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Toast Museum posted:Windows Defender (Microsoft Security Essentials if you're on Win7) is fine. You don't need 3rd party AV. To be more specific, Security Essentials and Defender perform equally as well as all free AVs and basically all paid AVs that aren't in the form of company network-wide control at actual prevention of viruses and the like. The sort of tests that still show other tools as performing better are rather worthless things that just dump on a bunch of sample viruses and poo poo in a way that doesn't test real world stuff very well.
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I've got a pretty high performance USB 3.0 usb flash drive, and an older HTPC (C2D era) with an old slow hard drive. I was thinking about using this Windows To Go thingy and installing Windows on it. The HTPC does nothing but run Kodi and occasionally a web browser. The only time hard drive performance really matters is during boot. Will WTG improve performance?
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Thermopyle posted:I've got a pretty high performance USB 3.0 usb flash drive, and an older HTPC (C2D era) with an old slow hard drive. I was thinking about using this Windows To Go thingy and installing Windows on it. The HTPC does nothing but run Kodi and occasionally a web browser. Can you run Crystal DiskMark against both the hard drive already in the HTPC and the flash drive while plugged into the HTPC, and post the results? And are you sure your system actually supports USB 3.0? Even a slow hard drive can have better throughput for day to day usage than a drive slowed by USB 2.0.
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LowellDND posted:Quick question: Yes, Bitlocker is only in Windows 10 Pro, and the in place upgrade price is $100. If you can take a system wipe, probably cheaper to just find a cheap windows 8 pro key and upgrade.
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fishmech posted:Can you run Crystal DiskMark against both the hard drive already in the HTPC and the flash drive while plugged into the HTPC, and post the results? Bleh, I woulda swore it supported 3.0, but it's only 2.0. No biggie, I'll just use the hard drive.
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Since the November update I've noticed that Toggle Keys turns off on me after every restart and a few registry tweaks I made reverted after a few days. Any idea what could cause this?
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Deeters posted:Since the November update I've noticed that Toggle Keys turns off on me after every restart and a few registry tweaks I made reverted after a few days. Any idea what could cause this? "..the November update"
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Nucken Futz posted:"..the November update" Windows 10 November Update: features, fixes, and enterprise readiness
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Nucken Futz posted:"..the November update" yeah, this is actually a real thing. i don't blame you for not picking up on it at first. such a stupid naming convention
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I'm pretty sure the intention was not to mock the November update name, but to point out that the question contains the answer.
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How is the upgrade process (ie not doing a clean install) from windows 7 to 10? I'm weary about it but I'm extremely lazy and dont feel like backing up my e: whoops didnt notice the w10 thread drink slurm fucked around with this message at 10:22 on Dec 3, 2015 |
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I have a weird monitor problem in Windows 8. Consider this: Looks fine, behaves fine. Left hand monitor is my main desktop and I can correctly drag stuff out of the right hand of the screen to the right hand monitor. The weird bit is that when I click "Identify', I get a big white 2 on the left monitor, and a big white 1 on the right hand monitor - the opposite to how they are numbered in this dialogue. No amount of fuckery with the settings seems to fix this. If I swap the cables, the monitors identify correctly, but behave the opposite to the way they are set (so the 1 and 2 that appear are correct, but the monitor that identifies as 2 behaves as the main monitor, even though 1 is set to the main monitor. If I start with just the left hand monitor plugged in, it identifies as 1, but then after I plug in the right hand monitor, that will identify as 1, and the original (main) monitor starts identifying as 2. If I drag the monitor around on screen so that the numbers matched up, the settings behave the wrong way round. I'm reasonably sure it wasn't doing this until yesterday, until I temporarily moved the PC into a meeting room, and when I moved it back it was doing this. I also realise that this doesn't really matter all that much, but it's driving me a bit mental all the same. Anyone know what the gently caress? e: If relevant, graphics chipset is a built-in Intel one. e2: Both monitors are identical, and both are connected with DVI - HDMI leads, to DVI ports on teh computer. chippy fucked around with this message at 10:40 on Dec 3, 2015 |
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I had that for the longest time on Windows 7 as well between my monitor and my HDTV (and god forbid if I try plugging in the Oculus Rift - it's why I sold my CK2, too much fuckery with three different displays). I deal with it using DisplayFusion with a custom script to make whatever display I want the main screen as needed.
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I sync both my phone (Lumia 640) and my laptop (Windows 10, latest updates) with my Live calendar. The other day I added my wife's calendar which she shared with me. Windows Phone's calendar synced it just fine. The Windows 10 calendar app still hasn't added it. Is there a way to sync new calendars with the Windows 10 Calendar app?
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How bad of an idea is it to use XP these days? Talking to a buddy about old games and if they will work on Win10, and I thought that I should finally get an old IDE drive and get my first PC up and running again. I've been wanting something to connect to the TV for browsing and emulators and junk, I guess it cant really be all that bad as long as I'm not banking or anything like that right? Or will just having it on the network cause a threat to the rest of my devices?
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codo27 posted:How bad of an idea is it to use XP these days? Talking to a buddy about old games and if they will work on Win10, and I thought that I should finally get an old IDE drive and get my first PC up and running again. I've been wanting something to connect to the TV for browsing and emulators and junk, I guess it cant really be all that bad as long as I'm not banking or anything like that right? Or will just having it on the network cause a threat to the rest of my devices? There are very few old games that work on XP but not on Windows 98 or earlier. So just run Windows 98SE instead, because it's been a long time since any new malware could run on it (seriously, there's been times where I'm using my Windows 98 machine to browe for things just for fun, and some exploit tries to happen and all I get is "not a valid win32 application" messages). There is an "unofficial service pack" thing for Windows 98SE that adds in support for things like USB flash drives and better unicode support, etc: http://www.htasoft.com/u98sesp/ If you really need to run XP because there aren't drivers for 98 for the hardware, then you'll want to do this: http://www.zdnet.com/article/registry-hack-enables-continued-updates-for-windows-xp/ So that you can continue receiving updates until 2019.
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How do I schedule a wallpaper on Windows 10? I want to use this as my wallpaper, but I wouldn't be able to put my computer to sleep because it'd throw the slideshow out of whack. I want Wallpaper 11 to set at midnight, Wallpaper 12 at 2AM, Wallpaper 1 at 4AM, and so on.
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 I'm dumb I was missing a windows update, installed it, and now it works perfectly. cmykJester fucked around with this message at 14:57 on Dec 4, 2015 |
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I'm trying to clean up my music collection, and ran into a strange issue while checking album art. I've put the image in each album's folder, but in some, I only see a "folder (1).jpg", and when I try to rename it to "folder.jpg", Windows (10) tells me that there's already a file there with that name. I've enabled viewing of hidden files, but I still don't see the conflicting file. What's going on?
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You'll also need to untick "Hide protected operating system files" assuming it's still called that in Windows 10, iTunes album art is marked hidden and system for some reason
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codo27 posted:How bad of an idea is it to use XP these days? Talking to a buddy about old games and if they will work on Win10, and I thought that I should finally get an old IDE drive and get my first PC up and running again. I've been wanting something to connect to the TV for browsing and emulators and junk, I guess it cant really be all that bad as long as I'm not banking or anything like that right? Or will just having it on the network cause a threat to the rest of my devices? If you have a computer that's new enough to be worth using you could probably run Windows 10 32-bit on it, but if you can't do anything newer than XP (or don't have a spare license) you might be happier doing your browsing and emulating from something like Xubuntu. Windows 98 is probably fairly safe but getting anything working on it will be a pain (for example web browsing, good luck running anything newer than Firefox 2.x) and XP seems perilous from a security perspective.
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God dammit iTunes! 
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Is there a way for Windows 8.1 to pre-index a drive? I've got a 2TB or so HD with TONS of photos/vids I've taken all the years and each time I go to search for a specific file it takes several seconds for it to go through the drive to find it. Am I just not looking in the right spot?
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slidebite posted:Is there a way for Windows 8.1 to pre-index a drive? I've got a 2TB or so HD with TONS of photos/vids I've taken all the years and each time I go to search for a specific file it takes several seconds for it to go through the drive to find it. Would the program "everything" fit your needs? It is a solely filename-based search, but gets you results instantaneously. http://www.voidtools.com/support/everything/
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slidebite posted:Is there a way for Windows 8.1 to pre-index a drive? I've got a 2TB or so HD with TONS of photos/vids I've taken all the years and each time I go to search for a specific file it takes several seconds for it to go through the drive to find it. I know in Windows 7 you can add a drive to the entire Index, not sure about 8+ though.
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slidebite posted:Is there a way for Windows 8.1 to pre-index a drive? I've got a 2TB or so HD with TONS of photos/vids I've taken all the years and each time I go to search for a specific file it takes several seconds for it to go through the drive to find it. Is the drive turned on for indexing in Indexing Options?
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I could swear in 7 I could index from right click but couldn't in 8.1, however if I search for "index" it came up.  I'll give that a try, thanks for the help guys. It's probably going to be that easy.
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So I've had an issue with Windows recently that I'm completely unsuccessful in resolving. The gist of it is that whenever I'm watching something/listening to music/something with sound, I'll get weird pops/screechs in the audio and have a bit of a freeze, especially when I'm using the internet. Sometimes when I restart the computer it goes away for a while but it'll eventually come back without fail. Not near having CPU/memory maxed so I'm not sure what might be wrong/how to diagnose it as the closest issue I've found is people complaining about Dell software I definitely don't have (custom desktop). Any tips on figuring this out?
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Master_Odin posted:So I've had an issue with Windows recently that I'm completely unsuccessful in resolving. The gist of it is that whenever I'm watching something/listening to music/something with sound, I'll get weird pops/screechs in the audio and have a bit of a freeze, especially when I'm using the internet. Sometimes when I restart the computer it goes away for a while but it'll eventually come back without fail. Not near having CPU/memory maxed so I'm not sure what might be wrong/how to diagnose it as the closest issue I've found is people complaining about Dell software I definitely don't have (custom desktop). Any tips on figuring this out? Are you using motherboard-integrated audio or is it a sound card?
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Factor Mystic posted:Is the drive turned on for indexing in Indexing Options? And that did do it, thanks. So, another basic question. I notice 8.1 has MS Reader, a seemingly decent pdf reader. How do I zoom in/out with it? +/- does nothing and I see nothing when I right click. This has got to be another basic thing I'm missing... right? edit: I figured it out with ctrl +/-, but I can't get smaller than 100%, it automatically goes to multi-page view once it hits it. slidebite fucked around with this message at 20:16 on Dec 7, 2015 |
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Eletriarnation posted:Are you using motherboard-integrated audio or is it a sound card?
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A bit beyond normal use, but not big enough for the Enterprise thread: I've got a group of 6 PCs running Windows 7/8.1/10 Pro (and one Server 2012 R2, all being moved to 10 soon, this isn't a business use scenario case ) that I'd like to start managing via Server 2012 R2. I've got the domain created, set up user accounts in AD, and connected my clients to the domain. Two are media players which should have access to only run certain programs and I'd like to lock down as far as plugging stuff in, two are personal computers that are mostly for web browsing and Office365 stuff, one is my gaming PC and the other is the server. I'd like to manage Windows and (hopefully) Windows Defender updates centrally, lock down access to most things for the media center pcs and give my gaming PC pretty lenient access to the system. I'm assuming Group Policy can take care of most of that, but will I need any supplemental software?
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GobiasIndustries posted:A bit beyond normal use, but not big enough for the Enterprise thread: I'm pretty sure GPO can do all of those. For managing your updates you'll use WSUS.
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Master_Odin posted:Motherboard-integrated audio. I used to have a realtek driver for it, but I've since removed that and gone with default windows driver. Well, you probably already thought of this but if you have a spare sound card you could try it and see if it makes a difference - I've had an onboard audio controller fail in the past, so it's possible. This would also presumably resolve any driver issues. Clicks and pops could also be caused by interference/noise on a line in, but if you don't have anything plugged in and you only hear it when the computer is playing audio then that doesn't fit. I assume you removed the Realtek driver for a reason and I wouldn't expect the default driver to cause that kind of problem, so the only other thing I can think of would be some audio utility running in the background doing something it shouldn't. You can also try plugging something else into the same speakers to make sure the problem isn't there if you haven't already.
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Eletriarnation posted:Well, you probably already thought of this but if you have a spare sound card you could try it and see if it makes a difference - I've had an onboard audio controller fail in the past, so it's possible. This would also presumably resolve any driver issues. Clicks and pops could also be caused by interference/noise on a line in, but if you don't have anything plugged in and you only hear it when the computer is playing audio then that doesn't fit. I assume you removed the Realtek driver for a reason and I wouldn't expect the default driver to cause that kind of problem, so the only other thing I can think of would be some audio utility running in the background doing something it shouldn't. You can also try plugging something else into the same speakers to make sure the problem isn't there if you haven't already.
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Have you tried the proper audio drivers from your motherboard mfg instead of the generic MS drivers? Might be worth a shot.
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Master_Odin posted:Well, i think it's actually the whole computer suffering from micro stutters, it's just that I only fully notice it when I'm listening to music. It actually becomes incredibly obvious when I switch what network I'm connected to on my computer as the whole computer basically freezes (stutters a bunch) up while it goes through the connection routine. I have had a not-dissimilar issue recently on my work PC (Windows 8.1). I'm getting these little stutters/pauses in music as well - recently I was able to reliably reproduce it by switching tabs in Chrome while listening to music in Spotify (the desktop client, not the web version). I switched from using the onboard sound (some god-awful Beats Audio thing) to a USB Soundblaster Live which I have, and it didn't affect the issue at all - the stutters were identical. I'm currently leaning towards blaming Chrome.
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I just installed a bunch of updates on my Windows 7 desktop machine. Now, the wireless adapter (A USB Netgear WG111 v3) only works for 10 minutes at the most before it stops working. Using troubleshoot problems fixes it temporarily by resetting it, but then it stops working again. Other wireless connected devices like my phone work fine, so I'm pretty sure it's one of the updates. How do I fix this?
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When this happens to me, I usually boot up in safe mode, uninstall the driver in Device Manager, then either let it re-install the MS provided driver on the next boot-up or install the latest driver, already downloaded, by selecting it when prompted. Deleting and re-installing a device driver fixes 99% of those kind of driver issues.
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clockworkjoe posted:I just installed a bunch of updates on my Windows 7 desktop machine. Now, the wireless adapter (A USB Netgear WG111 v3) only works for 10 minutes at the most before it stops working. Using troubleshoot problems fixes it temporarily by resetting it, but then it stops working again. You could also try turning off USB selective suspend and see if that makes a difference. http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/147369-usb-selective-suspend-turn-off.html
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