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Housh posted:What's the best way to have tabs in windows explorer? Functional ones you can drag and drop to each other too. Buy stardock Groupy or install Clover which will show you an ad once every few days
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Woah this owns. You can even group dissimilar applications together. No brainer for $5 and lots of options, too Tiny Timbs fucked around with this message at 20:59 on May 1, 2020 |
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Klyith posted:Buy stardock Groupy
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# ? May 1, 2020 21:11 |
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ConEmu can also do it, if you're willing to put up with a little bit of jank & configuration hassle. But it's also free. e: ha okay so I go to try it just now and it doesn't work, so yeah buy the stardock app or whatever
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# ? May 1, 2020 21:15 |
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there's also an FOSS file browser called Explorer++ that has tabs, but yeah groupy is great https://explorerplusplus.com/
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# ? May 1, 2020 22:52 |
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Klyith posted:Buy stardock Groupy I use QTTabBar which I've never had a problem with, other than it being a pain to find and install iirc?
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# ? May 2, 2020 15:33 |
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Clover is Chinese adware with a privacy policy that lets it collect and sell just about everything it sees you do on your computer. I have no earthly idea why people continue to recommend it.
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# ? May 3, 2020 15:53 |
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Where could one find a list of software that is really Chinese adware with typical Chinese privacy policies of spying for the Chinese?
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# ? May 3, 2020 18:22 |
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Nucken Futz posted:Where could one find a list of software that is really Chinese adware with typical Chinese privacy policies of spying for the Chinese? the google play store
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# ? May 4, 2020 02:33 |
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Is there a way in Windows 10 to sync Start screen/menu settings across machines for the same Microsoft account?
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# ? May 18, 2020 17:54 |
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beefnoodle posted:Is there a way in Windows 10 to sync Start screen/menu settings across machines for the same Microsoft account? There are some things you can sync on settings > accounts > sync your settings but it is pretty random as to what settings will sync.
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# ? May 19, 2020 02:57 |
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Microsoft is enabling Direct3D proxying on WSL2 and apparently even wrote a graphics driver for Linux, meanwhile you still can't do that on regular Hyper-V VMs.
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Combat Pretzel posted:Microsoft is enabling Direct3D proxying on WSL2 and apparently even wrote a graphics driver for Linux, meanwhile you still can't do that on regular Hyper-V VMs. It's nice when companies have a vision........
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# ? May 20, 2020 07:32 |
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This is such a minor thing but I don't get why Windows wakes up my monitor to show a lock screen every time I RDP to my computer.
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# ? May 22, 2020 17:18 |
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You mean why the wake rather than why the lock, right?
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Less Fat Luke posted:This is such a minor thing but I don't get why Windows wakes up my monitor to show a lock screen every time I RDP to my computer. This has always been the case with Windows desktop versions. They only allow for a single user to be logged into one terminal interface/desktop session at a time. This means that if even you are logged into your machine and then log into the machine remotely your previous session will lock. This does not happen with Windows Server as it as a remote login features and doesn't affect the local desktop unless too many remote users log in at the same time, then people start getting locked out. I believe the default for Server is 2 users.
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It's not the locking that I question, the system is already locked - it's waking a monitor that's completely asleep that's the weird thing.
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Less Fat Luke posted:It's not the locking that I question, the system is already locked - it's waking a monitor that's completely asleep that's the weird thing. Ah, your question as not phrased very well, but I digress. You need to go into your power settings and edit the plan settings for the display. Just set the display power down/off to never.
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Nulldevice posted:Ah, your question as not phrased very well, but I digress. You need to go into your power settings and edit the plan settings for the display. Just set the display power down/off to never. Isn't that the exact opposite of what's wanted? Sure, Windows won't be able to wake the monitor anymore by virtue of it already being awake. At least windows 10 puts the monitor back to sleep after 1 minute on the lock screen, instead of the regular amount of time configured in the power options.
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Less Fat Luke posted:It's not the locking that I question, the system is already locked - it's waking a monitor that's completely asleep that's the weird thing. Does it send a notification? If I get a hangouts message (with the extension in Chrome, so Chrome pops up a Windows notification) it wakes the display for like 10 seconds or something, and then it goes off again. Happens whether it's locked or not Never used to do that but hey
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Geemer posted:Isn't that the exact opposite of what's wanted? Sure, Windows won't be able to wake the monitor anymore by virtue of it already being awake. Yeah it's the opposite baka kaba posted:Does it send a notification? If I get a hangouts message (with the extension in Chrome, so Chrome pops up a Windows notification) it wakes the display for like 10 seconds or something, and then it goes off again. Happens whether it's locked or not
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Nah I mean does doing the RDP create a Windows notification like "heyyyy someone's in da computer!!"
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baka kaba posted:Nah I mean does doing the RDP create a Windows notification like "heyyyy someone's in da computer!!" Yeah it just logs you off since you can only have one user logged in at one timel.
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redeyes posted:Yeah it just logs you off since you can only have one user logged in at one timel. Unless you have rdpwrapper set up of course. I've never seen a notification pop when I log in remotely so I doubt that is what would cause the wake.
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# ? May 24, 2020 17:54 |
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Any ideas why I can't use the Windows Defragment/Optimize thing to trim this SSD and why it shows "Optimization not available"? I can do it normally on other drives, SSD or not Mystic Stylez fucked around with this message at 01:38 on May 25, 2020 |
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Is it a very old SSD? If so it might not support the TRIM command.
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repiv posted:Is it a very old SSD? If so it might not support the TRIM command. Not that I know of, it's a Crucial MX500 that I bought in the end of 2019
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Have you tried Crucial's toolbox utility thingy?
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Mystic Stylez posted:Not that I know of, it's a Crucial MX500 that I bought in the end of 2019 What is it connected to? Some older controllers can't pass trim commands. Depending on the age of your mobo you might have some sata ports on the chipset and some on a (cheap) integrated controller chip. Also check drivers for your chipset / sata controllers. Not being able to trim isn't the end of the world, the drive's garbage collector will eventually handle things. But without trim you're kinda back to the old days of SSDs where the advice was to keep 10% free space at all times.
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# ? May 25, 2020 04:28 |
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I've been meddling with some things I don't understand. I need to use Linux occasionally for one specific purpose and decided to try dual booting Ubuntu on a Surface Pro 3 since I didn't really want to mess with my desktop. I don't know much about this sort of thing but I followed this 5 year old guide and surprisingly got it going. I stopped at the part about installing drivers since the type cover etc seemed to be working fine already. However... when booting into Windows afterwards it asked for the BitLocker key, which wasn't mentioned in the guide. I do have the key and unlocked it, but it just went into a loop after resetting, asking me to unlock again. I've followed these steps which gets me back into Windows, but obviously with BitLocker disabled. If I re-enable it it goes back into the same loop. Is there something straightforward I can do to fix this? I did see there's some more steps lower down in the original guide relevant to the bootloader but it seems like a bad idea to go further down that rabbit hole at this point. I'm fine with the GRUB bootloader coming up when I reset, just would prefer to have BitLocker on (I guess? tbh I didn't even really know about it until now). If anyone can point me in the right direction I'd be grateful, thanks.
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# ? May 25, 2020 12:44 |
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You should definitely turn bitlocker off entirely. Why would you be ok with Windows being encrypted and Linux not? I don't get it. Anyways, for this usage case, just turn it off. https://www.manageengine.com/products/os-deployer/help/how-to-disable-bitlocker-encryption.html code:
Make sure and leave it here while checking status until its completely off code:
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# ? May 25, 2020 14:36 |
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Any suggestion on a decent registry monitor that's free? I need to capture 4 entries in Local Security Policy so I can finish an Ansible deployment script. I'm not really digging the ini output from secedit and I'm not even sure if it's the right tool for the job. Registry entries are just easier. I think.
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Matt Zerella posted:Any suggestion on a decent registry monitor that's free? You can use processmon to track processes registry changes: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/procmon
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Re : bitlocker on a dual boot. No don't turn it off entirely, that's dumb You might need to pause and then restart it again after you've made a change like that to re-etablish the 'trust' as it were. I'm sure there is a better term for that It should work fine if the two installs are on separate partitions
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Skarsnik posted:Re : bitlocker on a dual boot. No don't turn it off entirely, that's dumb I've never been able to get it to play nice with a Dual boot but then again, I don't have data that is local and needs to be secured.
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SebAndSeb posted:I've been meddling with some things I don't understand. I need to use Linux occasionally for one specific purpose and decided to try dual booting Ubuntu on a Surface Pro 3 since I didn't really want to mess with my desktop. I don't know much about this sort of thing but I followed this 5 year old guide and surprisingly got it going. I stopped at the part about installing drivers since the type cover etc seemed to be working fine already. Can you run your workload in a VM? Because it would be simpler to run vmware workstation/player or something instead
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# ? May 25, 2020 19:31 |
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Similar issue, I have Ubuntu dual booted on my thinkpad. Now that I have a home lab with the vm there I want to nuke the old installation. What’s the best way to do that? Concerned about leaving bootloader hooks to something that doesn’t exist anymore. Can I just delete the partition in disk management?
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# ? May 25, 2020 21:33 |
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If you don't need a GUI then WSL works great as long as you don't have high IO needs. WSL2 is fixing the IO issues and will be adding native docker too.
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Matt Zerella posted:If you don't need a GUI then WSL works great as long as you don't have high IO needs.
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Skarsnik posted:Re : bitlocker on a dual boot. No don't turn it off entirely, that's dumb Yeah they are on separate partitions, I shrunk the main C partition to make space for Ubuntu. I assume it is something to do with flipping some internal 'trust' switch (Secure Boot??) but don't really know where to start, at the moment it says BitLocker is suspended on the C drive, but if i turn it back on it will ask me for the key again when I restart and I'll have to bypass and turn it off again. Maybe I should have paused it before making changes like you mentioned, I was really just following the guide and it only mentioned disabling it if it was interfering with shrinking the partition. I don't actually plan on storing any sensitive data on this computer anyway, I mainly use it for streaming Plex and drawing. But yeah I guess encryption is generally recommended since it's there by default. HalloKitty posted:Can you run your workload in a VM? Because it would be simpler to run vmware workstation/player or something instead I am planning to use it to follow an edx ROS course, and the course notes said it hadn't been tested using a VM and wasn't guaranteed to work. Possibly would be ok but I figure better to follow the supported set up.
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