Thirding Voicemeter Banana. I use it every day and love it.
Yup Voicemeter Banana will stop that bullshit windows does, at least for the most part. Sometimes an update will mess it up but that hasn't happened to me in ages.
Once you setup Voicemeter you just make that your default audio for both output and input, and then in voicemeter you setup your devices the way you want and windows shouldn't switch it out on you.
Sigh.
Built a new gaming PC, and (after various troubles like having to RMA the cpu) installed win11, then plugged in a 4TB data drive from the previous PC. During boot I glance over to the screen and see a dialog like "about to repair drive, to cancel press any key in 3.. 2.. 1..". Before I reacted windows did something to "repair" the drive, and now it shows up normally and claims to be fine, but the files on it are only maybe 5% of what was there before.
It looks like most of the missing data can be recovered with undelete software, but the paths and many of the filenames are all gone - so I'll wind up with a massive folder full of junk to comb through, and no way to guess what's missing and what isn't. Anyone know any good ways to deal with such things?
No chance you had, say, an online backup of that drive?
So, what kind of drive was it? How old was it? Was it formatted for an older version of the OS? Is it possible that it actually did have a lot of errors? That can happen with an older drive that has been failing for a while... You could have put it in and the new Windows install says "Hmmm... Better sort out these 1253 bad blocks before I load this drive...".
I know that's not what you want to hear. Backups are pretty essential for data drives these days, unfortunately.
Fifth-ing the Voicemeeter Banana recommendation.
PROTIP: once you have it set up and working, go to Menu > Save Settings, and save out your settings as an XML file that can be re-loaded should settings get reset.
I know that's not what you want to hear. Backups are pretty essential for data drives these days, unfortunately.
Sure, I know the data might not be recoverable - I was hoping someone might have specific tools or techniques that worked (or didn't) for them in the past.
(One of the annoying things about data recovery is that it's hard to find any accurate information, since search results are dominated by sketchy looking SEO-driven paid tools...)
Best I can offer is this group.
Microsoft has basically ceased caring about non-corporate Windows licensing. To be blunt, I think doing anything other than downloading and installing the Windows 11 ISO from Microsoft and activating it with Microsoft Activation Scripts (MAS) is a waste of time.
Microsoft owns Github now, so in a very real sense they are distributing the tool to perform HWID activations of Windows. Microsoft support engineers have been known to use MAS themselves to fix license upgrade issues on end user PCs.
As one Reddit comment I saw put it, "literally everyone uses this". I think trying to migrate a license to avoid using an activator is pointless if MS themselves will turn around and use that same activator as soon as your license migration hits a snag.
I just used this method last night and can confirm that it works perfectly! Thanks for posting this *Legion*!
I clean-installed Windows 11 Home on my Steamdeck and thought I’d give it a shot. Took all of 10 minutes.
Fifth-ing the Voicemeeter Banana recommendation.
PROTIP: once you have it set up and working, go to Menu > Save Settings, and save out your settings as an XML file that can be re-loaded should settings get reset.
Sixth-ing Voicemeeter Banana. I have basically the same headset, and I keep my simple speakers, main game headset sound, and "chat" all on separately controllable channels. works great.
One issue (and maybe someone here has a solution), your PC will no longer go to sleep if VM Banana is active. This seems to still be an issue and has been for the how many years I've used it on both Win10 and Win 11
Is there a way to set/bind my keyboard to have dedicated keys for copy and paste, rather than the multi-key shortcuts?
AutoHotKey: http://xahlee.info/mswin/autohotkey.... lets you make the Photoshop key bindings for Cut/Copy/Paste (F2, F3, F4) work everywhere. The tutorial explains how to set it up, and the "Remap Key" section of that page shows how to do the mapping.
A paid option would be to get something like a Elgato Stream Deck which lets you have your own programmable buttons. The mini is only $60 USD. I would only go with this over AutoHotKey though if you think you can utilize more of its features.
What kind of keyboard do you have? Some allow firmware key mapping to do all kinds of shortcuts.
Well this would be for my work laptop, so any downloaded software is locked down. Can I set up a Elgato Stream Deck on my personal computer before using in on the work laptop? Or a programmable keyboard that saves the settings on the device?
Edit: I think I found my solution, something like this should hopefully work Copy and Paste 2-Key Keyboard.
The stream deck would need software on the PC running it.
My daughter's college has a really crappy wifi network (seriously, St. Olaf, with what you cost, put in a few goddamn extenders) and her wifi drops all the time. Safe to assume using a USB wifi dongle instead of an internal antenna might improve things? It's her second laptop, and it happened with the old one as well.
My daughter's college has a really crappy wifi network (seriously, St. Olaf, with what you cost, put in a few goddamn extenders) and her wifi drops all the time. Safe to assume using a USB wifi dongle instead of an internal antenna might improve things? It's her second laptop, and it happened with the old one as well.
"Might" being the operative word. Assuming the dongle has a more sensitive antenna in it, then yes. Alternatively, not - if the wifi signal is truly weak-sauce, there's only so much a more sensitive antenna can do.
Does she have unlimited data on her cellplan with a generous hotspotting allowance? That might be a more robust option.
It may also not be a range issue, but a capacity issue. Might be too many people concentrated onto one access point. In which case, a dongle won't help at all.
Instead of a dongle, consider getting something like a travel router. It lets you convert wifi back to wired, but also will create your own wifi network that relays to the public one (if they are allowed to have their own). Then you might be able to place the travel router in a place that gets better signal where you wouldn't put a laptop. You can also means that your laptop, phone, game console or any other device isn't on a public network and some even let you do VPN on the router itself.
Here is the link to the one I have (mine is an older model though). GL-iNet Slave AX
It may also not be a range issue, but a capacity issue. Might be too many people concentrated onto one access point. In which case, a dongle won't help at all.
Yeah, you have to determine if "crappy" means "weak radio signal" or if the problem is further down the chain, as better antenna reception in the dorm room can only fix the former.
Knowing colleges, there's a good chance the answer is, "both".
Instead of a dongle, consider getting something like a travel router. It lets you convert wifi back to wired, but also will create your own wifi network that relays to the public one (if they are allowed to have their own). Then you might be able to place the travel router in a place that gets better signal where you wouldn't put a laptop. You can also means that your laptop, phone, game console or any other device isn't on a public network and some even let you do VPN on the router itself.
Here is the link to the one I have (mine is an older model though). GL-iNet Slave AX
This sounds like a FAR better version of a solution I used to use. Basically a wi-fi dongle on a VERY long USB cable and then I'd position it in various odd locations until I got a signal. Although that was 15 years ago...
Man we just used to plug cat5 into the walls. There was no wifi.
That would obviously be ideal if the dorm was hard-wired still and she could put in a regular router.
Man we just used to plug cat5 into the walls. There was no wifi.
That would obviously be ideal if the dorm was hard-wired still and she could put in a regular router.
Our dorms were all hubbed together, and not switched. So I would sniff all the plaintext traffic for fun and learn interesting things about my neighbors, like one of them used "rimjob" as her password to her school e-mail account.
(seriously, St. Olaf, with what you cost, put in a few goddamn extenders)
Wait, St. Olaf is a real thing? I thought it was just a Golden Girls bit.
...we had electric typewriters...
MilkmanDanimal wrote:(seriously, St. Olaf, with what you cost, put in a few goddamn extenders)
Wait, St. Olaf is a real thing? I thought it was just a Golden Girls bit.
The town of St. Olaf (the Golden Girls bit) does not exist; St. Olaf is in actuality a lovely little liberal arts school in Northfield, MN, about 15-20 minutes south of what could be called the furthest southern extent of the Twin Cities metropolitan area. All they had to do was make Betty White an alumnus and it would have matched reality much better.
St Olaf is definitely real. My wife and I are alumni!
St Olaf is definitely real. My wife and I are alumni!
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St Olaf is definitely real. My wife and I are alumni!
I have no proof that you’re real.
Math wrote:St Olaf is definitely real. My wife and I are alumni!
I have no proof that you’re real.
Math is integer, unless declared real.
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