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DerekSmartymans posted:but sometimes takes “search” with it! Pffft. What's the difference?
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Hipster_Doofus posted:Pffft. What's the difference? I was about to say - it barely works even in the best case. (I hear it's a different experience in cortana-enabled regions - though different does not have to mean better.)
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Hipster_Doofus posted:Pffft. What's the difference? I never really missed it, but it did catch me by surprise looking for a four-year old .txt file once that was a configuration file for an old account. I figured it was fair warning, though…jic
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Search works OK for me with Cortana and web results disabled. It’s by far the fastest way to launch applications that I haven’t made a shortcut for. It can only reliably find executables though. If you need to find a specific file, Everything is very quick: https://www.voidtools.com/
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Fruits of the sea posted:Search works OK for me with Cortana and web results disabled. It’s by far the fastest way to launch applications that I haven’t made a shortcut for. Yeah, I have used Everything and even UltraSearch in the past. I think Everything gets more use because it’s on the right-click menu. They both work great!
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Jan 8, 2022 02:48
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DerekSmartymans posted:Yeah, I have used Everything and even UltraSearch in the past. I think Everything gets more use because it’s on the right-click menu. They both work great! For the love of gently caress why hasn't ms licensed one of those? Ava Find too back in the day before they stopped updating it.
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Hipster_Doofus posted:For the love of gently caress why hasn't ms licensed one of those? Ava Find too back in the day before they stopped updating it. I still load this on peoples stuff daily. I guess I might as well ask, since I never search inside files, but can it do that?
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redeyes posted:I still load this on peoples stuff daily. I guess I might as well ask, since I never search inside files, but can it do that? I know that Everything can, never tried on UltraSearch so simply unaware, and Ava Find looks neat, but I’d actually never even heard of it! I would like to know this as well (as in I’m too lazy/away from desktop to look it up myself if current users are actively reading and posting 🙄).
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sometimes i click this thread for a laugh instead of technical support/reasons and lol if i didnt lol at the lamentation of the search function "going missing" also yeah Everything search owns. i asked about it ages ago in the w7 thread and then semirecently again here after forgetting the name of it. its actually kind of ridiculous, and has been since i downloaded Everything, to realize that you can actually find things quite easily in windows and its actually microsoft that has no idea how to do it (*no financial incentive)
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I just got a new PC and want to activate windows 10 which I thought was linked to my MS account but is it not? I had to do a fresh reinstall on my old PC a while back after the SSD I had windows installed on died and I just plugged a new one in and reinstalled and had no issues. Now I get an error that I don't have a product key. Do I need a new copy of windows 10 for that?
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Jose posted:I just got a new PC and want to activate windows 10 which I thought was linked to my MS account but is it not? I had to do a fresh reinstall on my old PC a while back after the SSD I had windows installed on died and I just plugged a new one in and reinstalled and had no issues. Now I get an error that I don't have a product key. Do I need a new copy of windows 10 for that? Sounds like your old install was tied to the previous hardware's signature. Where'd your previous computer's copy of Windows come from?
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It was an upgrade from Windows 7 back when those were available years ago. I've unlinked my old device so my account is only showing the new PC now
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Jose posted:I just got a new PC and want to activate windows 10 which I thought was linked to my MS account but is it not? I had to do a fresh reinstall on my old PC a while back after the SSD I had windows installed on died and I just plugged a new one in and reinstalled and had no issues. Now I get an error that I don't have a product key. Do I need a new copy of windows 10 for that? MS stores the hardware-based hash unique to your PC in their activation system. That's why the old PC re-activated without a key -- it pinged MS with its hash and the MS server said "you again, you're activated". So the old Win10 may not have been on your MS account. If you still have the key you used for the previous PC -- even if it was an old Win7 or 8 key -- just punch it in on the new PC. It will probably just work.
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I'll try plugging it back in and seeing if I can get the key off the old pc then. If not I guess I buy a license key from SA mart edit: this is proving a nightmare so I'm just going to buy windows 11 from the goon in SA mart lol Jose fucked around with this message at 22:56 on Jan 11, 2022 |
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Jose posted:I'll try plugging it back in and seeing if I can get the key off the old pc then. If not I guess I buy a license key from SA mart you can, but if you wanna save a buck you can call up microsoft and be like my son upgraded the cd driveand windows broke??? they're usually OK with it they'll reauthenticate once basically for sure.
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CoolCab posted:you can, but if you wanna save a buck you can call up microsoft and be like my son upgraded the cd driveand windows broke??? they're usually OK with it they'll reauthenticate once basically for sure. IIRC you can get one (or two?) of these free reauths per year
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Hello Windows 10 thread what is the least gross way to get a tabbed file explorer on windows 10. Thank you
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Chilled Milk posted:Hello Windows 10 thread what is the least gross way to get a tabbed file explorer on windows 10. Thank you Total Commander.
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e; never mind
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I use QTTabBar and haven't had many issues of note with it other than it being annoying to configure http://qttabbar.wikidot.com/
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Chilled Milk posted:Hello Windows 10 thread what is the least gross way to get a tabbed file explorer on windows 10. Thank you
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crestfallen posted:https://files.community/ is real nice. Is there any way to get it to open via win+e?
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hooah posted:Is there any way to get it to open via win+e? https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/keyboard-manager
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I'm fiddling around with it, but I can't see how that would work. The "Mapped to" drop-down doesn't have like a "launch application" option.
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hooah posted:Is there any way to get it to open via win+e? Yes, simply enable this setting in Files 
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hooah posted:I'm fiddling around with it, but I can't see how that would work. The "Mapped to" drop-down doesn't have like a "launch application" option. Ah sorry I've had a brain fart. Fortunately looks like Files supports it natively
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Fame Douglas posted:Yes, simply enable this setting in Files Oh, that's fantastic, thanks!
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I've been a Mac user, including at work, for well over a decade, but my new job is a Windows environment and they sent me a Dell. This has me screaming internally. What apps would people recommend to make the user experience more Mac-like, and less lovely? I have a Windows PC for bideo james, so it's not like I don't know how to use it, I would just...prefer not to.
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KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:I've been a Mac user, including at work, for well over a decade, but my new job is a Windows environment and they sent me a Dell. This has me screaming internally. What apps would people recommend to make the user experience more Mac-like, and less lovely? I have a Windows PC for bideo james, so it's not like I don't know how to use it, I would just...prefer not to. Disable the right mouse button?
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KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:I've been a Mac user, including at work, for well over a decade, but my new job is a Windows environment and they sent me a Dell. This has me screaming internally. What apps would people recommend to make the user experience more Mac-like, and less lovely? I have a Windows PC for bideo james, so it's not like I don't know how to use it, I would just...prefer not to. Sorry you were preconditioned by a terrible operating system like macs os. Maybe stay in yospos and continue talking to other rabid apple fanboys. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:I've been a Mac user, including at work, for well over a decade, but my new job is a Windows environment and they sent me a Dell. This has me screaming internally. What apps would people recommend to make the user experience more Mac-like, and less lovely? I have a Windows PC for bideo james, so it's not like I don't know how to use it, I would just...prefer not to. Being more specific than "less lovely" might get some actual recommendations, hope this helps
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Sir Bobert Fishbone posted:Being more specific than "less lovely" might get some actual recommendations, hope this helps
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CaptainSarcastic posted:Disable the right mouse button?
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KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:I've been a Mac user, including at work, for well over a decade, but my new job is a Windows environment and they sent me a Dell. This has me screaming internally. What apps would people recommend to make the user experience more Mac-like, and less lovely? I have a Windows PC for bideo james, so it's not like I don't know how to use it, I would just...prefer not to. Don’t know if you’ll be able to do this given it’s a work machine; but one thing windows really lacks is a competently designed email app and I find mailspring is the best thing out there for the job - it’s cross platform Mac and Windows and you can tell the devs were more into MacOS design aesthetics than windows ones. Also it’s no help to you but Windows 11 goes a long way to moving windows closer to a macOS aesthetic. Other than that as people have said you’ll probably need to highlight specific grievances before people can assist, and presumably you’re significantly limited in what you can do given it’s a work machine.
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I do have some leeway as the IT manager is sympathetic and said he would probably approve me installing most things. But I want to get a solid list going first, and I can test things out on my gaming PC. Yes, email client is a top priority. Ours is an Outlook organization but I'm wondering if there is an option that is compatible with Outlook's workplace features that isn't broken, infuriating dogshit. Mac Mail has been a godsend, I deeply prefer something simple and straightforward in that vein, but I also need to be able to use calendar features, etc. Can Mailspring do that? I've heard there are Explorer replacements that feature UI design from this century, is there one in particular that's better than others? Something Docklike to replace the Start menu bar would be awesome too, I understand that Microsoft basically gave up and went that route in Windows 11 after all. Oh, and what's the preferred browser these days? I'm not into using Edge given how Microsoft has monetized it. Chrome is fine but there are also some issues there. Too bad there's no Safari for Windows now that Safari is actually good. KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD fucked around with this message at 08:22 on Jan 17, 2022 |
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A poo poo ton of PowerToys are both extremely useful and 'And' tools. They don't replace functionality or modify existing functionality - they just add a new feature. What is the reason they don't add those 'And' tools to default Windows? Some of that stuff like FancyZones can dramatically improve the UX of the OS for power users and be completely harmless to the computer illiterate. quote:- Mac Like These are mutually exclusive. I guess you could keep disabling features until you end up with a phone?
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KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:I do have some leeway as the IT manager is sympathetic and said he would probably approve me installing most things. But I want to get a solid list going first, and I can test things out on my gaming PC. It's rare I see this level of Apple poisoning in the wild. Hope you get well soon.
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KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:I do have some leeway as the IT manager is sympathetic and said he would probably approve me installing most things. But I want to get a solid list going first, and I can test things out on my gaming PC. Mailspring has a bunch of features and I believe a paid version with extra stuff but honestly my email needs are very simple and you'd need to test it out for yourself. If you're an outlook organisation you might just be stuck with outlook. Vivaldi is probably going to be the chromium based browser of choice; alternatively use firefox.
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Thanks, hadn't heard of Vivaldi but will give it a shot. Will also ask Mr. IT how necessary it really is to use Outlook.
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crestfallen posted:https://files.community/ is real nice. Has anyone used this as a daily driver? This looks rad as hell.
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