u/voltagejim

I mainly mean in the sense of actually DOWNLOADING the updates. I have noticed in the last 3 weeks or so, several makes and models of laptops, when I go into SETTINGS, then the Windows Updates and check for updates, it finds some and puts them under this "Available Update" drop down that you need to click on to see the updates. and has the Download and install, but the buttons are all grayed out, and it just sits there on the settings page saying "Working on updates" and never downloads them.

We have HP elitedesk PC's, and for several months have an issue on most of them where, after a restart, you have to sit there for almost a full min while the ethernet symbol blinks, then goes to the disconnected globe symbol for another few seconds, then finally connects to ethernet before you can enter your login password.

This has cause users to get locked out of their accounts often, because they immediately enter their password before the PC reconnects, and obviously it does not let them in, so they think they mistyped it, and type it again and so on.

We just got new PC's, which are Lenovo ThinkStations, but running into the same issue. I have tried:

going into device manager, unchecking the "allow the PC to turn this device off to save power" under the ethernet adapter

swapped ethernet cable

Running the following powershell script:

New-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power" -Name "PlatformAoAcOverride" -Value 0 -PropertyType DWord -Force

None of those fixed the issue. Doing some more research I found that spanning tree can cause this , which we do use, but does that mean just by using spanning tree we are forced to just accept this long wait to simply login to PC's? Some user's are understanding, but a good number are frustrated cause they have to sit there and stare at the screen for a long time and pay attention to the ethernet symbol before they can login. Surely there would be something in spanning tree that would at least cut this time down from a whole minute right?

About 2 weeks ago I was at Walmart and it was towards the night and they were stocking the shelves. There was a big pallet out and on the bottom was both the Wednesday cereals plus one I had not seen before, and they were all wrapped in shrink wrap with normal cereals on top of those. Well, it has been 2 weeks now and they never did put those Wednsay cereals out. Are they just left over from last year or are they making them again?

I usually get the TidyCats 24/7 protection litter 20lb plastic tub which is around $12, but I saw a bag of the 24/7 that was 20lb for $7. Is that literally the only difference? Does the bag have more dust or something? Only other thing I noticed is the plastic tub says "Low Dust" and the bag says 99.9% dust free. I just don't want something that has a cloud of dust when I pour it in, but if it is exact same I would rather get the $7 one cause I am buying littler about every week and a half with 2 cats

From like 1991-2001 were my prime toy era I would say. I had tons of toys from:

Jurassic Park

Aliens

Star Wars

Micro Machines

I look at toys now, and they just seem bland compared to what I had int he 90's. For example, Star Wars toys, I feel like a lot of the big ships and vehicles like the electronic AT-AT I had from Power of the Force line was so much more detailed than what is out now. I saw an At-At toy a couple years ago and it looked like the most bland thing ever. And the action figures themselves seem way smaller and thinner then back in the 90's

Another exmaple would be Jurassic Park toys. I was at target last month and noticed the JP toys and they had the old school 90's packaging and I had to go over and take a look. But I was dissapointed when I felt all the dinos as they were all this rock hard plastic that just felt cheap, and again the human figures were like a quarter of the size of the ones from the 90's. a good amount of the 90's JP dinos had that rubbery skin, or the plastic didn't feel as cheap.

Had a Magicard Rio Pro which was fine quality of print wise, but was just not taking cards through the feeder anymore, and so we got a Magicard 600.

Different departments get different templates printed on their badges with different info. 90% of the time it is just a difference in department name and job title, and other than their name and photo, that is all they have on the card. Those are all fine.

but I am noticing when I print badges now for the 2 departments that have a little more info on the badges liek hire date, employee number, and one other field, it's leaving very small dead zones in the printing on these extra details. These extra details are always in a little smaller font, and always in the center of the card. And it doesn't matter it is a brand new card straight from the box, or one someone has been carrying for a couple days that has been blank while we wait to get one of their ID nnumbers, it does it for all.

An example would be if someones employee ID was 6467, when printed on the badge, the "6" would basically be missing the little tail at the top of the "6", like the ink did not hit that or something.

And same for hire date, some numbers it seems to miss little parts of it.

The weird thing, is, if I put a NON CHIP badge through, it prints totally fine this is ONLY on the chipped badges.

But the old printer never had this issue. Is there some specific settings you guys reccomend I set this printer to? I see there are a decent amount of color and print settings in the preferences I can adjust but I really don't want to waste a bunch of chip badges doing test prints.

So figured I would ask here if anyone has some settings that they swear by

I want to get a blower, weed wacker, pole saw, and maybe a hand chainsaw, and heard people say that EGO was the best brand to get, but looking at the prices, they are like almost 3 times the price of all other brands. What sets them apart from like Ryobi?

Had a powerpoint that was about 25 slides, and all were initially blank slides with a mix of different types of slides. I had everything typed out in there that I wanted, but I went back and wanted to give it a bit of sprucing up to look nice. I tried out the Design Suggestions option, and it gave me a cool design for the first slide, bu that was the only slide it put it on.

I tried clicking the next slide and doing the design suggestion, but it gave a totally different one and would not bring up the one from the previous slide. So I went back to the previous slide and tried to save the design, and then went to the second slide and tried to apply it but it would not apply the cool background, and instead, made the background on the 1st slide so bright you could no longer read text.

The 1st and second slides were different slide types if that makes any difference, but is there really no way to just apply the same design across all the slides in the presentation?

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Movies Anywhere:

-Mortal Kombat 2 - $10

Noticed that all notification emails now from Amazon just say "DVD Item" instead of the actual thing you bought. SO now if you bought multiple 4k's, you got no idea which one shipped or is out for delivery...awesome

Wanted to add an audio sound FX to a map, and put down an audio emitter, and was going through the audio FX sounds cause I couldn't remember all of them.

Mearly, SCROLLING past the lightning FX causes it to permantly play non stop on the map and NO WAY to get rid of it! This is the same as it was couple years ago, very freaking annoying that this was never fixed!

Had to load a a previous version and redo what I had done in that version in order to stop the lightning.

So I guess placing any audio after the lightning in the menu is impossible

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-Obsession - $10

Bought a brand new Toro 22in super recylcer at beginning of May at Lowes. It was working fine, then suddenly at the Beginning of July I was mowing, and thick white smoke started coming out of the exhaust in the front. It would billow out for a few seconds, then seemed to stop, and I would mow fine for about 30 seconds or so, then it would happen again.

By the time I was done with the lawn it seemed to get not as thick as originally but it was still coming out. I also noticed sploshes of oil specks on the mower deck right beneath the exhasut.

I changed the air filter, I dumped the oil and put new oil in, and tried to stick a rag into the exhaust and wipe up there, but it is still doing it. It seems to really kick in when you hit patches of thick grass and it has to work a little harder...and mind you, this is just normal size thicker grass not some crazy overgrown mess.

I have never had to use a manufacter warranty before, and I never did register the mower, but can I just take it to Lowes and swap it? Or do I need to register then go through Toro direct?

We will probably never get a forge as good as this one, but still, if we even get one with the next installment of Halo and it aims to do more than this one, here are a couple things personally I feel could be huge game changers:

Terrain editor - Currently it is a MASSIVE pain in the ass to make any terrain that is not perfect 90 degree angles or single planes. Making hilly valleys and such is a giant pain that a terrain editor would help out so much

Actual water - Kinda goes with terrain editor, but ACTUAL water. Current water is just a thin glass like pane.

Able to script scaleable object - For me this is a big one. A lot of times I will be making a map and get everything where I want it, then go to script a door and totally forget I need to make the door a dynamic object which then shrinks it down from whatever I had scaled it to, and now everything is off cause I have to readjust walls and other stuff. Really wish we could just script a scaleable object. No idea why they won't let us in the current one.

Option to instantly delete everything on the map - Just annoying when making a new map, and you load up one of the blank template maps, but you still have to deleete all the stuff 343 setup on those like the spawns, and all the game modes. I gotta select everything almost 1 by 1 and delete, takes forever

NO bookmark limit for prefabs - Forgot this one, but VERY annoying you can only have 25 prefab bookmarks

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-Madagascar 2 Escape to Africa - $6

In case anyone was wanting the box set of Outcasts looks like they suddenly got a restock somehow on their site. I just ordered one. Thought for sure once they had sold out before that it was done and there would be no way to get a box set. Guess they must have found some or something

I have two departments that have high turnover, and I have made some GPO's to cut down how much I need to do with the new users when they get on the PC for the first time.

There are two more GPO's I was going to make, one for printers, and one for a file they use. I started with the printer. Currently when the new hire get on the PC for the first time, I add the network printer by going into Control Panel - Devices and Printers - Add Printer - Printer I want wasn't listed - Select Printer by Name, then find it in the list of network printers and right click on it and select "Connect". That method works fine, but wanted to cut all those manual steps out.

So I made a GPO. Went into Group policy, right clicked the "User's" folder, and made a new GPO linked there. I went to: User Configuration - Preferences - Control Panel Settings - Printers, right clicked and did new shared printer. For action I did "Update", and for Share path, I browsed to the network printer and clicked it and it entered the file path in when i clicked on it. I also clicked the "Set printer as default" option.

Then I went into Item level targeting and under computer name, selected the 3 PC's in this department (Report1, Report2, Report3).

Under "Security Filtering" I have "Authnticated Users" and "Report Users" (all the folks from this department are in this group)

So I tested in on a new hire and they logged in but the printer did not show up. I tried a gpupdate /force but it still did not show up.

Did I miss something on that?

My other question is, this same department uses a MS Access Log book that lives on the file server and uses a macro. Again, with new hires, I normally have them get onto the PC, then I go to the location on the file server, right click the Log book and send to desktop as shortcut. Then I need to go into their MS Access and go into Options and Trust Center and turn on the trust locations on the network, and add the filepath as a trusted location. I know I should be able to make a GPO that puts the shortcut to the file ont he dekstop but can I make one that also turns on the trusted locations on the network setting in trust cetner and adds that filepath?

Couple months ago the special was Dynamite chicken with the bukkae sauce and man was it delcious! Spicy, but damn good! Is there any chance this comes back at some point?

I have funds in a 401k from an old previous job still, that does somehow still acrue money even though i pay nothing into it. But it just doesn't acrue much...maybe like $3000 a year at most.

I think moving it to a IRA or Roth would be better, but I really don't want to have to go through a financial company cuase I assume they charge some huge fee to manage your money and all that right (talking about places liek fidelity, Edward Jones, etc) cause how else would they make money otherwise?

I just want to cut that part out, is that possible?

So been about almost a year since I last been on, and went to get on some custom games with friends the other night. I have like 30 pages of bookmarked maps, but I noticed a good number of maps in my bookmarks no longer showed up, instead they just show up as "Bookmark" and have no image, and you cannot select it. If you go into the details, the "bookmark" check box just gets selected and unselected non stop. What happened?

I have a bookmark map called "Ultimate fiesta" that is a maps of the Simpsons neighborhood, and everyone gets random weapons with random ammo. Like assault rifle that shoot shock rounds, etc. is there a game mode I can download where we can play this on any map? This map just has it built into the map no matter the game mode you pick but we would like to play this on other maps as well