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So my partner is trying to install the May update on her laptop and the update is pausing because it wants a version of Intel RST that 15.5.2.1054 or later. She definitely had a newer version installed (verified in Device Manager) and we downgraded to the version just to be sure, but it's still stalling the update. Just from a bit of googling it looks like this was a relatively common issue, but there's not a lot of good information on why it might be happening or what a good fix would be. Has anyone run into this problem? How did you fix it?
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Jul 27, 2019 06:50
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Did you try uninstalling RST and just installing the latest driver manually (f6flpy-x64.zip - https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/28966/Intel-Rapid-Storage-Technology-Intel-RST-User-Interface-and-Driver?product=55005) using Device Manager? You don't need the RST service, I assume that one is blocking the update.
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Jul 27, 2019 06:56
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Why does opening a jpg or any other image file take so drat long in Windows 10? Up to 20 seconds. Once that first file is open, the rest open normally (or close to it). If I try the next day, it's back to taking super long.
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Jul 27, 2019 07:12
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Lambert posted:Did you try uninstalling RST and just installing the latest driver manually (f6flpy-x64.zip - https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/28966/Intel-Rapid-Storage-Technology-Intel-RST-User-Interface-and-Driver?product=55005) using Device Manager? You don't need the RST service, I assume that one is blocking the update. I'll give that a try, thanks!
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Jul 27, 2019 07:21
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WerthersWay posted:Why does opening a jpg or any other image file take so drat long in Windows 10? Up to 20 seconds. Once that first file is open, the rest open normally (or close to it). If I try the next day, it's back to taking super long. That's quite extreme, but the UWP photo viewer is known to be really slow at viewing photos. Try using something else.
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Jul 27, 2019 07:31
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Sininu posted:That's quite extreme, but the UWP photo viewer is known to be really slow at viewing photos. Try using something else. It burns a fuckton of RAM, too. Wipes out about 40% of my cache when it's running.
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Jul 27, 2019 15:43
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There's a longstanding memory leak in the UWP viewer too, more than a few times I've left my PC with an image open and come back a few hours later to find it almost ground to a halt because Photos has consumed my entire 32GB of RAM and pushed everything else into swap.
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Jul 27, 2019 15:45
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Captain Yossarian posted:Can anyone explain to me how to change this? When I copy a folder into a destination, instead of giving me the "overwrite option, it adds it to the folder and just creates a "copy" wtf is this A folder being read-only doesn't really mean anything. The setting you want might be "Hide folder merge conflicts" under folder options?
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Jul 27, 2019 15:55
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I used Irfanview like it’s 2004. It’s crazy how little improvement there’s been on “opening a JPEG” in decades.
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Jul 27, 2019 16:28
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Laslow posted:I used Irfanview like it’s 2004. It’s crazy how little improvement there’s been on “opening a JPEG” in decades. Same here. Some things are just *fine* as it is.
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Jul 27, 2019 16:56
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repiv posted:There's a longstanding memory leak in the UWP viewer too, more than a few times I've left my PC with an image open and come back a few hours later to find it almost ground to a halt because Photos has consumed my entire 32GB of RAM and pushed everything else into swap. 
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Jul 27, 2019 16:58
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Is there a thread about VPN’s here?
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Jul 27, 2019 22:33
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Truga posted:it's not the progress bar, it's the complete lack of any feedback or useful info on these screens. I can't remember what program it was, but the loving thing's progress bar would move backwards as often as it did forward. Singularly useless.
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Jul 27, 2019 22:38
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all progress bars are bad if you're honest with yourself, a comforting sisyphean lie spinners free you to go "hell if I know how long it'll take, I'm going to make coffee and do something else" and represent true enlightenment
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Jul 27, 2019 23:00
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Dylan16807 posted:A folder being read-only doesn't really mean anything. I will check this out too. Thank you! Changing it from read only DID fix the problem which I thought was odd. It appears quite a few of my folders got made read only, no idea when 🤷🏻♂️
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Jul 28, 2019 00:05
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Sri.Theo posted:Is there a thread about VPN’s here? PIA or Nord.
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Jul 28, 2019 04:37
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SwissArmyDruid posted:PIA or Nord.
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Jul 28, 2019 04:52
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I've recently come across Mullvad and AzireVPN, two Swedish companies, while looking for VPN providers that offer the WireGuard protocol. Both seem interesting.
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Jul 28, 2019 08:54
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Lambert posted:I've recently come across Mullvad and AzireVPN, two Swedish companies, while looking for VPN providers that offer the WireGuard protocol. Both seem interesting. Thanks, but I’ve never used one before and some basic questions about how they work before I sign up to one. 1) how do they affect download/upload speeds and general browsing, syncing etc? 2) some of them advertise ‘works with netflix’. I know Netflix tries to block VPNs but how successful are VPNs at avoiding the block. And do any of the other major services, iPlayer, Amazon prime etc do the same? 3) how does a router level VPN work, and is it easy to switch between countries? Will the software work with a router I get from my ISP or will I have to buy a new one? 4) how do people find it works with families who want to access content from different countries- has it been difficult to explain to partners etc? 5) for goons that have used them in the past was there any reason you stopped using one? I don’t know whether it is worth it, but I’m moving countries soon and would quite like access to media from my home country as well!
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Jul 28, 2019 10:48
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1) As far as I can tell, it doesn't. Anecdotal case: I play FFXIV, and until recently, their servers were based in Montreal. Unfortunately, I live on the west coast, which means that topographically, my connection would route up into Canada past Vancouver, then over to Montreal from the west. This meant Problems, because that means connecting through THE GODDAMN CUNTING FUCKS OVER AT LEVEL3. "Ah, non, nous do not know why vous etes having problems, everything ees fine on our side, tabarnak." No, gently caress you, I have detailed logs and traces, that show your routing from the west is hosed, you loving nationalist poutine-eating snowflakes, fix your poo poo. At any rate, my solution was to VPN over to the east coast, (because traffic going to the east coast goes through the midwest or down south through Texas instead, far, far, far away from those goddamn Quebecois,) exiting somewhere along the Atlantic seaboard, and then connect to Square Enix's servers from the east, which cut my pings in half. This worked until they moved the servers out here to Sacramento, putting it right at the end of a gigantic-rear end pipe from Japan, but because Comcast's routing is poo poo, and despite the fact that I live less than two hours south as the crow flies from where the servers are, I still get better pings by tunnelling up to Seattle, past the datacenter, and then coming back down the coast. TL;DR: VPN good, lets you do wacky poo poo. 2) I don't have a Netflix sub, I couldn't tell you, however, I do know that NordVPN and PIA are both effective at securing access to BBC iPlayer, it was how I watched Top Gear for years until Clarkson got sacked. Only other BBC shows I watch on regular basis is Mock the Week and someone uploads that to Youtube, so I don't even have to bother. Amazon Prime, it is a hit or miss, sometimes they pick up on the VPN, sometimes they do not, they must have only part of the IP range for the exit nodes that I use blocked. 3) When they say "router-level" it just means that the tunnel is established starting from the router, which should, in theory, capture all traffic that exits from your network, in contrast to running their VPN tool that just sits in your taskbar tray. If you do run at the router, you are making a tradeoff between security and ease of use, since the VPN tool these days allows for quickly switching between exit nodes through a point-and-click interface. Both Nord and PIA have Chrome/Firefox VPN extensions, which may be a flexible tradeoff for you: Set the router to exit node in somewhere like Canada, which supports port forwarding, to allow for torrents and things, but use the browser extension to flexibly switch between exit nodes across the world. 4) It was pretty easy for my to explain to my somewhat less-tech-savvy brother. He plays games on computers and knows how to set up a torrent client, but in the family, I am the professional computer-toucher. Honestly, the PIA app is so good, I would be surprised if they could not use it.... though I worry about them clicking on random options when the occasional VPN problem crops up, trying to get the thing to work, and then suddenly getting into an less-secured state. SwissArmyDruid fucked around with this message at 11:25 on Jul 28, 2019 |
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Jul 28, 2019 11:21
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Thanks, that’s really helpful. Good to know it’s relatively simple- I’ll probably just try a few for one month at a time when I actually move until I find one I like.
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Jul 28, 2019 12:23
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Captain Yossarian posted:I will check this out too. Thank you! Changing it from read only DID fix the problem which I thought was odd. It appears quite a few of my folders got made read only, no idea when 🤷🏻♂️ So, going back to this. Why would windows 10 decide to make my entire computer, every single file and drive, read only? I'm discovering this is what happened and while I can give myself full access to all drives again, I wonder WHY my entire C drive decided to make itself read only in the first place
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Jul 28, 2019 13:59
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Captain Yossarian posted:So, going back to this. Why would windows 10 decide to make my entire computer, every single file and drive, read only? I'm discovering this is what happened and while I can give myself full access to all drives again, I wonder WHY my entire C drive decided to make itself read only in the first place The only times I have seen this when Windows thinks you mount something off a SAN and it will mount the LUN readonly by default. Upgrade from your Mobo bios? I've seen SATA ports and other ports announce themselves as "removable" etc. etc. There is some logic to this behaviour, I don't know what the exact circumstances are when it will force this. Probably a new drive which is already NTFS formatted added to the system. Have you checked the Event Viewer? If it has done it intentionally it will probably put something in there. Mr Shiny Pants fucked around with this message at 14:41 on Jul 28, 2019 |
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Jul 28, 2019 14:38
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A blip in the storage controller can make drives go read-only. It's a data integrity thing. Are you using the RAID functions on your disk controller?
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Jul 28, 2019 20:15
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If you want a more modern Irfanview, Honeyview seems to be the closest thing. Roughly as fast, but it omits a lot of the editing features. It also omits a lot of the weird quirks and broken behavior Irfanview has accumulated
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Jul 28, 2019 22:10
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So is it not possible to disable a monitor in the settings clusterfuck? I have two monitors, but I have three cables running ( for a VM when booting Linux ) and I want to disable the monitor it finds on the DVI port. I could have sworn this used to be possible. Nevermind found it: On multiple displays you have the option "disconnect this display". So used to right clicking stuff  Mr Shiny Pants fucked around with this message at 12:03 on Jul 29, 2019 |
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Jul 29, 2019 12:00
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while i'm ranting about feedback, the fact that all the new computers with a SSD installed now fail to also include a hdd light is loving galaxybrain to me. "yes, this completely silent computer should offer absolutely no feedback about whether it's frozen or doing something". pre-ssd you could at least hear the hdd clicking its thing, now it's just "hmm, i wonder if anything is happening or if the system just hanged" for 10 minutes
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Jul 29, 2019 12:43
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Truga posted:while i'm ranting about feedback, the fact that all the new computers with a SSD installed now fail to also include a hdd light is loving galaxybrain to me. "yes, this completely silent computer should offer absolutely no feedback about whether it's frozen or doing something". pre-ssd you could at least hear the hdd clicking its thing, now it's just "hmm, i wonder if anything is happening or if the system just hanged" for 10 minutes Weird, even my NVMe drives give the blinky lights.
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Jul 29, 2019 12:55
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I mean on laptops. On many desktops there are still HDD leds. All these new lenovos people in the office are buying don't have them tho, and it's real annoying sitting there staring at a dumb windows screen wondering if the 10 minutes of waiting is normal or if it just failed and i need to reboot
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Jul 29, 2019 12:58
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The HP laptops we buy all have drive access lights.
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Jul 29, 2019 13:13
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In a similar vein, I wish my Dell had a Fn lock indicator.
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Jul 29, 2019 13:17
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Rinkles posted:In a similar vein, I wish my Dell had a Fn lock indicator. thank gently caress lenovos have those. i always alt+f4 and something wrong happens and "oh fn-lock-light is on", it'd have taken me forever to figure that poo poo out the first couple times otherwise 
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Jul 29, 2019 13:45
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Mr Shiny Pants posted:Weird, even my NVMe drives give the blinky lights. Not only does my Asus Zenbook have a blinky light for its SSD access, but I can actually hear *something* going on when the drive is being accessed. What it is, I have no idea.
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Jul 29, 2019 13:48
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Ironically my Alienware laptop doesn’t have any status lights and I even disabled the power light. I feel like a drive access indicator would get extremely annoying in a dark room.
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Jul 29, 2019 13:58
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Truga posted:thank gently caress lenovos have those. Think on the Dell alt f4 works regardless of what the toggle is on.
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beuges posted:Not only does my Asus Zenbook have a blinky light for its SSD access, but I can actually hear *something* going on when the drive is being accessed. What it is, I have no idea. possibly coil whine in a bridge or something. my chomebook's cpu has amazing coil whine, you can hear *exactly* what the cpu load is lmao
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Jul 29, 2019 14:59
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Rinkles posted:Think on the Dell alt f4 works regardless of what the toggle is on. I really appreciate touches like this.
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Jul 29, 2019 16:07
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What's the best way to prevent Windows Update Orchestrator from waking my computer from sleep every night?
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Jul 31, 2019 12:51
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Mozi posted:What's the best way to prevent Windows Update Orchestrator from waking my computer from sleep every night? No idea, but I wouldn't mind so much if it were better at going back to sleep afterwards. Definitely seems worse about that than before the last big update.
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Mozi posted:What's the best way to prevent Windows Update Orchestrator from waking my computer from sleep every night? Use the switch on a power strip to fully cut power to the pc after shutting down.
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