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I normally have the the left screen as a default desktop on my Win 10 Gateway computer. When I click on the Dclock icon in the icon bar I get the right screen.

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One time I got this screen on that computer. Clicking on the icons did nothing. I had to restart the computer later because of problems and this didn't reappear. The default desktop on my Win 10 Shinobee computer looks like this  and the icons work when clicked. Does anyone here have something like this now or in the past with the latest Win 10?

Quote from: wraith808 on November 12, 2020, 04:24 AM

I just know that it's going to take a long time.

It didn't take very long for me. I think by the time it told me to reboot to perform the upgrade, it was finished with the process in less than 5-10 minutes.

I haven't gotten the latest before this one.  So I have to get that one first.

It doesn't have App's features,

What features are you referring to?

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Quote from: Arizona Hot on November 27, 2020, 01:50 PM

It doesn't have App's features,

What features are you referring to?

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The tools shown here. The app probably has others, but these are the ones I was thinking about.

Go in the application folder and you will find an exe file for each of them that can be used without launching the clock. You can create shortcuts to them on your desktop or wherever else you want them.

Alphasort and ToDo List are also available on my site, as stand alone apps.

Old solutions for new problems....

I had an old Pentium I computer with a combo modem/soundcard that had issues staying connected to the internet when a system sound played (system would lock up just long enough to kick me offline), unless there was sound continuously flowing through the soundcard at all times. This meant playing music all the time, and usually keeping the speakers turned off if I didn't want to hear it, till I came across a small app capable of playing continuous low frequency tones that my cheap speakers were unable to produce. (25 Hz did the trick)

Flash forward to a couple of days ago, when a screwy Windows feature update, which I am unable to uninstall, messed up my bluetooth, so that no matter how I have the hardware settings configured, it turns Bluetooth off (to save power) when it thinks it is not in use. This is very BAD for a bluetooth mouse. I reported here about this issue in this thread, and was avoiding reinstalling that update for as long as possible, but Microsoft managed to automatically cram it down my throat when I recently rebooted my machine, despite having updates paused till some time in January.

BUT I noticed it doesn't cut off my mouse if I have sound playing through my bluetooth headphones. So, I am back to using that very old app, to generate a continuous 10 Hz tone, just so I can use my mouse.



I had to use the system volume mixer to set the volume of this app at a very low level, since my bluetooth headphones are capable of producing audible sound generated from this app, at even the lowest (10 Hz) setting.

However, disabling the setting shown in the image worked out well for my situation. Likely you (app103) have tried that setting already, but it might help others.

Come to think of it, you should disable the power saving feature from your (wired) network card too. Works exactly the same as shown in the image.

Yup, been there, done that, and it didn't help. Since this laptop is never used on battery power, I don't really care about power saving, so I disabled that in anything where I found the option to do so. But this update removed that option for my mouse, headphones, and some other items, and now I can only do it for whatever is above that in the Bluetooth food chain. The individual peripherals no longer have a power management tab.

I set my new HP laptop with Win10 to 'no password',

Elaborate on what you did so far to accomplish that, so we know what not to suggest.. 

Historically, that always been done using control userpasswords2 (from either run or command prompt)

Also, what's that Windows dimmer function that works like f.lux,

Night Light - Open the Notification area, right-click in the tile area and select Edit, then Add it.

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Quote from: ich thys on January 07, 2021, 02:16 AM

I set my new HP laptop with Win10 to 'no password',

Elaborate on what you did so far to accomplish that, so we know what not to suggest.. 

Historically, that always been done using control userpasswords2 (from either run or command prompt)

I start with Desktop and go to Sign-in options.

Is a local account, or a Microsoft account?

You can't set microsoft accounts to be no password enabled.  The best you can do is set it to use a Pin.

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It's Patch Tuesday. I survived  the latest Cumulative Update. A Skynet client wasn't installed. Did anyone here get one?

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There are some nice panoramas here as .swf files that I converted for use after the latest Update using the site in the last post.

360 degree panoramas of Southwest USA

I had an old Pentium I computer with a combo modem/soundcard that had issues staying connected to the internet when a system sound played (system would lock up just long enough to kick me offline), unless there was sound continuously flowing through the soundcard at all times. This meant playing music all the time, and usually keeping the speakers turned off if I didn't want to hear it, till I came across a small app capable of playing continuous low frequency tones that my cheap speakers were unable to produce. (25 Hz did the trick)

I originally made a reply here asking about this app, and got a few responses and a solution. But since it wasn't really related to Windows 10, those posts have been split off into a new thread here:

Program to play inaudible sound continuously