the right thread to ask about the Surface 3? I just got one and heard that using a slow micro sd card can impact performance quite a bit. What's the bare minimum I should use for the surface?
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Jul 6, 2016 04:50
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If I buy a new SSD and put it in my machine with my existing HD, can I use my Windows 7 Key to do a clean install of Windows 10 on it, and still boot off my old hard disk into Windows 7? i.e. dual boot for a while until I get everything set up and working on my Windows 10 drive? Or will the Windows 7 install become deactivated once it sees the licence key has been used for an upgrade? I want to take advantage of the free upgrade before it expires but I'm also at a fairly crucial point in a part time degree course so I don't want to take the risk (however small) of having my machine out of service or not having access to software I need for even a couple of days.
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Jul 6, 2016 16:29
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chippy posted:If I buy a new SSD and put it in my machine with my existing HD, can I use my Windows 7 Key to do a clean install of Windows 10 on it, and still boot off my old hard disk into Windows 7? i.e. dual boot for a while until I get everything set up and working on my Windows 10 drive? Or will the Windows 7 install become deactivated once it sees the licence key has been used for an upgrade? You can dual boot in this way in this situation. The key never gets revoked, although it's technically against the licensing rules to do it this way. That really only matter if this computer is going to be used for business stuff though, so don't sweat it. It could be a pain to actually set up the dual boot itself though, since you'll be installing onto separate drives. But the easiest way to do that would be to simply only connect the 10 drive when you want to run 10, and the 7 drive when you want to run 7. fishmech fucked around with this message at 18:11 on Jul 6, 2016 |
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Jul 6, 2016 18:06
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fishmech posted:You can dual boot in this way in this situation. The key never gets revoked, although it's technically against the licensing rules to do it this way. That really only matter if this computer is going to be used for business stuff though, so don't sweat it. Is it really that much of a pain to boot? Don't I just need to change the boot order in the BIOS? In fact, I'm sure in the past when I've had multiple bootable drives in a machine, I've just been asked which one I want to use on startup. Or am I mis-remembering this? Maybe I'm thinking of having two OS installations on the same drive.
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Jul 6, 2016 18:33
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chippy posted:Is it really that much of a pain to boot? Don't I just need to change the boot order in the BIOS? You can do that too, but what I'm talking about is editing the bootloader on the drive itself so that you can select them from a menu at boot time, instead of having to change boot order in BIOS or removing and replacing drives. That said: it's best to remove all drives except the one you'll be installing to anyway, just to make sure you don't accidentally format your existing system disk.
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Jul 6, 2016 19:00
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fishmech posted:You can do that too, but what I'm talking about is editing the bootloader on the drive itself so that you can select them from a menu at boot time, instead of having to change boot order in BIOS or removing and replacing drives.
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Jul 6, 2016 19:11
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Charliegrs posted:This is probably not the case for you, but Spotify was waking my PC up like crazy. I just remember to turn off Spotify before I put my PC to sleep and now it never wakes up. Ugh this would be a perfect troubleshooting option but I use Spotify on my MacBook, not my Windows machine. 
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Jul 6, 2016 21:01
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clockworkjoe posted:I guess this is the right thread to ask about the Surface 3? I just got one and heard that using a slow micro sd card can impact performance quite a bit. What's the bare minimum I should use for the surface? Anyone?
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Jul 7, 2016 02:43
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Cross posting from the laptop thread to get this thread's take: Is Windows 10 Pro recommended for laptops becuase it has bitlocker and laptops generally have more chance to be stolen? Are there cheaper solutions that would work with Home for encryption? Does encryption of the drive makes use slower?
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Jul 7, 2016 05:01
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Red_Fred posted:Cross posting from the laptop thread to get this thread's take:
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Jul 7, 2016 05:58
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clockworkjoe posted:Anyone? What are you trying to use the MicroSD card for, exactly? If it's just to hold some music and pictures and maybe video, then pretty much any card is fast enough. If it's to hold programs you'll be running off the card though, you're going to need to get one as fast as possible, and really should avoid the idea altogether. Currently the absolute fastest microsd cards you can get are around 150 megabyte per second read and write, which will be noticeably slower than modern SSDs, and slightly less expensive ones do about 90 megabytes per second which is still pretty slow. Common ones that aren't very expensive tend to do 10-30 megabytes per second, which will certainly be slower than your onboard storage.
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Jul 7, 2016 15:01
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fishmech posted:What are you trying to use the MicroSD card for, exactly? If it's just to hold some music and pictures and maybe video, then pretty much any card is fast enough. If it's to hold programs you'll be running off the card though, you're going to need to get one as fast as possible, and really should avoid the idea altogether. Probably watch HD videos, so at least a class 10 or even faster than that?
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clockworkjoe posted:Probably watch HD videos, so at least a class 10 or even faster than that? Class 10 would be more than enough until you're getting into 4K resolution videos. Common formats of HD videos tend to have a total bitrate of 16 to 40 megabits per second - which is 2 to 5 megabytes per second. Class 10 means it'll do 10 megabytes per second reads (so long as you don't actually have a counterfeit card) so that'll be just fine - even class 6 would probably be ok.
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