WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else
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@dkf But the latest SoundBlaster comes with RGB LEDs! So clearly it must be the superior product!
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@Atazhaia said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@dkf But the latest SoundBlaster comes with RGB LEDs! So clearly it must be the superior product!
Because we all know how blinkenlights improve the auditory experience.
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@PleegWat
Only if those LEDs have gold plated contacts obvious
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@levicki said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@Gąska said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@dkf 1903 is the May Update that premiered 2 weeks ago. The screwed-up-then-recalled-then-re-released-next-year one is 1809.
(20)19(-)03 is the May Update released on April 4th.
Let that sentence sink in for a while...
It helps when you stop thinking of those as dates and treat them like ordinary numbers that alternate between incrementing by 6 and incrementing by 94.
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@Gąska said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@dkf The screwed-up-then-recalled-then-re-released-next-year one is 1809.
I installed 1809 as soon as it came out last fall and, strangely, it has been the least problematic version of Windows 10 I've ever used.
It's still a stinking pile of crap, but so far, 1809 has been the least shitty of the shit.
As a long time Soundblaster user who has never had a problem with them, the current Soundblaster fiasco seems to indicate that I better hang on to 1809 as long as I can because MS is back to randomly fucking up things that previously worked just fine.
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@Atazhaia said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
My issue with the current Realtek drivers, though, is that every time I connect my headset it keeps asking me what I connected. "You connected something to the microphone port. IS IT A MICROPHONE? Tell me!" Eurgh.
My Realtek drivers (technically MSI's rebundled ones) don't do that, but I can get strange behaviour where Windows 10(1) suddenly decides that the default microphone should be my Rocksmith cable(2) rather than my actual microphone.
(1) Currently 1809 but I've seen the issue on Windows as far back as 7SP1.
(2) Doesn't matter whether the cable's actually plugged into a guitar, either.
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@Steve_The_Cynic said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
Windows [...] suddenly decides that the default microphone should be
There's a whole thread on this here somewhere. And it's not limited to microphones.
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@Steve_The_Cynic said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@Atazhaia said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
My issue with the current Realtek drivers, though, is that every time I connect my headset it keeps asking me what I connected. "You connected something to the microphone port. IS IT A MICROPHONE? Tell me!" Eurgh.
My Realtek drivers (technically MSI's rebundled ones) don't do that, but I can get strange behaviour where Windows 10(1) suddenly decides that the default microphone should be my Rocksmith cable(2) rather than my actual microphone.
(1) Currently 1809 but I've seen the issue on Windows as far back as 7SP1.
(2) Doesn't matter whether the cable's actually plugged into a guitar, either.
I love it when this happens (fortunately it's been a while, I think something in the system got smarter). My laptop has way too many "sound" devices.
- Built-in laptop speakers
- Headphone-out jack
- 4K TV plugged in via HDMI
- 22" 1080p screen plugged in via DVI (not sure why this even shows up as a sound device because that screen has no speakers...)
- Integrated webcam microphone
- External USB webcam (because the laptop's folded up and stuffed off to the side 99% of the time)
- TASCAM audio interface with eleventy bajillion inputs and outputs on it
For the longest time, "I haven't changed anything and please just use the same damn audio device you were using last time" was too complicated for Windows 10.
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@levicki said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
(20)19(-)03 is the May Update released on April 4th.
More like the March Update created on April 4th and released in May.
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OMG! Seen in the wild
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@dcon Good Luck
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@Steve_The_Cynic said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
suddenly decides that the default microphone should be my Rocksmith cable(2) rather than my actual microphone.
Do you always keep it hooked up?
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@hungrier said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@Steve_The_Cynic said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
suddenly decides that the default microphone should be my Rocksmith cable(2) rather than my actual microphone.
Do you always keep it hooked up?
I CBA faffing about plugging and unplugging it from the computer. It's not usually plugged into the guitar, but Windows doesn't know that.
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Status: Holy fuck, the Game Bar App certainly has been upgraded since I last peeked at it...
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@Tsaukpaetra Did they put in some easy way to see the controller's battery status? I asked for that one during one of their rounds of asking for suggestions, since (by default) the Game Bar takes over the button that shows the battery level. This is one of the main reasons I turn off the Game Bar, the other being I don't really need Yet Another Overlay.
They seemed more excited about things like integrating with "media players", by which they meant Spotify.
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@Parody said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
see the controller's battery status?
I don't have a controller hooked up, so I have no idea....
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@levicki Maybe that process is from the SoundBlaster X-Fi MB3 software I have installed as well. Now that the PCI-E card is working I do not really need it anymore. Although I do not know if I can activate the software again later on another computer when I want that EAX support on some other computer here.
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So during the past two weeks, Microsoft pushed out Windows Updates that go into your UEFI settings and force-enable Secure Boot. If you don't know what Secure Boot is, it puts some super-secret PKI keys in your UEFI/BIOS and kernel-mode code is not allowed to execute unless it's been code-signed by a certificate chained from that super-secret key.
Guess who is in charge of our kernel-mode device drivers, which don't have that kind of digital signature? Hint: his avatar here is a jar of applesauce. I've been trying on-and-off for the past two years to make our drivers compatible with Secure Boot (it involves getting Microsoft themselves to cross-sign our drivers) but I've run into miles of red tape from both my own organization and from Microsoft, and so I never managed to get it working. Our long-standing answer for customers has been "Turn off Secure Boot." But we also have a good many customers who are either afraid to touch their UEFI, or can't because it's locked by their IT department (who are of course Nazis and won't change anything ever because of security). But this update can bypass IT locks and change UEFI settings anyway.
So a number of our customers (at least those unfortunate enough to be on Windows 10) came into work over the past week or two, their PC did automatic updates while booting up, and now our hardware doesn't work. On the plus side, a good number of these customers are military, so I wonder what the chances are of me somehow talking them into launching unauthorized airstrikes against Microsoft Headquarters?
(I have finally managed to get some initial device drivers that might be compatible with Secure Boot, in limited testing on a pair of my workstations, but it's been a nightmare. Presently, I have drivers that don't work when they should, and I also have drivers that do work when they shouldn't. Microsoft's documentation on the process is about 50% severely outdated, 25% 404 errors or redirection loops, and 25% completely wrong, and I get the feeling that Secure Boot as a standard is a complete cluster and nobody anywhere is doing it right.)
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@mott555 said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
I also have drivers that do work
What's the problem?
when they shouldn't.
Oh, burro-cracy.
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@mott555: no idea if it can be useful to you, but I was just skimming an article about Windows 10, secure boot and drivers signing yesterday:
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@levicki said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
No action is needed
What about Windows Defender
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@TimeBandit said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@levicki said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
No action is needed
What about Windows Defender
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@TimeBandit said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@levicki said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
No action is needed
What about Windows Defender
Those annoyed me. So I told Defender to STFU and it doesn't bother me anymore.
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@kazitor said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@Atazhaia said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
Apparently the new MS Store-based Snipping Tool will overwrite whatever is in the copy buffer when you take a screenshot.
Snipping tool on Win7 does this too. Since I can't use snipping tool to take a screenshot of snipping tool and print screen+crop externally is , I can't insert a picture of the relevant checkbox here. But it can definitely be disabled.
This checkbox?
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@Zecc said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@heterodox said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
I'm not getting pulled into this ic bullshit today.
If you were, you could answer like this:
@TimeBandit said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
Yes, that's the Linux way (except for the kernel)
Linux is the kernel.
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@CodeJunkie said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
I saw him at a conference, spoke to him for a couple minutes, and made sure to always refer to it as Linux
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@CodeJunkie What is this and can you pass the eye bleach?
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@Mingan said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@CodeJunkie What is this and can you pass the eye bleach?
I just made it. All out of bleach though...sorry.
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@Mingan said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
can you pass the eye bleach?
Only one solution
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@CodeJunkie Eww!! Not before lunch, please. Not after lunch, either.
But at least he has shoes on, so he's not eating his toe jam.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
Not before lunch, please. Not after lunch, either.
During lunch, then? You're... weird.
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@Zerosquare said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
During lunch, then?
No, definitely not. Although I would lose weight, because I'd lose my appetite. Hmm, the RMS diet: Every time you're hungry, look at a picture of him. Unpleasant, but effective.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@Zerosquare said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
During lunch, then?
No, definitely not. Although I would lose weight, because I'd lose my appetite. Hmm, the RMS diet: Every time you're hungry, look at a picture of him. Unpleasant, but effective.
I want to lose weight. Not die of malnutrition!
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
eating his toe jam.
This is so gross I'm about to vomit up food I haven't even eaten yet...
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@mott555 said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
This is so gross I'm about to vomit up food I haven't even eaten yet...
Let me help you with that
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@dcon said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@HardwareGeek said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@Zerosquare said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
During lunch, then?
No, definitely not. Although I would lose weight, because I'd lose my appetite. Hmm, the RMS diet: Every time you're hungry, look at a picture of him. Unpleasant, but effective.
I want to lose weight. Not die of malnutrition!
You can still sneak midnight snacks, when it's too dark to see the picture taped to your refrigerator door.
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@TimeBandit Nope, I am not clicking that...
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@mott555 said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
Nope, I am not clicking that...
You're smart
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@TimeBandit said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
Richard Stallman eats something from his foot
I was wondering whether any pictures exist of that incident.
No, I don't want to actually see the pictures. Just knowing they exist is quite enough. More than enough.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@TimeBandit said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
Richard Stallman eats something from his foot
I was wondering whether any pictures exist of that incident.
No, I don't want to actually see the pictures. Just knowing they exist is quite enough. More than enough.
Apparently there are motion pictures available!
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@dcon said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
Those annoyed me. So I told Defender to STFU and it doesn't bother me anymore.
Man, this setting was hidden deep inside control panel
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How does it know there are important security and quality fixes?
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Through Microsoft Telepathic Networking Service™.
Or the AreUpdatesAvailable() function simply returns true if more than X days elapsed since the last update. Because seriously, how likely is it for Windows 10 not to require updates for more than a week or so?
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@Zerosquare said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
how likely is it for Windows 10 not to require updates for more than a week or so?
True...
Edit: Must be the same reason why my car is bleating for updates with a top-most App despite not being connected to the Internet for over two years...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
my car is bleating for updates with a top-most App
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
despite not being connected to the Internet for over two years...
My car has never been connected to the Internet, and it's not complaining. Well, it says it needs an oil change soon, but that's not quite the same thing.
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@Parody said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
I normally update right away, but I don't feel like unhooking all of my external drives and they didn't get around to putting the fix for that problem into the installer before releasing 1903.
Now that the fix for this is out, I went ahead and updated to 1903. So far so good. Maybe tomorrow I'll uninstall some stuff and hide both search icons I never use.
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As the Xbox Games Pass for PC has a discounted Beta price, I thought I'd give it a go, especially as it's even cheaper for the first month as a new subscriber. Signed up to that, no issue.
Went to install the (optional AFAICT) Beta app that goes with it - but my PC does not meet its requirements:I'm not sure why the version I have needs "or higher" on the end.
Naturally Windows Update says I'm up to date even after manually checking.
I clicked the Update button in the Store which takes me to a page with instructions on how to sign up to the Insider Preview builds. No, thanks.
A quick Google suggests 18362 might be the 1903 update, so I went to see how to force that.
Current status as of June 6, 2019:
Windows 10, version 1903 is available for any user who manually selects “Check for updates” via Windows Update. The recommended servicing status is Semi-Annual Channel.
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I downloaded the Update Assistant which correctly identifies I'm not on the latest update and is currently downloading 1903.
Apparently my files will be right where I left them...
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@levicki said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
Whoever designed this dialog should be taken outside, raped while being strangled to death, and their body fed to a bunch of hungry pigs.
I think this should be done to most modern UI "designers" - looks like in the last 10 years they forgot everything about usability.