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Tivac posted:I'm pretty sure that Desktops doesn't have that problem. Out of curiosity, is there any particular reason for those limitations? At the very least I don't see how it could have saved them any time to limit the number of desktops.
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xamphear posted:... I don't disagree, but I'm wondering if you have anything in mind in the way of extras. The game comparison has me imagining cloth maps of Redmond and Bill Gates bobbleheads.
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Stanley Pain posted:... My guess is that grownups who want to up performance buy a better processor, or more rarely one that's actually good for overclocking. The 13 year old retards are stuck with what mommy bought and have no option to increase performance other than OCing, which they inevitably gently caress up because 13 year olds suck at careful planning. Then they bitch on the internet 24/7 because they don't have jobs or enough homework, while the non retards keep to themselves or ask for advice somewhere where they won't be responded to by 13 year olds.  On an unrelated note, who the gently caress bought  and what is it.
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Principia posted:I hope they include every available browser except Opera. I wonder what would happen if they did that. I mean, they realistically can't get every browser, including unknown homebrew poo poo, so they could plausibly say they just picked the top X browsers, where X just so happened to be one too low to include Opera. 
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Thermopyle posted:Like you, I think the VS leads to problems. Unlike you, I prefer these problems to the problems of allowing software developers to continue to write to restricted locations. I'm inclined to agree. The only programs I've encountered problems with are Oblivion and Fallout 3, and considering that both are made by the developers of a game where you fall through the floor so much they wrote it into the story, I suspect these problems aren't Microsoft's fault. edit: though every so often I need to edit an ini that I know is stored in program files, and every time it takes me like five minutes of confusion before I remember about VS. 
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Lord Commissar posted:I just don't remember which specific programs had the problem. I think Steam had an issue at one point, but it may have been patched by now. The Gasmask had the same problem with Blackberry software. Oblivion will poo poo its pants if you try to run mods if the game is installed in program files and UAC is enabled, or at least it used to. Presumably Morrowind would poo poo even harder. Titan Quest seems to have some odd problems connecting to multiplayer servers if you don't right click and run as admin. Was it any of these?
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mcsuede posted:Having issues lately with files saved to desktop not showing up on the desktop. They're there when viewed from explorer. I have this problem randomly, and had it in Vista, too. There's no rhyme or reason to it aside from seeming more common with archives unzipped to the desktops than things saved normally.  is right because it's really drat weird.
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Golbez posted:Thanks, though I just wanted to find out if I could train Windows Quick Search, which I doubt those programs do... Launchy absolutely does learn.
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marketingman posted:Ummm basically 99% of people. The way you can move data across the Office Suite keeping all the formatting is a HUGE thing for me and practically every office worker I know... It's a bit annoying in IT but even so I *still* keep the formatting options as default and instead choose to "paste without formatting" when I need to. I just wrote a macro in Word that made control+shift+v paste without formatting. Best of all possible worlds.
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The rear end Stooge posted:My boss just told me a very sad story about going to the Microsoft Store. There is one in our city, and it is in a shopping mall directly across from an Apple Store. The Apple Store was packed, as it usually is, while the Microsoft Store was completely empty except for her and eight employees, who all told her in no uncertain terms that Windows 8.1 Pro will NOT work on the Acer Switch 10 convertible tablet, which is incorrect. I wanted to reply to this post with that photo of a Microsoft store that's barren except for a shelf with about a hundred copies of FoxPro, but I couldn't find it. 
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Minidust posted:Haha okay cool. 7zip it is. I saw some stray comment about how that wouldn't work in Windows 8, but the dude was mistaken because I'm using it right now! Thanks. 7zip is great, but for me it sometimes barfs on very large or multipart rars. I don't run into those often, of course, but I've been forced back to winrar at least twice in the past few years.
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The Lord Bude posted:Does windows storage spaces have a mother? Yes, but no father.
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Fruits of the sea posted:Get an app that provides an overview of what's taking up space on the drive. WinDirStat is pretty simple and free. Running the disk cleanup utility periodically can turn up dozens of gigs of update crap left lying around.
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Woebin posted:Hey cool, same old game I decided to get working a few months ago. I got things up and running in VirtualBox / Win2K, although the sound wasn't functioning properly. I'd test it and tell you specifically what I did and what issues there are, but I haven't run it since then and now the VB instance fails to launch for whatever reason. I swear it was working fine during that one night of revisiting the game though! Have you enabled Hyper-V or Linux System for Windows since then? Doing either breaks VirtualBox.
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Aug 12, 2020 15:55
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Klyith posted:With a search warrant for your computer, the cops can tell you to type in your password (that's compel in a legal sense, not compel as in beat you 'til you give in). If you don't, you may face the consequences of not following a legal search. Currently those consequences are 18 months in jail for contempt of court, if the judge thinks the prosecutors have a good case against you and that the case would be a "forgone conclusion" if you typed in the passwords to decrypt your CP stash. Multiple states' supreme courts have ruled that compelling password disclosure violates the fifth amendment. To my knowledge it hasn't gone to SCOTUS but that still means you can't tell people that as blanket advice absent either a specific locality or a federal crime.
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Aug 20, 2020 19:57
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Klyith posted:The usual culprit for insane disk usage after a windows update is windows search. #1 thing to try is this: I've never had search so this but update leaves dozens of gigs of crap lying around on the regular.
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Aug 25, 2020 19:32
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me your dad posted:I have no idea how to decipher a routing table but I sure hope my work can't see where I go on my home computer If it's making you nervous, you can run RDP from within a VirtualBox virtual machine. You'll have multiple nested taskbars, but you'll know for a fact anything outside the VM isn't visible to your employer.
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Aug 27, 2020 19:05
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Fruits of the sea posted:Yeah, configurable usb numpads are a relatively cheap solution. This gave me the mental image of flying a simulated plane with a keytar.
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Oct 7, 2020 11:05
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GreenNight posted:drat, I've been wondering about this for years. It happens in Excel 365 too. Thank you. Does double clicking the tabs not work anymore? Why on earth would they make that work differently than the other office apps? Blue Footed Booby fucked around with this message at 15:47 on Dec 8, 2020 |
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Dec 8, 2020 14:17
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MarcusSA posted:I have the exact same issue which is why I just sleep the computer now. Same, but I also randomly have it wake up and stay awake. Both problems come and go with no obvious pattern. Windows gonna windows, I guess.
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Feb 3, 2021 13:25
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The Lord Bude posted:The whole avoiding a Microsoft account thing is 99% spergy neckbeard bullshit. Just use your computer. Log in with a Microsoft account. When you do things the way Microsoft intended instead of going to heroic lengths to break your computer things just work better and you can get on with your life without worrying about nonsense. No.
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Jun 14, 2021 04:42
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Toast Museum posted:It's not that you can't add context menu items; it's that they're hidden behind an extra click (Show more options at the bottom of the context menu in the screenshot). My guess is that this is Microsoft's fix for how slow the context menu can be sometimes. The extra click means most people don't see the delay most of the time.
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I bypassed the supported hardware check and am running Windows 11 with the machine I built to play Skyrim. I'm even getting updates. Go for it.
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Computer viking posted:Edge deflector? Microsoft basically changed their "which program is associated with this protocol" handler to ignore the association set for microsoft-edge:// and just always launches edge, which breaks the way it worked, ref ctrl.blog. We spent some time digging in debugger logs, and basically concluded that it's not fixable without getting stupid. (Daniel, the author, is my partner.) Am I crazy or is this exactly the kind of thing that gets companies slapped in the EU?
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Yeah I use Start is Back for that and small taskbar icons. The software normally costs money, but the dev is Russian. None of the payment processors would work with him, so he just said "gently caress it, I'll make it free until things change" which imo is pretty cool of him.
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FunOne posted:Nah, nothing major that I can think of on the Windows 11 side. Iirc, pins are local only, can't be automated from within Windows, and failed attempts are cut off at like eight before it locks you out until restart. It's dumb it doesn't let you use password as your backup, but it's not really appreciably less secure for realistic normal people threat models, imo.
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down1nit posted:Windows doesn't know it crashed. That usually is hardware related. And also goons lol
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Quixzlizx posted:I honestly don't know what to tell you when you're acting like I'm insane for not wanting every modification to an open file to be immediately saved over the original copy. I don't want to have to make another copy of an Excel file every single time I have to open an existing one, then copy it back over to my OneDrive folder if I decide I want to keep any modifications I made. It honestly sounds like you want one drive to work like, idk, a git repository?
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Gnarly Sheen posted:7zip... What we thinkin? Iirc, the 7zip guy steadfastly refuses to support the Windows 11 way of doing things. There's a fork, Nanazip, where the owner is at least trying. As in, it can add an entry to the context menu in Windows 11, without making you hit "Show more options."
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