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kapinga posted:You will almost certainly have to have it installed. you think vista ultimate oem edition will qualify for the upgrade. ot mine off of newegg a while ago
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I have 2 monitors, 2 users. It's a small thing really, but when I go to the switch users screen, Windows 7 decides to disable the 2nd monitor which causes both monitors to go into "no signal" mode for a bit then come out. It's pretty quick but just annoying. I'm assuming it's because the SYSTEM account doesn't have dual monitors enabled or wherever tsdiscon.exe sends me doesn't have dual monitors. Both profiles are running at native res, both are configured pretty much the same. Anyone have any ideas?
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A phone captured video of glitches may help
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god please help me posted:https://i.imgur.com/Dg3K3vY.mp4 That is remarkable. Kudos for having such a druggy glitch. Edit: Could this be related to writing input detection? I get the feeling like a new layer is created when switching to that tool and then glitching out. I dunno, just spitballing, anyone have experience with tablet input glitches? down1nit fucked around with this message at 17:27 on Dec 2, 2023 |
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Brutakas posted:Is it possible to copy my existing windows install to another, smaller, drive and have it be bootable? I've currently got windows 10 installed on a 2TB nvme and I want to move it to a 225GB ssd (the total used space on the nvme is <225GB). If it is possible, what software could pull it off? IIRC Reflect hides cloning behind a trial or paywall. That was at least two years ago though so ignore this if it's just free to use. I use an oldish version of partition master https://filehippo.com/download_minitool-partition-wizard-free/11.5/ Which has no ads, just a splash screen. Looks just like diskmgmt.msc and uses shadow copy service if it can (no reboot to clone)
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C-Euro posted:Trying to run a manual backup using the Windows 10 Backup and Restore menu, backing data up to an external hard drive currently connected to my computer. It will run for a few seconds, and then stop with the pop-up error "Your File History drive was disconnected for too long. Reconnect it and then tap or click to keep saving copies of your files". Clicking said pop-up gives a dialogue box stating "Your files will be temporarily copied to your hard drive until you reconnect your File History drive and run a backup". I've successfully used this drive to save backups in the past, but now no amount of reconnecting and reattempting the backup operation will stick. Any idea what's going on and how to get my computer to recognize the external drive again? The drive's behaving normal otherwise (can browse its contents, can write and delete stuff) Not familiar with windows file history backup, but as long as you are in this situation, consider why people keep two backups, especially with file history as a feature. If you have the means, adding a second drive to your backup can help streamline problems like this. Apple shoppers were / are encouraged to have two backups. This is a similar backup strategy, and Apple's strategy is seldom perfect for everyone. If I were to guess, something windows used to identify that specific drive is not working right. The usual suspects are filesystem problems (chkdsk), renamed Volume label, windows being windows, anti-virus, a legit virus, registry error, or missing filter driver file.... blah blah blah Good news is, if it's just used as a backup, most folks here would just wipe it and start anew, assuming they didn't desperately need anything from the file history.
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C-Euro posted:Honestly I manually back up some of my more important digital stuff to this drive, so wiping it is a no-go. Though you did give me an idea to try which seems to have reestablished backup communication between the two, so thanks Nice lol. Is your "more important digital stuff" actually backed up? Or is it just on this one drive?
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I remember being thrilled* when Reflect came out. EaseUS had some competition finally. And then EaseUS went full shovelware with nearly all their products. What good engineers they may have had, victims of enshittification. A quick buck was made. And at the same time, Macrium started gating features that seemed arbitrary (backup scheduling I think). Soon they gated less arbitrary features like cloning and I stopped recommending Reflect. Excellent software though unless it's gotten enshittified somehow. *when was the last time a bit of software had you "thrilled"?
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The Zune software 4.0 refresh was magical. Imagine getting chills when an mp3 player runs it's code. "I wanna be traaaaash" e: zune snipe, excellent
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Shift+Ctrl+f3 gets you in audit mode so you can check drivers, run updates, install Firefox blah blah. Use this when it's rebooted into the OOBE (setup screen) and it's asking you what username you want to use. When you're done, just do a reboot and it'll act like it's never been touched, asking for a username to use again.
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Adwcleaner, malwarebytes free, hitman pro Superantispyware has a poo poo detect rate and name but good startup process management. I use it to disable unknowns. Edit: Run disk cleanup as admin first. make a new restricted user profile if you can, have the employee use that account.
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Windows doesn't know it crashed. That usually is hardware related. A deliberate, thorough cleaning is seldom a bad thing for any electronics, starting there may be a pretty good idea you have.
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I was gonna shower later
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MikusR posted:Office files behave differently when opened from OneDrive in a modern Office. I super get the idea that you are miffed at. Live file editing is a newish concept for windows users and it's fundamentally incompatible with what you have in mind. MS made the decision early on and it's now out of your control. The usual solution is to zip up the documents you don't want to be touched and put a password on the zip. Extract copies to be modified and open those in web Onedrive. Google docs/sheets works the same way BTW.
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stuker posted:hey all-- i've been running into a multi-display issue for a while now and was 50/50 between asking here or the display thread, but it did seem to coincide with my upgrade to win11. i'm curious if anyone else has encountered something similar Displayport does this for me. It's actually my preferred outcome. You're not plugged into a DP with a adapter are you? Edit : Comedy option, it was a monitor update down1nit fucked around with this message at 08:12 on Feb 5, 2024 |
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stuker posted:nope, HDMI on both ends for the display (TV) in question. it's a relatively older TV (LG C9, so about 4-5 years?) so updates have been pretty infrequent. i am using DP for one of the other monitors, but i don't change the input on that display Yeah I love that behavior, personally. Sorry, I never really studied hdmi signaling or anything, but the usual method for determining if a cable is plugged in and can receive data (potentially) is a small rear end resistor between a pin and ground. I dunno where it is on hdmi cables, it may be on the device side even. Maybe swap the cables around see if it's that, being the jist. Perhaps consider a dvi / dp adapter until someone smarter chimes in?
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Kinda sorta feels like your bios or ec is stuck/crashing? See if there's a bios update for your system, ditto for chipset or "power management" software. The power button is odd, the ec is supposed to respond to that no matter what (on paper). The goal is to have the power button engaged for approx 5 solid seconds. Perhaps your button is shite or has corrosion somewhere?
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Strong Sauce posted:Hi all I have been running into some issues with Windows 10, my video card (GTX 970), or possibly my monitor (its an Acer Predator XB1 27" 1440p 165hz with G-Sync), but just wondering if anyone had any ideas about where to dive in. This one sounds fun! Is chrome your main browser? Firefox? Try two videos in incognito mode. Same? Try two videos in a new Chrome profile. Same? Open devmgmt.msc and under Display Adapters, right click and uninstall the 970. Keep the drivers if it askd. Action menu, choose "scan for new hardware", try two videos. Same? Do the same again but delete the drivers. Run windows update. Same?
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abelwingnut posted:yea, i updated my bios this morning--thanks. An embedded controller! At one point it was a simple keyboard controller, but it's gotten more tasks over the years so they call it the generic name of EC. Boringpost: The EC in this case is a chip on your motherboard with many "old school" tasks. It reads your keyboard input, reads communication networks, and importantly for you, It supplies signals to various circuits to tell the computer to turn on and operate. I like describing the EC as a CPU's Assistant, since does things the CPU would absolutely like done, but without bothering the CPU too much. It does this by being a computer itself. It has "ram" and a "hard drive" as well as a "CPU". It uses a BIOS chip, usually the main BIOS chip to get its instructions. Sometimes there's a whole other chip, just for the EC. The EC reads from whichever BIOS and does the things it's told, but because it's a computer conceptually, it can crash too. Sometimes updating it's instructions helps. Usually both Main and EC bios updates are in one download, and your computer will reboot multiple times during the update to apply each one. Sometimes you hit the jackpot and your computer reboots 6 times from one update file! Wow! (EC, ME, BIOS, TB, TPM, VGA, etc.)
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Taima posted:I've been using Win11 for a long while and enjoy it. But I am hoping I could get some help on a minor issue that is driving me nuts if yall don't mind. It's supposed to stick. Is amd/Nvidia whoever maybe updating the stupid task that puts the icon there? Maybe the exe is renamed every time? nvdxxxvSept302023.exe or whatever? Just stabbing in the dark. Or maybe just disable it like we all do so then you can think "yesssss, frames" for a bit. It *is* bullshit to take stuff away. Imagine having your right to see a doctor to save your life taken away.
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You should post all the troubleshooting you did too. This may be a windows "image" issue, perhaps try the old fashioned sfc /scannow From an elevated command prompt.
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Do people in russia have to deal with Activate Windows at the bottom of their screen, or is MS allowing them to activate? I see they stopped sales and support, and are even blocking downloads. Does that extend to the licensing servers too?
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Gwyneth Palpate posted:Driveby question: I'm getting a new windows box after a long time. Is Ninite still useful for initial software installation, or has it been infected by profit-seeking like everything else has? Fantastic question. Always ask poo poo like this, I love you goon.
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R-STUDIO is the usual starting point. It has a demo and is reasonably priced for data recovery software. I have used Getdataback to good success as well as Active File recovery.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:I've been using Microsoft Calendar forever because it's so simple and quick to set dates and events. This year, Microsoft decided to gently caress me about by making it fully part of Outlook for no goddamn reason. But, of course, none of my saved data got ported over with the change, so I had to keep switching back to the old version of Calendar, complete with annoying messages from Microsoft and "why aren't you using the new version" questionnaire. Every. Single. Time. To sidestep the direct question, for a paid email client I use emClient, it's simple but robust like Opera Mail was but actually nice to look at with an active dev team that's not Microsoft. It of course has a calendar and integration for syncing. For the retrieval of old emails, I often default to importing poo poo into thunderbird first, then exporting it in an mbx format (or using "import" in emClient). Most instructions you find online for recovering emails will tell you the same. Thunderbird is like the VLC of mailbox databases.
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