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Samizdata posted:I am saying I pretty much HAVE to restart Explorer every time I reboot (and more than once during normal sessions) to keep autohide working. drat, which version of Windows is this broken?
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Buttcoin purse posted:drat, which version of Windows is this broken? Depends on what third-party jank he's got; I haven't had a problem like that since before Windows 2000.
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I have the same problem only on my work computer with Windows 10. It's Dropbox, and reinstalling it didn't fix it.
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mostlygray posted:You can't stop an NMI. The computer must respond in some way, even if it's another login screen. The computer must acknowledge the interrupt. "Do nothing of note" is a valid interrupt handler.
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Wanamingo posted:You know you don't have to figure out Windows 10 by yourself, right? If you can't find something, then you can type your problem into google and it'll spit out an answer. I was looking to type in 'IPCONFIG' on the command line. I changed my workstation to now have my laptop, netbook, and xbox one all together and connected to a switch. Google at that point wouldn't work, since it wasn't on my network. But yeah, you're right.
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So I went to high school in the early 2000's and the school computers had filters on them so you couldn't go to certain websites. The failure was that they failed to block command prompt, so you could type ping https://www.x.com and get an IP address, then type that into the address bar. The software wasn't sophisticated enough to block other pages within even the sites they had blocked, so once you got past the main page you were golden. We thought we were such smooth hackers  and most of my time in the computer lab was spent playing Armagetron and Doom over LAN.
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This thread and other parts of the internet convinced me that Windows 10 is best avoided. My ancient laptop kicked the bucket a few months ago, and I've just been using phone and tablet since. Yesterday, I ordered this bargain basement laptop. No Windows 10! There are few choices out there to avoid the thing. http://www.walmart.com/ip/Refurbish...sional/47085644 The same computer cost $1200 five years ago.
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cheerfullydrab posted:No Windows 10! There are few choices out there to avoid the thing.
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Collateral Damage posted:Or you could just buy any laptop and reinstall Win7 on it. There was also the cheap factor.
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Jul 2, 2016 18:13
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cheerfullydrab posted:This thread and other parts of the internet convinced me that Windows 10 is best avoided. My ancient laptop kicked the bucket a few months ago, and I've just been using phone and tablet since. That's my computer at work. Slap an SSD in it, and it runs really well. Windows 10 also runs well on it.
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Collateral Damage posted:Or you could just buy any laptop and reinstall Win7 on it. Then pray the drivers will work card blanche.
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cheerfullydrab posted:This thread and other parts of the internet convinced me that Windows 10 is best avoided. My ancient laptop kicked the bucket a few months ago, and I've just been using phone and tablet since. So what's your plan for when Windows 7 is no longer supported by Microsoft and your computer gets dragged into a botnet?
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Jul 2, 2016 19:18
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evobatman posted:That's my computer at work. Slap an SSD in it, and it runs really well. Windows 10 also runs well on it. It's definitely obsolete technology, but seems like it will do for my purposes (writing stuff, playing games from the 90's and early 2000's).
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Jul 2, 2016 19:18
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Sir Unimaginative posted:So what's your plan for when Windows 7 is no longer supported by Microsoft and your computer gets dragged into a botnet? Is that really going to happen?
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Jul 2, 2016 19:19
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cheerfullydrab posted:Is that really going to happen? Happened with XP, and we didn't think XP's security model would become impossible to secure until it did, and if anything users have gotten more obtuse and obstinate since its heyday, not less.
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evobatman posted:That's my computer at work. Slap an SSD in it, and it runs really well. Windows 10 also runs well on it. Almost any laptop can be greatly improved this way, IMO. Now that I run SSD's in my gaming computer and laptop I'd never go back to mechanical primary drives. Still great for mass storage though!
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Boiled Water posted:Then pray the drivers will work card blanche. I'm not sure if this is ignorance or wit, but I like it.
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treiz01 posted:Almost any laptop can be greatly improved this way, IMO. Now that I run SSD's in my gaming computer and laptop I'd never go back to mechanical primary drives. Still great for mass storage though! Mechanical hard drives aren't great for anything (they can be described as rust-coated glass platters which primarily exist to fail and, as a useful side effect, store data for a time), they're just least bad for storing terabytes of stuff in a fairly accessible format. They're also slightly less bad for long-term storage than SSDs since SSD data can decay if left unpowered for a year or three, but you should be using archival optical or archival tape or a 'somebody else's problem' server (a/k/a The Fortunately economies of scale are driving down the cost of SSD components, so eventually platter drives should be unjustifiable by any metric, and I look forward to them being enshrined in this thread.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Those gays and their porn am I right? Their simply outrageous
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Buttcoin purse posted:drat, which version of Windows is this broken? Win10 Pro x64. It seems to be tied to the tray display of my email program, but half the time Windows doesn't correct after I clear the alert. So, yeah. And I am not the only person that sees it. I learned the CTRL-SHIFT-right click thing from an article about said problem.
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Samizdata posted:Win10 Pro x64. It seems to be tied to the tray display of my email program, but half the time Windows doesn't correct after I clear the alert. So, yeah. And I am not the only person that sees it. I learned the CTRL-SHIFT-right click thing from an article about said problem. I have a program with a tray notification behavior where it doesn't go away until I click it. Auto-hide stops until I do. I would hunt for the program with the aggressive tray notification behavior.
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cheerfullydrab posted:This thread and other parts of the internet convinced me that Windows 10 is best avoided. My ancient laptop kicked the bucket a few months ago, and I've just been using phone and tablet since. Those are fine aside from the absolutely terrible display - they're solid enough that you can use it as a pretty decent weapon in a pinch. I'd like to say terrible displays are obsolete technology, but most of the current corporate models are just as bad unless you opt for the 1080p option which unfortunately isn't very practical given the state of DPI scaling in Windows in general (especially older apps)
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Sir Unimaginative posted:Mechanical hard drives aren't great for anything nearline storage
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the proper solution to "I need a cheap computer" is buying an old thinkpad T-4*0, T-5*0 or X-2*0 or maybe a dell latitude on ebay, and a little SSD to go with it. I bought a scrap X200 from work with a spinny hard drive and it runs Windows 10 with surprising responsiveness, despite having a core 2 duo.
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sebmojo posted:Their simply outrageous I heard one time there was a guy who looked at gay porns and then HAD GAY SEX!!!
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Jerry Cotton posted:I heard one time there was a guy who looked at gay porns and then HAD GAY SEX!!! This was RIT, nobody was having sex... Just collecting massive amounts of porn, at a time when 2TB means at least half a dozen hard disks dedicated to storing it all (2005). I'm pretty sure my hard drive was 80GB at that point.
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Pham Nuwen posted:This was RIT, nobody was having sex... Just collecting massive amounts of porn, at a time when 2TB means at least half a dozen hard disks dedicated to storing it all (2005). I'm pretty sure my hard drive was 80GB at that point. I'm sorry you couldn't get all the gay porn  But seriously, dating back to BBSs, there's always been more porn available than local HD space and for a long time that seemed like a problem.
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I just remembered when Shannon Doherty was a big thing and then someone up-loaded a Shannen Doherty sex clip unto all the local BBSs and it turned out to be a gay porn bit but the resolution was so low most people didn't even notice.
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Pham Nuwen posted:This was RIT, nobody was having sex... As a fellow grad, RIT is truly the gooniest school.
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Jerry Cotton posted:I'm sorry you couldn't get all the gay porn Direct Connect on a fast campus network back then gave you a taste of what the streaming future would be like: it was so fast to download stuff, why bother keeping anything except your absolute favorite movies (or porn)? Just download it again if you want, it'll only take a minute. I probably downloaded multiple terabytes worth of poo poo, but only kept a few of my favorite movies around because 80GB drive.
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evobatman posted:That's my computer at work. Slap an SSD in it, and it runs really well. Windows 10 also runs well on it. Mine too, complete with Windows 10. Bought second-hand for $230 a few months ago. Runs great but it could really use an SSD. Platter Drives: The Very Best in (soon to be) Obsolete Technology™.
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Collateral Damage posted:Or you could just buy any laptop and reinstall Win7 on it. Not if it has a Skylake CPU - unless you buy an officially supported model, Microsoft says you can get hosed a few years earlier than everyone else using Windows 7. Presumably they're not going to prevent you running Windows 7 on one but they're not going to test their hotfixes or care if they break compatibility. I guess it's unlikely to be an issue but it sucks anyway. It's like Microsoft is spreading FUD about their own software 
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atomicthumbs posted:the proper solution to "I need a cheap computer" is buying an old thinkpad T-4*0, T-5*0 or X-2*0 or maybe a dell latitude on ebay, and a little SSD to go with it. Unpopular opinion - the HP EliteBooks are a better bet than the ThinkPad X/T - the HPs are more durable and cheaper to buy off-lease
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Yeah I honestly think I went with one of the best under-$250 options. Have to think of availability and such when you're talking about the possibilities. Also, again, avoided the terrible-sounding Windows 10.
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This thread is the only one I've seen talking about Windows 10 negatively. In the SH/SC Windows thread it's been overwhelmingly recommended to upgrade.
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In YOSPOS they argue Win 10 vs. Win 7 like people used to argue Win vs. Apple
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IUG posted:This thread is the only one I've seen talking about Windows 10 negatively. In the SH/SC Windows thread it's been overwhelmingly recommended to upgrade. As it has been a free upgrade for a year now, all of the willing-and-ready users have switched. At this point of the upgrade cycle, it's the people who A. have software/hardware with Win 7 dependencies or B. Don't like change. Everyone in group B thinks they're in group A, and most arguing for Win 10 only target group B, so rarely does any side think their concerns are being met in an argument. There are also the security obsessed who don't like the 'spyware' in Windows 10, but I'd seriously question the choice of Windows if that's the type of security concern you have. I wouldn't expect the furor to die down anytime soon.
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I like 10 a lot better than 7, I just have to use legacy software that will not get updated to play nice with 10 until somewhere around the heat death of the universe.
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Here's another one from everyone's favorite adenoidal brit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90ihiTwJPCc Valdemar Poulsen is one of my personal heroes 
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dissss posted:Unpopular opinion - the HP EliteBooks are a better bet than the ThinkPad X/T - the HPs are more durable and cheaper to buy off-lease it's unpopular for a reason
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