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Jewel Repetition posted:What's the verdict on Windows 10?
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Aug 11, 2015 23:03
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At the very least, better than Windows ME.
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Aug 11, 2015 23:11
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dpbjinc posted:Try using Disk Cleanup and selecting Thumbnails, then log out and back in. No luck 
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Aug 12, 2015 00:33
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JohnnyCanuck posted:No luck Have you tried throwing some rice over your shoulder, restarting the computer 5 times in a row, then saying a prayer to Gates? That or unpinning then repinning the programs in the start menu (right click on them)?
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Aug 12, 2015 01:14
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ElrondHubbard posted:Have you tried throwing some rice over your shoulder, restarting the computer 5 times in a row, then saying a prayer to Gates? Gave that a shot too - the unpinning and re-pinning - with no love. Oddly enough, when I use something like Stardock's Start10 start menu replacement, it loads all the icons correctly.
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Aug 12, 2015 01:58
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Can I change the source of the News app's news? Or is there a good RSS reader app with a live tile? Also, is there an easy way to get Gmail, google calendar, etc (basically all the stuff tied to my Google account that I've created on my phone) into live tiles? I really like the idea of those tiles, but I'm not setting up everything on a second account just to fit the MS format.
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Aug 12, 2015 02:12
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My preferred RSS reader is Nextgen Reader, syncs with Feedly. You used to be able to change the source for the news app in the 8.1 app, but I can't find it in the 10 version.  It still uses the sources I set up in 8.1 though, so that code exists somewhere.You can just go into the mail (and calendar) app and link your Google account, making sure to set the sync settings to your preference. My Gmail accounts show up in there just as well as my MS account stuff and they populate the live tiles when new stuff comes in. Also, a cool thing: you can right click on the name of each email account and pin it as a separate tile from the main mail app, to get a live tile for just that email account, so you could separate out work from home if you wanted. The best live tiles are still the weather and the translator app set to the large size. 
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Aug 12, 2015 02:35
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Quick question. My girlfriend needs a new laptop but we're trying to stay away from Windows 8. If we buy one with Windows 8 installed, are we still eligible for the free upgrade or is that only for users of 7/8 prior to the release date of 10? I'm guessing the former, I just wanna make sure.
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Aug 12, 2015 02:44
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Anyone know of a good app that can let you read Word files (besides..you know...Word)? The normal Word app sucks at letting me enlarge text on my screen and whatnot.
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Aug 12, 2015 02:48
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Mordecai Sanchez posted:Quick question. My girlfriend needs a new laptop but we're trying to stay away from Windows 8. If we buy one with Windows 8 installed, are we still eligible for the free upgrade or is that only for users of 7/8 prior to the release date of 10? I'm guessing the former, I just wanna make sure. If you have 7 or 8 and it is before July 29 2016, you can get 10.
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Aug 12, 2015 03:07
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ThermoPhysical posted:Anyone know of a good app that can let you read Word files (besides..you know...Word)? The normal Word app sucks at letting me enlarge text on my screen and whatnot. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/...dpimamgkj?hl=en
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Aug 12, 2015 03:08
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e: whoops d0s fucked around with this message at 03:43 on Aug 12, 2015 |
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Aug 12, 2015 03:12
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d0s posted:Got my Subox, a world of difference compared to my EVOD2 Have you tried the windows store?
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Aug 12, 2015 03:16
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Cojawfee posted:If you have 7 or 8 and it is before July 29 2016, you can get 10. That's what I figured. Gracias.
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Aug 12, 2015 03:21
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d0s posted:Got my Subox, a world of difference compared to my EVOD2 Where does the SSD go?
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Aug 12, 2015 03:35
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Thanks, but I already have this. I don't really want to go micromanaging with stuff on Drive too.
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Aug 12, 2015 03:40
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What do you mean? You just double click and it opens like any other file. If you have the default set as something else just Open With Chrome. Or do you mean stuff on OneDrive and it not working with them or something? I've never used it.
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Aug 12, 2015 03:42
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uhh my bad thought I was posting in the ecig robocock thread
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Aug 12, 2015 03:43
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So I just got a new Lenovo Y-50 with windows 8. I have an old copy of windows 7 laying around which I definitely prefer to 8, but I also have my upgrade to 10 ready to go. Should I just jump into 10 since I'm learning a new OS anyways? I'm not super tech savvy so I was planning on waiting until the kinks were worked out but I am pretty uncomfortable with W8; I feel like it's just a ton of bloatware and apps that I can't get rid of. Any advice?
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Aug 12, 2015 04:00
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Anyone know what would cause the windows 10 upgrade going from 7 to outright fail? I left the install running by itself and didn't mess with it, but after the upgrade was finished it kept coming up with this screen with a stupid sadface with a message that said something like "attempting to recover your windows installation". After trying that a few times and failing it just rolled back to my windows 7 install. The gently caress?
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Aug 12, 2015 04:05
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DemonMage posted:What do you mean? You just double click and it opens like any other file. If you have the default set as something else just Open With Chrome. You can't actually open a Word file with Chrome, at least Chrome doesn't show up in the list...
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Aug 12, 2015 04:10
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Does anybody know how to install security updates in Win7 without upgrading to Win10? Even with the "Upgrade to Windows 10 Pro" optional update unchecked, installing updates displays "Downloading Windows 10". I can't currently manage an OS upgrade but the security updates out today are kind of critical.
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Aug 12, 2015 04:48
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ThermoPhysical posted:Anyone know of a good app that can let you read Word files (besides..you know...Word)? The normal Word app sucks at letting me enlarge text on my screen and whatnot.
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Aug 12, 2015 04:59
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Aleksei Vasiliev posted:Does anybody know how to install security updates in Win7 without upgrading to Win10? Even with the "Upgrade to Windows 10 Pro" optional update unchecked, installing updates displays "Downloading Windows 10". I can't currently manage an OS upgrade but the security updates out today are kind of critical.  e: actually you'll have to uninstall those two updates first, as you probably already have them installed. Go to "View Update History" then click on the "To remove and update, view Installed Updates" link on the top of the screen, which will get you to ANOTHER screen where you can select updates to uninstall. Uninstall the two listed in the screenshot above. May need to go under "Optional Updates" and hide the "Upgrade to Windows 10" update as well. Now you can go on your merry Windows 7 way, and it should give you just the regular security updates. RightClickSaveAs fucked around with this message at 05:09 on Aug 12, 2015 |
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Aug 12, 2015 05:04
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RightClickSaveAs posted:I'm partial to OpenOffice's Writer, it's what I've used for years: http://www.openoffice.org/download/index.html It's open source software and doesn't feel as polished as Official Word, but handles every word document I've thrown at it just fine, and is very customizable. Apache OpenOffice is hardly touched anymore since The Fork; you're almost certainly better off with LibreOffice. Also anyone who uses LibreOffice: 5.0.0 introduced stable Win64 support, though you'll have to go down the Fresh download page for it.
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Aug 12, 2015 06:19
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Aaaaand I just rolled back my tablet from 10 to 8.1. The 'tablet mode' is absolute trash. Edge has little to no concessions to tablet usage compared to IE 11: no gestures, the UI controls are hard to hit with finger taps, etc. Battery life was worse, performance was awful, really disappointing. The most annoying part was getting double notifications for Twitter, so I uninstalled the app. For some reason, it didn't actually uninstall properly, and it left a weird entry in the Notifications panel that was Microsoft.Explorer.Notification{a GUID}. Reinstalling the app not only didn't fix it, but didn't add a Twitter entry, and somehow my Twitter app settings had persisted, leading me to believe that it didn't uninstall properly. I could've tried a reset, but that removes the ability to rollback to 8.1, and I'm just not ready to make that leap. I'm sure my experience is not the majority's, and I've heard good things about it on the desktop, but that's my story  Tablet: HP Stream 7.
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Aug 12, 2015 06:29
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I've got this weird problem since I upgraded to Windows 10 from 7. When I shut down my PC, Windows seems to shut down everything nice and quickly but then the screen goes black and the PC stays on for around 5 minutes before it powers down. Restarts are fine and when I was running Windows 7 this problem wasn't there. I tried googling to see if anyone else was having the same issue but it just leads to those dodgy SPEED UP YOUR COMPUTER sites. Help goons
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Aug 12, 2015 06:36
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Thanks guys. I'll give LibreOffice a try!
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Aug 12, 2015 06:38
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Also, what person decided that tablet mode required a taskbar at all times because holy poo poo. I get that the general public reaction to 8 was 'Too much tablet' but this is way, way too far in the other direction.
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Aug 12, 2015 06:57
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Chasiubao posted:Also, what person decided that tablet mode required a taskbar at all times because holy poo poo. You can set it to autohide but you have to swipe it up to get it to appear and there's a decent chance you'll also stretch it up in the process. But yeah, Windows 10 is pretty terrible compared to Windows 8.1 on tablets.
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Aug 12, 2015 08:12
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I've got pretty used to W10's tablet mode now, all I'm missing in regards to functionality is fullscreen mode for Edge, but I have my taskbar on the left so swiping the bottom of the screen to show or hide isn't an issue.
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Aug 12, 2015 10:16
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I'm curious, how many of you having all these quirky issues did clean installs? I did on my desktop, I just went with the upgrade on the surface as there wasn't much on it anyway, and I'm still running the preview on the laptop. Aside from the 5.1 audio thing on the desktop I've had no concerns. I like it but I didn't really think 8.1 needed any upgrading, 7=Xp=garbage as far as I'm concerned.
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Aug 12, 2015 10:58
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Currently running Win7 x32 Just bought a new SSD. Want a clean install of Win 7 on that, but want to upgrade to 10 at some point in the future So: upgrade 7 to 10 on the HDD, download ISO of 10 x64 Swap SSD for HDD, install 7. Then at later date, can install 10 from ISO and enjoy the free license Or, should I just bite the bullet and go for 10. Any horror stories of older software not working?
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Aug 12, 2015 12:20
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Sir Unimaginative posted:Apache OpenOffice is hardly touched anymore since The Fork; you're almost certainly better off with LibreOffice.
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Aug 12, 2015 13:28
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ThermoPhysical posted:Anyone know of a good app that can let you read Word files (besides..you know...Word)? The normal Word app sucks at letting me enlarge text on my screen and whatnot. I don't get it. What's wrong with the zoom slider in the lower right?
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Aug 12, 2015 14:35
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spog posted:Currently running Win7 x32 What edition of 7 is it? Pro can switch between 32 and 64, I don't think Home can.
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Aug 12, 2015 14:38
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I'm shutting down my laptop for the night, and it's decided to install 25 updates, which are taking ages. I'm using windows 7, and reserved a copy of 10 months ago, but decided to put off the actual upgrade until everything's sorted. ...it wouldn't upgrade without my permission, would it? E. Nope, didn't. Kazzah fucked around with this message at 15:04 on Aug 12, 2015 |
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Aug 12, 2015 14:49
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Cojawfee posted:What edition of 7 is it? Pro can switch between 32 and 64, I don't think Home can. Nah, no version of Windows has ever let you switch (cross-grade?) an installation from one CPU architecture to another, in particular not x86 32 bit to x86 64 bit either. It also isn't possible to upgrade a 32 bit version of any system into a 64 bit version of some system. However, since Vista, a license for 32 bit is also good for 64 bit, and vice versa: You can take your laptop with OEM 32 bit Windows 7, format it, and install the equivalent 64 bit edition of Windows 7 on it, using the license key on the sticker. For Windows 8 and 10 OEM it should be able to install using the key stored in firmware. Presumably that also means that once your system has been registered for free Windows 10, you can format and install a different bitness version of the correct edition on it, and get it to activate.
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Aug 12, 2015 15:43
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Factor Mystic posted:I don't get it. What's wrong with the zoom slider in the lower right? I don't have Office 365 and I can't actually edit with it.
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Aug 12, 2015 16:04
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That's what I was talking about. If he has Pro, he can install 64 bit and use his key.
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