Grog posted:Solitaire has ads the ads in the microsoft games collection piss me off but I feel it necessary to mention that the ads dont show up during "normal" gameplay, but only during the added challenge modes
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dissss posted:Because you're comparing the size of an in place Windows installation to the size of the Windows installer. Oh ok cool, thanks!
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Aug 8, 2015 03:11
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hooah posted:I don't think this happened for a day or two after upgrading my desktop to 10, but now whenever it resumes from hibernation, I first get a notification asking what I want to do with the device in the G drive, then get this window: I think this got lost in the f.lux kerfuffle.
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Aug 8, 2015 03:18
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GreatGreen posted:Maybe you guys can help shed light on this thing I'm having trouble wrapping my brain around. Windows 10 is only ~3-4 GB if you're talking about the install media. The Windows 7 media is similar - about 3 GB.
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Aug 8, 2015 03:49
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Does anyone know why the ATI Driver on my laptop will resize the windows and reset the color whenever I close the lid? It wasn't doing this on Window 8, but it now doing this on Window 10. I know it ATI related since when the driver was removed it wasn't resizing the windows. Sadly there is only a single 17.1 driver for ATI right now with the beta being behind the current release! [edit] Tried D4 just to make sure my card still working, which it thankfully is. But I noticed the color got reset after leaving that too. So how can I stop it from changing my color setting in ATI Catalyst? Rirse fucked around with this message at 04:06 on Aug 8, 2015 |
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Aug 8, 2015 03:54
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windows 10 finally gave me a chance to try out project spark and I'm kind of saddened that there's no thread for it on SA because it's pretty cool but everyone hates it for whatever reason then again I really liked spore and especially the galactic adventures pack so I'm a sucker for these kinds of things
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Aug 8, 2015 04:04
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Phantom Limb posted:and don't use stupid paranoid guides off pastebin next time  God drat this. There is zero good reason to do anything from that guide. All that's missing from that guide is a note at the end telling you to invest in bitcoins to make money.
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Aug 8, 2015 04:34
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Rirse posted:Does anyone know why the ATI Driver on my laptop will resize the windows and reset the color whenever I close the lid? It wasn't doing this on Window 8, but it now doing this on Window 10. I know it ATI related since when the driver was removed it wasn't resizing the windows. Sadly there is only a single 17.1 driver for ATI right now with the beta being behind the current release! AMD dude, it's been like a decade. Anyway, try hooking your laptop to an external display, make sure it recognizes it, then closing the lid. With my nvidia laptop, doing this made it stop changing resolution when the lid was closed and a monitor wasn't connected.
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Aug 8, 2015 04:36
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xylo posted:
Part of the problem is the stupid choices the installer makes if you leave it to its own devices - changing default apps is just not cool and it makes people very suspicious of what else is going on. e. Also the 'Something happened' error - it would have been far more helpful to actually say what happened. No idea how you were supposed to figure out it was (or was for me) a locale issue. dissss fucked around with this message at 04:41 on Aug 8, 2015 |
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Aug 8, 2015 04:38
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Hey guys, went back through the last 15 pages, but didn't see this. I got the rollout notification yesterday, figured "what the hell", backed up my 7 environment, and did an in-place upgrade so I wouldn't have to reinstall all my poo poo. Everything is working pretty well, still getting used to some of it... but my big issue is this: all of my Start Menu icons are blanks/generics. Any way to rebuild my start menu icons? The new apps show up fine, but everything else is affected. 
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Aug 8, 2015 05:00
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Shumagorath posted:As a shareholder I'm OK with this. Microsoft just rolled out a free upgrade to millions of PCs and if they can recoup some of that cost by showing ads to everyone with too little engagement at work then great. How many shares? What's the cost basis?
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Aug 8, 2015 05:01
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Nintendo Kid posted:AMD dude, it's been like a decade. Anyway, try hooking your laptop to an external display, make sure it recognizes it, then closing the lid. With my nvidia laptop, doing this made it stop changing resolution when the lid was closed and a monitor wasn't connected. I tried that and outside of the color resetting when hooking it up, it didn't fix it. Here what happening using a before and after picture with your post as a example. BEFORE  AFTER  Honestly it just the window resizing that annoying, as the color change doesn't do a whole lot. Rirse fucked around with this message at 06:31 on Aug 8, 2015 |
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Aug 8, 2015 05:39
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dissss posted:Because you're comparing the size of an in place Windows installation to the size of the Windows installer. The number in the screenshot is also inflated due to the WinSxS folder. A lot of files in WinSxS need to be in multiple places, both within the folder and elsewhere in Windows. It waste space to copy the files everywhere they're needed, so the files' data is kept in one place, and every file just points to that one copy of data. File Explorer isn't very smart, though, and will add the size of the data to the total every time it sees a file pointing to that data.
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Aug 8, 2015 06:54
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Is it just me or can you not go entirely full screen in tablet mode? For example in the Netflix app the task bar is always showing even when a video is playing, but if you toggle tablet mode off you can click the full(er) screen button and it goes away. Also I miss being able to swipe and see the time when in full screen video, the action centre should show the time. Switching between the modes also sucks because you end up with dozens of open apps floating around, at least minimize the background ones. Closing apps from the view all mode should be easier, that x is tiny. Should be able to swipe to get to all apps. But the Touch screen office apps and Awful app are great! Sri.Theo fucked around with this message at 11:08 on Aug 8, 2015 |
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Aug 8, 2015 10:00
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Trip report: Upgrade of tablet went great. Now I just need to get used to the new ways of doing things, yet again.
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Aug 8, 2015 10:55
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How long have you guys had to wait from signing up for the upgrade to actually being able to install it?
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Aug 8, 2015 12:07
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That's largely dependant on your specific hardware setup. You can just download and install if you want the slight risk of an incompatibility problem.
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Aug 8, 2015 12:19
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I tried to upgrade to win10 from win7 on my desktop pc and now its stuck on the 'Hello,welcome back!' screen and both my mouse and keyboard are not doing anything. I googled a bit and I tried different usb sockets, a different mouse, plugging them all out and restarting and plugging back in when windows has started but nothing works and it feels like I bricked my pc which kinda sucks. Anyone else had this problem/knows how to fix this? I haven't been able to play rocket league for 3 days 
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Aug 8, 2015 14:24
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Since I completely skipped the entirety of Windows 8, I missed out on this live tile business, which now is kinda neat on Windows 10 thanks to not being full screen. What are the best ways to make my start menu only have live tiles even tho I want shortcuts to actual apps?
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Aug 8, 2015 14:40
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klaphark posted:I tried to upgrade to win10 from win7 on my desktop pc and now its stuck on the 'Hello,welcome back!' screen and both my mouse and keyboard are not doing anything.
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Aug 8, 2015 15:04
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WebDog posted:Do you have device drivers for a USB hub or the ports on your motherboard? Do you mean on a disk? They worked fine before in 7 and I used the windows update to upgrade to 10 but I'm not sure if I actually installed any drivers for them previously. Don't have them on a disk.
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Aug 8, 2015 16:17
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Is there a way to make 1440p not suck on Windows 10? Skype, chrome, and various other software look like complete rear end at higher than 100% scaling. Custom scaling doesn't work well either. Default just makes everything tiny, but it strains my eyes.
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Aug 8, 2015 17:25
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Aug 8, 2015 17:44
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MohShuvuu posted:Is there a way to make 1440p not suck on Windows 10? Skype, chrome, and various other software look like complete rear end at higher than 100% scaling. Custom scaling doesn't work well either. Default just makes everything tiny, but it strains my eyes.
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Aug 8, 2015 18:01
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I fresh installed Windows 8.1 on my laptop and upgraded to Windows 10 without a single hitch. Pretty impressed, actually. The Windows 10 beta/preview was a bit bumpier than this for this machine so it looks like they've made quite a bit of progress in the past couple of months.
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Aug 8, 2015 18:27
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Hey, I'm just doing a fresh install of 8.1 to my laptop myself, and am about to go through the same process. Did you just hit "Get Windows 10" and it started updating, or did you do one of the manual "No seriously, update this poo poo now" methods? I would like to also not have a single hitch going to Win 10 if I can. 
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Aug 8, 2015 18:35
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surc posted:Hey, I'm just doing a fresh install of 8.1 to my laptop myself, and am about to go through the same process. Did you just hit "Get Windows 10" and it started updating, or did you do one of the manual "No seriously, update this poo poo now" methods? I would like to also not have a single hitch going to Win 10 if I can. I used the Media Creation Tool on my desktop and the Get Windows 10 update thing on my laptop and had no problems on either. It seems to be dumb luck whether you have issues or not really.
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Aug 8, 2015 19:23
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Huh. Update went flawlessly for me. Quick, too. Win 10 looks nice so far!
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Aug 8, 2015 19:57
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FistEnergy posted:Huh. Update went flawlessly for me. Quick, too. Win 10 looks nice so far! Yeah, just got the update today, and so far nothing horrible has happened to my computer. Made sure to turn off all the weird defaults/Cortana during setup though. And I basically went through Privacy and basically turned off every setting in there, too.
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Aug 8, 2015 22:23
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Have Microsoft given an idea of when Cortana is being released in more countries? I barely use Siri so I doubt I'll use it much but I'd like to try it I suppose?
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Aug 8, 2015 23:15
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In case anyone cares, you can upgrade a system using the Home/Pro Win 10 ISO. As long as the install doesn't prompt you for a key code, you are good to go. No need to wait for the upgrade icon to be ready.
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Aug 8, 2015 23:36
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redeyes posted:In case anyone cares, you can upgrade a system using the Home/Pro Win 10 ISO. As long as the install doesn't prompt you for a key code, you are good to go. No need to wait for the upgrade icon to be ready. It prompted for a key on my Windows 7 PCs, and one that was running 8.1 but originally came with 7. Anything that shipped with 8 just seems to work.
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Aug 8, 2015 23:40
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dissss posted:It prompted for a key on my Windows 7 PCs, and one that was running 8.1 but originally came with 7. Anything that shipped with 8 just seems to work. The times I've seen this happen, the ISO was the wrong one for the version, Home vs Pro.
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Aug 8, 2015 23:44
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Okay how does Hey Cortana open email open the edge browser to the iCloud login page?
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Aug 9, 2015 00:01
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http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2015/08/08/windows-10-forced-updates-causing-endless-crash-loop/ Looks like KB3081424 is causing crash loops for some people and since you can't stop updates in 10, there's no way to stop it unless you go into the registry and mess with the ProfileList.
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Aug 9, 2015 00:21
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Cortana fails with my Philly accent. I want wooder ice damnit. Edit: Gah doesn't like hoagies either. Edit 2: Yay it learned hoagies Edit 3: Wooder is a no go with Cortana. (for those elsewhere we pronounce water as wooder hey blame the English midlands in the 1600s) Lowtechs fucked around with this message at 00:32 on Aug 9, 2015 |
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Aug 9, 2015 00:26
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Hello la delfi ya. I have a horrible accent lol. That is me being very slow saying Philadelphia. lol saying Philadelphia just normal and I get a bing search for selfie. Tried it again and go results for Sophia. Cortana cannot cdeal with my dipthong lol. Lowtechs fucked around with this message at 00:45 on Aug 9, 2015 |
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Aug 9, 2015 00:41
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ahaha I kind of want a YouTube video of you trying Cortana or something.  Sorry for your extreme accent problems.Speaking of problems with 10, my laptop is still broken so I'm doing a reset to hopefully fix the Synaptics driver issue. You know, until it reinstalls.
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ThermoPhysical posted:ahaha I kind of want a YouTube video of you trying Cortana or something. Gahhh Hoagie is now translated as okie. I just want a tasty sandwich not to disparage people from Oklahoma.
Lowtechs fucked around with this message at 00:58 on Aug 9, 2015 |
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