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Windows 10, Yay or Nay?

Hrm... mostly Windows, Win 10 in particular, and I don't really keep up on that side of things anymore. Same with the hardware.
 
Bg260 said:
Not sure if this has come up yet but i'll leave it here.

http://adbdriver.com/documentation/how-to-install-adb-driver-on-windows-8-10-x64.html
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If you don't want to go through the convoluted key presses to get to the boot options referenced, you can run this from a command prompt: %Windir%\System32\shutdown.exe /r /o /f /t 00
I created a shortcut to make it even easier:

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Be sure to close anything open as this will occur immediately ;)
 
I might add that Win8 and up doesn't completely shutdown to a cold boot state when you tell it to "Shutdown." A pain if you are dual booting. For that I created another shortcut (as above) named "Cold Shutdown." Just create a new shortcut and insert this in the target instead:

%Windir%\System32\shutdown.exe /s /t 0

Same caveats apply. Be sure to save any work as this will occur immediately.

EDIT: You can also insert a keystroke combination by clicking in the "Shortcut key" box of your newly created shortcut and doing the key-presses. Be sure that these don't interfere with any other keystroke shortcuts you may have. I just edited my "Reboot With Options" with Ctrl + Alt + R and now no need to click anything. I saw no need to post another pic as I'm pretty sure you get my drift.

EDIT2: I should have also changed the "Start in:" entry from C:\WINDOWS\system32 to %Windir%\system32 in case your Windows directory is named something other than "Windows." Not all that common to do these days, but I thought I should mention it.
 
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yup, another memory cell that has an itch and needs to be scratched...

just because I don't like 10, don't mean I can ignore it.... too many friends who have it and desperately need help with it... and somehow, I became their 'guru'
 
Father Guido said:
If you don't want to go through the convoluted key presses to get to the boot options referenced, you can run this from a command prompt: %Windir%\System32\shutdown.exe /r /o /f /t 00
I created a shortcut to make it even easier:

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Be sure to close anything open as this will occur immediately ;)
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I also created a shutdown shortcut like that, I am going to have to study mine, which is 10 years old now, and see what you have done differently.
 
AZgl1500 said:
yup, another memory cell that has an itch and needs to be scratched...

just because I don't like 10, don't mean I can ignore it.... too many friends who have it and desperately need help with it... and somehow, I became their 'guru'
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Welcome to MY world. Work, home, friends, and family ALL think I'm the "go to" guy with tech. So, I do need to try and keep up on things Windows. Oddly enough *most* could get by with a minimal Linux distro as they don't do much of anything but surf the Internet, yet bring over virus infected crap to me for cleanup. This NEVER happens in 'nix. I'm so sick of that, I refuse to clean these Win boxen up anymore. I just retrieve their key or other activation and do a wipe/clean install. I "will" do a quick look to try and rescue their data, but not too much time. I've preached backing this stuff up, but the average user never does. Same thing with phones. Arrgh...
 
we are together there, I tell them to make a image backup, and to keep it up to date every 3 months.
but, when it all crashes, I just pull out Image#1 and put it back like it was 2 years ago... sigh...
 
I have an old Apple G4 laptop, I have often wondered if it would perform any better if it had Linux on it.
the damn thing is so slow, I won't use it.
 
Father Guido said:
I might add that Win8 and up doesn't completely shutdown to a cold boot state when you tell it to "Shutdown." A pain if you are dual booting. For that I created another shortcut (as above) named "Cold Shutdown." Just create a new shortcut and insert this in the target instead:

%Windir%\System32\shutdown.exe /s /t 0

Same caveats apply. Be sure to save any work as this will occur immediately.

EDIT: You can also insert a keystroke combination by clicking in the "Shortcut key" box of your newly created shortcut and doing the key-presses. Be sure that these don't interfere with any other keystroke shortcuts you may have. I just edited my "Reboot With Options" with Ctrl + Alt + R and now no need to click anything. I saw no need to post another pic as I'm pretty sure you get my drift.

EDIT2: I should have also changed the "Start in:" entry from C:\WINDOWS\system32 to %Windir%\system32 in case your Windows directory is named something other than "Windows." Not all that common to do these days, but I though I should mention it.
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Lord knows, I tire of turning on my laptop and finding the battery run down because Win doesn't 'turn off'. Is there a way of doing this for a system reboot? I only ask because my usual reason for booting into Win involves me returning to Mint to retrieve documents I can only download from Windows.
 
Dngrsone said:
Lord knows, I tire of turning on my laptop and finding the battery run down because Win doesn't 'turn off'. Is there a way of doing this for a system reboot? I only ask because my usual reason for booting into Win involves me returning to Mint to retrieve documents I can only download from Windows.
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Are you saying that you cannot access your Windows files from Mint or vice-versa? Confused...

EDIT: Linux can access Windows filesystems natively. To access Linux filesystems from Windows, you need a 3rd party app to see them. Paragon ExtFS for Windows works very well.

The command in post #753 will shutdown Windows (your computer) to an OFF state, so that should stop any battery drain. If you want to boot into Mint, just mash the ON button and boot into your Linux OS. Linux shuts down cold when you tell it to "shutdown," as every OS should. I don't know of any other means to shutdown Windows (cleanly) and restart Linux with a simple command from within Windows (or vice-versa). It may be possible, but that requires more knowledge than I possess. Maybe I'm missing your point altogether?
 
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Truth is, I prefer a certain reading program on my tablet that is not agreeable to a certain type of file, so I must download them in Win where I can strip the DRM to be converted to a more amenable file type for reading.

It's not the most elegant workaround, but I've yet to find the location of the appropriate data when I am running the relevant program in wine.

Your code will fix my power problem; I can just as easily shut the machine all the way down and restart it.
 
Father Guido said:
Are you saying that you cannot access your Windows files from Mint or vice-versa? Confused...

EDIT: Linux can access Windows filesystems natively. To access Linux filesystems from Windows, you need a 3rd party app to see them. Paragon ExtFS for Windows works very well.

The command in post #753 will shutdown Windows (your computer) to an OFF state, so that should stop any battery drain. If you want to boot into Mint, just mash the ON button and boot into your Linux OS. Linux shuts down cold when you tell it to "shutdown," as every OS should. I don't know of any other means to shutdown Windows (cleanly) and restart Linux with a simple command from within Windows (or vice-versa). It may be possible, but that requires more knowledge than I possess. Maybe I'm missing your point altogether?
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I had the same problem on my new ASUS laptop while it was still running Win10, turned it 'ON' and it came up for about 15 seconds and said "Battery Low" and shut off. what????? I had told it to "shut down"....
After that little fiasco, I just told it to Hibernate for everything instead of 'sleep'...

The 'long press' now its' OFF seems kind of brutal for a WinOS :(
 
Dngrsone said:
No, they are very DRM, for the most part, and of course Linux is the antithesis of that.

One of these days, I am going to sit down, install the program in wine, and then do some CLI-foo to find that DRM directory...
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Have you looked into calibre? "calibre has a built-in ebook viewer that can display all the major ebook formats. It has full support for Table of Contents, bookmarks, CSS, a reference mode, printing, searching, copying, customizing the rendering via a user style sheet, embedded fonts, etc." I believe this only allows viewing various ebook formats, but with a little more work DRM removal may be possible. This looks interesting...
 
AZgl1500 said:
I had the same problem on my new ASUS laptop while it was still running Win10, turned it 'ON' and it came up for about 15 seconds and said "Battery Low" and shut off. what????? I had told it to "shut down"....
After that little fiasco, I just told it to Hibernate for everything instead of 'sleep'...

The 'long press' now its' OFF seems kind of brutal for a WinOS :(
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I think of those bragging about "super fast boot times" as numbskulls (just my opinion). It's not REALLY a boot, it's waking it up. I don't mind waiting a few more seconds. In fact, the first thing I do on my personal machines is kill off the GUI boot splash in the BIOS, and add a little time so I can see what is going on during the boot (and intervene if I need/want to). While 99.9% of the time it means nothing, those few seconds might well inform me of an issue. Maybe I'm a bit too geeky, but I actually *like* booting a live Linux distro and watching everything being found and initialized. Pretty cool (and amazing) to see just how much happens behind the scenes.

People are just so impatient these days :(
 
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Father Guido said:
I think of those bragging about "super fast boot times" as numbskulls (just my opinion). It's not REALLY a boot, it's waking it up. I don't mind waiting a few more seconds. In fact, the first thing I do on my personal machines is kill off the GUI boot splash in the BIOS, and add a little time so I can see what is going on during the boot (and intervene if I need/want to). While 99.9% of the time it means nothing, those few seconds might well inform me of an issue. Maybe I'm a bit too geeky, but I actually *like* booting a live Linux distro and watching everything being found and initialized. Pretty cool (and amazing) to see just how much happens behind the scenes.

Peeps are just so impatient these days :(
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you and me both................
I want to make the decision as to what boots up.....

'peeps' is a term that I personally despise..... maybe I am just "way too old school", but I don't like it.
say 'folks' or 'people'.....

but maybe it is because my fingers run at 120 wpm, learned touch typing in Junior Highschool, and went to Crypto School in the Air Force at Shepard AFB back in 1964.... there we used ASR128s with one hell of a fast keyboard, and the 'screen' was a piece of yellow paper tape that we learned to read as fast as it could come out of the punch.

. I was an 'old man' when I enlisted at 21 y/o.... I was roomed up with a pharmacist, we got along together really well.... the rest of our barracks were all 18 or younger.

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Fox Mulder said:
I'll bet you yell at kids to get off your lawn- ;)
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not much worried about that here, with 6 acres of trees and grass, the thing only hopping around here is squirrels and bunny rabbits :D

These pictures were taken in the sequence of NE, N, NW, W, SW, and S.
there is just as much property to the east as what you see here, and that solid wall of trees to the south?
there is 3 acres south of that line of trees, we have about half of it in mown grass....

Our daughter plans to build her own house there soon, and we will leave the thick forest of trees there to give her privacy.... we will open a driveway from the SE corner of the lot.

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Father Guido said:
Have you looked into calibre? "calibre has a built-in ebook viewer that can display all the major ebook formats. It has full support for Table of Contents, bookmarks, CSS, a reference mode, printing, searching, copying, customizing the rendering via a user style sheet, embedded fonts, etc." I believe this only allows viewing various ebook formats, but with a little more work DRM removal may be possible. This looks interesting...
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That's what I have is Calibre, with the necessary DRM component. The problem is, the aforementioned component needs to know where the Amazon DRM directory is so it can decode the file.

This works fine when the application is installed in Windows, but the problem is directing the add-on to the correct directory under wine.
 
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