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What's the verdict on Windows 10?
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Aug 11, 2015 20:36
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Is Windows 10 backwards compatible with programs for Windows 7?
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Jul 25, 2016 20:24
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Windows 10's search function is called Cortana and it also searches the web using Bing? Are you serious with this poo poo?
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Jul 27, 2016 20:40
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Also can everyone check if their Windows 7 systems actually sleep right and it's not a universal problem? Because I put mine to sleep every night and that would be crippling to me.
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Jul 27, 2016 20:43
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Bieeardo posted:Looks like my housemate will be on 7 for another decade yet. The installer refused to download properly, and now it's claiming that she's installed Windows in an unsupported directory. Namely, C:\Windows. How dare she.
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Jul 29, 2016 21:44
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Now downloading Windows 10 in a race against time.
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Jul 29, 2016 21:47
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After a terrifying hour I've got Windows 10 installed and I have a few questions. 1. Is it possible to make the subfolders in a folder display before the files? I want this for my images folder because it's huge and I don't want to have to scroll to the bottom to see the folders. It was how it should be in Windows 7. 2. Is it possible to make the systray and time/date show up on both taskbars if you have multiple monitors? 3. Where can I find the contents of the old "startup" folder that was in the Programs part of the start menu in Windows 7? I had a homemade executable in there and I want to recover it.
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Jul 29, 2016 23:52
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mobby_6kl posted:Just remembered I have the original spinny disk that came with the machine and had Win7 installed, so I popped the drive in and installed it, never to be used probably. Thanks. The problem is that I'm trying to sort them by date modified. Edit: You gotta fuckin go into list view, click on Date Modified to sort it that way, then shift click on Name for some reason to get folders to show up first. Jewel Repetition fucked around with this message at 00:28 on Jul 30, 2016 |
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Jul 30, 2016 00:24
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It turns out there's no way to have the system tray/clock on more than one monitor. The technology just isn't there yet I guess. Luckily DisplayFusion will still do it.
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Jul 30, 2016 00:43
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Khablam posted:Boy are you gonna like August 2nd! What.
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Jul 30, 2016 06:52
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So I just got this mouse with Windows 10: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00D68ZVY8/ And I like it's because it's probably the most comfortable mouse I've ever used in my life. But that blue windows logo button just brings up the start menu. Is there a way to hack that button to do something less completely useless?
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Sep 7, 2016 06:43
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Rusty! posted:X-Mouse Button Control can probably deal with it. It can't intercept the windows button because it counts as being on the keyboard, but thank you. isndl posted:Some quick Googling says the blue button is treated as hitting the Right Windows key, so remapping that button in Windows should let you do whatever it is you want. A lot of keyboards don't even have a Right Windows key anymore so you might not be able to hit that key otherwise. c0burn posted:SharpKeys can probably do it if it counts as a right windows key, and is easier than having an AHK script loaded SharpKeys has the inverse problem of X-Mouse, where it can't map to mousekeys. It can map to browser forward but that's "too specific" because I then can't use the button in games. Geemer posted:When I asked Ducky about remapping the media keys on one of their keyboards, they suggested AutoHotkey and it works a charm*. Yeah I did use AHK. It's not even extra trouble for me because I already had a script I run at startup so I just added extra keybindings into it. Here's the perfect keybindings that make the mouse just act like a regular mouse: RWin::Send {Xbutton1} XButton1::Send {Xbutton2} (You can swap Xbutton1 and Xbutton2 if you want the windows key to be forward and the little one to be back. I just did it that way because I like the bigger/more accessible button to be back since it's used more often.) Anyway thank you to everyone I quoted for trying to help.
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Sep 7, 2016 21:16
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Is there anything in Windows 10 that lets you set up alarms? Like a notification that comes up at a day and time you predetermined.
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Sep 10, 2016 00:13
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The alarm and clock app doesn't seem to work for future dates, just for weekly or daily alarms. And I'm hesitant to turn on Cortana. What's Microsoft do with the info it collects? Does it use up processor time/memory? What is Microsoft Edge and how is that related?
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Sep 10, 2016 07:45
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astral posted:Still sounds like you want Calendar. Yeah I'm looking at Calendar and it seems to be what I need. What do the reminders for events actually look/sound like?
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Sep 11, 2016 11:20
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Is there a way to stop Windows 10 from waking up my computer in the middle of the night to try and fail to restart for updates? Unrelated second question: is there a way to specify executables to be run when Windows 10 starts up?
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Oct 12, 2016 17:29
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is there any way to keep Windows 10 from forcing the "restart outside of normal hours" to finish updates or whatever? It's caused me to lose work twice now.
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Dec 16, 2016 02:20
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Is it possible to add a new user to Windows 10 without a Microsoft account?
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Mar 15, 2017 20:10
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Nevermind I figured it out. They really hide it and make you disclaim a lot of poo poo.
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Mar 15, 2017 20:12
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So what's the deal with the creator's update? Should I skip it? Is it possible to?
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Apr 26, 2017 05:21
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I installed the Creators Update and now my sound doesn't work so that's pretty fuckin cool
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Apr 27, 2017 23:29
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All I had to do was change the default playback device from "Speakers (Avnex Virtual Audio Device)" which Windows had changed it to without asking me, back to my actual speakers and it works fine.
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Apr 27, 2017 23:36
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Is there a way to make Windows Firewall alert you and present choice for what to do when a new program tries connecting to the internet?
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Aug 7, 2017 19:45
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Windows 10 keeps making the jingle sound like I'm plugging a new peripheral in, then removing it seconds/minutes later, but not giving me any kind of notifications. Is this a well known bug? Is there a place I can look at the history of what's been plugged and unplugged? Can anything else cause that sound?
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Aug 28, 2017 17:50
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BangersInMyKnickers posted:Check your event log, this happened to me and it was the windows store updating the built-in apps and it stopped after an hour or two. It's idiotic. How do I do that?
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Aug 28, 2017 18:15
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BangersInMyKnickers posted:Right click on the start button, there should be an option called Event Viewer. See if there are a bunch of entries in the Application Log of apps updating that correspond with the sounds. Okay, in Event Viewer > Windows Logs > Application, the log entries don't seem to correspond to the sounds because the most recent entry's half an hour before the most recent sounds.
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Aug 30, 2017 18:23
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Geemer posted:You could give USBLogView a try and see if it's some USB device misbehaving. Okay thanks, it looks like it was just my mouse driver being weird.
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Aug 31, 2017 07:17
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Is there a way to get Windows 10 to ask permission before it starts installing updates?
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Dec 11, 2017 06:55
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Also is there a way to change the priority of a process in the new task manager?
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Dec 11, 2017 07:09
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So what's the deal with the creator's update? Anything new I need to disable or delete?
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Dec 20, 2017 22:35
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I'm encountering an error I've never seen in Windows 10 before. It started while I had a windowed fullscreen app on one monitor and tried tabbing over to another monitor. Clicking on windows no longer brings them to the front. It makes them active, and I can do everything in them I would normally, but other windows are still in front of them even as I work on them.
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Jan 5, 2018 00:59
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How do you view a stoplog in Windows 10? Or more to the point how do I find out what caused my system to crash so badly it had to restart
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Jan 16, 2018 18:47
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Does anyone have a good app that can give you reminders for events for Windows 10, other than the Calendar?
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Feb 22, 2018 03:54
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Is there any good "reminder" app for Windows 10 that will let you set a date and time for a notification to come up, and if your computer's off at that time it will come up the next time it's on?
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Mar 12, 2018 19:10
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:The calendar app should do it. The calendar app won't give me notifications from when my computer was asleep.
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Mar 12, 2018 19:23
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redeyes posted:Supposedly you need to have 'InstantGo' enabled in the BIOS and also the corresponding software (maybe, hard to tell). Then modern windows apps are supposed to be able to update in sleep mode. I have never actually see it work though. There's no option for that in Calendar and I don't need it to run while the computer's off, I just need it to display the notification the first time the computer's on instead of going "oh well you missed it, guess there's no point in showing you now"
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Mar 12, 2018 22:38
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I just got a notification that my computer's going to restart after updates, is there a way to stop it from doing that?
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Mar 14, 2018 05:08
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Is it actually impossible to keep Windows 10 from forcing a restart?
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Mar 15, 2018 04:41
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I just got a BSOD, is that likely to be caused by faulty memory? What's a good way to check the integrity of my memory?
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Mar 20, 2018 19:51
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dont be mean to me posted:There are hundreds of ways to cause a Windows system to bugcheck. If you didn't catch the name of the bugcheck (it doesn't give the hex for it anymore and the QR goes to a generic page, damnit Microsoft) it should show up in the Event Viewer. It may be something with drivers or Chrome doing weird poo poo with hardware acceleration or something. Where in the Event Viewer should I look? In System, all I'm seeing is what appears to be regular startup stuff, then a critical error that says the system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first. Also would it be better to use the BIOS memory diagnostic or the Windows one?
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Mar 20, 2018 20:05
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