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xylo posted:This is a touchy subject that I really don't want to get involved in but I'm going to give this a shot and hope I don't get skewered. The main problem in my case is that if I have both mobile data and WiFi enabled, I'll sometimes see the phone transfer data over the mobile connection instead of over WiFi (or I'll see both transferring data at the same time). My data plan is 100MB/month, and if I'm connected to WiFi I'm more likely to do data-intensive things, so I absolutely can't have the phone decide that it wants to use the mobile connection. I was really hoping that I wouldn't have to use the Status Tiles app anymore after getting 8.1. Combat Pretzel posted:Unlimited data and/or expensive rear end contracts with plenty of data aren't that much of a thing in Europe. This, but Asia. Most of my friends/coworkers are using plans where they have something like 300MB/month.
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For some strange reason in the new Podcast app, coming back to it from either the lock screen or from another app seems to mess up any currently downloading podcasts. For example, I start downloading a few podcast episodes, and I can see their status below the title of each episode. If I lock the screen and then come back to the app, the download status is completely gone. If I select an episode, the Download option is available, and tapping it will start the download from the beginning. This means that If I'm downloading a large podcast (150MB+), I have to babysit the app to make sure the phone doesn't lock, and I can't change apps until it's finished. I assume it's because downloads are no longer integrated with the Store, and maybe can't function in the background anymore? Edit: Not to just crap on the new app, I'm super happy that I can now jump to any part of the timeline. LentThem fucked around with this message at 04:03 on Apr 15, 2014 |
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I do like how the Mobile Data option is now a toggle switch instead of a drop-down list, even though I wish it was supported on the Quick Actions bar. Also from checking around Google, I haven't seen anyone else comment on Podcast downloads resetting when the app loses focus, so I wonder if it's just me, or if most people can just finish downloading an episode before the 1-3 minute timer auto-locks the screen. Can anyone else with 8.1 try and reproduce this? 1: Open the Podcasts app, load an episode list for a podcast, then select an episode and hit the download button. 2: Watch the status on-screen for it to say Paused > Downloading, then hit the Windows Logo key to go back to the home screen. 3: Open the Podcasts app again (either from task screen or from the app icon). If it's like mine, you're back at the episode page, but now the download status is gone, and the download button is available again. Despite this, the wifi status claims that the phone is transferring data, but I have no idea what specifically. If I leave it alone long enough, will this podcast end up in my on-phone list, or is it just stuck in a temp folder somewhere? LentThem fucked around with this message at 06:01 on Apr 17, 2014 |
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Horky posted:I could swear that before updating to 8.1 I could use the camera button to wake up the phone and go straight to the camera. Am I remembering this wrong? Mine still works, but there's a setting you have to toggle. Mainly I'm noticing that if I open the Nokia Camera app this way, it takes a lot longer to open than before. I'll hold the button, see the lock-screen snap open, and then I just sit at a black screen for 4-5 seconds (with a brief pop-up of "Resuming...") before the display appears, which defeats the purpose of being able to open the camera while the phone is locked. Edit: I just tried the same thing with the Microsoft Camera app, and it's slightly faster (3 seconds at black screen), but still pretty terrible compared to 8.0.
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thestoreroom posted:When you say it won't load music, do you get a black screen when you go into the my music section? Oh wow, I have that exact problem.
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Before the update I was finishing my days (say, 15 hours off-charger) with 60-40% battery depending on usage on my Lumia 925. After installing dev preview, the phone ends up hitting 20% and using Battery Saver after about 13 hours with little usage and Location/Cortana disabled (and almost no battery drain is reported as background processes). A hard reset seems to have helped a lot, but I need another day or two to be sure. This also worked for the previous drain issue that started after installing Lumia Black. Unlike that time, the battery drain on the dev preview doesn't seem to heat up my phone much. Also, the hard reset fixed a problem I've been having with the "Windows Phone app for Desktop" application in which trying to sync podcasts gave an error. At this point, I've given up on trying to download anything through the Podcasts app. I'm not sure which team is handling that app, but I assume they have a different release schedule than the XboX Music/Video team. LentThem fucked around with this message at 05:07 on Apr 20, 2014 |
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Ugh, I guess my hard reset didn't help battery life after all. First day was amazing, but today I'm back to the old behavior. Phone is at 73% after 2.5 hours off-charger, and the only usage has been: 40 minutes listening to podcast, 10 minutes listening to music, 15 minutes using a chat app, and standby the rest of the time. I tried rebooting the phone a couple of different times because it was getting warm, but no change.insert_funny posted:So, today I learned that a Folder and a Library are two separate things in Windows. And if you don't set up a Podcasts Library in Windows, then your Podcasts won't sync to your Windows Phone via the app. This is the same app that will delete photos from your phone after copying them to PC when you run a sync. Good stuff. And yeah it's hilarious that you can specify any music folder you want for syncing, but for podcasts IT MUST BE THIS ONE SPECIFICALLY NAMED LIBRARY IN ONE SPECIFIC LOCATION AND NO WE WILL NOT PROVIDE ANY DOCUMENTATION ABOUT THIS. I think I found ONE website on Google that explained what was wrong, and it was just some guy's tiny blog post from a year ago.
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clandestine cactus posted:Libraries can be multiple folders, anywhere on your system. Hope you can find a solution based on this (e.g. add your normal folder to the library). Okay so mentally edit my post to read "one specifically named library" and remove the location part dince I didn't phrase it well. Mine didn't have a Podcasts library, so I had to create one a few days ago using that specific name. This behavior still doesn't match the Music sync in the same app, which doesn't require a library at all.
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The main thing I'm noticing with my battery drain is that it seems like running any app in the foreground causes the phone to heat up (and drain battery) quickly (even if those same apps didn't cause this to happen in 8.0), but everything cools off and returns to normal if no apps are running in foreground. I thought about rolling the dice with another hard reset, but last time the restore operation kept timing out and eventually aborted itself around 90%.
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  It's the strangest thing. I've sent a couple of Diagnostics reports (with same images), and I wanted to play with Field Medic, but it turns out it's unavailable in the "zh-cn" store (and phones from that area are unable to change their store region). I don't think any single app is killing the battery (since any foreground app has this problem, like IE11 dropping the battery 7% in 10-15 minutes), so I'm probably stuck with this issue for another month or two until a firmware update comes out or something. Edit: From glancing at things online, I'm wondering if it's 8.1 on my specific model of phone (sort of like how people with Lumia Icon have power button issues, or people with HTC 8x CDMA phones getting stuck in endless reboot loop). The two most common things I'm seeing online for Lumia 925 with WP8.1 are: -Battery drain/hot phone -Headphones lose sound in one side until reboot Comments from people with Lumia 920 usually say that while battery life may be a little lower, it's not nearly like the comments from people that have Lumia 925s. LentThem fucked around with this message at 04:25 on Apr 24, 2014 |
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Field Medic is something else, mentioned here: https://dev.windowsphone.com/en-US/OEM/docs/Debugging/Collect_and_view_data_connectivity_settings_using_Field_Medic Disappointed that it isn't available in my region.
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tk posted:Well, I work at Microsoft, so I'm not sure if my coworker's phones count as "in the wild". I do see a good amount around here in public, but again, a lot of people here work at Microsoft. Any time I see someone with a Lumia 920 (or an HTC 8x), I assume they are an MS employee because those were the two choices offered to employees when WP8 was released. I've only met one non-employee who had a 920, and he hated it (because of size, weight, and reboots). The majority of non-employee Windows phones I see are the Lumia 520/620. But this is Asia, so... I've only managed to drop my 925 once (onto hardwood floor), and so far no scratches/cracks/dents. At least, not on the phone; pretty sure I dented the floor.
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While trying to explain to someone via text that those big baggy pants with straps on the legs are called "bondage pants," I discovered that the WinPhone dictionary considers "bondage" one of the censored words. So I guess the list is censoring more than just swear words, but actually any terms that a person could use when searching for porn? Just for fun, try swyping/tapping "That is a sexy car" or "Horny toads are adorable" in a text message and see which words don't autocomplete. I guess this could be used for some new slang when it blocks so many goddamn words. So I can talk about Game of Thrones with someone and be like "King Joffrey is the product of invest. Wait I mean he's the product of infest. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH" Of course I can swype "he is the product of incestuous" and it works, because nobody would search that word on an adult website.
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OldPueblo posted:Surprisingly there was a recent article about that as well. It looks like MS wants you to be able to talk about dicks and such, they're just erring on the side of caution initially. Hm I think that URL is from the previous post. Does MS give any reasoning for it? I mean, is it "think of the children" (even though children want iPhones)? Anyway, my friend is going to love the flood of texts I send him while fixing the dictionary. "Rape rape rape" "Incest incest incest" "Nipple nipple nipple" You can also cancel the texts rather than send them, but why would you want to.
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Maneki Neko posted:Wow, I went through and took a look at my gmail accounts and set them back to syncing at time intervals rather than letting 8.1 decide when to sync, and I went from having a dead battery every day by like 1 pm to having 75% left at 3:30 pm. Ev posted:That was killing my battery life too. Definite improvement since I changed it back to every 30 minutes. Now I have to work to get the battery below 20% by the end of the day. How often do you guys open/use apps on the phone? I ask because for me, in standby or on home screen I use almost no battery, but if any app is open in foreground (music, chat, browser, news, weather) while unlocked, the phone will start draining 1% every 3 minutes and be pretty warm. A description I heard a while ago was "It's like any app in the foreground pegs the CPU."
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Is XBM app supposed to be getting another update this week? I mean originally the plan was May 6 (or "the week of <tuesday date>," which is not how any countries describe weeks as far as I know), but users and news sites haven't said anything since the first update. I guess the first update fixed 99% of their complaints? Also wondering if Podcasts app will ever get an update. It's been pretty quiet about this app, though I'm seeing other people have that "background downloading" issue that I have. Also super curious about the Extras + Info update from Nokia that just dropped. WPCentral is the worst about reporting non-news, so I have no idea what this update added/changed. "Hey gang, an update for <app> was released today. There are no release notes in the app store (which you could read yourselves), so we'll just presume there were minor bug fixes and performance improvements."
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Jesus, my phone must have jammed on an app or something, because while using WeChat and listening to music, the phone got hot and I ultimately dropped from 70% to 36% during my 80-minute commute home, even after I switched off the phone at one point in the middle of the trip. Then, while searching to find out what key combination will soft-reset the phone, (my search was just "soft reset windows phone 8.1") I realized just how unbelievably filled with linkbait crap results Bing is. The first page of results was 90% variations of garbage like "samsunghardreset.com/search/*****" and "www.samsunghardreset.com/search/*****" and "androidhardreset.com/search/*****". On the other hand, every result from Google linked to WPCentral or Winsupersite, so I found the right key combination instantly. I'd change my default search in IE to Google, but my regional firmware only lets me choose Bing and Baidu.
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Ev posted:Question for everyone here--does anyone else have problems with the Xbox Video app loading their collection? Mine just crashes right after opening it, as the very first menu is swinging into place.
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Happy_Misanthrope posted:Another update for Xbox music. Still slow as gently caress, but some decent usability improvements. My favorite part with the newly sized XBOX MUSIC title is that if you swipe over to the Collection list, the title now says OX MUSIC.
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Jonah Hex posted:I guess there were enough people like me who don't want to give Microsoft tons of data about our personal habits and locations just to mute the phone after midnight. Uhh I think it's just because everyone outside of America with their phone set to a different region couldn't access Cortana and therefore couldn't access Quiet Hours. But you're probably right since MS seems completely unaware of anything going on outside of the US.
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:It was slow getting going, but man I love live tiles now that a lot of big apps get it right. Having Spotify and Audible show the cover art of the last album and book I listened to, and a full width Facebook tile (the tile being the only functioning and useful part of the app) showing the last notification with the background for that user, makes things really feel very personal. I've really liked how Nokia MixRadio animates the large tile with 50% being album art and 50% being artist/song information, it really makes me wish the Xbox Music app WOULD DO ANYTHING AT ALL JESUS CHRIST.
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Disappointing that even after two rounds of updates, I'm still getting the 1%/3minutes (20%/hour) battery drain when any app is in the foreground, including the Store and Photo Gallery. A guy I know at Nokia who's previewing the Lumia Cyan update still has battery issues as well. This has me worried that battery life on 8.1 is just going to always be crap for me. If there was some way to backport the Wordflow keyboard and the VPN, I'd just stay on WP8 forever.
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Phantom Limb posted:Anyone else having godawful battery life, even on the latest 8.1 update? My 920 has been going 100%-10% after about 4 or 5 hours sitting in my pocket, every single app is prevented from running in the background and Battery Saver is giving me relatively short bars for everything. It's the most frustrating thing, my phone is barely functional away from my desk. So far, the most common cause of that kind of battery drain (locked phone still draining) is a gmail or yahoo mail account getting stuck syncing. If it isn't a syncing problem, a hard reset might help. At least, for that type of draining issue. I'm still struggling with every foreground app pegging CPU and killing 1% every 3 minutes. Photo Gallery - 1% every 3 minutes Store - 1% every 3 minutes WeChat - 1% every 3 minutes Internet Explorer - 1% every 3 minutes Xbox Music - 1% every 3 minutes Nokia Mixradio - 1% every 3 minutes Podcasts - 1% every 3 minutes Camera - 1% every 3 minutes Finance - 1% every 3 minutes etc etc It's the stupidest thing, and if the Cyan update doesn't fix it I'll probably have to sell my phone. I work in an office that doesn't allow phone chargers that can connect to a PC out of data theft fears, so a phone that can't survive a workday is nearly useless.
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Rent posted:Battery life will be bad on any beta without the correct firmware. Not exactly an 8.1 thing as it is incomplete software People keep saying this, but I mentioned earlier that I know a guy at Nokia who's been using beta versions of Cyan for over a month and is getting 4-6 hours of battery life on his 920. Sure, he's on "beta" firmware, but you'd think there would at least be small improvements over not having Cyan at all. Could just be that the firmware updates for 920 suck, and maybe 1020 etc are doing better. I'm curious how battery is for 630 users, since they probably have a pretty complete phone as it came with 8.1 and some version of Cyan.
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Factor Mystic posted:It's kind of magical how the company that makes the OS is so blitheringly incompetent at writing a functional app on the very platform they're creating. Not even a great app or a good app but a functional app. I assumed it was because Rudy doesn't have a "team" that contains multiple levels of redundant Project Managers that contribute nothing and slow down the overall process. Seriously the Manager:Developer ratio for the team(s) is probably 1:3. I think we're going to see a sharp drop in quality from the Nokia MixRadio team(s) now that MS owns them and they're going to be forced to conform. loquacius posted:No, it's not even that they're incapable of making a usable app on their platform. The WP8.0 one was usable. The WP7.5 one was good, even. They took a good app and made it usable, then took that one and broke the poo poo out of it. v Is Xbox Music written in something different than the Music + Video Hub? That would explain a lot, especially the sudden inability to animate the live tile.
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thestoreroom posted:You wouldn't believe the abuse we get for the tile colour from some reviewers, especially the Russians... Glad someone likes it! Hey man, condolences on the acquisition, at least you got a ridiculous Day One shirt out of the deal. Probably my favorite thing about MixRadio is how the tile shows a collage of your stored album art. That and the updating album info make it my favorite live tile.
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Considering this is MS, I'm pretty sure there are 2-3 teams all working on different parts of the Music app at the same time, each with their own set of project/program managers who are fighting for visibility in front of their slightly higher-level managers. If you just cut out like 60% of the management I imagine Xbox Music being the best music app ever.
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RVProfootballer posted:Are there 3rd party music apps you can use? I think it's a hilarious sign of the state of Windows Phone when you have to pay a third-party money if you want a non-broken music player. I mean I could understand functional music players for free, and then paying money for players that have cool, unique features. But apparently things have reached a point where you can get away with charging $2 to sell people a basic, generic music player app, simply because it supports all of the functions that people expect from a bare-bones music player.
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Edward IV posted:The new CEO's objective to restructure Microsoft is one of the few reasons I'm not completely dismissing Windows Phone yet. That change can't come any sooner. I don't think this will do anything as long as the management ranks are filled with "GO TEAM GO! CRAPPLE AND SCROOGLE! Evangelize to the wife and kids!" high school football team loyalty garbage. Hoping that "restructure" is actually code for "mass purge." In other news, Xbox Video appears to be the most battery-efficient app on my phone. I can watch locally stored videos for 30-40 minutes without ever heating up the phone or having mass drain problems. Really curious if this indicates something internet-related that other apps are doing which causes the heating issues.
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loquacius posted:It strikes me that if this thread is any indication, Preview for Developers actually turned out to be a really bad idea on MS's part, though. Again, I think the Music app has by now improved enough that if we went straight from 8.0's version to the current one the prevailing reaction would be "hmm artist browsing is wonky now, that kinda sucks but You can't just jump from first draft to (mostly) final draft without a bunch of trial-and-error and feedback in-between. The only reason a swiping gesture to change tracks was added to Xbox Music at all is because of the sheer volume of complaints on Uservoice and Reddit. Without the Dev Preview, the complaints + fixes wouldn't have happened until after the official release. RasputinVarez posted:So after some more research, I think I might be going with the Nokia Lumia 920. I can get one for $250 which is $50 over my original budget but still quite reasonable Other posters have already said, but for pretty much the same price as a 920, you can get a 925, which is superior in every way except for the smaller storage space. But, even the 925 is getting a bit dated.
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Happy_Misanthrope posted:Agreed on the back button behaviour, starting to annoy me especially with Music (what else), as when I accidentally close it by backing out one step too far, it's slow as gently caress to load again and there's no recent history. Hm, I just tested this, and hitting back arrow when that dialog appears acts as a cancel button, taking me back to the email. The more common problem for me is swiping around the keyboard and hitting the Home button by accident, which is the most jarring thing. LentThem fucked around with this message at 01:21 on Jun 28, 2014 |
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WattsvilleBlues posted:I have a few questions though - has anyone who has used Windows Phone 8.1 and gone over to Android 4.4 regretted it? If so, why? I'm thinking specifically of little things that you might not notice until you've been using Android for a while, or even small stuff that hits you right away. I've been spoiled by having the Glance screen (Nokia Sleeping Screen) always on. It'll be hard for me to have a phone that needs to be unlocked anytime I want to check the time or notifications, especially if I'm in a meeting or something.
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clandestine cactus posted:Why do people still have music collections when nearly everything is available via streaming, and wifi is more common than decent toilet paper? I feel like you're kinda reaffirming this MS view, only about Winphone instead of Xbone  Continuous access to wifi and to fast unlimited mobile data plans really isn't a thing in a lot of places, and definitely not the places with the highest (low-end) Winphone sales.
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Gourd of Taste posted:The ability to play one song, and then play another song after that. I'd love the ability to tap a song in a playlist and have it play that one instead of some other song. Oh also, WinPhone 8.1 sorts apps in the All Apps list really strangely. In WP8 when you look at the alphabet index, the Globe symbol is always used for apps with non-English names. In this example, I'll use 虾米 (Xiami in pinyin, a music app). In 8.1, the Globe section is now empty, and all non-English apps are sorted by letters that wouldn't even exist in the local language. For example, 虾米 shows up under X (for "Xia"). This isn't really a bad thing, because at least it's now sorted better than "dump all non-English apps into the same section together." But then, why is the Globe icon still in the sorting list? It's defunct, and just fills space when it doesn't need to. Edit: And as an interesting bit of UI consistency, Xbox Music app doesn't even bother with a Globe icon in the album/artist sorting index, and instead uses "..." which is an interesting place to shove non-English titles. Though for some reason, none of my music with Chinese artists shows up in that section, and instead ends up in U for "Unknown artist." LentThem fucked around with this message at 03:45 on Jul 4, 2014 |
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Mecca-Benghazi posted:It's all over the news, but 18,000 job cuts at Microsoft, mostly in the Nokia division across manufacturing and engineering, and X, Asha, and Nokia feature phones are dead. At least Microsoft is generous with its benefits, right? Fuuuuck I hope mixradio will be okay
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Okay quick employment check: Xylo and thestoreroom, you guys still around? Probably too personal but I'm super curious.
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thestoreroom posted:Now that MixRadio is being spun-off as a separate business, I'll soon be leaving Microsoft - it's a shame, but speaking personally I think it's a great opportunity for us. True, this is probably better for you overall, for the reason Cybernetic Vermin gave. Cybernetic Vermin posted:it was hard to see it growing to potential if it were to be integrated and harmonized with some broader Microsoft multimedia vision. Thanks, I forgot about Yammer.
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I don't even have any games on my phone because everything in the store is following the free-to-play model of "insert wait times for every user interaction which will temporarily go away if you pay us $$$".
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Drastic Actions posted:The background task is still running, but the foreground app can't tell the background process what's going on. So when you reload the app, you have a 50/50 shot of the foreground process actually finding the audio task. Aha! This explains the problem I've noticed in the now-outdated Casts podcast app. If you resume the app while something is playing, there's a 50/50 chance the Now Playing screen won't appear anywhere in the app. The only way to fix it is to tell the app to start playing a different podcast, then go back to the previous one.
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Dr Tran posted:Is there anything else other than Folders? Something about changes to IE to make it load websites properly/faster.
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