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Edge is refusing to sync my collections between my PC and android phone. I've logged in and out on both devices, tried resetting the sync option, and nothing doing. Any ideas?
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Once again Windows 11 isn't putting my display nor pc to sleep and I can't figure out why. This drives me nuts! edit: Updated the motherboard's firmware and now it seems to work again. 
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Apr 23, 2022 21:20
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Really, Macrium? An email with a link to a downloader program just to get the 1GB+ installer? What is this, 2007? Who do you think you are? Acronis? Gross.
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Apr 25, 2022 16:37
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Flipperwaldt posted:Really, Macrium? An email with a link to a downloader program just to get the 1GB+ installer? What is this, 2007? Who do you think you are? Acronis? Gross. There's a checkbox to save the full installer locally if you want to install it more than once. (also the installer is only ~175mb if this is reflect free you're looking at)
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Apr 25, 2022 17:18
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Klyith posted:There's a checkbox to save the full installer locally if you want to install it more than once. I'm really just annoyed at how the number of useless steps makes this feel onerous. (Useless to me) Would straight up be looking at alternatives if I didn't already have a number of old images in their proprietary format.
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Apr 25, 2022 17:36
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Flipperwaldt posted:Yeah I saved it now. Looking at it, it's just the PE components bloating this up, that's my bad. They probably do it that way to attempt to track some metrics on free users etc
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Apr 25, 2022 18:03
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I'm stumped on a problem. A retail store I work for needs to submit to the state a loss report of product during a break-in. The state provides a .csv file template to be filled in and summitted. Easy, right? The barcodes from the lost project must be listed in this file, and many start with three letters, but many start with numbers. These numbers-only barcodes are 17 digits. I just learned that Excel truncates to 15 digits in a cell. I'm tried using Excel as well as OpenOffice. I can make it look anyway I want, but once I save it to a .csv for submittal, all that matters not. Anybody ever been up against this? tl;dr: Am I really going to have to do this manually in Notepad?
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Apr 25, 2022 20:40
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Is it truncating because they are leading zeros?
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Apr 25, 2022 20:42
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You can't start the cell value with a ' to force Excel to treat them as strings?
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Apr 25, 2022 20:59
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No, truncating due to length. They being with the number 1. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/troubleshoot/excel/last-digits-changed-to-zeros https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/excel-specifications-and-limits-1672b34d-7043-467e-8e27-269d656771c3 Excel as a spreadsheet wants to use scientific notation for long numbers. The advice that follows in the above doc are fine if I didn't have to spit out a .csv file (formatting loss)
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Apr 25, 2022 21:00
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Zorak of Michigan posted:You can't start the cell value with a ' to force Excel to treat them as strings?
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Apr 25, 2022 21:01
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Is using VS Code with a CSV extension going to work for you?
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Apr 25, 2022 21:07
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I could give it a shot, sure. Never used it, but happy to try anything else at this point.
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Apr 25, 2022 22:07
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Unless I'm missing something you should be able to format the cells as text and not have any truncating issues.
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Apr 26, 2022 15:11
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If some dumbass had an infected computer that was ruined possibly to the UEFI would it make sense to replace the hard drive with an older installation of windows or one that would be corrupted as well. This one is super sick and refreshing Windows doesn’t work.
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Apr 27, 2022 14:20
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:If some dumbass had an infected computer that was ruined possibly to the UEFI would it make sense to replace the hard drive with an older installation of windows or one that would be corrupted as well. In-the-wild UEFI malware for PCs is still extremely rare. The known cases of it actually happening are limited to a couple of targeted attacks by states against diplomats, journalists, etc. A widespread malware that normal people could be exposed to, Trickbot, had the ability to test UEFI writing, and would then report results + computer model to the botnet C&C. But afaik it never deployed those abilities. (For background, a UEFI malware attack against normal PCs has a big downside for the attacker: they have to customize it for every model of PC they're targeting. That's why you don't see it as a common thing. Yet. It is becoming common to infect firmware of routers & internet devices though, which is much easier.) So, I would put UEFI malware really low on the list of possibilities. But if you've been hit by malware, a "refresh" isn't good enough. You should be wiping the drive 100% clean and reinstalling from nothing. Malware can totally survive a half-assed reinstall. In the remote possibility that you do have UEFI malware, I suggest a trash can. Theoretically flashing a new BIOS would fix it, but I'd imagine the first thing a UEFI malware would do is disable that. (Some desktop boards have a low-level flash that might work still.)
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Apr 27, 2022 15:15
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Klyith posted:In-the-wild UEFI malware for PCs is still extremely rare. The known cases of it actually happening are limited to a couple of targeted attacks by states against diplomats, journalists, etc. A widespread malware that normal people could be exposed to, Trickbot, had the ability to test UEFI writing, and would then report results + computer model to the botnet C&C. But afaik it never deployed those abilities. OK so I’m gonna swap out an old NVMI Thank you for the confidence
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Apr 27, 2022 15:19
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Anyone know what the deal is here... I bought a key online for Office 2021 and it worked for about a month and a half and now I get an error after reinstalling Windows. I've found absolutely no help online and there's basically no option in Office to do anything other than buy another key or log in through a different account. It's not installed on any other PCs of mine and I haven't changed any hardware. It shows as purchased under my Microsoft account but there's not really any option to deactivate previous installations or anything like that. Whether I log into my Microsoft account or try to re-enter the CD key I get the same screen saying it's installed on another PC and no option to do anything but purchase another key or use a different account.
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Apr 29, 2022 10:04
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TOOT BOOT posted:Anyone know what the deal is here... Contact support to transfer your license. It is still registered to the computer from before you reinstalled it.
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Apr 29, 2022 10:35
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SEKCobra posted:Contact support to transfer your license. It is still registered to the computer from before you reinstalled it. It's the same computer, nothing changed other than reinstalling Windows. If they're tying activations to particular Windows installs they should let you deactivate it in some automated way that as far as I can tell doesn't exist. There doesn't seem to be phone activation for Office 2021 either.
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Apr 29, 2022 10:51
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TOOT BOOT posted:It's the same computer, nothing changed other than reinstalling Windows. If they're tying activations to particular Windows installs they should let you deactivate it in some automated way that as far as I can tell doesn't exist. There doesn't seem to be phone activation for Office 2021 either. Try following this troubleshooting guide: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/unlicensed-product-and-activation-errors-in-office-0d23d3c0-c19c-4b2f-9845-5344fedc4380 There are links at the end for 2019 and so on. It’s MS at their finest unfortunately, but it looks like at the end you can contact support.
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Apr 29, 2022 11:09
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I want to thank everyone for the help with the .csv file oddity. It was a case of quantum mechanics--I changed it by observing it. As recommended, text format and verification with VS Code produced the correct file, but re-opening it in Excel to check it re-introduced the issue. Edit with text format cells and checked in VS Code showed the correct values. Thank you Thants, Pteretis, and Zorak
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Apr 29, 2022 18:55
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I want to be able to easily view all files on other computers on my local network in explorer without having to share individual folders and such. Is there a way to do that? They are all linked to the same outlook account if that makes any difference. I don't care about security at all I'm just looking for convenience.
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Apr 29, 2022 20:04
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FuzzySlippers posted:I want to be able to easily view all files on other computers on my local network in explorer without having to share individual folders and such. Is there a way to do that? They are all linked to the same outlook account if that makes any difference. something like \\computername\c$ ?
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Apr 29, 2022 20:27
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Once stuff is shared on your network, you can have voidtools Everything index it. I'm assuming the question generally will be where a thing is, or in how many places it exists anyway.
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Apr 29, 2022 20:56
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nitsuga posted:Try following this troubleshooting guide: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/unlicensed-product-and-activation-errors-in-office-0d23d3c0-c19c-4b2f-9845-5344fedc4380 Thanks, none of those steps helped but I used the link at the end to contact live support and they fixed it on their end. The rep implied this problem is caused by hardware changes but there weren't any (just a normal Windows reset) so who knows...
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Apr 29, 2022 23:41
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Tapedump posted:I want to thank everyone for the help with the .csv file oddity. It was a case of quantum mechanics--I changed it by observing it. The only thing i know about Excel and CSV is to use File => open or Data => import. And not simple doubleclick
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Apr 30, 2022 06:00
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FuzzySlippers posted:I want to be able to easily view all files on other computers on my local network in explorer without having to share individual folders and such. Is there a way to do that? They are all linked to the same outlook account if that makes any difference. Why not just use OneDrive?
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Apr 30, 2022 07:28
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My Remote Desktop session to my home PC is stuck on "please wait" and I can't get it unstuck since I'm on another continent. Supposedly it should be possible to log in under a different account, but my other account doesn't have remote login allowed. I have a VM running on my home NAS so I can run any commands there but it doesn't react to remote shutdown. I also tried the PowerShell "query session" command but it doesn't find any RD sessions even though I'm connected to the "please wait" screen. Any ideas how I can either get the remotr session killed or restart the computer?
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May 15, 2022 16:53
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mobby_6kl posted:My Remote Desktop session to my home PC is stuck on "please wait" and I can't get it unstuck since I'm on another continent. Can you restart the TermService (Remote Desktop Service) service from remote powershell?
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May 15, 2022 17:15
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Nitpick: query isn't a PowerShell command; it's actually a standalone command-line executable. The inherent joy of pedantry aside, I bring it up because its mechanism for remote access is different from PowerShell Remoting. PowerShell Remoting usually takes some extra setup in non-enterprise situations, but if you think you may have done that setup at some point, you can trycode:If neither of those options pans out, and if that VM is accepting remote commands, you could enable remote login for that other account. I don't have time at the moment, but I can give more details on that if you end up needing it.
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May 15, 2022 18:44
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Is there a simple way to replace my desktop with a file list? I just want my files alphabetical in a list since I know the name of what I am looking for 9/10 times, and hate having to search for the icons even if they are always in the same space (which they're not, because I tend to put poo poo on my desktop and sort it out later.)
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May 16, 2022 02:15
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Disregard, apparently Fall Creators update killed what I was suggesting.
Toshimo fucked around with this message at 02:30 on May 16, 2022 |
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May 16, 2022 02:26
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^^^ hopefully I'm not about to suggest the same thingBoba Pearl posted:Is there a simple way to replace my desktop with a file list? I just want my files alphabetical in a list since I know the name of what I am looking for 9/10 times, and hate having to search for the icons even if they are always in the same space (which they're not, because I tend to put poo poo on my desktop and sort it out later.) You can have your desktop auto sort icons alphabetically and when you put something there it will snap it into the correct order. You can even click on a random icon and start typing to go to those letters. Alternatively, you can hide everything on your desktop and put that sort of stuff in a temp folder, like downloads, then just have that pinned to your task bar.
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May 16, 2022 04:14
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I think I’m being weird but I think it’s a little dumb that Windows 11 put the taskbar contents right in the center but also didn’t allow you to put the start button at the center and have icons populate around it.
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May 16, 2022 04:15
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Internet Explorer posted:Alternatively, you can hide everything on your desktop and put that sort of stuff in a temp folder, like downloads, then just have that pinned to your task bar. What I ended up doing was putting everything in a folder named Desktop, and made the icons as small as possible. Then I regedit so that Total Commander was my default explorer shell, and set that to run on start-up. Basically the same thing I guess. Going to seriously hate the upgrade to Windows 11 when the interface gets even worse.
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May 16, 2022 05:13
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Klyith posted:Speaking of which: no vertical taskbar in 22H2. Oh well. Maybe in 23H2 it's time to upgrade from Win10?
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May 16, 2022 06:18
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jokes posted:I think I’m being weird but I think it’s a little dumb that Windows 11 put the taskbar contents right in the center but also didn’t allow you to put the start button at the center and have icons populate around it. Yeah, I moved it back to the left corner because 25 years of muscle memory says the bottom left is where the start menu is. I could have gotten used to the center if it didn't move every time I opened a new app.
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May 16, 2022 13:18
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My secret shame is I actually ended up liking the tile grid, it let me pin stuff in certain spots and there were nice clear icons with gaps. The W11 style is just a bin of icons and while the icons don't move, I still hunt around too much finding an app. I hate that it needs third party apps to get the old style.
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I use start screen instead of start menu in Windows 10. It rules.
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