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WillieWestwood posted:All you had to do was right-click on the start menu, go to Control Panel, and go to a previous restore point. Yeah I tried that and it didn't work :\ I didn't install anything new just went to bed woke up and clicked on the naked lady jpg and start menu no longer worked. I have since again clicked on the jpeg and no problems so far. Lowtechs fucked around with this message at 23:09 on Jan 9, 2016 |
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I just realised System Restore wasn't enabled by default. There MS has a useful feature and doesn't turn it on.
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Jan 9, 2016 23:35
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That's because System Restore is depreciated. Reset My PC works better.
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Jan 10, 2016 00:46
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Segmentation Fault posted:That's because System Restore is depreciated. Reset My PC works better. How so, if you just want to back away from a change?
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Jan 10, 2016 01:23
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Segmentation Fault posted:That's because System Restore is depreciated. Reset My PC works better. Far from being depreciated, it is actually a central option in "reset my PC".
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Jan 10, 2016 02:13
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Honestly I've never bothered with System Restore, I found that when you need to use it it doesn't quite get the job done. Maybe that's changed.
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Jan 10, 2016 02:28
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Segmentation Fault posted:Honestly I've never bothered with System Restore, I found that when you need to use it it doesn't quite get the job done. Maybe that's changed. Did you last use it in Windows ME? It's worked solidly since XP, as long as the thing you're trying to recover from isn't "my computer got a virus 6 months ago". It's especially good at bailing you out if the problem starts as soon as something new is installed.
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Jan 10, 2016 04:08
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Here’s what Microsoft plans to do with display scaling on Windows 10 Redstonequote:In a series buried away in the Insider Hub called “Made by you,” the Windows team goes into great length and detail about how things are going change when it comes to scaling in Windows 10. quote:Perhaps, the most front-facing UI element on any Windows users desktop are the mismatch of icons representing open folders, most used programs, and most accessed content. Examples include the Lync app and desktop icons. Microsoft plans to address this in Redstone. quote:Blurry bitmap scaling of content Somewhat encouraging, albeit what MS actually ships and considers 'solved' can be a little different from what we hope. Still good to hear the scaling and UI consistency is noted as a concern at least.
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Jan 10, 2016 05:08
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Segmentation Fault posted:That's because System Restore is depreciated. Reset My PC works better. Except when it doesn't in my case. I got a notification they my PC couldn't be reset. So had to reformat and reinstall from scratch.
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Jan 10, 2016 17:24
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New Insider build out for the fast track. https://blogs.windows.com/windowsex...ew-build-11099/ Nothing sexy in this one but it does show the file transfer window again.
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Jan 13, 2016 23:15
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Just installed the 11099 release and it is listed as Build 11099.rs1_release.160109-1156 so might be the next public release build.
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Jan 14, 2016 01:23
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Is there a way to have File History back up to a cloud drive? It seems like a complete and utter no brainer to include given cloud popularity and I'd be pretty surprised and disappointed if this weren't an option. I don't have a partition or a second HD, and I'm not on a home network. So it seems like my only option is usb, which is not something I always have plugged into my laptop. I don't really want to have to go hunting for my usb stick every time File History wants to make a new back up.
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Jan 14, 2016 02:28
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-Blackadder- posted:Is there a way to have File History back up to a cloud drive? Nope
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Jan 14, 2016 03:13
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Well that's sucks. Not sure what I'm supposed to do as far as back up solutions going forward. I remember I tried Acronis way back in the day, but never really used it, that was before cloud tech though. What are the best cloud back up solutions these days?
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Jan 14, 2016 11:05
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Lowtechs posted:Just installed the 11099 release and it is listed as Build 11099.rs1_release.160109-1156 so might be the next public release build. Does it have a desktop watermark? That's the usual telltale for a public release build.
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Jan 14, 2016 11:12
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Rusty! posted:Does it have a desktop watermark? Affirmative.
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Jan 14, 2016 13:32
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-Blackadder- posted:Well that's sucks. Not sure what I'm supposed to do as far as back up solutions going forward. I remember I tried Acronis way back in the day, but never really used it, that was before cloud tech though. What are the best cloud back up solutions these days? I use Crashplan which works fine for both local and cloud backups. I think I pay like $4-5 a month and I've had multiple restorations due to dead drives without issue. Just be advised the client for Synology NAS is user maintained and breaks every other loving week when Synology updates their OS. If you don't have a Synology NAS then you can ignore that. There's a backup thread here for more info on various backup solutions.
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Jan 14, 2016 14:07
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Crashplan is great because even on their free tier, you can do a 3-2-1 backup using a friend / families computer as an offsite backup, and can seed this with an external drive really easily.
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Jan 14, 2016 15:48
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Rusty! posted:Does it have a desktop watermark? That's the usual telltale for a public release build.
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Jan 14, 2016 17:22
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Good news for the latest Windows 10 patch Tuesday patches for January 2016 - seems to have fixed the resume from sleep login issue. The screen now responds to a keyboard press to allow you to log back in, whereas before in some cases you needed to click the screen.
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Jan 17, 2016 13:43
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WattsvilleBlues posted:Good news for the latest Windows 10 patch Tuesday patches for January 2016 - seems to have fixed the resume from sleep login issue. The screen now responds to a keyboard press to allow you to log back in, whereas before in some cases you needed to click the screen. You know, I thought it was weird the one time I logged into my desktop while this was a problem, then I never saw it again.
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Jan 18, 2016 00:53
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So I know you can run C# code:
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Jan 18, 2016 03:19
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Finally got my bizarre search behavior largely ironed out, at least for the time being. Search would only sporadically give results from Settings in the main window, and searching from the new Settings CP directly would only reveal the older control panel entries or often nothing at all. Search would continually complain that it was still indexing, results would be unpredictable, image placeholders would be missing from My Stuff searches, etc. The 'solution' was just to rebuild the index (which I've already done many times before) but perhaps the latest update finally fixed the underlying issue and the index rebuild was still required to complete the fix. Finally getting consistent results now. The only possible regression in behavior from before that I can see is that any documents outside of the local Documents/Music/Files etc folders, despite being included in Libraries, don't show up from the main search window and I'm always required to click My Stuff to get results from them. I thought this might be due to redirecting my Onedrive from the standard location inside my User folder to D: to save space on my SSD, but my Google Drive results aren't returned either - and it's under my User folder. I've removed and re-added these folders to the existing Libraries with no change, always required to click My Stuff to get results for local files that don't exist in the standard User folders. Again though, the results I got before were so random this may have been the intended behavior all along and now it's actually working as designed, it's at least predictable behavior (soon as I save a document insider c:\users\username\documents it's returned in the first search window immediately). Still a bit annoying - does everyone else have to click My Stuff to get file hits from folders outside of the standard local folder within user? Edit: This is apparently normal behavoir, search results from the primary search window will not show files outside of C:\Users, regardless if they are in a library or not. So if you change the location of Onedrive to another drive, you'll have to click My Stuff to get results (which is dumb). The reason I wasn't getting Google Drive results even though it's folder was still in C:\Users was because indexing wasn't working on it at all as the SYSTEM user was completely missing from the primary folder. Added it back with full permissions and I'm getting gdrive search results at least. Happy_Misanthrope fucked around with this message at 06:32 on Jan 18, 2016 |
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Jan 18, 2016 05:41
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ILikeVoltron posted:You know, I thought it was weird the one time I logged into my desktop while this was a problem, then I never saw it again. I spoke too soon. On my friend's laptop here, if I put it to Sleep via the Start menu and don't close the lid, the keyboard works fine. If I close the lid and trigger Sleep, the screen needs to be clicked before it registers keyboard input. I think it's something to do with the graphics drivers because the screen seems to flash briefly when I open the lid again. Happy_Misanthrope posted:Finally got my bizarre search behavior largely ironed out, at least for the time being. Search would only sporadically give results from Settings in the main window, and searching from the new Settings CP directly would only reveal the older control panel entries or often nothing at all. Search would continually complain that it was still indexing, results would be unpredictable, image placeholders would be missing from My Stuff searches, etc. Search is hands down my biggest disappointment with Windows 10. It's even worse than Windows 8.1, at least there I could hit Winkey + F to search for files. I have the same issue as you. I have most of my stuff stored on a secondary internal drive and the Start menu search is a joke. The cynic in me thinks they're just trying to boost the number of Bing searches registered or something. The technology is there to make searching good - the Windows 7-style Start menu in Start10 brings back search that actually frigging works.
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WattsvilleBlues posted:Search is hands down my biggest disappointment with Windows 10. It's even worse than Windows 8.1, at least there I could hit Winkey + F to search for files. Not giving back search results for a redirected Onedrive folder is truly bizarre, you're prompting users to save everything in there, giving them 1TB of space with an Office 365 account - chances are they're not going to storing that on their boot SSD if given the choice, but it's still going to be the primary source for their documents so its search results should be prioritized. Not to mention of course no email, contacts or appointment results - hell, there is simply no way to search for appointments even in the Calendar app at all, you need to use a third party cal app to search for appts. Wtf. BTW, anyone know what the heck this option does?  It's seemingly random which files trigger this appearing. You click it, Cortana thinks from anywhere to 2-5 seconds...  ...then returns results from My Stuff. WTF is the point of it? Happy_Misanthrope fucked around with this message at 18:44 on Jan 18, 2016 |
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Is there actually a search replacement that's actually good? Win 10 search makes me yearn for the days of Google desktop.
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Khablam posted:Is there actually a search replacement that's actually good? I've been using Everything for a few years and it's never let me down.
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hooah posted:I've been using Everything for a few years and it's never let me down. Is there a keyboard shortcut to activate Everything from anywhere?
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WattsvilleBlues posted:Is there a keyboard shortcut to activate Everything from anywhere? Not that I'm aware of. I don't need to search often enough that that bothers me. I suppose you might be able to use something like AutoHotkey to bind a key to launch Everything.
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Jan 21, 2016 14:09
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It's in the Everything settings. I have mine as Win+ALT+S. Works as long as the Everything sys tray is running. Though I mostly just click the taskbar shortcut.
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MeKeV posted:It's in the Everything settings. I have mine as Win+ALT+S. Works as long as the Everything sys tray is running. Though I mostly just click the taskbar shortcut. Which specific field do I fill in?
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Khablam posted:Is there actually a search replacement that's actually good? I use Agent Ransack. It's pretty decent, but it's not an indexed searching utility for constant use.
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Jan 21, 2016 15:06
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I might just hijack the Start key to use with Everything. I don't really use the Start key for anything except launching programs that aren't pinned to the taskbar so if Everything can do that I'm set.
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Jan 21, 2016 15:26
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Everything works well, thanks for the suggestion. Doesn't do content searches but I guess I can just rely on windows for that when I need it.
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There is something seriously wrong with my W10 laptop, I'm getting the 100% disk utilisation error at all times outside safe mode. It is almost completely unresponsive. I've tried the usual fixes, I've disabled superfetch, Wsearch, and background intelligent transfer service. No luck. Nothing detected through windows defender or Microsoft safety scanner. Could it be a problem with the pagefile, or Windows update, or some 3rd party driver?
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Jan 21, 2016 22:34
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Phobophilia posted:There is something seriously wrong with my W10 laptop, I'm getting the 100% disk utilisation error at all times outside safe mode. It is almost completely unresponsive. I've tried the usual fixes, I've disabled superfetch, Wsearch, and background intelligent transfer service. No luck. Nothing detected through windows defender or Microsoft safety scanner. What's your drive, and how much RAM do you have? Also, do any programs in Details view of task manager show up as having high numbers if you turn on the various I/O columns?
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Jan 21, 2016 23:22
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I have a 2tb hdd, and 8gb of ram. Off the top of my head, I'm not at home. I'll check utilisations on other columns later, but cpu and ram are normal.
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Anyone know if something changed with the way Win10 uses remote desktop connections? I can connect to one of my machines (win7) from my linux and other win7 boxes, but I have a win10 laptop that can't connect at all. I don't know what would have changed from the client side.
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Richard M Nixon posted:Anyone know if something changed with the way Win10 uses remote desktop connections? I can connect to one of my machines (win7) from my linux and other win7 boxes, but I have a win10 laptop that can't connect at all. I don't know what would have changed from the client side. Whats the error? Bad password or can't connect? Can you ping the machine?
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