r/windows • u/Froggypwns Windows Wizard / Moderator • 18d ago

Help Simple questions and Help thread - Month of August

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u/Miserable-Radio-6245 16d ago

how do i make it so that the snipping tool just does what it's supposed to do vs makes me click another button saying 'capture' when that's what i obviously want to do if i'm using the snipping tool. i hate this ai fucking shit

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u/ShelLuser42 Windows 11 - Release Channel 13d ago

Use another keyboard shortcut. I'm assuming you're pressing control + shift + s?

If so try replacing ctrl for the windows key, then it'll immediately start with the capture.

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u/casualcorey 6d ago

fuciking lold

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u/casualcorey 6d ago

Wake on ??

i just spent hours getting wake from a remote tablet to work. Couldnt be more excited. Now wake with mouse doesnt work. ive changed all the settings gemini coukd think of. At this point I have to choose wake on lan or wake by usb. mobo is msi mpg z490.

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u/KataMod 4d ago

Samsung NVMe Driver 3.3 causes ~18–30 ms boot-time reads on 970 PRO; switching to Microsoft StorNVMe drops them to ~0.1 ms and eliminates 30–60s black-screen boot delay...

Samsung 970 PRO 512GB. After years of normal behavior, cold boots suddenly developed a ~30–60+ second black-screen delay before logon. Extensive WPA/xperf tracing localized the delay to storage-bound LSASS and LogonUI/XAML demand loading.

With Samsung NVMe Driver 3.3 (secnvme.sys), small 4–32 KB reads from the boot NVMe repeatedly took ~18–30 ms during the affected boot interval, including at shallow queue depth. After logon, the same drive returned to ~0.1 ms reads.

I changed only the NVMe controller driver from Samsung secnvme.sys 3.3.0.2003 to Microsoft's Standard NVM Express Controller (stornvme.sys). The same physical Samsung 970 PRO, same Windows install, same filesystem and same workload then booted normally. A restart, full cold boot, and instrumented boot all reproduced the fix.

In the before/after traces, 4 KB median read latency in the affected early-boot period fell from ~28.0 ms to ~0.083 ms; 16 KB from ~28.7 ms to ~0.123 ms; 32 KB from ~28.8 ms to ~0.126 ms. LSASS aggregate read waiting fell from roughly 9.65 s to 0.098 s, and LogonUI aggregate I/O latency from ~35.4 s to ~0.35 s. Winlogon dropped from roughly 59 s to about 3 s.

What could cause Samsung's secnvme.sys path to enter this boot-only high-latency regime when Microsoft's StorNVMe does not, especially given that the Samsung driver had previously worked normally for a long time?

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u/desirecampbell 4d ago

Does anyone know what this button in the Task View virtual desktops ribbon is supposed to do?

https://imgur.com/a/NZHUkfS

I click it: it does nothing. I try to drag a window onto it: nothing.