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I nearly replaced the 5400 HDD on my gaming laptop with a SSD since Win10 was running like dogshit on it. Turns out Win10 just needs more than 4GB of RAM (I got an extra 8GB stick).
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fishmech posted:What you need to do is to go to set a custom size, make it like 125% or something, save it, and then change the custom size to 100%. For some reason this will make it remember when a monitor disconnects/laptop lid closes/dock cycles/whatever. Thanks very much for that. How do you get to that Custom Scaling screen though? I tried searching but it doesn't come up, and I can't find the path to navigate to it.
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Nov 6, 2017 07:55
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Faith For Two posted:
Think that mobo is toast. Reseated everything and latest bios?
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Nov 6, 2017 08:05
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~Coxy posted:Thanks very much for that. I got to it from the normal display screen near where it shows the default settings.
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Nov 6, 2017 08:10
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huhwhat posted:I nearly replaced the 5400 HDD on my gaming laptop with a SSD since Win10 was running like dogshit on it. Turns out Win10 just needs more than 4GB of RAM (I got an extra 8GB stick). Uhm... well, they kinda do compensate for each other. The system can prefetch more stuff into RAM and has to kick stuff out less often so that it doesn't have to go to disk as much, but if you have an SSD 4GB isn't inherently a bad place to be depending on what you're doing. It's just fine for streaming video or Steam games and running a few browser tabs. Eletriarnation fucked around with this message at 08:13 on Nov 6, 2017 |
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Nov 6, 2017 08:10
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Faith For Two posted:m/b
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Nov 6, 2017 09:37
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Oh wait, I just remembered I was getting that error on some upgraded HPs at work. It turned out to be the size of the System Reserved partition wasn't updated properly in the upgrade. It would fart out and still have the 100MB that Windows 7 was happy with, but then error out on boot because Windows 10 wasn't able to fit all of its required boot poo poo in there. If you can get to a partitioning thing, try extending it to 500MB then running startup repair.
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Nov 6, 2017 09:48
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Another person running a relic here - P8P67le w/3770K, still humming along fine, triple-booting XP, Win7, and Win10. Win10 needed no additional drivers to do it's thing. I'd check the RAM w/Memtest for awhile before condemning the mobo, bad RAM will give you plenty of inexplicable errors.
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Nov 6, 2017 13:57
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JnnyThndrs posted:triple-booting XP, Win7, and Win10. Why? Especially Win XP?
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Nov 6, 2017 14:03
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Adding myself to the list, my old P8P67 Pro and 2500k worked just fine on Windows 10. I just grabbed the latest bios off of Asus' website before I did the upgrade.
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Nov 6, 2017 14:41
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fishmech posted:What you need to do is to go to set a custom size, make it like 125% or something, save it, and then change the custom size to 100%. For some reason this will make it remember when a monitor disconnects/laptop lid closes/dock cycles/whatever. I've also read that disabling selective USB suspend in Power options can prevent Display Port monitors from being disconnected when off.
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Nov 6, 2017 16:10
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So, after I had the hard lock yesterday, I wanted to rollback this morning. Didn't work. It got stuck in a reboot-loop. So I got my work PC, got the MS media creation tool and made a USB stick ready. Well, I had used Bitlocker on my drive, and the loving thing wouldn't take my recovery key, even though I had printed it out when I made it, and the ID and everything matched. I had deleted the key off of MS' site, because of course I had. So I had to nuke the partition and reinstall. Of course, the version it installed is the fall creators update, the one I'm having problems with. So, when (lol) I start having problems, how do I get the previous version of Windows? Alternatively, is there any point in trying to install the driver updates for my PC? I have a Packard Bell ENTG71BM, and there are a bunch of updates for it on the support site, but all of them are from 2015. e: It just loving froze again! e2: Updated my BIOS brylcreem fucked around with this message at 16:51 on Nov 6, 2017 |
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Nov 6, 2017 16:12
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Flagrama posted:Can confirm my desktop used to get stuck at 100% disk usage on a 7200RPM drive and Windows 8. I still don't know what caused it because my disk died shortly after it started happening which could possibly be related. After that I bought an SSD and haven't even concerned myself with the thought of it. FWIW, after a lot of digging around, it turns out the WINDOWS ANTIMALWARE SERVICE was just ruining my disk constantly.
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Nov 6, 2017 16:32
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Edge now allows drag and drop into the Favorites bar directly from the URL bar. YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!
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Nov 6, 2017 16:38
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AlternateAccount posted:FWIW, after a lot of digging around, it turns out the WINDOWS ANTIMALWARE SERVICE was just ruining my disk constantly. And you can't turn it off. Nice!
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Nov 6, 2017 16:38
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AlternateAccount posted:FWIW, after a lot of digging around, it turns out the WINDOWS ANTIMALWARE SERVICE was just ruining my disk constantly. It runs background scans on the disk that are scheduled, but it should be running that IO as low priority and causing minimal impact to user interactive processes.
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Nov 6, 2017 16:45
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BangersInMyKnickers posted:It runs background scans on the disk that are scheduled, but it should be running that IO as low priority and causing minimal impact to user interactive processes. I would have thought, but it was hammering it pretty hard. Not sure why. It was definitely dragging everything down really badly. Like I was thinking my SSD was failing or something.
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Nov 6, 2017 17:06
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AlternateAccount posted:I would have thought, but it was hammering it pretty hard. Not sure why. It was definitely dragging everything down really badly. Like I was thinking my SSD was failing or something. I've had that happen on a particular file before, every time it scanned my Downloads folder it just started to chug. Deleted that and it was fine Have a look in Resource Monitor if you want to know what files the process is working on
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Nov 6, 2017 18:14
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baka kaba posted:Have a look in Resource Monitor if you want to know what files the process is working on
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Nov 6, 2017 21:16
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Anyone see/hear anything about Windows 10 Pro for Workstations? I thought it was supposed to be released on TechNet or whatever when the Fall update came out?
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Nov 6, 2017 21:29
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PUBLIC TOILET posted:Anyone see/hear anything about Windows 10 Pro for Workstations? I thought it was supposed to be released on TechNet or whatever when the Fall update came out? Perhaps Microsoft are still figuring out what other features they'll remove from Win 10 Pro before bringing out Win 10 for Workstations?
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Nov 6, 2017 21:44
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bobfather posted:Perhaps Microsoft are still figuring out what other features they'll remove from Win 10 Pro before bringing out Win 10 for Workstations? So far the differentiation has only been licensing for multi-CPU-socket machines and huge amounts of RAM, as far as I know? Just a couple "server features" added to a "desktop" SKU.
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Nov 6, 2017 21:59
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nielsm posted:So far the differentiation has only been licensing for multi-CPU-socket machines and huge amounts of RAM, as far as I know? Just a couple "server features" added to a "desktop" SKU. You get SMB-Direct as well, that was Server only until now.
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Nov 6, 2017 22:01
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PUBLIC TOILET posted:Anyone see/hear anything about Windows 10 Pro for Workstations? I thought it was supposed to be released on TechNet or whatever when the Fall update came out? Theres an option to upgrade to Windows 10 Pro for Workstations on windows store
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Nov 6, 2017 22:39
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nielsm posted:So far the differentiation has only been licensing for multi-CPU-socket machines and huge amounts of RAM, as far as I know? Just a couple "server features" added to a "desktop" SKU. They also removed refs support from mirrored storage spaces.
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Nov 6, 2017 22:52
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Stanley Pain posted:Why? Especially Win XP? The XP drive dates from the Core2Quad days; I just popped it back in when I updated to Ivy Bridge, installed drivers and left it. There's a ton of old games on it that have issues with newer OS's. When a new OS comes out, I just throw another drive into the box and install it, save a lot of hassle that way.
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Nov 6, 2017 23:12
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Run it in a virtual machine, good lord man.  And why would you dual boot 7 and 10, for that matter?
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Nov 6, 2017 23:25
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MikusR posted:That would take clicking a button in task manager. And as this thread and reddit show: windows users are incapable of doing that. Or clicking start and typing resmon. Your point still stands.
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Nov 6, 2017 23:25
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:Run it in a virtual machine, good lord man. a virtual machine that lacks network access, preferably
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Nov 7, 2017 01:40
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:Run it in a virtual machine, good lord man. Running a 3D game on a standard desktop install of VMware has never worked very well, if at all, for me. I know you can run a hypervisor setup and pass the video card directly to the guest OS, but that sounds like a poo poo-ton of hassle compared to 'leaving old hard drive in the machine and changing boot order in the BIOS on the rare occasion when nostalgia strikes'. As for the 7-10 thing, I've always done it that way; install the new OS, play around with it as teething troubles go away and apps are updated, but you still have old faithful to go back to if things go bad(and Win10 has had a few issues). Eventually you'll spend 90% of your time on the new OS, cool. Having a little-used drive still hooked up to the machine doesn't hurt anything-SSD's use little power and don't make noise, and if you gently caress something up on the primary OS, you're not boned.
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Nov 7, 2017 01:43
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I'm usually one of the guys pushing the stragglers to update, but I definitely understand the problem of old games not getting along with modern OSes. There are an unfortunately large number of games designed for Windows 95/98/Me which don't work on modern OSes. Some use 16 bit code, some use deprecated parts of DirectX, some make assumptions that modern hardware violates, and some just bomb out the second they see NT because the NT they knew couldn't play games. Sometimes the Windows "Compatibility Mode" stuff helps, sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes these games play better on WINE under Linux than they do on Windows 10. I haven't tried VMware in a few years but I've had a pretty similar experience with VirtualBox. Some games do run, but most of those also run fine on modern Windows. Very few of the picky games get along with the virtual 3D driver. Running XP natively gets you the most stable and up-to-date system that can still run the majority of those games. --- The only part of that I really have a problem with is the multi-booting. I wouldn't trust XP to have raw access to the boot disk of a system I actually cared about. I'd have it as a separate machine that I only used for old games, preferably set up on a private VLAN where its internet access is limited and it can't reach my main LAN.
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Nov 7, 2017 06:19
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Doxbos bros: https://www.dosbox.com/
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Nov 7, 2017 06:20
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redeyes posted:Doxbos bros: https://www.dosbox.com/ Dosbox doesn't let me run a 16-bit native Windows application though. 
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Nov 7, 2017 07:09
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Is there any way to read an OSX hard drive from Windows 10? My Macbook died and there are a few files I'd like to pull that were on the drive but not backed up in Dropbox. I think I had the main drive encrypted but also had a time machine backup.
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Nov 7, 2017 08:47
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brylcreem posted:e2: Updated my BIOS Win10 I've found to occasionally be finicky with BIOS updates. I've had an HP laptop that was brand new in about 2015, running W10 and 1607 but refused to update to 1703 until it had a BIOS update. Also had a certain model of Core i3 (sandy bridge era) desktop I was dealing with. It would play nice with Win7 but would have this nasty hang on reboot with Win10. That hang was fixed with a BIOS update and in some cases an SSD firmware update.
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Nov 7, 2017 11:00
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GobiasIndustries posted:Is there any way to read an OSX hard drive from Windows 10? My Macbook died and there are a few files I'd like to pull that were on the drive but not backed up in Dropbox. I think I had the main drive encrypted but also had a time machine backup. https://www.paragon-software.com/home/hfs-windows/ http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/4-ways-read-mac-formatted-drive-windows/
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Nov 7, 2017 12:09
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ProjektorBoy posted:Win10 I've found to occasionally be finicky with BIOS updates. I've had an HP laptop that was brand new in about 2015, running W10 and 1607 but refused to update to 1703 until it had a BIOS update. Cool! Thanks for replying 👍
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Nov 7, 2017 12:43
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isndl posted:Dosbox doesn't let me run a 16-bit native Windows application though. Windows 3.1 actually runs pretty well under DOSBox, but a full VM is definitely better for that. Still doesn't help with the early 32 bit games. Hard Truck 2 and POD are my two games I really want to play again which I haven't been able to get working on anything modern.
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Nov 7, 2017 18:04
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wolrah posted:POD, which I haven't been able to get working on anything modern. POD is such a loving bastard. I have a P3 733Mhz Windows 98 rig and it barely even runs on that. Janky as hell and half the time, the car sprites just totally disappear. It's gotta be weird Windows 95 hardware that it was designed for. That, and it's based on Macromedia. Doctor_Fruitbat posted:Run it in a virtual machine, good lord man. You still can't do 3D acceleration well enough to run most games in an VM, which pretty much eliminates a solid 3-4 years of games in the late Win98 era that were leaning heavily on that new fangled 3D acceleration stuff.
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Did anything from that era age well though?
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