I have a computer question. Will someone respond in the thread or PM me?
I just bought an SSD and put it in my laptop yesterday. When I powered on the laptop, I did not see it in my list of drives? Is this normal? Should I do something for it to show up?
Do you mean that it's not showing up in your bios, or you're not seeing it as a drive in windows? If you're not seeing it in windows, it's because the drives are unpartitioned when you buy them. Click the start button and type disk manager in the text box and see if the disk manager can see the drive if it's windows not reading the drive. (If this is the problem partitioning it should be pretty trivial. Partition it as an NTFS drive and format.) If your Bios isn't seeing it, things get a little bit trickier. You have to troubleshoot that at the physical level and make sure it's actually plugged in, so you might have to unplug it and plug it back in.
Does it save my stuff, or make me start over? Because I've been holding off because I'm too lazy to put stuff on a backup.
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when you write a paper/do work you can do this:
Paper/work on desktop 1 (full screen).
Research and work browser on desktop 2.
Social media / break browser/games on desktop 3.
then lol nope for you. Because windows 10 upgrade SAVES all of 7 on your laptop, so add another like 15 GB...
Also, apparently some of the hardcore engineering programs don't work on windows 10, some of my engineering friends are complaining about matlab specifically.
i've had no problems getting matlab to work on my windows 10
it has problems, of course (ex. no precise stimulus timing!), but these were problems with all versions of windows since xp
I tried windoews 10 and reverted back the next morning since I apparently forgot that updates restart your computer. Having no option to only have my computer restart when I want it to is a huge turnoff.
I am not liking it. My laptop is not shutting down now. I'll hit shutdown and it stays on? I have to hold the power down to get it to turn off. It just locked up on me this morning and even Ctrl+Alt+Del didn't respond. I don't know when is the last time I've had that happen. I guess early on in XP. 7/8 let me have a dark theme that was manageable and mostly pretty looking, but 10 is ugly and somehow less customizable in that respect.
I've been saying that I'm going to switch over the Linux as my primary OS for years, I think I may actually follow through with it this time.
In post 245, RedCoyote wrote:I am not liking it. My laptop is not shutting down now. I'll hit shutdown and it stays on? I have to hold the power down to get it to turn off. It just locked up on me this morning and even Ctrl+Alt+Del didn't respond. I don't know when is the last time I've had that happen. I guess early on in XP. 7/8 let me have a dark theme that was manageable and mostly pretty looking, but 10 is ugly and somehow less customizable in that respect.
I've been saying that I'm going to switch over the Linux as my primary OS for years, I think I may actually follow through with it this time.
That's not windows, there's something going on with your machine. Either a hardware issue or the install itself is corrupted. (Which is not windows 10's fault.) I've had experience with this problem before.
Themes should also carry over and be exactly the same. (You may need to reinstall a graphics driver to fix this one. My nvidia driver was not compatible with windows 10 when I upgraded and I had to download one that was.)
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In post 244, Ankamius wrote:I tried windoews 10 and reverted back the next morning since I apparently forgot that updates restart your computer. Having no option to only have my computer restart when I want it to is a huge turnoff.
In post 244, Ankamius wrote:I tried windoews 10 and reverted back the next morning since I apparently forgot that updates restart your computer. Having no option to only have my computer restart when I want it to is a huge turnoff.
I wish I could revert to vista but meh.
The one constant I've found is that the computers I have worked on that have been absolutely full of viruses didn't do windows updates. There's a reason they are automatically done now. That said, it would be nice if Microsoft would recode the system so that it can dynamically update without needing to reboot. It's one of the most annoying features of the system that has existed forever.
In post 245, RedCoyote wrote:I am not liking it. My laptop is not shutting down now. I'll hit shutdown and it stays on? I have to hold the power down to get it to turn off. It just locked up on me this morning and even Ctrl+Alt+Del didn't respond. I don't know when is the last time I've had that happen. I guess early on in XP. 7/8 let me have a dark theme that was manageable and mostly pretty looking, but 10 is ugly and somehow less customizable in that respect.
I've been saying that I'm going to switch over the Linux as my primary OS for years, I think I may actually follow through with it this time.
That's not windows, there's something going on with your machine. Either a hardware issue or the install itself is corrupted. (Which is not windows 10's fault.) I've had experience with this problem before.
Themes should also carry over and be exactly the same. (You may need to reinstall a graphics driver to fix this one. My nvidia driver was not compatible with windows 10 when I upgraded and I had to download one that was.)
I don't know... I'll take your word for it, but it's seemingly been in a steady decline as far as usability goes. If I can't correlate that with Windows updates, then I'm not sure what to correlate that with. Though now that you mentioned a hardware issue, maybe I corrupted something, somehow when I tried using this LG TV at the hotel as a monitor. It seems like after I started doing that, everything has gotten significantly worse.
As far as themes goes, do you know a way that I have have black/dark background for my individual windows with white/light colored text? Other than using the High Contrast Black theme, I cannot seem to customize it in that way.
