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Tornhelm posted:As is nearly always the case when it comes to complaining about the Windows Volume settings, just install Eartrumpet. We're all reading the thread right? Vic posted:Apropos of nothing, Ctrl+Win+V opens Sound Output selector / Sound mixer in 11. I'm switching between different headsets constantly, and could finally uninstall eartrumpet. An app I had installed for almost the entirety of w10's existence. Such a simple thing.
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down1nit posted:Win 11 is constantly getting better.
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# ? Feb 11, 2024 13:39 |
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Am I the only person who has this? buffbus fucked around with this message at 14:37 on Feb 11, 2024 |
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Vic posted:I'm saying no volume mixer when you Well, no. On w10 you right click the volume icon to get the mixer. That gets you the good popup mixer too, not the awful UWP one in the screenshot.
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# ? Feb 11, 2024 20:16 |
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buffbus posted:Am I the only person who has this? For at least a decade, by default.
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# ? Feb 11, 2024 20:38 |
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down1nit posted:Win 11 is constantly getting better. Is this the new strat from MS? Make the OS so awful that adding literally anything it can be construed as 'constantly getting better'?
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# ? Feb 11, 2024 20:46 |
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And it's working gangbusters. They added a "system protection" link finally in the system settings. At this rate win 11 will be finished before Linux!
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# ? Feb 11, 2024 20:57 |
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Canine Blues Arooo posted:Is this the new strat from MS? Make the OS so awful that adding literally anything it can be construed as 'constantly getting better'? “Continued changes” can very easily mean finding new ways to cram in value extraction while notionally improving the OS. I swear to God, killing Edge, never signing into a Microsoft account, and uninstalling as many of the built-in apps as possible makes a huge difference. I’m pretty sure it came up here a few pages ago, but some clever guy wrote a nice blog post detailing his process, and the difference is almost night and day. edit: obligatory from the GPU thread, c/o rinkles: https://twitter.com/PhantomOfEarth/status/1756334413040718140/ …what Hasturtium fucked around with this message at 21:11 on Feb 11, 2024 |
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What do you mean "what"? It just sounds like OS level DLSS support.
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# ? Feb 11, 2024 21:58 |
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"We could start replacing the girth of features that have been deleted from the OS from the last 10 years and even start adding new stuff, or..."
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# ? Feb 11, 2024 22:12 |
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I think I might try Linux as my main driver next time I update my computer and record the problems I ran into. I'm reasonably tech savvy and use linux a lot as a server platform for work, but I haven't had to muck with desktop poo poo outside of Steam Deck. I suspect I'm going to end up going back the first time a game doesn't work on release day or if one of my older games just flat out won't function, but it might be worth a shot. Maybe just dual-boot; I actually still have a spare hard drive in this computer. gently caress, now that I think about it, that spare HDD might be the opportunity I was looking for.
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# ? Feb 11, 2024 22:26 |
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At least now with EFI dual booting is much less of an endeavour than the days of "oh god dammit there goes grub again"
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Falcon2001 posted:I think I might try Linux as my main driver next time I update my computer and record the problems I ran into. I'm reasonably tech savvy and use linux a lot as a server platform for work, but I haven't had to muck with desktop poo poo outside of Steam Deck. I suspect I'm going to end up going back the first time a game doesn't work on release day or if one of my older games just flat out won't function, but it might be worth a shot. Maybe just dual-boot; I actually still have a spare hard drive in this computer. I've run dual-boots for over 20 years, mostly so I could game in Windows, but also because having two discrete operating systems on a machine is a nice failsafe. It hasn't happened often, but on a few occasions I have had either Windows or Linux crap out hard, to the point of not being functional, and it's really nice just being able to reboot into a working OS to figure out what broke in the other one. Or if I'm in the middle of something important then I can pick up where I left off with little disruption to my workflow.
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insanelightman posted:You have to enable it in the registry for it show up in the power plan options
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# ? Feb 12, 2024 07:21 |
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This is a really good thread.
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# ? Feb 12, 2024 08:51 |
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it's just waifu2x
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# ? Feb 12, 2024 09:44 |
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Thread title posted:Good lord, what is that company doing to its OS?
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# ? Feb 12, 2024 09:51 |
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In conclusion, Windows 11 is a land of contrasts.
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# ? Feb 12, 2024 10:08 |
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Oh poo poo they're going to make AI characters huh. They'll iterate designs, focus group them, add them to menus and OOTB branding. Ugh... AI late night guests... Microsoft will have the... Hyper customizable gamer waifu or bro stereotype. Or a skyrim dragon. Apple's gotta have a beach ball somehow but they're scared of water. They're either 20 or 70 years old, no intermediate choices. Android will be in a 90's power suit. Pencil in hair. The Linux version is Linus with high cheekbones and lip filler. You pick which Linus, and whether the lip surgery was successful. Also it doesn't run on your chipset, specifically. There is a fork for different genders but it's on some Cyrillic .cx domain. GNU, obvious Oracle Solaris: Completely batshit. Unknowable. If you try to get to know them, they only get stranger. Hot.
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# ? Feb 12, 2024 10:23 |
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down1nit posted:Oh poo poo they're going to make AI characters huh. They'll iterate designs, focus group them, add them to menus and OOTB branding. Ugh... AI late night guests... It's already happening.
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# ? Feb 12, 2024 16:32 |
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Still crossing my fingers that this is a blip that goes away, like 3D TV
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# ? Feb 12, 2024 16:47 |
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Thanks Ants posted:Still crossing my fingers that this is a blip that goes away, like 3D TV It's gonna be exactly like a 3D TV, except also your boss fires you because he thinks Max Headroom is gonna pop out of the TV and do your job for free.
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# ? Feb 12, 2024 16:50 |
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down1nit posted:Oh poo poo they're going to make AI characters huh. They'll iterate designs, focus group them, add them to menus and OOTB branding. Ugh... AI late night guests... Hopefully they will update Claudia IDE for Visual Studio 2022 while they're at it. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=kbuchi.ClaudiaIDE
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# ? Feb 13, 2024 04:34 |
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Windows 11 finally fixed windows 10 nasty habit of silently and automatically changing the default audio inputs and outputs
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The BIOS update appears to have fixed the sleep issue.
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Is it normal to still be on 22H2 at this point? Trying to think of anything in my system that might be incompatible (the venerable Sound Blaster USB sound card that I've used with my PCs since 2015, perhaps?) and preventing the larger update.
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# ? Feb 14, 2024 16:11 |
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My desktop on W11 23H2 downloaded 23H2 again this morning to unenroll itself from Windows Insider (it had been queued for ages and was meant to opt-out the next major update) and ran the installer to do something with the recovery partition, which I was sure I had already done manually a while back when the WinRE vulnerability was first mentioned. Anyway it definitely resized the partition to make it a couple hundred MB bigger.
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# ? Feb 14, 2024 17:52 |
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Has anyone else noticed the DCOM process being pegged at 5-10% CPU utilization in the last week or so? Disabling Defender's real-time protection seems to end it. Quite annoying on a laptop since it's keeping the fans from spinning down.
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# ? Feb 18, 2024 09:26 |
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I have an archival drive where I move files I want to keep but am unlikely to use often. I'd like to make this drive encrypted, and also automatically back everything in it up to another drive, whenever I move something there. How would I accomplish this in Windows 11?
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NotNut posted:I have an archival drive where I move files I want to keep but am unlikely to use often. I'd like to make this drive encrypted, and also automatically back everything in it up to another drive, whenever I move something there. How would I accomplish this in Windows 11? Encrypting: Bitlocker. You need 11 Pro to encrypt drives other than C, a Pro license is cheap from the two goons in samart. Instructions Automatic backup to another drive: You could use windows' built-in File History backup, or dedicated backup software, or something more manual. Will the backup be to an external drive that only gets plugged in every so often, or a drive that is always available?
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# ? Feb 18, 2024 21:46 |
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Apologies for not reading scroll back but I'm helping a friend in the field, whats that site for w10/11 keys again?
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# ? Feb 20, 2024 23:40 |
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https://lodgenorth.com/
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# ? Feb 21, 2024 00:11 |
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Turned out he needed his bit locker key not his Windows key. And it was in his MS account. Anyway I got a free night of drinks. Thanks for the help though!
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# ? Feb 21, 2024 01:38 |
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Thank gently caress it was in his account
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# ? Feb 21, 2024 01:41 |
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Oh I told him flat out I couldn't help him if it wasn't and he said "it's okay, this is just my travel laptop all my stuff is in the cloud" "Oh thank God" He was absolutely willing to accept a flatten reinstall. Easiest money/friend-cred I ever made.
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# ? Feb 21, 2024 01:47 |
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Cross-Section posted:
So I checked and I was in the same situation. It has to do with what channel you're on Release Preview Channel is apparently still on 22H2, switching to the Beta channel initiated the download of an update.
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# ? Feb 21, 2024 11:38 |
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I've got the weirdest problem with some (not all) of my Windows 11 programs. The text and icons, whether on buttons or in text fields, get "blurry" or "smeared out" a couple of seconds after opening up correctly. This doesn't happen with things like word processing or web pages/web text, butt mainly seems to show up in game launchers such as Steam or Epic Games launchers (and the new Eve Online launcher), as well as the new default Outlook. Usually you can move the mouse over the smeared text/icon and it will clear up to "readable" right away, but may fade back to blurry after a second or two. I recorded a short video with ShareX of my Outlook getting wonky and it shows the transitions quite well. This is Windows 11, all current updates, but has been happening for a while now and doesn't seem to be clearing up on its own!
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# ? Feb 21, 2024 13:35 |
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Klyith posted:Encrypting: Bitlocker. You need 11 Pro to encrypt drives other than C, a Pro license is cheap from the two goons in samart. Instructions Drive that's always available. It's actually the exact same model of hard drive that'll be in the bay next to it.
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DerekSmartymans posted:I've got the weirdest problem with some (not all) of my Windows 11 programs. The text and icons, whether on buttons or in text fields, get "blurry" or "smeared out" a couple of seconds after opening up correctly. This doesn't happen with things like word processing or web pages/web text, butt mainly seems to show up in game launchers such as Steam or Epic Games launchers (and the new Eve Online launcher), as well as the new default Outlook. Usually you can move the mouse over the smeared text/icon and it will clear up to "readable" right away, but may fade back to blurry after a second or two. I recorded a short video with ShareX of my Outlook getting wonky and it shows the transitions quite well. This is Windows 11, all current updates, but has been happening for a while now and doesn't seem to be clearing up on its own! Does your system have display scaling enabled? If so, try setting it to 100% to see if that changes anything.
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isndl posted:Does your system have display scaling enabled? If so, try setting it to 100% to see if that changes anything. I don't have display scaling enabled. That was my first thought as well, and I just had the brilliant thought to try hooking up two different monitors to check if it was monitor specific, but it did the same thing on both HDMI- and DVI-connected monitors. Appreciate the suggestion, though!
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