• Windows 10 Help Thread v3 - Oh god it’s on fire
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This looks pretty interesting: Windows Sandbox
Requires Pro, of course.
Windows keeps warning me that my license is about to expire, but nothing ever happens. What's even the point of telling me if it's not gonna give me any options in settings to renew it in the first place? I'm just gonna activate it with kms again anyway
I really wish content creators could move off YouTube onto another site. I hate this site, it's slow on other browsers, Google keeps removing actual good YouTube clients off the iOS App Store, and the YouTube client gets more pop-ups/ads on it each month, so much so that I've deleted the app on my phone and resorted to using the website
Virtualisation requires pro so that's the thing
This is gonna be a bit of a long post, but some of you may find it funny, or even helpful! So I got a new laptop today, and like any ordinary person my first instinct is to uninstall Candy Crush because that shit's just part of Windows 10 nowadays. https://puu.sh/CkAfz.jpg However, this time it didn't quite go as it normally goes. There simply wasn't any option to uninstall the app. Heck, I can't even click the app. The icon doesn't do anything at all! So I tried to get help from a friend of mine with a bachelor in computer science, because surely he would know how to remove Candy Crush from my start menu...? https://puu.sh/CkFXG.jpg I wish it was a joke. scrm Googled around a bit, and found a fix someone else had used, which was to run Get-AppxPackage -Name king.com.CandyCrushSaga in Powershell to get an idea of where its files are located or something. https://puu.sh/CkFTa.jpg This soul-hurting problem is starting to take its toll, but scrm only grows more determined. https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/490/39b7d129-aaa7-445b-9e86-12ec170f9481/image.png So maybe it's a group policy thing then? (whatever that is) scrm asks me to launch gpedit.msc https://puu.sh/CkFV1.jpg (turns out W10 home doesn't have that shit) So then we try to export a list of all installed apps, and see if we can find anything relevant https://puu.sh/CkFVY.jpg Aaaaand again, nothing. After looking for a bit, I find 2 registry keys with Candy Crush in the name https://puu.sh/CkFYY.jpg And nothing! It's truly a ghost. I try using Everything (local search program) to look for relevant files, which turns up blank. I tried doing a sfc /scannow in case something's just fucked on a system level, also to no avail. So it basically exists nowhere. It's not in the windows app list, it's not in any files, it's not in the registry - where could it possibly be? Later, I notice that the start menu is actually having some other problems. I was so fixated on this Candy Crush thing that I didn't notice the start menu was resetting every time I restarted the computer. So I google around to find solutions for this problem instead, and as it turns out it's likely a cache problem. I follow the instructions given (link below) and delete a set of registry keys relating to the start menus cache, and bam! https://puu.sh/CkFAn.jpg I was finally able to uninstall fucking Candy Crush, and it only took all day. If you ever run into this problem, this might fix it for you: Windows 10 tile layout in Start Menu resets after reboot
There's a way to circumvent all those apps installing in the first place: When installing Windows, make sure the internet is not connected either by unplugging your ethernet cable or turning off your wifi. Once you get into Windows after installing it, unpin all the tiles on the start menu. You can now connect to the internet, and they won't download. I found this out by accident when Windows 10 first released (or when it first started downloading apps without your permission). It's a bit of a hassle but less frustrating that uninstalling 17 apps you don't want.
I'll still never use the tile layout. And I make it my first point to clear the tiles from start and shrink the menu so tiles have no place when I reinstall.
It's such a small feature, but a welcome one: https://46c4ts1tskv22sdav81j9c69-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/mswbprod/sites/2/2018/12/01ac83cd38189a55fcc1affb5a10e898.png
I just reinstalled the other day and none of those apps installed at all. I have no idea why it does that to be honest, if I do it in a VM with no MS account, they all install but not on my computer proper.
Yup, they aren't exactly bundled with the installer, the apps are place holders and are installed over the store at some point in time. If you can unpin them in time you can avoid the install
one of the nicer things from Finder has finally made it over. now just give us tabbed explorer already
Added and then removed again lmao
Really regardless of this situation, if you're a real web developer you support all major browsers. The people who only build their website to work in Chrome are the same people who probably ignore all accessibility guidelines, HTML standards and most other good practices. If you build a web service and it doesn't work in Firefox/Safari and you refuse to fix the issue after a customer reports it, you have built a broken product.
Tell that to Google.
"Its not us, they need to build a better browser! Like Chromium!"
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/350531/389fd340-92b3-4ff2-9bed-0e1dcffb9ed8/SDVDVDVDVDVD.png I can't see anything on my snipping tool, I've already tried to pull it down to see but you can't do that.
Snip & Sketch is amazing, Win + Shift + S instantly takes a screenshot and lets you crop or draw on it and automatically puts it in the clipboard so you can just paste it in any place that supports it
ShareX master race
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/1755/a1a661df-2980-4f31-9c79-f4de1dbd6f8a/image.png easy, added benefit of the sharex toolset https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/1755/81c1ecf2-2e6b-47ed-8670-c9d72b15e044/image.png This one is my favourite. Lets you highlight somewhere from the screen to use as an image you can place elsewhere
Since the newest build, I'm having a weird issue with weather information not displaying on start-up lockscreen when not connected to the internet. I guess it's logical for it to do that, since my PC always powers up without internet connection at first until I share connection. But before this build, it would show the weather information on start up even if no connection lol. It's a non-issue though, as I don't really care about not seeing the weather information on start-up, but it might be an issue to someone else if they want to have certain info visible on start up, straight up, without internet connection on start up.
I use Windows ink for annotating, not snip and sketch. I then just copy the image to the clipboard and paste it into forms, or into sharex to upload it.
So I have some upgrades to my system planned and I'd like to perform a clean install of windows when I do it. I'm wondering if I can easily transfer my product key when I reinstall. Do they still do ISO installs with activation from existing keys? If not I'm going to have to buy a whole new copy. The key I have is W10 Home for OEM.
Are you signed in with a Microsoft Account? Are you updating your motherboard?
My gmail shows up in the accounts area so I believe I'm signed in. And my motherboard is staying. I'm doing mostly cosmetic upgrades and a 1060.
well, if the motherboard is staying, you should not have to worry much. Activation keys are kept on a part of the motherboard Installing windows will allow you to skip the serial key part, and it will eventually recognise and activate it based off the hardware
The only other possible issue is that Linux is installed on a second drive but GRUB manages the boot.
windows doesn't care but i'm going to give you a new side quest since you mention that: make buttons that switch between windows and linux in userspace, like this http://lavacano.net/heap/ptr/y0WCr.png use bcdedit in windows and efibootmgr in linux
Microsoft is separating Cortana from search in Windows 10
Search is still gonna be bass-ackwards retarded though.
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