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Red Square Bear posted:I can't remember: is Boot Camp able to boot a Parallels image or is it Parallels can boot a Boot Camp partition? Parallels can boot the Boot Camp partition.
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WorkingStiff posted:Will Windows 10 run native on late model MacBook Pros without Bootcamp /Parallels? If not, does anyone have any tips on getting 10 to run with as little interaction with OSX and the best performance possible? Yes. Here is what you will need to do, subject to my fuzzy memory when I last did this: 1- In Disk Utility, shrink your main partition and leave the empty space for whatever size you want your Windows partition to be 2- Grab a Windows 10 ISO using the Media Creation Tool, if you don't already have one 3- Get a USB stick that doesn't have anything you want to keep on it 4- With the Bootcamp Assistant tool, tell it about your USB stick and your Windows ISO. You can let it bring in Apple drivers but this is not strictly necessary and they may be out of date anyway. 5- STOP Bootcamp Assistant from doing anything else. No partitioning or anything else. 6- Option-boot your USB stick, which should now show up as bootable. Boot it. Let the Windows installer run. Have it create a partition out of the empty space on your disk. Let it finish. Take out the USB stick. Option-boot into Windows.
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Jul 7, 2016 18:40
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Magnus Praeda posted:Parallels can boot the Boot Camp partition. Oh yeah. Apple: compatible with another software manufacturer?  But if you maintain an OS X partition (which you should probably do) then you can at least spin up your primary Windows partition with your parallels license?
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Jul 7, 2016 18:55
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Red Square Bear posted:Oh yeah. Apple: compatible with another software manufacturer? Yeah, it's pretty straightforward. You can also just run the Windows applications as if they were running on OS X (i.e. without actually having to switch between the two desktops constantly).
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Jul 7, 2016 19:02
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Finally was able to install windows 10 after doing some voodoo console commands that Microsoft had as a guide except Microsoft had one of the commands wrong. Had to free up space on the 100mb system partition
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Jul 7, 2016 19:08
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Factor Mystic posted:Yes. Here is what you will need to do, subject to my fuzzy memory when I last did this: Thanks for this - will try it directly. Any other caveats you can think of? Thanks everyone for your advice. I have a MacBook I was given by a former employer just gathering dust because I'm an M$ fanboi, so I figure I'll give this a shot since it's pretty decent hardware.
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Jul 7, 2016 20:14
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I got a new laptop at work (Lenovo P50) and now text is kinda blurry on my multi monitor setup. Laptop native res is 3840x2160, scaling set to 200%. Everything looks perfect on the laptop screen. I have two Asus PA248Q monitors hooked up to it, native res is 1920x1200, scaling set to 100%. Some text looks OK. But a lot of text and icons are terribly blurry. I've tried toggling and tuning ClearType, doesn't seem to help. Also tried toggling "Smooth edges of screen fonts". What is wrong with this thing? edit: found this right after I posted https://plus.google.com/+ArtemRussakovskii/posts/jP3fowd9mFQ Sounds like I'm hosed 
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Jul 7, 2016 20:19
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Windows 10 high DPI screen scaling fails yet again. MS has GOT to fix this somehow. As it is high DPI screens are loving unusable and yet available on most new laptops.
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Jul 7, 2016 20:27
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redeyes posted:Windows 10 high DPI screen scaling fails yet again. MS has GOT to fix this somehow. As it is high DPI screens are loving unusable and yet available on most new laptops. I didn't realize this was just a known issue. What a bummer. Has MS acknowledged it and that they are indeed working on a fix?
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Jul 7, 2016 22:13
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They can't certain applications use vector-font rendering.
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Jul 7, 2016 22:32
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fletcher posted:I didn't realize this was just a known issue. What a bummer. Has MS acknowledged it and that they are indeed working on a fix? It is actually the biggest (in my estimation) problem with Windows 10. I can't sell any laptop with over 1080P screens. ARRG! I don't think I've read they are working on a fix. I also read that MS fired most if not all their beta testers so now the Windows Insiders are the beta testers and it is a loving disaster. 
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Jul 7, 2016 23:39
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What the gently caress is the benefit of Cortana in Edge vs disabling Cortana and using the "Bing Lookup" that shows up in her place? I'm trying to figure out why I would want Microsoft to have my Edge browsing history by enabling Cortana in Edge, exactly what benefits I get from doing that. I'm not completely closed to the privacy issues if there's clear perks from doing so. But from having it on a couple times the only difference I saw was a blue ring next to the same suggestions and different context menu text.
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Jul 8, 2016 04:43
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Hmm new insider build and it doesn't have the evaluation copy and build number on the bottom right so maybe the anniversary update was just pushed out to fast track insiders. The same thing happened for the original release build.
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Jul 8, 2016 13:04
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Lowtechs posted:Hmm new insider build and it doesn't have the evaluation copy and build number on the bottom right so maybe the anniversary update was just pushed out to fast track insiders. The same thing happened for the original release build. Too bad they don't write announcements of these things so we could know for sure.
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Jul 8, 2016 13:39
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Is there a way to edit txt files or extract archives in protected places like Program Files without painstakingly opening notepad/7zip with admin privileges and then browsing to the file in question?
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Jul 8, 2016 19:16
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HMS Boromir posted:Is there a way to edit txt files or extract archives in protected places like Program Files without painstakingly opening notepad/7zip with admin privileges and then browsing to the file in question? Kind of a nuclear option, but can you set notepad/7zip up to always run as admin using the compatability settings? Alternatively, does dragging and dropping a file into an admin-running version of notepad work?
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Jul 8, 2016 19:27
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In-place, probably not. I usually move things to an unprotected place, do what I need to do, then move them back. Maybe a little less annoying than your method?
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Jul 8, 2016 19:29
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Last Chance posted:Alternatively, does dragging and dropping a file into an admin-running version of notepad work? No, for some reason if notepad is running as admin I have to browse to the file to open it. hooah posted:In-place, probably not. I usually move things to an unprotected place, do what I need to do, then move them back. Maybe a little less annoying than your method? Yeah, that seems like it'd save a second or two. I'll go with this if there isn't a more convenient way.
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HMS Boromir posted:Is there a way to edit txt files or extract archives in protected places like Program Files without painstakingly opening notepad/7zip with admin privileges and then browsing to the file in question? One option to make it a little bit more convenient is to have an elevated command prompt running all the time. Then it's just 'start configuration.cfg' or 'start archive.zip'. A limitation with this is that start doesn't support paths.
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Jul 8, 2016 20:23
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HMS Boromir posted:Is there a way to edit txt files or extract archives in protected places like Program Files without painstakingly opening notepad/7zip with admin privileges and then browsing to the file in question? If you launch everything (desktop search) with admin rights, everything it loads has admin rights. Assuming you can search the files easily enough that should be quite painless.
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redeyes posted:Of course all modern apps work fine with high DPI but almost no classic apps. What sort of problems are you having with a high DPI screen? I run with a desktop that has a high DPI display and two low DPI displays, and everything works as expected for the most part. I get occasional issues with mouse pointers being too small or too large, but I attributed that to the fact I'm using per-monitor DPI rather than system-level DPI. Classic apps, ironically enough, have tended to offer the best experience in terms of things that technically aren't high DPI, because if your display scaling is set to 200% or higher, Windows will virtualize the screen DPI such that the application thinks and acts like it's running on a regular 96 DPI screen, then the DWM just stretches the window and its contents without the app even knowing about it. Every app I've seen like this has worked flawlessly. It's the apps that tell Windows they support high DPI displays (and thus end up disabling the built-in stretching behavior) when they don't actually support high DPI that give me the most problems.
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Jul 9, 2016 05:47
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Blurry as hell but at the correct size is hardly 'working flawlessly' in my books
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dissss posted:Blurry as hell but at the correct size is hardly 'working flawlessly' in my books But it doesn't look blurry in the apps they're talking about? And sorry but you're going to have to deal with the fact that applications programmed under conventions from as much as 26 years ago just might not work well on systems with literally 27 times more pixels in the same area of screen space.
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dissss posted:Blurry as hell but at the correct size is hardly 'working flawlessly' in my books It's not blurry, it scales up by straight pixel-doubling. The result basically ends up looking like you just don't have a high DPI monitor for that one app. I see basically no visual difference between the app showing 1:1 on one of my low DPI screens and what it looks like when I drag it to the high DPI screen and it gets scaled up automatically (except that Windows draws the window frame, things like the window title, in high DPI). See this example of a scaled app on top of a native high DPI app for an idea of what it looks like: 
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Jul 9, 2016 23:10
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biznatchio posted:See this example of a scaled app on top of a native high DPI app for an idea of what it looks like: Doesn't look too bad at 200% like in your screenshots but it is really awful at the type of scaled resolutions you'd typically use (my 27" 4k defaults to 150% as does my SP3)
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Please hear my tale of Win10 on MacBook Pro installation woes. So after creating the Windows 10 media in Bootcamp and trying to install to the unallocated space, I'm getting a SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED (igdkmd64.sys) and get stuck in a reboot loop. I know this is an intel display driver issue, but I'm at a loss on how to proceed with the install. This is a 2013 Mac using the intel 4000. Anyone who has successfully done this have any advice?
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Any idea why my Win10 USB key doesn't show up in the boot menu? I used the media creation tool and everything, but I only see my HDD, when I press F8. Key and setup program work fine within Windows. Currently running it to see what it might do. EDIT: It just wants me to do a Reset/Refresh, which won't suffice. ufarn fucked around with this message at 12:54 on Jul 10, 2016 |
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My dad called me this morning about his new-ish laptop. It sounds like it got switched to "use start screen" from "use start menu", but that option was already set to the latter. My mom says she didn't change anything, and the start button doesn't do anything. What the hell happened, and how can we fix this?
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ufarn posted:Any idea why my Win10 USB key doesn't show up in the boot menu? I used the media creation tool and everything, but I only see my HDD, when I press F8. Really early usb 3 can be a shitfest where they just made stuff up as they went and not all old sticks are 100% compatible with the controllers of the time with a generic driver. I've seen one case of that, at least. Can't say how widespread it is.
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Putting it in a case slot, where there is no USB 3, did the trick. Probably my 6yo mobo's poor USB 3 support.
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Is migrating a copy of digital entitlement Win 10 installed on an existing SSD to a new one a licensing minefield? Because I'm going to do that sooner or later.ufarn posted:Putting it in a case slot, where there is no USB 3, did the trick. Probably my 6yo mobo's poor USB 3 support. Or you can disable XHCI when installing Win 10 then enable it back after, or change it to smart auto mode in BIOS. The keyboard and mouse plugged into USB2 ports on my mobo doesn't even work on Win 7 initial boot with XHCI enabled. You think inane computing poo poo like this won't be an issue any longer by AD 2010+, but no.
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hooah posted:My dad called me this morning about his new-ish laptop. It sounds like it got switched to "use start screen" from "use start menu", but that option was already set to the latter. My mom says she didn't change anything, and the start button doesn't do anything. What the hell happened, and how can we fix this? If anyone else runs across this, I'm pretty sure they'd somehow turned on tablet mode. At least, I see similar things happening when I enable that on my own machine.
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Is it normal for the upgrade process to remain on "checking for updates: 0%" for hours at a time? I decided to finally try this out on my gaming machine, ran the upgrade tool, it showed that message for about four hours and then asked me what I wanted to keep. I selected "personal files and apps", and clicked continue, and now it's right back to "checking for updates: 0%". How long do I let it sit there before I assume it's broken?
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Jul 10, 2016 17:38
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Factor Mystic posted:Too bad they don't write announcements of these things so we could know for sure. Well just got updated to a new build and no text on the bottom right corner with a build number so I guess MS decided to stop that showing.
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ToxicFrog posted:Is it normal for the upgrade process to remain on "checking for updates: 0%" for hours at a time? I decided to finally try this out on my gaming machine, ran the upgrade tool, it showed that message for about four hours and then asked me what I wanted to keep. I selected "personal files and apps", and clicked continue, and now it's right back to "checking for updates: 0%". Pull the network cable/shut down the wi-fi and just have it do the install while offline. It'll install fine.
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ufarn posted:Putting it in a case slot, where there is no USB 3, did the trick. Probably my 6yo mobo's poor USB 3 support. Some mobos won't detect USB drives at boot time if they're formatted as NTFS. Formatting it as FAT32 resolves this, if that's the issue.
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I had the latest build update pending overnight and I woke up to my laptop NOT having rebooted. I don't even know whats happening anymore.
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biznatchio posted:It's not blurry, it scales up by straight pixel-doubling. The result basically ends up looking like you just don't have a high DPI monitor for that one app. I see basically no visual difference between the app showing 1:1 on one of my low DPI screens and what it looks like when I drag it to the high DPI screen and it gets scaled up automatically (except that Windows draws the window frame, things like the window title, in high DPI). This application scales correctly but others don't. Outlook, Visual Studio, Powershell ISE will have fuzzy text.
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WorkingStiff posted:Please hear my tale of Win10 on MacBook Pro installation woes. Anyone know of a way to have 10 not install the offending video driver during install? Also, is there a newer .iso available than the one the media creation tool churns out? I just compared them, and it's the same install file from last year that I initially used on another PC...
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biznatchio posted:Classic apps, ironically enough, have tended to offer the best experience in terms of things that technically aren't high DPI, because if your display scaling is set to 200% or higher, Windows will virtualize the screen DPI such that the application thinks and acts like it's running on a regular 96 DPI screen, then the DWM just stretches the window and its contents without the app even knowing about it. Every app I've seen like this has worked flawlessly. Mostly that is true, but there are a handful of APIs that fail to adjust the parameters for the virtualization correctly. And good luck trying to get Microsoft to acknowledge any of those bugs without opening a $$$ support case. Tab8715 posted:This application scales correctly but others don't. Outlook, Visual Studio, Powershell ISE will have fuzzy text. VS2012 seems ok on my work laptop, except the divider in the project settings dialog is nonmovable and isn't adjusted for the hidpi setting. Ika fucked around with this message at 21:16 on Jul 10, 2016 |
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