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Tin Tim posted:Sorry if this is not the right thread for it, but after looking through the forum I couldn't find a better one. Vista is waaaay past it's prime. Try running the Upgrade Assistant and see if your hardware will even support it. You then need to make sure you acquire x64 media because if you just download it from MS it will give you x86 (32 bit) because it detects you are running that.
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WorkingStiff posted:Vista is waaaay past it's prime. Try running the Upgrade Assistant and see if your hardware will even support it. You then need to make sure you acquire x64 media because if you just download it from MS it will give you x86 (32 bit) because it detects you are running that. And on that note, how is Win8 64bit on backwards compatibility? I tend to run a lot of old games/software that may not work anymore with it. If it's anywhere close to how Vista handled such things, then I'm good I believe.
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# ? Sep 26, 2014 18:29 |
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Tin Tim posted:Sorry if this is not the right thread for it, but after looking through the forum I couldn't find a better one. There's no single best answer, but here are some options:
Edit: I can't speak from experience on this, but Windows 8 should be comparable to Vista or Windows 7 for playing older games, as they're pretty similar under the hood.
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# ? Sep 26, 2014 18:30 |
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I'm going to be the devil's advocate and ask why bother? It's a gaming machine that's over 5 years old (since 7 came out in 2009), and there may be a negligible (if any) upgrade to performance for upgrading to a 64bit OS. For that matter, I can't think of any game that needs a 64 bit OS, and if any newer ones do, your hardware is probably already out of date. I'd see if it would live for another year or two, and looking at upgrading when feasible.
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Orcs and Ostriches posted:I'm going to be the devil's advocate and ask why bother? It's a gaming machine that's over 5 years old (since 7 came out in 2009), and there may be a negligible (if any) upgrade to performance for upgrading to a 64bit OS. For that matter, I can't think of any game that needs a 64 bit OS, and if any newer ones do, your hardware is probably already out of date. I'd see if it would live for another year or two, and looking at upgrading when feasible. And to get back to the specific game angle, the new Wasteland 2 made me consider this change. It's built with 4Gig RAM as a baseline in mind, and while I can run the game fine, the big areas require more adress space than what my system can give em, and it crashes due to that. This will probably be smoothed out with performance patches, but it's still a fact that being under 4G of RAM kinda sucks nowadays. So why should I buy a completely new machine, if I already have several good parts and just need to change a few and get a new OS? Toast Museum posted:There's no single best answer, but here are some options: Tin Tim fucked around with this message at 19:07 on Sep 26, 2014 |
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Tin Tim posted:I just need my desktop that I can mess up with pics and files and my windows explorer. Your search for information seems to have been very superficial.
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I installed Windows 8.1 and I've never seen the Metro Interface after the first boot, boot to desktop+classic shell, basically Windows 7 with some improvements.
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Flipperwaldt posted:Yeah, umm, those are definitely not gone in Windows 8. 37th Chamber posted:I installed Windows 8.1 and I've never seen the Metro Interface after the first boot, boot to desktop+classic shell, basically Windows 7 with some improvements. Thanks for the help from y'all btw. I'm just worried that I end up buying an OS that I don't like to use.
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# ? Sep 26, 2014 19:49 |
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Tin Tim posted:a written review lists "Start menu gone, Can't boot to the desktop, You'll want a touchscreen/trackpad gestures/Touch Mouse ,Modern UI will annoy some" as the cons right off the bat, you may understand why I said "gently caress it" right away.
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# ? Sep 26, 2014 20:24 |
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Windows 8 is fine once you make it look like Windows 7. There are significant improvements on the back end. But if you're not comfortable installing something like Classic Shell, stick with 7, because Metro is garbage on a desktop or laptop.
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37th Chamber posted:I installed Windows 8.1 and I've never seen the Metro Interface after the first boot, boot to desktop+classic shell, basically Windows 7 with some improvements. This. I'm using the same setup and I couldnt even tell you the last time that I saw the metro/modern/whatever interface.
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Entropic posted:Windows 8 is fine once you make it look like Windows 7. There are significant improvements on the back end. But if you're not comfortable installing something like Classic Shell, stick with 7, because Metro is garbage on a desktop or laptop. You don't even need to install anything anymore.
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hooah posted:You don't even need to install anything anymore. If you want a traditional start menu, you do. Stock Win8 start button still opens the tile start page.
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37th Chamber posted:If you want a traditional start menu, you do. Stock Win8 start button still opens the tile start page. Yeah, that's true. I was referring to Classic Shell, though. On my own computers, I haven't used the Start Menu in years. Task bar shortcuts (Control Panel) and Launchy are where it's at.
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# ? Sep 26, 2014 23:18 |
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I actually really admire the Win+Q hotkey, truth be told. Works better than Spotlight on Mac.
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# ? Sep 26, 2014 23:27 |
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We have a Win7 PC at work that needs to be on 24/7. A few times a year, we get a sneak Windows Updates attack, and the computer decides to restart at 3am. The problem is that no one will be around and someone will find the computer restarted the next morning. Disabling updates is a bad idea, but is there some way to make sure the computer at least does not reboot at night? Can I set it up so it just kindly asks? I never saw any notification about updates myself, so I have no clue what is causing this. AFAIK it's Windows 7 Pro.
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Grawl posted:We have a Win7 PC at work that needs to be on 24/7. A few times a year, we get a sneak Windows Updates attack, and the computer decides to restart at 3am. The problem is that no one will be around and someone will find the computer restarted the next morning. Set it to download updates but let you choose to install them?
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# ? Sep 27, 2014 03:07 |
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If you still want updates to install automatically you can stop it from restarting with group policy or by setting the following registry key (Assuming a user is logged in).code:
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# ? Sep 27, 2014 04:42 |
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Absolutely no idea which megathread to ask this question in, but this one seems the most likely to be correct. A long time ago there was a thread on HydrogenAudio that collected samples from real music that were particularly hard to encode, and for each track they specifically told what type of audio artifacts to listen for. I can't track down the thread, and I can't find a similar archive anywhere online. Does anyone have a link to either the original thread, or to a resource that would have this information?
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Chuu posted:Absolutely no idea which megathread to ask this question in, but this one seems the most likely to be correct. http://lame.sourceforge.net/quality.php There are several "test cases that need work" here. Typically castanets are very difficult for mp3
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# ? Sep 27, 2014 16:17 |
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My dang PC (Windows 7 64-bit) just wakes up after being put to sleep. It's been doing this about a week. It does this repeatedly through the night. I'm trying to detective it out, and I'm seeing stuff like this:code:
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I dunno, it's been over a year, maybe I'll just reinstall Windows 7.
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# ? Sep 27, 2014 19:27 |
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Sure it's not a hardware issue with the button or something? That's how it looks when I wake my PC up
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baka kaba posted:Sure it's not a hardware issue with the button or something? That's how it looks when I wake my PC up It'd be pretty funny if it were. I doubt it, because then wouldn't it spontaneously sleep as well as wake?
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Prrrrrobably is my uneducated guess! But it might depend on exactly what you have, I just thought I'd throw it out there. Also this isn't a laptop is it? You could try powercfg -devicequery wake_armed and see what actually has the ability to do any waking, maybe check your BIOS too and see if things like wake on AC or wake on LAN are enabled. This might be better suited for the Haus too, with the true pros
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Thanks, I'll try those methods. I know the devices should be fine, unless one of them is just getting old. Weird thing is, I turned off the ability for keyboard/mouse to wake the computer from the Device Manager, but they still do. So maybe some BIOS digging is in order. It's just kind of odd that this happened after over a year, with no hardware changes. The most recent software additions have been Avast (about a month ago) and updating the nVidia graphics drivers. Anyhow, I'll move the show to Haus if it's still bugging me.
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# ? Sep 27, 2014 20:45 |
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Why the hell did they completely gently caress up Windows Easy Transfer for Windows 8.1? Having to use a usb drive is pretty drat annoying.
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Is there currently any legit way to get a Windows 8.1 and/or 8.1 Pro installation ISO without providing a product key? Besides needing one for repair purposes, having to start over at 8.0 to do a clean install is time-consuming as hell.
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Toast Museum posted:Is there currently any legit way to get a Windows 8.1 and/or 8.1 Pro installation ISO without providing a product key? Besides needing one for repair purposes, having to start over at 8.0 to do a clean install is time-consuming as hell. Legitimately? No. You have to use Micorsoft's terrible Upgrade Application with a key to download an ISO., or have some sort of MSDN access. Sources out there to do what you want? Yes. Also keep in mind, using a Windows 8 key to install from Windows 8.1 media requires some work as, for whatever reason, Microsoft felt a glorified service pack needed a new pool of keys. Example of the procedure can be found here http://www.howtogeek.com/187525/how-to-perform-a-clean-install-of-windows-8.1-with-a-windows-8-key/ John Capslocke fucked around with this message at 02:52 on Sep 28, 2014 |
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Toast Museum posted:Is there currently any legit way to get a Windows 8.1 and/or 8.1 Pro installation ISO without providing a product key? Besides needing one for repair purposes, having to start over at 8.0 to do a clean install is time-consuming as hell. 32-bit: http://iso.esd.microsoft.com/W81RPI/8FBC5B738CFD9D29D6956B5DA9DF2DFD4F6C1D8AF/WindowsBlue-ClientwithApps-32bit-English-X1899604.iso 64-bit: http://view.atdmt.com/action/BluePreview_DLISO_Clk?href=http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=302161 From there you can use this link. quote:If you installed Windows 8.1 Preview by booting from ISO media, you can update to the final version of Windows 8.1 Pro using the Windows Store, but your system won't activate until you buy a Windows 8.1 license and product key. You can do this by following the instructions when you activate your system, or by purchasing a DVD of Windows 8.1 Pro. It's the closest thing I could find.
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Windows 8.1 Preview isn't really any better than Windows 8 RTM, given how much "Get to Windows 8.1 Update 1" data you need either way, and also Windows 8.1 Preview will straight-up stop working at some point.
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Can a BitLocker encrypted volume be accessed with only the recovery key (stored on AD), if there is a user set password in use? I had to use a recovery key recently and forgot if I had to input the user key prior to being able to the recovery key.
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I don't get the Windows 8 hate, it only took me a couple days to get used to it.; I also don't like the tile/tablet look, and I almost never see it. Without additional software. All I had to do was right click the Start button instead. I actually like this better than the Start menu now. It helped a lot to make a folder on the desktop for all my daily shortcuts and turn it into a toolbar, all the way on the right hand side, where it turns into a dropdown menu. After that, I set desktop icons to hide by default. Pin anything you use more than that, so that it's even easier to get to. I pinned file explorer to the taskbar all the way to the left, directly next to the Start button, even though its there in the Start context menu. I like 8.1 so much better than 7 now. So much. Everything I need is on my taskbar, no using the start page tiles. No icons showing on desktop, even. JainDoh fucked around with this message at 20:21 on Sep 28, 2014 |
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nilumtil posted:I like 8.1 so much better than 7 now. So much. Everything I need is on my taskbar, no using the start page tiles. No icons showing on desktop, even. I installed Classic Shell to go back to the Win7 look, and that was all it took to fall in love with Win8. My old PC with Win7 (SSD) booted in 22 seconds, this new pc with Win8 (also SSD) boots in 10 seconds. That's just amazing to me. This is my pinned taskbar (file explorer, taskman, resmon, putty, chrome, steam, spotify, qbittorent, mirc, ie, realtemp, msi afterburner, skype):
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Synergy went from donations to paid lifetime licence. Shortly after purchasing a copy, I received some free promo codes. Here you go. [all codes taken] mcbexx fucked around with this message at 07:06 on Sep 29, 2014 |
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mcbexx posted:X7FCX9UG
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mcbexx posted:Synergy went from donations to paid lifetime licence. Took ACHU3S9B, thanks!
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Wasn't Synergy open-source? I seem to recall contributing a patch to it years ago. Is Foxit still a good/safe PDF reader? Apparently they're up to version 7 now and I wasn't keeping track.
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I made the regretful decision of being a tiny SSD for Windows and frequently have to delete stuff to clear up space. Is there an easy way of seeing what non-essential files are taking up all the space and getting rid of it? I usually just search for large files but I think it's a lot of little bullshit files that take up most of the space and it's tough to track down what I can and can't delete to clear up space.
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explosivo posted:I made the regretful decision of being a tiny SSD for Windows and frequently have to delete stuff to clear up space. Is there an easy way of seeing what non-essential files are taking up all the space and getting rid of it? I usually just search for large files but I think it's a lot of little bullshit files that take up most of the space and it's tough to track down what I can and can't delete to clear up space. Well, tools like WinDirStat allow you to easily see the sizes of directories. It won't directly tell you what stuff is non-essential, but you'll be able to see that X directory full of 50 KB files is actually taking up a whole GB. https://windirstat.info/
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^I hate my life.explosivo posted:I made the regretful decision of being a tiny SSD for Windows and frequently have to delete stuff to clear up space. Is there an easy way of seeing what non-essential files are taking up all the space and getting rid of it? I usually just search for large files but I think it's a lot of little bullshit files that take up most of the space and it's tough to track down what I can and can't delete to clear up space. WinDirStat https://windirstat.info/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/windirstat/
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