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Has anybody got the photo of the suspended UPS and switch from one of the IT threads?
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Thanks Ants posted:Has anybody got the photo of the suspended UPS and switch from one of the IT threads? Yes.. But not on this PC. (Its buried in my OneDrive somewhere.. Ugh) 
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Oct 20, 2016 21:25
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A cool and good solution to get a "bash here" prompt in Explorer that works perfectly. http://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/60125-open-bash-window-here-context-menu-add-windows-10-a.html
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Oct 21, 2016 11:23
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I want to control my PC remotely with the iOS Microsoft RDP client. Is it a bad idea to port forward? What precautions should I take?
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Oct 21, 2016 11:49
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bigis posted:I want to control my PC remotely with the iOS Microsoft RDP client. Is it a bad idea to port forward? What precautions should I take? Make sure you are using the highest security settings and a decent password and you should be fine.
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Oct 21, 2016 13:04
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Nonstandard port is probably also a good idea
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Oct 21, 2016 13:53
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So I've upgraded to the latest version in Windows 10 and I find out that windows no longer supports my wireless adapter. Do I need to worry about driver support if I just give up and buy a wifi card?
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Oct 21, 2016 14:43
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:So I've upgraded to the latest version in Windows 10 and I find out that windows no longer supports my wireless adapter. Do I need to worry about driver support if I just give up and buy a wifi card? Companies with like 5 consonants in their name rarely update their poo poo. If you buy an Intel card or something, chances are it'll work for a long time going forward.
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Oct 21, 2016 14:51
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Just buy TP Link whatever for your networking gear it's the sweet spot for price/performance nowadays if you're stuck needing an upgrade.
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Oct 21, 2016 15:07
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bigis posted:I want to control my PC remotely with the iOS Microsoft RDP client. Is it a bad idea to port forward? What precautions should I take? Get a VPN set up
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Oct 22, 2016 12:29
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What's the preferred tool for managing network bandwidth in Windows 10? Downloading larger games during daytime on my 16MBit DSL line messes really hard with browsing, because the downstream is getting overloaded, if said downloader uses a decent set of servers. I found out about NetBalancer, but that app looks kind of funny in a bad way.
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Oct 22, 2016 16:16
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Combat Pretzel posted:What's the preferred tool for managing network bandwidth in Windows 10? Downloading larger games during daytime on my 16MBit DSL line messes really hard with browsing, because the downstream is getting overloaded, if said downloader uses a decent set of servers. I found out about NetBalancer, but that app looks kind of funny in a bad way. 1) get a decent router / a cheap one that you can install dd-wrt or tomato on, and enable QOS management. Do this anyways, your computers should be behind a firewall not plugged directly into the net. If the modem you got from your ISP has a router & wireless AP built-in, it is bad and slow at being a router. You should turn that poo poo off so that it is just be a plain modem, and get a real router. 2) if downloading games is the issue, use steam's built in bandwidth limiter. If it's possible to do it per-app rather than install a program that's gonna muck with the network at the OS level, that's vastly preferable.
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Oct 22, 2016 19:22
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Just a heads up for anyone experiencing this: the latest Nvidia drivers have a bug where it fucks with the start menu and mail app. Start menu icons freeze while re-arranging them, and the mail app crashes when you open an email.
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Oct 23, 2016 03:56
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chocolateTHUNDER posted:Just a heads up for anyone experiencing this: the latest Nvidia drivers have a bug where it fucks with the start menu and mail app. Start menu icons freeze while re-arranging them, and the mail app crashes when you open an email. Ugh, and nVidia never met a driver issue it couldn't punt.
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Oct 23, 2016 05:11
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chocolateTHUNDER posted:Just a heads up for anyone experiencing this: the latest Nvidia drivers have a bug where it fucks with the start menu and mail app. Start menu icons freeze while re-arranging them, and the mail app crashes when you open an email. Literally came to the thread to post about this problem with the lovely mail app. I... did not expect something so specific to be commented on. Thanks. Node fucked around with this message at 08:48 on Oct 23, 2016 |
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Oct 23, 2016 08:26
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Node posted:Literally came to the thread to post about this problem with the lovely mail app. I... did not expect something so specific to be commented on. Thanks. Same here. What a weird defect.
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Oct 23, 2016 09:49
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:So I've upgraded to the latest version in Windows 10 and I find out that windows no longer supports my wireless adapter. Do I need to worry about driver support if I just give up and buy a wifi card? Have you tried installing the driver anyway? I have a Linksys adapter that doesn't have Windows 10 drivers, but it works fine with the Windows 7 driver.
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Oct 23, 2016 12:04
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chocolateTHUNDER posted:Just a heads up for anyone experiencing this: the latest Nvidia drivers have a bug where it fucks with the start menu and mail app. Start menu icons freeze while re-arranging them, and the mail app crashes when you open an email. They've quickly released new 375.63 hotfix drivers that claim to fix both bugs.
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Oct 23, 2016 16:55
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MutantBlue posted:They've quickly released new 375.63 hotfix drivers that claim to fix both bugs. Yeah, just installed it. Mail app seems fine now.
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Oct 23, 2016 19:37
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Klyith posted:1) get a decent router / a cheap one that you can install dd-wrt or tomato on, and enable QOS management. Do this anyways, your computers should be behind a firewall not plugged directly into the net. If the modem you got from your ISP has a router & wireless AP built-in, it is bad and slow at being a router. You should turn that poo poo off so that it is just be a plain modem, and get a real router.
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Oct 23, 2016 20:00
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Anyone have any idea why Windows would start complaining (and sometimes force closing applications) that I have low RAM whenever I have less than half my RAM? I've got 16 gigs so having Windows start closing poo poo, or at the very least popping up nag windows, when I have just under 8GB left is pretty damned obnoxious. It's been happening since Windows 8 I think. I've kinda just been hoping a Windows update sometime would magically fix it. But that hasn't happened yet and it's starting to get rather old.
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Oct 27, 2016 15:22
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Spek posted:Anyone have any idea why Windows would start complaining (and sometimes force closing applications) that I have low RAM whenever I have less than half my RAM? I've got 16 gigs so having Windows start closing poo poo, or at the very least popping up nag windows, when I have just under 8GB left is pretty damned obnoxious. Did you apply some 'super performance tweaks' that might have disabled your swapfile? Programs are dumb and always ask for more memory than they actually need. Windows (and other OSes too) know this and assume programs are lying when they say they really need all that memory, so they won't actually allocate the memory to the process immediately -- but the OS does need to keep track that the process had asked for it, so they can provide it as needed if the program actually starts trying to use it. This is called 'overcommit'. This might be why Windows is saying memory is low when it doesn't appear to be, because if it really had to make good on all those promises it made to processes, it'd run out of memory. This is really why you want to have a swapfile even though you have plenty of RAM; because it provides a ton of space to act as insurance against those overcommits. biznatchio fucked around with this message at 16:32 on Oct 27, 2016 |
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Oct 27, 2016 16:28
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biznatchio posted:Did you apply some 'super performance tweaks' that might have disabled your swapfile?
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Oct 27, 2016 16:48
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Spek posted:At one point I had a 128 gig SSD as my primary and had disabled the pagefile, is that the same as the swapfile? Either way I've long since re-enabled the pagefile after upgrading to a 512GB SSD but I cloned the install over, and done a windows 8 and then 10 upgrades since then, and so maybe some weird old hidden away setting I'm not aware of is screwing with it? Yeah, pagefile and swapfile are the same thing for this discussion. You can check your current settings by opening the Settings app, going to System, to the About page, clicking the "System Info" link at the bottom, then going to the "Advanced system settings" link on the left. In the dialog that opens, on the Advanced tab, click the Settings button under the Performance section, go to the Advanced tab, and check "Total paging file size" under the Virtual Memory section; make sure it's not zero or some other incredibly low number. You can go into the Change... button and verify that at least one drive (that's not full or near full) has it set to "System managed". biznatchio fucked around with this message at 16:57 on Oct 27, 2016 |
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Oct 27, 2016 16:54
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Spek posted:At one point I had a 128 gig SSD as my primary and had disabled the pagefile, is that the same as the swapfile? If you re-enabled it by setting a custom page file rather than checking "automatically manage paging", it can get messed up by changing drives and possibly by the OS upgrades. Anyways: right click my computer -> properties -> advanced system settings -> advanced -> performance settings -> advanced -> virtual memory
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Oct 27, 2016 16:55
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It's 2016 and people are still disabling their swap files. With Microsoft so eager to remove control from the end user, why haven't they removed that from the system properties control panel? Just leave the option for people to pick which drive it lives on, and keep everything else as automatically managed.
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Oct 28, 2016 01:43
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xamphear posted:It's 2016 and people are still disabling their swap files. With Microsoft so eager to remove control from the end user, why haven't they removed that from the system properties control panel? Just leave the option for people to pick which drive it lives on, and keep everything else as automatically managed. Because it's important to be able to remove the page file in strange cases like when it bloats to 100 GB or whatever. And it's also important to be able to manage what drive it goes to on multiple drive systems. You really have to go out of your way to disable it, as is.
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Oct 28, 2016 01:47
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xamphear posted:It's 2016 and people are still disabling their swap files. With Microsoft so eager to remove control from the end user, why haven't they removed that from the system properties control panel? Just leave the option for people to pick which drive it lives on, and keep everything else as automatically managed. Because Windows 10 is an operating system, not an embedded device.
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Oct 28, 2016 02:10
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biznatchio posted:Yeah, pagefile and swapfile are the same thing for this discussion. You can check your current settings by opening the Settings app, going to System, to the About page, clicking the "System Info" link at the bottom, then going to the "Advanced system settings" link on the left. Just a FYI, you can do Win+Break to go straight to that screen. It's for when your poo poo breaks y'see 
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Oct 28, 2016 02:14
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Having trouble on a fresh Windows 10 install. Anytime I try to open image files using right click -> edit I get an error "Windows cannot access the specified device path or file yada yada yada". It does it for all image files except for .png it seems. Anyone know how to fix?  edit: They're from my previous computer that I had to rebuild if that matters. Tugboat Willy fucked around with this message at 10:31 on Oct 28, 2016 |
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Oct 28, 2016 09:17
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Any particular reason why the Malicious Software Removal Tool (i.e. MRT.EXE) is like 140MB? The hell?
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Oct 29, 2016 04:05
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Lots of malice around Halloween 
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Oct 29, 2016 06:42
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Combat Pretzel posted:Any particular reason why the Malicious Software Removal Tool (i.e. MRT.EXE) is like 140MB? The hell? Ambiguous name. It's not "Tool That Removes Malicious Software."
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Oct 29, 2016 07:06
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It's a standalone version of defender/security essentials and comes with its own signature database.
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Oct 29, 2016 09:58
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Che Delilas posted:Ambiguous name. It's not "Tool That Removes Malicious Software."
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Oct 31, 2016 03:05
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So Windows decided to make my Program Files (x86) folder display as if it were a music folder, and unlike my other Program Files folder it lacks the customize tab under folder properties so I can't change it, like wut. Anyone know how I can fix this weird thing. Program Files optimized for "General" viewing, and how it should be .  Program Files (x86) as "Music" gross.  Missing Tab.   Program Files (x86) even has a different right click context menu...  
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Nov 2, 2016 20:27
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If I add my Microsoft account to two different computers that were upgraded from 7, do both digital entitlement licences get associated with the account? What happens if format a machine or want to transfer the licence or something like that, would I get a choice of what licence to activate after signing in?
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Nov 2, 2016 21:12
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Is it possible to install win 10 with only a keyboard and no mouse? I have a couple of apple wireless mice and was planning on using my ipad as a trackpad once I got the system up and going but can't install. What is the keyboard shortcut to open drop down menus so I can change the default regional settings. That's what stumped me.
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Nov 3, 2016 15:32
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Just hit space with the dropdown focused
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Should be able to <tab> to the various fields and then either space or up/down arrows to make the selection.
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