arrendek
4864
What does it look like when you’ve scanned a disk though?
arrendek
4867
Interesting how close to windirstat the colored boxes look.
habibi
4868
Space Sniffer has a cleaner look, which I prefer. It’s not as fast as WizTree.
TurinTur
4869
why am I not surprised it has something to do with printers, lol. The damn ancient Windows printer stack…
rei
4870
Wtf Microsoft. Windows 10 just low key insulted me I should book a class on essentials on how to use a PC
JeffL
4871
I have the reminder and have had it for a while urging me to go ahead an update to Windows 11. Tell me why or why not in terms of making that move?
While technically in general release, Windows 11 is mushy and still baking. I’d consider it in “early access” atm.
To wit:
Also performance related, I don’t believe the issues with AMD processors have been fully worked out yet.
And as far as I can tell, there are currently no particular compelling benefits for switching either (although the additional security features are nice).
I’m planning to wait at least six more months unless something changes significantly.
I haven’t made the move yet. Unlike 10, 11 seems less exciting. Next year, I will move though.
rei
4875
Anyone seen this instead of SmartScreen?
Appears to be a new setting in Settings->Apps
Used to be this:
My turn for PC hell today. MSI Dragon and AMD Ryzen weren’t working for some reason. So I figured I needed to reboot my computer. Might as well apply Windows Updates while I’m at it.
That seemed to work fine, but MSI Dragon and AMD Ryzen still wouldn’t work. I tried re-installing and uninstalling them, nothing worked. In fact AMD Ryzen said something about it wasn’t valid for my computer, which was very odd. Googling suggested I needed a firmware update.
After the firmware update my PC would no longer boot into Windows 10. Hours of fucking with it, trying Windows repairs, system restore points, rolling back firmware… All I got out of it endless BSODs and variety of five different ones. That’s weird.
Now I’m on to “Reset my PC but keep my files.” Looks like that also means “keep your corrupt drivers” because it BSOD’d doing that too. JFC.
Looks like I’m going to have to completely pull the plug and try “Reset my PC and delete my files” and hope that also deletes the corrupt driver… This would also entail countess hours of backing up my shit in Safe Mode.
I just want to play games, man.
Fun facts -
Safe Mode with Networking only works with hard-wired ethernet connections, not wifi. Cool.
The Windows Installer service will not start in Safe Mode, so good luck uninstalling whatever is fucking up your system.
Windows Debugger has to be installed from the Windows Store. No copying the executable over from another PC!
Fuuuuuuuuuuck, I’m sorry, that’s super irritating.
If it’s mostly game installs you’re trying to save, can you boot to some other media and copy your Steam/whatever directories over?
habibi
4879
I feel for you. This is the part of PC gaming life we all grow up with but now, in this time and age (and my own old age as well), I’d say f* it and buy a console!
Thanks guys. Good news is - I figured it out! Bad news is, it was after I reformatted.
When I reformatted and reinstalled Windows 10, it BSOD’d again, with the same error code. However this time, it provided an infinitely useful piece of data - the driver causing the BSOD. (Maybe because it was 21H2?) It was a network driver, which set off a lightbulb in my head.
My motherboard has built-in wifi. But I felt it was too slow, so I installed a PCI wifi daughter card and disabled the on-board wifi in the BIOS. When I had updated the BIOS, it reset all the settings and I completely forgot about this. Computer would not boot with two wifi cards for whatever reason.
Sigh.
Somewhere along the long the one of my data disks got blown away… Now to find a decent partition recovery tool that will recover a 2TB partition and not cost me a fortune.
DeepT
4881
Recently, in the past few weeks, sometimes windows will not start up correctly. I am left on a blue screen (not the BSOD which makes googling this very hard) and some windows functions are there like the power button where I can tell it to shut down and re-start. A restart, so far, has always fixed it. It is like windows gets stuck or something on startup.
Does anyone know what this issue is and how to fix it?
