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Dunno about automatic per-application control but just use Logitech's Onboard Memory Manager and ditch background software for your pointing device entirely.
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Ok I need a sanity check on on this because holy poo poo is it just me or does Windows 11 sometimes hang briefly doing the most basic things? Opening the Start menu and starting to type is a common one. Another is if I'm opening a program, just about any heavy duty-ish one, the disk usage will spike to 100% and the (therefore?) the rest of the system will become much less responsive. I have a 12700KF, NVME SSD and a 3080, how is any of this excusable?
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Aug 31, 2022 18:48
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So it's not normal for disk usage to spike to nearly max when loading something from it to RAM (such as is the case when opening an app)?
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Sep 1, 2022 13:14
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Klyith posted:A program is data on a disk, you have to read data from disk to run a program. Even a "small" program by install size may scan through a bunch of data on the drive when it runs (for example, an image viewer might scan pictures to make thumbnails). Looks okay to me? Maybe I'm just overreacting. https://imgur.com/IIPeGLl
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Klyith posted:Without knowing what model of NVMe drive you have I can say if that's full performance, but that's pretty normal for a cheap or mid-range PCIe3 drive (or one that's a few generations old). Unlikely that anything is seriously wrong with it anyways. It's a Team Group MP33 M.2 1TB. Seems about right from what I can see online? I guess I just don't understand how people's SSD can't be working hard when launching an app. Isn't that the main bottleneck most of the time? For example, launching Discord I typically get a moment of 100% disk usage as it loads. e: also tried your copying files test, seems to be in order. maxes out the drive but I was able to lauch Edge etc. in the meantime. and it completed in around 5-10 seconds? Serotoning fucked around with this message at 03:45 on Sep 2, 2022 |
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RGB improves performance, duh.
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Sep 22, 2022 18:35
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I haven't either. Couple days ago it said it was available to download and install and then it failed to even download. I think they are delaying the rollout until they can iron out some kinks, from what I hear. People have been having some issues with stuttering on the desktop and reduced performance while gaming.
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Oct 2, 2022 03:49
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barnold posted:the new task manager freaks me out a little Why? It can't collapse real small anymore which is annoying. Otherwise seems more or less like just a tidied up version of the old one.
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Oct 14, 2022 05:03
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redeyes posted:Ill be happy when user interfaces go back to textual lables. Icons suck. Eh, the icons are fine and you can figure out what they mean the 2nd time you open the program. Much less cluttered visually. And the startup icon is a gauge, kind of like a throttle, as it's the computer coming "up to speed" and getting ready to perform. The first listing on that page is even the last BIOS time. Makes good sense to me.
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Oct 16, 2022 04:56
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Happy_Misanthrope posted:Goddamn not having the ability to just drag and drop explorer tabs to an existing window or drag tabs out to make their own window is a bizarre limitation, how could it not launch with this? This is really basic stuff. For real, what the gently caress is going on over there at MS? They need a more forward-facing community member or something that is able to convince the everyman that they have their poo poo together behind the scenes (even if they don't) because from where I'm standing they are just flailing about. I guess extreme market domination will do that to ya.
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Oct 23, 2022 00:25
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redeyes posted:LatencyMon. It was triggering on either the Kernel itself or the Nvidia drivers.. which are okay in Windows 10. The spikes were so bad the system would glitch and cursor would jutter. It was after 22H2 for sure that I noticed it. Can the free edition measure DPC stuffs?
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Oct 26, 2022 15:35
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codo27 posted:First rule, always clean install Windows using media creation tool You can even skip the adblocker tbh. Modern ads on modern sites (the kind you would want to visit anyway) are not that obtrusive.
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Canine Blues Arooo posted:But will it ruin the aesthetic ?? Why don't users ever think about the drat a e s t h e t i c ?
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biznatchio posted:Yes. I don't see random crashing and programs closing in traditional Win32 apps on Windows 11; and I don't run a lot of 'modern' stuff outside of what ships with the OS so I don't run any of it enough to see if it also has crashing problems -- but Notepad crashing is a headache I simply can't excuse. I've used Windows for 30 years and never had Notepad crash before Windows 11 outside of, say, trying to open enormous files with it. Are you on 22H2? Have you tried a clean install from an installation media (like a USB flash drive)? I just did this after having some stability problems and it seems to have cleared things up. Clean install with total drive reformat -> install LAN/Chipset/Audio drivers -> windows update is my panacea.
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Dec 5, 2022 09:01
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Slow down there cowboy, you think they thought out a new feature to it's logical conclusion? Welcome to hell bucko
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Windows 11 is stable and pretty but the worst part is and will forever be all the weird legacy stuff Microsoft seems to not have the balls/care to ditch. Some settings are still laid across various types of control panels dating back to like I dunno Win 7 days? If you are going to release a new major OS version, make it a new major OS version, users be damned. That said in the grand scheme of things this is a minor complaint and the OS is good when it is working properly (tip: clean installs are King).
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Honestly Win 11 has been incredibly responsive for me ever since I did a clean reinstall (which solved my occasional blue screen problems too) and went through the trouble of updating all the important drivers (chipset, GPU, BIOS, etc). I suspect that how modern drivers function is more flexible and modular than ever but also (therefore) more fragile. You should do yourself all the favors you can and let the latest low-level bug fixes and performance improvements make their way onto your machine.
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Jan 20, 2023 14:36
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cubicle gangster posted:Maybe you've all done this already, but why on earth did they change the right click menu? You can do copy paste rename etc., they are the icons at the top. It's cleaner in theory and I like the direction, but like most new things in Windows, it's half-baked and awkwardly bolted onto the old.
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Feb 3, 2023 19:46
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redeyes posted:We are approaching an age of not knowing wtf content comes from or if its real. This is not going to go well. Oh so you mean the internet, anyways?
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Zotix posted:Is the Win 11 search just straight dog sh*t for anyone else? I hit the windows key to search and it'll pause for 2-3 seconds. It's like it's trying to search the internet before even populating local results first. This is originally on a machine with a 3900x processor, and now on a machine with a 5800x3d processor. I tried disabling Win 11 internet search results, which worked until the computer rebooted. It used to be this bad I wanna say, but it has gotten much better. Some questions: are you on the 22H2 build of Win 11? Are you fully updated via Windows update? Do you have all essential drivers up to date (chipset, GPU, audio, etc.) for your particular motherboard? What is your idle CPU usage in Windows, is it high? How about RAM?
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They really couldn't make freshly unzipped files open in a new Explorer tab, could they?
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Mad Wack posted:hi i just upgraded to w11 - is there some way to make the overall GUI "faster"? i tried turning off animations in accessability but it still feels like there's a 1 second or longer pause between clicks on anything in the GUI versus W10, i have a beastly gamer rig and the OS is on an NVME drive Did you do an in-place OS upgrade? Try a clean install, I've generally had better success with it.
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We live in the AI era now, asking a computer to voluntarily kill itself is like, not cool, man.
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Is a grouped taskbar really... that bad? For quick switching between a couple of windows, alt+tab and the like are preferred. If you can, tile windows you work with simultaneously so they show all at once. And otherwise having stuff grouped is more organized and less cluttered. I feel like people don't give grouped a serious chance.
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wa27 posted:Since Windows has forced me to use grouped since I upgraded to 11 six months ago, I still find myself hating it. Clicking twice to switch apps is annoying. It's nice that Windows now has tabbed explorer, so that one doesn't get grouped. Same with Notepad and command prompt. But other apps, such as Adobe Reader, use a single tabbed window but STILL do the grouped thing in the taskbar. Why are you clicking twice? Just hover the group and all the windows within appear with previews. Not picking on you or anyone in particular, but it bothers me when people won't even give new UI paradigms the light of day to see how they work out in practice. That's how we get stale systems and stay stuck in the past, leaving some great ideas on the table. I'm not saying that what is new is always better, but often there are redeeming qualities beyond what we are comfortable with. Part of it is MS's fault, they won't or can't grow the balls to convert all the legacy poo poo scattered throughout the OS and create a truly comprehensive experience. So instead the actually good work of some of their UX engineers gets lost among the rightful jeering at the studio at large.
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BrainDance posted:Sorta tongue in cheek, this is why kids don't know how to really do anything with computers anymore. Sorry but this take just isn't it. Accessibility is way more important than any kind of transparency. If computers are "breaking" (ie not being as useful as they could be for a user because of legacy design choices or otherwise) then that's a system design problem, not a tardi user problem.
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BrainDance posted:Yes I am not literally saying it is better for computers to break, you are right that computers overall, should not break. I feel like this is one of those SA situations where you're going out of your way to misread someone. You said that it's a problem that modern users who didn't have to deal with concepts like file systems get easily lost in the sauce and can lose a saved file, etc. I suppose I read-in too much of a finger-pointing at these users but in the context of you talking about how us young Millenials who grew up with these primitive computing concepts fully exposed to us have no issues, I think that's a reasonable message to take home. Either way, it's the "sauce" that is indeed the real problem. The tech world is by far the most frustrating place to see stagnation and design rot because it is also the most cutting edge place where these things can and should be reviewed and iterated upon and improved. Staggered QWERTY keyboard layouts are based in preventing mechanical failures which are long gone. C drive is not A or B because those were reserved for floppy disks. All I'm saying is that the modern user deserves nothing but sympathy for not being grandfathered into all the random extremely outdated design choices we cling on to. Thank god for iPhones.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:It looks like Microsoft got enough pushback on removing the options in File Explorer that they are going to roll those changes back: This is why Windows will never drop all the legacy bloat. Sad
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And never underestimate the power of a clean install!
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School of How posted:I am a long time Linux user that recently switched to Windows 11.Back when I was using Linux, I would just walk away from my computer, and after 5 minutes, the screen would turn off, and then after 15 minutes the entire computer would go to sleep. Then, when I want to use my computer again, I can just come back to it, wiggle the mouse, then my desktop would come back. I want Windows 11 to work the same way, but it just won't do it. I go to the settings and have the screen saver set to 5 minutes, and also in th4e power settings I have it set to turn off the monitor after 5 minutes and sleep after 15. Yet, when I walk away from my computer, I come back 15 minutes later or 20 minutes later and the screen is still on. Sometimes it does turn off, but most of the time it just doesn't. Also, sometimes when it goes into sleep, it will just randomly wake up after limke sa few hours for seemingly no reason. Is this a known issue with Windows 11, and is there some way I can just have it work the way it's supposed to? Check if Task Scheduler has any third party apps which are waking the PC to run something.
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Not trying to rustle any jimmies here but aren't most G2A keys of equal "dodginess" to our SA store ones basically? I'm mostly just salty that I spent like $130 CAD for a key through retail but also how is such arbitrage possible it is madness.
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WattsvilleBlues posted:Yes it is. I'm moving into the Preview Release build Preview Release Channel (gently caress me, Microsoft), to get 23H2. What feature(s) are you so impatient for? As exciting as new AI tools and stuff can be I'm holding my breath more for house cleaning, unification, and de-bloating efforts more than anything. I think it was announced that Edge will be losing Math Solver and other bloat.
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I've seen it reported that the alt+tab CoPilot thing only appears if CoPilot was already open anyways. I'll save my outrage for if/when it releases.
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Falcon2001 posted:Yeah this is me as well, I've just accepted that apparently I have a secret magic Windows key that unlocks the working version or something, or that SA is somehow connected to multiple mandela effect worlds or something. Like, I believe people when they say it's terrible, it's just baffling because it basically almost always works for me. Win11 introduced some hitching, but not enough to be a real issue, and my work laptop doesn't have anything aftermarket. I'm the same way. I think some people just have a very very short fuse for this kind of thing, especially when it occurs do to an update or upgrade of OS that they were reluctant for in the first place. It seems like if it were up to most people in this thread we would still have Windows Vista/7 era or earlier Start menu. I like to think that there are growing pains and that we eventually will have something to show all the experimenting Microsoft has been doing, but I admit they are often doing themselves no favors with some baffling UI decisions and inconsistencies. I am however a more or less a known outlier as a tech-y person who supports the "dumbing down" of many aspects of every day computing. I think accessibility is a most noble goal.
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redeyes posted:Load Everything search from Voidtools. The search utility built into PowerToys is also supposed to be quite good and is official. Personally, I hardly use the search and when I do, it finds the thing I'm looking for before I even notice the web results. 
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ziasquinn posted:what's the best system debloater Probably none of them. The risk to needlessly damage or hobble your system is larger than any kind of modicum of performance you will eek out. Just hide or uninstall prominent stuff which you don't use (the list should be pretty short) and don't worry about the rest.
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codo27 posted:You know, we complained so much about losing the ability to not have taskbar icons group, and now that its back, I had forgotten all about it until it just popped into my head. It looks unnatural now. Yeah, I tried it out for a few moments and promptly went back. But I was never that bothered with grouped icons in the first place, just neater for me.
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Eletriarnation posted:I would have preferred if they left things alone for the most part, but the incompleteness and inconsistency is what frustrates me most. Yeah, if they actually stuck to their guns and went all the way with a UI or paradigm change, legacy be damned, at least I could respect them. The hodgepodge is worse. I might be a minority or silent majority here though in that I actually like a lot of the changes (or at least the inferred spirit of the changes) they have tried recently.
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Reoxygenation posted:I don't know why I asked because deep down I knew it was about capitalism once again, You are a true scholar and a gentleman It's not that complicated, they are trying to maximize profit. Just like how when you are looking for a job, you seek the highest salary. Or when you are shopping for a good, you seek the best bang for buck. Posting "aha! I should've known, it's that darn capitalism" regarding the decisions of a company making the same kind of self-interested decisions you regularly make under the freedom of capitalism is the cringiest poo poo ever Serotoning fucked around with this message at 01:27 on Jan 16, 2024 |
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Reoxygenation posted:I don't think it's that deep and it does make sense but sure ok I guess sorry for poking fun at myself I will do better next post Ok well sorry I didn't mean to dispose of you in particular, I just see this kind of iamverysmart style capitalism bashing all over the forums in earnest and it's so incredibly tiring. Guess I missed some obvious irony
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