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Truga posted:unless it blue screens on said boot, i had to reinstall my box when i switch from a haswell to a ryzen cpu because it just went into a bluescreen reboot loop Booting once to safe mode should be enough to fix it.
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not when safe mode also blue screens lol
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Nov 26, 2021 12:28
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Truga posted:not when safe mode also blue screens lol Then you have a hardware problem.
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Nov 26, 2021 14:47
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no, because after reinstall it worked fine (until windows updates broke it again over the next 18 months). it's just poo poo software, op
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Nov 26, 2021 14:51
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I did just have a win 7 install that really really did not want to work after changing the hardware. On the other hand I was trying to boot a pre-SP1 windows 7 disk from a virtualbox disk image under KVM, so I probably had that coming. It's happily running again now ... under a new version of virtualbox. Some problems are not worth solving.
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Nov 26, 2021 17:07
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Most of the time when moving from old to new hardware and getting a blue screen, it was because the SATA controller on the old poo poo was set up originally as IDE and the new mobo defaults to AHCI. Switching the new mobo back to IDE usually fixes the issue, then you can swap it back to AHCI with the registry later.
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Nov 27, 2021 00:39
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Removing any brand specific storage drivers (chipset drivers) sometimes helps as well.
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Nov 27, 2021 08:45
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I flip computers between intel and AMD all the time. Even my current box started on Intel like 5 years ago. Currently on AMD. Trick? Change the ACHI driver to generic before swapping. Once swapped go into Device Manager, hit show hidden devices and remove ALL old intel drivers. They will show as up as grey. After that, smooth sailing.
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Nov 27, 2021 19:55
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Mother fer, Windows 10 reenabled BING searches in my start menu. The normal internet answers arn't working.. help!! I hate internet searches in my drat start menu. [edit] Gpedit.msc worked, but I did have to reboot. Dammit MS! redeyes fucked around with this message at 16:53 on Nov 28, 2021 |
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Nov 28, 2021 16:40
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Did you Bing the issue?
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Nov 28, 2021 17:03
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I just tried to create symlinks in Emacs, and noticed that requires a Windows-permission to be enabled for non-super-users. How much of a security risk is this? I mean it would be cool to do that within Emacs, but it's not essential.
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Nov 29, 2021 12:49
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I just use the power toys search now (alt space) Start menu search has always sucked. I also use agent ransack for find files because it's 100x faster somehow.
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Nov 29, 2021 20:59
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Quaint Quail Quilt posted:I just use the power toys search now (alt space) Same on Power Toys, but had to look up Agent Ransack. I am away from home so I sent the page to my desktop to download. Looks interesting!
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Nov 29, 2021 21:35
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as an alternative list:
Heck, I haven't thought about Agent Ransack in years. Neat that it's still around, and I hope the free version is still good at searching inside files.
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Nov 29, 2021 21:43
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doctorfrog posted:as an alternative list: I have Everything on my right click menu…but I didn’t even notice it until recently and don’t know how it got there… 
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Nov 29, 2021 22:05
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doctorfrog posted:Heck, I haven't thought about Agent Ransack in years. Neat that it's still around, and I hope the free version is still good at searching inside files. To search in RAR, ZIP, GZ (etc) archives you need FileLocator Pro, Agent Ransack does not have that functionality. I just use it 1-2 times a year because to me it's way faster, almost instant
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Nov 29, 2021 22:06
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Quaint Quail Quilt posted:Can Agent Ransack search zip files? I meant search for strings within files (I recall using it for that in the past, but I may be wrong), but it looks like the paid version of AR has searching within archives.
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Is there a way to make the taskbar search not search for web results? This seems like the most asinine thing to have in this. If I'm searching the web I'm on a browser, if I'm searching for xyz.txt I don't want loving Bing results. e: LMAO that'll teach me for not reading this very page
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Can someone do me a solid, my power cut out and it seems I got a corrupt file from this happening, a Windows Task actually of all things! So I need to somehow repair or replace this file, what I need is the task file (.XML ) from someone here so I can swap them, so could someone navigate to their; C:\Windows\System32\Tasks\Microsoft\Windows\SoftwareProtectionPlatform folder, and inside there should be 3 task files, the first one is the one I need which seems to be bugged to hell and back (literally it is in wingding text)... the other two tasks "SvcRestartTaskLogon" and "SvcRestartTaskNetwork" seem to be fine and so I don't need these two, so ywah if someone could get me that task and upload it somewhere maybe? That would be dandy. This is on Windows 10 Pro if that matters, but I don't think it does.
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Dec 20, 2021 08:34
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Im_Special posted:Can someone do me a solid, my power cut out and it seems I got a corrupt file from this happening, a Windows Task actually of all things! So I need to somehow repair or replace this file, what I need is the task file (.XML ) from someone here so I can swap them, so could someone navigate to their; Wouldn't running SFC be likely to find and fix that?
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It doesn't find anything wrong though. I don't know how else to get this "SvcRestartTask" without reinstalling the entire OS or downloading some huge ISO or something.
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Dec 20, 2021 10:05
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wtf; I just installed 21H2 onto a empty disk and an offline account and for some reason it says "Windows is activated with a digital license". Is it going to realise at some point that it doesn't have a key?
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Im_Special posted:Can someone do me a solid, my power cut out and it seems I got a corrupt file from this happening, a Windows Task actually of all things! So I need to somehow repair or replace this file, what I need is the task file (.XML ) from someone here so I can swap them, so could someone navigate to their; Are you sure it's corrupted? You probably don't have read access to the file and it's in UCS-2 to boot. But if you want to try it anyway, and can trust someone pasting malicious code into a pastebin, then here ya go https://pastebin.com/Q1j9cMwq
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~Coxy posted:wtf; I just installed 21H2 onto a empty disk and an offline account and for some reason it says "Windows is activated with a digital license". Edit: wait, it's even simpler. If the computer had Windows 10 installed and activated on it previously, switching out a drive doesn't count as making it new hardware and it can get activated based on a hash stored on Microsoft's activation servers. Microsoft account isn't required for that. VVV yeah that Flipperwaldt fucked around with this message at 14:34 on Dec 20, 2021 |
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Dec 20, 2021 14:23
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~Coxy posted:wtf; I just installed 21H2 onto a empty disk and an offline account and for some reason it says "Windows is activated with a digital license". Flipperwaldt posted:The digital license terminology is specific to one derived from free upgrade rights through a 7 or 8 key. 7 keys came on stickers, but 8 keys came in firmware, on laptops in particular. So a way this can make sense if you did the install on a laptop that came with Windows 8 originally and during your install it retrieved the key automatically. In which case I wouldn't worry about it, license is good. Any other case something weird is going on as far as I understand things. Windows 10 and 11 store a hash value of the system on the Microsoft servers when they are first activated with a key. This means on reinstall on the same system, you don't need to enter a key - Windows will automatically activate by comparing the hash value with the one stored by Microsoft. This happens even with offline accounts. Fame Douglas fucked around with this message at 14:33 on Dec 20, 2021 |
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Dec 20, 2021 14:31
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Yeah I was confusing a number of situations that don't actually apply here.
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I had this happen a few times to motherboards. What I *think* is happening is they were pre-opened and used.
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Fame Douglas posted:You can? I don't think that's true, playback stops as soon as the browser is in the background with pretty much all of them. And no, not just Youtube. I pay for Premium, so I have no need for that. Just tested again for the hell of it, I use Vivaldi on Android. Works as described, I even get a notification and can play/pause from there.
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Any major issues with 21H2 that I should know about before installing? It's going to be a clean wipe/reformat when I get around to it. Even though I've not had problems with Win10 patches in the past, the widely-reported problems I've read about here in recent years give me pause.
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I've had zero issues on my work PC. My home computers are on Windows 11.
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HalloKitty posted:Just tested again for the hell of it, I use Vivaldi on Android. Works as described, I even get a notification and can play/pause from there. Must be new, then. Great to hear! Vivaldi definitely couldn't do it ~a year ago.
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~Coxy posted:Are you sure it's corrupted? You probably don't have read access to the file and it's in UCS-2 to boot. Yeah it's foobared, it won't even export as a XML either, and trusting a goon? With my life! And like I know Microsoft is a lot of things but malicious? Anyways thanks, I was also able to dig up my old old POS laptop with a dying drive that is on like, the Creators Update of Windows 10 to check its Task, and that one and yours pretty much align expect for a few dates, which I think just correlate to installation times of the OS really. And the surgery is done now, and seems to be back to working order after a reboot.
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Fame Douglas posted:Windows 10 and 11 store a hash value of the system on the Microsoft servers when they are first activated with a key. This means on reinstall on the same system, you don't need to enter a key - Windows will automatically activate by comparing the hash value with the one stored by Microsoft. Hah, in this case I have bought a Ryzen combo off someone and this presumably means it is using his old license. I wonder what happens if he activates his new system with the same key, whether mine will get revoked.
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~Coxy posted:Hah, in this case I have bought a Ryzen combo off someone and this presumably means it is using his old license. No, yours will continue to work fine. The only limit that appears to exist is a hard limit on number of new activations for some enterprise keys and a soft limit for retail/OEM/SB keys, where you can only activate x in y time (but will be able to activate again after some cooldown)
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my w10 install acting lame, what do i type into my computer to flatten windows but keep my games E: actually i think this computer has windows by itself on a boot drive, so, whats the slickest way to just re-do windows on that drive? i feel like this can/should be able to be done from within windows itself somewhere but i can never remember waht to google to find it
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Settings, the Update and Security category, there should be a Restore page or something with the Reset function. That does an in-place reinstall but keeps most of your profile and installed stuff.
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IMO the Reset is a bad option for ficing problems -- it removes your installed apps and stuff like program settings even if you say "keep files". And the one time I used Reset it didn't even 100% fix the install. In-place upgrade is far superior when the problem is that something with windows itself is hosed up. Much less disruptive, and just as good at fixing the problems. Do that by downloading the Win10 Media Creation Tool. You can either make a fresh copy of the USB installer if you want to have that around (useful), or directly run it with "upgrade now".
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Klyith posted:IMO the Reset is a bad option for ficing problems -- it removes your installed apps and stuff like program settings even if you say "keep files". And the one time I used Reset it didn't even 100% fix the install. nielsm posted:Settings, the Update and Security category, there should be a Restore page or something with the Reset function. That does an in-place reinstall but keeps most of your profile and installed stuff. Thank you both, I think ill do the media thing without the USB. The computer is important to my daily usage but the data itself on it doesnt even really play a role in that. I will say this definitely reinforces the notion of just keeping windows on its own drive (with the other basics) There is a beautiful freedom to not needing to put any effort into preserving a file or whatever. thanks again
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A while ago some Google news feed article mentioned that one could use some utility to shrink the size of a Windows 10 installation, either after it's installed or remove superfluous stuff from the installation media. Are my rememberings wrong again or is either of those a thing?
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WattsvilleBlues posted:A while ago some Google news feed article mentioned that one could use some utility to shrink the size of a Windows 10 installation, either after it's installed or remove superfluous stuff from the installation media. Are my rememberings wrong again or is either of those a thing? Chris Titus Tech site has a pretty good “debloat” script to run. Also a process for a bare-bones Win10 .iso file, but I’ve never used the small install one myself. The debloat removes a lot of stuff, but sometimes takes “search” with it!
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