A stupid question regarding Windows.

Anyone?

Right-click on the drive, go to Properties, go to the Autoplay tab, choose "Take no action."

go into explorer, right click on cd drive, properties, autoplay tab, change everything to "take no action", ok

Thanks!

I just got my first own computer ever since I had a Commodore 64, and I'm a bit lost still.

Still wondering where you put the cassettes, huh?

wait, how has Tuomas been posting to ILX all this time before now?

Okay, another question: if I'm using tabs on Firefox instead of having several different windows open, is there some keyboard combination to change between tabs, like the way you can change between windows with alt + tab?

(x-post)

School and work computers. Plus we had a shared PC in the commune I lived before this flat.

Yes. http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/keyboard

Thanks again!

I just got my first own computer ever since I had a Commodore 64, and I'm a bit lost still.

I'm imagining Tuomas standing outside of the store holding a new computer and going, "Wait, where is my house??? http://www.itisamystery.com/iiam.gif"

lol get a mac

True, Macs do have that Fischer-Price computing-for-beginners feel, don't they.

yeah i read that charlie brooker article too

commune 64

Zing error: I have no idea what article you're talking about

I just like to make fun of how people always say "you should get a Mac," like they think they're really clever and that's never occurred to you before and you were unaware that some kind of Clearly Better Computer existed, which it doesn't, because I switched from Macs to PCs for a reason

presumably an OTM reason :(

what was the reason?

Because you're too poor (lol liberal arts) to afford a $100 premium over the piece of shit tell you bought?

^^^ Mac user

lol dell

Half right, though: apart from my last Mac suffering multiple drive-wiping collapses, the main reason was that I was working on music, and a PC let me put together lots of bits of software and configure them so they worked together in the ways I wanted. Whereas Macs seem to have a simpler works-or-doesn't vibe: you can buy pro software and have an elegant, full-functioned set-up, but you can't so much rig your own thing together, at least not for a not-quite-poweruser.

There are perfectly good reasons to prefer one or the other, Mac or PC, depending on what you're doing -- this should be pretty obvious -- so it's always funny when anyone goes "buy a Mac!" like this is some grand light-bulb idea. And people do it all the time! People who don't even care about computers! You just say "I need to buy a computer" and someone says "you should get a Mac!" (LOLCultBrand)

(Jon is so hilariously convinced he makes more money than everyone else.)

at least not for a not-quite-poweruser.

RTFM

RTFPCM

Let me translate: by "not quite power user" I am basically saying "don't fucking go telling me to run an open-source OS on a Mac, buttwad"

n00b

Anyway yes, I'm quite sure Tuomas would have a much easier time if, instead of clicking a drive properties tab in Windows, he set up Linux on a Mac

if tuomas had a mac he'd be wondering where to download windows media player

You can download windows media player for mac here

Let me translate: by "not quite power user" I am basically saying "don't fucking go telling me to run an open-source OS on a Mac, buttwad"

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

I have a Mac bcz I got it for free. Before that happened I reallllllly reallllly wanted one (mainly bcz I preferred how Photoshop & Quark didn't have grey backgrounds that covered the whole monitor). About a month in I was like 'buh zuh wtf a PC would be pretty much nicer.' It's kind of like having herpes: at very significant times you can only interact with others who have the same problem.

And yes all my Mac iDol buddies are like 'wtf why don't you have the linux that you can get to look like OSX but can't run anything on?'

I switched from Macs to PCs for a reason

http://static.going.com/thumbnails/dd3/xy1024_6e72f784620e00d0d8c5d42ed7360aef.jpeg

Nabisco butthurt otm

I think nabisco secretly likes to play the harry potter licensed games lol quiddich direct x

NO SNITCHING

One of each is the correct answer, you can use both together and at the same time but have different programs doing different things, it's total computing DP

btw my most recent obnoxious browbeating "Get a Mac!" speech was successful, and I have been nothing but thanked for it.

People who are brand slaves are tools.

who puts linux on a mac?

l1nux 4 xbox now on the other hand

I've tried to use my friends laptop Mac, it seemed much more difficult to hop between different windows than in Windows.

Anyway, I got this computer used for 350 euros, I can't afford anything fancier, and I basically just use it for Internet and writing schoolwork, so it's fine by me.

i could buy a Mac to go with my PC. i'm not even rich.

And I really don't like how all those Macs look like designer items, which must put some extra money into the price. It's a computer, I don't care what it looks like as long as it works.

lol vista

Lol vista to you too!

lol .net API

Que?

someone told DG last year that no-one liked him anymore so he's playing around w/ it

how on earth did anyone misinterpret the obvious "lol get a mac" joke as badly as nabisco did

nabisco not OTM :(

has he not seen the mac ads?

he's probably too busy "putting together lots of bits of software and configure them so they worked together in the ways I wanted."

I can't think of a joke.

"get a mac"

When you can't think of a joke - get a Mac!

I have a 1680x1050 native pixels display that Windows XP can see just fine when using DVI; when I use VGA, that particular resolution does not appear as an option. I've updated graphics and display drivers, but there's no love. Can this be fixed?

Isn't this a hardware thing? That DVI can handle different/more resolutions than straight VGA can?

lol get a mac

^ genuine LOL

vga is a dick about plug-n-play. does it recognize what display you have through vga? also why the heck is this an issue exactly, duh use the cable that works

(if this issue is arising because your KVM only supports VGA then lol no it will never work get a new KVM or discard it entirely)

It does see what display I have.

I want VGA to work 'cause I have two PCs hooked up to the display. One is XP, the other 2003. Both have the exact same problem. Driving an LCD at a non-native res drives me nuts.

No KVM.

I just use a USB switcher and the input switcher in the display itself.

RDP that motherfucker.

looks like it was kinda disingenous of the manufacturer to even include a VGA input on a WSXGA screen

RDP = no go for several reasons, most of which are too dull to get into.

The display (Samsung SyncMaster 225bw) sucks in lots of other ways as well. In particular, there's significant posterization near the dark end of the spectrum.

Maybe I'll just get a DVI switchbox.

i am cataloguing errors here and i shall relate

i have a pc under my tv that came with 32gb eMMC memory for the os

this wasnt much and it started giving gip before too long

i bought an ssd and installed it without much issue

until now

when installing the ssd (internal) i cloned the c:/ and set the boot order to go to the new drive g:/

be grand, i sez, I'll leave c in place:

- in case something goes wrong as a backup
- because i tried to get rid but it got cranky and refused
- because it worked first time and i was fuckin surprised and delighted

fast forward a year and my streaming is jumpy and a quick look shows virtual memory is limited due to disk space being a problem

hauld on sez i thats a 100gb drive get fucked

check, and the OS drive surely enpugh is (still, or never changed, idk) c:/

chrisht I'll sort you you pup i thought and straight into a backup, file history, system image, clean reset and reinstall i go

that was three days ago

as i sit now:

backup wont complete due to errors
image wont complete due to errors
windows is ducking and diving between drives and throwing error codes from locations not on any map i can find
the g:/ isnt showing in explorer, is showing in diskpart but cant be formatted thence due to some rogue fragment of the windows that was cloned to it in the original operation
recovery media is refusing to install
windows reset function is refusing to complete

the wife has left me
community leaders have railed against me outside the gate at mass
the dog barks at me like i were a wandering tinker

lads

puts the over door in the ha'penny place i tell ya

Perhaps you could sneak it onto the train tracks

i can safely say this is the greatest issue we have ever had with partitioning on this island

i tried to run safe mode and the pc hopped up and removed all the knives from the house and rang a crisis hotline for me

A+ crisis posting deems

‘It it wi’ hammer

threw some washers in under the hinges

worked a charm

unbelievable jeff

u should get a mac obv

d:

I linked to a piece on the Seattle Times yesterday, and now I'm getting sidebar notifications about Seattle Times pieces I need to read. How do I go in there and stop this?

(It was a murder-hornet piece. If they don't get you one way, they'll get you another.)

(It's Windows 10.)

I'm going to assume it is not Windows 10 that is doing this, but your browser. Which one are you using?

It's possible you might need to clear all your cookies, including the few genuinely benign and useful ones like your ilx login cookie, to make your browser forget all about the Seattle Times.

I'll try that, thanks. (I think it's a feature of Windows, though, not the browser.)

Is this a Windows-provided news widget you've opened on your desktop or something? In which case, my advice is to stop hitting yourself.

Have you unchecked everything in Windows' Privacy Settings?

There you go--I hadn't done that, now I have. Hopefully it won't impact other things.

Hah! Literally two seconds after doing so, a Seattle Times notification. I'll figure it out somehow...or I'll learn to love The Seattle Times.

Found some online help and fixed it, I think--you have to go in and turn off "notifications and actions."

Stupid windows will connect to wifi, will not connect to the internet. I have tried all the video tutorials.

service provider issue?

Likely something on the other side of the wifi access point. ISP, router, cables, etc. Or if it's a public wifi you might need to sign in on a website -- turn wifi off then on again.

It's home wifi, all other devices are fine.

does it connect to non web browser stuff? ie Steam etc?

Nope. The wifi connection says 'Connected, no internet'. I've tried resetting network settings in the ui and on the command line, forgotten & reconnected to the wifi, switched adapter drivers, restarted services, fiddled about with advanced connection settings. About the only thing I haven't tried is lugging it downstairs and plugging it in to the router.

flushed the dns?

(I'm probably just reading the same things you've already ready, sorry)

yeah tried that. lol ok it's working now, i tried uninstalling all the vpns & utorrent and that seemed to sort it - though that is precisely what i wanted to use it for!