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Alexander DeLarge posted:I don't get the hate for Windows 10. Disable the telemetry, privacy concerns gone. Don't like UWP? Don't use it. Don't like touchscreen poo poo? Don't go into tablet mode. If you realize that then you have no problem leaving it on. If you think Microsoft is lying and telemetry is an issue then they might as well also be lying about the button to disable it actually doing anything. People are way too hysterical over this as opposed to appreciating that Microsoft is being upfront about what information they collect. All the hysteria is doing is telling the rest of the industry that they should just keep it all a secret because users are dumb.
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havenwaters posted:You could try to figure out what's calling the G drive/plug in a usb stick and set it to G drive with disk management and see what happens next time you reboot. I tried setting a random USB stick to G, but it wasn't an available letter.
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Aug 3, 2016 15:14
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hooah posted:I tried setting a random USB stick to G, but it wasn't an available letter. That's odd. Maybe a partition is hidden but also given the G drive letter. I had a similar but slightly more catastrophic thing happen when I did a bios update. C drive became D drive. System partition became C drive or something. Windows bluescreened on boot because windows was missing. I was lucky though since it still somehow was able to boot into recovery so I could get to a command prompt and run diskpart to fix it.
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Aug 3, 2016 15:19
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Inverness posted:Telemetry isn't a privacy concern. It's not used to collect personal information. The French disagree.
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Aug 3, 2016 15:20
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hooah posted:I tried setting a random USB stick to G, but it wasn't an available letter. Do you have a media card reader or something? Those reserve drive letters but don't actually show up until you cram something in them.
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Aug 3, 2016 15:29
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Just found something called FLEXnet Connect Software Manager in my startup tab. Seems to be connected with installshield. I havent really installed anything lately that would have put it there. I wonder if it has been there but hidden and the update just made it visible.
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Aug 3, 2016 15:39
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OgNar posted:Just found something called FLEXnet Connect Software Manager in my startup tab. That's probably InstallShield's software update service, although mine is just named "Software Updates". Ironically, PSI, which is owned by Flexera, will detect the updater itself as outdated, because they use an obsolete version of MSXML.
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Aug 3, 2016 15:54
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zebez posted:3rd reboot: black screen, it used my TV as main screen, wich was turned off. What exactly happened? Did anyone else experience this? I'm dual booting via Grub and surprisingly the the 7->10 upgrade didn't mess it up. Although I'm not planning on installing AE right now, it'd be good to know. HMS Boromir posted:
Skarsnik posted:Now thats a proper virus 
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Aug 3, 2016 16:10
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EugeneJ posted:Just updated - it bricked my laptop. Can always pop in your windows 10 media and see if a repair fixes things. hooah posted:I tried setting a random USB stick to G, but it wasn't an available letter. Probably this: Arsten posted:Do you have a media card reader or something? Those reserve drive letters but don't actually show up until you cram something in them. That behavior is modified by the "Hide Empty Drives" setting in explorer's view options.
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Aug 3, 2016 16:43
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One last rando question: I have 2 monitors: My main is 144hz and my secondary is 60hz. Ever since jumping onto win10, there's weird screen tearing whenever I move windows around in the secondary monitor. I mean obviously, I'm noticing a difference between the two monitors but the kind of graphical stuttering I'm seeing isn't stuff I'd never gotten even when the refresh rate was 60hz. The only thing I saw related to this was a recommendation to get the latest graphics drivers, which I'm sure I do.
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Aug 3, 2016 17:52
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HMS Boromir posted:
Why is the publisher not Microsoft Corporation?
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Aug 3, 2016 17:52
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MrMoo posted:Why is the publisher not Microsoft Corporation? I suspect they right-clicked and ran notepad as administrator 
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Aug 3, 2016 18:01
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mobby_6kl posted:What exactly happened? Did anyone else experience this? All it did was untick the checkbox for "Time to display list of operating systems" in system startup. I'm using the normal windows bootloader so I don't know if anything happens to Grub.
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Aug 3, 2016 18:09
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Windows 10 still activates fine with a win7/8 key btw on a clean install.
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Aug 3, 2016 18:11
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Don Lapre posted:Windows 10 still activates fine with a win7/8 key btw on a clean install. I've seen a couple of people say this. I take it there's been no official word from MS on why? Does anyone know if an upgrade still works? Using install media obviously.
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Aug 3, 2016 18:35
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Ugh, I just downloaded audacity yesterday. Is the malware something that'd show on Defender/Malwarebytes?
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Aug 3, 2016 18:46
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Endymion FRS MK1 posted:Ugh, I just downloaded audacity yesterday. Is the malware something that'd show on Defender/Malwarebytes? Not yet. Make a recovery USB (you should already have made one) and reboot. If you're using GPT/EFI (you probably are if your computer is relatively new and you didn't upgrade from 7) the malware can't touch you. If you're using MBR you can run the install media and recover the MBR that way.
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Aug 3, 2016 18:58
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chippy posted:I've seen a couple of people say this. I take it there's been no official word from MS on why? Does anyone know if an upgrade still works? Using install media obviously. They made such a huge fuss over the deadline that I imagine they didn't want to officially extend it so they're being coy and pretending it's only for people who need assistive technologies (accessibility features for the handicapped, etc). They're probably not going to cut off free upgrades anytime soon, because they have no incentive to do so.
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Aug 3, 2016 18:59
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plushpuffin posted:They made such a huge fuss over the deadline that I imagine they didn't want to officially extend it so they're being coy and pretending it's only for people who need assistive technologies (accessibility features for the handicapped, etc). They're probably not going to cut off free upgrades anytime soon, because they have no incentive to do so. That doesn't sound like Microsoft. Microsoft is fully transparent, and doesn't do anything without an announced plan - and certainly wouldn't leave anyone hanging without information!
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Aug 3, 2016 19:02
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WattsvilleBlues posted:In the Windows 7 days, you'd have to download three thousand cumulative updates. Remember those days? Yeah. It was today. Building a new Win 7 Enterprise golden image for a VDI environment. Still updating it 
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Aug 3, 2016 20:08
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I'm having issues with the update on my Surface Pro 3, through Windows Update (although now it's not even showing up through Windows Update), the upgrade assistant, and the media creation tool. I get an error, 0x80070002 - 0x20007, "the installation failed in the SAFE_OS phase with an error during INSTALL_DRIVERS operation" and the only thing that I can find pertaining to it is that it might be coming up because of dual booting (I installed Ubuntu long ago to dual boot, blew it away, but I suspect there's probably still things laying around). Any ideas other than a fresh install? I wouldn't mind doing one later on but this is bugging me.
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Aug 3, 2016 20:16
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Morter posted:One last rando question: looking around, this seems to be a pretty common problem with no good solutions. it comes from DWM, the compositor that draws & layers all the stuff on the screen, rendering to a single large surface for all monitors. It's drawing the frames synced to the 144hz monitor, so the 60hz monitor is getting them at the wrong time. sucks that microsoft has not accounted for this, there are definitely ways to overcome this issue. things you could try: 1. if the monitor has the option, run the 144hz one at 120hz instead. Since that's exactly 2x, the frames will be in sync and the 60hz screen will just show every second frame. 2. run the 144hz monitor at 60hz, which kinda sucks but is adequate for windows desktop. games can switch to 144hz if you're running them fullscreen (but if playing windowed or borderless windowed, you'd have to switch back to 144hz manually)
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Aug 3, 2016 20:16
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So I have a thumb drive formated as a Paragon Rescue Kit that I also have been using as a regular flash drive since it acts normally if inserted after the computer has finished booting. At least it did until the AE update. Now it shows up as RAW on both my tower and laptop, but still works as a rescue disk. I'm going to just copy all the stuff from the drive onto my mother's un-updated laptop and then format the drive, but anyone have any ideas why Windows suddenly can't read from a bootable flash drive?
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Aug 3, 2016 20:30
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These are supposedly the details for clean and infected installations of classic shell, so you can check what you got installed: Clean: ClassicShellSetup_4_3_0.exe MD5: e10881b65c27c6e09e5a33cd8bcd99c6 SHA1: a6b06d07fe3b1a7204b1b62c67fbf3c602385364 File size: 7220496 bytes Infected: ClassicShellSetup_4_3_0.exe MD5: c67dff7c65792e6ea24aa748f34b9232 SHA1: 438b6fa7d5a2c7ca49837f403bcbb73c14d46a3e File size: 7148732 bytes
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Aug 3, 2016 21:14
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This is the first Win10 install that didn't end the process by dumping me into a broken desktop. That definitely counts as an improvement, but the afternoon is young.
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Aug 3, 2016 21:15
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Looks like Audacity and MKVToolNix (also hosted on FossHub) have been taken off Chocolatey. Classic Shell is still up but pulls the installer from MediaFire.
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Aug 3, 2016 21:17
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Rusty! posted:Yeah. It was today.
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Aug 3, 2016 21:19
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Edge simply wont allow me to make folders on the Favorites bar. Goddamn annoying.
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Aug 3, 2016 21:34
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As there seem to be more Classic Shell users ITT than in the Infosec one, could someone give me a basic use case for Classic Shell? It seems that someone savvy enough to know they would like such a thing would also be savvy enough to not actually waste time looking through the start menu. Hitting the Windows key then entering the name of the program/doc you want is pretty solid these days. Is there something handy in the changes to the Explorer shell? The site's feature list and screenshots leave me with the impression that the primary user base is people who grew up with Windows XP/2000 and somehow decided it was the golden era of computing that should never have evolved in the decades since.
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Cugel the Clever posted:As there seem to be more Classic Shell users ITT than in the Infosec one, could someone give me a basic use case for Classic Shell? It seems that someone savvy enough to know they would like such a thing would also be savvy enough to not actually waste time looking through the start menu. Hitting the Windows key then entering the name of the program/doc you want is pretty solid these days. Is there something handy in the changes to the Explorer shell? It was way more important in Windows 8 because that start menu took over the whole screen, which was very annoying. Now there's a bunch of people who are used to using it even though they're on 10, and really they don't have a reason to change so long as it doesn't blast you with malware. Like seriously the Windows 8 start screen bullshit was just plain terrible.
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Aug 3, 2016 21:52
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The free upgrade is still working as of this morning. No idea wtf MS is doing not saying so.
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Aug 3, 2016 22:08
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The justifications I've seen for running Classic Shell are:
Some of these may have been addressed in the past year. Some are probably still valid.
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Aug 3, 2016 22:12
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Classic shell search is always slow as hell for me
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Aug 3, 2016 22:17
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Edge no longer slows to a loving crawl when you open too many tabs; I'm up to 20 and it's still fine. It was so half-baked when it was released, so it's great to see that they've actually made substantial improvements over the past year.
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Aug 3, 2016 22:29
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Can anyone explain why Windows 10 search doesn't use fuzzy matching? It's so weird to have to feed Windows a super specific query for it to return anything useful.
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ufarn posted:Can anyone explain why Windows 10 search doesn't use fuzzy matching? It's so weird to have to feed Windows a super specific query for it to return anything useful. I can't even get it to find a drat file in my Downloads folder. I have no idea why MS cannot get this right. Its been broken since Windows 8
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redeyes posted:I can't even get it to find a drat file in my Downloads folder. I have no idea why MS cannot get this right. Its been broken since Windows 8 The tech is still there, Classic Shell exposes the Windows 7 Start search functionality. But the current search is an abomination.
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Aug 3, 2016 22:39
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Take how lovely Windows 10's search function is and then extrapolate that out to the rest of the operating system. Feels good to know this is the new flagship OS we're supposed to run from here on out.
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Eh, the problem is more centered around what retarded project Microsoft is doing elsewhere at the time. Bing looking a little light on users? Shoehorn it into the search function. Xbox could use a boost? Well guess what just showed up instead of your classic Games folder. Surface not making it happen on it's own? Well we'll just commit an entire OS release cycle trying to force people to embrace touch screen oriented controls on a desktop PC.
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Arsten posted:It added back all of the SSDs as "portable drives" in the Explorer pane. Removing them the same way I did in the last version of 10 made it so that the navigation pane always expands to the selected folder and ignores the check mark to stop doing that in Folder options. It also seems to have made a second 500MB partition on my C drive that is identical to the first one? All of the files/etc are the same, with new dates and such. 
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