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[Wiles]

I am having a sound issue with my laptop. It seems to have a "feature" where only one window will be in focus for sound at a time. The window in focus will be loud and clear, but the sound coming from other windows will be somewhat muted. A lot of times I like to play a game and have music on in the background, and the music sounds bad when it is not in focus.

Is there any way to disable this feature?

[Thief^]

What's the laptop? This is definitely not a standard Windows feature, so it's likely some software nonsense causing it.

[Wiles]

It's an Alienware 17.

[redwallzyl]

i want to tare out the eyes of whoever thought auto brightness was a good idea! i keep trying to kill it and it wont stay dead! i have done everything! what the fuck!

[TheBiggerFish]

Autobrightness itself isn't bad.  Not being able to turn it off is though.

[Aklyon]

Auto brightness is perfectly fine as optional brightness. if its not optional someone screwed up.

[redwallzyl]

i have literally gone and turned the sensor off (which was already off) and it wont stop: http://imgur.com/a/YM1M4
i have thought i stopped it in the past of weeks at a time but it keeps coming back. i have disabled it in five different ways and it wont die.

their used to be a simple switch but no more apparently.

hmm seems to be dead for now after 5 restarts. I'm sure it will rise to plague me again somehow. fuck you windows 10.

[wierd]

Don't you love it when the designers think they know better than the end user, and get officious?

Try disabling the power management controller next.

[heydude6]

So, maybe this is a bit early but I ordered a new laptop. It hasn't come in yet, but the reviews said that it had a bunch of bloatware. You guys have any advice on how to remove bloatware?

[wierd]

dump partition table, clean install from installation media.

always the cleanest.

[Aklyon]

Or if you'd rather not rebuild it from the OS up, strip everything you won't need and does not do something important from your add/remove programs list. You'll catch all of it and possibly a bit of non-bloatware that way.

[heydude6]

Possibly a bit of non-bloatware that way.

Isn't that a bad thing?


FAKEDIT: Also, what's a partition table?

[Reelya]

They meant: erase all partitions on the hard-drive. But that's probably not needed. One thing however is that your hard-drive may have a "reset to factory condition" partition, and erasing all the partitions would permanently erase that, and you wouldn't be ever able to reset it to what it was like out of the box, not exactly.

So I might suggest not nuking the partitions on a laptop for that reason. Try tweaking it as you go, then gradually remove things you don't find useful.

[wierd]

Yes and no. 

Personally, I find the factory restore partition has a restore image loaded with the very filth I want none of.

Instead, I will dump all partitions, create a dummy 8gb NTFS partition at the end of the drive (may need to be larger, but 8 to 12gb seems to be the magic amount) and build my own restore partition to store in it after getting the system set up the way I like.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd744280(v=ws.10).aspx

But then again, I am not normal, and am a bit of a masochist when it comes to these things.

because this uses imagex to create new .wim files, it stores the entire filestructure of the system at the time the image is made, which enables you to have certain things all set up already, like preferred browsers, etc.  keep it clean and simple, but it can save you a lot of grief to have everything in a usable state prior to image creation.

the toolkit can be found online in various places.

for normal people? yeah, leave the recovery partition alone.

[chaotic skies]

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