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Raldikuk posted:Win 7 to Win 10 is still free the deadline was a lie. Yeah but I didn’t know that at the time. I bought a Win7 key from LodgeNorth just this year as a matter of fact, to go from Win10 Home to Pro!
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CoolCab posted:this question legit is not intended as a troll (even though it might read that way, apologies): It fixed a lot of bugs I was having with the 4K HDR TV I have plugged into my PC, and made switching between that and my monitor feel less like a gamble. I was also shocked by how much nicer the settings were, it's not just better than win 10 is it's legitimately great. Otherwise it's not really worth upgrading.
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I just updated as well. The installer kept hanging after verifying the downloaded files step 3 install. I remember reading somewhere to turn your internet off and that worked to get me past 13% Openshell updated itself first thing and I use PowerShell fancy zones and search so I feel no pain. Cool thing is fancy zones doesn't leave like 14-24 pixels of desktop bleeding through the bottom when I center an app anymore! I purged and clean installed my Asus AMD chipset drivers just to be sure, and wouldn't you know it the windows 11 zip is the same file as the windows 10 zip. Rocket league and minion masters has been intermittent crashing and it hasn't yet on 11 Crosses fingers.
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Oct 30, 2021 19:47
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One thing, and this is funny that MacOS still has an issue with this, the "screensaver" runs perfectly. That was what they were holding out on us on. Something that any loving scrub could have fixed for years in 10, now it works perfectly. I don't know why I latch on to purely aesthetic worthless poo poo like that but if I get to set a folder of rotating images to show I'd like it not to just be the first image in the folder.
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Oct 30, 2021 19:55
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If I upgrade to W11, will that mean my microsoft account will have its digital license forever, like it currently does with w10? It has saved me hundreds over the years.
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Oct 30, 2021 20:47
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As far as I can tell win11 is win10 for activations.
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Oct 30, 2021 20:53
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Zedsdeadbaby posted:If I upgrade to W11, will that mean my microsoft account will have its digital license forever, like it currently does with w10? It has saved me hundreds over the years. I would never advocate for stealing software, but in the most dire of circumstances I would think that public KMS servers might be able to solve this license issues for you no matter how the answer to this license questions ends.
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Oct 30, 2021 21:02
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CoolCab posted:this question legit is not intended as a troll (even though it might read that way, apologies): Native android emulation and improvements to WSL 2.0 are gonna be my cutover point, IMO.
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Oct 30, 2021 22:17
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I upgraded with an insider build a while ago to use auto HDR for gaming on my TV, it's nice! Works great and is a significant difference and has a ton of supported games that don't include their own built in HDR.
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Oct 31, 2021 03:14
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Any news on when will they launch the android app support?
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Oct 31, 2021 08:04
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Vic posted:Any news on when will they launch the android app support? 9 days ago.
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Oct 31, 2021 11:32
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https://ahaan.co.uk/article/top_stories/google-play-store-windows-11-install Try this if you want to install the Google Play Store. App performance is pretty spotty at the moment, but it's cool to see things appear in the start menu as native apps. That said, if you wanted to install things that have an equivalent website like Twitch, Facebook, etc then just use the install as app feature in Edge, there no reason to mess around with Android for those.
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Oct 31, 2021 11:56
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:https://ahaan.co.uk/article/top_stories/google-play-store-windows-11-install Nice thanks! I was actually looking to use Google Assistant/Home from the desktop. Has anyone tried it? Is it safe?
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I just went through that so my kids can play Hungry Cat Nonogram. The instructions on that site are missing a step or two. You have to click "manage developer options" in WSA in order to get the OP address to activate. Then I somehow had two devices detected by ADB, but luckily I chose the right one the first time.
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Oct 31, 2021 14:44
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It worked, but google assistant's is not available on google appstore. And google home's not compatible with Android 11. Welp.
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Vic posted:It worked, but google assistant's is not available on google appstore. And google home's not compatible with Android 11. I suspect that a lot of this will materialize over time in various forms of supported/unsupported setups.
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Oct 31, 2021 19:42
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Windows 11: The New Kindle Fire
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AlexDeGruven posted:Windows 11: The New Kindle Fire that's literally it, yes - the windows android app support uses the amazon store, not google play
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Oct 31, 2021 23:26
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I'm not buying in to it but Bluestacks exists and works fine. Sideloading is the only issue.
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Tried it out on my surface pro 6, mainly to have comiXology on a tablet again. Works great, but one problem. I only have 8 gigs of ram on that thing and the 2 gigs dedicated to the Android VM is pretty noticeable on performance. Seems I have to kill it in task manager whenever I am done reading comics.
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I think it was this thread where someone pined away wishing they could make 10 or 11 look more like 98 and I actually found something called Modded ROS Explorer. I've never used it but figured I'd post it since someone here was looking for it: https://winclassic.boards.net/thread/177/reactos-taskbar-win10-desktop-classic If it's not something that's gonna eat a ton of ram or causes OS instability I am definitely going to consider giving it a shot.
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Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:I think it was this thread where someone pined away wishing they could make 10 or 11 look more like 98 and I actually found something called Modded ROS Explorer. I've never used it but figured I'd post it since someone here was looking for it: I used it as an excuse for sarcasm, but this is neat! Thanks for post this!
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Twibbit posted:Tried it out on my surface pro 6, mainly to have comiXology on a tablet again. Works great, but one problem. I only have 8 gigs of ram on that thing and the 2 gigs dedicated to the Android VM is pretty noticeable on performance. Seems I have to kill it in task manager whenever I am done reading comics. Even then, having Hyper-V active at all (including Windows Sandbox and Virtualization-based security) will always reduce overall system performance.
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I was able to install Windows 11 fresh on an old ThinkPad t420 and it seems to be working okay. Winaero tweaker seems to be fixing all of the annoyances I have with 11 except one. Is there any way to re enable desktop peek? I'm talking about when you hover your mouse over the bottom right portion of the Taskbar and it shows you your desktop without actually minimizing anything. It's been there since I think Vista and is still in 10. Any way to get it back in 11? Google is giving me nothing.
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Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:I was able to install Windows 11 fresh on an old ThinkPad t420 and it seems to be working okay. No they outright removed plenty of taskbar functionalities for some reason. Even my precious "connect" quick action.
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Also r-click on taskbar menu, show all tray icons, don't group taskbar icons, resizing of the taskbar, and taskbar alignment
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CoolCab posted:this question legit is not intended as a troll (even though it might read that way, apologies): Windows 11 has nested virtualization support for AMD processors. Pretty niche feature but it’s something I’ve wanted for a while and is the reason I updated my “lab” computer.
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Snipping Tool being broken is sapping my will to live
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I'm a big fan of Greenshot. Worth checking out.
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Internet Explorer posted:I'm a big fan of Greenshot. Worth checking out. I'll do that, thanks 
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Cross-Section posted:I'll do that, thanks Sharex is also good. https://getsharex.com/ I don't know what happened with the snipping tool. It's always been a little funky.
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Cross-Section posted:Snipping Tool being broken is sapping my will to live Broken how? I have a quirk when in-game, notably D2R, where it doesn't appear immediately when I win shift S, but if I move the mouse a bit it does go into silhouette mode. Not ideal of course but I assume they are working on it. If you are having bugs, use the feedback center instead of just posting here. Under no circumstances should you have to install some third party program to achieve baked-in windows functionality.
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sharex is good because it helps with saving uploading and categorizing your screenshots/captures. It's like irfanview vs photos app. Also rclick in explorer to upload to imgur/youtube/whatever Vic fucked around with this message at 12:48 on Nov 2, 2021 |
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Cross-Section posted:Snipping Tool being broken is sapping my will to live Snipping Tool works without issue for me. Did you set restrictive privacy settings preventing snipping tool from saving files? By the way, you can also bind the Print Screen button on your keyboard to snipping in Accessibility settings 
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codo27 posted:If you are having bugs, use the feedback center instead of just posting here. Under no circumstances should you have to install some third party program to achieve baked-in windows functionality. This, but for the missing taskbar features.
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Fame Douglas posted:Snipping Tool works without issue for me. Did you set restrictive privacy settings preventing snipping tool from saving files? Privacy settings are all set to allow screenshots, but I still get this error when trying a new snip  Looking this up gives me pages of folks with the same issue; I've tried solutions from articles like this one but none of them have worked as of yet (and I'm sure as hell not trying the one that removes a bunch of other functionality for some reason).
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So there is the 'Snipping Tool' and also windows built in snipper which you do win+shift+S.. not sure these are the same things? I do remember reading the Snipping Tool itself would be retired and so I started using the win+shft+S thing.
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redeyes posted:So there is the 'Snipping Tool' and also windows built in snipper which you do win+shift+S.. not sure these are the same things? I do remember reading the Snipping Tool itself would be retired and so I started using the win+shft+S thing. Snipping tool is the “legacy one” while snip and sketch is the “current one” . Snipping tool has not been removed to avoid legacy apps crapping out if the old exe was missing.
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SlowBloke posted:Snipping tool is the “legacy one” while snip and sketch is the “current one” . Snipping tool has not been removed to avoid legacy apps crapping out if the old exe was missing. I've had issues with it. I hit win+shift+s and then get some options for a rectangle or full screen capture. Do that and then what? I open up irfanview to paste it and get nothing. Vs sharex when I'm either delighted with it capturing my video player or trying to stop it uploading to imgur but it works better.
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:I've had issues with it. I hit win+shift+s and then get some options for a rectangle or full screen capture. Do that and then what? I open up irfanview to paste it and get nothing. Uh, no it throws the thing in your notifications and you can click it and do things. I'd imagine thats broken as well somehow. redeyes fucked around with this message at 18:40 on Nov 2, 2021 |
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