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Really? I've ordered less that $100 worth of product over the last year through Amazon. Things like shoe laces, so not something that I would have thought would trigger any algorithm to suspect I was a business client.
Do they just blanket send these out to everybody? I just ignore them, so maybe they're trying to get me to sign up for a subscription of some kind? Very odd, IMO.
Keep Calm and Carry On
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k5054 wrote: Do they just blanket send these out to everybody?
What's funny is that when a business does sign up for a business account, they put the business through the ringers.
Jeremy Falcon
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Maybe ask your wife/husband/gf/bf ?
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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None of the above. But the cat's been unusually smug recently ....
Keep Calm and Carry On
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k5054 wrote: the cat's been unusually smug recently
Er... Based on my experience, cats' smugness settings are always screwed down tight on maximum, and cannot be increased. Your statement is therefore a non sequitur.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Didn't you know that cats created Amazon so they could get the boxes to play in.
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This explains much about both my finances and my cats.
Software Zen: delete this;
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That's the scam of "big data". They want you to believe they have a big, complex, "smart" algorithms to identify you as a candidate...but in reality you're not.
Just like if you buy a hat, suddenly all you're seeing are hat ads. Amazon's "big data algo" has told their advertizers you buy hats.
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Christian Graus wrote: People still use Amazon?
Who overtook Amazon? Did Wal-Mart do something I didn't hear of?
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Everyone knew they were evil. I do buy things online but not much
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I never order business anymore (even for my business).
Things are usually more expensive for businesses (because we can get out tax back) and business have less legal protection than individuals.
I recently ordered a monitor which had a cracked screen on arrival.
For some reason I had to pay for the shipping back because I was a business client.
At the end of the day I was €25 lighter and had nothing to show for it.
It's crazy.
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CEOs buy shoelaces, too. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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My primary monitor is connected via HDMI.
Secondary monitors are connected via VGA and USB-to-VGA.
Am I right to conclude that if you have a mixture of HDMI (primary) and VGA (secondary), when you power off the display connected via HDMI, its windows all move to the other displays? Or rather, the windows stay in place when the display is powered off, but move around to other monitors when the one connected via HDMI is powered back on...
It's been like that for years, it seems, but I don't believe I've ever solicited feedback on this topic. The PC on my desk has changed over the years, so it's not system-specific (although I could just be unlucky).
This is getting annoying. As more and more display devices switch to HDMI, I suspect this is only going to get worse, unless Windows stops messing around like this.
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dandy72 wrote: when you power off the display connected via HDMI, its windows all move to the other displays?
Nope.
Just tried it when reading this message. The primary is HDMI with this message on it and when I turn it off the other screen remains blank.
Far as I can recall it has always done it this way. Multiple computers. Certainly all of Windows 10.
If you want it to switch you need to pop the display setup and set the other to be the primary.
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The windows don't move when powering off. They move when powering it back on.
jschell wrote: If you want it to switch you need to pop the display setup and set the other to be the primary.
That's exactly what I don't want it to do. Windows move on their own - I don't want them to, even if a monitor is not turned on.
Specifically - I leave my system on 24/7, except for the monitors. First thing I do in the morning is power on the monitors. That's when windows shift around. And not just from primary to others, but windows that were on #3 switch to #1, and what was on #1 switch to #3 - that sort of thing.
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Your BIOS settings should include things like "OnBoard" and "Auto" and the third option, all under VGA. Mine, set as OnBoard will not present any signal on the card video. Only the VGA hookup to the motherboard. When I release that default by specifying "Auto" (usually) the video card in the PCIe (double in this case) will kick in and even though the VGA of the motherboard is still allowing a signal, take over the boot splash screen and load under that.
It's tricky but once you've got which setting in the BIOS handles which monitor(S), the hand-off to the Windows console for Display/Monitor settings will take everything plugged in into account.
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Worth looking for a BIOS setting, I guess. My system is a Beelink (equivalent to Intel's NUC), so it's only got onboard video and, being that form factor, not expecting an external video card to be connected to a separate slot.
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dandy72 wrote: Beelink
Yes, in the case of that hydra, the snakes are calling the shots. Visualize the end of the redbull commercial where the knot of serpents eventually chokes off the conversation due to constricted circulation; the last one thinking probably represents the pipe with the most bad news flowing through it.
A BIOS setting which affords the option of AUTO, card or no card, would be overkill wouldn't it?
Intel NUCs discourage groping while still in the display case of the brick and mortar in my neck of the woods. And, frankly, online they appear to be less of a mason's trowel and more of a spagetti chef's toque blanche.
(all reasons reserved  )
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I'm...not entirely sure what to make of that.
As much as I like having a big tower system that's fully customizable, at this point, nothing's ever coming back on my main desk that isn't in that form factor. Or a laptop, at worse.
Heck, the instant there's one that can accommodate 64GB of RAM for reasonably cheap (they're out there, just not cheap) I'll seriously be taking a look at retiring my current VM host.
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Ah...I misunderstood the original post.
dandy72 wrote: They move when powering it back on.
Double ah.
I cannot ever have that specific problem because when I power down a computer it is actually powered down. There are no windows at all when it starts back up.
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Perhaps related or not I do know that when I close a window (especially browser and the editor I use) on my secondary display if that is the last window of the type that I close then next time when I start up then the app opens on that display.
So maybe the problem is how it ends up closing windows when you power down?
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Try powering down a monitor (not the computer), if you have a combination of HDMI/VGA (where the HDMI one is your primary).
I'll bet windows move around when the HDMI monitor is re-detected.
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dandy72 wrote: Try powering down a monitor
That is the test I did and mentioned above in this sub-thread.
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dandy72 wrote: Secondary monitors are connected via VGA and USB-to-VGA.
VGA? This a server? 
Jeremy Falcon
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My old 24" and 27" VGA monitors are working fine as secondary monitors, I'm not gonna replace them just because of the connection type they're using.
In fact the 24" is the last of a set of 3 identical ones I bought at the same time, and is still going. The two others died over time.
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