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Aaaand I've sorted it myself. Installed ExplorerPatcher - nice lil tool. Didn't need or want the entire old Win10 taskbar (although I do miss the smaller size) so after activating the Start Menu tweaks I just deleted the dll in the Windows folder and it's left me with a usable start menu and the full Win11 experience. Lovely stuff w

Windows 11 has been smooth for me so far, no bugs and not even any settings changed. I've only got 2 gripes: The taskbar is stupid, no way to turn small icons back on and they really should go to a MacOS style dock at this point but I've kinda given up solving that in a way that doesn't bork the clock style. And, most importantly, my beautiful new start menu!! So minimal! So clean! So desperately in need of a way to default to All Apps! Has anyone got a clean way to make that happen? Bonus points if you have a way to shrink my taskbar without sending half the clock and control icons off the screen

They're perfectly good for their intended purposes/users, gaming is not the intended use. They're a mix of luxury and professional items, neither of which calls for value for money or really gaming performance.

Unsure of what the question is... Are you looking to upgrade it to make games more playable? 'Cause you're pretty limited. More RAM is nice, I'm gonna go ahead and assume you don't have a load so adding more may help, plus DDR3 is fairly affordable now. Beyond that? I've no idea if you can fit a better CPU, although I highly doubt it. The 2014 is too old to have Thunderbolt 3, you're stuck with TB2 so an eGPU is also out of the question. I've not played Roblox but I understand it's very poorly optimised, I'd suggest another game (I can even run Minecraft on an awful Atom powered laptop) but obviously that would be a dick move. TL;DR - Might just be time to upgrade the whole rig tbh.

I think I found the issue actually, using a Yoga Book while I part out my PC and I think the keyboard was messing with the touch keyboard while closed. Totally freaked me out though

Let's preface this with a disclaimer, this is not the usual kb/mouse issue of a stuck key, random clicks or whatever. It's total madness, random keys spamming like crazy, volume going up and down, caps lock flickering on and off, mouse twitching around. Both are on Bluetooth and of course the laptop will randomly turn on aeroplane mode so they stop working but the issue continues so I'm assuming a Windows problem. Trouble is I can't actually access any menu, program etc. As it's so bad. Any ideas at all on what to do?

Hey guys, quick question for you: I'm moving overseas in a couple months and will need a new laptop/PC. I have a desktop now, it's great for what I need and just got a GTX 980 and better cooling etc. But it can't come with me so it's back to laptops for now. The last one I had was a pre-touchbar MacBook pro, which I loved. Best build, track pad, etc of anything at the time but I'd like to at least try to game. My ideal laptop would be a surface laptop, great design, battery life and anything other than a 3:2 screen is a big no for me these days on a laptop. But no USB-C! Whats out there that will give me the build, design and overall niceness of the surface but with some type c for that egpu fun? Budget isn't really an issue, work can pay for it so looking around maybe £1-2,000

Almost certainly limited ram. I've tried switching acceleration on and off - it's actually even worse with it on which is a sad, sad thing. A single YouTube video is too much, even scrolling is laggy and painful on Chrome. TBH I have a real PC, a tablet, a phone and whatever else so it's no biggie. Plus a new laptop is in order for the next few months.

Sorry should have clarified, it's slow and laggy on my PC. I've tried Vivaldi and opera already, for whatever reason Edge is the only one that seems to run properly and not eat through the battery.

Bit of an inflammatory title sorry... but! I have a Lenovo YogaBook, the specs are appallingly bad but it's what I have and for whatever reason, Chrome is a slow, laggy, buggy mess on it (as in 60%+ dropped frames watching 720p YouTube in fullscreen) while Edge is buttery smooth. This leads to two questions, is "old edge" going away and will I likely end up with a worse experience because of it?

At the end of the day, it depends what $60 is to you. If it's pocket change, why not give it a shot? If it's a real hit to your coffers, not a good idea really.

No but that's what it may have been used for, with a modded BIOS

I'd find out what it was used for - as above. If it was a gaming card and just suddenly broke, I wouldn't touch it. It's likely it straight up died. If it was for mining, a reflash could save it but there's always risks with that. Overall, you might be able to save it but it's just not worth it.

Weird, left it cycling for an hour or two with occasional resets and eventually hit the BIOS, flashed it with an update and we're up and running again...

Hey guys, Moved my PC to a different room and all of a sudden it refuses to boot, debug panel runs through codes then stays on 4f for a few seconds and starts the cycle again. I've done the usual removing devices, clearing cmos, reseating everything and so on and still it persists. It's always been a bit funky with booting and I suspect I've got a dead BIOS chip. Does anyone know how to get a chip for an ASRock Extreme4-m x79 in NZ, I can only find foreign eBay listings...

We're on UFB but you're right about being IT savy, the guys here are definitely not that! I at least have a degree in software engineering so I'm putting together a business case for a change but that's a ways off yet.

I agree, they're well aware of the issue but are struggling to fix it. I've actually been pushing a business case to ditch the VMs and go to a laptop+dock solution. We're IT recruiters so being tied to a thinclient on a desk isn't exactly ideal, but the infrastructure cost so much to set up that there's no budget left to change. I'll find a way around eventually, managing the IT for our country isn't easy when head office is so "our way or the highway about it"

Hey guys, quick question, in my company we use VMWare Horizon Client and awful thinclients to access our Network. However, the performance is appalling as the server is in another continent. All our work is web-based but we need the VMs to access shared drive. Is there a way to access the drive only from an external device, for example mapping the drive to a location on a laptop without having to work in the VM?

I basically did. My YogaBook runs an awful Atom processor and 4GB of RAM. It's extremely slow, but the battery life is nuts and the whole laptop is as thin as an iPad Air.

I don't It's just for small things on the go. It actually does alright, so long as I work off a scratch disk. It's mainly for web browsing, emails and all that kinda light stuff.

I'd still suggest going higher though, it doesn't cost much extra and is good for higher resolutions and general future proofing.

I mean I have 4GB on my laptop, but that's running an Atom so it has plenty of other issues (Photoshop still works though!). I actually used one in a job I used to have, which was purely Photoshop. It only really accelerates some of the tools and the smooth scrolling/zoom refresh levels. Most of the main tools, and Photoshop itself, don't use it anyway.

No that's the VRAM i'm pretty sure. But, OP, for God's sake get more than 4GB of system RAM

Good luck finding a 580. Unless you have a Freesync monitor, you should just grab a 1060 6GB. The VRAM size depends entirely on the sizes of your projects. A lot of images I work with end up well over 10,000px wide so get fairly big with a few hundred layers.

Just a baby 2670 because it was dirt cheap and I needed the cores for 3d raytracing and such.