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ponyo

Lifer
Feb 14, 2002
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Nice of them to tell you AFTER the fact! :confused:

Hopefully you have another computer available till its fixed.


EDIT: Apparently it is possible to "downgrade" to Big Sur but its kind of a PITA since you have to wipe and do a clean install.

How to downgrade Mac OS back to Big Sur
It's minor inconvenience but not a dealbreaker. I can install TWS on my wife's MacBook Air if I want. She's still on Big Sur. I also have Windows desktop so I could install TWS on as well. But I'm just going to wait and see if they fix the incompatibility bug with Monterey. Until then I can use the IB iOS app on my iPhone and iPad Pro. It's not as robust in features as TWS but it's more than sufficient.

Always, always have a backup. Especially for new OS upgrades. Sorry for your troubles - guess you'll have to stuff some money under the mattress /jk
Lesson learned. But I wouldn't have upgraded during the middle of the trading day if constant uninterrupted access was critical. It's not critical app.
 

pete6032

Diamond Member
Dec 3, 2010
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Installed Windows 11 and it doesn't like my hdmi connection to my television. Win 10 connected just fine. Fml.
 

Red Squirrel

No Lifer
May 24, 2003
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The joy of being a beta tester. :p

We're getting Windows 10 at work, Not a fan of it, though I did not get to experience it for very long since there is a driver issue and the whole machine crashes randomly so I'm back on my win7 machine for now.

The thing I find annoying about windows 10 is how everything is so BIG. Dialog boxes, title bars, GUI elements as a whole etc. Like just the display settings for example take up the entire real estate of a HD monitor and even then you have to scroll to see everything. It's just so inefficient use of space. And icons too. I was able to play with scaling to get things to be a bit better but still not as good as win7. Good thing the other 3 monitors are 4k, but with everything being so big it feels like I still lose out on lot of space. Title bars etc waste lot of space due to their large size.

The other thing I find annoying is how there is no concept of minimized applications and individual window instances of the same app (ex: browser). When you minimize something, it just goes into some kind of abyss and combines with something else. Very hard to get a specific window back if you minimize it.
 

IronWing

No Lifer
Jul 20, 2001
72,830
33,863
136
The joy of being a beta tester. :p

We're getting Windows 10 at work, Not a fan of it, though I did not get to experience it for very long since there is a driver issue and the whole machine crashes randomly so I'm back on my win7 machine for now.

The thing I find annoying about windows 10 is how everything is so BIG. Dialog boxes, title bars, GUI elements as a whole etc. Like just the display settings for example take up the entire real estate of a HD monitor and even then you have to scroll to see everything. It's just so inefficient use of space. And icons too. I was able to play with scaling to get things to be a bit better but still not as good as win7. Good thing the other 3 monitors are 4k, but with everything being so big it feels like I still lose out on lot of space. Title bars etc waste lot of space due to their large size.

The other thing I find annoying is how there is no concept of minimized applications and individual window instances of the same app (ex: browser). When you minimize something, it just goes into some kind of abyss and combines with something else. Very hard to get a specific window back if you minimize it.
You can change the behavior of the task bar to show each instance separately. Off click on the taskbar and select taskbar settings.

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IronWing

No Lifer
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I'll have to check for that when I get the machine back, didn't get a chance to play too much with the settings in the time I had it.
The main thing with Win 10 is to take the time to turn everything off. The amount of spyware BS is incredible so you have to go through the settings carefully. Turn off everything you can having to do with Cortana. MS won't let you completely disable it but you can limit its intrusion.
 
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Red Squirrel

No Lifer
May 24, 2003
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I imagine lot of that stuff might also be locked down by GPOs so I may not have access, but yeah if I was using it for personal use I'd probably be blocking Microsoft's IPs right at the firewall lol. Probably lot of 3rd party programs you can install to make it better I imagine.
 

Captante

Lifer
Oct 20, 2003
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You can change the behavior of the task bar to show each instance separately. Off click on the taskbar and select taskbar settings.

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I like using a utility called Start-10 to tweak things to my exact preferences too.... well worth the $5 investment IMO although with 10 its not as important as it used to be since they fixed a lot of stuff.

Start-11 on the other hand is ESSENTIAL. (dual-booting 11 Pro/10 Pro)
 
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Red Squirrel

No Lifer
May 24, 2003
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Realized the new Christmas lights sets I bought were not quite long enough to do the whole front of the house so had to drive to Canadian Tire to get another set. So I do that and then I get home and start installing them and out of nowhere this sort of random hail and wind starts and I'm getting plummeted in the face by ice pelets but I just want to get it done at this point so I keep doing it, it's not a huge job anyway. I finish up and put the ladder away, and head inside, and the hail immediately stops.
 
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Captante

Lifer
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I finish up and put the ladder away, and head inside, and the hail immediately stops.

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MrSquished

Lifer
Jan 14, 2013
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Someone from another house has been throwing their recyclables in our recycling bin. This is actually a big problem because if the boxes contain styrofoam or plastic, we get charged $175 for having "contaminated recyclables." We also get charged extra if our bin is overflowing. This person must be shit stupid because she threw a bunch of online order boxes in there that had her address on them. She didn't even throw them in the bin, just in the alleyway next to our recycling bin on the ground. I took all the boxes with her address on them and walked them to her address and threw them in her front yard. Her problem now.
This is the way
 

weblooker2021

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I got a flat tire. I was minding my own business, driving down a highway and my tire decided that it wanted to catch a nail which resulted in flat tire.
 

IronWing

No Lifer
Jul 20, 2001
72,830
33,863
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I have a trail camera setup on a spring. There isn't much to tie it to so I strapped it to a bush. Yesterday and last night we had strong winds. Now I have over seven thousand photos of wind shake.
 
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VirtualLarry

No Lifer
Aug 25, 2001
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Installed Windows 11 and it doesn't like my hdmi connection to my television. Win 10 connected just fine. Fml.
FunBoy was posting something similar, recently. He upgraded to Win11, and some of his games were crashing, when hooked up to a reciever with HDMI.
 

Red Squirrel

No Lifer
May 24, 2003
70,554
13,800
126
www.anyf.ca
I still have win7 on my gaming machine. I have not tried any new games in a while but I presume most will want windows 10. Tempting to put 11 on there and see what happens. :p