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so a month after upgrading to windows 8 50% of the time when I try to open an app from the start screen it will open, not load, crash and kick me back to the regular desktop and the taskbar will be a solid color and then all of the items will come back. I think all of explorer is crashing and its getting on my nerves.
Also, my computer has started to lock up forcing a forced shutdown, but what's extra weird about this is when I boot back up it boots up faster than normal and everything is still loaded on my computer.
So I've decided the only thing I can do now is to clean refresh so I guess my question is which option of refreshing should I choose? I know the full one creates a windows.old file to recover the stuff I need but I was wondering if it'd be safe to use the keep my files option or if I shouldn't even risk it? Or if anyone knows of a fix (probably not going to happen)?
It sounds like your so-called "forced shutdowns" are actually putting the computer in sleep mode.
Make sure your system is fully up to date. There have been some performance, stability, and reliability updates for Win8 already. You don't need Metro to run Windows Update.
It's fine to try Refresh first, and if that doesn't fix things, go for a Reset. Generally, Refresh would work fine.
p2kmafia said:
so a month after upgrading to windows 8 50% of the time when I try to open an app from the start screen it will open, not load, crash and kick me back to the regular desktop and the taskbar will be a solid color and then all of the items will come back. I think all of explorer is crashing and its getting on my nerves.
Also, my computer has started to lock up forcing a forced shutdown, but what's extra weird about this is when I boot back up it boots up faster than normal and everything is still loaded on my computer.
So I've decided the only thing I can do now is to clean refresh so I guess my question is which option of refreshing should I choose? I know the full one creates a windows.old file to recover the stuff I need but I was wondering if it'd be safe to use the keep my files option or if I shouldn't even risk it? Or if anyone knows of a fix (probably not going to happen)?
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I had something like this, and a refresh didn't do it. I had to reset the laptop. I haven't put much on the laptop, so I deleted all files.
I attempted refresh, but after afterwards I couldn't access the internet from within the metro apps. It seemed to start with the most recent auto update, but after the reset I did the updates and everything is fine. What happened was that I was unable to run any metro apps at all. I could get to the desktop, but the metro side would be unavailable until I saw the taskbar flash a solid color. Then I could briefly go to the metro side, for about 10 seconds.
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I'm getting this on one of my computers, interestingly it also has hdcp issues, im writing this up as a potential graphics issue, there are reports to back this up but nothing confirmed, if it is todo with graphics its not related to a single driver version, its almost completely random, this might suggest there is some conflict with driver, gpu, and whatever windows has built in for copy protection
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thanks for the replies guys. it's definitely a weird problem as its only gotten progressively worse (stopped these last two days, no problems...don't know what happened haha) but I've got all my updated drivers from the sony website minus the BIOS cuz that slowed the hell out of my computer running windows 7 so I'm just avoiding sony drivers as much as possible
so turns out problem not gone. jinxed it, updated some things that weren't updated but something wont update correctly and idk why but I've got a final tomorrow so I'll figure it out another time
WTF is this BS forced MTP.
I have to plug/unplug the phone like 100 times to actually get things working, this mtp sucks so bad.
Only upside is to be able to use adb and mtp together so that you can use the stuff you copy onto the phone right away.
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Are there any tricks or tipps on how to use mtp? Do i just need to wait if things get "stuck" again? Like if I want to copy over files sometimes it takes ages before it even starts. OR when I rename files etc, the update takes ages...
--- or this sh!t is not noticed at all.. even unlocked and everything it disappears from the drives list over and over..........
I want my usb storage mode back so badly... arggggghhhhhh
Switch MTP mode off?
Try *#0808#
or *#7284# //I don't think this one works on S4 and Note3
starting from yesterday my note 3 stopped to be recognized from pc, it always fails in installing the mtp driver for the pc,
ive tried alot of ways to solve(unistalling drivers, regedit, etc..), but with no luck
is it possible that i hibernated or freezed something, which leads to the driver installation failure
have been thinking of upgrading my S2 for the 20th time now, but every, single, time when I explore my S2 and compare with the newer kitkat phones,
this is the biggest mistake Google has ever done to Android... I just, can't, and won't ever, accept this stupid change.
Exploring DCIM via USB Storage on Windows:
http://i.imgur.com/4XIGdwF.jpg
(thumbnails blurred for privacy reasons)
Exploring DCIM via MTP on Windows:
http://i.imgur.com/qfNxQev.jpg
Other most annoying differences:
In USB mode, I could play the videos I recorded immediately, and play any mp3's immediately.
In MTP mode, not only can I not see a thumbnail preview in Explorer, double clicking it forces Windows to copy the entire file to desktop before it can be played! (both video and mp3s)
I am hugging my legacy S2 more tightly than ever.
Mass storage mode (MSC) is removed on Android 4.3 (or 4.2.2) and later
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Hi there.
I'm doing this thread to once & for all find the ultimate answers to my PC "issues".
Before i bought my Lenovo Yoga 8 laptop i was thinking of buying a Google Chromebook. Specs might not be as high-end as a Windows PC but it loads a lot faster (having no such apps or enough background process to load in the background), apps load a lot faster, updates come automatically (and no need to download/intall like a PC), straighforward OS and no complicated hundreds of settings to tinker with unlike a PC. And besides a Chromebook is virus and malware-free forever.
I also happen to come from a Macbook Air and i found my PC that slow. Downloading & installing apps takes a lot longer, opening or closing an app or browser or tasks also takes longer. But in the course i have made some research to improve the speed & performanc of my Windows laptop mainly:
1. Turned off bluetooth
2. Set Windows Update to automatic
3. Updated Windows Defender
4. Defrafgging my gard drive monthly
5. Choose Selective Startup (under msconfig) and made sure no apps are enabled under Startup, selected apps are running under Services, choose a higher number under Processors and maximum memory set to at least half of what my Lenovo is capable of (under Boot)
6. Set performance to High Performance. (And being plugged in the mains)
What else have i missed?
Also i noticed when i look at Task Manager there are background processes that i do not understand and i'm not sure whether to disable them or not although it shows 0% affecting the RAM, etc.
If i don't get satisfied with this "complicated" WIndows 8.1 OS i might as well sell it and get a Chromebook as i use most of their services anyway on my Android phone.
To put things into certain context you see the most "intensve" task i will be doing in my computer will be downloading torrents 10 tabs/files at a time (it could be an .mp3 album or a standard .mp4 HD movie), wireless printing hundreds of pages from an assignmnt or work project, transferring hi-quality files (Flac or .mkv) to my Android tablet or doing an "intermediate-level" photo editing of my photos for upload to Twitter, Facebook, etc. My computer stays at home 99.99% of the time and IS online 100% of the time.
What you think guys?
I am not exactly sure what you bought, cause I can't find any Lenovo Yoga 8 running windows 8.
If you find windows 8 slow, you either bought something very low end, or something broken inside.
And no, a chrome book is not better than a PC. A PC has this thing called "reliability", which the chrome book lacks when you no longer have an internet connection.
Unless you are ready to pay a hefty monthly subscription to some mobile operator for unlimited data connection (which isn't really unlimited, after around 4GB, your connection will be slowed down automatically in many cases), and are ready to face the consequences of not having said data connection service whereever you go.
Even if windows PCs are more "expensive", which they are not, you can find a much more powerful computing machine at the same price of a chrome book (haswel i3s are really cheap now), you know you can do anything you want, whenever you want, and not relay on your internet connection to do more than checking the time.
Sorry...
I have bought Lenovo Yoga 2 11-inch Windows PC.
The MacBook Air I had before my Lenovo one stayed at home 100% of the time and is connected to the web 100% of the time. My fibre broadband is at least 70MB downloads speeds. With this respect a Chromebook would be suitable for me.
The PC I bought isn't low-end by any means. It is of the higher mid-range ones based on the specs itself. As I said I have done my own research, looked at Youtube videos on tip & tricks. The 8.1 update itself took me almost 5 hours even with that good specs. After that it is still slow. You can set up a Chromebook in 5-ish minutes, takes under 10 seconds to boot up from no power or sleep and apps start almost instantly. Because of probably all these background processes going on in Windows 8.1 it is still slow. Have shut and stopped some of them but still no significant change.
WIndows 8.1 isn't the lightweight, smooth OS I was hoping for. It is still "complicated" compared to a Mac and a Chromebook. Having it owned and used for 4 weeks I think that was enough for me to realise that perhaps....maybe next time.
Your PC is VERY low end. It has a Celeron/Pentium processor which is basically a higher clocked intel atom.
Upper mid range is core i3, not celeron my friend.
A MacBook has a core i5 processor, among other things, like a SSD for storage.
You traded a lot of mobility in the yoga for lower specs. This is why you paid so much. You can easily get a haswel i5 for this money, which is almost 10 times faster than this. You didn't research properly, I am affraid. This ain't no notebook for keeping around the house. this is a mobility oriented product.
Well, anyway i have returned the Yoga 2 back to the store and got myself an Acer C720 Chromebook. First impressions? Positive. Solid keyboard (could do with a backlit one), good sounding speakers, solid build quality and that's it so far. It's barely 24 hours so its too early to say as i haven't tried it that much yet.
IMO the best thing to improve general "feel" of a computer, especially things like how fast applications start up, is get an SSD. I don't what your Yoga had, but if it was one of the ones with the 5,400 rpm drives, it'll be slow.
If all you need is Chrome, then a Chromebook has the advantage being cheaper. Whilst a 10 second boot that Google claim for Chromebooks is quick, I wouldn't call Windows PCs slow, so long as you don't cripple them with a slow hard disk. My low end Asus T100 boots in 12 seconds (my Android Nexus 7 2013 takes 30 seconds). I don't see why web apps would load slower or things take longer to download on Chrome under Windows, than on a Chromebook - has this been tested (on equivalent hardware and network)?
"updates come automatically (and no need to download/intall like a PC)"
But you still have to download them on a Chromebook, and it happens automatically on Windows...
Never had a virus on Windows, and virus checking is built in and in the background now. There is more of a risk, but then it's like saying you're better off with a £10 dumb phone, because it's impossible to get a virus on it
Chromebook has everything you need? Then well, go ahead. Cause it is cheap and maybe simple to use.
Just make sure one day if you come up with something that you want to do but can be done only on a real computer (like using certain software or playing certain games), you can't. At the end of the day, you pay for what you get.
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A Chromebook and a PC serve different purposes. A Chromebook is like a motorcycle, lightweight, efficient and it will get you to from point A to B on the internet. A PC is like a truck,it can do a lot more but needs a bit more hardware to run on. If you can get by with a Chromebook do ahead. But I want full desktop programs, hardware driver support, etc. Thats why I got a Toshiba Encore tablet that runs 8.1. Windows still feels kind of weird on a tablet, but having a full desktop OS in a device that portable is awesome and those Bay Trail Atoms are a hell of a lot better than previous Atoms.
The Lenovo Yoga laptop i got is a quad-core Haswell-powered computer. Yet, it took me 4 hours to update it to 8.1 whilst my Chromebook took 4 minutes (even less) to set-up. My quad-core Yoga took 30 seconds (or less) to startup whilst my Chromebook took 7-8 seconds maximum.
Since having an Android phone and tablet for the past 4-5 years i feel i am tied up to Google and its various services. I can still avail and enjoy some of the MS services like OneCloud and OneOffice via its web app versions so for me that's still ok.
Gino76ph said:
The Lenovo Yoga laptop i got is a quad-core Haswell-powered computer. Yet, it took me 4 hours to update it to 8.1 whilst my Chromebook took 4 minutes (even less) to set-up. My quad-core Yoga took 30 seconds (or less) to startup whilst my Chromebook took 7-8 seconds maximum.
Since having an Android phone and tablet for the past 4-5 years i feel i am tied up to Google and its various services. I can still avail and enjoy some of the MS services like OneCloud and OneOffice via its web app versions so for me that's still ok.
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Your yoga wasn't a haswell...
According to Lenovo it was.
Hi all,
I think I have found a bug. I am using i9305 and attempting to stream over 4G from my web server which is running media browser 3. I'm trying to stream the Australian budget actually.
I've used both the in built browser and also chrome. Both start playing OK but soon cause a sudden reboot. It can take maybe up to a minute before reboot is triggered.
Am happy to supply logs etc if someone advises where and how to get them as I'm a windows user not Linux.
Thanks
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Seems to be an Omni bug. Omni rom renders the video badly too, but ArchiDroid (which I believe is Omni-based) rendered it properly but still had sudden reboot.
I'm now running Liquid which seems to stream as expected. It did eventually fault but only terminated Chrome rather than locking/rebooting the entire OS.
I'm new, moving on.
I've been working on a game through Unity for the past couple of days, but the issue I keep running into is that any time I have to turn off/restart my computer or unplug my phone, I begin a small battle with ADB. At this point, ADB loses sight of the phone, even after I reconnect it. Only solution I've been able to find is to uninstall the Google USB driver, reinstall, kill ADB server, START ADB server, rinse and repeat a few times, and MAYBE it'll see it.
There really has to be an easier way to do this. I shouldn't have to battle a driver issue every time I sit down to work. If I do, I don't understand how some of you aren't completely suicidal from spending more time fighting a driver than actually developing whatever it is you develop..
Phone: Google/LG Nexus 5
OS: Windows 8.1
gradylorenzo said:
I'm new, moving on.
I've been working on a game through Unity for the past couple of days, but the issue I keep running into is that any time I have to turn off/restart my computer or unplug my phone, I begin a small battle with ADB. At this point, ADB loses sight of the phone, even after I reconnect it. Only solution I've been able to find is to uninstall the Google USB driver, reinstall, kill ADB server, START ADB server, rinse and repeat a few times, and MAYBE it'll see it.
There really has to be an easier way to do this. I shouldn't have to battle a driver issue every time I sit down to work. If I do, I don't understand how some of you aren't completely suicidal from spending more time fighting a driver than actually developing whatever it is you develop..
Phone: Google/LG Nexus 5
OS: Windows 8.1
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windows 8.1 has problem many times, so I also have windows 7
adb is flawless in win7
saying from personal experience.
gradylorenzo said:
I don't understand how some of you aren't completely suicidal from spending more time fighting a driver than actually developing whatever it is you develop.
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Use the emulator or just transfer the apk package to your phone. It takes 15 seconds.
I faced the same issues when connecting using a USB cable. ADB over network option in Developer tools is actually much more reliable provided that you have a Wifi connection on both your workstation and your device. You need to run a command to connect, but that's easily solved by writing a batch file. Try it out.