|
Klyith posted:I had a very similar thing happen and it was totally the search index. Flummoxed me for a bit because after dealing with so many UWP/appx problems related to start & taskbar, I was totally fixated on poo poo like resetting cortana at first. qsvui posted:Taskbar icons are convenient because you can press Win+# to open them, e.g. Win+4 to open the 4th item
|
#
?
Feb 29, 2020 23:15
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 25, 2024 10:09 |
|
|
Rinkles posted:learn something new everyday Was new in W7. A nifty feature
|
|
#
?
Mar 1, 2020 09:43
|
|
|
Recently my computer has stopped putting itself back to sleep/hibernate after waking up to check for updates ("Owner Supplied Reason: Windows will execute 'NT TASK\Microsoft\Windows\UpdateOrchestrator\Universal Orchestrator Start' scheduled task that requested waking the computer."). My power settings say to put the computer to sleep after 15 minutes and hibernate after 30. What could be causing this, and how can I correct it?
|
|
#
?
Mar 1, 2020 20:37
|
|
|
WSL2 supposedly going to be part of the April update  https://www.techspot.com/news/84312-what-new-windows-10-upcoming-april-2020-update.html
|
|
#
?
Mar 10, 2020 19:39
|
|
|
Nice! Looking forward to installing around October!
|
|
#
?
Mar 10, 2020 19:44
|
|
|
i vomit kittens posted:WSL2 supposedly going to be part of the April update Also very good: quote:Another PC enthusiast-oriented feature of Windows 10 2004 (20H1) is an update to the Desktop Window Manager (DWM) that brings improved multiple monitor support when two monitors have mismatched refresh rates. For example, if you have a main gaming monitor running at a high refresh rate and a secondary display running at 60Hz, usually Windows would stutter and show frame-skips, but with hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling in WDDM 2.7, this seems to have been solved. Just make sure you're running the latest drivers for your graphics card.
|
|
#
?
Mar 10, 2020 19:53
|
|
|
Well, I'm going to install the slow ring build, to see what the harddware GPU scheduling does practically. I'm probably going to regret this.
|
|
#
?
Mar 10, 2020 20:07
|
|
|
Combat Pretzel posted:Well, I'm going to install the slow ring build, to see what the harddware GPU scheduling does practically. I'm probably going to regret this. SA Forums>Serious Hardware/Software Crap>Windows 10: I'm probably going to regret this
|
|
#
?
Mar 10, 2020 20:17
|
|
|
I have a problem: I used to be able to "switch" to the monitor on the upper left by moving the mouse hard enough "through" the corner and vice versa. Starting this month, Windows has decided that it won't allow me to move the mouse to the monitor on the upper left or otherwise meaningfully interact with it. I have already uninstalled the problematic update likely mentioned earlier, so I'm open to suggestions as to how to make this work again because this feature apparently still works for at least one other person. To further illustrate the problem, I've moved the upper left monitor down a very slight amount and found a strange "zone" where I can move to the other monitor, but it doesn't include the corners for some reason:  The green line is where the mouse will pass over to the other monitor, and the red zones are "dead zones" that will not move to the other monitor whatsoever. I have no idea what to do about those "dead zones" and disabling "sticky corners" did not help with this. Anime Schoolgirl fucked around with this message at 21:42 on Mar 10, 2020 |
|
#
?
Mar 10, 2020 21:11
|
|
|
Some suggestions regarding "Sticky Corners" here: https://superuser.com/q/947817 (Sticky corners is intended as a feature to improve Fits's law applicability for the corners between multiple monitors, to make corner elements remain easy to hit as they would be in a single monitor setup.)
|
|
#
?
Mar 10, 2020 22:37
|
|
|
Combat Pretzel posted:Well, I'm going to install the slow ring build, to see what the harddware GPU scheduling does practically. I'm probably going to regret this. Don't have GPU scheduling so far. Would need to update to the next driver release. Tomorrow or whatever.
|
|
#
?
Mar 10, 2020 23:02
|
|
|
Last Chance posted:Nice! Not looking forward to everything breaking horribly around October! FTFY
|
|
#
?
Mar 10, 2020 23:10
|
|
|
Anime Schoolgirl posted:I have a problem:  Normally the mouse won't cross between 2 and 3, but if I move it fast enough it will go every time. The smaller I make the gap the slower it can cross, so it feels a lot like clipping through the walls in a video game. Combat Pretzel posted:At least my Lighthouse base stations fire up and shutdown properly. The last build of 20H1 I tried several weeks ago, the Bluetooth in the VR headset was fubar.
|
|
#
?
Mar 10, 2020 23:36
|
|
|
wolrah posted:As far as I've been able to figure out, crossing a gap just requires enough momentum. I think the solution for me is to consider multi-monitor a broken feature and thus untenable. Which is infuriating, because the method I used apparently still works with at least one other person. Anime Schoolgirl fucked around with this message at 02:26 on Mar 11, 2020 |
|
#
?
Mar 11, 2020 02:24
|
|
|
Anime Schoolgirl posted:I do not want to arrange the monitors in a way that there is more than just the corner pixel touching, because I dislike the hair trigger nature of the monitor switching if I set the borders up that way. There is no "gap" in my usual setup. Did you try any of the things nielsm linked? The fact that someone else apparently likes to set their monitors like you and made a utility to jump through corners is pretty neat!
|
|
#
?
Mar 11, 2020 03:08
|
|
|
Klyith posted:Did you try any of the things nielsm linked? The fact that someone else apparently likes to set their monitors like you and made a utility to jump through corners is pretty neat! That doesn't work. I even tried flicking the snap options on and off and the registry settings too. Anime Schoolgirl fucked around with this message at 04:29 on Mar 11, 2020 |
|
#
?
Mar 11, 2020 04:21
|
|
|
A useful thing from NirSoft:https://www.ghacks.net/2020/03/11/a-look-at-nirsofts-installedappview-program/ posted:Note that you may select multiple applications at once to uninstall them all from a single prompt.
|
|
#
?
Mar 11, 2020 18:01
|
|
|
Having a bizarre issue with a relatively fresh, fully updated windows 10 install on an older device. If I leave this pc alone for a while, I'll come back to it being completely unresponsive. Poking keys, or moving the mouse, or pushing the power button, all do exactly nothing. I can hold down power to shut it off, then turn it back on, but it just sits unresponsive. The only thing that fixes it is shutting it off, unplugging and replugging the power leads to the motherboard, THEN turning it on. The really bizarre thing, that makes me think it's a fixable software issue instead of an old board dying, is that when it then boots up, it resumes as if from hibernation. Like the system is somehow auto-hibernating when idle (which it is not configured to do) and then hangs between finishing that and actually turning off, and ???? in memory or something prevents it from coming back? The fact that it resumes my session makes it less obnoxious than it otherwise could be, but I'd still like to fix it. Any ideas? I don't know what numbers matter but it says my update level is this  e: I was wrong  this was set to 30 minutes, though the fact that it was failing to resume still is a problem. However, I DEFINITELY set it to "never" when I installed this thing, do updates reset your settings or something? Javid fucked around with this message at 21:31 on Mar 12, 2020 |
|
#
?
Mar 12, 2020 21:17
|
|
|
Javid posted:The really bizarre thing, that makes me think it's a fixable software issue instead of an old board dying, is that when it then boots up, it resumes as if from hibernation. Like the system is somehow auto-hibernating when idle (which it is not configured to do) and then hangs between finishing that and actually turning off, and ???? in memory or something prevents it from coming back? If your session is getting saved to disk that's probably why, which means the computer is probably trying to go to sleep when it locks up. --- As for an actual reason, memory is always a suspect but I could also see there being something funky with ACPI because that's always been a clusterfuck. Given that it's apparently both saving and restoring the RAM's contents without issue I'd lean more in the ACPI direction, but there's never anything wrong with letting memtest take a night and seeing what happens. A simple test on the ACPI side would be disabling sleep and hibernate altogether, then letting it go. If it still fails, it's obviously not sleep related. If it doesn't, we're probably on the right path and the next thing to check would be BIOS and motherboard driver revisions.
|
|
#
?
Mar 12, 2020 21:35
|
|
|
I've now re-disabled auto-sleep so we'll see what it does.
|
|
#
?
Mar 12, 2020 21:54
|
|
|
Before this continues to drive me even more insane: does anyone have any idea what would cause Explorer to stop automatically refreshing? I now have to manually refresh any view when a file changes, and it's really weird and confusing. I already tried twiddling some random registry stuff that the internet told me to without avail.
|
|
#
?
Mar 13, 2020 01:16
|
|
|
Are you sure you don't have a failing hard drive? To me it sounds like it is hardware related, and Windows is getting hung up on trying to access something.
|
|
#
?
Mar 13, 2020 02:04
|
|
|
chutwig posted:Before this continues to drive me even more insane: does anyone have any idea what would cause Explorer to stop automatically refreshing? I now have to manually refresh any view when a file changes, and it's really weird and confusing. I already tried twiddling some random registry stuff that the internet told me to without avail. I've had explorer choke on some files with non-ascii filenames when trying to show previews, resulting in behavior similar to what you're describing. It would also be extremely slow to show the contents of any other folder, including meta folders like the this computer one that shows your drives. I had to make sure that aside from deleting the offending files, all the entries in quick access and recent files were completely purged and then reboot. Javid posted:this was set to 30 minutes, though the fact that it was failing to resume still is a problem. However, I DEFINITELY set it to "never" when I installed this thing, do updates reset your settings or something? My work computer sometimes resets that setting to max signed 16 bit integer. So, who knows...
|
|
#
?
Mar 13, 2020 06:40
|
|
|
i'm going to test this when i get home but does anyone know if Win10 virtual desktop supports separate network configs per desktop? since i'll be working from home for the foreseeable future (THE VIRUS) i'm hoping to have one configured through my company's VPN and one on my standard connection.
|
|
#
?
Mar 13, 2020 22:34
|
|
|
wane tendo posted:i'm going to test this when i get home but does anyone know if Win10 virtual desktop supports separate network configs per desktop? Pretty sure they're just ways to organize windows, nothing more. I could be wrong, though.
|
|
#
?
Mar 13, 2020 22:51
|
|
|
hooah posted:Pretty sure they're just ways to organize windows, nothing more. I could be wrong, though. you were right, altering the net config affects all desktops. i'm now considering using VirtualBox to spin up a Win10 VM to set up on the tunnel, not sure if i would need two NICs though... might not even be worth the hassle.
|
|
#
?
Mar 14, 2020 00:15
|
|
|
You can simply set up the VPN inside the VM, works fine that way. Aside of VirtualBox, there's also Hyper-V that comes with Pro versions of Windows and has a handy assistant that will set up a Windows VM for you in a snap.
|
|
#
?
Mar 14, 2020 00:29
|
|
|
Lambert posted:You can simply set up the VPN inside the VM, works fine that way. Aside of VirtualBox, there's also Hyper-V that comes with Pro versions of Windows and has a handy assistant that will set up a Windows VM for you in a snap. thank you! i completely forget if it's Pro edition but if it is i'll definitely try that first.
|
|
#
?
Mar 14, 2020 00:39
|
|
|
wane tendo posted:i'm going to test this when i get home but does anyone know if Win10 virtual desktop supports separate network configs per desktop? no, they don't do anything like that you can set up a Virtual Machine to use a VPN while the host does not send traffic through the VPN (or vice versa), but this is somewhat technical and loving it up could have consequences. I suggest you act like you are at work while connected to your work VPN, and close the VPN connection to watch porn.
|
|
#
?
Mar 14, 2020 00:40
|
|
|
Setting up a VPN inside a VM is easy and won't have any repercussions for your host system, it's as easy as setting up a regular VPN. That's the whole point of a VM.
|
|
#
?
Mar 14, 2020 00:42
|
|
|
What's the easiest way of waking my PC remotely these days? I'll be away from it for a couple of weeks, but I'd like to stream Steam occasionally and don't just want to leave it running constantly. The PC is on 10 Pro and has wake on LAN/magic packet enabled, but my laptop is on 10 Home.
|
|
#
?
Mar 14, 2020 10:50
|
|
|
Koskun posted:Are you sure you don't have a failing hard drive? Turned out it was iCloud desktop app fuckery. Removed that and everything started working again.
|
|
#
?
Mar 14, 2020 18:19
|
|
|
Doctor_Fruitbat posted:What's the easiest way of waking my PC remotely these days? I'll be away from it for a couple of weeks, but I'd like to stream Steam occasionally and don't just want to leave it running constantly. The PC is on 10 Pro and has wake on LAN/magic packet enabled, but my laptop is on 10 Home. This is a better question for the home networking thread, because the answers mostly depend on what router you have. The best option would be if your router supports running a VPN server. Then you could VPN onto your home network and send the magic packet directly from your laptop. OTOH, running the game stream through the VPN might not work well depending on the hardware of the router, because encrypting the traffic = additional delay + bandwidth limits. On the opposite side, you could set your router to just forward all port 7 or 9 traffic to your PC. Write down your home IP before you leave -- they generally don't change that frequently for most ISPs -- and send the ping to that IP. This is kinda the worst option because blindly forwarding traffic is a security risk, and I don't know if magic packets are the type of thing that gets spammed on the internet at random. Middle of the road, if you have a WRT-style-Linux router that has SSH access, you could open SSH to the outside world. Be sure that your firmware is up to date and you have a strong password for your router. Then you SSH into the router and use nc or ether-wake to do the wake packet.
|
|
#
?
Mar 14, 2020 21:08
|
|
|
Is it really still that complicated? I can remote into my PS4 from anywhere while it's asleep, I assumed there'd be a relatively simple solution for PCs. If so then I'll have to ask in the networking thread.
Doctor_Fruitbat fucked around with this message at 21:26 on Mar 14, 2020 |
|
#
?
Mar 14, 2020 21:22
|
|
|
Doctor_Fruitbat posted:Is it really still that complicated? I can remote into my PS4 from anywhere while it's asleep, I assumed there'd be a relatively simple solution for PCs. If so then I'll have to ask in the networking thread. Your PS4 has a second tiny computer inside that's still turned on while the main system is asleep. And Sony is doing the work of tracking IP addresses and stuff to make remote wake a one button thing. Some server PCs have similar abilities but not a home PC. The middle option is pretty easy IMO, it's just not the ideal one.
|
|
#
?
Mar 14, 2020 21:49
|
|
|
Thought I had the auto-reboots fully locked down but it still somehow decided to reboot in the middle of the night with unsaved poo poo open last night. How do I permanently disable all unattended reboots of any kind forever?
|
|
#
?
Mar 15, 2020 19:16
|
|
|
How many days had you been ignoring the warnings for this time?
|
|
#
?
Mar 15, 2020 19:20
|
|
|
0, I update this pc ~weekly and manually restart it at that time, the idea behind which was to prevent this exact situation. I don't even know it was an Update Reboot, I just don't know what else it might be there was not a warning or popup, I just came back to like "chrome crashed unexpectedly" and all my other open docs gone, which is exactly the thing to do to get me to kill the update service with fire instead of trying to stay ahead of it as I have been Javid fucked around with this message at 19:30 on Mar 15, 2020 |
|
#
?
Mar 15, 2020 19:24
|
|
|
I don't necessarily want to join the making GBS threads party, and I'm not saying that reboots like that are the right path, but... Who the gently caress walks away from their computer for long periods of time without at least a CTRL+S?
|
|
#
?
Mar 15, 2020 19:33
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 25, 2024 10:09 |
|
|
Have you positively verified it wasn't power loss/power supply failure/other hardware failure? A forced reboot wouldn't usually cause applications to enter into "looks like I crashed" mode. They get a reasonable chance to save/shut down their things before the reboot happens.
|
|
#
?
Mar 15, 2020 19:39
|
|