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My favorite Windows 10 story is the time they pushed a patch down that included a new Intel display driver. This driver consistently caused a bsod about 30 seconds after boot, meaning it was a race against time to disable said driver and roll it back before the whole thing crashed. The best part - this was on a loving Surface Book.  Boris Galerkin posted:KillHour I do sympathize with you cause I’ve been there before where I just needed poo poo to work right now but that job sounds horrible in so many ways. You’re essentially your own IT department, sales, research and development (of educational materials), and so on, and it doesn’t sound like the company values that at all because they don’t give you the support you need to improve. Plus all the traveling. They pay me a lot of lip service about how crucial I am and I do get away with probably a lot more than other employees in terms of telling people no, but they're famously tight asses when it comes to money. My boss has been asking for another trainer for a year so I can focus more on business development but that just keeps falling through; probably because I work 60 hour weeks to keep things running and nothing has caused the company to lose a customer yet. My biggest consideration for a new job is that I live in a very low cost part of the country so I would have to make double or more to be worth relocating to a major city like San Francisco or London. I have no interest in living in NY or Boston. KillHour fucked around with this message at 15:52 on Mar 17, 2018 |
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KillHour posted:London I'd rather live in a shed in the Ukraine then London TBH.
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GRINDCORE MEGGIDO posted:I'd rather live in a shed in the Ukraine then London TBH. It's one of the places I might have an opportunity. They would have to pay me a lot.
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Mar 18, 2018 04:00
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I feel like an outlier in that I never have problems with Windows 10 other than the oversensitive antivirus.
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Mar 18, 2018 04:08
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KillHour posted:It's one of the places I might have an opportunity. They would have to pay me a lot. Honestly I wouldn't. I have never met so many stressed anxious people in my life.
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Mar 18, 2018 05:23
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GRINDCORE MEGGIDO posted:Honestly I wouldn't. I have never met so many stressed anxious people in my life. https://forums.somethingawful.com/
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I don't know if anyone else has experienced a similar Windows 10 FCU issue, but I have a server added to the Server Manager. That server has an active Hyper-V role. I was completely unable to access Hyper-V on that server no matter what I tried- it kept stating Access Denied. Took about an hour of Google searching until I came across someone mentioning they had to modify two registry entries to get it to work again. The kicker? The registry modifications were lifted verbatim from a 1607 build install and placed in a 1709 install and that was the only way this would work.
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TOOT BOOT posted:I feel like an outlier in that I never have problems with Windows 10 other than the oversensitive antivirus.  but I credit it to not being in a major revenue centre, so feature patches come out a lot slower, there's no Cortana availability loving with the Start menu, and there's no advertising being streamed. Yet.
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TOOT BOOT posted:I feel like an outlier in that I never have problems with Windows 10 other than the oversensitive antivirus. Well my current annoyance with it is that my Start Menu seems broken in that it can't find any applications anymore, just files. So you hit the Windows Key type "notepad", even C++ header files show up, but no Notepad.exe. This is after I fixed it not being able start any application when you click it. Somethings you would expect to just not break, like an application launcher. It being one of the things you use an OS for in the first place.
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Mar 18, 2018 10:58
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Hey quick question... Is a win10 upgrade from win7 still free in any form?
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Mar 18, 2018 13:59
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Officially, the upgrade period from 7 -> 10 has ended. If you have the Win10 installer though it should accept the 7 key without issue.
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isndl posted:Officially, the upgrade period from 7 -> 10 has ended. If you have the Win10 installer though it should accept the 7 key without issue. Thx! Worked like a charm, btw namlosh fucked around with this message at 16:50 on Mar 18, 2018 |
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namlosh posted:Thx! No surprise. Wasn't the 7 > 10 upgrade eligibility over like 4 years ago, but they never actually ended it?
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I wanted to tell you goons about a dumb epiphany I had over the weekend. I was drawing in photoshop and watching Netflix via chrome browser this weekend, and I was noticing these tiny micro stutters across my whole system every 3-5 seconds. Not enough to impact my drawing. but just enough to be annoying. It would even cause the mouse to jump. and moving windows around to lag out for a tiny split second. Only happens when I had Netflix open in my other screen. searched everywhere and couldn't find the answer. Finally tried watching Netflix via the windows 10 app. and after giving it 90 seconds or so to warm up. The lagging stopped. and the system ran like butter again. I didn't realize Netflix was better optimized for edge/app. but i guess thats the way it is. And as a bonus. the windows 10 app is not half bad imo. So. theres my story. Hope you enjoyed reading my words. Although i'm sure most of you all are windows gurus that already knew this.
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Typical posted:I wanted to tell you goons about a dumb epiphany I had over the weekend. Last I knew they only even bothered streaming 720p to Chrome/Firefox/etc. - Edge, IE11, and the app give you higher resolutions.
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Typical posted:Netflix win10 app.... I tried it once because of the rumored higher resolutions and better quality, but it minimizes when it loses focus when full-screen. Having it open on one monitor (for the kid) while working in the other monitor is was basically a no-go. Extremely lovely behaviour if you ask me.
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The app continually loses connection for me. I can't even add poo poo to watch to my list, let alone watch an actual film or something.
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The app also has a worse interface than the web version. Edge works well enough though so I use that for Netflix (and Chrome for everything else)
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I've noticed (even back on Win7) that Chrome + DirectX-Anything = Non-Chrome App Will Stutter Whether it was Photoshop, VLC, or a low-req emulator like SNES9X it became annoying to play with Chrome up because I guess Chrome is better at hammering GPU resources than any other app. My machine has a 4790K, 24GB of RAM and a 750Ti so it's not like I'm taxing the machine when the stuttering happens. I really believe it's a Chrome thing.
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ProjektorBoy posted:I've noticed (even back on Win7) that Chrome + DirectX-Anything = Non-Chrome App Will Stutter Have you tried it with hardware acceleration switched off in chrome?
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ProjektorBoy posted:I've noticed (even back on Win7) that Chrome + DirectX-Anything = Non-Chrome App Will Stutter I always have chrome up and play stuff with VLC all the time including while browsing and I never get stutter, 4790k, 32GB RAM and a GTX 970 here.
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GRINDCORE MEGGIDO posted:Have you tried it with hardware acceleration switched off in chrome? I've just temporarily used Firefox in those situations and everything ran smoothly. Turning off acceleration in Chrome made Flash run like rear end, unfortunately.
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When in doubt, make a fresh chrome profile and see if that helps
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I keep having problems with the Media Creation Tool where it downloads all the files and then fails when it tries to actually create the USB file. I'm giving it one more shot after some trying some tips I found online, but if it fails is there any way to create a USB using the ISO file I can download? I ask only because the Tool has to redownload everything each time it fails so I figure I'll just download the ISO and at least that file is persistent.
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Ur Getting Fatter posted:I keep having problems with the Media Creation Tool where it downloads all the files and then fails when it tries to actually create the USB file. Yes, you just format the USB drive to FAT32 and copy all the .iso contents over. (unsure if NTFS works fine, always done FAT32 myself as it's what the install media creation tools use as well.)
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KillHour posted:My favorite Windows 10 story is the time they pushed a patch down that included a new Intel display driver. This driver consistently caused a bsod about 30 seconds after boot, meaning it was a race against time to disable said driver and roll it back before the whole thing crashed. The best part - this was on a loving Surface Book. To be fair, the Surface Book line in general is a dumpster fire. We stopped buying them due to the high failure rate and generally lovely driver support. To this day we still occasionally have problems with "sleep of death", pens that randomly stop working, camera that disappears, etc...
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I just got a BSOD, is that likely to be caused by faulty memory? What's a good way to check the integrity of my memory?
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Jeb! Repetition posted:I just got a BSOD, is that likely to be caused by faulty memory? What's a good way to check the integrity of my memory? Most motherboards have a utility in the BIOS to run a mem check.
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Jeb! Repetition posted:I just got a BSOD, is that likely to be caused by faulty memory? What's a good way to check the integrity of my memory? There are hundreds of ways to cause a Windows system to bugcheck. If you didn't catch the name of the bugcheck (it doesn't give the hex for it anymore and the QR goes to a generic page, damnit Microsoft) it should show up in the Event Viewer. It may be something with drivers or Chrome doing weird poo poo with hardware acceleration or something. If you want to check the memory anyway, Windows Memory Diagnostic is built-in and you can type it in at the Start Menu. Also a lot of people swear by memtest86+.
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dont be mean to me posted:There are hundreds of ways to cause a Windows system to bugcheck. If you didn't catch the name of the bugcheck (it doesn't give the hex for it anymore and the QR goes to a generic page, damnit Microsoft) it should show up in the Event Viewer. It may be something with drivers or Chrome doing weird poo poo with hardware acceleration or something. Where in the Event Viewer should I look? In System, all I'm seeing is what appears to be regular startup stuff, then a critical error that says the system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first. Also would it be better to use the BIOS memory diagnostic or the Windows one?
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A single BSOD? Don't sweat it. If you start to get more of them, then worry about it. A single BSOD is not worth spending time trying to diagnose.
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So I'm like trying to make e-mail work on someone's laptop, and he insists on using the built-in UWP Mail app. I'm having connection issues. However, since all indication that anything at all is happening is that dumb pointy progress bar, this helps me gently caress all diagnosing anything. Old Outlook Express had this send/receive window with info. This has apparently jack poo poo. What the gently caress is Microsoft even thinking. --edit: lol, I can't even enter sync options while it's stuck doing god knows what. Combat Pretzel fucked around with this message at 23:45 on Mar 20, 2018 |
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Sininu posted:Yes, you just format the USB drive to FAT32 and copy all the .iso contents over. NTFS support is firmware-dependent; FAT32 is standard on any UEFI system.
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So I have fast starup disabled, and windows is still doing the thing where I'll turn my pc on and it'll have a chrome window playing whatever youtube videos before i even log in. Also, any idea on how to start tracking down bluescreenless crashes?
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underage at the vape shop posted:So I have fast starup disabled, and windows is still doing the thing where I'll turn my pc on and it'll have a chrome window playing whatever youtube videos before i even log in.
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mystes posted:Are you sure you aren't hibernating or something? I'm clicking shutdown so i shouldnt be
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Shutdown goes to hibernate now. Only Restart actually reboots the OS. No joke.
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Ahahaha oh my god. E: had to look it up to be sure and yup. I wondered how I missed that nugget of asininity, and it turns out this started with windows 8 actually. Never noticed because I've always disabled hibernation pretty soon after an install. Hipster_Doofus fucked around with this message at 04:41 on Mar 21, 2018 |
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so theres no way to disable that? I used to be getting a lot of bluescreenless shutdowns, turning off fast reboot seemed to have fixed it, but they are back. How recent is the change to make shutdown do that?
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