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So... where are they getting those cheap keys from? Its always felt a little sketchy to me tbh
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Cool Dad posted:What should I be using as a PDF reader? I'd be fine with Adobe garbage if it would open up in reading mode and hide all the sidebar poo poo until I ask for it. Sumatra has good rendering but a terrible UI. Last I heard Foxit was full of spyware and bloat these days. What is left? Sumatra has a... barebones UI? How often are you really doing much else than scrolling and panning around a PDF though?
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neurotech posted:I've been tasked with making a looping photo slideshow for a funeral & wake next week. I want a tool that will let me import photos and video clips, add a standard crossfade transition between each piece of media, and then render out to a MP4. Which Windows version are you on? Windows 11 comes with ClipChamp which should be able to handle something like that easily. Only annoying thing is it requires you to login with your Microsoft account IIRC but very usable otherwise. edit: you can probably just install it on Win 10 as well from the Store if needed
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I've been using Edge very happily for over a year now. Under the hood, it's more or less the same as Chrome, with some extra nifty features which are, of course, optimized for Windows. All of the bloat-y stuff like the coupon finder and new Bing Discover tab thing as mentioned above can be turned off easily. Although I've gotta say, Bing's AI chatbot can do some impressive stuff and I love throwing some questions at it that I'm feeling too lazy to search up for myself. Bing search itself is still a solid tier below Google's; I find myself having to repaste my search into Google often enough to be annoying. Once I cash out my Microsoft rewards points for an Amazon giftcard or something I'm going to go back to default Google search. That's right, Bing is bad enough compared to Google that they literally can't even pay me to use it  Regarding adblock, my hot take here is that modern ads are just not that annoying on any half-decent website, the type worth using in the first place. I haven't run an adblock in years and have been fine. Only exception to this are streaming sites like YouTube and Twitch but those have their own premium programs for getting rid of ads. Traffic ain't free and all that.
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They also missed pretty basic opportunities like unzipping an archive opening the decompressed files in a new tab instead of a new window. Sigh.
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I just do clean installs. Makes me feel fuzzy on the inside that things are fresh fresh. Also anecdotally it has helped with some driver and behavioral weirdness when upgrading Win 11 versions.
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Is there a better resource for learning how Windows works under the hood than the Windows Internals series of books?
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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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Klyith posted:FWIW I did this starting a year ago and have had a really good time. Do you game?
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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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My Windows 11 machine will very occasionally like every 3-4 weeks blue screen and then reboot into UEFI while not being able to find my M.2 drive. Power cycling the machine fixes it and gets me back to the desktop. That sounds like a power issue most likely, right?
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Klyith posted:No, I would say #1 culprit the M.2 drive, #2 the OS / drivers / software, #3 the mobo, #4 other hardware including power supply. It's a TeamGroup MP33 and as far as I can tell S.M.A.R.T is giving no indications (checked with TeamGroup's own utility) and I don't see any mention of new firmware. My mobo is on latest firmware and has been forever. In UEFI I've only changed RAM timings, fan curves, and some sleep power settings to keep USB power off during hibernate. Drive read and write rates look normal. I guess it's time to reinstall OS and hope that I see improvement.
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chocolateTHUNDER posted:Really not sure which thread this question should go in, but here: I also wonder why you want to do that?
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NotNut posted:Is there a way to see your most recently added apps in Windows 10? Might not be exactly what you are looking for but Apps and features -> Sort by install date
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Tesseraction posted:You will enjoy your load times as they will remind you of the finite nature of existence. No longer will you take for granted the speed that was granted to you by prior Windows iterations. You will kneel, peasant, and obey. We have reached the limit of how many electrons we can fit down a wire to the point where, they slow down to a light jog.
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Tapedump posted:The new Photos app in Win10 (maybe 11, too)... are pictures supposed to open up in a separate instance window now? Yes I believe so, I've noticed the same thing
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So Dave Plummer, the Microsoft employee who wrote Task Manager, recently upload a video showing off the original source code from the XP days which he acquired with permission: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YGD94lSor8 Now I'm no expert programmer, but several of the things he talks about seem quite "hacky" to me. Also, disturbingly, it seems like he worked on it almost entirely alone? As someone who is quite sensitive to computer performance and design decisions it surprised me/somewhat affirmed my fears that many of the routine things Windows does are hardly optimized and cobbled together, even when it comes to critical pieces of the OS such as Task Manager. Do software engineers not talk amongst each other about best practices, especially when it comes to critical tools and methods which will be run millions of times around the world daily? I know that nothing is perfect and that this was many years ago, but I'm basically disturbed by this.
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Klyith posted:What specifically do you have a problem with? Nothing. Maybe it's some kind of OCD, maybe it's a desire to learn how computers work at the lowest levels. Maybe it's a frustration that the world isn't as "perfect" as I want it to be or as I wish it were.
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Klyith posted:not sure if chocolatethunder is laughing at the same thing I am, but... That's actually so funny and I've seen it several times now that I think about it.
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Sir Bobert Fishbone posted:Not at a Windows PC right now but check out Settings->System->Multitasking, I think it might be in there. Yes it's in there you can turn it off, from the drop down, something about grouping windows after snapping
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Blurb3947 posted:Steam, Spotify, iTunes, VLC, Firefox, Discord, Greenshot, Foxit Reader, Qbittorrent, WinDirStat, FileZilla, and Putty. Sumatra is a nice no-nonsense PDF viewer
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Some motherboards/BIOSes offer a compatibility mode which will park the E cores temporarily. ASRock's for example is called Legacy Game Compatibility Mode and uses the Scroll Lock to park/un-park the E cores in real-time.
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