eh, not really. it lets you hide a bad driver version with the theory that the next version will have corrected the problem. And 99.9% of the time, that happens.
I mean the concept of "You cannot decide whether or not to install new drivers for hardware that is not manufactured or sold by Microsoft".
well, again, in theory they've passed Microsoft certification if they're being delivered through windows update. Microsoft doesn't just let any driver/patch there. there is actually a certification process the vendor must go through.
It's like the turn signal bulb that fell off and broke coming to a stop in the driveway days after the car accident (not that Win 10 is a serious problem, this is something that actually happened that sprang to mind): Just one little thing that stands out at the moment. It's also just stupid, like their update system; like they didn't think random things through for no reason other than they just didn't bother.
I'm sure updates will fix most of these things.
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eh, not really. it lets you hide a bad driver version with the theory that the next version will have corrected the problem. And 99.9% of the time, that happens.
I mean the concept of "You cannot decide whether or not to install new drivers for hardware that is not manufactured or sold by Microsoft".
well, again, in theory they've passed Microsoft certification if they're being delivered through windows update. Microsoft doesn't just let any driver/patch there. there is actually a certification process the vendor must go through.
It's still dumb as shit. You don't need to be rolling third party drivers into Windows Update, because certified or not you cannot guarantee that they will not cause problems, and the first time a busted driver update comes down the line I'm sure that'll change real quick.
eh, not really. it lets you hide a bad driver version with the theory that the next version will have corrected the problem. And 99.9% of the time, that happens.
I mean the concept of "You cannot decide whether or not to install new drivers for hardware that is not manufactured or sold by Microsoft".
well, again, in theory they've passed Microsoft certification if they're being delivered through windows update. Microsoft doesn't just let any driver/patch there. there is actually a certification process the vendor must go through.
It's still dumb as shit. You don't need to be rolling third party drivers into Windows Update, because certified or not you cannot guarantee that they will not cause problems, and the first time a busted driver update comes down the line I'm sure that'll change real quick.
Making updated drivers available through Windows Update is not a bad idea, per-say. The previous arrangement is either (a) old drivers are never upgraded, even though they may not necessarily be bug free or (b) each manufacturer distributes their own terrible control center that pesters the user when a new driver is available.
So, despite having told the windows installer to do a clean install, I did end up finding a Windows.old folder that I was able to use a sketchy key scanning program to find my real Windows 10 key within the Windows.old folder and properly install. Horray, I'm not out 120 bucks! The hardware based back up key stuff you guys mentioned never did materialize though, so maybe don't count on it so much.
Making updated drivers available through Windows Update is not a bad idea, per-say. The previous arrangement is either (a) old drivers are never upgraded, even though they may not necessarily be bug free or (b) each manufacturer distributes their own terrible control center that pesters the user when a new driver is available.
The primary problem is the automatic part.
This is true. It has already been an issue with a lot of people with GeForce Experience and Windows Update trying to install different drivers over and over again because GE will update you to the newest driver, then Windows will "update" you to their newest driver (which is older), and then GE will see that your driver is out of date and update you again, over and over. This is a colossal pain in the ass for people who have had issues with multimonitor setups which are broken under the new GeForce drivers.
Adding that to the part you mentioned where a lot of prebuilts come preinstalled with their own Dell/HP/Lenovo/Whoever branded driver updating software and you can conceivably find yourself in a situation where three programs are all competing to update your drivers at the same time, and who knows how current any of them are.
This isn't news, but you can tell GE not to install a driver revision. And you should be able to RClick and Ignore specific updates in Windows Update. Neither one really fixes the issue (which I completely agree is an issue, btw). It's the equivalent of sticking your fingers in your ears, but at least you won't be bothered for needless updates.
So, despite having told the windows installer to do a clean install, I did end up finding a Windows.old folder that I was able to use a sketchy key scanning program to find my real Windows 10 key within the Windows.old folder and properly install. Horray, I'm not out 120 bucks! The hardware based back up key stuff you guys mentioned never did materialize though, so maybe don't count on it so much.
Eh, it worked well enough for me on 5 machines I've tested on, so I think I'll trust it.
Also, you don't have a "real" windows 10 key. The key you would have pulled out is the same key that every Windows 10 upgrade install of the same sku (home or pro) has. The activation probably just went through on this install, for whatever reason.
You can't change WINDOW color? Win 10 is going to be asking to install for awhile!
yep, window colour is totally the reason not to upgrade. In fact, lets just stop the rollout and go back to the drawing board. :rotate:
You shouldn't discount the importance of customization. Some people may need to stare at that screen for hours on end, and staring into white gets pretty uncomfortable for some of us. Having a default, unchangeable color scheme that can be a contributing factor to physical maladies (headaches, migraines, eye strain, etc) can be a pretty big deal for some.
If you like it, or it doesn't bother you, groovy. Don't belittle others for their preferences or needs. There's a reason I keep my UI colors dark on all my machines.
You can't change WINDOW color? Win 10 is going to be asking to install for awhile!
yep, window colour is totally the reason not to upgrade. In fact, lets just stop the rollout and go back to the drawing board. :rotate:
You shouldn't discount the importance of customization. Some people may need to stare at that screen for hours on end, and staring into white gets pretty uncomfortable for some of us. Having a default, unchangeable color scheme that can be a contributing factor to physical maladies (headaches, migraines, eye strain, etc) can be a pretty big deal for some.
If you like it, or it doesn't bother you, groovy. Don't belittle others for their preferences or needs. There's a reason I keep my UI colors dark on all my machines.
You can't change WINDOW color? Win 10 is going to be asking to install for awhile!
yep, window colour is totally the reason not to upgrade. In fact, lets just stop the rollout and go back to the drawing board. :rotate:
You shouldn't discount the importance of customization. Some people may need to stare at that screen for hours on end, and staring into white gets pretty uncomfortable for some of us. Having a default, unchangeable color scheme that can be a contributing factor to physical maladies (headaches, migraines, eye strain, etc) can be a pretty big deal for some.
If you like it, or it doesn't bother you, groovy. Don't belittle others for their preferences or needs. There's a reason I keep my UI colors dark on all my machines.
sarcasm, dude.
If you read your post in an overly-sarcastic tone, it's still aiming it's payload at people who dislike the default white color scheme. I don't understand how that's supposed to be a defense.
also, for everyone saying there shouldn't be 3rd party drivers in Windows update:
If there wasn't, pretty much nothing would work. That printer you plugged into your computer that just worked, chances are it grabbed the driver from windows update silently in the background. Ditto for that [insert shiny new peripheral here] that you just bought and it works out of the box.
A lot of stuff is baked into Windows now, but you'd be surprised how often new things you plug in goes up to windows update to grab the drivers, even things that are already baked into Windows will go online and check for newer versions of said driver. I personally don't want to have to go back to the days of having to download and install drivers for everything I want to plug in.
I don't think anyone is necessarily opposed to the OS taking on responsibility for driver updates. It's that whole "don't have a choice" thing. If I like using GeForce Experience and want the freshest drivers straight from nVidia, I should be able to do that without having to manually exclude every new version that hits Windows Update. If I'd rather use WU, but I'm playing a new game and know from experience that new driver updates can sometimes be worse than old ones and I want to hang back for a few weeks while others test them out, I should be able to do that.
Hell, I'm typing this on a PC running Arch Linux. Everything comes from the Arch Repositories; drivers, OS, third party software like this instance of Chromium, etc. There's nothing wrong with the OS providing that as a service. But that's what it is, a service, and once it stops serving my needs, I don't want or need it.
Though I'm pretty confident MS is going to backpedal on this one. Give it... three months.
I don't think anyone is necessarily opposed to the OS taking on responsibility for driver updates. It's that whole "don't have a choice" thing. If I like using GeForce Experience and want the freshest drivers straight from nVidia, I should be able to do that without having to manually exclude every new version that hits Windows Update. If I'd rather use WU, but I'm playing a new game and know from experience that new driver updates can sometimes be worse than old ones and I want to hang back for a few weeks while others test them out, I should be able to do that.
Hell, I'm typing this on a PC running Arch Linux. Everything comes from the Arch Repositories; drivers, OS, third party software like this instance of Chromium, etc. There's nothing wrong with the OS providing that as a service. But that's what it is, a service, and once it stops serving my needs, I don't want or need it.
Though I'm pretty confident MS is going to backpedal on this one. Give it... three months.
Nope. This is one they won't backpedal on. In the long run it is going to save them more money than most of us realize, and for 99% of users, it'll make windows a better experience.
So, despite having told the windows installer to do a clean install, I did end up finding a Windows.old folder that I was able to use a sketchy key scanning program to find my real Windows 10 key within the Windows.old folder and properly install. Horray, I'm not out 120 bucks! The hardware based back up key stuff you guys mentioned never did materialize though, so maybe don't count on it so much.
Eh, it worked well enough for me on 5 machines I've tested on, so I think I'll trust it.
Also, you don't have a "real" windows 10 key. The key you would have pulled out is the same key that every Windows 10 upgrade install of the same sku (home or pro) has. The activation probably just went through on this install, for whatever reason.
Nope, it's the real thing: despite switching back to win 7 without a key, it detected that the retrieved key was win 10 pro instead of normal, as I had upgraded from Win7 ultimate originally. I know what you mean though, the key I initially tried to retrieve without hunting in windows.old was denied as a generic inactivated windows key.
also, for everyone saying there shouldn't be 3rd party drivers in Windows update:
If there wasn't, pretty much nothing would work. That printer you plugged into your computer that just worked, chances are it grabbed the driver from windows update silently in the background. Ditto for that [insert shiny new peripheral here] that you just bought and it works out of the box.
A lot of stuff is baked into Windows now, but you'd be surprised how often new things you plug in goes up to windows update to grab the drivers, even things that are already baked into Windows will go online and check for newer versions of said driver. I personally don't want to have to go back to the days of having to download and install drivers for everything I want to plug in.
The whole point of USB was that you could have a pile of generic drivers for stuff. Your average mouse/printer/keyboard/whatever doesn't need to download drivers unless there is something specialized going on because "generic device driver for X" has been a thing in Windows for quite a while now. But, here is a solution:
Windows does not have a driver file for this device. Do you want Windows to check online for a driver file for this device?
Generic drivers work ok for things like HID drivers for mouse and keyboard, or mass storage for flash drives. Most other things are *slightly* more specific than that.
Even then, your average gaming mouse and keyboard will have driver packages that are more specific than the generic ones baked into windows.
I get the idea that Microsoft would want to automatically provide driver updates just like they have for Windows updates - that way your average user is running on a more secure platform. But I don't get why there's no option for power users to turn some of it off - or turn it off for specific pieces of hardware. Especially for something like graphics driver. I'm running a Radeon 5770; what happens when the newest driver breaks my card's interaction with some game because it's old and AMD doesn't care any more?
also, for everyone saying there shouldn't be 3rd party drivers in Windows update
NO ONE IS SAYING THIS
Wii U sucks, but my NNID is da66en. Steam is route66. 3DS is 2938-8099-8160.
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it is possible to change the system app window color from the light theme to the dark theme, but it requires regedit and is pretty hacky and also not guaranteed to be a supported configuration. further, it only affects system apps, it does not touch things like file explorer and store apps like the mail client
In the interest of getting rid of any clutter that might be slowing down my performance, I have a list of my background processes.
Some of these I recognize as integral to my setup, others I'm drawing a blank. I'm hoping someone here can tell me which ones I'm better off leaving off or uninstalling altogether.
Windows 10 has been hit or miss for me, so if this helps with the clutter and overall performance, I could use the help.
Not particularly, but if nothing is taking up any resources I guess there's no need to start disabling stuff.
Right now my biggest Windows 10 pet peeves include:
1. My numpad key turning off by itself, and then turning back on when I hit a key. This seems to be a widespread bug and not some lame power-saving feature, but I sure would like a fix.
2. The placement of icons on the task bar. Steam used to display my most recent games on its icon on the taskbar, but now they only show up on the desktop tray (bottom right).
3. Latency issues when using a PS4 controller. What's weird is that it was working fine a day ago, but somewhere along the line it continues to display latency issues. I ordered a 4.0 bluetooth dongle that I hope will take care of it, otherwise I don't know what could be affecting it. I notice the lightbar flashes when doing things like opening up Firefox or closing a program.
4. My kingdom for a script or method where I can instantly change my monitor and audio inputs with a simple key press. Did this all the time to switch between Steam BPM, but this does not work as intended on Windows 10.
2. The placement of icons on the task bar. Steam used to display my most recent games on its icon on the taskbar, but now they only show up on the desktop tray (bottom right).
This was bothering me too, but I found the problem yesterday. There is a 10 item limit on jumplists which is taken up by the stuff already there. So you have to go into Steam Setting>Interface>Set Taskbar Preferences and uncheck everything you don't need and games will show up.
The real annoying thing is windows took out the option to change the number of jumplist items. From what I've read the default is set to 25 items in the registry, but the taskbar will only show 10.
So here's a weird thing I discovered last night. Windows 10 is treating everything in my "My Documents" folder as if it isn't mine. This is particularly annoying when I want to run any Steam app because they all have to be given administrative access before they'll work.
Does anyone have any idea on how I can fix this without having to run all my programs as an administrator?
2. The placement of icons on the task bar. Steam used to display my most recent games on its icon on the taskbar, but now they only show up on the desktop tray (bottom right).
This was bothering me too, but I found the problem yesterday. There is a 10 item limit on jumplists which is taken up by the stuff already there. So you have to go into Steam Setting>Interface>Set Taskbar Preferences and uncheck everything you don't need and games will show up.
The real annoying thing is windows took out the option to change the number of jumplist items. From what I've read the default is set to 25 items in the registry, but the taskbar will only show 10.
Awesome, thanks for the tip.
In addition to my keyboard light shutting off, my keyboard will sometimes turn off (you hear the "device disconnected" noise too) but then immediately turn back on. It's maybe half a second at best.
2. The placement of icons on the task bar. Steam used to display my most recent games on its icon on the taskbar, but now they only show up on the desktop tray (bottom right).
This was bothering me too, but I found the problem yesterday. There is a 10 item limit on jumplists which is taken up by the stuff already there. So you have to go into Steam Setting>Interface>Set Taskbar Preferences and uncheck everything you don't need and games will show up.
The real annoying thing is windows took out the option to change the number of jumplist items. From what I've read the default is set to 25 items in the registry, but the taskbar will only show 10.
Awesome, thanks for the tip.
In addition to my keyboard light shutting off, my keyboard will sometimes turn off (you hear the "device disconnected" noise too) but then immediately turn back on. It's maybe half a second at best.
But that's half a second too long.
I've had USB devices do that independent of the OS before. I'm sure you have but it's always something worth asking: have you tried a different USB port for the keyboard. The times I've encountered USB weirdness like that just changing the port it is plugged into usually resolves it.
It looks like that hits everything, unfortunately, even if you go as far as searching directly from the Bing website.
Yeah; there's not really a good way for Firefox addons to determine if a URL was entered by a user or opened automatically by another program. The only (hacky) thing that immediately comes to mind is perhaps having the addon keep track of how long a new tab has been open before a bing URL is entered; a tab from a Contara search would be near instant.
It looks like the new version of Firefox actually does that on its own now, and just to searches through Cortana or other outside connections, not to searches through Bing.com.
Hopefully that ends up being added to Chrome and Edge as well at some point.
4. My kingdom for a script or method where I can instantly change my monitor and audio inputs with a simple key press. Did this all the time to switch between Steam BPM, but this does not work as intended on Windows 10.
Win+P brings up the monitor switcher. HDMI audio swapping with the monitor is really hit-or-miss with the AMD drivers, but works reliably on my NVidia card. There's also a command line app you can use with the following options:
On my not-a-Steambox, I have two batch files on the desktop called Start TV and Stop TV containing the relevant commands.
Depending on your setup, it may think that your TV is your main monitor. If things get hosed up, just mash Win+P a bit more until you get a picture again.
Section 4(b) of the EULA says that you can transfer if you upgraded from a retail version, but when you upgrade through Microsoft's promo you are assigned the same generic license key that everyone else using the same edition has.
I have also read complaints elsewhere that Microsoft support is contradicting that and I haven't read any success stories of people successfully transferring upgraded copies of Windows 10.
Personally, I canceled my reservation until MS gets their story straight.
Here in this thread from a Windows related forum you can read the complain/request a person sent to Microsoft by email regarding this subject.
According to his latest posts in the thread (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) he was later contacted by Microsoft Corporate HQ. After some discussion they reached an agreement and was offerend a second standalone Windows 10 licence+key with permanent full transfer rights. He also mentions that is possible that the wording within the EULA will soon be changed.
4. My kingdom for a script or method where I can instantly change my monitor and audio inputs with a simple key press. Did this all the time to switch between Steam BPM, but this does not work as intended on Windows 10.
Win+P brings up the monitor switcher. HDMI audio swapping with the monitor is really hit-or-miss with the AMD drivers, but works reliably on my NVidia card. There's also a command line app you can use with the following options:
On my not-a-Steambox, I have two batch files on the desktop called Start TV and Stop TV containing the relevant commands.
Depending on your setup, it may think that your TV is your main monitor. If things get hosed up, just mash Win+P a bit more until you get a picture again.
This is the script I was using on Windows 7, made by a GAF member.
;Use the full path of where you extract VA.ahk
#Include C:\VA.ahk
;modify with the hotkey you would like to use
;or delete the line and run the script from your desktop when you want to switch
F4::
;Checks if big picture mode is already running, if it is then don't execute the rest of the script
IfWinExist, Steam ahk_class CUIEngineWin32 ;checks to see if the big picture mode window is running
return
;Switches displays with internal rendering mode enabled
Run, "C:\Windows\System32\DisplaySwitch.exe" /external
;Switch to sound device to use with the television
Run, "C:\Windows\ssd.exe" 1
;Stores the old volume of the device to be used when gaming
oldVol := VA_GetMasterVolume()
;Gets the current hour in 24 hour format Midnight = 0, 11pm = 23
FormatTime, aTimeH, A_Now, H
if(aTimeH < 8)
;set a low volume if it's after midnight but before 8am
VA_SetMasterVolume(100.0)
else
;Set the volume to what you want to game at
VA_SetMasterVolume(100.0)
;Set x and y to the resolutions of your television
Run, "C:\Windows\qres.exe" /x:1920 /y:1080 /c:32
;Checks if Steam is running and open big picture mode accordingly
Process, Exist, Steam.exe
if ErrorLevel
Run, "steam://open/bigpicture"
else
Run, "C:\Program Files(x86)\Steam\Steam.exe" -bigpicture
;Waits for big picture mode to open
WinWait, Steam ahk_class CUIEngineWin32
;Waits for big picture mode to close
WinWaitClose, Steam ahk_class CUIEngineWin32
;Restore the old volume of the sound device
VA_SetMasterVolume(oldVol)
;Switch back to your primary sound device
Run, "C:\Windows\ssd.exe" 3
;Switch back to your primary display
Run, "Displayswitch.exe" /clone
;set x and y to the resolutions of your primary display
Run, "C:\Windows\qres.exe" /x:1920 /y:1080 /c:32
return
The only thing that doesn't work is the monitor switching. When I start up Big Picture Mode, it shuts off my PC monitor and displays on my TV, as intended.
But when I exit BPM, it doesn't switch back to Duplicate display. It keeps my TV display on and my PC monitor off.
I don't have much experience making scripts, so if anyone knows how I can adjust the script to do this, it would be a big help.
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well, again, in theory they've passed Microsoft certification if they're being delivered through windows update. Microsoft doesn't just let any driver/patch there. there is actually a certification process the vendor must go through.
yep, window colour is totally the reason not to upgrade. In fact, lets just stop the rollout and go back to the drawing board. :rotate:
I'm sure updates will fix most of these things.
It's still dumb as shit. You don't need to be rolling third party drivers into Windows Update, because certified or not you cannot guarantee that they will not cause problems, and the first time a busted driver update comes down the line I'm sure that'll change real quick.
Making updated drivers available through Windows Update is not a bad idea, per-say. The previous arrangement is either (a) old drivers are never upgraded, even though they may not necessarily be bug free or (b) each manufacturer distributes their own terrible control center that pesters the user when a new driver is available.
The primary problem is the automatic part.
This is true. It has already been an issue with a lot of people with GeForce Experience and Windows Update trying to install different drivers over and over again because GE will update you to the newest driver, then Windows will "update" you to their newest driver (which is older), and then GE will see that your driver is out of date and update you again, over and over. This is a colossal pain in the ass for people who have had issues with multimonitor setups which are broken under the new GeForce drivers.
Adding that to the part you mentioned where a lot of prebuilts come preinstalled with their own Dell/HP/Lenovo/Whoever branded driver updating software and you can conceivably find yourself in a situation where three programs are all competing to update your drivers at the same time, and who knows how current any of them are.
Eh, it worked well enough for me on 5 machines I've tested on, so I think I'll trust it.
Also, you don't have a "real" windows 10 key. The key you would have pulled out is the same key that every Windows 10 upgrade install of the same sku (home or pro) has. The activation probably just went through on this install, for whatever reason.
You shouldn't discount the importance of customization. Some people may need to stare at that screen for hours on end, and staring into white gets pretty uncomfortable for some of us. Having a default, unchangeable color scheme that can be a contributing factor to physical maladies (headaches, migraines, eye strain, etc) can be a pretty big deal for some.
If you like it, or it doesn't bother you, groovy. Don't belittle others for their preferences or needs. There's a reason I keep my UI colors dark on all my machines.
sarcasm, dude.
If you read your post in an overly-sarcastic tone, it's still aiming it's payload at people who dislike the default white color scheme. I don't understand how that's supposed to be a defense.
If there wasn't, pretty much nothing would work. That printer you plugged into your computer that just worked, chances are it grabbed the driver from windows update silently in the background. Ditto for that [insert shiny new peripheral here] that you just bought and it works out of the box.
A lot of stuff is baked into Windows now, but you'd be surprised how often new things you plug in goes up to windows update to grab the drivers, even things that are already baked into Windows will go online and check for newer versions of said driver. I personally don't want to have to go back to the days of having to download and install drivers for everything I want to plug in.
Hell, I'm typing this on a PC running Arch Linux. Everything comes from the Arch Repositories; drivers, OS, third party software like this instance of Chromium, etc. There's nothing wrong with the OS providing that as a service. But that's what it is, a service, and once it stops serving my needs, I don't want or need it.
Though I'm pretty confident MS is going to backpedal on this one. Give it... three months.
Nope. This is one they won't backpedal on. In the long run it is going to save them more money than most of us realize, and for 99% of users, it'll make windows a better experience.
The whole point of USB was that you could have a pile of generic drivers for stuff. Your average mouse/printer/keyboard/whatever doesn't need to download drivers unless there is something specialized going on because "generic device driver for X" has been a thing in Windows for quite a while now. But, here is a solution:
Windows does not have a driver file for this device. Do you want Windows to check online for a driver file for this device?
Yes - No
Someone get me a job at Microsoft.
Even then, your average gaming mouse and keyboard will have driver packages that are more specific than the generic ones baked into windows.
NO ONE IS SAYING THIS
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I have beat Rygar on the NES and many of you have not.
http://www.windowscentral.com/how-enable-dark-theme-windows-10
Dosbox GOG games are not running! Non-GoG dosbox games are!
HALP
Some of these I recognize as integral to my setup, others I'm drawing a blank. I'm hoping someone here can tell me which ones I'm better off leaving off or uninstalling altogether.
Windows 10 has been hit or miss for me, so if this helps with the clutter and overall performance, I could use the help.
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Right now my biggest Windows 10 pet peeves include:
1. My numpad key turning off by itself, and then turning back on when I hit a key. This seems to be a widespread bug and not some lame power-saving feature, but I sure would like a fix.
2. The placement of icons on the task bar. Steam used to display my most recent games on its icon on the taskbar, but now they only show up on the desktop tray (bottom right).
3. Latency issues when using a PS4 controller. What's weird is that it was working fine a day ago, but somewhere along the line it continues to display latency issues. I ordered a 4.0 bluetooth dongle that I hope will take care of it, otherwise I don't know what could be affecting it. I notice the lightbar flashes when doing things like opening up Firefox or closing a program.
4. My kingdom for a script or method where I can instantly change my monitor and audio inputs with a simple key press. Did this all the time to switch between Steam BPM, but this does not work as intended on Windows 10.
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Downloaded and installed some new updates and had to do a restart. Par for the course.
And then I'm greeted with this:
Well, turns out my system was trying to boot from my external drive, for some reason? Unplugging the drive fixed it.
go into your bios and fix your boot order.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
The real annoying thing is windows took out the option to change the number of jumplist items. From what I've read the default is set to 25 items in the registry, but the taskbar will only show 10.
Sure she can. You just have to feed her enough information that she runs out of memory and "dies".
/Halo
Does anyone have any idea on how I can fix this without having to run all my programs as an administrator?
Awesome, thanks for the tip.
In addition to my keyboard light shutting off, my keyboard will sometimes turn off (you hear the "device disconnected" noise too) but then immediately turn back on. It's maybe half a second at best.
But that's half a second too long.
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I've had USB devices do that independent of the OS before. I'm sure you have but it's always something worth asking: have you tried a different USB port for the keyboard. The times I've encountered USB weirdness like that just changing the port it is plugged into usually resolves it.
Hope that's helpful for anyone else who had this issue.
Edit: This power-saving option was also ticked for my mouse. Might want to check if yours was also affected.
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It looks like the new version of Firefox actually does that on its own now, and just to searches through Cortana or other outside connections, not to searches through Bing.com.
Hopefully that ends up being added to Chrome and Edge as well at some point.
Win+P brings up the monitor switcher. HDMI audio swapping with the monitor is really hit-or-miss with the AMD drivers, but works reliably on my NVidia card. There's also a command line app you can use with the following options:
On my not-a-Steambox, I have two batch files on the desktop called Start TV and Stop TV containing the relevant commands.
Depending on your setup, it may think that your TV is your main monitor. If things get hosed up, just mash Win+P a bit more until you get a picture again.
According to his latest posts in the thread (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) he was later contacted by Microsoft Corporate HQ. After some discussion they reached an agreement and was offerend a second standalone Windows 10 licence+key with permanent full transfer rights. He also mentions that is possible that the wording within the EULA will soon be changed.
This is the script I was using on Windows 7, made by a GAF member.
The only thing that doesn't work is the monitor switching. When I start up Big Picture Mode, it shuts off my PC monitor and displays on my TV, as intended.
But when I exit BPM, it doesn't switch back to Duplicate display. It keeps my TV display on and my PC monitor off.
I don't have much experience making scripts, so if anyone knows how I can adjust the script to do this, it would be a big help.
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