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Ah, thanks. I thought it might be on the forum end. I mean after a restart I can browse a while before it happens. I just hadn't been using my laptop enough to trigger it yet, I suppose. e: disabling IPv6 in my network adapter fixed it. Drunk Driver Dad fucked around with this message at 04:46 on Aug 20, 2016 |
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Is there any way I can remotely trigger my PC in the other room (awake, but locked) to unlock itself from my laptop so that I can use steam home streaming?
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Aug 20, 2016 05:51
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MikeJF posted:Is there any way I can remotely trigger my PC in the other room (awake, but locked) to unlock itself from my laptop so that I can use steam home streaming? You can Chrome Remote Desktop into it and unlock it?
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Aug 20, 2016 07:31
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So Microsoft broke compressed webcam support in the AE: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/08/windows-10-anniversary-update-breaks-most-webcams/ TL;DR: Many cameras use h.264 to push 1080p video through USB2, but the new frame server which is supposed to let multiple apps share the camera only supports uncompressed video. Oops.
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Aug 20, 2016 12:28
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mobby_6kl posted:So Microsoft broke compressed webcam support in the AE: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/08/windows-10-anniversary-update-breaks-most-webcams/ How does a showstopper like this make it through QA into a mandatory update? 
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eames posted:How does a showstopper like this make it through QA into a mandatory update? What is this QA thing you speak of? I assume you are talking about the insider program?
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Aug 20, 2016 17:20
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Beta tested in the future. Microsoft fired their QA a long time ago.
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Aug 20, 2016 17:21
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I liked the idea of the webcams that do the H.264 compression in hardware rather than hammering your CPU to achieve the same video quality. I guess with a move to USB 3.0 to move the data over, and an improvement in CPU performance it's not as necessary any more. I'm really not sure how Microsoft missed this - they purposely rewrote something, left out support for a particular class of device, then were surprised when it caused a problem. Surely this was the expected outcome of the change?
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Aug 20, 2016 17:48
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I'm also not convinced I want multiple devices able to access the camera at once. Seems like that would make it simpler/less detectable to slip literal spyware onto the computer.
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Aug 20, 2016 18:36
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Jeez, that's the most popular webcam in the world they managed to break. I used it for our weekly meetings at work, good thing the AE mysteriously stopped rolling out after a few hours on the first day they released it.
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Aug 20, 2016 18:36
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Besides making a list of all my programs and backing up anything on my OS drive, what do I need to do to prepare for a complete refresh of Windows these days?
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Aug 20, 2016 19:27
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hooah posted:Besides making a list of all my programs and backing up anything on my OS drive, what do I need to do to prepare for a complete refresh of Windows these days? Nothing, but why do you want to do it in the first place? Just uninstall stuff you don't want instead of spending hours reinstalling things you do want and setting up all your preferences again.
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Aug 20, 2016 19:33
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You've responded to one of my questions about problems I'm having. I even made a HoTS thread about the unavailable drive thing. Since these problems are with Windows itself and apparently no one knows how to fix them, I figure that's the next (annoying) step.
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Aug 20, 2016 20:11
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hooah posted:Besides making a list of all my programs and backing up anything on my OS drive, what do I need to do to prepare for a complete refresh of Windows these days?
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I have some weird issue after the Edit: I mounted it anyways. Problem solved. ItBurns fucked around with this message at 01:32 on Aug 21, 2016 |
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Aug 21, 2016 00:29
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GI_Clutch posted:... It also uninstalled the VPN software my company uses to work remotely. 
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Aug 21, 2016 01:14
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Blue Footed Booby posted:It also uninstalled the VPN software my company uses to work remotely. Cisco, by any chance? AnyConnect seems to be really bad with handling Windows upgrades.
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Aug 21, 2016 09:07
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Sometimes I start typing on my SP3 and Win10 will pop up a toast saying 'screenshot saved' and clicking the toast will bring me to the screenshot of my currently open windows. I'm not attempting to take a screenshot, and I haven't hit any modifier keys that might lead me to suspect I'm hitting a shortcut (ctrl, alt, win, etc.). It's happened three or four times now and I'm typing too fast to figure out which keys correlate to the screenshot being triggered, but I know that I never had this happen on Win8. Anyone knows what gives? Using a stock Type Cover if that matters, the touchpad is automatically disabled because a mouse is connected.
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Aug 21, 2016 13:45
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I know that if you hit print screen it will save a screenshot. You're not accidentally hitting that key? Maybe the take screenshot option in the Xbox app might have something to do with it as well.
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Aug 21, 2016 15:03
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In explorer there are convenient buttons on the bottom right for switching between thumbnail and detail view. Unfortunately the thumbnail button switches only to large thumbnails, which are not very useful to me on my giant screen. Is there any way to change the behavior of this button so it switches to extra-large sized thumbnails instead?
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Aug 21, 2016 18:09
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dpbjinc posted:Cisco, by any chance? AnyConnect seems to be really bad with handling Windows upgrades. Yeppp. The same day, our IT dept. removed the download from the company site. One of my teammates called them asking how we're supposed to connect remotely. The tier 1 guy said "get a company laptop."  This isn't really relevant to the thread, I just had to share my triumph: I'd been running VPN and RDP from a VM running Windows 7 to keep my entire internet connection from being funneled through the slow-rear end VPN.
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Blue Footed Booby posted:Yeppp. Sounds like something specific to your work? My AnyConnect is still there and still works.
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Aug 21, 2016 20:32
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I think Cisco actually charges for your work to update the clients. Hence why they have so much trouble with Windows updates.
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Flagrama posted:I know that if you hit print screen it will save a screenshot. You're not accidentally hitting that key? Maybe the take screenshot option in the Xbox app might have something to do with it as well. I can't be accidentally hitting the key because this keyboard doesn't have a Print Screen button.
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dpbjinc posted:I think Cisco actually charges for your work to update the clients. Hence why they have so much trouble with Windows updates. AnyConnect v3 worked fine on Windows 7 and mostly with 10 but it wasn't supported. AnyConnect v4 requires new licensing which of course is more costly. V3 is end of life pretty soon. If you go from like 3.0 to 3.1 that's no charge.
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Aug 22, 2016 04:42
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isndl posted:I can't be accidentally hitting the key because this keyboard doesn't have a Print Screen button. Then I would guess it's some special hotkey for surface pros. A search says one is fn-win-spacebar. Maybe you're hitting that?
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phosdex posted:Then I would guess it's some special hotkey for surface pros. A search says one is fn-win-spacebar. Maybe you're hitting that? Tried it, seems to be something different as that shortcut dims the screen for a second instead of popping up a toast notification. 
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Aug 22, 2016 07:07
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are you double clicking your eraserbutton on the surface pen?
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Aug 22, 2016 08:35
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Twibbit posted:are you double clicking your eraserbutton on the surface pen? Definitely not, the pen is sitting off to the side since I'm using my SP3 as a temporary desktop replacement. In any case, double-clicking the pen button dims the screen for the screenshot and then opens OneNote, without the toast notification that these random screenshots have. e: One clue might be these random screenshots being saved to OneDrive\Pictures\Screenshots while regular screenshots go to Users\Pictures\Screenshots? e2: Apparently the app Microsoft uses to sync OneDrive has a feature to automatically push screenshots to your OneDrive folder, but that feature keys off the PrintScreen button which I don't have. 
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Aug 22, 2016 10:06
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isndl posted:e: One clue might be these random screenshots being saved to OneDrive\Pictures\Screenshots while regular screenshots go to Users\Pictures\Screenshots? That function seems to be behind Fn+Space on Surface Pros.
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Aug 22, 2016 22:34
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Windows + volume down?
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Aug 22, 2016 23:18
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Saukkis posted:That function seems to be behind Fn+Space on Surface Pros. Cool, this looks like exactly the effect. Still don't know what's triggering it since it's near impossible to be fat-fingering it (I've typed entire phrases or sentences before the screenshot hits as is evidenced by the screenshots themselves, at least half the time I'm pretty sure my next keypress is going to be Enter), but now I know what to try and look for next time it happens. Thanks.
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Alright, so it turns out if I'm typing fast enough, I can trigger the screenshot by hitting N + S + Spacebar in succession. For example, I hit a screenshot when typing 'turns out' in the previous sentence.  e: 'AB ', 'SN ', 'DM ', and 'F, ' all trigger it, but mixing it up for something like 'AN ' or 'SM ' or 'DB ' doesn't. Something to do with the tracing of the keys maybe?
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Aug 23, 2016 15:12
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isndl posted:Something to do with the tracing of the keys maybe? It's cheaper not to read each key individually but on normal keyboards you don't notice it unless you are  and press really weird key combinations.
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Yeah I'm aware of n-key rollover, but I haven't run into any modern keyboard that didn't simply drop the key when hitting the rollover. And it was looking like the Type Cover handled rollover pretty well too, if I use the double-Shift test I only lose the X out of the standard alphabet.
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Aug 23, 2016 17:00
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Have you tried swapping the keyboard? It might just be faulty.
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Aug 23, 2016 19:51
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Maybe invest in a nice mechanical keyboard. They're expensive, but for typists and some gamers, they're a godsend.
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dpbjinc posted:Maybe invest in a nice mechanical keyboard. They're expensive, but for typists and some gamers, they're a godsend. For anyone else you live with that has to hear it on the other hand..
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Thanks Ants posted:Have you tried swapping the keyboard? It might just be faulty. Probably the only real solution, but I'm like a year out of warranty and a new Type Cover is pretty steep. I can probably work around the issue by disabling automatic screenshot pushing in OneDrive anyways. dpbjinc posted:Maybe invest in a nice mechanical keyboard. They're expensive, but for typists and some gamers, they're a godsend. Find me a mechanical keyboard as portable as the Type Cover for use with a Surface Pro and I'll do it. 
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I asked in the PC building thread about this, but didn't get an answer. Does anybody have any experience with this, or is there any reason to believe this isn't legit? I know Play Asia is where a lot of people import game, and it says it's region free, so I'm not sure why I should pay 4x as much elsewhere: http://www.play-asia.com/microsoft-windows-10-pro-3264-bit-oem-key-dl/13/709747?ad=111828625688&gclid=COGglvuk2M4CFUYbgQodGiwM6Q
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