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I don't know what the current state of it is, but I've used an ancient version of font xplorer in the past. You can have it display custom text in all available fonts and possibly uninstall them one by one from the right click menu if you run it as administrator. It wouldn't be automated, but make a manual effort more efficient.
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May 15, 2023 02:39
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NotNut posted:Should I update from Windows 10 to 11? what's the fuss? same poo poo, different colour.
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May 15, 2023 03:49
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Volguus posted:what's the fuss? same poo poo, different colour. I haven't switched yet but I'm sure I'll be aggravated by task bar changes when I get there.
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May 15, 2023 04:10
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W11 is generally okay as an OS but I'm sad to see the tiles gone, it was a legit good design decision and Microsoft are goofballs to move away from it. The bing focused start menu is trash. But if one doesn't care about start menus upgrading is fine.
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May 15, 2023 04:29
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Recently upgraded to 11, new start menu is bad, but I stopped using it years ago so not a big deal for me. Only major annoyance is not having the option for windows to never combine on the task bar. Other random annoyances like some new settings menus being worse and having to dig to find the old version that gives you more options/settings. (Sound/audio settings I'm looking at you) Overall it's "fine" imo.
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May 15, 2023 05:31
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Rakeris posted:Recently upgraded to 11, new start menu is bad, but I stopped using it years ago so not a big deal for me. Only major annoyance is not having the option for windows to never combine on the task bar. I installed an app to fix the "never combine" thing on my dual monitor system. Worked fine but wanted money so I uninstalled it because it didn't bother me enough to pay for. My primary monitor went back to normal but the fix remained on my secondary, so it must be a simple setting somewhere perhaps in the Registry?
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May 15, 2023 05:56
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Flipperwaldt posted:I don't know what the current state of it is, but I've used an ancient version of font xplorer in the past. You can have it display custom text in all available fonts and possibly uninstall them one by one from the right click menu if you run it as administrator. It wouldn't be automated, but make a manual effort more efficient. Tesseraction posted:I figured someone had something better for you but I opened up WSL / Debian and ran Thank you both! May your lower back never ache and your sleep always be restful.
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May 15, 2023 07:38
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Whenever Microsoft starts forcing Windows 11 will probably be the point where I finally switch to Linux
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May 15, 2023 19:40
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Windows 11 is fine. Even my boomer dad upgraded and has had no issues.
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May 15, 2023 19:55
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I just wish Microsoft would be content with their $72bn net income each year and not sell advertising into the OS I use. I don't want to open an app to see what the weather is going to do and get a face full of headlines from Murdoch rags bashing migrants and trans people.
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May 15, 2023 19:57
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I've been running third party start menu, search, explorer, text editor, browser etc for donkey's years now. Takes away a lot of the aggravation. Am glad not to be using the taskbar in a nonstandard way though.
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May 15, 2023 20:14
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Thanks Ants posted:I just wish Microsoft would be content with their $72bn net income each year and not sell advertising into the OS I use. I don't want to open an app to see what the weather is going to do and get a face full of headlines from Murdoch rags bashing migrants and trans people. All that stuff is trivial to turn off and without touching reg keys or gpo's. I don't see any of that on my work or home computers and I've been running 11 for years.
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May 15, 2023 20:40
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Thanks Ants posted:I just wish Microsoft would be content with their $72bn net income each year and not sell advertising into the OS I use. I don't want to open an app to see what the weather is going to do and get a face full of headlines from Murdoch rags bashing migrants and trans people. I think this is just the future of software-as-a-service, for better or for worse. Windows is basically being given away for free, it's pretty clear the strategy of Microsoft is to get it on as many machines as possible. For those of us who don't mind tinkering a bit with things, it's not a bad deal. We get good to high quality software for a low to zero price, with the drawback of needing to do all we can to get rid of the (free-to-use) annoyances. It's similar to the direction that video games are going, for example.
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May 15, 2023 20:40
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Would be nice if they leaned into it instead of technically demanding $160/$270 for home/pro non-OEM, though.
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May 15, 2023 20:56
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GreenNight posted:Windows 11 is fine. Even my boomer dad upgraded and has had no issues. My super boomer FIL got automatically updated to 11 and didn't say a word. This is a man who lost his poo poo after an update to Yahoo Mail a while back because it moved the compose button.
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May 15, 2023 21:14
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SEKCobra posted:Whenever Microsoft starts forcing Windows 11 will probably be the point where I finally switch to Linux FWIW I did this starting a year ago and have had a really good time. I set things up so I could either dual-boot or run my old windows in a VM. I've not rebooted into to windows for a year, and the most frequent reason I fire up the VM is to troubleshoot other people's windows problems.
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May 15, 2023 21:21
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Klyith posted:FWIW I did this starting a year ago and have had a really good time. Do you game?
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May 15, 2023 21:22
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Rakeris posted:Recently upgraded to 11, new start menu is bad, but I stopped using it years ago so not a big deal for me. Only major annoyance is not having the option for windows to never combine on the task bar. Wait, seriously? So if I have four documents open in Notepad, now I have to click twice instead of once to get to one from the task bar? Do they at least not combine if there's ample space? Rakeris posted:Other random annoyances like some new settings menus being worse and having to dig to find the old version that gives you more options/settings. (Sound/audio settings I'm looking at you) As long as the old ones are still available, I guess. But Windows 10 was already doing that, especially with the audio settings. GreenNight posted:All that stuff is trivial to turn off and without touching reg keys or gpo's. I don't see any of that on my work or home computers and I've been running 11 for years. Is there any way to make the News and Interests thing only show you weather and traffic? I like using it to check weather easily but I don't want to see all the other bullshit, especially since sometimes the button shows the temperature like I want it to, but other times it shows the price of USD vs Kuwaiti Dinars
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May 15, 2023 21:22
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NotNut posted:Wait, seriously? So if I have four documents open in Notepad, now I have to click twice instead of once to get to one from the task bar? Do they at least not combine if there's ample space? Yuup. The alternatives are to hover the button for a moment and click the right preview tile, or to use win+tab for an apple-style overview and click the one you want. Sounds like they may be adding it back in, though
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May 15, 2023 21:25
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NotNut posted:Wait, seriously? So if I have four documents open in Notepad, now I have to click twice instead of once to get to one from the task bar? Do they at least not combine if there's ample space?
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May 15, 2023 21:26
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Pvt. Parts posted:No, hover over the notepad group and then click once on the one you want. It's really not that bad, not sure what the big fuss is about. It's extra work for no reason. Instead of looking for something and clicking it, you look where to click, click, then look for something and click it.
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May 15, 2023 21:37
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Pvt. Parts posted:No, hover over the notepad group and then click once on the one you want. It's really not that bad, not sure what the big fuss is about. Pure wasted time and effort. Really, it's an important feature. Just because it doesn't affect your productivity, don't make assumptions about others Edit: good to see they're looking to fix it
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Pvt. Parts posted:Do you game? Yes, but: • I rarely buy new games day 1 • no online competitive stuff with heavy anti-cheat What valve has done with Proton is really impressive, and with the steamdeck being a big success the game companies are starting to care too. The way that games Just Work was just astonishing.
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May 15, 2023 21:51
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Win-tab and click the right window is arguably even nicer. But I get how it feels like a basic usability feature if you're used to it.
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May 15, 2023 21:52
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Windows 11 is not a problem for boomers. It's a problem for power users. I'll be re-examining Linux in 2026. LTSC support expires at that point. I'll also be watching Windows 12 carefully - Windows has a storied history of releasing dogshit, then walking back the worst parts of said dogshit with the next release. Gaming is an issue, but something that is reasonable to address. The real killer here honestly is Visual Studio - I actively refuse to touch any other IDE. VS is bae. Canine Blues Arooo fucked around with this message at 22:06 on May 15, 2023 |
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May 15, 2023 22:04
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Yeah my thoughts exactly, I'm a power user, more familiar with Windows than I probably want to be, my mom isn't gonna care about most problems I have with the OS, but I sure as hell care about the little (and big) crap they do. Also is OK that a boomer doesn't care about the OS becoming spy- & adware, I do. Only reason I even am still on Windows is gaming, and as I age it gets less important, plus Steam Deck has shown me what is possible with Proton, so those games that don't go with the program will just not exist for me.
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Canine Blues Arooo posted:Windows 11 is not a problem for boomers. It's a problem for power users. The current LTSC ends in 2032 - Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2021 Edit: before anyone comes and starts bashing LTSC, this is just purely informational HalloKitty fucked around with this message at 16:14 on May 16, 2023 |
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May 16, 2023 16:12
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HalloKitty posted:The current LTSC ends in 2032 - Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2021 Sounds like I'm not looking at different OSes for another nine years then 
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Computer viking posted:Win-tab and click the right window is arguably even nicer. As someone who's first computer was Windows 3.1.1, I am so used to Alt+Tab that I forget Win+Tab even exists.
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May 16, 2023 18:42
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I don't see an Apple Music Preview thread for Windows so I'm trying my luck here (I'll probably cross--post to another thread too). I want to try out the above app on my Windows 11 machine but it refuses to add any songs from my library. Any idea why this is?
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HalloKitty posted:Edit: before anyone comes and starts bashing LTSC, this is just purely informational Now that Windows 10 mainstream support has ended that's the only sane choice if you have hardware that doesn't support 11 or need to use more than one window of an app like Excel. The sad thing is that Microsoft made it based on 21H2 and not 22H2. So no easy way to upgrade existing install that's already on 22H2.
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The LTSC version I have suggests support ending in 2026. I might have the wrong version I suppose? E: Yep, There are apparently two version of LTSC. The Enterprise IoT one is good until 2032, and then the non IoT one seems to go until 2026.
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MikusR posted:Now that Windows 10 mainstream support has ended that's the only sane choice if you have hardware that doesn't support 11 or need to use more than one window of an app like Excel. Are there appreciable differences between 21H2 and 22H2? I also personally agree, it's the sane choice. HalloKitty fucked around with this message at 07:29 on May 17, 2023 |
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MikusR posted:Now that Windows 10 mainstream support has ended that's the only sane choice if you have hardware that doesn't support 11 or need to use more than one window of an app like Excel. Windows 10 has full support for a few years more, they're just not adding more features. It's a perfectly reasonable choice to keep using 10 on existing hardware, though on anything new you'll probably have to move to 11 (or 12) during its lifetime. Of course there are other reasons to use 11 on new hardware, like the scheduler tweaks for intel CPUs with power and performance cores. Computer viking fucked around with this message at 01:20 on May 17, 2023 |
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Jesus christ is local network and sharing stuff just broken now on Windows? I have been trying to do the (previously extremely simple) job of making my Public documents folder accessible by other computers on my home network, so I can just easily transfer files between my PC and laptop. When I was doing this between a Windows 10 PC and Windows 10 laptop, it worked fine as long as you did a couple of things, i.e. in the Network and Sharing centre, under 'Private' network you Turn on Network Discovery; Turn on file & printer sharing, then under 'All Networks' you turn off password-protected sharing and turn on Public Folder Sharing. I'm doing this now with the same Windows 10 PC, but with a new, Windows 11 laptop. Both are on the same wifi. Both have that WIFI set as a 'private network'. Both have all the above-mentioned settings set up correctly. And yet, when (in explorer) I go to 'Network' and then try to go into either computer from either end, it comes up with an 'Enter Network Credentials' prompt. No username and password that I can discover, works. I have tried adding a Windows Credential in the Credential Manager - that didn't work. Anyone know how to fix this, without just going to Microsoft headquarters and burning that motherfucker down?
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Are they both on the same domain? Settings -> System -> About (bottom of the list) -> Advanced System Settings -> Computer Name. I've had that setting be a problem.
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I've been using Windows shortcuts to websites as bookmarks, because I didn't want to lose them in case I switch browsers again, and I had the idea that I could put the date "2023-05-18" in the Description field so I could sort by it, as opposed to putting (May 18, 2023) in parentheses at the end. Then I ran into https://superuser.com/questions/1419955/cant-edit-web-shortcut-details-section-gives-access-denied-on-web-shortcuts which was frustrating. Now that I think about it, I could just move the date to the start of the file name, since it's not like I care about sorting the bookmarks alphabetically. (edit: tangentially, the date relates to the bookmarks being for political news articles)
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May 18, 2023 23:07
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That sounds like someone at Microsoft forgot that sort of shortcut existed. I really like your idea of using shortcuts to be browser agnostic
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galenanorth posted:I've been using Windows shortcuts to websites as bookmarks, because I didn't want to lose them in case I switch browsers again, and I had the idea that I could put the date "2023-05-18" in the Description field so I could sort by it, as opposed to putting (May 18, 2023) in parentheses at the end. Then I ran into https://superuser.com/questions/1419955/cant-edit-web-shortcut-details-section-gives-access-denied-on-web-shortcuts which was frustrating. Now that I think about it, I could just move the date to the start of the file name, since it's not like I care about sorting the bookmarks alphabetically. (edit: tangentially, the date relates to the bookmarks being for political news articles) Every browser can export/import every other browsers bookmarks.
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