I have an audio jack that connects my computer to my speakers when I listen to music. I just unplugged the audio jack and I get a Windows notification - “You have unplugged the audio jack.”
My favorite variant of this sort of thing is the little icon of typing hands in MSWord (at least in the old version I use). They move when you type, apparently to confirm the fact that you’re typing. Great use of computational cycles there.
This AM my PC rebooted instead of waking from hibernation. I had installed a tech-y thing yesterday.
In the lower corner was a notification that Windows was in “Test Mode”. What the what? Had something happened to my license? (Which causes a similar looking warning.)
Nope, the thing I installed had unsigned drivers. Now, I trust the software so not a problem for me.
How to get rid of it? (It would stay there forever otherwise.) I had to do a command line setting that turned off the notification forever. Okay … but …
Why didn’t it warn me when I did the install? I might want to do this sometimes and abort the install other times. And this is the only option???
It would be nice if I could click on the warning. See what particular things caused it. Click on go away or not. Etc.
Oh, if I had secure boot on this would be an entirely different tarpit.
Just out of nowhere, I am now getting a beep when I type and CAPS lock is on. As if I cannot see what I am typing. Maybe Windows has figured out that I am getting old.
“Ease of Access”, “Play a sound when modifier keys are pressed”
There is a key combination that can turn on “Ease of Access”, and that is what sometimes happens. I’m not sure about the caps lock, but this computer has no sound*, so I can’t test.
*It is, of course, technically possible to provide a sound driver that uses the beep device, but motherboard builders very rarely provided one.
It’s useful for Window to tell you when your speakers have been unplugged. What if you did it accidentally, and you’re wondering what happened to the sound?
Windows has come a long way from the era of ‘General Protection Fault’ messages with helpful memory dumps, which I guess meant that certain areas of Windows memory were generally pissed with you.
That’s helpful for when you’re typing in a password and can’t figure out why it won’t work. My laptop’s caps lock button has a little light on it. My regular keyboard beeps when the button is pushed. I bump it from time to time so it’s nice to know it happened. Also, if can’t type without looking at the keyboard, you may not realize it’s on until you finish a sentence/paragraph.
Now, if I could find a way to disable the num lock key, that would be great. Not have it default one way or the other when my computer turns on. I want the button to not do anything at all (or be mapped to something else). I’m sick of bumping that and having the keypad stop working.
Google reveals permanent numlock can be attained through a registry edit or with freeware utilities.
Yes, yet I’ve never been able to find one, I just hear about it.
After I wrote this I looked again, mostly since I was always trying to disable the button, I never thought about remapping it to something else. I see a lot of talk about something called SharpKeys, but I was just hoping for a reg entry.
IIRC from the last few times I looked into this, the permanent numlock isn’t permanent, it’s the default state when the computer is turning on. Meaning if you bump the button without realizing it, you’ll still switch it.
I use Dell computers at work and at home and when I connect speakers to them, I get a prompt that asks, more or less, “Did you connect speakers to the speaker port or the Dell speaker port?” I have no idea what the difference is.
that’s probably being done by the driver provided by the sound card/chip manufacturer. Realtek can be particularly annoying about this.
"PC load letter. What the fuck does that mean? "
I actually know. Print cartridge is out of letter sized paper.
Not the greatest or classiest idea, but can you pop off the key cap? That would, at least, lessen the chance of hitting it.
If it wasn’t a laptop, I’d probably do that. I’m hesitant about snapping keys off on laptops. Besides, I hit it a lot. On my keyboard it’s right next to the backspace button and since I generally type without looking at the keyboard my finger hits it all the time, meaning if there’s even still a little post under there that the button is connected to, I’d probably still hit that.
I could tape thumbtack to it and see if I can train myself to stop touching it.
Update: I pulled the key off and there is a little rubber button under it that can still be pushed. However, it’s a smaller ‘target’ so it may work.
The backlight for the keyboard glowing through the hole may get on my nerves, but I’ll deal with that if I need to.
Also, I’m not entirely sure how easy the key will be to snap back on. But I’ll cross that bridge when I come to it.
Hope it works for you. As to the light, a piece of electrical tape?
Dell desktops usually have a built-in (tinny) speaker as part of their standard configuration. This is what they’re referring to by “Dell Speaker.”
Thanks but I’m getting this message after connecting an external speaker to one of the audio input ports (usually there’s one on the front of the computer as well as one on the back) and the message asks about the speaker port vs the Dell speaker port.
If you’re connecting a speaker to an input port, that might give you an error. (Not being smarmy. It really is an output device and the difference in impedance could generate a message.)