Last I heard (months ago) was that it had been suspended altogether for my model of laptop due to a compatibility error - the display wouldn't come back on after resuming from sleep mode or something like that (which, weirdly, my previous laptop - same manufacturer - also did under Win7 so I couldn't use sleep mode on it). I don't know if it's been reissued for it yet at all.
Ladies and Gentlemen, our great national nightmare is over.
When Windows 10 version 1903, or whatever it ends up being called, drops..... Cortana will no longer play during a windows install. It'll be there, but muted by default.
Ladies and Gentlemen, our great national nightmare is over.
When Windows 10 version 1903, or whatever it ends up being called, drops..... Cortana will no longer play during a windows install. It'll be there, but muted by default.
Citizens of the world, rejoice!
Oh jesus. I just noticed that this only applies to Win 10 Pro, Enterprise, and Education. Win 10 Home will still get Cortana yelling at your in the OOBE.
Ladies and Gentlemen, our great national nightmare is over.
When Windows 10 version 1903, or whatever it ends up being called, drops..... Cortana will no longer play during a windows install. It'll be there, but muted by default.
Citizens of the world, rejoice!
Oh jesus. I just noticed that this only applies to Win 10 Pro, Enterprise, and Education. Win 10 Home will still get Cortana yelling at your in the OOBE.
Goddamnit Microsoft.
To be fair, anybody who gets the Home edition of a MS OS is probably a simple newb who misses Clippy.
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I'd like to run my TV's sound through my computer's line-in port so I can listen to both at the same time, but the line-in port doesn't show up at all in the Sound control panel's recording tab. "Show disabled devices" and "Show disconnected devices" are both selected, and running the sound troubleshooter doesn't show anything for line-in either.
Cortana spoke to me during initial setup on my laptop, but that wasn't a fresh install, it was a factory one. Just reading out what was on-screen. Pretty sure you could silence it too.
I may be misremembering, it was 18 months or so ago.
I just reinstalled Windows 10 on my laptop a couple of days ago and Cortana started talking and then automatically turned on my microphone so that I could speak a response. It feels like the sort of thing that would be really helpful for normies or whatever but I found it very irritating and immediately turned it off.
I then had to spend about half an hour uninstalling or disabling huge swaths of the OS, replacing the Start Menu, and customizing everything. I can't believe that it's the year of our lord two thousand and nineteen and Microsoft is still providing an OS that defaults to hiding file extensions by default and doesn't even ship with a calculator.
Mind you it comes with three different versions of Candy Crush out of the box, but no calculator.
Press the Windows key (or open Start) and type 'calculator'.
And the reason why file extensions are hidden by default is MS is still in the mindset, right or wrong, that most people are smart enough to be a danger to themselves and will fuck something up by changing the extension of a file. Frankly, in spite of my always turning it on, it's a good idea to leave them hidden.
I hide file extensions purely out of OCD-like desire for neatness (I'm still pissed off that Microsoft Edge's icon is missing for that reason, even though I use Vivaldi). On the rare occasions that I need to change an extension (mostly dumb, esoteric stuff like fixing savegames in Stellaris), the option to show them is on the Explorer taskbar now, and not just the options menu.
And Windows 10 absolutely comes with a calculator. Candy Crush is stupid (though people do like it, so I guess it's our generation's Solitaire or Mineseweeper), but a calculator is definitely there.
Press the Windows key (or open Start) and type 'calculator'.
And the reason why file extensions are hidden by default is MS is still in the mindset, right or wrong, that most people are smart enough to be a danger to themselves and will fuck something up by changing the extension of a file. Frankly, in spite of my always turning it on, it's a good idea to leave them hidden.
No it's not. There is a warning prompt when you change an extension. Meanwhile I'm sure the amount of people who get tricked into joining a botnet by Avengers3.avi.exe or newphoto.jpg.bat or whatever is a much bigger issue.
Do not confuse your extensive knowledge of OS functionality for the norm. Microsoft expects their customer base to be limited in what they know to do or not do. Turning extension on or off is hardly a back breaking task.
if your edge icon isn't working and you can't find calculator, there's something very wrong with your windows install.
It's not a particularly uncommon issue, and it works in some situations, though in others is blank--strange, no other program or app does this.
Assuming this is directed to me, my calculator works fine. A repair installation didn't remedy the problem, so I decided it's probably not particularly serious. I might try manually reinstalling the Edge app package (I've done this in the past for certain apps), though it's a particularly tightly-baked package, or see if the situation changes with the reissue of Edge as a Chronium browser. App graphics breaking is actually not an uncommon issue, though usually they're corrected by simply "cycling" the icon itself in the properties menu or elsewhere.
Since no one else commented, I'm going to assume it's not "something very wrong."
Another minor question: has anyone else gotten any non-generic icons in their "Printers and Devices" panel in the Control Panel? I only have one for my HP printer, of all things. On my Surface Pro it's my Arc Mouse that shows up "properly".
It's another (minor) step backwards, from when Windows actually let itself load "realistic" device icons. That got cut from Windows 10 early on, I think. Completely cosmetic, but eh, I liked them more than the generic uninformative icons.
(Or, if you're like me and wasted two hours in the morning tooling around with it, has anyone had any luck using the Metadata Authoring tool?)
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If you type in "control printers" from a run dialog, you're saying all you're seeing is generic printer icons?
Man what the fuck is going on with your Windows install?
If you type in "control printers" from a run dialog, you're saying all you're seeing is generic printer icons?
Man what the fuck is going on with your Windows install?
What? No. I was asking if in the control panel, the icon art for connected devices show generic or unique icons (they used to be called "enhanced icons" in Windows 7 parlance).
All of mine are generic (as in, a generic monitor, a generic keyboard, a generic HID mouse), excluding one non-generic printer which is an icon of my HP printer.
What does "Control Printers" have anything to do with? Or the run dialogue box? What's "Control Printers"?
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If you type in "control printers" from a run dialog, you're saying all you're seeing is generic printer icons?
Man what the fuck is going on with your Windows install?
What? No. I was asking if in the control panel, the icon art for connected devices show generic or unique icons (they used to be called "enhanced icons" in Windows 7 parlance).
All of mine are generic (as in, a generic monitor, a generic keyboard, a generic HID mouse), excluding one non-generic printer which is an icon of my HP printer.
What does "Control Printers" have anything to do with? Or the run dialogue box? What's "Control Printers"?
If you press Win+R, then type "control printers" you get the old Control Panel style window that shows your printers and other devices connected to the computer. Most of the connected devices will just show up as generic boxes. Some show up duplicated because Windows is weird. Printers will usually show up as an icon that looks vaguely like the connected device unless you use the generic Windows drivers. Which is what I use because, while Brother printers are built like tanks, their software is shit.
Going to throw my dialog up here for example. You can see a bunch of generic icons for stuff on the list like my Sonos speakers, TV, and duplicate entries for my mouse and keyboard because, again, Windows is weird.
In other words, yours looks very similar to mine. I have one unique icon, for my HP Printer, but that's it. Scratch that, one other one for a dumb feature installed by Quicken--Spreadsheet-to-PDF printing--and probably because Quicken actually used the Metadata Authoring software.
You can manually change it (I played around with the tool, which is part of the Windows Development Kit), but it's tedious even by my standards, and there's always the risk of braking something.
Too bad. Aside from the aesthetic difference, having every single wireless controller, gamepad, and my HOTAS show up as a generic gamepad icon kind of fails for useful icon implementation.
Hey, question for technical people: when I click the shortcut in the windows explorer file tree to the downloads folder the first time after a reboot (I think that's the condition anyway), it takes a good 30s to a minute to load the contents even though it's all on an SSD and it loads pretty much instantly when I open the same downloads folder in explorer by clicking the folder icon next to a completed download inside firefox's downloads menu. Why is that?
So apparently Skype replaced the "Launch at startup" button with "Show on system tray at launchup" and launches by default after the latest update
So I uninstalled Skype since I couldn't find a "Don't launch this" at all....
I thought that disabling it in the system tray (under General) meant that it quit when it closed (starting the app again does bring back the splash screen), nor would it come back up on startup.
The task manager seems to indicate as much, unless it's really hidden.
See, someone understood my question. I bet you don't think my calculator app is broken either.
That aside, it looks like nongeneric icons for your printer, your old Xbox 360 Wireless Receiver (hi-5 for that, BTW), your Logitech camera, and your monitor (which is the most surprising). It's not much of an "improvement"--eh, I couldn't get the Metadata Authoring Software to actually work (nevermind the fact that you'd actually need to supply the icons, with a half-dozen visual assets encoded properly per ICO file), it's a pain in the ass even if it did work.
Probably. Windows 7 had specific toggle-able options to enable or disable "enhanced" icons (as they put it). Consider Microsoft has been trying to retire the actual Control Panel in favor of a new settings panel, this might be all deliberate. In any case, aside from aesthetic preference, it's really not useful to have four controller devices--which previously would've each had a unique icon--all show up as the same generic "game controller" from their icons. Or every printer a generic. Every monitor, etc.
Fortunately, their names still show up (if no other information, typically). It's hard to say if the information is missing, or Windows instead favors its own generic information instead. The system still largely works in Windows 7 and 8.1, from what I understand.
For those of you still using Windows 7 and/or 8.1, and also using Windows Media Player, Microsoft is discontinuing the service that provides metadata in that app.
They say it's because usage has dropped so low it's not worth paying the license fee, but it's still a shitty move to do, especially on win7, which has less than one year of support left. Why not just keep the metadata service until support expires?
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When Windows 10 version 1903, or whatever it ends up being called, drops..... Cortana will no longer play during a windows install. It'll be there, but muted by default.
Citizens of the world, rejoice!
Oh jesus. I just noticed that this only applies to Win 10 Pro, Enterprise, and Education. Win 10 Home will still get Cortana yelling at your in the OOBE.
Goddamnit Microsoft.
To be fair, anybody who gets the Home edition of a MS OS is probably a simple newb who misses Clippy.
Any suggestions for how to troubleshoot further?
What is the chosen input device listed under 'Input'?
Yeah, speakers don't get plugged in until after all the other stuff is working on a new build.
I may be misremembering, it was 18 months or so ago.
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I then had to spend about half an hour uninstalling or disabling huge swaths of the OS, replacing the Start Menu, and customizing everything. I can't believe that it's the year of our lord two thousand and nineteen and Microsoft is still providing an OS that defaults to hiding file extensions by default and doesn't even ship with a calculator.
Mind you it comes with three different versions of Candy Crush out of the box, but no calculator.
And the reason why file extensions are hidden by default is MS is still in the mindset, right or wrong, that most people are smart enough to be a danger to themselves and will fuck something up by changing the extension of a file. Frankly, in spite of my always turning it on, it's a good idea to leave them hidden.
And Windows 10 absolutely comes with a calculator. Candy Crush is stupid (though people do like it, so I guess it's our generation's Solitaire or Mineseweeper), but a calculator is definitely there.
No it's not. There is a warning prompt when you change an extension. Meanwhile I'm sure the amount of people who get tricked into joining a botnet by Avengers3.avi.exe or newphoto.jpg.bat or whatever is a much bigger issue.
It's not a particularly uncommon issue, and it works in some situations, though in others is blank--strange, no other program or app does this.
Assuming this is directed to me, my calculator works fine. A repair installation didn't remedy the problem, so I decided it's probably not particularly serious. I might try manually reinstalling the Edge app package (I've done this in the past for certain apps), though it's a particularly tightly-baked package, or see if the situation changes with the reissue of Edge as a Chronium browser. App graphics breaking is actually not an uncommon issue, though usually they're corrected by simply "cycling" the icon itself in the properties menu or elsewhere.
Another minor question: has anyone else gotten any non-generic icons in their "Printers and Devices" panel in the Control Panel? I only have one for my HP printer, of all things. On my Surface Pro it's my Arc Mouse that shows up "properly".
It's another (minor) step backwards, from when Windows actually let itself load "realistic" device icons. That got cut from Windows 10 early on, I think. Completely cosmetic, but eh, I liked them more than the generic uninformative icons.
(Or, if you're like me and wasted two hours in the morning tooling around with it, has anyone had any luck using the Metadata Authoring tool?)
Man what the fuck is going on with your Windows install?
What? No. I was asking if in the control panel, the icon art for connected devices show generic or unique icons (they used to be called "enhanced icons" in Windows 7 parlance).
All of mine are generic (as in, a generic monitor, a generic keyboard, a generic HID mouse), excluding one non-generic printer which is an icon of my HP printer.
What does "Control Printers" have anything to do with? Or the run dialogue box? What's "Control Printers"?
If you press Win+R, then type "control printers" you get the old Control Panel style window that shows your printers and other devices connected to the computer. Most of the connected devices will just show up as generic boxes. Some show up duplicated because Windows is weird. Printers will usually show up as an icon that looks vaguely like the connected device unless you use the generic Windows drivers. Which is what I use because, while Brother printers are built like tanks, their software is shit.
Going to throw my dialog up here for example. You can see a bunch of generic icons for stuff on the list like my Sonos speakers, TV, and duplicate entries for my mouse and keyboard because, again, Windows is weird.
You can manually change it (I played around with the tool, which is part of the Windows Development Kit), but it's tedious even by my standards, and there's always the risk of braking something.
Too bad. Aside from the aesthetic difference, having every single wireless controller, gamepad, and my HOTAS show up as a generic gamepad icon kind of fails for useful icon implementation.
So I uninstalled Skype since I couldn't find a "Don't launch this" at all....
The task manager seems to indicate as much, unless it's really hidden.
That aside, it looks like nongeneric icons for your printer, your old Xbox 360 Wireless Receiver (hi-5 for that, BTW), your Logitech camera, and your monitor (which is the most surprising). It's not much of an "improvement"--eh, I couldn't get the Metadata Authoring Software to actually work (nevermind the fact that you'd actually need to supply the icons, with a half-dozen visual assets encoded properly per ICO file), it's a pain in the ass even if it did work.
Fortunately, their names still show up (if no other information, typically). It's hard to say if the information is missing, or Windows instead favors its own generic information instead. The system still largely works in Windows 7 and 8.1, from what I understand.
So, in other words, "Metadata."
They say it's because usage has dropped so low it's not worth paying the license fee, but it's still a shitty move to do, especially on win7, which has less than one year of support left. Why not just keep the metadata service until support expires?