I am aware that on a Windows machine, turning on a OneDrive subscription (or at least an E5 license, is where I'm very specifically talking about), certain folders get moved from c:\users[username] into c:\users[username]\OneDrive. Then OneDrive syncs those locations up to 365.
If you just open cmd (not as admin), it will put you at c:\users[username] and then if you just cd desktop ... yeah, that's empy now. dir in c:\users[username] and I bet you'll find a OneDrive folder.
Of note, the default user folder paths that get changed are \Attachments \Desktop \Documents \Pictures. \Downloads stays at c:\users[username]\downloads
Oh my god, you’re right. Thank you! You just saved me a lot of stress. Because it finally finished and I selected to keep my files locally but the desktop was still “gone.”
There are still some other weird things going on but they’re minor. My desktop background is just solid black instead of the image I was using and none of the icons on my desktop have the little arrow thing saying they’re shortcuts.
Desktop background (or other theme stuff) - easiest way is to just reset that to what you want.
The arrow overlay on .lnk files, you could check regedit HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer for a "Shell Icons" key ("subfolder"), which should only be there if it was added manually, but I'd be interested in what it was if it was there.
I have to think that both of these have something to do with the system looking in the "old" place for the desktop background image and the icon cache, and not finding them there.
This might be more of a norm that I realized. It seems like Mac does this too with iCloud but hides it better. cd ~/Desktop on Mac doesn’t give a big error despite it actually being stored somewhere else. (Also it seems to have more sensible “on demand” settings, or at least explains them better.) I was expecting something more like right click some folders or add them in a menu and they begin getting synced (similar to DropBox).
Just an FYI, Windows likely just moved your files from users[username] to users[username]\OneDrive instead. When OneDrive sets itself up, it basically grabs all of the relevant folders and moves them into a single “OneDrive” folder. Not a huge issue if you’re setting up the PC for the first time. But if you’ve been using the PC for a while, it’ll break everything because now all of your local files have moved and none of your systems are pointing at the right location anymore. For instance, your desktop is likely black because your image file got moved into that OneDrive folder.
My mouse logitech mouse is suddenly chattering really bad and double clicking everything
Is is a G903 you using? It’s a issue with cheap ass switches if that’s the case. I RMAed one and the replacement did it even faster than the first. Gave up on that one.
I wanna say it’s a G506 or something? It’s that one that like everyone has because it was ~$80 and there was a deal years ago at Best Buy that included a $50 Steam gift card. I don’t remember how long I’ve had it but it’s certainly out of warranty.
It’s sort of always had this problem but suddenly it got A LOT worse. It’s around the same time as a Windows update. Makes me wonder if Windows was filtering out some of the clicks that were insanely close together before.
Every wireless mouse I’ve ever owned starts double clicking after like a year and a half or two years. The only exception is the Razer Basilisk I bought about 3 years ago, that ones still ok so far
I think the idea is that average people have no clue what color they are. So they’d be forced to take it out to check and thus have to restart their PC. It’s a trick!
Altho, maybe I’m misunderstanding something because all the pins of all the electrical cords I’ve ever seen have been silver?
I’d make up some BS about an old version of the product using brass or copper, and newer versions using aluminum or iron, so knowing the color will help me know how to fix it
I worked with a guy that would tell people that coax needed to be “released to ground” occasionally, by unhooking the cable and putting your thumb over the end. That’s how he made sure people were disconnecting and reconnecting the cable from the back of the box. He also told someone that “data might be trapped in the Ethernet cord” and advised they unplug it from both ends and swing it around their head in a circle to “loosen the stuck bits and clear the line”…
If I remember right for steam, you can’t disable updates for all games, but you can set some restrictive rules for when it can update. Stuff like it can only download updates for 1 minute monday morning at 3am.
If you launch a game through Steam and there's an update available for it, then Steam will force the update before it will run the game. Some games can be run by navigating to its install directory and running the executable directly, that should bypass any updates but will not work for all games.
Some games also have beta channels that are just the past versions of the game. Weather this exists or not is completely up to the game publisher though. I mostly see it in games that have active mod communities, so they want to let you lock down your version so your mod pack doesn’t break suddenly.
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