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Hi, I am trying to fix the problem with Outlook where it keeps asking for a password but does not give an option to type it in. I know that I am supposed to edit the Web Account Manager and set the following to 1: Path: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Common\Identity Key: DisableADALatopWAMOverride (DWORD) I do not have the faintest idea how to do this or where to find this. How should I access Web Account Manager and how do I edit it?

Red in the back (detected as speakers) Green in the front (detected as headphones)

Hi, I have been having trouble getting the stereo for my headphones to balance correctly. When a sound plays from the side, e.g. the right, then I only hear the audio coming from that side. The balance is correct when I use the headphones on computers with older Windows however so it is not the headset itself. I have plugged it into both the rear jack, causing it to show up as stereo speakers, and the front jack, causing it to show up as headphones. In both cases the headphones still balance the sound the way standing speakers should and not headphones. I have also deactivated things such as the Stereo Mix device but it makes no difference whether it be on or off. Spatial sound for Windows does not solve the problem. Any help would be appreciated. System specifications: Analogue 3.5mm jack headphones MSI Gaming M3 b150 motherboard Windows 10 home Realtek audio All drivers up to date For those who don't understand what the problem is it works like this: When you have standing speakers and a sound it played from the right then the sound only plays through the right speaker. Standing speakers do not need to worry about balance between left and right in this instance since both ears can hear the right speaker and it creates a natural sound balance to the right. With headphones the ears are isolated from each other and to simulate natural hearing when a computer detects headphones it never plays a sound purely from one side. Instead it balances the audio so that some of the sound still plays through the other ear in order to simulate natural sound, otherwise it will create the false illusion that you are deaf in one ear.

I am in the market for a new HOTAS since I wish to start playing flight sims again. I do not have the budget for a Thrustmaster Warthog or VKB Gunfighter, none the less I do expect a quality product. Will the Logitech X56 be a reliable purchase or should I wait until further build quality updates have been made? Also, are there plans for a new flight stick with better spaced button layout? I used to own a Microsoft Sidewinder Precision 2 for more than a decade. This unit was used primarily for space combat simulation and mech combat simulation games and so it was 'thrashed' around almost exclusively during use. It saw possibly thousands of hours of use and never showed any signs of failure. I have since given it to my cousin and he still praises its quality and prefers it over other sticks. I expect this type of reliability in any product that I purchase and since I am now in the market for a new HOTAS I have shied away from Saitek because of their notorious build quality and have leaned more toward CH and Thrustmaster. However since the people at Logitech have a good reputation as far build quality and have acquired Saitek I may consider the X56, despite some button layout issues.

Ah, of course! Thank you. You are the first person to give me an actual answer. I understand the difference between bits and bytes. But I do feel silly now, I just wasn't paying attention to the lower case 'b', lol. And of course everyone who sells the internet connections either just say 'megs' or erroneously 'megabytes'. I still find it odd that different units are used to display the connection speed and the download speed.

When I test my connection I get a download speed of 5mb/s, however, when I actually download something it downloads at around 600kb/s. This also scales with connection speed, for example, when I had a 2mb/s connection I got around 200kb/s download speed. So it is not as though there is a specific download speed limit, the speed of the connection does have a scaling effect on the actual speed. I would just like to understand why the actual download speed is less than the tested speed an also why it is so drastically less?

Yes! Dithering, that is the word I was looking for, thank you. I remember the old games had the 'dither alpha' option which did the same thing. How do I turn it off? I do not see the option for it.

I don't know if this the correct section to ask a question about graphics problems. I have a GTX 1050 TI and have noticed in certain games that transparent effects have a fine grain to them, almost like I can see the screen's pixels. This only happens on certain things, for example on Doom(2016) I can see it on the holograms and the glory kill indication on enemies, in Shadow Warrior 2 I can see it when I walk through foliage and the leaves become transparent. Other transparent effects are unaffected, perhaps it only happens with 3D transparent effects and not 2D sprites? I have noticed that when I start changing graphics option that the effect sometimes decreases, however, I have been unable to pinpoint the cause. Before I start to really mess around with a bunch of different graphics configurations I would like to know if anyone knows which setting will smooth out these effects? Thank you.

I don't know if I should be posting this in the OS section, but this is a background process. Every now and then MSI ActiveX service starts to use a ton of CPU power, about 50%, and I have no idea why or what it is doing. Usually it sits completely idle. When it uses 50% CPU it obviously causes system slow down and instability, there is also no warning that it has started to do whatever it does. I have to manually go into task manager every day and see if it is active, then switch it off if I want to play a game or do something else which requires a lot of CPU power. Can someone please explain to me what MSI ActiveX service is and what it is doing? Is it O.K. to switch it off? If it is an unnecessary process then how do I switch it off permanently?

The headphones work fine on my laptop with Windows 8.1. It has a headphone controller listed in the playback devices menu. Do your headphones have proper balance or do they also play sounds coming directly from the side only through one speaker?

Here is an example of someone's playback devices showing speakers and headphones side by side. And yes, I know headphones are speakers, but the pc uses them differently with stereo, which is my current problem. Stereo sounds often play only through one side, which is fine for speakers but not for headphones because only one ear ends up hearing the sound and it is disorientating. My laptop uses the headphones just fine.

Hi, I have a Redragon Lagopasmutus (where do they get these names?) headset. Its great and works fine except that Windows 10 detects it as speakers. The result is that when a sound plays from one side then only that speaker plays, for example, when playing a game and something happens to my right then I only hear it from the right side, the same goes for videos and it is disorientating. The best solution I have been able to come up with is to use Windows spatial sound, but that makes the audio in some games sound hollow and sort of like an echo. I turned off the HD audio controller in the BIOS but that disables sound and removes audio devices from the playback list. I also can't find drivers for the headset. I have an MSI b150 Gaming M3 motherboard. Is there any way to make Windows detect it as headphones? Thanks in advance.

I have used Afterburner and Rivatuner to monitor the CPU and GPU usage. I tried taking a screenshot but for some reason it comes out black. Any way, the numbers are: around 88% CPU usage and around 30% GPU usage with only around 27fps when I stand on the roof with the tanks attacking. Inside the building it fluctuates between 40fps to over 60fps with GPU usage increasing to about 50% and sometimes shooting up to 70%, CPU usage stays the same (around 88%) The temperatures are: CPU low 40's, the highest was 43C. GPU mostly high 50's with the highest temp at 61C.

I have a g4560 + gtx1050ti + 8gb RAM setup and would like to know what kind of performance others are getting from theirs. The reason I ask is because I have just been playing Crysis 1 and in the mission where you have to fight the three tanks in the village I get an outdoor frame rate of 20 - 25. I played the game on 1920x1080 without AA with everything on Very High so I didn't expect 60fps, but 20 something seems much too low. I have been watching videos of people with the same setup playing Crysis 1 and no one gets near the low performance I am getting. I have fiddled with the graphics settings of the game a bit but I still fall below the frame rate of what others seem to be getting for any given setting. I would just like to know what others' experience is for a comparison. Thank you for any feedback. EDIT: At the suggestion of other posters I have used Afterburner and Rivatuner to monitor the CPU and GPU usage. I tried taking a screenshot but for some reason it comes out black. Any way, the numbers are: around 88% CPU usage and around 30% GPU usage with only around 27fps when I stand on the roof with the tanks attacking. Inside the building it fluctuates between 40fps to over 60fps with GPU usage increasing to about 50% and sometimes shooting up to 70%, CPU usage stays the same (around 88%) The temperatures are: CPU low 40's, the highest was 43C. GPU mostly high 50's with the highest temp at 61C.

I've tried different settings but so far nothing seem to work. I will keep messing with it but it doesn't seem like anything is making a difference.