4214

Ugh. “Healthy” SMART SSD locked up while downloading in Chrome with “waiting for cache” disk I/O that only happened with my dying health SSDs that I had run the lifetime writes down on.

4215

I switched to 1903 about… oh, 4/5 days ago. I have seen no issues so far. My boot/windows drive is NVMe.

4216

Is anybody else unable to route ‘system sounds’ to a specific output device? The dropdown for it doesn’t appear for me:

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4217

I have the dropdown for “System sounds”, but it only has “Default”. Even though I have three output sinks. Not terribly useful!

4218

I can confirm that my system sounds are also locked to the default and can’t be switched (other apps can). I’m seeking whether that’s by design or a glitch. Maybe they assume you can change your ‘default sound device’ so if you want system sounds coming out that device you’d make that change. Then all the rest of the apps would be set according to your preference.

4219

Could be a security thing. Bit of a vuln if someone could set system sounds to /dev/null and then you’d never hear the admin prompt sounds etc.

Maybe that’s what MS was thinking anyways.

4220

I miss ASIO.

Wonder if this is any good, or just some cleverly disguised rootkit. http://www.asio4all.org/

4221

I mean, FL Studio (the professional DAW) installs it as part of it’s own installer so I think it’s legit. :D

4222

Gotcha :)

4223

Have you looked at VoiceMeeter/VoiceMeeter Banana/VoiceMeeter Potato?

4224

I am looking now, this looks good. Potato made me think of Warframe.

4225

Confusingly enough, I think the names correspond to 1.0/2.0/3.0.

4226

Can confirm Voicemeter Banana is amazing.

4227

Can you 'splain how you use it, Brian?

4228

Argh!! I hate Win10!!!
My laptop used to run fast and snappy without any issues. But for the past 6 months everytime I use it, its just busy thrashing about. Either CPU, Memory or HDD are maxing out on various MS processes. Haven’t changed any setups or installed any software, its just dropped to snails pace and I can hardly use the damn thing anymore.

Really ticked off.

4229

Have you tried cleaning out the fans? Sometimes those older Laptops start to over heat because of dust.

4230

Looks pretty clean (keep it in a pouch all the time) & haven’t noticed any particular overheating, but then I don’t use for anything complex. Browsing / watching videos.

Guess I could take it a apart and have a look under the covers, but that seems excessive, as I doubt its a hardware issue.

4231

I recently had an issue with the shared updates feature maxing the CPU on my laptop. Turning it off fixed everything for me. The way they designed the process makes it very intrusive, even if the feature makes it seem really straightforward.

Edit: This is the one: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4468254/windows-update-delivery-optimization-faq

4232

(well right now the antimalware service executable is almost maxing out the disk usage)

4233

Thanks! will check it out!