1921

There isn’t much there. One of them is turn off the display and that is listed at 20 minutes. The problem I am having is only when the computer is locked.

1922

Well, Cortana has finally made it to Canada. But getting it set up seems to put it into a loop.

I get to a step where it states I need to configure to a language Cortana can speak. The I open the settings and there is only one choice for speech, English (United States). I also configure the microphone with the wizard successfully (it’s my web cam mic). I close settings, but the Cortana set up will not progress any further.

Selecting the gear icon on cortana, and trying to turn it on results in the set up wizard stating “Welcome back, let’s pick up where you left off” and I’m back to the settings again. Anybody know what needs to be done to finish the set up?

1923

Ok, after much more googling I found this article:

This will let you set the windows display timeout for the lock screen. They just love to hide everything from you.

1924

You need to change the language. Add English (Canada) under the Region & language section and Cortana will stop the looping (at least, did for me). Cortana in your country has to match the language for that country, or something like that. Then you can choose a different speech language, “English (Canada)” again.

As an aside, Cortana was such a pain, I disabled it after a day.

1925

When I lived in NY I ended up doing IT work for my doctor. It was easy stuff. Cat5 through the ceiling to connect his main laptop to the reception computer and docking stations for his work laptop from his office to each exam room. All the various connections and permissions that come with that. Even back then I could have done it with a single wireless node. But he didn’t want that at all.

He had a piece of tape over his laptop camera. When I told him that both of his laptops had cameras and microphones he made me disable the mikes and taped the other camera.

This is the man that I trusted with my health.

He was, by the way a damn good doctor. But he was paranoid.

1926

In fairness, hacking unsecured laptop and standalone webcams that had networked control options was a closet hobby for script kiddies for years. I seem to recall some big to-do over a boarding school monitoring all their students’ cameras in their dorms by illicit means.

1927

I could see a paranoid level of precaution for a doctor - he’s got legal responsibilities regarding patient privacy.

1928

Thanks. That did the trick.

1929

Good point. Maybe I’m not paranoid enough.

1930

So riddle me this.
Cap locks is off but it is capping everything. When I turn it on it lower cases everything but no matter what happens I can’t type a “.” only “>”.

Also, I open a folder and 40 copies of the folder are opening. This is a windows 10 clean install. Anyone else having this issue?

1931

Your shift button is probably stuck. Usually when weird stuff happens that can be explained by that I in turn wack (really just a slightly harder press than usual) all of my shift/ctrl/alt keys in sequence and everything goes back to normal.

1932

As arrendek said, this kind of thing happens when my Shift or Ctrl key gets stuck. Just had it happen the other night during a vigorous game of Heroes of the Storm.

1933

I hope not as this is my surface book .

1934

Disconnect the keyboard from the tablet and see if it still happens. If it does then you may need to drill some strategically placed holes in the screen.;)

Seriously though if it still continues you may need to take it back to a Microsoft store and have the defective part replaced.

1935

On another topic, every time my SP3 updates It freezes at the Surface screen. no rotating dot or anything just the word Surface. I have to do a hard reset in order to get it working. Sometimes I can get it to manually update, but most of the time I can’t. Any ideas why this is happening?

1936

It’s actually a software thing for me. It tends to overwhelmingly happen in Visual Studio for some reason (though still not very often), but it’ll happen occasionally in other software as well (including just hanging around the OS). It happens to both my work and home PCs, and it’s happened to a few of my coworkers and my wife’s laptop as well in the past (all Windows 7). I think it’s just something that happens every now and then, and most people would just restart when weird stuff started happening and wouldn’t know the root cause. It’s still rare though, it’s a once a month thing (sometimes more often in VS).

1937

I had that once and found it was related to an accessibility feature. I had accidently tapped SHIFT five times or something and it activated all sorts of crazy sticky key stuff which can be a bear if you don’t know it’s happening/how to turn it off.

1938

That always happens mid-game, right!? Which is why I tend to disable those features as soon as I remember on every fresh install. :)

1939

So, a rather large list of new apps coming to Windows 10 Universal. The big one is that Cortanna can search Netflix and has some basic commands to run it. It might make using the Computer attached to my TV a better experience than my Roku box. Fingers crossed though.

Now if they can get it to search Hulu Plus as well, that would be something.

1940

The big one is that Cortanna can search Netflix and has some basic commands to run it. It might make using the Computer attached to my TV a better experience than my Roku box

Doesn’t the Roku do that too?