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redeyes posted:lol quote:Add new physical memory to the computer.
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Winmerge? Back in the day I used to use Arraxis merge and it was awesome, but pricy Maybe install Git and use Diff?
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biznatchio posted:Not for Windows Update services, no, because that's one of the ways malware used to turn Windows Update off to keep compromised systems compromised. So now Windows will re-enable them when it discovers the services are disabled -- which is probably why that tool has a separate "Protect Services settings" checkbox, to try to prevent that from happening. Ah, I see, thanks for clarifying.
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Combat Pretzel posted:I just had a bugcheck code 0x59. Looking it up, it says PINBALL_FILE_SYSTEM. When I look up what that is, it tells me it's regarding the old HPFS driver, that's long gone from the Windows NT line of operating systems. That's sure nice and not helping. Bride of NTFS was a really great table namlosh posted:Hey, what's SMBDirect anyway? looks like it was a server tech that's made it's way into Win10? should I be trying to use it? I can't keep up with these things... lol I think it's still only on Server 20xx on the server side, but win10 has client support? Anyways, very fast, low latency file access using DMA over the network. But you need a RoCE network adapter to use it.
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Ihmemies posted:How do I compare a couple of TB of files? I am copying them from disk to disk. I would like to know what files are identical and what not. The files have same names but they are in different places.
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I'm trying to install "Windows subsystem for Linux" using these instructions: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10 At step 4 it tells me to download wsl_update_x64.msi, which I did, but when I run it, this comes up:  What the heck? How can I fix this?
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Oct 19, 2020 14:47
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School of How posted:I'm trying to install "Windows subsystem for Linux" using these instructions: Have you tried right-clicking the install file and running as Administrator?
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Oct 19, 2020 14:51
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You can skip this step if you're content with using WSL1 (the one that doesn't use virtualization). But also, WSL2 totally works for me having never installed the Kernel package, so not sure it's even required? Or did it somehow get installed automatically.
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Oct 19, 2020 14:53
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GreenNight posted:Have you tried right-clicking the install file and running as Administrator? There is no option to "run as administrator"
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Fame Douglas posted:You can skip this step if you're content with using WSL1 (the one that doesn't use virtualization). But also, WSL2 totally works for me having never installed the Kernel package, so not sure it's even required? Or did it somehow get installed automatically. When I go to the power shell to start up wsl, I get this  so its definitely not already installed
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Oct 19, 2020 15:00
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That's weird, I've never seen an .exe without the option. See if you can set it to run as admin under Properties > Compatibility?
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Oct 19, 2020 15:01
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:That's weird, I've never seen an .exe without the option. See if you can set it to run as admin under Properties > Compatibility? Its not an exe, its an msi. Also there is no "run as administrator" anywhere in the properties -> compatibility menu.
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Oct 19, 2020 15:04
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:That's weird, I've never seen an .exe without the option. See if you can set it to run as admin under Properties > Compatibility? it's an msi, not an exe school of how, did you reboot after step 3?
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Oct 19, 2020 15:05
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Weedle posted:it's an msi, not an exe That's what it was. I just restarted and now it works. Restart should be its own step. Each step should include doing only one thing. Also, the installer should say "you need to restart before running this installer", instead of some generic "an error occurred" message.
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I have pretty annoying and regular problems with my wi-fi since I upgraded my system to win 10. My connection just repeatedly cuts out for like the first one or two hours after starting my PC pretty often since the upgrade. It's not a problem with my router I think since my phone uses the same wi-fi at home and doesn't have any problems at the same time. Whenever the connection dies I go to my taskbar, tell windows to cut the connection to the wi-fi, re-connect and everything is fine within seconds. Until the next random cut, of course. Upgrading to win 10 was the only significant change I did to my system(doubt that my new GPU has any effect on the issue) so I'm fairly confident in it being the root of the problems. I guess another avenue could be that my USB receiver is maybe too old for win10? No idea but I'm gonna put it out there. I'm aware that this sort of issue is rather tricky and might not be solved with some advice from here but I'm still going to give it a shot 
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This is just unhelpful anecdotal reminiscing, but in the last five years I've personally had two instances where 'it can't be the wifi, every other device is connecting fine' turned out to be the most awful red herring and replacing the router was what solved it after weeks of trying everything else. The problems manifested themselves with devices new to the network though, so that's somewhat different to what you've got going on.
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Oct 19, 2020 16:36
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Tin Tim posted:I have pretty annoying and regular problems with my wi-fi since I upgraded my system to win 10. My connection just repeatedly cuts out for like the first one or two hours after starting my PC pretty often since the upgrade. It's not a problem with my router I think since my phone uses the same wi-fi at home and doesn't have any problems at the same time. Whenever the connection dies I go to my taskbar, tell windows to cut the connection to the wi-fi, re-connect and everything is fine within seconds. Until the next random cut, of course. Upgrading to win 10 was the only significant change I did to my system(doubt that my new GPU has any effect on the issue) so I'm fairly confident in it being the root of the problems. I guess another avenue could be that my USB receiver is maybe too old for win10? No idea but I'm gonna put it out there.
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Oct 19, 2020 19:14
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Tin Tim posted:Upgrading to win 10 was the only significant change I did to my system(doubt that my new GPU has any effect on the issue) so I'm fairly confident in it being the root of the problems. I guess another avenue could be that my USB receiver is maybe too old for win10? No idea but I'm gonna put it out there. Does your model of USB wifi receiver have specific driver updates for Win10 from whoever made it? If it doesn't, it may be working on win10 using some generic driver package that kinda-mostly works. Or if you did an actual upgrade from 7 to 10 rather than format and reinstall, it could even still be using the 7 drivers. (Also phones are really good at not showing wifi problems if you have a data plan, because they will instantly move traffic over to the cell network for the time it takes them to re-establish the wifi connection. But the rest of your symptoms sound very much like a software / driver problem.)
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Oct 19, 2020 19:18
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Tin Tim posted:I have pretty annoying and regular problems with my wi-fi since I upgraded my system to win 10. My connection just repeatedly cuts out for like the first one or two hours after starting my PC pretty often since the upgrade. It's not a problem with my router I think since my phone uses the same wi-fi at home and doesn't have any problems at the same time. Whenever the connection dies I go to my taskbar, tell windows to cut the connection to the wi-fi, re-connect and everything is fine within seconds. Until the next random cut, of course. Upgrading to win 10 was the only significant change I did to my system(doubt that my new GPU has any effect on the issue) so I'm fairly confident in it being the root of the problems. I guess another avenue could be that my USB receiver is maybe too old for win10? No idea but I'm gonna put it out there. Like others have said, drivers are a definite suspect. If you can pin down the wireless chipset being used it could help you identify what drivers to try out. Is there any proprietary software involved with your wireless connection, like a brand-specific wireless manager? I know that used to be a thing, and could be a problem, too.
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School of How posted:I'm trying to install "Windows subsystem for Linux" using these instructions:
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Thanks for the input, folks! I'm using a N300 Micro Wireless USB Adapter from Belkin which is real old by now so that's why it was my first suspect. My device manager shows that it has recognized it as an N300 USB Network Adapter which should be right? However after going through the page of the manufacturer I have learned that their last update for the device was for the V2 version of it with win 8.1 support. And going by the sticker on the back mine is so old that I still got the first version of it lol. Probably best to just buy a new one instead of trying to make this one work perfectly again.
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Tin Tim posted:Thanks for the input, folks! I'm using a N300 Micro Wireless USB Adapter from Belkin which is real old by now so that's why it was my first suspect. My device manager shows that it has recognized it as an N300 USB Network Adapter which should be right? However after going through the page of the manufacturer I have learned that their last update for the device was for the V2 version of it with win 8.1 support. And going by the sticker on the back mine is so old that I still got the first version of it lol. Probably best to just buy a new one instead of trying to make this one work perfectly again. If it's not already installed a quick search suggests you would want the second download from this page unless you are running a 32-bit version of Windows 10 for some reason (the first driver is x86, the second AMD64, but Microsoft apparently decided you need to click on the download link to find this out): https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=RTL8192CU But yeah, getting a newer wireless adapter is not a bad idea, either.
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October update is out, went from starting download to logging back in post-update in about two minutes, so either it's seriously lightweight or they finally sorted out the update process like people were always talking about? New start menu tiles are nice. No idea if anything else has changed.
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:October update is out, went from starting download to logging back in post-update in about two minutes, so either it's seriously lightweight or they finally sorted out the update process like people were always talking about? Like last years october update it essentially adds a marker that switches on already existing features. Like activating dlc that's already on disk.
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:October update is out, went from starting download to logging back in post-update in about two minutes, so either it's seriously lightweight or they finally sorted out the update process like people were always talking about? It's another minor update like 1909 last year that is basically a patch rollup + small changes. It isn't doing the semi-reinstall that major updates do (ie no windows.old directory of your pre-update install). If you're on 2004 that is. For anyone that isn't on 2004 yet it will be a full update that takes longer. (I'm 100% in favor of this on/off schedule of major and minor updates. They've been more consistent with fewer fuckups, and 1 of these update-reinstalls per year is good enough to keep 10 working ok.)
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How's 2004 these days? Getting stable?
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astral posted:How's 2004 these days? Getting stable? I pushed it out to my org without any issues.
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astral posted:How's 2004 these days? Getting stable? It's been fine for me but I don't have any weird hardware, either.
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astral posted:How's 2004 these days? Getting stable? It's all about 20H2, which went live today.
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:October update is out, went from starting download to logging back in post-update in about two minutes, so either it's seriously lightweight or they finally sorted out the update process like people were always talking about? Not available for me yet but I'll probably download the ISO and clean install over the weekend anyway. Here's hoping if this is the build that finally fixes the 'System Interrupts using 100% CPU' problem that's been around for years. Bizarrely enough, it's mitigated by just keeping task manager open all the time, but still a ridiculous problem to have.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:Do you know what chipset your Bluetooth is? I know Intel had a driver update a while back that was dodgy, and there has been another recent driver update for it. I don't, but where I can find more info on this?
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Cyril Sneer posted:I don't, but where I can find more info on this? You can try checking the hardware ID in Device Manager and searching on the result. This page kind of walks through that process: https://superuser.com/questions/1251720/how-can-i-find-out-the-model-of-my-wifi-bluetooth-chip
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Yeah I was wondering about that only yesterday, when I was a few minutes late to a zoom meeting because Windows wanted to finish installing an update on boot, that I thought was taken care of the day before when I clicked Update and /Shutdown. It should complete the process, so a reboot first, and then shutdown.
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I'm replacing a dying hard drive in a laptop, do I need to connect to a Microsoft Account beforehand to get the OEM license to transfer, or can I just extract the key or something?
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Nov 3, 2020 02:22
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Kerning Chameleon posted:I'm replacing a dying hard drive in a laptop, do I need to connect to a Microsoft Account beforehand to get the OEM license to transfer, or can I just extract the key or something?
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Also, laptops keys are stored in the Bios anyways. And if you're replacing a hard drive, get an SSD, not a hard drive.
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Kerning Chameleon posted:I'm replacing a dying hard drive in a laptop, do I need to connect to a Microsoft Account beforehand to get the OEM license to transfer, or can I just extract the key or something? If you're cloning the install from the old drive, no action needed. If you're installing from scratch and the laptop came with windows 10 (or 8), it *should* be no action needed. The windows key is blown into the mobo so when you install it should pick it up from that. If it's an old laptop that originally came with win 7 you need either the sticker key, or to connect to a MS account and start the license transfer before wiping the old install.
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Lambert posted:Also, laptops keys are stored in the Bios anyways. And if you're replacing a hard drive, get an SSD, not a hard drive. Yeah, that's my plan. So just put Win10 install on a stick, install on the new ssd and everything should just work right? Do I just skip activation during install? Edit: ^Ah, okay, it's a Dell from like a year or two ago, so it should be a simple install then.
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Kerning Chameleon posted:Yeah, that's my plan. So just put Wino10 install on a stick, install on the new ssd and everything should just work right? Do I just skip activation during install? Yes, get the Media Creation Tool to create a setup stick. It should automatically install the correct edition for your key, pulling the key from the Bios. The "I don't have a key" option won't even appear.
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I've been unable to update my windows for months now. Thought maybe the Feature update would push things through, but same issue there. Besides security, the repeated background downloads are annoying. I've followed a bunch of guides but nothing seems to work. Should I just try a full windows reinstall? Can I do it in a way that keeps other programs intact (backups?)? Getting CS4 installed off old DVDs took hours, would rather avoid redoing all that.
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