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That is very weird that you guys get that. I have several drives. I have 8.1 on one, a data drive, and 10 on another hard drive. I have never had that happen. I am able to go into all other drives from where ever I boot with no issues.
My data drive was fine, as far as I know anyway, it just messed up my other SSD. Both SSD's actually. 8.1 was on one and 10 on another.
its all weird to me ,i had win8 on a ssd and win10 on a sata drive ,never hooked up atthe same time ,if i remove the win8 drive ,and hooked up the win10 drive and used win 10 for a day or so ,then shut down and unplugged the drive ,and plugged in the win8.1 drive it would not boot with out doing a repair ,and vice versa , and they were plugged into different sata connections on the motheboard
My BIOS boot order changed on its own too at some point? My 8.1 drive was originally set as the default in BIOS and then W10 got set as default some how? I didn't swap the drives on the SATA ports either. 8.1 was SATA 1, my data drive was SATA 2 and the W 10 drive was SATA 3. The W 10 drive got shuffled to the top of the list somehow. It had me confused for a while. I was using my BIOS quick boot menu to pick which drive to boot to. It is not supposed to change the BIOS default and never has as far as I know. My BIOS may have done it automatically when it couldn't find the 8.1 drive on boot up, not sure.
@gregrocker after experimenting I discovered a way to hopefully solve your problem and hope my solution is not to confusing to you or others.
By default you can make 2 rows of tiles and then a space will be created between the new row below and the 2 rows above, to get rid of the space between two tiles takes a little persuasion as the upper and lower tiles need to be overlapped and hopefully when you let go of the lower one there is no more space between them (It may take a couple of tries of overlapping the tiles to get them to stay together).
Default tile configuration with space below.
Overlap the tile below with the row above
Now there should be no space between the rows of tiles or a box with dots.
An example using wide tiles.
Default tile configuration with space below.
Overlap the tile below with the row above
Now there should be no space between the rows of tiles or a box with dots.
This part is to explain the box with the dots and the space between tiles
When two tiles have a space below them and you click on the empty space between the tiles that box with the 3 dots will appear to name that category, clicking outside the box makes it disappear and you are just left with the space between them. (See below)
Clicking on the empty space between tiles
Produces the box with the 3 dots
Clicking outside the box (with all text deleted) makes it disappear again.
Last edited by IownAmoneyPit; 25 Jan 2015 at 17:43.
Perfect, thanks, Moneypit! :)
There seems to be an issue with shutting down because it isn't a real shutdown but a type of Hibernate so that the OS can start back up faster. This may affect plugging in another drive without first disabling Fast Boot in BIOS setup. Hopefully someone else more familar with this issue can comment or link us to a thread on it here.
I'm not sure how this might also be related to a jumper on some HD's that will cause them to appear to fail completely. I have one that I need to deal with in Calif after this happened twice and I junked the first one, only finding out later that there is a fix, this is a known issue being tracked in Build 9879 trashing hard drives! - Windows 10 Forums.
I wonder if this build fixes that issue.
Last edited by gregrocker; 25 Jan 2015 at 17:46.
Nice idea. :)
Linux Mint has "Columns" (no obvious setting) but doesn't have "Grid".
It's fun adding hundreds of icons, of various types and sizes, when you are trying to create your own Linux theme.
Still embedded icons are used by malware writers to trick people (e.g. text icon for exe files).
I'm not sure what the solution to that is.
My friend and I discussed this (years ago) and the best we could come up with is that icons should be made up of two components.
The file contains one part and the OS adds the second part based on the type of file (e.g. a special overlay for exe files, etc.).
Six of one and a half dozen of the other.
My Toshiba laptop has Intel graphics.
In Windows 7:
- The graphics control panel has a splash screen saying something like, "Great for monitors and TVs" (it has no TV settings at all!)
- It is supposed to output "1366x768", but the TV doesn't recognise the signal
- There are no adjustments that I can find to make it output a signal the TV recognises
In Linux Mint 17.1 MATE:
- There is no Intel graphics control panel
- The OS graphics setup window can't correctly place and set the resolution
- My friend was able to create 3 Terminal instructions, which at least allow video to be sent to the TV
Agreed, but I'd say that is an overly generous estimate.
IMO, Windows stuff is ~80% complete and Linux stuff is closer to ~50% complete. :)
Last edited by lehnerus2000; 25 Jan 2015 at 20:19. Reason: Combined Posts
And, what's with the tiny 'forward/back' arrows, that I can barely see, in File Explorer?
What's the point of that!?