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SeANMcBAY posted:I just uninstalled Gears of War 4 since it's a bad game and it apparently botched the uninstall and is still taking up a ton of space on my system. What can I do to remove safely remove all the data? It's not showing up as an installed program on control panel or under storage settings. Go to its folder on the hard drive, and delete it.
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fishmech posted:Go to its folder on the hard drive, and delete it. It's not clear where Windows Store apps are stored. By default, you want C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\. \WindowsApps\ is a hidden directory, and users (not even admin users) don't have permissions to it, so you'll need to give yourself permissions by right-clicking on the directory, going into the security tab, and assigning yourself permissions there.
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Jan 11, 2017 22:17
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There used to be a good metro style Google chrome app back in Win8 but they got rid of it I guess. Does anyone know of a good metro style internet browser? Does edge allow for metro style ui?
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Jan 11, 2017 22:31
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jokes posted:There used to be a good metro style Google chrome app back in Win8 but they got rid of it I guess. Does anyone know of a good metro style internet browser? Does edge allow for metro style ui? If you're referring to "full screen, touch friendly" you'll probably want Edge with Tablet Mode turned on.
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Jan 11, 2017 22:35
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I like gears 4 but it's my first gears. Horde mode online is a fun time sink.
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Jan 12, 2017 00:08
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I gave my account permissions through the security tab and I can see into the WindowsApps folder but it still is saying "access denied" when I try to delete the Gears 4 folder or right click to try to disable read only. Any ideas? I'd really like to lose this 80GB or worthless HD space. SeANMcBAY fucked around with this message at 18:42 on Jan 12, 2017 |
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Jan 12, 2017 05:27
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FronzelNeekburm posted:Well, this sounds like a quality update. can someone tell me how to get on to the "stable" branch? thx in advance! xamphear posted:Disable the Windows Update service. Works on all versions. You get bugged about updates constantly (including defender definition updates which happen almost every day), but ok whatever, that way I actually do them once a few days have passed. But this way my PC doesn't restart on its own, and I get to see how bad the patch is gonna be before I take it.
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Jan 12, 2017 06:25
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jokes posted:There used to be a good metro style Google chrome app back in Win8 but they got rid of it I guess. Does anyone know of a good metro style internet browser? Does edge allow for metro style ui? Chrome Metro was exactly the same as Chrome desktop but fullscreen to account for Windows 8 not quite having worked out the whole hybrid desktop/tablet thing like 10 did. But yeah, just use Edge. If you've kept 10 updated then it's actually been improved a lot since release and is good enough to use as a daily driver.
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Jan 12, 2017 10:49
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So, malwarebytes blocks cdn.discordapp.com whenever I change between servers..why? i'm addin that to my web exclusions cause there's no reason for this to happen
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Jan 12, 2017 16:09
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Okay so Edge isn't bad for touch devices. I'd like to be able to remove certain UI elements like the ever-present Send to OneNote nonsense that's in every single windows app but I'm surprised Microsoft managed to beat chrome at something.
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Jan 12, 2017 18:15
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jokes posted:Okay so Edge isn't bad for touch devices. I'd like to be able to remove certain UI elements like the ever-present Send to OneNote nonsense that's in every single windows app but I'm surprised Microsoft managed to beat chrome at something. https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/5nj06k/why_is_this_happening/ It's either the overlay or something on their end.
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Jan 12, 2017 18:40
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Huh..turns out I was on Malwarebytes 2.2 when i should be on Malwarebytes 3. welp, glad to have that corrected. it's got a weird menu.
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Jan 12, 2017 19:00
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How can I stop windows from installing and block the pending KB3213986 update? It borks gaming on multi-monitor systems.
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Jan 12, 2017 23:39
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Deviant posted:How can I stop windows from installing and block the pending KB3213986 update? It borks gaming on multi-monitor systems. 1) one-time fix: Get the show or hide updates tool, hide the update you don't want. 2) permanent: Klyith posted:If you have pro just use gpedit to set updates to notify before downloading and install.
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Jan 13, 2017 07:21
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Deviant posted:How can I stop windows from installing and block the pending KB3213986 update? It borks gaming on multi-monitor systems.
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Jan 13, 2017 20:53
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It's based on Microsoft.
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Jan 13, 2017 20:56
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As a 1 person piece of evidence, that didn't break my multi monitor setup.
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Jan 13, 2017 21:08
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The patch notes from microsoft said "users may experience...", that does not mean all systems are affected. It is probably an issue that only affects certain specific system configurations. They wouldn't release the update if it had an issue like that affecting all systems. Anecdotally I also have KB3213986 installed now and I have continued gaming with a fullscreen game on one monitor and other stuff on the other monitor, no issues with that on my system.
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Jan 13, 2017 21:12
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spit on my clit posted:Huh..turns out I was on Malwarebytes 2.2 when i should be on Malwarebytes 3. welp, glad to have that corrected. it's got a weird menu. I'm on MB3. Tangentially related but I've been getting alot of bad_pool_header BSODs lately and spent the last 3 days troubleshooting drivers until I ran WhoCrashed and it looks like Malwarebytes Web Protection module (mwac.sys) is the problem or is related to the problem. I'm BSODing shortly after blocking a website (ironically when trawling google for driver updates). Running it without Web Protection to see if I can go 1 day without a BSOD.
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Jan 13, 2017 22:27
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The worst thing about Windows 10: That loving "Updates have been installed" notification, appearing regardless of how the machine was shut down to complete the installation. I clicked the ’Restart to install updates" button, no loving wonder updates were installed?!
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Jan 14, 2017 01:07
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I dunno man, making changes seems like a pretty reasonable thing to notify users about. It's no 'Windows Defender scanned your machine and it was ok!!' every day until you tell it to knock that off
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Jan 14, 2017 05:56
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SeANMcBAY posted:I gave my account permissions through the security tab and I can see into the WindowsApps folder but it still is saying "access denied" when I try to delete the Gears 4 folder or right click to try to disable read only. If anyone is curious I finally fixed this by booting into a different OS and used Paragon NTFS to delete the file on my Windows drive. It's apparently almost impossible to mess with the WindowsApps folder no matter what permissions are set. Thanks Microsoft. 
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Jan 14, 2017 06:22
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What I hate is the window that pops up over all other windows saying "updates are available" and there's only one button to hit which launches their metro(?) update app. I can close the metro update app and not update my system until I want but that first window is just so annoying.
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Jan 14, 2017 08:43
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My favourite is the "Updates were installed! Click here for more information" and when you click it just opens up Settings where it says "We installed some updates".
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Jan 14, 2017 08:55
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Boris Galerkin posted:What I hate is the window that pops up over all other windows saying "updates are available" and there's only one button to hit which launches their metro(?) update app. I can close the metro update app and not update my system until I want but that first window is just so annoying. I don't think I've ever seen that. Weird.
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Jan 14, 2017 14:51
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SeANMcBAY posted:If anyone is curious I finally fixed this by booting into a different OS and used Paragon NTFS to delete the file on my Windows drive. Looks like only the SYSTEM user has modify permissions to that folder. The easiest solution would be to get psexec from Sysinternals.com and start Command Prompt or Notepad as SYSTEM user.
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Jan 14, 2017 14:58
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Re: Gears 4 or other UWP games being left around after uninstall -- I'd first look in the windows store app to see if there's a different uninstall option in there. It's possible that the standard uninstall in settings was just a per-user remove or something. If there's nothing in windows store, you can probably use powershell to remove it. In an admin powershell window, these commands: code:code:
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Jan 14, 2017 18:58
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Great, build 15007 blue screens my laptop after the screen has been shut for an uncertain amount of time. Event viewer only shows the following: The driver \Driver\WudfRd failed to load for the device ACPI\ACPI0008\2&daba3ff&4. and The driver \Driver\WudfRd failed to load for the device HID\SMO91D0&Col01\5&1d42b6ad&1&0000. I updated all the drivers (which shouldnt matter since it didn't used to do this), but no deal. Rude.
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Jan 14, 2017 21:01
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From the release notes, it looks like both the recent builds, 15002 and 15007 should only be used by people who are comfortable with terrible things happening to their systems. Seems like these were rushed out just to satisfy insiders who were impatient for a new build after the holiday quiet period.
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Jan 14, 2017 21:26
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Did they remove SMS sync from Cortana or something? It stopped working and not a single SMS app shows up in cortana on my phone anymore
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Jan 15, 2017 06:19
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:Did they remove SMS sync from Cortana or something? It stopped working and not a single SMS app shows up in cortana on my phone anymore I tried Cortana on my Android phone for a while and eventually had to remove her because she was causing hard reboots when notifications were popping, even if notification pushing was disabled. 
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Jan 15, 2017 07:23
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In the same vein, is there a good lightweight app pairing for Android + Windows that'll pop your phone notifications on the desktop?
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Jan 15, 2017 15:21
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Pushbullet or MightyText are the usual ones. There's also Join.
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edit: Nope, turns out I was a paranoid gently caress
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Jan 15, 2017 16:08
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hooah posted:Pushbullet or MightyText are the usual ones. There's also Join. Thanks man, trying them out.
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Jan 15, 2017 16:26
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Now that I have a new NVMe SSD and brand new system, I'm finally taking the plunge and doing a proper UEFI system install. Except... Everywhere I'm reading says Microsoft's media creation tool creates BIOS/MBR bootable media instead of UEFI? Considering this is just the bootable media, does it actually matter? It seems to me like the installer should be able to just format the new boot drive as GPT and create the UEFI partitions regardless of what it booted on... Unless it's a limitation of UEFI booting in legacy mode that I'm not aware of. Not that using rufus to create a bootable USB drive is especially hard, I'm just wondering if Microsoft would really just disregard this functionality with their media creation tool.
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Jan 18, 2017 21:46
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No, MS haven't created an install that doesn't work on all modern PCs. Fairly sure you're thinking of the [now defunct] Windows USB/DVD Download Tool, which did that. The download tool will create a USB for windows 10 that will just work.
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Jan 18, 2017 23:03
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Khablam posted:[now defunct] Windows USB/DVD Download Tool Yeah, that's what the guides I was looking into seemed to be using. I guess those are the results show up when googling "Windows 10 UEFI" because you don't actually need to specifically do anything to target UEFI now. This does look marvelously simplified from the early days of Windows 10 -- just create media USB, enter Windows 7 key, done. 
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Jan 18, 2017 23:14
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What's the advantage of using tools to make Windows install USB drives? I have just copy pasted everything to freshly formatted drive since Win7.
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SinineSiil posted:What's the advantage of using tools to make Windows install USB drives? I have just copy pasted everything to freshly formatted drive since Win7. You kind of need something to boot from and make the initial Windows install to that freshly formatted drive. Unless you mean literally copying an existing Windows directory (  ), in which case the advantage is that it's not a bad idea to start from a fresh Windows install from time to time?
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