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I use Free Commander and Altap Salamander (which used to be Servant Salamander in the long ago).
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as of a few days ago, this has been happening to some windows, like when I go to save something or close a program, text is just not there.  the options all work still, and it's only in windows things, not other programs that it happens. would this have been caused by some update issue or something? It's occasional, it doesn't happen all the time. edit: wait, no, it happens to steam friend notification popups too. is this a motherboard death sign or something? really hope, obviously, that it isn't and is something fixable on the software side. Captain Invictus fucked around with this message at 09:56 on Sep 11, 2021 |
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Sep 11, 2021 09:47
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That looks like a graphics card software (driver) or hardware problem to me
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Sep 11, 2021 14:24
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I just pushed through every possible windows update including optional ones and I guess one of those fixed it because it's not happening anymore.
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What are the best file copy programs, preferably with a GUI these days? I know there's Robocopy but haven't really played around with them in a bit.
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Medullah posted:What are the best file copy programs, preferably with a GUI these days? I know there's Robocopy but haven't really played around with them in a bit. teracopy? But like, "copy files" is way too vague of a task to have any recommendations that are worth much. Repeat copy or backup task? IMO it's worth figuring out robocopy and making a batch script, or get actual backup software. Copying and need verified logs for documentation? Pay for teracopy. Just need to copy files? Ctrl-c ctrl-v.
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Sorry, should have been clearer. Got a bunch of files I need to move from one directory to another, one time usage. There will be some duplicates that I don't want it to overwrite. I actually just fired up Teracopy, forgot I had it, so that will likely do what I need.
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Medullah posted:Sorry, should have been clearer. Got a bunch of files I need to move from one directory to another, one time usage. There will be some duplicates that I don't want it to overwrite. I actually just fired up Teracopy, forgot I had it, so that will likely do what I need. Windows is not MacOS. It doesn't overwrite by default. And for copying files there is only
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These days, I even think you can tell windows No to All when it asks about overwriting. Somehow.
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Got a request on a remote employee monitoring program. The goal would be to have desktops streaming to a TV (probably connected to a laptop) with hopefully Voice 2 text running to capture conversations as well in the closed captioning on each stream. Want to have a display to glance at and see what everyone is working on at any point in time. The current "draft" plan is to have everyone call into an individual Teams call with a few guest accounts, then use the laptop to get those all one one screen and then connect the laptop to the display. Is there an easier way to do this? It feels very "tin-can and string" quality. I only need like 6 desktops connected in this way.
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FunOne posted:Got a request on a remote employee monitoring program. The goal would be to have desktops streaming to a TV (probably connected to a laptop) with hopefully Voice 2 text running to capture conversations as well in the closed captioning on each stream. Want to have a display to glance at and see what everyone is working on at any point in time. Why in the heck would you do this? Employees aren't trustworthy, or something for legal purposes? I know that's probably a topic for a different thread, but this was an issue at my company a few years ago that some managers wanted to micro manage their employees by knowing exactly what they were doing, and those employees had far lower productivity and morale than the ones who weren't being watched.
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Sep 17, 2021 18:31
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Some managers can't handle having complete control of their charges. Contextually, if I worked somewhere that tried to do that I'd be out the door so loving fast.
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No idea if it does the audio portion, but there is purpose-built software for that sort of thing. As an example: https://www.veriato.com/
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AlexDeGruven posted:Some managers can't handle having complete control of their charges. Seconding. Every line of that post was a new "what the gently caress, how are you not refusing this on ethical grounds" (which, of course, tends to be "I need the money").
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FunOne posted:Got a request on a remote employee monitoring program. The goal would be to have desktops streaming to a TV (probably connected to a laptop) with hopefully Voice 2 text running to capture conversations as well in the closed captioning on each stream. Want to have a display to glance at and see what everyone is working on at any point in time. Holy poo poo no way would I support that, also check your local wiretapping laws.
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Hah, I'd knew that'd set some people off. Its a small and cheap rear end call center. This is in addition to the recorded calls and intended to be for training purposes, but yes, I agree it is very Orwellian.
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FunOne posted:Hah, I'd knew that'd set some people off. Its a small and cheap rear end call center. This is in addition to the recorded calls and intended to be for training purposes, but yes, I agree it is very Orwellian. You should first check if it's actually legal in your area. And get in writing the request to do this.
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Sep 18, 2021 13:33
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FunOne posted:Hah, I'd knew that'd set some people off. Its a small and cheap rear end call center. This is in addition to the recorded calls and intended to be for training purposes, but yes, I agree it is very Orwellian. Hah, yeah this might be loving illegal and, hah, I wouldn’t do this.
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MikusR posted:You should first check if it's actually legal in your area. And get in writing the request to do this.
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wouldn't it be legal if they agree to it in their employment?
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If I understand their current Teams-based idea, it sounds like the employees would have to initiate or join a call and then explicitly share their screens. As gross as it is to monitor employees that closely, at least it wouldn't be a secret.
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I don't know what it's like in the US but up here in Canada I've never had a phone call to a teleworker/call center that wasn't "recorded for quality control and training purposes" or something to that effect. If it's spying on people's work-from-home environments that's loving vile though (just generally speaking, not talking specifically about the goon tasked with doing this).
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Arivia posted:I don't know what it's like in the US but up here in Canada I've never had a phone call to a teleworker/call center that wasn't "recorded for quality control and training purposes" or something to that effect. If it's spying on people's work-from-home environments that's loving vile though (just generally speaking, not talking specifically about the goon tasked with doing this). To be clear, the request is to stream their desktop, not their work space. Nobody is crazy enough (yet) to ask for video of the actual employee. They already have the hubstaff desktop screenshot BS to deal with. From what I can find the solution to this is one of the many employee / student desktop monitoring solutions that are out there and push the voice to text part onto the VoIP system. Which will make it a big enough project to get it killed.
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Is there any way to keep a program running in windows when all of it's windows are closed, like how Macs do? I'm sifting through a bunch of excel sheets and the couple seconds it takes to initialize adds up. E: crammed an empty window under the taskbar, which is working, but still interested if there's any way to not need to. Fantastic Foreskin fucked around with this message at 16:10 on Sep 21, 2021 |
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FunOne posted:Which will make it a big enough project to get it killed. 
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Fantastic Foreskin posted:Is there any way to keep a program running in windows when all of it's windows are closed, like how Macs do? I'm sifting through a bunch of excel sheets and the couple seconds it takes to initialize adds up. There are programs that allow you to minimize desktop apps to the System Tray, which more or less accomplishes the same thing. I haven't used any of them, though, so I can't vouch for a particular one.
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In Windows VLC, what controls which folder it opens by default? Mine always wants to open a file from deep within my NAS regardless of what I actually want to open.
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hello alzheimer's thread, I vaguely remember reading about a "tiling window manager" sort of thing for windows where you'd hold modifier keys and drag where you wanted the window to go, and it divided the screen into presized "chunks" that your movements would snap to. It wasn't DisplayFusion but something along those lines in terms of the ability to do monitor splitting and so on. I think the one I saw looked like an amateurish or powertoys sort of site rather than a big commercial product (but if there's an actual github project or a commercial product that does that, fire away). And this was for Windows not Linux. I absolutely cannot find this in my history. does that tickle any neurons for anyone?
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Any good recommendations for an alternative to Sticky Notes? Preferably something lightweight that doesn’t sync to the cloud or other accounts like gmail. All I need is a scratchpad for notes/to-do lists on the desktop that doesn’t lose functionality when I lose internet connection. Was pretty happy with sticky notes but apparently it has some issues with One Note and some notes just disappear into the ether.
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Paul MaudDib posted:hello alzheimer's thread, I vaguely remember reading about a "tiling window manager" sort of thing for windows where you'd hold modifier keys and drag where you wanted the window to go, and it divided the screen into presized "chunks" that your movements would snap to. It wasn't DisplayFusion but something along those lines in terms of the ability to do monitor splitting and so on. Windows 11 does this
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Paul MaudDib posted:hello alzheimer's thread, I vaguely remember reading about a "tiling window manager" sort of thing for windows where you'd hold modifier keys and drag where you wanted the window to go, and it divided the screen into presized "chunks" that your movements would snap to. It wasn't DisplayFusion but something along those lines in terms of the ability to do monitor splitting and so on. I remember seeing something like this on donationcoder. Screencorral? Possibly spelled “screencoral.”
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I thought a company like Stardock did something like that, but nothing on their website. I actually started casually looking for a program like this a few months back and would also like to find out. e: here's that DesktopCoral https://www.donationcoder.com/software/mouser/other-windows-apps/desktopcoral OgNar fucked around with this message at 08:33 on Sep 22, 2021 |
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Found it - it’s FancyZones! https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/fancyzones https://i.imgur.com/mi0N1Fq.mp4 (not exactly what I remember but pretty sure i was confabulating this with the new windows 11 stuff) Paul MaudDib fucked around with this message at 08:46 on Sep 22, 2021 |
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Paul MaudDib posted:hello alzheimer's thread, I vaguely remember reading about a "tiling window manager" sort of thing for windows where you'd hold modifier keys and drag where you wanted the window to go, and it divided the screen into presized "chunks" that your movements would snap to. It wasn't DisplayFusion but something along those lines in terms of the ability to do monitor splitting and so on. I use Dell Display Manager with my Dell monitor, no idea if it works with others
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Fruits of the sea posted:Any good recommendations for an alternative to Sticky Notes? Preferably something lightweight that doesn’t sync to the cloud or other accounts like gmail. All I need is a scratchpad for notes/to-do lists on the desktop that doesn’t lose functionality when I lose internet connection. KNot has the advantage over old/Windows 7/"Classic" Sticky Notes that the notes are just plain text files that you can easily export/read outside the app, etc., etc.
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Paul MaudDib posted:hello alzheimer's thread, I vaguely remember reading about a "tiling window manager" sort of thing for windows where you'd hold modifier keys and drag where you wanted the window to go, and it divided the screen into presized "chunks" that your movements would snap to. It wasn't DisplayFusion but something along those lines in terms of the ability to do monitor splitting and so on. On Windows 10 Power Toys does this and it's great. It has several other useful utilities bundled as well, all of which can be enabled / disabled individually. Windows 11 apparently has a version of window snapping built-in, though I haven't used it yet.
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This is how it looks on Windows 11, just have to hover over the "maximize" button: Also, the MS PowerToys are now available on the Microsoft Store as well: http://aka.ms/getPowerToys
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Fame Douglas posted:This is how it looks on Windows 11, just have to hover over the "maximize" button: Wow this alone makes me want Windows 11
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I had to install StartIsBack for Windows 11 http://startisback.com/tbd/ to get rid of some annoyances, like not being able to move the taskbar to the sides of my screens or the superfluous Explorer context menu that sits in front of the old Windows 10 context menu and doesn't have the options I need (like extracting with 7zip). Other than that, it's fine. The new Start menu always showing a forced "Recommended" section even when you have that feature disabled is weird as well. 
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I sure hope its just a matter of 7zip etc updating their shell integrations cause that would be absolute hippo dung if you can no longer add things like that
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