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Dork Of Ages said:
Can you right click and choose "Open with" option? A white box should show up allowing you to choose which program to open, and Chrome should be there. If not, you can click "Choose another program on this PC" at the bottom of the box and then manually point to C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe (or the non-x86 program files if you have 32-bit W10) or whichever drive you installed Chrome at. You can toggle at the white box if you want Chrome to be the default program to open specific image files (like .png or .jpg ones) or go to Settings to enable for all, too.
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I have, I've tried every work around I could think of only to flat out get a message saying "this app can't support this", I just literally can't open an image file with Chrome short of dragging the file onto the Chrome logo on the desktop, but nothing that allows me to just click the image.

It's incredibly bizarre.

This major Windows 10 update sucks fat dick, da fuck is your problem, Microsoft?
 
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Dom Cruise said:
I have, I've tried every work around I could think of only to flat out get a message saying "this app can't support this", I just literally can't open an image file with Chrome short of dragging the file onto the Chrome logo on the desktop, but nothing that allows me to just click the image.

It's incredibly bizarre.

This major Windows 10 update sucks fat dick, da fuck is your problem, Microsoft?
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How odd. I might be able to do this because I still have the 1909 build installed. What's the currnet build on your PC? Can you try this method I described on Edge? (I assume you have the current Chromium version because I got an automatic update to that on my machine too).
 
Dom Cruise said:
I have, I've tried every work around I could think of only to flat out get a message saying "this app can't support this", I just literally can't open an image file with Chrome short of dragging the file onto the Chrome logo on the desktop, but nothing that allows me to just click the image.

It's incredibly bizarre.

This major Windows 10 update sucks fat dick, da fuck is your problem, Microsoft?
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Why do you want to open images in Chrome?
 
Dom Cruise said:
Just the most convenient way since that's the browser I use.
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Aah.

IrfanView. https://www.irfanview.com/
Lightweight, free, no bullshit, supports almost every image format known to man, opens a 70 megapixel JPG in a split second from a mechanical drive. I've probably used it for 20 years and I will never use anything else, it's not intrusive, tons of options and and have a lot of small useful features like cropping. I have a 5GB folder of raw images from a 1080p video and if I hold in spacebar it runs through that folder in close to realtime, that's 144MB per second.

Here's how it looks, I opened a picture and took screenshot. On the bottom you can see resolution, size compressed/uncompressed and other information like date and that this is image 51 in a directory containing 71 images(this is my kiwi games/IT sperging folder). It can also read EXIF data, including GPS information and there will be handy buttons to easily open that location in Chrome or google earth(a Kiwi relevant function).
irfan_kiwi.JPG

It's the best and incredibly fast.
 
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So I've been working with Windows 10 for a couple days now. It's really the little things that piss me the fuck off.

  • Setting startup and shutdown sounds was a fucking ordeal. I have to open the registry editor? Fucking really?
  • A plethora of "features" that are clearly for someone else's benefit.
  • I still haven't been able to figure out how to get rid of the goddamn background pictures on the startup screen. I just want a flat color, not a pretty but unwanted default image. And I am talking the startup screen, not the lock screen.
  • More registry editing to simply remove unwanted icons in the quick access menus.
  • Very difficult to set my themes the way I'd like. A lot of issues concerning customization. That seems to be the bulk of my complaints.
  • What the fuck happened to the start menu? Even with all the dumb shit disabled it is a goddamn mess.
  • "fast startup" - eat my fucking asshole.
So yeah. It's awful! Hooray!!
 
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Radical Cadre said:
  • What the fuck happened to the start menu? Even with all the dumb shit disabled it is a goddamn mess.
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I really like the start menu. Put your most used windows in the active tiles portion(remove everything else of course). If it's not there, press windows button and start typing the program you want and press enter when it pops up. I want to use the mouse as little as possible and due to my handicap* Win10 is actually helpful. The interface is pretty nice.

*being a perpetually angry computer grognard
 
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I recently started doing a dual boot of W10 with Linux Mint Cinnamon. Things went smoothly for a little until I tried adding some AppImages programs to the menu taskbar and that somehow borked Cinnamon. I can boot back and run terminal and programs fine, but Cinnamon gives me a crash notification and Mint's main menu icon is gone, so I can only reboot via terminal. Due to that, I can't search for the Backup Tool to run on a separate drive so I can reinstall Mint and add my stuff back. Does anyone know the command to open Backup Tool from the terminal? (I have a Timeshift restore point that I created on first install that I tried rolling back to, to no avail). I have a lot of stuff I installed copied to my thumb drive, so its already sort of backed up. But If I can restore back easily again, then it'd help. Btw, W10 and Mint are both installed in their own separate drives.

Also, how can I make sure my hibernated session stays within W10 if I reinstall Mint? I think the bootloader seems to reinstall together with Mint and that messes with my W10 hibernation.

I will cross post this on the Linux thread as well.
 
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Is there a reason my 64gb Samsung flash drive pictured below:

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keeps having windows pop up saying there's an error with the drive every time I plug it in, even though after repeated scans to fix, and even reformatting, nothing is wrong with the flash drive? That constant extra step of clicking to check and then nothing gets annoying.
 
No clue, Windows being dumb I guess. Sometimes happens to me. I don't think there's any real issue, unless you notice something else.
 
mandatorylurk said:
Is there a reason my 64gb Samsung flash drive pictured below:

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keeps having windows pop up saying there's an error with the drive every time I plug it in, even though after repeated scans to fix, and even reformatting, nothing is wrong with the flash drive? That constant extra step of clicking to check and then nothing gets annoying.
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Are you ejecting it via the System Tray before physically removing it? That can do it.
Find the usb drive in Device Manager, right click, select Properties, go the Policies tab, make sure "Quick Removal" is selected. It's the default option, so it should be, but if it's not, that might what's causing your issue.
 
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This question relates to using the farms directly. Why is it that when I want to quote a picture in someone's post there's a green link that says "View attachment (random numbers)" instead of the picture itself?

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Edit: Ok I feel dumb. After playing around a little more I found the solution to my problem was I need to select/highlight the image and then click the "+ Quote" in the highlight menu.

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I thought I at least owe the answer to people who have the same problem.
 
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Disco Inferno said:
Recently got a Samsung 970 EVO NVMe M.2 and want to transfer my old drive to the NVMe M.2. I had a friend tell me that I can't transfer the data/OS the same way I would do with another SSD. Is he full of shit?
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Going to be a SSD to NVMe transfer. Just needed to confirm that I can treated it like any other drive transfer.
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An update for these posts, I just did SSD to NVMe cloning and it worked on the first try. Unplug SATA drive(s) when booting the NVMe to see if that it works and to avoid conflicts, then re-connect them and make sure the boot-order is set correctly before booting. Keep the original drive around for a bit even if everything works, just in case. Then blast it with diskpart to get rid of those annoying rescue partitions and reclaim all space.

Results may vary, some have massive problems, other have a little trouble* and I had none. People that don't have a problem won't make threads on support forums that why I thought this post was a good idea.

*there seems to be a couple of gotchas, if your main drive is MBR instead of GPT then windows won't boot, it's a BIOS thing. This can be checked in Computer Management, Device Manager or with Diskpart and a MBR drive can be converted to GPT in Windows and cloned again, hopefully it will work then.
 
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Smaug's Smokey Hole said:
An update for these posts, I just did SSD to NVMe cloning and it worked on the first try. Unplug SATA drive(s) when booting the NVMe to see if that it works and to avoid conflicts, then re-connect them and make sure the boot-order is set correctly before booting. Keep the original drive around for a bit even if everything works, just in case. Then blast it with diskpart to get rid of those annoying rescue partitions and reclaim all space.

Results may vary, some have massive problems, other have a little trouble* and I had none. People that don't have a problem won't make threads on support forums that why I thought this post was a good idea.

*there seems to be a couple of gotchas, if your main drive is MBR instead of GPT then windows won't boot, it's a BIOS thing. This can be checked in Computer Management, Device Manager or with Diskpart and a MBR drive can be converted to GPT in Windows and cloned again, hopefully it will work then.
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Have you gotten the kmode bsod during start up? Happens to me every time but always fixes itself. It's a mild inconvenience.
 
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