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Does the newer notepad in windows 11 support the auto-save\restore on restart(update) feature? I know there are a million better options than using 27 notepad windows as a scratchpad and leaving them open for weeks at a time, but I am the way I am.
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Rinkles posted:I’m a Goldilocks, I don’t mind a trimmed down right click menu, but the Win11 one is missing some essentials for me. Ideally it would just be easily customizable. Hot drat, customizable Windows? Imagine a world in which Microsoft did this…
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Mar 1, 2023 16:34
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Why the gently caress does Windows keep switching my keyboard layout to "EN English (United Kingdom)?? The only way I can figure out to switch it back is to turn on the language bar, switch to US, then turn the language bar back off. I'm pretty sure I don't have that language even installed!
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Mar 2, 2023 02:07
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That's a bug that has existed since windows 8. All you can do is install the language if it really isn't already, set your preferred order and uninstall the language you don't want again, then pray it stays that way for a while.
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Mar 2, 2023 02:16
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hooah posted:Why the gently caress does Windows keep switching my keyboard layout to "EN English (United Kingdom)?? The only way I can figure out to switch it back is to turn on the language bar, switch to US, then turn the language bar back off. I'm pretty sure I don't have that language even installed! Are you sure you're not accidentally hitting the hotkeys to change the active keyboard layout?
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Mar 2, 2023 04:00
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Tornhelm posted:Are you sure you're not accidentally hitting the hotkeys to change the active keyboard layout? I suppose I could be. What hotkey is that, by default?
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Mar 2, 2023 04:03
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Alt - Shift
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Rinkles posted:I’m a Goldilocks, I don’t mind a trimmed down right click menu, but the Win11 one is missing some essentials for me. Ideally it would just be easily customizable. Here's my take, it's normal to want to be able to customize an interface, and stupid for an obscenely wealthy and powerful software company not to include customization options that you need to get your work done. OTOH, they're a monopoly, and you can [THREAD TITLE].
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Flipperwaldt posted:That's a bug that has existed since windows 8.
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Mar 2, 2023 15:20
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lately i've been having an issue where right clicking any type of removable drive causes Explorer to freeze. it happens most frequently with CD/DVD drives, even virtually mounted ones. i am using StartAllBack to replace the explorer panes which i'm not sure could have something to do with it, but it is very annoying
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Mar 3, 2023 17:34
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do you have any mapped networks drives pinned? explorer froze on me constantly until i removed mine
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Mar 3, 2023 17:58
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barnold posted:i am using StartAllBack Bingo
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Mar 3, 2023 18:08
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site posted:do you have any mapped networks drives pinned? explorer froze on me constantly until i removed mine i tried this and removed my series x but seems to not have any effect. it does work if i try to or three times in a row though
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Mar 3, 2023 20:53
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barnold posted:lately i've been having an issue where right clicking any type of removable drive causes Explorer to freeze. it happens most frequently with CD/DVD drives, even virtually mounted ones. i am using StartAllBack to replace the explorer panes which i'm not sure could have something to do with it, but it is very annoying I've been having a weird right click lag for probably two months? Intermittently, a right click will hang for half a second. Never enough to cause any trouble but enough to be weird and stand out lol. I did not have start all installed when my problem started.
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Mar 4, 2023 15:20
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hi i just upgraded to w11 - is there some way to make the overall GUI "faster"? i tried turning off animations in accessability but it still feels like there's a 1 second or longer pause between clicks on anything in the GUI versus W10, i have a beastly gamer rig and the OS is on an NVME drive
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Mar 4, 2023 15:39
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Since Windows is aware of games anyway, by means of the Gamebar stuff, Microsoft should finally integrate their goddamn Firewall dialog with it maybe, for whenever a game causes it to pop up.
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Mar 4, 2023 17:42
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Mad Wack posted:hi i just upgraded to w11 - is there some way to make the overall GUI "faster"? i tried turning off animations in accessability but it still feels like there's a 1 second or longer pause between clicks on anything in the GUI versus W10, i have a beastly gamer rig and the OS is on an NVME drive Did you do an in-place OS upgrade? Try a clean install, I've generally had better success with it.
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Mar 4, 2023 18:01
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Pvt. Parts posted:Did you do an in-place OS upgrade? Try a clean install, I've generally had better success with it. that might work, will give it a shot
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codo27 posted:Bingo mmmmm nah i don't think so because i just disabled it and it still hangs in the standard win11 explorer too
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I've been having issues getting my laptop to upgrade to 22H2, and I think it's a Bitlocker issue. I've been troubleshooting it, but after the upgrade fails I can't retry for a couple of weeks. Is there a way to get it to show up in Windows Update faster? I assume it's a registry flag or similar, but I can't find any info on how it works.
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you ate my cat posted:I've been having issues getting my laptop to upgrade to 22H2, and I think it's a Bitlocker issue. I've been troubleshooting it, but after the upgrade fails I can't retry for a couple of weeks. Is there a way to get it to show up in Windows Update faster? I assume it's a registry flag or similar, but I can't find any info on how it works. Use https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows11 Windows 11 Installation Assistant
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you ate my cat posted:I've been having issues getting my laptop to upgrade to 22H2, and I think it's a Bitlocker issue. I've been troubleshooting it, but after the upgrade fails I can't retry for a couple of weeks. Is there a way to get it to show up in Windows Update faster? I assume it's a registry flag or similar, but I can't find any info on how it works. for the love of god, turn bitlocker off before you do anything else
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So putting taskbar on the side is impossible? Any apps to enable it?
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MikusR posted:Use https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows11 Windows 11 Installation Assistant I'm not sure how I missed finding this. I'll give it a go, thanks! redeyes posted:for the love of god, turn bitlocker off before you do anything else The error I'm getting looked more like a driver issue, so I've been coming at it from that direction. I realized I was getting a bluescreen about halfway through the update for "inaccessible boot device" the last time I ran it. Hopefully suspending it will be enough because I don't want to turn it all the way off and then re-encrypt after.
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teraflame posted:So putting taskbar on the side is impossible? Any apps to enable it? Windows 10
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If you're getting lag doing basic right clicks and stuff and you're running a SSD (absolutely zero reason for any os not to be in tyool 2023) next thing I'd check would be your memory. Unless you have some superfluous garbage installed meant to optimize/tune up/clean your system cause that's all trash 100% of the time
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Mar 6, 2023 00:00
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teraflame posted:So putting taskbar on the side is impossible? Any apps to enable it? StartAllBack Long free trial to see if you like it. Works well for me. Shame about microsoft not including such basic features any more.
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:StartAllBack Currently the trial never actually runs out because the dev is Russian and doesn't have a way to accept payment. Anyway I've found that there's a perceptible pause before the context menu opens but I've found no way to fix it. It's consistent, so you'll eventually get used to it. Every win 11 machine I've used had that pause but that doesn't really mean anything because that's like three distinct computers.
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Mar 6, 2023 01:14
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it looks like he's figured out the payment situation, there's options to use paypal or gumroad currently
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repiv posted:it looks like he's figured out the payment situation, there's options to use paypal or gumroad currently Yeah I paid him. Hopefully he can use the money to 
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Blue Footed Booby posted:Currently the trial never actually runs out because the dev is Russian and doesn't have a way to accept payment. I'd be fine with a consistent pause but mine is inconsistent. It's such a minor thing but it drives me crazy lol
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Captain Yossarian posted:I'd be fine with a consistent pause but mine is inconsistent. It's such a minor thing but it drives me crazy lol The stupid thing is Microsoft made the new menu to combat inconsistent load times of the context menu, by stripping away third party tools from loading Of course they managed to even gently caress that up
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HalloKitty posted:The stupid thing is Microsoft made the new menu to combat inconsistent load times of the context menu, by stripping away third party tools from loading Looking at your avatar I'm thinking of old OS -> car analogies and the little tweaks that have been in place since 95 (probably most of the gum and hair has been pulled out). A search for "if your os was a car" and a click on quora for antique jokes led me to TempleOS. The last OS you should ever use I guess, like the hearse of OS' har har. I'll cease.
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HalloKitty posted:The stupid thing is Microsoft made the new menu to combat inconsistent load times of the context menu, by stripping away third party tools from loading It's because the menu itself is pinging MS when you do anything. Kill internet and watch the menu just stop working entirely.
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redeyes posted:It's because the menu itself is pinging MS when you do anything. Kill internet and watch the menu just stop working entirely. What the gently caress, what????
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redeyes posted:It's because the menu itself is pinging MS when you do anything. Kill internet and watch the menu just stop working entirely. code:
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AlternateAccount posted:What the gently caress, what???? Im sorry! Can I help? Some nice warm tea perhaps?
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I'm out of touch. What's the best way to back up my win11 system. Is it still to go into that buried submenu in the windows 7 control panel and create a system image? Is doing this even needed anymore in the age of SSDs? In the event of a failure I want to avoid redownloading and setting up all the annoying little drivers and programs and plugins I've accumulated for audio recording. And also avoid buying a new windows license if my SSD fails and I have to buy a new drive. They buried the Create System Image option so deep that I can't help but think it's not the intended way anymore. Also, I'm currently backing up files (documents and pictures) the same way I did 20 years ago - manually copy pasting to an external ssd. I found a built in utility called File History, which apparently is supposed to make this process automatic and regular, except it says "there's a problem with my drive" but doesn't say what that problem is. I've tried reformatting my external drive, no difference. OneDrive doesn't give me nearly enough space, plus I hate the idea of cloud backup, so just manual backups it is, then?
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stratdax posted:I'm out of touch. What's the best way to back up my win11 system. Is it still to go into that buried submenu in the windows 7 control panel and create a system image? Is doing this even needed anymore in the age of SSDs? In the event of a failure I want to avoid redownloading and setting up all the annoying little drivers and programs and plugins I've accumulated for audio recording. And also avoid buying a new windows license if my SSD fails and I have to buy a new drive. They buried the Create System Image option so deep that I can't help but think it's not the intended way anymore. Macrium Reflect free. It is kinda discontinued, but it will still get security patches for a year. https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/macrium_reflect_free_edition.html CatHorse fucked around with this message at 11:17 on Mar 7, 2023 |
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Dont back up your system unless you have some very delicate or obtuse bespoke setup that is difficult to replicate. Backup your files, never the OS (you also shouldn't need to backup your files manually as you ought to have some sort of cloud setup or NAS in place doing it for you on the regular). Reinstalling Windows clean takes 5 minutes these days.
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