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HP and Dell do this too (other manufacturers too probably) - it's a regulatory compliance thing Shouldn't be difficult to source a whitelisted Lenovo card though - squllions of them on ebay all the time
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I ditched team viewer and have started using the native Win10 RDP which has a nice iPhone app. It works well on LAN but is it safe to port forward so I can use it from elsewhere? My router supports DD-WRT so I could use that to run a VPN server but is it overkill? Or is there a better solution?
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# ? Jun 18, 2016 11:00 |
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bigis posted:I ditched team viewer and have started using the native Win10 RDP which has a nice iPhone app. It works well on LAN but is it safe to port forward so I can use it from elsewhere? Its open to the world so it could be port scanned or exploited in some way but its highly unlikely, especially if you change the default port. What I did was modify login GPO to only allow 3 login attempts with a 30 minute lockout period in between. I also changed the port to something random, most of the automated script kiddie tools just use a set of default port ranges. If you have a static IP you could also whitelist it. Technically its still security by obscurity but I can't be arsed to setup IPsec and etc, if some chinese hacker goes to all that trouble for my 1990s mp3 collection and old pictures then uh have fun.
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# ? Jun 18, 2016 14:46 |
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On the other hand, Raspberry Pis are cheap and Openconnect is extremely easy to set up and use.
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Geemer posted:Don't even bother trying to replace the lovely stock wifi card with a better one. Lenovo whitelists which cards are allowed and refuses to boot if a different one is detected unless you're comfortable running a modded BIOS. You should be comfortable running the modded BIOS, especially on older Thinkpads. They've held up for a long time without issues, and often have other benefits like clearing up restrictions on SATA speeds that didn't matter for period hard drives, but seriously slow an SSD replacement.
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# ? Jun 18, 2016 15:49 |
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bigis posted:I ditched team viewer and have started using the native Win10 RDP which has a nice iPhone app. It works well on LAN but is it safe to port forward so I can use it from elsewhere? If you use port redirection rather that port forwarding you'll probably be OK. VPN would be much better though.
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# ? Jun 18, 2016 18:08 |
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Ok thanks all
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# ? Jun 18, 2016 19:47 |
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Windows is asking me if I want to back up my drive encryption key, but I haven't encrypted anything, to the best of my knowledge. I recently set up File History, is that what it means?
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:Windows is asking me if I want to back up my drive encryption key, but I haven't encrypted anything, to the best of my knowledge. I recently set up File History, is that what it means? Bitlocker could be turned on for your full hard drive, a USB drive, or your profile folder. Hit Windows key and type Bitlocker then check there.
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# ? Jun 19, 2016 17:59 |
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Nothing is encrypted in Bitlocker, but I just noticed a certificate backup for Mumble in my Documents folder, so I wonder if it has anything to do with that. I did as Windows asked and the .pfx file it created is 2.45kb in size, I'm guessing I can just leave it there and not worry about it.
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# ? Jun 19, 2016 22:16 |
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Anyone had problems with UWP apps and the SM since the last cumulative update (meaning the one doled out to those not on the insider builds)? I've had about 5 instances of UWP apps/SM not responding that have required reboots to remedy since the update earlier in the week - which is about the same amount as I had to do for ~5 months previous. On that note, is there a procedure (don't say sfc /scannow) that can remedy the Start Menu not responding aside from a full reboot? I've played around with processes but nothing as simple as with W7 by just restarting explorer.exe that's obvious.
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# ? Jun 19, 2016 22:59 |
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Buy an SSD so a 'full reboot' isn't some arduous task that needs other solutions. Rebooting in TYOOL2016 should take 60 seconds or less.
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# ? Jun 20, 2016 14:56 |
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I have an SSD at home so it's nightmarish having a regular HD in my work PC.
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# ? Jun 20, 2016 15:08 |
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I reboot once a month for security updates.
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# ? Jun 20, 2016 15:41 |
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God, I just want to emphasis how lovely the Windows 10 search experience is, I am literally starring at the shortcuts to all my programs that are in my start menu folder, Search will pick up some but others seem to not even exist according to Search, it won't pick up my Steam shortcut for example (even going all apps > looking under the letter "S", it's not there), but I can click on it just fine to launch it. I've tried rebuilding the index cache but still no go. Also in Control Panel > Programs and Features > then sort by "Installed On" Is it just me or is this buggy, it shows that things are installed on "6/20/2016" which is today but in fact I installed these things weeks ago. (not my picture, but this is the problem I'm seeing) And why is my Firefox icon grey (again, not my picture but exact same thing I'm seeing).
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# ? Jun 20, 2016 15:46 |
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the answer to your whole post is "who the gently caress knows"
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# ? Jun 20, 2016 15:48 |
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Im_Special posted:God, I just want to emphasis how lovely the Windows 10 search experience is, I am literally starring at the shortcuts to all my programs that are in my start menu folder, Search will pick up some but others seem to not even exist according to Search, it won't pick up my Steam shortcut for example (even going all apps > looking under the letter "S", it's not there), but I can click on it just fine to launch it. I've tried rebuilding the index cache but still no go. I posted this in another thread but here: https://ninite.com/classicstart-everything/ninite.exe One click to fix all your Search and Menu poo poo, by installing Everything Search and Classic Shell. Now it's just like Windows 7.
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# ? Jun 20, 2016 16:40 |
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Everything search should be purchased by MS and embedded in Windows. [edit] Classic Shell doesn't actually use Everything for searching does it? redeyes fucked around with this message at 16:46 on Jun 20, 2016 |
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redeyes posted:Everything search should be purchased by MS and embedded in Windows. I think Classic Shell just uses Windows Search's engine, though with a better presentation. Everything actually finds everything.
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# ? Jun 20, 2016 16:51 |
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Zero VGS posted:I think Classic Shell just uses Windows Search's engine, though with a better presentation. Everything actually finds everything. Not sure what it uses under the hood, but it manages to find things the win10 start menu can't.
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# ? Jun 20, 2016 17:28 |
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My favorite is having to hit the windows key 2-4 times before typing will actually begin searching. it owns.
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# ? Jun 20, 2016 17:51 |
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taqueso posted:Not sure what it uses under the hood, but it manages to find things the win10 start menu can't. It's really reassuring that "cal" gives me the Windows Calculator and "calc" gives me LibreOffice Calc every time since the second or third time that I've opened these programs that way. It's probably different if you actually want the search there to index file contents, emails and metadata, because Classic Shell's search doesn't do that.
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# ? Jun 20, 2016 18:19 |
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Khablam posted:Buy an SSD so a 'full reboot' isn't some arduous task that needs other solutions. Rebooting in TYOOL2016 should take 60 seconds or less.
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Happy_Misanthrope posted:wtf is this
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Happy_Misanthrope posted:wtf is this "The Year of our Lord"
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# ? Jun 21, 2016 03:42 |
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Flipperwaldt posted:Classic Shell Holy poo poo Microsoft is so stupid.
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Im_Special posted:And why is my Firefox icon grey (again, not my picture but exact same thing I'm seeing).
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# ? Jun 21, 2016 10:33 |
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And they settled on grey? I know they can't have any old colour in case it clashes with the user's setup, but white is such an obvious choice for Google.
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Happy_Misanthrope posted:wtf is this A guess as to why you're avoiding a solution to an intermittent problem that takes about a minute to apply? I don't think anyone has a solid answer to why the start menu randomly breaks but if can reboot to fix it, then do that.
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# ? Jun 21, 2016 10:50 |
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Is there a way to increase the size of the text in the File Explorer toolbar area? I've already increased the size of text using the Display settings in Control Panel, but it doesn't affect the text above.
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We're moving to Windows 10 laptops at work that I'll need to set up, and while I can probably get the start menu amended by our IT department for future OS images, it would be a massive time saver for now if I can manually customise the start menu to a standard template without having to delete or add every individual tile, is that possible? Is there a file or folder that I can just copy over?
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# ? Jun 21, 2016 15:09 |
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Yes. Your IT dept can look up how to manage the start menu via Powershell, exporting and importing layout as an xml document.
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# ? Jun 21, 2016 16:57 |
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Microsoft released a tool to troubleshoot the Start Menu in Windows 10. http://betanews.com/2016/06/21/fix-windows-10-start-menu/
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Khablam posted:A guess as to why you're avoiding a solution to an intermittent problem that takes about a minute to apply? I don't think anyone has a solid answer to why the start menu randomly breaks but if can reboot to fix it, then do that. Oh so it was as dumb as it first appeared, thx
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GreenNight posted:Microsoft released a tool to troubleshoot the Start Menu in Windows 10. That's gone in the OP, thanks!
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# ? Jun 21, 2016 21:20 |
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GreenNight posted:Microsoft released a tool to troubleshoot the Start Menu in Windows 10. Holy poo poo.
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# ? Jun 21, 2016 22:26 |
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That looks like the exact same troubleshoot that is built into Windows 10. Control Panel > Indexing Options > Advance > Troubleshoot Indexing Options (or something like that). Anyway it said everything was okay for me but my search is still retarded. Microsoft should just release a text file with that ninite link to that Classic Shell/Everything combo installer, there fixed.
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# ? Jun 21, 2016 22:53 |
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Potato Salad posted:Yes. Your IT dept can look up how to manage the start menu via Powershell, exporting and importing layout as an xml document. Start menu done and xml exported, thanks!
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# ? Jun 22, 2016 10:08 |
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Do note the bit on Techned about inported FULL menus or imported GROUPS being un-editable. May or may not matter in your use case.
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GreenNight posted:Microsoft released a tool to troubleshoot the Start Menu in Windows 10. This shouldn't need to exist....
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