Small windows problems thread

You can’t route a vpn through a proxy first. What’s your end goal?

No not route a vpn through a proxy. I mean once they are connected they should send all webbrowsing request through our proxy.


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I can find those settings in the gpo editor for lan settings but not for vpn settings

This is the screenshot from the gpo settings.


As you can see the settings i want to change are grayed out.

I think you should explain your setup in more detail because you can’t do it the way you’re trying to so you need to find another way.

Is there a way to trigger a Windows Task Scheduler task when a program launches? (In order to start a batch file terminating another program.)
Reason for this: EVE Online launcher won’t auto close after starting the game. (Does support minimize to tray, but that’s not what I want.)

why dont you launch with the batch file?

Because of updates which come out almost everyday, so don’t want to keep track of having updated yet that day.
Also Steam tracking of game-playtime would then probably not happen.
And even if those weren’t issues, I’d have to content with having to log in every time… (Because the launcher injects the game .exe with auth.

well you cant do what you’re suggesting

i have an issue that i made a new topic for.is that correct or should i post it here?
thanks.

This is probably sort of a common issue but… I am sort of running out of SSD space on my Linux install and since i don’t really use my Windows install anymore (but still want to keep it for Windows-emergencies) I thought I might as well just use the space on the Windows SSD (I got 2 specifically for dual booting when building the PC).

But here’s the problem: I can’t shrink my Windows partition enough. There is about 53GB used on it, but I can reduce the partition size only to about 220GB and no further down. Of course it says it’s due to “unmovable files”, and that makes sense for a mechanical HDD, but I thought those times were over with SSDs because it doesn’t matter where the file blocks are located…

Any ideas? I could use the KDE Partition Tool (or GParted) on Linux but I don’t really mes with Windows partitions from outside Windows if I don’t have to…

More of a WTF than a problem but why does windows have to spin up a HDD when shutting down. It has been spun down the entire time and there was no need for it to be spinning but suddenly you shut down the PC specifically to not have it on and you have to spin UP the hard drive to turn it off when it was already off?

Fairly sure that’s to remove the NTFS lock that it puts on when mounting.

Not sure if there’s really a solution to this other then unmounting the drive as soon as you don’t need it anymore… haven’t really looked into it much tho.

Any idea what’s causing that massive difference? A few hundred MB I would get, but 9 GB? :thinking:

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Just cleaning up my Windows install before I go ahead with the shrinking (see above, still not resolved by the way).

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KDE Partition Manager on the left, Filelight on the right

I don’t get how there can be that much difference between all of them…

File modification dates won’t show or update.

Is this a statement or an issue you’re having?

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Issue

you want to expand on what you mean a little bit?

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Sure. Simple really, I edit or modify a file, the dates don’t update in explorer, are often wrong

are you refreshing the explorer window after making the changes? are you sure the application is flushing the change to the file?

F5 is still refresh right? Will try

I dont know if that works for explorer.