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Khablam posted:At a basic logical level, by using a tool like that you're essentially saying you've evaluated all the evidence, and have concluded poster "10se1ucgo" is a better arbiter of your privacy than Microsoft. Why then would you trust Microsoft at any level, and run their closed source OS? A lot of folks are less concerned with Microsoft's honesty than with their anonymization or their discretion w/r/t sharing the data. There's a lot of clickbait bullshit, yeah, but I don't think that's completely relevant to that particular tool or it being posted in this thread.
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spanko posted:Am I not finding the option or is there no way to setup automatic system image backups to an external (USB) drive in Windows 10? I do a manual backups for myself but this is for a paranoid person who is bad at computers. If this isn't possible in Windows 10 can anyone recommend a free or cheap, easy to use backup to external drive solution? It needs to be a full system image backup and automatic/scheduled. Still haven't done a bare metal restore myself though, but it is made for that. Pulled out the odd individual file, which seemed to work great. They want an email address from you before you can download the installer, so they can upsell you corporate backup solutions. You can however unsubscribe from the mails and they seem to respect that.
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Jan 26, 2016 21:49
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spanko posted:Am I not finding the option or is there no way to setup automatic system image backups to an external (USB) drive in Windows 10? I do a manual backups for myself but this is for a paranoid person who is bad at computers. If this isn't possible in Windows 10 can anyone recommend a free or cheap, easy to use backup to external drive solution? It needs to be a full system image backup and automatic/scheduled. If you actually just want to use the Win 7 tool, you can find 'backup & restore (Windows 7)' in the control panel. It allows scheduling, and can include system images. Macrium reflect is the default recommendation, though incremental backups are a paid feature. Differential are free though, if you can live with that.
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Jan 27, 2016 00:15
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wbadmin should also still be included, you could make it a scheduled task.
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Flipperwaldt posted:They want an email address from you before you can download the installer, so they can upsell you corporate backup solutions. You can however unsubscribe from the mails and they seem to respect that. They also accept Mailinator disposable addresses if you want to be sure.
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spanko posted:Am I not finding the option or is there no way to setup automatic system image backups to an external (USB) drive in Windows 10? I do a manual backups for myself but this is for a paranoid person who is bad at computers. If this isn't possible in Windows 10 can anyone recommend a free or cheap, easy to use backup to external drive solution? It needs to be a full system image backup and automatic/scheduled. Try Macrium Reflect Free.
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The free version of crashplan can do that, and then if they ever want to pay for cloud backup in the future it'd be nice and easy
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Skarsnik posted:The free version of crashplan can do that, and then if they ever want to pay for cloud backup in the future it'd be nice and easy Crashplan is superb, but doesn't disk image.
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Ah yes, didn't see that bit He should probably get it anyway
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There were updates ready to be installed last night as I was shutting my laptop down last night, 1/27. Honesty, I wasn't really paying attention to what it was. Today my laptop is running a bit slower, and the cooling fan is working way more than it was previously even if I'm not doing anything. Has anyone else experienced anything of the sort?
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Safety Scissors posted:There were updates ready to be installed last night as I was shutting my laptop down last night, 1/27. Honesty, I wasn't really paying attention to what it was. Today my laptop is running a bit slower, and the cooling fan is working way more than it was previously even if I'm not doing anything. Has anyone else experienced anything of the sort? Run task manager and see whats going on. Guessing isn't really useful
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redeyes posted:Run task manager and see whats going on. Guessing isn't really useful I actually can't run task manager, I get a black screen with nothing when I control alt delete. I tried rolling the computer back, but when I run settings, the window never pops up and I just get a loading icon instead of a mouse on the left third of my monitor. This makes me incapable of clicking on anything in that area. Additionally, the start menu stops functioning, even if I hit control escape. At this point I just have to shut the computer down manually to get it to work normally again.
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Can you use ctrl+shift+esc to bring up the task manager directly?
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Safety Scissors posted:I actually can't run task manager, I get a black screen with nothing when I control alt delete. I tried rolling the computer back, but when I run settings, the window never pops up and I just get a loading icon instead of a mouse on the left third of my monitor. This makes me incapable of clicking on anything in that area. Additionally, the start menu stops functioning, even if I hit control escape. At this point I just have to shut the computer down manually to get it to work normally again. Not too good. The windows install might be borked. Fortunately you can do a repair install right over the top with say Threshhold 2 and it fixes stuff like that. You can also try a system restore.
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hooah posted:Can you use ctrl+shift+esc to bring up the task manager directly? Yeah one of the svchosts (DCOM server process launcher) is taking up like 30 to 35% of my cpu cycles. redeyes posted:Not too good. The windows install might be borked. Fortunately you can do a repair install right over the top with say Threshhold 2 and it fixes stuff like that. You can also try a system restore. Tried system restore, but it just went black after a bit and didn't do anything. Didn't make things worse as far as I can tell at least. I'll look into this threshhold thing.
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Tried another restore point, and it worked. I haven't really checked how the system is running in comparison yet, but I ran sfc /scannow in the command prompt and it didn't find any errors, so I think I should be good.
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Dr. Gitmo Moneyson posted:Really hoping this is the thread for this question. This got lost on the last page. If there's a better thread for it, please let me know.
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Dr. Gitmo Moneyson posted:This got lost on the last page. If there's a better thread for it, please let me know. This thread is pretty much only about Windows 10 the operating system, and not the software running on it. But uh I'm not sure I even understand the question. What do you mean by "cache" in here? Do you mean a server message store like Exchange, IMAP or otherwise, where you or the provider removes messages from on a schedule? You could set up a rule to copy messages to a local PST data file?
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nielsm posted:This thread is pretty much only about Windows 10 the operating system, and not the software running on it. Sounds to me like he wants mail to stay on the server even after being deleted on the client side. Which you can do on pop3, but can't with exchange AFAIK.
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I want the mail to stay on my computer after being deleted from the place it comes from. Like for example, a gmail or Yahoo account. EDIT: I moved the question to the Software thread. I. M. Gei fucked around with this message at 17:52 on Jan 29, 2016 |
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Dr. Gitmo Moneyson posted:I want the mail to stay on my computer after being deleted from the place it comes from. Like for example, a gmail or Yahoo account. Yep then you just need an inbox rule that copies new messages to a local PST file.
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how do i get rid of this auto-flight-awway mode thing. i'm using a desktop.
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The Saddest Rhino posted:how do i get rid of this auto-flight-awway mode thing. i'm using a desktop. I uhh..almost want to say that's some vendor software and not something that came from Microsoft. But I could be wrong.
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kirbysuperstar posted:I uhh..almost want to say that's some vendor software and not something that came from Microsoft. But I could be wrong. thanks for the pointer, i found out it's an asus motherboard thing
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The Saddest Rhino posted:how do i get rid of this auto-flight-awway mode thing. i'm using a desktop. Yeah, it's definitely not something that comes with Windows normally. Clicking on the Action Center (the speech bubble icon) will bring up all of those controls and more!
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The Saddest Rhino posted:how do i get rid of this auto-flight-awway mode thing. i'm using a desktop. If you click on the little triangle it disappears back into the edge of the screen until you hover your mouse over it. It looks a lot like the software that came with my asus motherboard.
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How long does Windows 10 last without activating? Is it just disabling the personalization features or will it eventually time out?
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Combat Pretzel posted:How long does Windows 10 last without activating? Is it just disabling the personalization features or will it eventually time out? If you mean a fresh install without a license, same as 7 and 8.
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Wow,very neat of the Windows 10 installer to mirror everything to a connected external display (if started from inside Windows, that is), which made it possible to install it on an old laptop with a broken screen.
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I heard on this thread about how major updates ("service packs") are actually installed by a full system reinstall, with a new Windows folder. I always figured I'd get one of those sooner or later, but it's been a while since I last saw it mentioned and it never happened to me. I do get regular Windows Updates regularly, but I'm wondering if I'm somehow out of date? Can I check build version without being on Insider builds?
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Jan posted:I heard on this thread about how major updates ("service packs") are actually installed by a full system reinstall, with a new Windows folder. I always figured I'd get one of those sooner or later, but it's been a while since I last saw it mentioned and it never happened to me. I do get regular Windows Updates regularly, but I'm wondering if I'm somehow out of date? Can I check build version without being on Insider builds? Simply open the command prompt:
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fishmech posted:Simply open the command prompt: Oh, derp. I'm on 10.0.10240. Apparently this is what Defer Upgrades does, rather than let you choose when to install updates as I'd previously read. Guess I'll untick that option whenever I have the time to deal with this.
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Or winver.exe, the app that exists to tell you what version of windows you're running.
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Or systeminfo, if you really want to know what updates you've installed.
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Jan posted:Oh, derp. You can grab the Media Creation Tool and use it to update to the November release at least. Lots of tweaks here and there.
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Does anyone whether during activation check ups (every 90/180 days or some poo poo?) the client and server exchange and verify information about when the last check happened? I'm asking because in regards to virtualization, I want to run an installation, update it as far as it goes, then freeze it in a snapshot and derive further VMs from said snapshot. The question is, say if I create VM 1 to run Steam in and VM 2 for whatever else, but use only VM 1 for months while mothballing VM 2. Now, if a few activation refreshes in, I unpack VM 2 and fire it up, and start changing between the two (only one would run at a time), do I have to expect drama? --edit: Or am I mistaken and activation only runs once during the system lifetime? Combat Pretzel fucked around with this message at 20:07 on Feb 3, 2016 |
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Is M$ trying to sneak in a new patch to force people to upgrade? Since I remember the KB3035583's code and could spot it anywhere, are they trying to repackage it in a nice new box with KB3123862?quote:The update adds capabilities to some computers that lets users easily learn about Windows 10 or start an upgrade to Windows 10. Yeah.. not... installing that one.
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Combat Pretzel posted:Does anyone whether during activation check ups (every 90/180 days or some poo poo?) the client and server exchange and verify information about when the last check happened? You may be better off just using two virtual disks and switching between them in the same VM. Do you know how to set up direct GPU access for your VM? If not, or if your system doesn't allow for it, what makes you think your games will work with virtual guest GPU drivers?
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I'd like to keep my CAD stuff separate from the gaming stuff, because upgrading Solidworks is a pain in the rear end, thus why that convoluted setup using ZFS snapshots. For graphics, I have VGA passthrough working successfully.
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Out of nowhere, I booted my Win 10 computer and some processes never started/worked properly. (Task Manager wouldn't show, Chrome failed to load pages, Windows Defender wouldn't open.) All of these worked in Safe Mode. I tried SFC /scannow, MalwareBytes, reinstalled some drivers, to no avail. So I just shrugged and did a Windows Reset, which was fairly painless last time I did it. Except this time, it decided to nuke my Program Files folder along with Windows proper. I've been reinstalling what few programs I have that live there, but I'm not sure what changed since the last reset I did? Did I overlook an option beyond "Keep my files" in the reset screen?
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