- Dear Microsoft, could you please release a streamlined W 10 version without Cortana, Appstore, CandyCrush, Forced Updates, etc? Millions would pay in gold, thank you! - A loyal user since 3.1
- Seriously Microsoft?
- (Un)Popular Opinion: Why are people still advocating for Windows 7?
- Colour calibration only applies to my desktop.
- Everytime I open a game this window pops up
- [HELP] Mirror monitor on Windows XP
- Windows 10 Lock Screen Dim
- Function Key Help
- Problem with sound in windows 10
- Windows Movie Maker
- Win7 Usb Driver
- New Windows 10 User (and converted 10+ year macOS user)
- Is there anyway to notate a folder as "complete" or [different] to, for instance, mark a work order as complete without moving or renaming it (in order to retain it as a reference)?
- Windows RT .WAV?
- Why did Windows not include Windows Easy Transfer in Win10?
- Change Windows Calculator Key to a user-specified calculator program?
- Anyone know of a way to change screen res by running a .bat file?
- [Win10] how to lock local user account out of folders?
- After the last update (a couple of weeks ago) UI is really sluggish
- Win7 USB Driver
- Has your windows update destroyed your speaker volume?
- Intel/AMD Switchable Graphics...can't get AMD Control panel to even show up. Have tried installing appropriate drivers. Windows 7 Ultimate - 64bit - Dell Inspiron 15R SE 7520
- Can a video player alter/modify a video file?
- Preventing mirroring of laptop display when waking from sleep (and connected to an external monitor)
- [question] taskbar related question
| Posted: 02 Aug 2018 02:46 AM PDT So small rant but I've finally made the switch from 7 to 10 Pro and just have to say the experience has not been great. I've been a user since 3.1 and absolutely love Microsoft and Windows, however this recent manifestation of the company is very disheartening. While I enjoy many aspects of the new OS there is an overwhelming majority of things that just put me off from the New windows environment:
There are many other small things that took about a day in Group policy to fix, but that's exactly my point: A user should not spend a day going over everything disabling all these unnecessary features in a 'Pro' environment. Even the enterprise edition suffers from this. It should be the other way around, if I want these features I'll enable them Microsoft. If a streamlined, minimal windows environment were to be released I'm absolutely convinced the adoption rate would go through the roof. Just my 2 cents. [link] [comments]  | ||
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| (Un)Popular Opinion: Why are people still advocating for Windows 7? Posted: 01 Aug 2018 11:23 PM PDT Short and to the point: there is a constant debate in sub as to whether or not users should adopt Windows 7 for their needs. People bring up the long-debunked "Windows 10 is Malware" arguments, just like people bring up the "Windows 7 is outdated" lines. Despite personal feelings on the software people advocate for, how can anyone on this sub honestly say Windows 7 is the best option from a consultation perspective?
It seems like some on this sub-reddit want to bring us back to the XP days where individuals and companies run an outdated OS for a decade and expect Microsoft to come to the rescue when they've failed to update on time. I understand the concerns and complaints about Windows 10, but ultimately people need to upgrade, switch to a different operating system, or accept a vulnerable system. Why, legitimately, do people continue to advocate for a clearly dead-lined operating system? [link] [comments]  | ||
| Colour calibration only applies to my desktop. Posted: 02 Aug 2018 07:18 PM PDT I just upgraded my PC from a 2009 workstation to a 2018 gaming rig with fully updated Windows 7 Professional. I'm using a VGA adapter for my old monitor due to a lack of an actual VGA slot on my new system, monitor manufactured ~2004. The colours of the display were very dark and had heavy shadows on everything. After calibrating colours it works fine for my desktop and any windowed programs running on my desktop, but as soon as I log out of my account or run a program in fullscreen, the darkness and shadows reappear. How do I set this for the full system? Why is it not applying to fullscreen (i.e. no borders, have to alt tab out) programs? It's causing major issues with my display settings in Steam games as when I load them in fullscreen the Steam overlay is almost entirely black, save for the white text. No brightness/contrast settings were changed on the monitor itself before upgrading my system, it's the same as it has been without issue for several years. [link] [comments]  | ||
| Everytime I open a game this window pops up Posted: 02 Aug 2018 03:04 PM PDT and sometimes the error window pops up but not always. How can i fix this? [link] [comments]  | ||
| [HELP] Mirror monitor on Windows XP Posted: 02 Aug 2018 02:10 PM PDT Need to mirror/duplicate screen and NOT extend-my monitor(vga) to a TV(dvi). Unchecking the extend screen box only turns off my tv. Is there a work around not requiring extra software/ hardware that I'm missing? [link] [comments]  | ||
| Posted: 02 Aug 2018 05:10 PM PDT So on my laptop I've changed my lock screen image. But the image compared to viewed while logged in is super dark. Like 50% darker than normally. I've searched online and nothing has worked. Is this a bug? [link] [comments]  | ||
| Posted: 02 Aug 2018 04:54 PM PDT I recently bought a new Lenovo laptop with Windows 10. I typically use alt+F4 to close windows and use F11 to go full screen, however I use the other function keys for their "special" purposes (eg adjusting volume, adjusting brightness, etc). There is a FnLock which allows me to toggle whether I want to use all of the "special" keys or all of the normal functions. Is there a way to where I can allow the F4 and F11 to provide their normal functionality and leave the other function keys to do their "special purposes"? Thanks [link] [comments]  | ||
| Problem with sound in windows 10 Posted: 02 Aug 2018 12:48 PM PDT in my pc I have 2 soundcards: - Sound blaster Omni 5.1 (speakers) - Sound Blaster Play! 3 (USB to Jack) (Headset) My problem happen when using OBS, Shadowplay or any record program. The system sound in the programs when I am using the Omni sound blaster (speakers) is always the same independent of the windows volume BUT when I use the Sound blaster Play! 3 (headset) the volume signals that the record program receive is dependent of the windows volume. So if i hear it at a proper volume the program does not receive it. And this is a problem because when I use the headset is when I record hahaha. So, Why is this happening? Is there anyway I can make the signal independent of my windows volume? I can't put my windows volume to 100% because I destroy my ears and my headset has no volume controller =( [link] [comments]  | ||
| Posted: 02 Aug 2018 12:38 PM PDT I really need to download WMM but i cant find any, i downloaded a windows essential pack but it didnt download WMM it only told me to update it even though I dont have it in the first place. Can someone provide me with a download link for it, please, thank you. Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask. [link] [comments]  | ||
| Posted: 02 Aug 2018 04:11 PM PDT I dont have both usb 2.0 and 3.0 drivers for my laptop, i am sure because my usb drivers light works, gets electric from computer, but system doesnt detect. Computer info: Asus X55A series X55A-SX056R also has USB 3.0, comes with Win7 Home Basic but formatted and now has Win7 Professional [link] [comments]  | ||
| New Windows 10 User (and converted 10+ year macOS user) Posted: 02 Aug 2018 12:05 PM PDT What do you recommend I install? What settings should I definitely change (other than turning off all the data mining stuff)? I have never used Windows 10 before and my only Windows use the last 11 years has been at work (medical charting software like Epic), so everything is foreign to me and I feel a bit lost! [link] [comments]  | ||
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| Posted: 02 Aug 2018 09:11 AM PDT I need to recorrd and export .wav files on my surface rt, are there any apps that will allow me to do this? I also need to be able to use an XLR mic with it, is it possible to use a usb audio interface, and XLR mic with my surface rt to record and export .wav files? I dont need to edit the audio, i have my main computer to edit the audio, i just need to use the surface to record audio from other places as my pc is a desktop, and i need to record audio from drums which are in another room. Help would be greatly appreciated, thanks. [link] [comments]  | ||
| Why did Windows not include Windows Easy Transfer in Win10? Posted: 02 Aug 2018 07:45 AM PDT | ||
| Change Windows Calculator Key to a user-specified calculator program? Posted: 02 Aug 2018 07:27 AM PDT How can I change my windows calculator key (the one that is standard in windows that is built into a standard windows keyboard - I don't mean logitech or such nonstandard "crap") I did this before so I know it is possible on windows 10, I just forgot what I did... and googling this time around hasn't helped me. I can't remember if it was a registry edit or if I used a special program to change the configuration somewhere. I'm not looking for any suggestions about using a program that stays in memory, like autohotkey/autoit because I know it is not necessary. Plus virus scanners often complain about such programs. anyone know how to do this? [link] [comments]  | ||
| Anyone know of a way to change screen res by running a .bat file? Posted: 02 Aug 2018 12:56 PM PDT Anyone know of a way to change screen res by running a .bat file? I want to be able to click a button and it change my res to 720p, anyone know of a way to do this? [link] [comments]  | ||
| [Win10] how to lock local user account out of folders? Posted: 02 Aug 2018 12:37 PM PDT I've set up a guest account on my computer, and want to lock it out of some folders. However when I go to Advanced Security Settings, I notice I have 4 options to choose from: Administrators SYSTEM Authenticated Users Users Which one would the Local Account be under and how can I make sure that when blocking the local account, I don't also block my own account? [link] [comments]  | ||
| After the last update (a couple of weeks ago) UI is really sluggish Posted: 02 Aug 2018 12:02 PM PDT As the title says after the latest update which I've received a few weeks ago (Version 1709, Build 16299.547) everything has considerably slowed down. Right clicking on a taskbar icon takes up to 5+ seconds to open, Task manager takes up to 10 seconds after ctrl + shift + esc combo, opening File explorer takes up to 5+ seconds and it opens with all icons being blank and slowly loading up the correct icons, same with control panel, settings, etc... Games, web browser and everything else works normally. I'm 100% positive it's not the PC's fault as I've got a dual-boot with arch and it works as well as it did the day i installed it. Anyone got any ideas for causes/potential fixes? **Bonus:** For almost half a year I've got this persistent issue where each day the OS clock desyncs and I have to go to Date and Time settings and update the internet time. I've tried setting the sync server to `time.nist.gov`, enable/disable automatic setting of time, enable/disable automatic setting of timezone but nothing helped. Again it's not the PC clock as it's barely a year old MoBo and on arch the time is always correct. [link] [comments]  | ||
| Posted: 02 Aug 2018 07:49 AM PDT I think i dont have usb drivers cause a lighted usb gets electric from my laptop but computer doesnt detect. If you have the driver i will be pleased if comment the link:'\ [link] [comments]  | ||
| Has your windows update destroyed your speaker volume? Posted: 02 Aug 2018 11:03 AM PDT My HP envy laptop had loud Beats speakers. Even since I have installed the latest system update, the speaker volume is barely audible. [link] [comments]  | ||
| Posted: 02 Aug 2018 06:53 AM PDT I recently did a fresh install of Windows 7. One of the first steps I did was going to the Dell Driver site and installing the appropriate drivers (https://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/04/product-support/product/inspiron-15r-se-7520/drivers) which many are from the 2012-2014 time frame. The first time I went through this process, I remember seeing that I had AMD Catalyst options in the right click context menu along with the intel options...hence switchable graphics. Along with a handful of Intel driver updates, chipsets, Windows update, etc.. I wanted to see if there was a more recent AMD driver update. There claims to be, when downloaded from the AMD site, and through trial and error I determined I would get various errors (opengl, etc.) show up. Then, uninstalling would freeze, and I'd have to try again and eventually get the driver removed. If I do a pure "update driver from windows" in the Device manager, it returns the Intel HD Graphics 4000 and AMD Raedon 7730M driver...but no AMD control panel I can access. Basically, even if I wipe the drivers and start fresh..even the actual AMD download from the Dell drivers section, I don't ever see any AMD graphics control panel like I originally did. I do if I use the one from the AMD website..but even when it works, my computer fan sounds like it's on all the time which I hated. Trying to figure out if I am missing a step, doing them in the wrong order, or what. I used the Guru display driver remover https://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html which works...but again reinstalling even the original doesn't produce the expected AMD Catalyst control panel I hope for. I'm at a point of just wiping the drivers and going with whatever Windows update gives me, and not taking advantage of the switchable graphics (unless it's happening, and I just have no control over anything) [link] [comments]  | ||
| Can a video player alter/modify a video file? Posted: 02 Aug 2018 09:34 AM PDT I know this sounds weird (I have a bit of an OCD), but can a video player alter a film file and its size? For example, I've been playing videos on my Win 7 by always using VLC player. However, today I opened Windows Media Player for the first time since I re-installed my OS (and chose custom settings since I want to keep VLC my default player), and I am a bit worried whether WMP won't... mess with my video files and alter them, thus making them unplayable. Their size and integrity can't be altered simply because I've opened them with a different player, right? I mean, if an MP4 file is 700 mb and 123 kb, it will stay 700 mb and 123 kb, no matter what player I open it with and no matter that player's settings? What do you think? Thank you and appreciated. [link] [comments]  | ||
| Preventing mirroring of laptop display when waking from sleep (and connected to an external monitor) Posted: 02 Aug 2018 07:47 AM PDT I have a laptop, the lid is always closed except when I need to open it to press some keys on the keyboard to wake it. Then I close the lid again. I have an external display hooked up. The problem with this is every time I wake it from sleep this way it defaults to mirroring 1|2 both displays. Which means that the external display will run at a suboptimal resolution until I change the displays to displaying on 2 only. I would like to keep it set on Display 2 (the external one). Does anyone know how to do this? [link] [comments]  | ||
| [question] taskbar related question Posted: 02 Aug 2018 07:32 AM PDT so, i prefer my taskbar at the top of my desktop and i have it "locked" and watnot. but, im still getting a random window here and there that opens "behind" the taskbar right? is there any kind of software that i could designate the area below the taskbar as open for any window being used or something along the lines of forcing all windows to abide by the taskbar and not to interfere with it? i hope that made any sense. seth [link] [comments]  |
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