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    Microsoft officially announces Windows 11

    With the exception of Android app support, I can only find info about superficial styling changes. Same as for Windows 10 half-yearly updates where they announce incremental changes to apps and styling and nothing major. Is there any info about significant core changes in Windows 11 or is it...
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    Any good DIYer in UK? (Repair/mod of NUC)

    I'm trying to replace a NUC8 with a nicer fan and heatsink. Not done a great job so far... the only thing I managed to do is knock a resistor off. https://www.hardwareluxx.de/community/f89/diy-cooling-head-intel-nuc-1211312-3.html#post27113216 The hard things to do are: - Solder the resistor...
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    Discussion Intel current and future Lakes & Rapids thread

    OK faster GPU but that's not relevant to the argument. You picked up on a red herring to extend this discussion but the appropriate comparison is obvious and fully explained in each of my posts. 25W to 28W is more similar than 15W to 28W, in power and in CPU performance and that's why the...
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    Discussion Intel current and future Lakes & Rapids thread

    That makes no sense. It makes sense to compare the 28W 8559U to the 25W setting because the power is similar and the CPU performance is similar. If you compare the 28W 8559u to the Ice Lake at 15W you get similar GPU performance and much lower CPU performance. It's a much less clear comparison.
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    Discussion Intel current and future Lakes & Rapids thread

    Whiskey lake doesn't count for anyone interested in GPU because it doesn't have Iris Pro/Plus graphics. An i7-8559u (as found in the NUC8i7BE) is a good comparison. It's 28W and compares to the i7-1065G7 in 25W mode. CPU performance basically identical (link) 8559u ahead in some, behind in...
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    HTPC vs Roku, FireStick, etc

    Most of them don't hardware decode 10bit HEVC, which makes them already obsolete. Most of them don't have gapless playback, which makes them very bad music players. Most of them seem complex and involve proprietary streaming services. I could be wrong about this but that's how it seems from a...
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    So MPC-HC is still unofficially active is it safe to use though? Would you trust it?

    Definitely safe to use MPC-HC. It would take VLC many years of work to reach the quality of MPC-HC even if that receives no further development. MPC-BE is probably the best alternative if you want something that is actively developed.
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    Intel June Canyon NUC

    The new atom NUC will make a great HTPC (which mainly needs fixed function video processing rather than CPU), but will not suitable for general purpose systems. If you want a decent basic system get an i3 NUC. An ordinary user will not notice the difference between an i3 and i7 but an Atom will...
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    Appointment Scheduling Software

    On-premises Exchange is a large investment, not only because you have to buy it, but more so because any on-premise solution has large setup and management costs. The standard solution is therefore cloud based, which cuts down on both. Exchange provided with O365 costs £4/user/month, so a very...
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    Task manager memory use reporting (Win10)

    I have a Windows 10 system with 16GB Ram. Firefox is reported as using 1GB. If you switch to reporting percentages, Firefox is using 12.5%. 1GB is not 12.5% or 16GB. What is causing the factor of 2 difference?
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    Why does Microsoft "give up"? (WHS, Media Center, Windows Phone, etc.)

    WM: Such a shame. MS finally had an excellent OS. Now we are left with iOS (inflexible and lacks file management) and Android (ridiculously inefficient). XBox: This should stick around, provided Microsoft can unify PC and XBox code. Hopefully they can then start to re-engage with the TV/HTPC...
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    Why are gaming laptops still so damn ugly?

    Gamers have bad taste. Look at the mechanical keyboards with LEDs. If you make a keyboard without LEDs gamers line up to complain. The bad taste extends to games, and there is a perception that gaming has to be a visually realistic experience, leading to an obsession with GPUs and the need to...
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    Is there a USB SATA controller?

    Oh so this is a windows problem not a hardware problem? Does windows have an internal mechanism to prevent SATA converters from appearing to the OS as SATA? Internally I have 512GB OS + 2TB HDD. Externally I have backups, Photography RAW and unprocessed video, media library, 2TB each. Very...
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    Is there a USB SATA controller?

    The problem is spinups and spindowns not being controlled by standard OS settings, causing lag during spinup and noise at the wrong times. Having to buy multiple terabytes of SSDs is not a good solution. Is there a reason that USB is unable to emulate SATA? Or ignoring obeying the SATA...
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    Is there a USB SATA controller?

    Is there a USB3 adapter that can take SATA drives and make them act as SATA drives on Windows? I have used USB3 drives before and USB3-SATA adapters but they do not act as normal SATA drives. They do not obey Windows settings for SATA drives, spinning up and down at the wrong times. I am on an...
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    Brix Pro GB-BXi7-5775

    Do you know of any? If anyone makes a slightly larger case for this Brix or for the NUC6i7 I'd be very interested.
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    Brix Pro GB-BXi7-5775

    I'm thinking of getting a Gigabyte BRIX GB-BXi7-5775 This has an i7-5775R: Broadwell, quad core with hyperthreading, Iris Pro graphics, 65W. It will be noisy as-is but I can silence it by operating without the lid and replacing the fan ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRgNyoiX6Cg ). Is...
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    Thoughts on Intel Skull Canyon NUC?

    I have Arrandale laptops from 2010 on Intel iGPUs (family PCs) and didn't have any trouble with drivers on Win10. Seems stable even without official support. Out of all the hardware I see on device manager on the machines I've managed, most of it is Intel, while when a driver goes wrong or is...
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    Thoughts on Intel Skull Canyon NUC?

    I'm interested in this too as it's the only Skylake quad core Iris Pro system out there (apart from the professional notebooks costing several thousand $). I expect it will last and be reliable. Intel systems tend to be reliable, less room for bad part choice or setup to cause problems as in...
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    Given that 1080P is basically the minimum standard for desktops, why not laptops?

    The PC market is dysfunctional. Apple works because they know what customers will want; customers find out later they have a good experience and associate it with the brand. In the PC market there is little brand loyalty and customers, who don't know what makes a good computer, base their...
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    Collaboration with OneDrive/Office 2016

    I got it working with this advice, thanks! I found that in addition to opening from the network address via File -> Open -> Onedrive within the Office app, one person has to click on the share tab to tell the app to update continuously when sharing.
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    Collaboration with OneDrive/Office 2016

    I am wondering what is the best way to share documents and edit simultaneously with Office 2016. I have a team using a shared OneDrive folder. We each have OneDrive synchronizing to a local folder on a computer, and Office 2016 installed. When someones opens an Office file in shared...
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    Outlook and the workplace

    Almost all workplaces use Exchange. Outlook+Exchange is the best. I pay for Exchange just for personal use (easy with O365). In what situation is it not viable?
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    Surface Book and Surface Pro 4

    The SB4 is almost the perfect machine in my view, especially once the i7 Iris version comes out. Tablet/laptop/desktop/Wacom with impressive power. I only wish they made it openable so you can replace the battery/RAM/SSD. I guess that would make it 1mm thicker.
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    Dealing with limited internal storage

    I guess I am a glutton for data. I find that Windows + Visual Studio + Adobe CC + Office + Mathematica take up 100GB by themselves. My music library is >100GB with lossless compression. Add work files, ebooks, photos, recordings, and room for expansion in the next 5 years and I don't think...
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    Are there any 15" IPS low res laptops available?

    If you have the technical skills to post on an internet forum, you have the technical skills to set 125% dpi on Windows!
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    Dealing with limited internal storage

    Lots of machines these days are very thin and can't fit a hard drive, and SSD space is expensive. Those of you with lots of files, how inconvenient do you find this? I'm really impressed by the Surface Pro 4 but could only afford a 256GB version and that would require a lot of downsizing and...
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    Can SATA to USB3 adapter respect sleep options?

    Is there a SATA to USB3 external adapter or dock which makes the drive appear as if it is a normal SATA drive, and which therefore respects Windows sleep settings? With the adapter I have (Anker) I always get problems with drives going to sleep after a few minutes, ignoring the Windows...
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    Windows Update failures

    A repair install worked, and also saved 30GB on my hard drive... which means there was 30GB of wasted space previously in unused OS files. I hope tablets will give Windows an incentive to reduce it's expanding waistline.
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    Windows Update failures

    I did a repair install of Win8.1. Turns out that even though it's freshly downloaded from Microsoft it still needs 150 updates straight away. Updates are the worst part of Windows. And it won't let me install them without downloading Windows 10 first!
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    Windows Update failures

    "Failure configuring windows updates" on a Win8.1 PC. It has been restarting every day for the last month failing to install windows updates. There are about 12 that remain in the list and are continually reattempted. I have tried installing updates individually, the windows update...
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    So how are you liking Win10 so far?

    Hmm. I have only seen a long alphabetical list in the screens I've seen. I can't check on W10 but on W8.1 you have to restart the computer for the new folders to (semi-)show up.
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    So how are you liking Win10 so far?

    I went back to W8.1 to get parental controls back but my overall the OS is very promising but very unfinished still. Universal apps: the most impressive part of W10/WP10. Windowed apps can work well. This is huge for Windows development. However there is no clarity about installing apps as an...
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    Family safety has been gutted :(

    For those who don't know, since Vista there have been great parental controls built into Windows, allowing control over what applications and websites can run, what times are allowed. Windows 10 has gutted this and replaced it with a dumbed-down web interface where you can't even choose which...
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    Win10 OneDrive - how to change account?

    Edit: delete thread, simple mistake by me I think
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    Windows 10 app store - installation for all users?

    Win10 will have both tablet and sandboxed desktop apps in the app store. Will Win10 still have the limitation from Win8 that apps from the app store must be installed separately for each user rather than per machine (for all users)?
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    Buggy wifi driver, cannot uninstall

    Edit: solved: I was able to uninstall the bad driver in safe mode I have a Lenovo X230 with a buggy integrated WiFi driver. The hardware is Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 The driver is version 15.10.3.2 date 22/08/2013 OS: Windows 8.1 This driver gives frequent BSODs on system startup...
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    Windows 10 free for all Windows 8.1 and 7 users for first year after release

    Very good move by MS. There should be free OS updates in general. You pay when you buy a PC for a general licence to Windows. (Or buy an annual subscription as an alternative option... but I think the pay in one chunk model is a better model for most consumers.) As it is very few people...
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    Why no IE 12 in Windows 10?

    I find IE11 performs well compared to competing browsers and is stable and easy to update, but lacks add-ons, has poor font rendering (regression from previous versions) and does not have color management.
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    What is it about Windows that everybody likes? (A rant)

    Yes this is a minor annoyance. Nice if they made a DVD or ISO with all the updates already there. But this only wastes an hour of the computer's time (not your time) every few years. A lot of the best apps are proprietary (Office, Adobe CS) and don't work on Linux. For open source / free apps...
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