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Lum posted:I think the whole insider thing is genius, because the kind of person who pirates leaked betas for their bedroom/basement PC and then pirates the finished thing when it's out, thus never making MS any money, now gets to give them free beta testing forever. Oh, is that why Microsoft downsized their QA department?
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# ? Oct 5, 2015 18:27 |
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Who honestly knows how insider builds are going to work once OS licenses become subscriptions bound to MS accounts and not the hardware, too. It only gets better with Office 2016 themes + Win10. The semi-customizable "themes" that place theme-specific watermarks in the upper left half of that bar result in artwork that spans the draggable and nondraggable parts with without a seam. This post is off topic: Fuschia, is there a, um, story behind that avatar?
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# ? Oct 5, 2015 19:07 |
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GreenNight posted:Not having tabs in an Explorer window is some bullshit though. They have tabs in build 10547.
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# ? Oct 5, 2015 20:12 |
Lowtechs posted:They have tabs in build 10547. I think GreenNight is referring to "tabs" as in multiple browsers in a single window, switched with tabs. Same way you have tabs in your web browser. Not the tabs on the toolbar.
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# ? Oct 5, 2015 20:40 |
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Tabbed file browsers are dumb.
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# ? Oct 6, 2015 01:09 |
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Potato Salad posted:This post is off topic: Fuschia, is there a, um, story behind that avatar? Ooh! Oooh! I know this one. It's the cover of an album by Too Many Zooz.
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# ? Oct 6, 2015 02:44 |
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..btt posted:What problems are you having? Mine's worked since Win10 release. The wheel on the throttle was a bit dodgy at first (clicks didn't register unless I fiddled with the control panel clutch setting after each reboot), but has been fine since the first post-win10 driver release, which was like a week later. All drivers were straight off the support site, I didn't do anything special. Ok, to be honest I haven't tried setting it up yet. When I saw the support site didn't have windows 10 drivers I did some googling and read a lot of horror stories about it wrecking USB controllers and frequent BSODS and didn't want to take my chances. I did find some beta drivers for win 10 released by Saitek, but I'm just cautious about trusting Saitek's drivers. I'm going to just suck it up and give it a shot this week. I've been trying to wait hoping they would release a finished version of drivers but the are slow as hell and I want to play Elite.
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# ? Oct 6, 2015 03:18 |
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How is the launch tomorrow and we still don't have any solid rumors on the SP4?
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# ? Oct 6, 2015 03:21 |
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ilkhan posted:How is the launch tomorrow and we still don't have any solid rumors on the SP4? I asked this about the lumia 950. Articles that say they launch tomorrow are confusing a press release with a product release. They aren't launching tomorrow but they are going to be revealed.
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# ? Oct 6, 2015 03:43 |
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wookieepelt posted:I asked this about the lumia 950. Articles that say they launch tomorrow are confusing a press release with a product release. They aren't launching tomorrow but they are going to be revealed. Oh well, its only another 12 hours at this point. When do they actually start their talk thing? I saw the public invites for the evening, but the announcement is AM at some point.
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# ? Oct 6, 2015 06:27 |
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ilkhan posted:When do they actually start their talk thing? I saw the public invites for the evening, but the announcement is AM at some point. According to neowin it's 2pm GMT (10am Eastern; 7am PDT) and the feed will be at: https://www.microsoft.com/october2015event/en-us
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# ? Oct 6, 2015 08:26 |
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Something was waking my PC up all the time. Turns out the latest version of spotify is setting a wake timer for exactly an hour after the pc sleeps for some reason (not my pic) Great job guys
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# ? Oct 6, 2015 09:00 |
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I'm seeing a lot of Win10 tablet/hybrid machines being sold with only 2GB RAM, such as the Asus Transformer Book series. Am I right in thinking that Win10 with only 2gb is going to be utter poo poo and I should be looking at 4gb minimum?
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# ? Oct 6, 2015 12:31 |
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Lum posted:I'm seeing a lot of Win10 tablet/hybrid machines being sold with only 2GB RAM, such as the Asus Transformer Book series. Obviously depends what you're gonna use it for. I picked up a T100 and I haven't had any issues having 6-10 Chrome tabs, Vsphere Client (with two or three console views up), Visio and Skype running all at once. I'm pretty impressed, to be honest.
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# ? Oct 6, 2015 12:41 |
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shadow puppet of a posted:Nope, you can still sign up and participate. Just go to insider.windows.com enter your outlook email, agree to join and when it says "Welcome to the program, Insider" click on "get windows 10" or go to the download page here http://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/software-download/windows10 I was able to sign up with a new account just now. I'm a huge fan of the program. The box on the right links to the same thing that you posted above and says "If you are installing the operating system for the first time, you will need your Windows product key (xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx)." which I obviously don't have. Is that wrong? What would I enter during installation? Or does it just ask for my email and figure out that I'm in the Insider program?
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# ? Oct 6, 2015 12:41 |
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Lum posted:I'm seeing a lot of Win10 tablet/hybrid machines being sold with only 2GB RAM, such as the Asus Transformer Book series. Maybe not, but it's an easy way to make using a Windows machine an utter nightmare over a long enough timeframe. They're doing that because Windows licenses cost less on 2 GB machines. I suspect that loophole was made to drive manufacturers to make more Windows 10 tablets, but Microsoft hosed up by allowing for it.
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# ? Oct 6, 2015 12:46 |
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Sir Unimaginative posted:Maybe not, but it's an easy way to make using a Windows machine an utter nightmare over a long enough timeframe. Guess I'll go for the 4GB TB200 then, shame I can only find that with 32GB storage, but I'll just nuke the recovery partition when I get it. This isn't for me, GF really really wants a touchscreen despite me telling her it's a bad idea when the budget is around £300 ish. (Insurance payout for breaking her old Acer Aspire 5732Z). Is going to mostly be a facebook/mplayer/ms word machine. She says she wants to run games on it, but I've told her she can't have both gaming and a touchscreen at that price.
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# ? Oct 6, 2015 13:06 |
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Lum posted:I'm seeing a lot of Win10 tablet/hybrid machines being sold with only 2GB RAM, such as the Asus Transformer Book series. Don't buy one with less than 4 GB if you plan to use the tablet for more than a year. You might get by with 2 GB now if you don't do much in terms of Desktop software, but down the road? It's like buying a 1 GB RAM iPad Air instead of a 2 GB iPad Air 2.
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# ? Oct 6, 2015 17:26 |
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Decius posted:Don't buy one with less than 4 GB if you plan to use the tablet for more than a year. You might get by with 2 GB now if you don't do much in terms of Desktop software, but down the road? It's like buying a 1 GB RAM iPad Air instead of a 2 GB iPad Air 2. This is what I was thinking. Personally I think she should drop the touchscreen requirement and just get a bloody laptop. I have a bit more cash to spend on mine, since the one I claimed on was worth more to begin with, so am looking at a Clevo N150SD with an M.2 SSD and a single 8gb stick of RAM in there.
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# ? Oct 6, 2015 17:44 |
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Tunga posted:I signed up ages ago but never actually ended up installing it. When I log in now I see this page: All Windows 10 insider and free upgrade installs use the same key. You can find it somewhere in this thread if you don't see it on the insider site and if it asks you during install. It didn't ask me when I installed it, but I think that was before they had any of the activation stuff for 10 in. Even if you end up with a non-genuine Windows 10 RTM build, you should be able to activate the fast ring insider builds. At the very least you'll be able to do this during the normal initial 30 day trial. Each insider build has its own expiration date so you can theoretically perpetually keep installing them as the become available. My source: http://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2015/06/19/upcoming-changes-to-windows-10-insider-preview-builds/
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# ? Oct 6, 2015 18:24 |
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Is this where I should come to talk about today's Surface announcement? Didn't seem to be a relevant place in IYG or anything. Mainly I'm wondering if anybody has any idea how much of a complete machine the Surface Book is without its keyboard. If you'd notice they kept calling it a "clipboard," making sure never to use the word "tablet" to describe it. What does that mean? Could you think of the keyboard as a dock and leave it at home, or plug a Type Cover into it and use that instead? What happens if you're playing a game using the GPU and the dock comes off for whatever reason?
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# ? Oct 6, 2015 19:41 |
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I think it's less powerful than the SP4 without the keyboard but the gpu is in the keyboard. So it's fine for tablet things without the keyboard.
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# ? Oct 6, 2015 19:44 |
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loquacius posted:
From the pictures they showed it the clipboard has at most a third of battery capacity and cant' charge without the keyboard. As for removing the gpu either it switches to intel gpu or simply crashes the game. Think Nvidia optimus.
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# ? Oct 6, 2015 21:05 |
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MikusR posted:From the pictures they showed it the clipboard has at most a third of battery capacity and cant' charge without the keyboard. As for removing the gpu either it switches to intel gpu or simply crashes the game. Think Nvidia optimus. The latching mechanism is electronic, so I wonder if it'll simply not let you undock if a game is using the GPU.
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# ? Oct 6, 2015 21:39 |
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Anyone figured out why Windows 10 stupidly sets random folders to be read-only thus preventing random programs from working correctly? Gonna bet this is UAC related but for my experience UAC usually only does this poo poo to the default program files location, having actually go to other drives and set folders which I created as read-only all of sudden is really stupid and annoying.
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 11:37 |
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Potato Salad posted:Who honestly knows how insider builds are going to work once OS licenses become subscriptions bound to MS accounts and not the hardware, too. Apple just has it as an option to download if you're in the program, but they also don't really care about software sales sooooo yeah.
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 13:03 |
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So did Microsoft basically make a more neatly packaged portable version of this loving thing or that ridiculous MSI one?
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 13:46 |
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If you change out the motherboard and CPU on a system that was upgraded to Win10 from Win7, is it going to deactivate, and can it be reactivated without a reinstall?
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 14:10 |
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Entropic posted:If you change out the motherboard and CPU on a system that was upgraded to Win10 from Win7, is it going to deactivate, and can it be reactivated without a reinstall? It's going to deactivate, and while you can phone MS and try to convince them to do a phone activation, the Windows 10 license you agreed to expressly bound that license to your then current hardware, and when you replace that hardware, you are obligated to buy a new license. You could just reinstall 7, activate it, then do the upgrade again, which will 'bless' your new hardware.
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 14:39 |
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emanresu tnuocca posted:Anyone figured out why Windows 10 stupidly sets random folders to be read-only thus preventing random programs from working correctly? I feel pretty comfortable stating that Windows is not stupidly setting random folders read only. But you might get a more helpful response if you shared more information.
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 14:47 |
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EoRaptor posted:It's going to deactivate, and while you can phone MS and try to convince them to do a phone activation, the Windows 10 license you agreed to expressly bound that license to your then current hardware, and when you replace that hardware, you are obligated to buy a new license.
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 14:51 |
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EoRaptor posted:It's going to deactivate, and while you can phone MS and try to convince them to do a phone activation, the Windows 10 license you agreed to expressly bound that license to your then current hardware, and when you replace that hardware, you are obligated to buy a new license. This is exactly what happens. After wasting 2 hours telling the indian support my windows 8.1 key, I gave up. They said they would call me back in 48 hours to fix the issue. I didn't have 48 hours to gently caress around so I reloaded 8.1, reactivated it with the phone number, then updated to 10 and that was activated as you would expect.
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 14:55 |
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I wish they'd just give you a license key when you do the upgrade. I mean, they do, I just wish they'd let you know what it is.
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 15:14 |
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Isn't it possible to get the Windows 10 key from an activated upgrade using ProduKey and phone activate directly using that?
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 15:14 |
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Jan posted:Isn't it possible to get the Windows 10 key from an activated upgrade using ProduKey and phone activate directly using that? No. The key used by windows 10 for the upgrade is the same across all upgraded computers ( ends in 36VVT ). The key tells windows to check if the hardware has been blessed, and cannot be used for a phone activation.
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 15:22 |
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It's like OEM keys, only worse.
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 15:26 |
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EoRaptor posted:No. The key used by windows 10 for the upgrade is the same across all upgraded computers ( ends in 36VVT ). The key tells windows to check if the hardware has been blessed, and cannot be used for a phone activation. Goddamnit, Microsoft. You're the worst.
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 15:56 |
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Licensing has been getting ever more awful since they started moving away from COAs in favour of secureboot nonsense in Win8.
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 16:55 |
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KillHour posted:Goddamnit, Microsoft. You're the worst. You got a free upgrade, and it came with restrictions, boo-hoo-hoo. MS was even really clear about this restriction, and said outright that all upgrades would be converted to device specific licenses.
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Is there a way to limit the max size of a folder in win10? I'm thinking of limiting a downloads folder to 50GB or something, so it doesn't max out my SB's 256GB when I forget to
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