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univbee
Jun 3, 2004




ask cortana out on a date

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flakeloaf
Feb 26, 2003

Still better than android clock

Luigi Thirty posted:

it binged "open a command prompt" so no

:eng101: bung

pagancow
Jan 15, 2001

Video Stymie

Ask cortana to change the windows theme to Hot Dog Stand

PuTTY riot
Nov 16, 2002
ask cortana to close explorer.exe

carry on then
Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

(and can't post for 10 years!)

not a cortana thing but do windows have drop shadows still? or did they get rid of them again

univbee
Jun 3, 2004




"Cortana, does FCKGW-RHQQ2-YXRKT-8TG6W-2B7Q8 mean anything to you?"

"Cortana, how do I softmod my Xbox 360?"

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



ask cortana to remind you to get crunk as gently caress

siri knows whats up

Linguica
Jul 13, 2000
You're already dead

microsoft: it binged "open a command prompt"

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



carry on then posted:

not a cortana thing but do windows have drop shadows still? or did they get rid of them again

:mad:

#just cortana things

BangersInMyKnickers
Nov 3, 2004

I have a thing for courageous dongles

bung my binghole

Sombrerotron
Aug 1, 2004

Release my children! My hat is truly great and mighty.

okay now ask cortana to tell a joke about steve ballmer

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

Emergency confection port.

i'm upgrading vmware to see if there's a new vmware tools that works better with win10. in the meantime, here's the new authentically digital settings menu

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

Is that search box permanently there wasting space or can you turn it off?

PuTTY riot
Nov 16, 2002

Luigi Thirty posted:

i'm upgrading vmware to see if there's a new vmware tools that works better with win10. in the meantime, here's the new authentically digital settings menu



what does control panel look like

PuTTY riot
Nov 16, 2002

pseudorandom name posted:

Is that search box permanently there wasting space or can you turn it off?

this is a dumb thing to care about

carry on then
Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

(and can't post for 10 years!)

Luigi Thirty posted:

i'm upgrading vmware to see if there's a new vmware tools that works better with win10. in the meantime, here's the new authentically digital settings menu







lol

HAIL eSATA-n
Apr 7, 2007


PuTTY riot posted:

this is a dumb thing to care about
wrong

Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

Luigi Thirty posted:

i'm upgrading vmware to see if there's a new vmware tools that works better with win10. in the meantime, here's the new authentically digital settings menu



i'm the ease of access icon

GameCube
Nov 21, 2006

Luigi Thirty posted:

i'm upgrading vmware to see if there's a new vmware tools that works better with win10. in the meantime, here's the new authentically digital settings menu



how in the hell is this better than then win8 settings menu

PuTTY riot
Nov 16, 2002

how many things do you have open jesus christ

Sombrerotron
Aug 1, 2004

Release my children! My hat is truly great and mighty.

Luigi Thirty posted:

i'm upgrading vmware to see if there's a new vmware tools that works better with win10. in the meantime, here's the new authentically digital settings menu


i guess they're clean and distinct but it makes me kind of sad that with all the advances in software and hardware, guis are starting to look more and more like they were made around 1990 and designed to work on old ibm compatible pcs with ega

pseudorandom name posted:

Is that search box permanently there wasting space or can you turn it off?
hasn't there been a fixed search box like that since forever

i mean it's right there in my vista installation and if i find my netbook with win7 it's probably there too

what i'm saying is this is how microsoft does things and you've got another thing coming if you think they're going to have a change of heart now

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

Sombrerotron posted:

hasn't there been a fixed search box like that since forever

its in the start menu instead of wasting space on the task bar

BangersInMyKnickers
Nov 3, 2004

I have a thing for courageous dongles

As a Millennial I posted:

how in the hell is this better than then win8 settings menu

use the search bar and save yourself the headache

Deacon of Delicious
Aug 20, 2007

I bet the twist ending is Dracula's dick-babies

BangersInMyKnickers posted:

bung my binghole

BingsForSure

Sombrerotron posted:

okay now ask cortana to tell a joke about steve ballmer

i don't know the joke, but microsoft is the punchline

Sombrerotron
Aug 1, 2004

Release my children! My hat is truly great and mighty.

pseudorandom name posted:

its in the start menu instead of wasting space on the task bar
oh i thought you meant the box with "find a setting"

having a search box on the task bar is maybe a bit unnecessary but if you're using a microphone probably a lot more convenient than having to go to the start menu all the time

that said i'd hope you can resize it because it's def. a lot bigger than it needs to be

Cygni
Nov 12, 2005

raring to post

was gonna say 'why not just have a keyboard command to trigger it like mac' then i remembered microsofts touchscreen obsession

Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

also, I'm the "Update and recovery" category that contains "Windows Update, backup, and recovery"

Deacon of Delicious
Aug 20, 2007

I bet the twist ending is Dracula's dick-babies

Cygni posted:

was gonna say 'why not just have a keyboard command to trigger it like mac' then i remembered microsofts touchscreen obsession

it was win key>start typing

I'm excited to see the innovative ways Microsoft managed to mess it up

Main Paineframe
Oct 27, 2010

Cygni posted:

was gonna say 'why not just have a keyboard command to trigger it like mac' then i remembered microsofts touchscreen obsession

if they don't have a big rear end bar people will forget their flagship feature exists, people aren't used to the idea of voice search on a computer. how many times have you used google.com's voice search in the last year on a computer

univbee
Jun 3, 2004




i've been watching a bunch of training videos for server 2012 certs

i've seen a few different series and p much without fail they will have a part talking about how there isn't a start menu anymore and they don't know why

Cygni
Nov 12, 2005

raring to post

actually try that, can u press winkey and start talking for cortana? i cant find a list of win10 keyboard shortcuts that isnt just the basic poo poo

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

Emergency confection port.

pseudorandom name posted:

Is that search box permanently there wasting space or can you turn it off?

cortana can be disabled but i can't figure out how to turn the search box off

other weird thing: it takes forever for the start menu to become accessible when you start windows. presumably it's loading the web content

PuTTY riot posted:

what does control panel look like

same as it has since Vista.

file manager icons got even uglier



Cygni posted:

actually try that, can u press winkey and start talking for cortana? i cant find a list of win10 keyboard shortcuts that isnt just the basic poo poo

i can't find a winkey shortcut for cortana. it does "hey cortana" though

Luigi Thirty fucked around with this message at 22:25 on Jan 23, 2015

mod sassinator
Dec 13, 2006
I came here to Kick Ass and Chew Bubblegum,
and I'm All out of Ass

univbee posted:

i've been watching a bunch of training videos for server 2012 certs

i've seen a few different series and p much without fail they will have a part talking about how there isn't a start menu anymore and they don't know why

That's the real tragedy of metro, that it's ruining their server OS. Now that they're porting ASP.NET to run on Linux with OWIN, I have a feeling people will jump ship from windows server as soon as they can. Might still be stuck running it for SQL server but at least you can dump it for your web/frontend tier.

BangersInMyKnickers
Nov 3, 2004

I have a thing for courageous dongles

bitlocker drive encryption is better and more streamlined bbbbbuuuuutttt it looks like they changed it so the background drive encryption when you first set it up runs with normal io priority instead of background like it used to be so it makes your entire system run like poo poo

BangersInMyKnickers
Nov 3, 2004

I have a thing for courageous dongles

disk latency is averaging 1000-5000ms because the io queue is so overloaded by the stupid thing Great Jorb MichaelSoft

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

Emergency confection port.

so you can say "hey cortana <question>" and it'll answer it

if you say "hey cortana" and wait for it to pop up, it'll time out and just answer the question "cortana" by saying "how can I help you?"

it cannot open programs without "future updates" either

mod sassinator
Dec 13, 2006
I came here to Kick Ass and Chew Bubblegum,
and I'm All out of Ass

BangersInMyKnickers posted:

disk latency is averaging 1000-5000ms because the io queue is so overloaded by the stupid thing Great Jorb MichaelSoft

jesus, is that with an SSD too?

BangersInMyKnickers
Nov 3, 2004

I have a thing for courageous dongles

mod sassinator posted:

jesus, is that with an SSD too?

hybrid platter but even with an ssd it would be saturating disk and causing this behavior, it would just take longer to finish the initial encryption pass

PuTTY riot
Nov 16, 2002
bitlocker killed my ssd

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pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

PuTTY riot posted:

bitlocker killed my ssd

how? by writing to every single sector once?

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