State of the OS: Windows 10 Edition
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I recall a topic earlier this month speaking about how Windows Graphics APIs also lie about what the graphics cards are capable of.
That's because the graphics cards like about their own capabilities: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2004/02/11/71307.aspx
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That is what Box Sync/Dropbox are for. I sync the files I want to sync. As for settings of the OS, etc -- what on EARTH would I need to be syncing? o_O
My Windows 10 has Dropbox, Google Drive, and OneDrive, so file sync is set. But there's no software sync because registry nightmare. Win10 syncs my theme color preference and desktop background but a lot of other settings don't get synced, meaning that I still have to manually go through and fix my settings every time I log into a new device.
My Chromebook has File System for Dropbox, File System for OneDrive, and obviously Google Drive is built in. It also syncs my apps and extensions for me, as well as all my preferences, themes, wifi credentials, wallpaper, etc. and it lets me control what I sync on each device. Windows 10 barely touches that.
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FINALLY!
This, along with the Microsoft account requirements loosening, could tip the scales for me. I just need to find the time to do the complete reinstall, I'm due.
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Don't know if there will still be problem if the total character length of the combined path exceeds 4095 characters... And whether a restart is still needed if you updated the PATH variable to >=2048 characters
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Using the CLI to uninstall shit.
Are we talking about crappy Linux here ?
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@apapadimoulis said:
I don't want to search the internet when I press the WINDOWS KEY, I want to run a goddamn program on my computer
This is really my only complaint about anything past Windows 7. Paint .NET is the WORST offender for this, along with a couple other random programs that always result in useless web searches or send me to unrelated domain names when I just want to launch an application that's already installed on my system.
I'm not sure what you people are doing wrong.
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Dunno on Windows 10 yet, but on 8 or 8.1
- Hit Windows Key
- Type Paint.NET
- See Paint.NET application show up in search
- Hit Enter
- Web browser opens up http://paint.net which has nothing to do with Paint.NET
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Dunno on Windows 10 yet, but on 8 or 8.1
Thank you for this valuable contribution to this thread about Windows 10.
And just to preempt it: No, changing the search term to
paint.net
still opens the desktop app.Which reminds me: Do you guys also insist on typing
Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition
(or something similarly named) instead of typingvis
and enter?
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Which reminds me: Do you guys also insist on typing Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition (or something similarly named) instead of typing vis and enter?
I use Visual Studio often enough that it's pinned to my taskbar instead.
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I just tested. Since VS2015 has App shortcut, typing "vis" is enough to find it under Win10.
Not that I can type "rege" to run "regedit.exe", though...
And when I want to run "mmc", instead it gives me "Hyper-V Manager"... I know it is "mmc" but it still feels strange...
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regedit and the like are specifically blocked from searching, presumably to keep your grandmother for clicking around it accidentally.
regedit
is enough to launch it, though. As for VS, the search learns, so if you use it enough, 'v' is sufficient to launch it, but the exe name will likely show it as well ('devenv').
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Norepro on Windows 8.1. Typing
paint.net
Enter opened Paint.net.
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I think tr is trying to launch an app you don't have installed.
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I had this happen a few times. Not sure why; I'd type "github" and hit enter and it'd bring me to github.com. I tried again, it opened Github for Windows like I expected. I think it has to do with the exact timing of the enter keypress. If I go off muscle memory, I get a web browser faster than it can find the application.
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Yes, if you're too fast for Windows, it does a search. You have to wait for it to return results from your local disk (which is apparently not as fast as the internet).
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Yeah, it seems like Windows is actually faster with fetching the Bing results than your local ones.
You can disable Bing search altogether, though. And not much of value is lost, Bing is... not very good anyway.
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What?
That isn't even slightly what I've experienced. I normally run VS by pressing win, V, enter. Very quickly. It doesn't load the search, because it's gone too fast. It just launches.
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That's Über! My experience? Press Windows, tap a few characters in and then enter, start menu appears (blank), search starts (with the rolling dots), results flicker for a few frames, start menu disappears, and I get the Search app opened with whatever I typed in.
If I happened to type the executable name exactly (as found in the%PATH%
), then it launches that, otherwise no dice.Maybe I'm a special snowflake?
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An SSD fixeth all the problems.
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all the problems.
Never had an issue before 8. But then again, I don't think the internet was around then...
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An SSD
fixethhideth all the problems.
FTFY, a faster race condition is still a race condition, it just manifests less.
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I have all the apps I use frequently pinned to my start menu as 1x1 tiles and organized how I like them. No typing here, not even pressing WinKey+R.
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The forced driver updates continually break everything and there is no workaround. Laptops lose microphone support, WiFi + Bluetooth dongles get Bluetooth only drivers needing someone else to download the right drivers to a pen drive, just for Windows Update to install the wrong ones again the next day.
You can tell win10 to not update the drivers, I had the same problem with my AMD drivers and that "solved" it
The mail app worked just fine in Windows 8.1 and was actually good. Has anyone here had a notification from the Windows 10 app, ever?
The app is bad, live tile has never ever worked for me but the blue sky is nice
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You have to use it a lot to affect it's order on the list.
In my system, pressing V defaults to "Hyper-V Manager", presumably because I've run it too many times when trying for "mmc" yesterday.
So the "most frequently used items gains priority.
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The search windows is what you get if you pressed enter because any search result is returned, so that it can continue searching...
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Sorry, I'm not sure what you said. You can say, "Okay Tsaukpaetra, what time is it?"
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s/because/before/
As long as no item is selectable when you press enter, it opens the search window instead.
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And when I want to run "mmc", instead it gives me "Hyper-V Manager"
Might be due to some kind of personalization/previous searching? If I type mmc I get an empty mmc console.
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I've not had any luck getting those workarounds to disable specific updates to work - the funniest is that if you have AMD graphics drivers, Windows Update will install an older version, which includes an update tool that updates to a newer version, which then gets rolled back to an older version about once an hour.
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What worked for me was deleting the driver, then checking this option
Then installing the drivers that Lenovo recommended and so far so good.
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I have an AMD card and Windows 10 installed Catalyst Control Center. I have not had any issues with Windows downgrading the drivers after I updated to the new Win10 drivers from AMD.
The built-in update tool informs me that everything is up to date. Then again I don't really know anything about drivers or computer hardware; I'm entirely a software guy.
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That's nice, because it seems AMD driver installers do some nasty OS sniffing. I remember having to rip the driver package apart and install .infs by hand because the installer refused to run on Win8.
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A new folder appeared in my users folder this morning, just a little while ago:
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There's an app that goes with it. It's a 3D model viewer/editor for 3D printing.
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I think 8 was bundled with 3D printing drivers, so they probably wanted some stock items like they do with pictures and video, and bothered to actually do it in 10.
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No Utah Teapot? I am disappoint.
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It's for the new 3D printing driver shit added in Windows 10.
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new folder appeared in my users folder this morning
Le Gasp! Is this the silver lining I was promised for installing LTSB? No 3d printing here!
Filed under: CLOSED_CANNOT_REPRODUCE
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Le Gasp! Is this the silver lining I was promised for installing LTSB?
Wisconsin Legislative Technology Services Bureau?
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Wisconsin Legislative Technology Services Bureau?
No, that would be WLTSB. I have the Literally To Sh*t Bricks version.