How accurate is keeping HDR always-on?

How viable is it to keep HDR on in Windows? From my understanding mapping Gamma to PQ-EOTF is non-trivial and it also looks markedly different when compared to SDR mode. However, many games don't send correct infoframes to switch the display to HDR and switching back and forth manually (via Win+Alt+B) often leads to SDR content being mapped incorrectly (oversaturated), so this method is also frustrating.

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How to set a log in sound via task schedular

Ok, so far i have a task created and im using the event of security id 4624 (log on) to play a sound. It works when i log in BUT it continually plays the sound over and over.

how do i get it to play just once?

thanks

follow this link and look at option 2. This is what i was doing

How to Play Sound at Logoff (Sign-out) in Windows 10 | Tutorials

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How do I inject drivers using ventoy?

I read the page for the injection and I thought that all I had to do was put the drivers in "/sourceS/$OEM$/". And that's literally what I did.

Questions:

1. So what is the correct path to use?

2. Do I need to add anything else besides the extracted drivers? I used dism.

3. If I want to use this alongside an unattend file, do I need to add something to it?

Thanks in advance!

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Windows 11: The Attack of the Updates
https://redd.it/1lo0glu
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Just installed Windows 7 and already surprised me with this.

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I made my own version of Bliss in Dorset 2009 unironically.

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Microsoft quietly implies Windows has LOST millions of users since Windows 11 debut — bleak outlook suggests Windows is haemorrhaging users
https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/windows-11-10-lost-400-million-users-3-years

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Rant - I've come to love Windows 11
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Windows 10 Fullscreen Startmenu Underrated

https://preview.redd.it/o4o2zr04c1af1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=11c40ce7ae5c7a9a0a056b1af6261993bb47b9c1

guys did y'll think if full screen startmenu is underrated? since windows 8 many people hate it, cause doesn't match with desktop users, but I think it still great, even on desktop, I feel it's like launchpad on mac

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Guess what’s wrong in the picture!
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Microsoft's Solitaire subscription expands to Minesweeper and beyond
https://www.pcworld.com/article/2820462/microsofts-solitaire-subscription-expands-to-minesweeper-and-beyond.html

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I want to completely reset my Laptop

So I want to completely wipe my Laptop and start over since I did a really bad job with sorting my files back when I first started using it so everything is a mess and I just want everything gone. I already put all the files that I do want to keep on a USB but I'm wondering if there's anything else that I'll need to keep in mind before doing a factory reset. Like if I should turn my Wifi off before resetting and all that

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"You cannot, should not, run Win95 directly on new hardware". IdeaPad L340 from 2019:
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Why does deleting files in Windows 10 take so long?

This is not a request for technical assistance, I just want to understand.



I just deleted a folder with many subfolders and files of about 260 GB, over 60k items in total.

It took Windows around two minutes to put the thing in the trash bin -- well, actually it told me it was too big for the bin so I deleted it "forever".

(This is also a thing I don't understand. In other OS such files are _marked_ as "deleted" until you either delete the bin or these marked files get overwritten by new files. So why should they be too large or too many for the bin?)



I don't understand why it takes such a long time. In macOS and Linux, if you delete a folder, it's put in the bin (or deleted permanently) within the click of the button.



I also noticed that when you want to find out about the size of a folder that you can watch Windows count the files and see the size and number increase. And apparently it does that every time you reboot and go back to that folder. That seems very ineffective.



Might this be the reason why it takes so long to delete a folder, that Windows doesn't know what's in it until it is specifically asked about it?



In forums I read that it's faster to delete (large) files and folders with a command via Terminal (or what's it called). But that is certainly not feasible for the average user.

So what's the reason for this behavior or am I doing sth wrong with such a simple command?

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We need to ban low effort "journalism" from the Windows subreddits

The last one for example is about how Microsoft is "quietly implying Windows losing users":

>Microsoft has seemingly confirmed that Windows is losing market share, without specifically saying so. As pointed out by ZDNet, a recent blog post confirmed that Windows is currently in use on over a billion devices. Except, "over a billion" is actually significantly down over the previous number it shared in 2022, not too long after Windows 11 first debuted.

>Back in 2022, Microsoft said Windows was in use on 1.4 billion devices, suggesting this most recent number is down enough that it can no longer say 1.4 billion.

Seriously what is this? Almost every article that's linked on here is like this, and they get thousands of up votes because no one ever reads past the headline. They add nothing useful to the subreddits.

I'm not a Windows fanboy by the way, I use Linux most of the time.

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