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pkfox wrote: do you think a clean install is a good idea ? No, because then you have to buy win10 instead of getting the upgrade for free.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I don't think you do until the July deadline has passed
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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You can get a free copy of Win10 without upgrading?
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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You are supposed to be able to activate the 10586 build with a Win 7 or 8 activation code, but I have never tried that, so I cannot confirm that it will work. If you do a clean install AFTER the free upgrade, you do not need the activation code and you get it for free. Just make sure the upgrade is activated, before doing the clean install. I've gone that route on several machines of family members and it worked every time. The clean install was free in every case.
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Cornelius Henning wrote: You are supposed to be able to activate the 10586 build with a Win 7 or 8 activation code Ah, I see. I was not aware of that.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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How do you check if it's activated ?
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Go to Control Panel => System. It will say near the bottom whether it's activated or not.
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It doesn't show anything - also my display is awful - I'm at the point of reverting back
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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I suspect it may have used your old display driver, and that driver is not playing well with 10. Before I give up, I would try to update the display driver. Do you know how to do that? With a clean install Win 10 should find and install the correct driver.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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"You'll be back." (in my best Arnold accent)
/ravi
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I'm back already - the problems I was having reminded me of when I first installed Red Hat all those years ago
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Note that after you do the upgrade, grab a Windows 10 iso install and burn media. You can then do a clean install and it will register using your login account.
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Yesterday's XKCD.
Wonderful idea, especially for Kindle books (lousy justification).
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Good thing CP supports badgers natively, there doesn't seem to be a proper Unicode character for it.
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aaryan42 wrote: Good thing CP supports badgers natively, there doesn't seem to be a proper Unicode character for it.
My poor old eyes must be going.. they look like pandas to me
The whole thing's rigged to blow, touch those tanks and "boooom"!
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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They are obviously trans-species icons! They might even be dancing nuns (if you squint a lot while looking at them).
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Dancing nuns?? Let me go take another look..
The whole thing's rigged to blow, touch those tanks and "boooom"!
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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What a piece of crap. It does not reliably play videos in ANY format I've tried. With a single file, I've observed the following behaviors (with a program restart between each observation):
- The video plays fine
- The video plays with considerable artifacts
- The video's first frame appears and I get audio
- The video's first frame appears and I DON'T get audio
- The audio plays but I get no video at all
In VLC and WMP, the video plays fine - every time.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Don't know if it will help any but I found this.
i cri evry tiem
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Yeah, I found that too, but I don't have the time right now to refactor the code.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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It internally uses DirectX, so perhaps upgrading to the latest version of DirectX may help with this somewhat.
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Nish Nishant wrote: It internally uses DirectX
That got me thinking:
VLC itself has an option somewhere (Tools, Preferences, Video, Output--at least in version 2.2.2) that lets you define what to use for rendering video, and is doesn't use DX by default if I'm not mistaken. If VLC was reconfigured to use DX, I wouldn't be entirely surprised if it then also started exhibiting the same behavior.
Which brings me to wonder whether the WPF element has any such similar option that can be tweaked to match whatever VLC uses.
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I'm running a fully patched-up Win7 install. You'd THINK I already had the latest DirectXcrement. And lets not forget, Windows Media Player (which also uses DX), works fine every time.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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WMP uses DX too but not the same way - which is surprising
I'd still recommend manually checking to see if you have the absolute latest DX installed.
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That boat[^] gets the 4th most popular name! Fourth! Unbelievable. It's not like the man doesn't have enough things named after him already. My gruntle has rarely been so dissed!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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True, but there are plans for a submersible to named Subby McSubface! rather than Boaty!
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