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Koskun posted:While in Windows, holding down Shift while clicking Reset will get you to a menu where you can tell the computer to restart in BIOS. I actually tried doing this but it still took me to a black screen. Good thing power-cycling wiped whatever setting was causing the issue.
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drunken officeparty posted:Unplug from power. There definitely isn't something built-in that will do it for you, without some fiddling. It would probably be possible to set up something with scheduled tasks that run when the power state of the machine changes, and then run a program that checks whether to mute/unmute. Regardless, you'd also need to decide what would happen e.g. if you plugged in, muted manually, unplugged, plugged back it, should it then stay muted, or unmute? What if you manually unmuted, and maybe re-muted, while it was running on battery, should it then stay muted? And what happens when you have multiple audio devices, say some wireless headphones. It's definitely doable, but there are a lot of edge cases to consider.
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nielsm posted:There definitely isn't something built-in that will do it for you, without some fiddling. I don’t know if this is exactly something you can use, but I have a small, free program for my desktop and laptop called SoundSwitch. You can choose all the audio options via your own hotkeys, but on both systems I use it to cycle between (wired) headset and speakers by pressing CTRL + NUMPAD 0. Press one time for headset, press again for speakers. Same function on both PCs. It has a lot of options, but I only use it for, well, the sound switch 🤩. Hope that helps; I’ve never dug deeper into it myself.
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Koskun posted:More and more, laptops are becoming at least partially user upgradable. I am shocked to hear that, but am extremely happy to hear that. I figured it was the complete opposite and that laptops were getting worse and worse with being upgradable! I guess there was a window of like the last 5 years where everything was soldered to the motherboard, but laptop companies are backtracking on that? Is there a reason they are doing that? I thought it was only nerds like me that cared so I would be surprised if it was because of consumer demand. Koskun posted:As to memory, so many laptops let you put your own memory in. It's mostly (in my experience), the budget lines, or stuff with an Atom/all-in-one processor where the memory is part of the motherboard. Really? Again I figured it was the opposite. The HP pro line, the Dell XPS line, and all MacBooks were so thin and lightweight that they would all have everything soldered to the motherboard. I actually would have guessed the cheaper laptops were the ones that would be more likely to have upgradable RAM. Koskun posted:Edit - One other thing you may want to look into is getting a small UPS just for your laptop. Maybe it's a power spike, maybe not, but it would be a good investment never the less. They can be had for 50-100 US. So this is going to be a slightly long post, but it might be very beneficial to some posters here who might ever experience a dead hard drive. Back about a year or two ago, the PSU in my desktop was failing. I had a bunch of 8TB Western Digital drives in it; 11 to be exact (it's a huge Fractal Design case). One day I woke up and 5 of the 11 drives were dead. They wouldn't even spin, even if I placed them in another computer. Of course I was freaking out because that's a ton of data to lose, but the one glimmer of hope I had was the fact that the hard drives didn't even make a sound like they were receiving power. This means it was most likely not platter issues, which is expensive as poo poo and a fortune to fix. So I got a torx screwdriver and looked at the underside of the PCB that's on all 5 of the drives. This is what it looks like:  See the arrows I drew? Those are pointing to fuses; fuses that are very close to where the SATA power cable goes. I checked continuity on both with my multimeter, and on all 5 of the dead hard drives, the right fuse was showing no continuity. Out of desperation I soldered a small wire across the fuse to bypass it, and on all 5 drives they came back to life again! This ONLY happened with my 8TB Western Digital drives. Not with the 4TB ones, not with the 2TB ones, not with the 8TB Seagate ones; only the 8TB Western Digital drives. Then just two days ago, I took an 8TB drive that never gave me any problems and plugged it into one of those SATA docks just so I could get some data off of it. The drive refused to turn on (yet was working just fine in my server 5 minutes earlier). I took out the PCB again and tested those fuses. This time, the right one seemed fine (showed a value of .003 with the 20ohm checker on my Multiman meter) but the one on the left had some insane value like 453. Anyway, I took a wire and bridged the left fuse in the picture and the drive is working again! That's SIX 8tb Western Digital drives that completely stopped working; one of which was just because I simply placed it into a dock. I hope this post is useful to someone some day who has a dead hard drive but not thousands of dollars for data recovery. Anyway the point of this post is my theory is some fuses on some electronics can be really wimpy. All it took was me plugging this drive into a dock for a fuse to blow. With my ThinkPad T25, I feel like it must be the same issue. The first one died when I simply plopped it onto a docking station. It was an official docking station and it was using an official Lenovo PSU. I threw both in the garbage fearing that's what caused it, but obviously not. It would be a bit extreme to have to plug my laptop into a UPS because I have the power cords all over (and having a UPS in every one of those spots would be such a pain in the rear end), since my work computer is also a ThinkPad that uses the same rectangle connector. And basically that work ThinkPad is plugged in 24/7 as well, and I never had a power issue with it ever. So if it was some sort of weird surge or something related to dirty power in my home, I would assume it would have already taken out my work laptop as well. I could live with this if I knew what to do with the bad fuse on this T25 but as I mentioned, bridging the one fuse that I found "dead" did absolutely nothing. Yet it resurrected 6 different Western Digital drives for me!
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drat that's quite a storage capacity, can I ask what you do mostly with your desktop machine?
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Doesn't a laptop already come with a UPS in the form of the internal battery? A surge protector would be the other half of the equation, but they're cheap and readily available.
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Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:I am shocked to hear that, but am extremely happy to hear that. I figured it was the complete opposite and that laptops were getting worse and worse with being upgradable! I had a similar issue. A client of mine had an external seagate HD (4TB) and lost the power brick for it (a 12V one), so in my recreation of the events based on what I saw on their desk, they grabbed anything that fit the barrel connector and tried it (they tried an 18V transformer). This cooked the power protection diode on the PCB of the disk which is used like a fuse (similar to the examples you posted). I was able to just remove it and the disk is now useable. I don't trust it long term but I'll just be tossing it into a server that doesn't need reliability. They purchased a new huge external for a couple of hundred bucks.
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Inner Light posted:drat that's quite a storage capacity, can I ask what you do mostly with your desktop machine? Plex server. One season of Friends is 600gb. It adds up. I'm also a hoarder of console game roms and isos.
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Rexxed posted:so in my recreation of the events based on what I saw on their desk, they grabbed anything that fit the barrel connector and tried it (they tried an 18V transformer). This made my eye twitch. I worked at an electronics recycler/refurbisher and got very used to checking power adapters for volts, amps, and polarity due to poo poo like that.
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Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:Plex server. One season of Friends is 600gb. It adds up. I assume that's a typo and you meant 6gb, because it would take some serious effort to make a standard definition series fill 600gb.
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I think it was shot on film and netflix did a HD remaster and there was a blu ray release maybe? so long as there is no effects to redo it's a relatively cheap thing.
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CoolCab posted:I think it was shot on film and netflix did a HD remaster and there was a blu ray release maybe? so long as there is no effects to redo it's a relatively cheap thing. All 10 seasons remuxed from blurays is 600gb
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Alarbus posted:Microcenter has been running sales, I got an 11700k for $300. I think the 11900k is down to $500? It is, however, a furnace. Idles at 35°c, hits 60-65°c while gaming. This is completely normal isn't it? My desktop does that all day, but my laptop hits the 90s when I emulate PS3 stuff lol
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Captain Yossarian posted:This is completely normal isn't it? My desktop does that all day, but my laptop hits the 90s when I emulate PS3 stuff lol For 11 series apparently, I was comparing it to the 8700
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Alarbus posted:For 11 series apparently, I was comparing it to the 8700 Oh I didn't mean to give you a hard time! That honestly seemed normal to me, I have a 1700x, a couple 3770s and some 3550s and they all seem to run around that temp haha
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Oct 5, 2021 02:24
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MikusR posted:All 10 seasons remuxed from blurays is 600gb Ah, that makes more sense, 600gb for one season would be madness.
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Oh poo poo yeah, my fault. I meant the entire series. They are raw blu ray rips. I hoard both physically and digitally! The worst of both worlds!
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I've been meaning to make time to do the same thing; I'd much rather have the convenience of digital and streaming from a server, but since buying digital actually just means renting until your library vanishes some day in the future, I've been buying on Blu-ray then ripping to my harddrive instead.
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A recent update seems to have finally broken Classic Shell -- anyone know of an alternative?  I cannot overstate how much I hate the 'new' Start Menu design. It's extremely hostile towards keyboard based navigation, and I like to use my mouse as little as possible. I used to be able to just hit like Windows Key, Up, Right Right Enter and that'd sleep my computer. Now it's like, Windows Key, Tab, Down x5, Enter, Enter.
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Sab669 posted:I cannot overstate how much I hate the 'new' Start Menu design. It's extremely hostile towards keyboard based navigation, and I like to use my mouse as little as possible. I used to be able to just hit like Windows Key, Up, Right Right Enter and that'd sleep my computer. Now it's like, Windows Key, Tab, Down x5, Enter, Enter. If you use keyboard navigation primarily or exclusively, my suggestion would be to get nircmd and make some shortcuts in your start menu for functions you want to get to quickly. So a shortcut called 'sleep' pointing to "nircmd.exe standby", and then you can get it easily with winkey + typing. Alternately, for things you do so often that typing 'sleep' is too much work, autohotkey plus nircmd. I use sleep all the time and have ctrl+shift+win+end bound to do that.
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Sab669 posted:A recent update seems to have finally broken Classic Shell -- anyone know of an alternative? You can hit the start button on your keyboard, type the first few letters of the app and hit enter.
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Sab669 posted:A recent update seems to have finally broken Classic Shell -- anyone know of an alternative? StartIsBack or Start10 http://startisback.com/ https://www.stardock.com/products/start10/ Personally, I prefer StartIsBack For Windows 11, there are StartAllBack and Start11 (the latter one is currently unfinished, a more complete version should release soon) https://www.startallback.com/ https://www.stardock.com/products/start11/ Fame Douglas fucked around with this message at 14:24 on Oct 7, 2021 |
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Sab669 posted:A recent update seems to have finally broken Classic Shell -- anyone know of an alternative? alt+f4
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Sab669 posted:A recent update seems to have finally broken Classic Shell -- anyone know of an alternative? winkey, up, right, enter, enter works for me.
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Alt+F4 is clunky  But I guess I can get into that habbit. I might just pony up the $5 for startisbackDr. Video Games 0031 posted:winkey, up, right, enter, enter works for me.  Up "selects" the Recently Added header for me  and then the arrow keys don't do anything from there.
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Oct 7, 2021 15:01
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Sorry, I thought I was in the windows 11 thread. That's an odd thing to change in an update.
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Sab669 posted:A recent update seems to have finally broken Classic Shell -- anyone know of an alternative?
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Would anyone care to recommend a file synchronization program? My use case is simple - I want to take a tree of files on my hard drive and echo it exactly to a removable drive. I want every file on the internal tree copied to the removable drive, I want every file that isn't in the internal tree deleted from the removable drive, and I want it to be quick enough thatit doesn't spend all day on it. I used to use SyncToy for this, but keeps losing state information, and then it fails to echo deletions properly.
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I use FreeFileSync, old as hell but works just fine.
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Freefilesync is good, I prefer SyncBackFree, it's more application-y to me and is regularly updated. Both great options.
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Zorak of Michigan posted:Would anyone care to recommend a file synchronization program? My use case is simple - I want to take a tree of files on my hard drive and echo it exactly to a removable drive. I want every file on the internal tree copied to the removable drive, I want every file that isn't in the internal tree deleted from the removable drive, and I want it to be quick enough thatit doesn't spend all day on it. I used to use SyncToy for this, but keeps losing state information, and then it fails to echo deletions properly. robocopy source destination /MIR /E /XO /DCOPY:T /NP /LOG:copylog.txt If the destination is a fast drive or SSD, add /MT:32 to use more copy threads for increased speed. And if you're copying from folders with protected read access add /B to use a backup mode that ignores permissions, but that requires running as admin. save the command as a .bat file on your external drive and you can plug & click to run. If you're doing the same thing every time, robocopy is both very fast and right there in windows already, no need to install anything else. more robocopy documentation
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I've used robocopy for years, but I didn't know it could be intelligent about what it copied. Thanks, I'll try that first.
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MikusR posted:alt+f4 For specifically logout/sleep/hibernate/restart, Win+X is better.
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This is a very minor annoyance, and one that I don't think is reoccurring, but I went to shut off my computer this morning, and when shutting down it played the Windows Startup Noise. Is this symptomatic of any major issue?
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Willo567 posted:This is a very minor annoyance, and one that I don't think is reoccurring, but I went to shut off my computer this morning, and when shutting down it played the Windows Startup Noise. Is this symptomatic of any major issue? Probably not? Like, the first question would be if it normally plays the startup sound when you boot up? W10 defaults to no sound for that, unless you turned it back on. If so it was probably just a weird one-off, like preparing to install updates or something. But if your PC doesn't play startup, logon, or shutdown sounds it would be much more mysterious. Still not a major concern, but very odd.
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Sab669 posted:A recent update seems to have finally broken Classic Shell -- anyone know of an alternative? Windows key + X is the same as right-clicking the start button and might get you there quicker?
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Sab669 posted:A recent update seems to have finally broken Classic Shell -- anyone know of an alternative?
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Klyith posted:Probably not? Like, the first question would be if it normally plays the startup sound when you boot up? W10 defaults to no sound for that, unless you turned it back on. If so it was probably just a weird one-off, like preparing to install updates or something. It plays the start up noise, but for some reason it stutters and I have no idea why - my OS is on an SSD so I don't know if that would have anything to do with it. Sometimes it takes a bit longer to load from it, and when that happens the noise plays fine.
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Willo567 posted:It plays the start up noise, but for some reason it stutters and I have no idea why - my OS is on an SSD so I don't know if that would have anything to do with it. Sometimes it takes a bit longer to load from it, and when that happens the noise plays fine. In that case I'd say it was just a weird one-off, probably windows did some type of quick restart for updates or whatever. Stuttering audio is almost certainly about the audio hardware, not your OS being on a SSD. If your audio is just the jack on the back or the PC or laptop it's probably realtek, and it stutters during startup because realtek is garbage.
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Klyith posted:In that case I'd say it was just a weird one-off, probably windows did some type of quick restart for updates or whatever. Yeah, Realtek gonna Realtek. 
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